Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Second Temple period jars and complete clay objects unearthed in Beit El – The Jerusalem Post
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Mary Rose regular Emma Sothon joins us to talk all about her new book on murder in Ancient Rome. We promise you, no giraffes were harmed in the recording of this podcast, nor people making up weird sex stories about them. However weird they are. Buy the book! A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
In this episode of The Catholic Talk Show, the guys discover and explore lost books and manuscripts that almost were part of the Bible.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Thomas Johann Bauer, Peter von Möllendorff, Die Briefe des Ignatios von Antiochia: Motive, Strategien, Kontexte. Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr. 72. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
- [BMCR] Ben Akrigg, Population and economy in classical Athens. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Eva Alram-Stern, Barbara Horejs, Pottery technologies and sociocultural connections between the Aegean and Anatolia during the 3rd millennium BC. Orea, 10. München: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018.
- [BMCR] David Kovacs, Oedipus the King: a new verse translation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
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- Exhibition for the 2,500-year anniversary of the Battle of Thermopylae and the Naval Battle of Salamis – Orthodox Times
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- Finding Troy, City Lost For 3,000 Years Rediscovered | IE
- Berlin: vandalism of museum artefacts ‘linked to conspiracy theorists’ | World news | The Guardian
- Bulgari Continues Its Epic Roman Patronage With the Priceless “Torlonia Marbles” | Architectural Digest
- On the Town: Roman antiquities exhibit headed for Museum of Art – The Journal Record
- Part II: Identifying and slabbing ancient coins | Coin Update
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today it portends an outbreak of a coughing sickness and heart maladies.
… 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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