Hodie est Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 15 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• An ultra-rare coin celebrating Julius Caesar’s assassination sells for a record $3.4 million – CNN Style
• Remnants of Achaemenid fortress unearthed in northeast Iran – Tehran Times
• The mystery of the Greek fire in Albacete | Culture | THE COUNTRY
• Archaeologists Blast Decision to Cement Sections of the Acropolis | GreekReporter.com
• Hvar Archaeological Discovery: Amphora and Wine Vessels

In Case You Missed It

• Early Christian Church Unearthed in Turkey – Archaeology Magazine
• 1,700-year-old Greek inscription confirms name of modern-day Golan Heights site – www.israelhayom.com
• 2,000-year-old Gem Seal Depicting Greek God Apollo Found Under City Of David – Greek City Times

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Wardlaw+Hartridge Students Earn National Latin Awards | TAPinto
• University Of Sydney Gifts Lego Acropolis To Acropolis Museum – Greek City Times
• Spooky subjects: U of T ‘Monsters’ course explores our fascination with the frightful

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] SOLUSNE INFANDA PATRAVIT? Auctor caedis Nicaeae cum aliis stragem paravit 

Public Facing Classics

• The Medusa #MeToo Monument Only Serves Luciano Garbati | Bitch Media

Fresh Bloggery

• Werewolf Week, Religious Returns: St. Augustine on Lycanthropy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Smell Like Teen Spirit: Latin Edition | Latin Language Blog
• Comfort Classics: Connor Hickey – Classical Studies Support
• How Lady Jane Grey Became So Learned – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Gate of Mazaeus and Mithridates in Ephesus | Turkish Archaeological News
• When History Meets Race Pseudo-Science :: Pharos
• A Ghost Story from Petronius for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Archaeology Blog: The Roman Balneum In Rafina: A Monument Reveals Itself
• How Do You Say Trick-Or-Treat in Latin and Greek? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• More on Dirk Obbink and the Provenance of the Sappho Papyrus | Variant Readings
• Weekend Reading: Here Be Dragons – Classical Studies Support
• Four Years of Presidential Memories: Scoundrels, Fools, and Failing States – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Field of Mars Live. 5th November, 2020. – Understanding Rome
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Ubi Sunt?
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » EID MAR aureus assassinates world record
• Scientism, the coronavirus, and the death of the humanities | OUPblog
• Looting Matters: The Becchina Archive and Armour from Italy
• Sic mundus creatus est, or: Roman Highway to Hell – MAPPOLA
• Happy Halloween: Werewolves in Greek and Roman Culture – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Byzantine Verse on Lycanthropy for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Edithorial: Ancient Tips from Lucian for Halloween Costumes
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pre-modern Industrial Districts: Panel 3.12 Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018
• The Portrait of a Civic Monster – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Humanizing a Monster (or Monsters Deserve Love Too) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Four Years of Presidential Memories: Plutocrats, Listen Up, Equal is Better Than More – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Stolen Artworks in Museums – Tales of Times Forgotten
• October 2020 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mystery Cults in Visual Representation in Graeco-Roman Antiquity (ed. Belayche & Massa)
• Book Club | November 2020: Pliny the Younger Letters | The Kosmos Society
• Four Years of Presidential Memories: Stop the Presses! The Character of an Oligarch – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Could He Really Destroy Our Republic? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Aphrodite of the East – A warrior love goddess

Blog-like Publications

• A Minoan harbour town – The ancient site of Kommos in Crete – Ancient World Magazine
• The Book of the Hellenists and the Origin of the Gospel of Mark: The Development of the Gospels of Mark and John Turned on Its Head! | Bible Interp
• Ancient Miletus – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Tyras & Chersonesus: Ancient Greek Coins of the Black Sea’s Northern Coast
• Roman Baking – When at Home, Bake as the Romans Baked – SAPIENS
• ‘Carpe Diem’ Is the Perfect Message for Our Times — but It Doesn’t Mean What You Think | by Steven Gambardella | Sep, 2020 | Forge

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Casting Through Ancient Greece: Episode 19: The Greeks Prepare on Apple Podcasts

• ‎Lore and Legend : Tales From Our Mythic Past: The Cannibal King’s Daughter · Halloween Special · Part II on Apple Podcasts

Content Warning: Horror, Body Horror, Sexual Violence, Rape, Disturbing Sounds & Scenes. Join us for the second of our Halloween specials this week. Tonight’s storyteller is Rick Scott. In the last episode of our Regular Series, The Dreams of Kings, you heard in short the story of King Aethon and his insatiable appetite. But did you know, that there is more to the story? Because King Aethon also had a daughter. And that daughter… was also Odysseus’ grandmother. You’ve heard the first part of this story before, but keep listening because there’s more… this is the full story of King Aethon, the Cannibal King, and the fate of his Daughter, Princess Mestra of Thessaly…

• ‎Nuntii Latini: diē trīcēsimō mēnsis Octōbris on Apple Podcasts

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Stratis Papaioannou, Michael Psellus. Epistulae, (2 vols.). Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2030. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
• [BMCR] Andrea M. Berlin, Paul J. Kosmin, Spear-won land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea. Wisconsin studies in classics. Madison: Unversity of Wisconsin Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Jonathan Cahana-Blum, Karmen MacKendrick, We and they: decolonizing Graeco-Roman and Biblical antiquities. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2019.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar

Alia

• Ancient Greeks Used Exotic, Dangerous Cosmetics in Eternal Search for Beauty | GreekReporter.com
• The Allegory of the Cave: Character Analysis – Our Culture
• Pagan complacency and the birth of the Christian Roman empire | Aeon Essays
• Are We Rome Yet? – Mother Jones
• Chess at the Siege of Troy | TheArticle
• Why did Rome fall? | Live Science

‘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:

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… 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)