Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Hekatombaion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Romeinse vondst in de Zeeuwse polders is waarschijnlijk een kom: ‘En best een grote’ | Bevelanden | pzc.nl
• Detectorist ‘shaking with happiness’ after Bronze Age find – BBC News
• 4th-century church unearthed in Turkey’s ancient city of Tyana | Daily Sabah

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists shed new light on Roman treasures, coins, roads – and potholes – YorkshireLive

Classicists and Classics in the News

• My 40 Year Search for the Battle of Actium (AIA) | Department of Classics | University of Washington
• Were the Ancient Greeks ADA Compliant?

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] MORBVS AN BELLVM? 

Public Facing Classics

• What was your first bit of theatre? – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Nameless Altars and Human Sacrifice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Nationalism and an Outflanking | The Second Achilles
• What Should One Learn from Early Histories? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Presocratic Healthcare Plan: Everyone a Doctor, Everyone a Sage – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Tale of Two Sophokleis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Classics And Ancient History Reflections

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Ancients: Combat Trauma on Apple Podcasts

From the 2000 historical blockbuster ‘Gladiator’ to the Total War series, brutal hand to hand warfare is something we commonly associate with antiquity. But do we have any ancient cases of psychological injury as a direct result of military service? Joining me to discuss this topic, focusing on cases from the Classical Greek Period (c.500 – 323 BC), is Dr Owen Rees. Owen is a historian of ancient warfare and society. He has also written papers about the possibility of an equivalent phenomenon to PTSD in ancient Greek warfare and how that trauma manifested itself differently in ancient Greek culture. In this podcast, we focus on the cases of two specific individuals from the Classical Period: Epizelus the Athenian and Clearchus the Spartan.

• » Seneca Hecules Furens 1-29 Latin Poetry Podcast

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Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Anna Lefteratou, Mythological narratives: the bold and faithful heroines of the Greek novel. MythosEikonPoiesis, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
• [BMCR] Stephen E. Kidd, Play and aesthetics in ancient Greece. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Killing for the Republic 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Imagining Empire 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Socrates and the Socratic Dialogue 
• [AJA] Ιερά και Θρησκευτικές Τελετουργίες στην Ανακτορική και Μετανακτορική Μυκηναϊκή Περίοδο (Sanctuaries and Cult Practices in the Palatial and Postpalatial Mycenaean Period) By Dimitra Rousioti. Athens: Maistros 2018.
• [AJA] Ancient Greece: Social Structure and Evolution By David B. Small (Case Studies in Early Societies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2019.
• [AJA] The Orientalizing and Lucanian Tombs from Loc. De Santis I at Pontecagnano By Margit von Mehren (AnalRom 52). Rome: Edizioni Quasar 2019.
• Review: ‘Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man, and the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife,’ by Ariel Sabar – StarTribune.com
• Review: Veritas Reexamines the Truth of Jesus’ Wife | Time

Alia

• The Arrival of Christianity in Ireland: The Romans and Saint Patrick
• In Hasmonean times, lamps and burials became a symbol of Jewish identity – The Jerusalem Post

‘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 pain and suffering for the majority of people.

… 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)