Hodie est Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 10 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• The Fall of Pompeii reimagined in Paris′ Grand Palais | All media content | DW | 29.06.2020
• Thousands of ancient artefacts from Roman treasure to shipwreck bounty to be revealed by X-rays
• Macerata, iniziato il restauro dei reperti archeologici presenti nel cortile municipale – Macerata Notizie
• Excavation sheds new light on mysterious capital of Medes in Ecbatana – Tehran Times
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• Excavations start in Roman-era Silifke Castle
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Fresh Bloggery

• Roman Times: The Fall of Pompeii reimagined in Paris’ Grand Palais through September 27 in Paris
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• Only Bad Dudes Want Statues in the First Place – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: EpiDoc
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Manchester Artefact Hunters Arrested With Metal Detectors, Artefacts and Cannabis [UPDATED]
• Milking the He-Goat: The Only Proverb You Need Today – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Drink Your Vergil! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Jason And Medea, Painted By John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) | The Historian’s Hut
• When A Spartan Fleet Was Devastated In 410 BCE, The Persians Helped Them Rebuild | The Historian’s Hut
• Not Fade Away | Sphinx
• June 2020 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
• Book Club | July 2020: Quintus Smyrnaeus Fall of Troy 5–9 | The Kosmos Society

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎MythTake: Episode 32: An Interview with John Bracey on Apple Podcasts

John Bracey, aka @magisterbracey on Twitter, is a Latin teacher in Massachusetts teaching Latin using the Comprehensible Input technique.. He has an MA in Classics from Boston College and in 2016 he was named Latin Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association. He leads workshops for teachers around the US on language teaching. He has written in Eidolon about his experience trying to get hired as a Black Latin teacher and why students of color don’t take Latin.

• The Great Books — Episode 138: ‘The Persians’ by Aeschylus | National Review

John J. Miller is joined by Spencer Klavan to discuss Aeschylus’s The Persians.

• ‎Getty Art + Ideas: Reflections: Kenneth Lapatin on a Roman Gem on Apple Podcasts

This week, curator Kenneth Lapatin dives into a new world through Roman carved gem that features Aeneas fleeing Troy.

• ‎Creepy Classics: The Story of Curtius Rufus, from Pliny and Tacitus on Apple Podcasts

In this story, young Curtius Rufus is about to give up on a political career as he’s surrounded by rumours and prejudice, when an African spirit appears to him with a positive message… This story is told by both Pliny the Younger (Letters, 7.27) and Tacitus (Annals, 11.20-21) though Pliny is rather kinder to both the spirit and to Rufus than Tacitus is! Followed by a discussion looking at race and ethnicity in the Roman world.Content warning: racism, ableism, abortion.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Anna Uhlig, Theatrical reenactment in Pindar and Aeschylus. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Sabine Feist, Die byzantinische Sakralarchitektur der Dunklen Jahrhunderte. Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz, Band 46. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Vincenzo Bochicchio, Marco Mazzeo, Giuseppe Squillace, A lume di naso: olfatto, profumi, aromi tra mondo antico e contemporaneo. Macerata: Quodlibet, 2019.

Professional Matters

• Durham University – Lecturer in Classical and Applied Landscape Archaeology (Fixed Term) (20000333)

Alia

• Online Classics Resources | Cambridge Compendium | The Greeks, the Romans, and Us
• In Search of King David’s Lost Empire | The New Yorker
• How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles | Financial Times

‘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 a destruction of flocks.

… 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)