#Thelxinoe ~ Your Morning Salutatio for December 30,2019

Hodie est III Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ [still not sure about the Attic date] in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Tomb with three generations of ‘Amazon’ warrior women found in Russia – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

• Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii? | The Times of Israel
• Greece Aims to Open the Amphipolis Tomb to Visitors by 2022 | GreekReporter.com

Fresh Bloggery

• Dacia Felix: the Celts – Mainzer Beobachter
• Plato Hated Games, Drinking, and Sleep – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Acropolis of Athens Virtual Tour
• 2019 on The Sphinx | Sphinx
• Het koninkrijk Dacië – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Hanukkah and Saturnalia?

Fresh Podcasts

• Interview: On the Seleucid Empire w/ Dr. Kyle Erickson by The Hellenistic Age Podcast | Free Listening on SoundCloud

We are joined by Dr. Kyle Erickson in order to discuss his work on the Hellenistic period and the Seleucid Empire in particular. We discuss the strategies of the Seleucid rulers in coming to terms with a large and diverse collection of people, the variety (and scarcity) of our sources including coinage, and looking at the ways Seleucid kings and queens broadcast themselves compared to their contemporaries.

Book Reviews

• Greci e Romani sulle sponde del Mar Nero | Spartokos a lu

Professional Matters

• Colophons in Middle Eastern Manuscripts Workshop -12-13/06/2020, Princeton (NJ, USA)
• Time in Greek and Roman Antiquity – 05/06/2020, Nice (France)

Alia

• The Good, the Bad, and the Mad: 7 Fascinating Emperors of Ancient Rome
• Tornos News | Australian lawyer sees hope for Athens Parthenon Sculptures to Greece
• Assistant Professor, Classics job with University of Cincinnati | 1927113
• How Cleopatra became a canvas for society’s anxieties

‘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 a rebellion against the kingdom and possibly war.

… 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)