#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for December 2, 2020

Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 17 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Roman-era artifacts seized in NW Turkey – Xinhua | English.news.cn
• Plinio il Vecchio, il mistero della tomba di Bacoli: torna il vecchio articolo Usa del 1927 – Il Mattino.it
• Straordinaria scoperta archeologica – Arte & Cultura – TGR Molise
• Sicilia, trovate antiche tombe con la legna bruciata per il rito funebre
• An unexpected discovery: the casts of the epigraphs of Butrint – UniboMagazine
• Tornos News | Theaters of Ancient of Sikyon and Messene get more funds to improve access by visitors
• Il misterioso borsone pieno di reperti, perde quota l’ipotesi dei “tombaroli”
• Ancient city of Syedra comes to light

In Case You Missed It

• Altar to Greek God Pan Discovered in Ruins of Byzantine Church in Israel | News from Greeks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America

Classicists and Classics in the News

• UW faculty member featured in philosophy book | People | rocketminer.com

Fresh Bloggery

• The Terrible Origin of Oedipus’ Family Curse – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Comfort Classics: Ed Clarke – Classical Studies Support
• New Book of Interest | Ancient World Mapping Center
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kyprianos Update (1 December 2020)
• Classics in Sarasota: In fond memory
• Roman Times: The dark side of early Saturnalia
• Bestial Sexual Morality. Or, How A Camel is Superior to Oedipus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il tesoro di Cipro: Clodio, Catone e la conquista
• Oedipus Parody Vases – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Apollo And Aurora, Painted By Gerard De Lairesse (c. 1641–1711) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Historian Livy’s Greatest Fan Reportedly Traveled From Spain To See The Famous Scholar In Italy | The Historian’s Hut
• To Hell With Grammarians! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• I’m Pericles, Not Care-icles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Bestiaria Latina: Christmas edition
• Paris’ Prologue 11: Alternative Version. Priam Kills Cilla and Munippus: spannycattroy — LiveJournal
• A Sense of Place: MEANDERING THROUGH MINOAN KNOSSOS | The Muddy Archaeologist’s Blog
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Antiquities from the Market have NO Scholarly Value
• Ancient Sumer & The Sumerian Civilization: Here’s What We Know

Blog-like Publications

• Important finds in ancient Antissa
• The paintings of Pompeii

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Peopling the Past: Thrown Together: Potters, Painters, and Ceramic Production with Sanchita Balachandran on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, Sanchita Balachandran joins us to speak about the sensory experience of ancient potters and painters, her experimental archaeology project at Johns Hopkins, and the underdrawings on Greek painted pottery.

• ‎History Hack: #282 History Hack: The Roman Army on Apple Podcasts

Jonathan Eaton joins us for a lively discussion about life in the Roman Army, based on his new book.

• ‎Ad Navseam: Ad Navseam Episode 13: Buried in Books – Cicero and Cato in a Tusculan Villa on Apple Podcasts

This week Jeff and Dave tag along with Cicero to sunny Tuscany where they find Cato Uticensis knee-deep in a pile of books on Stoicism. Gorging on books (helluari libris) and literary addiction (aviditas legendi) is our theme as we share favorite authors and works from the ancient and modern worlds.  First up is a primo piatto of Plato, followed by savory servings of Sophocles, and Apuleian “afters.”  If you still have room for more, stroll out with Jeff and Kazantzakis for a nightcap on Crete, and join Dave as he doles out cigars and Scotch to C.S. Lewis and Thomas Sowell.  Which books have you feasted on recently?

• ‎History Extra podcast: The ‘lost’ city of Atlantis on Apple Podcasts

Edith Hall explores Plato’s legend of Atlantis and considers why the tale continues to endure 2,500 years on Classicist Edith Hall, an expert on ancient Greek literature, explores Plato’s lost city of Atlantis. She considers our enduring fascination with the tale 2,500 years on and asks whether there ever was, in fact, a real Atlantis.

Fresh Youtubery

• Transforming a Trash Lyre into an Instrument of the Gods! | Michael Levy
• Sicily: Multicultural Kingdom of Normans, Greeks and Arabs | Kings and Generals
• Caracalla and the Divine: Emperor Worship and Representation in Visual Language of Roman Asia Minor | British Institute at Ankara
• Alexandria, Delta, et cetera: On (re)naming the land by Katherine Blouin w Anass Dakkach | Everyday Orientalism
• Make Sumerian History Matter. | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 157. Numbers in Ancient Greek | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• Victoria Moul & Colin Burrow: Classical Literature and the Mind of Europe (7) | APGRD
• Tirreni/Delfini: Sostieni ETRU con l’Art BONUS. | Etruschannel
• Arctic Monkeys – Do I Wanna Know cover in Classical Latin (BARDCORE) | Miracle Aligner

Book Reviews

• Materialy i issledovanija po arkheologii SSSR (MIA) | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• Review: An Evening In With Stephen Fry | The Argus
• ARC Theatre premieres “Lysistrata” – The American River Current

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• The Mint of Leukas
• New Discoveries and New Problems in Greek Religion
• Rubina Raja (Aarhus University): ‘Modelling Death in Palmyra: The Significance of the Roman Period Funerary Portraits’
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar

Alia

• We Build The LEGO Roman Colosseum, The Biggest Set In History – IGN

‘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 an abundance of fish and fruit.

… 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)