Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 17 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Are You Awkward Or Do You Just Have Bad Taste? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Roman Amphitheater of El Djem, Tunisia – Novo Scriptorium
- Lyric Love, Translation and Transformation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “Lycurgue cavalier” – Mainzer Beobachter
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Understanding Relations Between Scripts II: Early Alphabets
- Kiwi Hellenist: The Epic Cycle wasn’t as popular as you think
- MoM | Er is geen jaar nul (en dat doet ertoe) – Mainzer Beobachter
- A Sign of Love or Hate – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- ‘The mystery of the Mycenaean “labyrinth”‘ now available online – It’s All Greek To Me
Fresh Podcasts
For our 90th episode, Dr G and I decided to record a special episode on the Australian Ballet’s production of Spartacus. We were honoured when we were contacted and asked if we could produce an article for Classicum based on this podcast. The finished product has just been published, and so the Partial Historians has finally made it into print. We have talked about Spartacus in so many ways over the years, from film to TV to Ted-Ed animations, and covering the ballet added yet another dimension to the complicated and lengthy reception of this gladiator-rebel. We would particularly like to share the conclusion of the article here, but you can access the full text at Academia.edu at either Dr Rad or Dr G’s profile. (Thanks again to Classicum for allowing us to openly share the paper.)
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] André Sauge, L’Odyssée ou Le retour d’Ulysse: un traité d’économie politique. New York: Peter Lang Publishing, 2018.
- [BMCR] Silvio Bär, Herakles im griechischen Epos: Studien zur Narrativität und Poetizität eines Helden. Palingenesia, Band 111. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018.
- [BMCR] Domingo Placido Suarez, Index thématique de l’esclavage: Antiphon. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA), 1460. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019.
- [BMCR] Marie-Laurence Desclos (ed.), La Poésie archaïque comme discours de savoir. Kaïnon – Anthropologie de la pensée ancienne, 12. Paris: Classique Garnier, 2019.
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Professional Matters
- CALL. 01.03.2020: Toys as Cultural Artefacts in Ancient Greek and Roman Cultures: Anthropological and Material Approaches – Fribourg (Switzerland)
- 10th Annual UK Punic/Phoenician Network Graduate Workshop – 22/02/2020, Dublin (Ireland)
- CALL. 20.02.2020: [PANEL 4] Hellenistic Imperial Economies and Near-Eastern Temples Research Group: Impact of Hellenistic Empires (EABS) – Wuppertal (Germany)
- CALL. 20.02.2020: [PANEL 3] Ancient Jewish and Christian Religions in their Broader Religious Landscapes (EABS)- Wuppertal (Germany)
- CALL. 20.02.2020: [PANEL 6] Workshop: “Comparing Ancient Historiographies: The Yehudite Book of Chronicles, Herodotus and Babylonian Chronicles“ (EABS) – Wuppertal (Germany)
Alia
- Who was Sappho, the Greek icon Kalki Koechlin named her daughter after? – Lifestyle News
- The Terror and the Fascination of Pompeii | The New Yorker
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends success for wild beasts over humans.
… 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)
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