Hodie est a.d. IX Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Cleopatra died more than 2,000 years ago. And yet stop any person on the street today and ask them who she was, and they’ll know – at least her name. That name has been attached to soaps and bath balms to a popular brand of cigarettes. As an asteroid – 216 Kleopatra – the Egyptian queen has even made it to the stars. What is it about Cleopatra that has captured our imaginations for millennia? Why do we remember her the way we do? Let’s travel through the years, exploring the shapes her legacy has take
From the super galleys of the Hellenistic monarchs to the engagements of Cape Ecnomus and Drepana during the First Punic War, the Hellenistic Age was the epoch of naval warfare in the ancient world. Joining us is nautical archaeologist and PhD student Stephen DeCasien to talk about the intricacies and evolution of the navy during the period, the practicalities and philosophy of building the gargantuan Tessarakonteres, and why it ultimately fell out of favor following the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C.
If an emperor has been disappointing, cruel, tyrannical, or just related to the wrong person he is at risk of being damned, erased, have his likenesses destroyed and his name stricken from the records. The process of danmatio memoraie was intended to be a permanent judgement, and the final vengeance of an angry Rome. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
Even with Miletus defeated, the other rebel cities in shambles, Cyprus under control, and their armies victorious, the Persians had not heard the last of Ionian resistance. While the Greek rebels were fighting against the Persian Empire, the deposed tyrant Histiaeus was making plans to try and carve out a new niche for himself in Persian territory.
In this episode, we discuss the third and final treaty between the Spartans and Tissaphernes; the comedic plays “Lysistrata” and “Thesmophorizusai” by Aristophanes; how the Athenians succumbed to civil war for the first time in nearly a century and saw an overthrow of their democracy by what is known as the 400; the vicissitudes of this new oligarchic government; and how factionalism between extremists and moderates led to its downfall
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] K. F. B. Fletcher, Osman Umurhan, Classical antiquity in heavy metal music. Imagines: classical receptions in the visual performing arts. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
- [BMCR] Giampiera Arrigoni, Atalanta e le altre. Series Antiqua. Bergamo: Sestante Edizioni, 2019.
- [BMCR] Marco Formisano, Christina Shuttleworth Kraus, Marginality, canonicity, passion. Classical presences . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- Sieges in the Ancient Mediterranean – A new Companion published by Brill – Ancient World Magazine
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends good cheer, a putting aside of differences, and an end to disease.
… 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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