Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• De Artemidorospapyrus (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
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• Homer and the Muses – Novo Scriptorium

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Quibus vestimentis indutae, filiae meae pompam spectaverint.

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A revision podcast designed to help you revise for the OCR Classical Civilisation GCSE – with revision for the Myth and Religion and Homeric World papers.

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CXXXVI – Spartacus (1960) on Apple Podcasts

Spartacus is an epic historical film based on the life of a Roman gladiator who led a slave rebellion against Rome in the 1st C BCE. In this episode we’ll take a fond look at this cinematic classic, in memory of its leading man, Kirk Douglas. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)

• Caligula #15 – The Conspiracy | Life Of The Caesars

Caligula suspects a grand conspiracy against his person and the sword falls on a variety of people – including the commander in Gaul, his two surviving sisters and his best friend / lover, Lepidus.

Dramatic Receptions

• Hadestown is a musical for our times, despite its age – The Boar

Professional Matters

• CFP: Agamben and his Interlocutors | Society for Classical Studies
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• CALL. 01.07.2020: Antiquities, Sites and Museums Under Threat: Cultural Heritage and Communities in a State of War (1939-45) – Gand (Belgium)
• CALL. 31.03.2020: “Megiddo, Kadesh, and the Aftermath“. An international conference on war and peace in Antiquity – Prague (Czech Republic)

Alia

• Ancient Patara Lighthouse to shine on Antalya shores centuries later | Daily Sabah
• Rosetta Stone will never return to Egypt, says expert at £1bn museum in Cairo | London Evening Standard
• GTP Headlines » City of Athens Joins Call for Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece
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• Palazzo Massimo alle Terme in Rome – Wanted in Rome

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends hot weather and a shortage of water, and scabs on bodies (scabies?).

… 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)