Hodie est IX Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
… depending on whether the houseful wakes up early tomorrow or not, there may or may not be a ‘Christmas edition’ of Thelxinoe …
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Fresh Podcasts
Former guests Matthijs Wibier and Christopher Burden-Strevens, prosecco in hand, return to put David in the hot-seat, where he talks about what he’s learned from doing the podcast, why he got into archaeology, the modern reception of Roman Britain, cringing over old Facebook statuses, and why you shouldn’t always listen to your lecturers.
Often neglected in favor of his more glamorous son Alexander the Great, Philip II of Macedon (r. 359 – 336 B.C.) was one of the most important figures of the ancient world. His accession to the throne of a crumbling backwater kingdom would prompt him to not only save Macedon from destruction, but through a series of military and economic reforms, brilliant diplomatic maneuvers, and talented generalship, he would make it into the dominant power of the Greek Peninsula and lay the foundations for Alexander’s conquests and the birth of the Hellenistic Age.
Book Reviews
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- Call for Papers: CAAS 2020 Annual Meeting | CAAS-CW
- Departing the Polis: Travel, Travellers and Panhellenism in the extant plays and fragments of Greek drama – 08-09/07/2020, Nottingham (England)
- New Prize Honoring Erich Gruen | Society for Classical Studies
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- The white lie we’ve been told about Roman statues – Vox
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- 10 Best Movies For Greek Mythology Fans, Ranked | ScreenRant
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends civil wars in the city and disease for beasts of the forest.
… 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)
