Hodie est  Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Roman Society YouTube Channel
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: AVI : Attic Vase Inscriptions : Attische Vaseninschriften
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• Arrian I.20.1-10 | The Second Achilles
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• Arrian I.21.1-6 | The Second Achilles

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Synopsis: While the Ptolemies intrigue in Coele Syria, Antiochus VIII Grypus and his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus struggle for seventeen years to win control of the north.  After the rivals die in quick succession, the kingdom comes under control of Seleucus VI and Demetrius III, the allied sons of Grypus.

• Caligula #16 – Bless The Rains | Life Of The Caesars

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• ‎Fictorical: S1E4: Thermopylae – Hot Gates & Big Stakes on Apple Podcasts

This week we cover one of the most legendary last stands in all history, Thermopylae.  Xerxes and his colossal horde march on Greece to conquer and enslave.  Leonidas and his 300 Spartans lead a Greek force in the defense of the narrow pass of Thermopylae or the “Hot Gates”.  Join us as we discuss the history, tactics, and “man love” that played a role in this bloody battle.

• Episode 34 – The Die is Cast – The Layman’s Historian

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• 041: Polybius of Megalopolis – Historian of the Hellenistic Age by The Hellenistic Age Podcast

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Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Michael Schmitz, Roman conquests: the Danube frontier. . Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019.
• [BMCR] Wolfgang Polleichtner, Ethik in der Pädagogik – Pädagogik in der Ethik. Didaskalika, 2. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Nicolas Lamare, Les fontaines monumentales en Afrique romaine. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 557. Roma: École française de Rome, 2019.
• [BMCR] Tanja Susanne Scheer, Natur, Mythos, Religion im antiken Griechenland = Nature, myth, religion in ancient Greece: [interdisziplinäre Tagung vom 12. bis 14 November 2015, Althistorisches Seminar der Georg August Universität Göttingen]. Potsdamer Altertumswissenchaftliche Beiträge, 67. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• LONG LIVE LATIN: The pleasures of a useless language – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• UGA Theatre offers contemporary take on myth with Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ – UGA Today
• REVIEW: Shocking Modern Mashup in The Bacchae (Guthrie Theater/SITI Company) – Twin Cities Arts Reader

Professional Matters

• CALL. 03/15/2020: Parenti serpenti. You cannot choose your family. Difficult kinship between myth and ancient theater – Siena (Italy)
• CALL. 03.04.2020: Prometheus Trust Conference 2020 – Mancetter (England)
• CALL. 03/31/2020: [WORKSHOP] Cultures of contact: Modes of Interaction within Ancient Communities (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
• CALL. 31.03.2020: [WORKSHOP] Recent Fieldwork in the Near East (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
• CALL. 01.04.2020: Animus, anima, animalia – Yesterday, today, tomorrow – Bucarest (Romania)
• CALL. 22.03.2020: “Faith – Heresy – Magic“ Manifestations of deviant beliefs and magical practices in the material culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Kiel (Germany)
• CALL. 18.03.2020: The Women’s Classical Committee Annual Meeting 2020: Green Shoots in Classics – Manchester (England)
• Battle Magic. Supernatural Support for Physical Combat – 26-27 / 06/2020, Solingen (Germany)
• CALL. 20.03.2020: AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – Chicago (IL, USA)
• AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – 07-08-09-10/01/2021, Chicago (IL, USA)
• CALL. 31.03.2020: Apotropaia and Phylakteria. Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece – Athens (Greece)
• CALL. 03.04.2020: Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama – Oxford-Egham (England)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings
• CALL. 20.04.2020: Flavian Sicily. An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites – Siracusa (Italy)

Alia

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• How Etymologies Bear Imprints of Historic Discrimination and Prejudices – Palestine Chronicle
• Exploring Greek Myths with Stephen Fry – CNN Video

‘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 heat waves and drought and a throng of mice and fish.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. III Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 19 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

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Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ Σίνα τὴν νόσον βραδέως νικᾷ 

Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Strange Days Among The Ruins – In Medias Res – Medium
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• ‘Antinous as Vertumnus’ – Minato City, Japan – Atlas Obscura
• Online Open House | Wives of Returning Veterans in Classical Athenian Drama, with Erika Weiberg | The Kosmos Society
• Gifts of Chicks and Shells: The Fragment of the Poet Hedyle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Why we like a good robot story | OUPblog
• Resources for Teaching Remotely – Amy Pistone
• Restauratie en reconstructie – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Wrong Monkey: Cassiodorus and the Preservation of the Latin Classics

Fresh Podcasts

• 1.8 Journeying to the Underworld
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• 2.2 Life in the Mycenaean Age
• 2.3 Decorative Arts

A podcast by DJ Watkins and AJ Keen of Bristol Grammar School to help GCSE Class Civ pupils to revise for their Myth and Religion and Homeric World topics.

• Dies tertius, pulchra est urbs deserta. | Sermones Raedarii

Quam pulchra sit hodie urbs deserta audietis.

• BBC Radio 4 – Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

[all five series available now]

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Brigitte Steger, Piazza Armerina : la villa romaine du Casale en Sicile. Antiqva 17. Paris: Picard, 2017.
• [BMCR] Stephen Mitchell, Phillipp Pilhofer, Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: from the margins to the mainstream. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 109. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
• [BMCR] Isabelle C. Torrance, Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy . London; New York: IB Tauris, 2019.
• [BMCR] Simon Thijs, Obsidibus imperatis: Formen der Geiselstellung und ihre Anwendung in der Römischen Republik. Philippika, 129. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Dramatic Receptions

• BWW Review: SITI Company’s Updated, International BACCHAE at Guthrie Theater

Professional Matters

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Alia

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• CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Travels With Hadrian
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• This is Sparta! Gerard Butler Honored in Ancient Greek City | GreekReporter.com

‘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 abundance, but the wild beasts will be destroyed; fish will increase and reptiles will invade settlements, but will not be harmful.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Severus Alexander was a young boy when he came to power in Rome in 222CE, in the wake of the death of his unpopular cousin, Elagabalus. He would reign for 13 years but struggle to assert authority, bringing the once proud Severan dynasty to a chaotic ending. Guest: Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

• ‎The Partial Historians: Special Episode – An Interview with Emeritus Professor Edwin Judge on Apple Podcasts

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Book Reviews

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• [BMCR] Julia Annas, Virtue and Law in Plato and Beyond. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
• [BMCR] Winfried Held, Die Karische Chersones vom Chalkolithikum bis in die byzantinische Zeit: Beiträge zu den Surveys in Loryma und Bybassos. Forschungen auf der Karischen Cherones, 1. Marburg: Eigenverlag des Archäologischen Seminars der Philipps-Universität, 2019.
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Dramatic Receptions

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Professional Matters

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‘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 danger for a powerful politician or general and on his behalf, battles will be fought and wild beasts will attack 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)

Hodie est a.d. V Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 17 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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Hodie Italia tota clausa est. Obsidione cingimur.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Richard Seaford, Tragedy, ritual, and money in ancient Greece: selected essays. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• [BMCR] Peter Crawford, Roman Emperor Zeno: the perils of power politics in fifth-century Constantinople.  Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2019.
• [BMCR] Federica Bessone, Sabrina Stroppa, Lettori latini e italiani di Ovidio: atti del convegno, Università di Torino, 9-10 novembre 2017. Quaderni della Rivista di cultura classica e medioevale, 18. Pisa, Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2019.

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Alia

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‘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 heavy rains and a swarming of locusts.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Public Facing Classics

• Who invented the handshake? – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
• Bestselling author of ‘Circe’ discusses her book at One Book, One Community event in Vernon Hills – Chicago Tribune
• Madeline Miller and Emily Wilson come together for a special presentation – Sweet Briar College | News

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• 10 – Vassar College Seniors 2019 – The Mirror of Antiquity | Acast

What the study of antiquity means to seven seniors graduating from Vassar College with degrees in Greek and Roman Studies

Dramatic Receptions

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Professional Matters

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• FIEC: Conference on “Augustine and the Humanists” in the heart of Rome
• FIEC: Call for Papers from the SCS
• CALL. 30.03.2020: 7th Annual Birmingham Egyptology Symposium: “Biography in ancient Egypt“ – Birmingham (England)

Alia

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‘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 destruction for quadrupeds.

… 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)