Hodie est pr. XII Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

• The History of Ancient Greece Podcast: **Special Guest Episode at MFA Boston w/Phoebe Segal**

In today’s special guest episode, I am joined by Dr. Phoebe Segal, Mary Bryce Comstock Curator, Greek and Roman Art, at Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, MA). She gave me a one-on-one tour of their new “Daily Life in Ancient Greece” exhibit (in Gallery 212A-B) and allowed me to record our conversation while doing it.

• Daisy Dunn – Better Known

Daisy Dunn is a classicist and critic and author of, mostly recently, In the Shadow of Vesuvius: A Life of Pliny, Of Gods and Men: 100 Stories from Ancient Greece & Rome, and Homer: A Ladybird Expert Book.

• 043: The First Punic War – Let Them Drink! by The Hellenistic Age Podcast

By 255 B.C., the Carthaginians were in dire straits, having faced the prospect of a Roman invasion of North Africa. However, the talented leadership of Xanthippus of Lacedaemonia and Hamilcar Barca managed to stave off defeat for another 15 years, but the unrelenting nature of the Romans in spite of military and natural disasters would bring an end to the First Punic War.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Ralf von den Hoff, Einführung in die Klassische Archäologie. C.H. Beck Studium. München: C.H. Beck, 2019.
• [BMCR] Francisco Barrenechea, Comedy and religion in classical Athens: narratives of religious experiences in Aristophanes’ Wealth. . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
• [BMCR] David M. Jacobson, Agrippa II: the last of the Herods. Routledge ancient biographies . London; New York: Routledge, 2019.

Professional Matters

• CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES
• CALL. 01.06.2020: 2nd Conference for Postgraduate Students and PhD Candidates in Classics: “Discourses about Otherness: forms of the “other” in ancient Greek and Latin Literature“ – Thessaloniki (Greece)

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it warns of divine anger.

… 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)