Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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A foundational text in both ethics and political thought, the Republic was shaped by Plato’s traumatic experiences as a young man witnessing civil war and the collapse of Athenian democracy. This is the first installment in an 11-part series on this classic work.
Explosions! Swords! Horse girls! Melissa made me watch Pompeii (2014). We talked about the swords-and-sandals genre, the specific place of Pompeii in popular imagination, volcanos and Kit Harrington’s hair. I do not recommend this movie. Please make more sexy trashy films about archaeologists.
In this episode, Susan Matheson joins us to speak about representations of old age and the elderly in Greek art.
Book Reviews
- Le musée de Chersonèse : personnages, exploits, destins. 1941 – 1945 | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Christopher B. R. Pelling, Herodotus and the question why. The Fordyce W. Mitchel memorial lecture series. Austin: The University of Texas Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Peter Högemann, Norbert Oettinger, Lydien: ein altanatolischer Staat zwischen Griechenland und dem Vorderen Orient. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
- [BMCR] Sabine Feist, Transforming sacred spaces: new approaches to Byzantine ecclesiastical architecture from the transitional period. Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz, Band 48. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends plenty of fodder for the flocks.
… 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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