#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for June 15, 2020

Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Thargelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Christie’s withdraws ‘looted’ Greek and Roman treasures | Culture | The Guardian
• In pictures: Ancient Petra a ghost town as pandemic hits Jordan tourism | News-photos – Gulf News
• Vandals Destroy Magnificent Marble Columns at Ancient Greek City in Albania | GreekReporter.com
• ‘Crook’: Julius Caesar statue vandalized in Flanders
• Turkey: Ancient city of Ephesus limits visitor numbers

In Case You Missed It

• An ancient Roman city has been fully mapped using ground-penetrating radar | Ars Technica

Fresh Bloggery

• Artabazos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Ostia Antica – The Roman Port – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Philosophy and Fear of the Body – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Lousy Latin Teaching: An Educational Tradition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• MoM | Alweer: chronologie – Mainzer Beobachter
• Research Diary – 25/05/2020 – 31/05/2020 – MUSINGS OF CLIO | MUSINGS ON HISTORY, ART AND ANCIENT SOCIETY
• Looting Matters: Christie’s withdraws four lots

Fresh Podcasts

• Caligula #25 – The Partial Historians | Life Of The Caesars

In this special post-series wrap up episode of Caligula, I’m joined by my fellow Aussie history podcasters, Dr G and Dr R from The Partial Historians.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Roger S. Bagnall, Gaëlle Tallet, The Great Oasis of Egypt: the Kharga and Dakhla oases in antiquity. . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Rosa Benoit-Meggenis, L’empereur et le moine: les relations du pouvoir impérial avec les monastères à Byzance (IXe-XIIIe). Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 73. Lyon: Publications de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée, 2017. 

Professional Matters

• CALL. 30.07.2020: Workshop “Idealization and Aesthetic Criteria in Early Greek Epic“ – Online
• CALL. 30.07.2020: Workshop “Idealization and Aesthetic Criteria in Early Greek Epic“ – Online

Alia

• ‘Black’ Africans and the Ancient Greeks | Neos Kosmos

‘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 damage to birds in the summer and the death of 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)