Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 6 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Newly-found skeletons may address bloody conflict during Alexander the Great’s invasion of Persia’ – Tehran Times

Classicists and Classics in the News

• ‘Father of medicine’ also created Greek literature, claims scholar | News | The Times

Public Facing Classics

• The National Trust and Bouncy Castles | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Roman Times: Staged royal discoveries in Pompeii
• Trojan Fan Fic: Astyanax, The Boy Who Lived – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Tale of The Master Forger, Priscus | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Goths were as adept at fine metalwork as Romans
• Manor House of Troy II | Turkish Archaeological News
• PaleoJudaica.com: Høgenhaven, The Cave 3 Copper Scroll: A Symbolic Journey
• MoM | Ancient Migrations and Migrants (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Burke on the not-so-lost gospels
• The Hagia Sophia Is Now a Mosque – Tales of Times Forgotten
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lewis on writing a history of ancient Israelite religion.

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The British Museum Podcast: The Museum Podcast Special: Sir Hans Sloane on Apple Podcasts

In 1753, Sir Hans Sloane bequeathed his collection of over 70,000 objects to the nation, founding the British Museum’s collection, and those that would become the British Library and Natural History Museum.  His collection spanned from natural history specimens to ancient sculpture, plants and contemporary 18th-century objects. But Sloane’s collecting is tied closely to colonialism, empire and slavery – his family profited from sugar plantations in Jamaica worked by enslaved people, and some of the objects in his collection were also collected with assistance from enslaved people. So how do we navigate Sloane’s story in the 21st century? Guests Miranda Lowe and James Delbourgo explore Sloane’s life, collecting and legacy with Hartwig Fischer and Sushma Jansari, and examine the role of slavery and enslaved people in his collection and collecting practices. They also consider how museums should respond to these histories and to figures like Sloane.

Book Reviews

• The Gospel According to a Con Man | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
• [BMCR] Fernando Lozano Gómez, Alfonso Álvarez-Ossorio Rivas, Carmen Alarcon Hernandez, The present of antiquity: reception, recovery, reinvention of the Ancient World in current popular culture. Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité (ISTA), n°1476. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2019.
• [BMCR] Thomas A. Szlezák, Aufsätze zur griechischen Literatur und Philosophie. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Stefanos Gimatzidis, Magda Pieniazek, Sila Mangalaglu-Votruba, Archaeology across frontiers and borderlands. Fragmentation and connectivity in the north Agean and the central Balkans from the Bronze Age to the Iron Age. OREA, 9. Wien: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018.
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Once and Future Antiquities 
• [Ancient History Bulletin ~ PDF] Lynn Kozak reviewing M. Telò and M. Mueller, The Materialities of Greek Tragedy: Objects and Affect in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides (31-34) 

Professional Matters

• PaleoJudaica.com: Academic post in Syriac Christianity at Notre Dame

Alia

• New Greek Armoured Vehicle To Be Called Hoplite – Greek City Times
• Story in Pics: Here’s How Some Historical Figures Would Look If They Lived Today – DesPardes + PKonweb

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the deaths of noble youths.

… 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)