#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for the Weekend of November 21-22, 2020

Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 6 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Europa Nostra Calls for Thessaloniki Antiquities to be Preserved On Site | GTP Headlines
• Missing Sister of “Kalymnos Lady” Statue Discovered on Aegean Seabed | Greek Reporter Europe
• Science reveals secrets of a mummy’s portrait
• Marsala, sono 37 le tombe scoperte in via Alcide De Gasperi. Il parere della Soprintendenza
• Pompeii gives back whole bodies of two fugitives – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
• Carsulae, torna alla luce l’arena dell’anfiteatro

In Case You Missed It

• Workers in Athens find ancient head of the Greek god Hermes | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 20.11.2020

Classicists and Classics in the News

• [Paywalled] A Perfect Introduction for Two Latin Lovers – The New York Times
• La mort de l’archéologue Jean-Marie Dentzer
• Roman historian views early martyr narratives as ‘living texts’ | Cornell Chronicle

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] PONTIFEX DE RE ARGENTARIA 

Fresh Bloggery

• Did Pheidippides invent the marathon? – Bad Ancient
• Man’s Best Friend | The Kosmos Society
• Ancient Greek Abstract Art – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Classical Christmas Gift Guide… – Classical Studies Support
• Let’s Talk About Sweat, Baby – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Publicly Exposed & Publicly Detested – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Apulian vase painting
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dura-Europos: Crossroad of Antiquity
• Modern Tyrants Worse Than Caligula – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Kidnapping and Theft – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Bar-Rakeb of Sam’al – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Head of Hermes found in Athens sewer
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A House of Cards
• Turkish fishermen net 300 kilo ancient bronze statue off the coast of Marmaris – The Archaeology News Network
• Zarina, ruler of the Sacae; a rare example of a woman-leader of Army and State in the Ancient World – Novo Scriptorium
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens Theories
• Heal Your Body and Soul This Holiday Season: Talk with Family and Friends – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Roman cavalry masks
• Nothing To Write about: Cicero Gives Up – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: EAMENA Database of Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East & North Africa
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Two of Vesuvius’ victims found, cast
• Dinners: Invitations and Guest-Lists for the Feasts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Baker et al. (eds.), Exploring the Composition of the Pentateuch
• No Politics and Religion at Dinner? Try Love Instead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient silver counterfeiting?
• Paris’ Prologue 1: The Plan of Zeus: spannycattroy — LiveJournal

Blog-like Publications

• ‘Does Beauty and the Beast Date Back to Ancient Mesopotamia?’ | by Sophie Overton | Ostraka | Oct, 2020 | Medium
• “First Caro Pulled Round Her Torso The Blue Gown” | by Heather Schmidt | Nov, 2020 | EIDOLON
• AIRC | This Week in Rome: 5 Ways to Experience Ancient Rome Remotely this Holiday Season
• Capturing your “rude” conqueror | OUPblog
• The Rape of the Sabine Women. The women who sacrificed themselves to… | by Sal | Lessons from History | Nov, 2020 | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Lore and Legend : Tales From Our Mythic Past: S2E8 · Postscript on Apple Podcasts

When Odysseus left for the mountains, Phorkys left his cave and his harbour, and dove down into the depths of the dark sea; and in a trice, he changed his shape; became a swift-darting dolphin, which swept south along with the currents that flowed above the ocean floor…

• ‎Thin End of the Wedge: 9. Elisa Rossberger: Reflections in clay: the tactile art of terracottas on Apple Podcasts

Elisa talks about terracottas as physical images. What different sorts are there? What images were popular? She tackles the difficult questions of who used them, and what for. What do broken examples tell us? And she explains how we understand the…

• ‎The Ancients: Linothorax: Kevlar of the Ancients on Apple Podcasts

Gregory Aldrete has spent 12 years studying the composition and effectiveness of this ancient armour used by many nations around the Mediterranean. To do so, he recreated the armour from scratch, using authentic materials. In this episode Gregory, Professor Emeritus from The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, speaks with Tristan about how this armour protected one of the most powerful conquering armies of all history, despite being made of a soft fabric. 

• ‎History of the World podcast: Vol 3 Ep 46 – Ancient Rome: The Severan Dynasty on Apple Podcasts

193 – 222 – There were Five Good Emperors and then there seemed to be none.  Just how did the quality of the Princeps decline so dramatically and what pressures were responsible for making it happen?

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Alberto Cavarzere, Lucio Cristante, Marcus Fabius Quintilianus, M. Fabi Quintiliani Institutionis oratoriae liber IX. Introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, XVII. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Maddalena Bassani, Marion Bolder-Boos, Ugo Fusco, Rethinking the concept of “healing settlements”: water, cults, constructions and contexts in the ancient world. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2019.
• [BMCR] Andrew Erskine, Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones, Shane Wallace, The Hellenistic court: monarchic power and elite society from Alexander to Cleopatra. Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2017.
• Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett – The Washington Post
• La Crypte de Déméter (Kertch) | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• Modesto’s Prospect Theater Project to stream ‘An Iliad’ | Modesto Bee

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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

Alia

• Daniel Peterson: Did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? Possibly – Deseret News
• [Paywalled] Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire That Ended a Dynasty by Anthony A. Barrett – The Washington Post
• The Ancient Greek Afterlife and Its Evolution
• Death in Ancient Greece
• Living the Ancient Greek Death
• 9 remnants of the Roman Empire you can visit around Scotland | The Scotsman
• Roman Emperor Caligula: Horse, Facts, Life And Scandals – HistoryExtra
• These 5 Ancient Rulers Changed the World. But Their Bodies Have Never Been Found | Discover Magazine
• World unites to help save Iraq’s archaeological treasures | Financial Times
• Roman Emperor Caligula: Horse, Facts, Life And Scandals – HistoryExtra

‘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 a year of good health.

… 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)