Hodie est Id. Oct. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Boedromion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Memorial Tomb of Ancient Greek Astronomer Aratus Unearthed in Turkey | GreekReporter.com
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Public Facing Classics

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• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Torlonia marbles exhibit opens. Seriously!
• PaleoJudaica.com: Poop analysis and community organization in the late-antique Negev
• ALEXANDER THE GREAT TALISMAN: Apotropaic use of Alexander the Great in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods – Anarch
• Archaeologists Discover Western Gate of Ancient Roman, Byzantine Fortress Bononia in Bulgaria’s Danube City Vidin – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
• Jewish-Greek Literature in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras: Some Findings from a Study of Genre | Bible Interp
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Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Feudal Future: Disease & The Fall Of Rome: Parallels & Possibilities With COVID-19 on Apple Podcasts

On this episode of Feudal Future, hosts Joel Kotkin and Marshall Toplansky are joined by guest Kyle Harper, a professor of classics at the University of Oklahoma. Their discussion looks to the past, particularly the fall of Rome to help understand the problems of today. Kyle’s book, The Fall of Rome takes a look at infectious disease as part of the destruction of Rome.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Claudia Zatta, Interconnectedness: the living world of the early Greek philosophers. International Pre-Platonic Studies, Volume 7. Sankt Augustin: Academia Verlag, 2018.
• [BMCR] Margaret Foster, Leslie Kurke, Naomi Weiss, Genre in archaic and classical Greek poetry: theories and models. Studies in archaic and classical Greek song, 4. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
• [BMCR] Pierre Flobert, Varron. La langue latine. Tome III. Livre VII. Collection des universités de France . Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.
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Alia

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• Cleopatra and the Jews
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• Gal Gadot as Cleopatra is a backwards step for Hollywood representation | Film | The Guardian
• Greek or Arab? Race Controversy Erupts Over White Actress Portraying Cleopatra | Hollywood.GreekReporter.com
• Decades before Gal Gadot, Elizabeth Taylor fell into controversy playing Cleopatra as a Jewish actress | JTA | clevelandjewishnews.com
• Gal Gadot as Cleopatra makes archaeological sense – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Cultural diversity and racism in the Ancient World | EurekAlert! Science News
• Why Cleopatra is no stranger to controversy: Unravelling the Egyptian queen’s legacy both on screen and in history – The National
• Trash heaps in Israel reveal agricultural shifts during the Roman Imperial Period | EurekAlert! Science News
• James Bond is more than a (sexist) secret agent. He is a fertility god, a Dionysus of the modern era
• SBL 2019 Review Panel | Seeing or Tasting? Human’s Perception of the Heavenly World in Hellenistic Jewish Writings — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
• UCS discusses Decolonize at Brown statue removal initiative

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a famine caused by a hot wind affecting the crops.

… 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)