Hodie est pr. Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
How do you reimagine a century-old reference series for the digital age? In 1919, a French archaeologist started the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, or CVA, with the ambitious goal of cataloging every ancient painted vase in the world. Nearly 400 volumes, compiling some 100,000 vases, have been published to date by museums, making the CVA one of the most important resources for researchers working on ancient Greek art and culture. Getty’s most recent addition to the CVA is the first born-digital, open-access volume of this essential series. In this episode, Despoina Tsiafakis, the author of Getty’s new CVA volume and the director of research at the Athena Research and Innovation Center in Greece, speaks with Getty curator David Saunders and Getty digital publications manager Greg Albers about the history of the CVA and the process of bringing the series to a new digital platform.
During the First Servile War, the epic prophet and fire-breather named Eunus led a rebellion that threatened the Republic to its foundations. For a time, Eunus controlled all of Sicily. But he ended his life devoured by lice in a jail cell. After Eunus’ death, the great Sicilian latifundia recovered. Within a few years, they were up and running again—just as strong, profitable, and cruel as before. But just 28 years later, another major uprising—the Second Servile War—would shake that system to its core once again. Find out how it all went down.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Lorenzo Fabbri, Mater Florum. Flora e il suo culto a Roma. Biblioteca dell’Archivum Romanicum . Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2019.
- [BMCR] Graham Wrightson, Combined arms warfare in ancient Greece: from Homer to Alexander the Great and his successors. Routledge monographs in classical studies . London: Routledge, 2019.
Professional Matters
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a shower of good things.
… 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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