#Thelxinoe ~ Your Morning Salutatio for December 23, 2019

Hodie est X Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 27 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Time-to-death of Roman emperors followed distinct pattern | EurekAlert! Science News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• North Sydney Boys High school fights to keep Latin classes

Public Facing Classics

• T.H.M. Gellar-Goad and Caitlin Hines: Classics displays historic diversity | Columnists | journalnow.com

Fresh Bloggery

• 23 December AD 119 – Hadrian commemorates his mother-in-law, Salonia Matidia (#Hadrian1900) – FOLLOWING HADRIAN
• The Wrong Monkey: Ammianus
• Pity the Cruel – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• La Bastida; Argaric Bronze Age of S-E Spain – what we know so far – Novo Scriptorium
• Autism and Classical Myth: Looking both ways – including to fairyland Warsaw, (making a) difference at Roehampton and my Herculean resolution for 2020

Fresh Podcasts

• 2708 The Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior | The History Network

In this episode we’re going to be discussing the “Macedonian Phalangite vs Persian Warrior” with Ancient Warfare Podcast regular Murray Dahm, who has literally written the book on the topic.

• Creepy Classics ~ The Story of the Bathkeeper, from Gregory the Great

In this episode, a priest sent to the baths by his doctor finds more than he was expecting at a hot spring full of pagan icons. Uploaded a bit earlier than usual so it would be ready in good time for Christmas, this is a somewhat warmer and fuzzier early Christian ghost story adapted from Gregory the Great, Dialogues, 4.40 and 4.55.

• Fascist Rome by When in Rome |

How has what we know of ancient Rome influenced by fascist Rome? Mussolini admired the Rome of the emperors and used it to further his own vision of Italy, changing how we interpret many of the monuments today.

Guest: Associate Professor Flavia Marcello (School of Design, Swinburne University)

Dramatic Receptions

• Medea at BAM Starring Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale – The National Herald

Alia

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Companion to The Worlds of Roman Women
• Virtual Tour of Ancient Thessaloniki Reveals the City’s Magnificent Past (video) | GreekReporter.com
• Numéro 4 | 2019 | Revue Polymnia

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the outbreak of disease, but it will be harmless.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)