Hodie est pr. Id. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Hekatombaion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Aeneas Didn’t Escape, The Greeks Let Him Go – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Kiwi Hellenist: Who founded Rome?
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- Visiting 123 Roman sites in Britain – Keener Classics
- Interview with Ariel Sabar about his new book, Veritas | James McGrath
- NT Blog: Ariel Sabar’s Veritas, and the latest on the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK “Antiquities” Dealer Seems not to Like my Work
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: JURN. A curated academic search-engine, indexing 4,969 free ejournals
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Fresh Podcasts
Cambridge University’s Tim Whitmarsh joins us for a fascinating talk on Ancient Greek identity. How do you define who was Greek and who wasn’t? How did citizenship work? How did they view themselves? And how did they see others, such as the Romans?
NT Pod 94 is my review of Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife. It is just under 19 minutes long. NT Pod 94: Review of Ariel Sabar’s Veritas (mp3) The book is: Ariel Sabar, Veritas: A Harvard Professor, A Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife (New York: Doubleday, 2020) Previous podcasts in this series: NT Pod 87: What is the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife?NT Pod 88: Is the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife a forgery?NT Pod 89: How was the forgery of the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife proved?NT Pod 90: How was the forgery of the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife confirmed?
Today’s show is about Aristotle, one of the earliest and greatest thinkers to take up the subject of the Good Life.
Heisenberg? Aristotle? Join me to find out how they’re linked in this episode. Enjoy!
Book Reviews
- The Harvard Jesus Hoax – Tablet Magazine
- [BMCR] Bradley K. Storin, Gregory of Nazianzus’s letter collection: the complete translation. Christianity in late antiquity, 7. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Francisco Machuca Prieto, Una forma fenicia de ser romano: identidad e integración de las comunidades fenicias de la Península Ibérica bajo el poder de Roma. SPAL Monografías Arqueología, XXIX. Sevilla: Universidad de Sevilla, 2019.
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF] The Oresteia
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Cicero, Greek Learning and the Making of a Roman Classic
- [AJA] Cosa: The Roman and Greek Amphoras By Elizabeth Lyding Will and Kathleen Warner Slane (MAAR 14). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2019.
- [AJA] Domesticating Empire: Egyptian Landscapes in Pompeian Gardens By Caitlín E. Barrett. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2019.
- Book Review: Robert E. Winn, Christianity in the Roman Empire | Reading Acts
- Recherches historiques et topoarchéologiques en Colchide | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
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- Classification of Slaves in Ancient Greece
- Ancient and Medieval Coins as Royal Propaganda
- What Happened to the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife? – The Atlantic
- Fed-up archaeologists aim to fix ‘frat party’ atmosphere at field schools | Science | AAAS
- Mysteries of Antiquity | Cover Story | Style Weekly – Richmond, VA local news, arts, and events.
- American Horror Story: How Coven’s Minotaur Differs From Greek Mythology
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends an abundance of cattle fodder and acorns, but the first period of ripening will not be so good.
… 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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