Hodie est a.d. VI Id Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient City on Remote Islet in Aegean Reveals Fascinating Secrets in New Dig | GreekReporter.com
• Tempio di Nettuno, ora si riscrive la storia  – Cultura e Spettacoli – La Città di Salerno

In Case You Missed It

Gem seal with face of Apollo on it found near Jerusalem’s Western Wall

Rare Gem Discovery in Jerusalem Has Two Mysteries

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Dr. Artemis Leontis’ Lecture on Eva Palmer Sikelianos Available Online | various , video | The National Herald
• Professor Hérica Valladares publishes new book | Department of Classics

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] PROCELLA AMERICANA 
• [Ephemeris] DE COMITIIS AMERICANIS 

Public Facing Classics

• Opinion: For Alberta’s young students, Ancient Rome and Canada’s residential schools should be equally challenging material – The Globe and Mail

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Publications of the Metropolitan Museum of Art Egyptian Expedition
• “Dark Matter” by Michelle Paver (2010) – Mixed up in Classics
• Comfort Classics: Angharad Derbyshire – Classical Studies Support
• Roman Times: Anatomical votives in the Greco-Roman World
• Weekend Reading: Happy Lockdown 2! – Classical Studies Support
• A Kybele from Afghanistan – Mainzer Beobachter
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tall al-Ḥamīdīya Final Reports
• Apollo And Daphne, Painted by Francesco Albani (c. 1578–1660) | The Historian’s Hut
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: New Voices In Classical Reception Studies
• Patience, The Greatest Virtue? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Decolonising Academia: Christian Cole x Common Ground – Mixed up in Classics
• PaleoJudaica.com: Is buried treasure still out there?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Brosius, A History of Ancient Persia
• Standing proud and true | Turkish Archaeological News
• A Tragic View – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• So Manly – So Cruel – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Four Years of Presidential Memories: “Some Shelter from the Wind”: Homer on our Debt to Exiles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: The Tinas Cliniar: Dioscuri of the Etruscans
• Escaping Bad Habits Along with Bad Men – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Origin of the Term “Swan Song” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• My Impressions of Lingua Latina
• The human cost | Market of Mass Destruction
• ‘Sad’ Story of Roman Veteran Who Served 44 Years in Military Revealed by Tombstone from Almus in Bulgaria’s Danube Town Lom – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
• ‘Sex and the City: Plato on Philosopher-Queens in the Republic and Laws’ Megan Bowler « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Blog-like Publications

• The Hanging Gardens. An Ancient Wonder of the World | by Joshua Hehe | Medium
• The “Lex Adversus Scotos Catholicos”: A Jacobite Manuscript in Williamsburg, VA | by Claire Cunningham | In Medias Res | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• Pastoral Perfection: Why Milton’s Lycidas is a Classicist’s Masterpiece | by Patrick Johnson | Ostraka | Nov, 2020 | Medium
• The Brilliant Scientist Who Stopped the Roman Army | by Mythili the dreamer | Lessons from History | Nov, 2020 | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Life Of Caesar: Claudius #12 – Lips That Grip on Apple Podcasts

It’s 48 CE. Messalina is dead. So now Claudius needs a new wife. There are several candidates, including Julia Agrippina, the daughter of Germanicus, making her Claudius’ niece. Conveniently, her rich husband had recently died. She is also the mother of a young boy called Domitius Ahenobarbus – but who will soon change his name to Nero.

• ‎Dad and Me Love History: 38. Ancient Greece: What made the Spartans the greatest warriors of the ancient world? on Apple Podcasts

We go back around 2,500 years to the time of the Ancient Greek Empire. But as we’re not experts on Ancient Greece – in fact, Dad’s poor knowledge of Ancient Greece has always been his Achilles’ elbow – we are joined by an expert guest. We discover why kids were taught to steal, and we explain why people run a marathon today. And the episode comes to a climax with the Spartans last stand at the Battle of Thermopylae – as depicted in the movie 300., and (kinda) Star Wars: Rogue One.

• ‎The Ancients: The Other Alexander on Apple Podcasts

Alexander, an Ancient Greek king and a victorious conqueror. No, not that one, not Alexander the Great. This time, we’re talking about his uncle, Alexander I of Molossia. In 334BC, when Alexander the Great advanced east to conquer the Persian Empire, Alexander of Molossia was travelling west across the Ionian sea to the south of Italy. In addition to their matching names and simultaneous expansionist expeditions, both Alexanders were brought up in the court of Philip II of Macedon. But whilst one remains a household name, the other has sunk into obscurity. To explore the life of this lesser known Alexander, Tristan was joined by Dr. Ben Raynor. Ben is a former Moses and Mary Finley Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge. He talks us through Alexander I of Molossia’s formative years in Philip’s court, his relationship with the Macedonian king and his own successes as a leader. Ben and Tristan also delve into the legends about Alexander’s death, and his omission from popular history.

• ‎History of the World podcast: Vol 3 Ep 44 – EVENT – The Eruption of Mount Vesuvius ( Pompeii ) on Apple Podcasts

79 – The Romans could not have ever known the catastrophe that suddenly destroyed all civilisation around the Gulf of Naples in less than 24 hours.

Book Reviews

• Book review of First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country by Thomas E. Ricks – The Washington Post

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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

Alia

• What is the Common Era? | Human World | EarthSky
• Four Of The Finest Ancient Greek Sculptures Kept In Museums Away From Their Motherland – Greek City Times
• Three Ways To Read Homer’s Iliad
• Blood of Zeus Creators Talk Bringing Greek Mythology to Anime, Season 2 Hopes and More
• A toast to Knossos at West Berks Museum – Newbury Weekly News
• A Virtual Tour In Ancient Olympia – Greek City Times

‘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:

If it thunders today, it portends gluttony brought on by serious diseases.

… 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)