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- Sorry to Scrooge This Up, But Aristotle Did Not Say This Thing about Snowflakes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Fish and Fishing in the Roman World
- The Dangers of Epitomes and Commonplace Books – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- How Joseph Met Mary In the [Apocryphal] Gospel of James – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Straightjacket-Like Corê Sleeve Reportedly Used In The Ancient Persian Court | The Historian’s Hut
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- Why We Love Drama – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Was Socrates a Monotheist? – Tales of Times Forgotten
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- Roman Archaeology Blog: A mystery woman dressed in silk and gold found buried under the London streets was from the elite of the Roman Empire, researchers say
- The Great Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn – Mainzer Beobachter
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Switzerland returns smuggled antiquities to Iran
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‘Classicist in Transition’, a podcast by GICS Ghent, hosted by Dimitri Van Limbergen and Alison John. In this episode we speak with Adeline Hoffelinck on ‘Challenge’.
Though the longest-lived and most wealthy of the Hellenistic “Big 3”, the Ptolemaic rulers in Egypt have never really held the distinction as a major military player in the violent struggles of the Hellenistic period, instead often seen as decadent and lazy as per the writings of those like Polybius. Dr. Paul Johstono joins us to discuss his new book “The Army of Ptolemaic Egypt, 323-204 BC: An Institutional and Operational History”, which seeks to challenge this claim and reassert the role of the Ptolemaic kingdom as a significant military force in the Mediterranean, capable of meeting the demands of maintaining a large land and sea empire amidst powerful rivals and often inhospitable environments.
An interview with theatre director Jimmy Walters about his 20217 production of Trackers of Oxyrhynchus by Tony Harrison. This version of the Satyr play ‘Trackers’ by Sophocles was originally performed by the National Theatre in 1988. Jimmy’s revival in 2017 was at the Finborough Theatre in west London. In conversation we discussed the approach to the play and the way the adaptation by Tony Harrison put current social concerns at the heart of the play, which still remained true to many aspects of the original Greek play.
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- Analysis of the Small Finds from the Roman Aqaba Project: Ancient Aila [ASOR 2020] | ACOR Jordan
- Catullus 23 in Latin & English: Furi cui neque servus est neque arca… | David Amster
- The EPIC Monastery of St. Catherine’s | Archaeologists Anonymous
- 005. Iliad Book 2. 76-94 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Appuntamento con il restauro Ep. 6 | Etruschannel
- Présentation de l’exposition “Fred Boissonnas et la Méditerranée. Une odyssée photographique” | Musee du Louvre
Book Reviews
- La Crimée à l’époque Sarmate VI | Spartokos a lu
- [AJA] Η Κεραμική της Κλασικής Εποχής στο Βόρειο Αιγαίο και την Περιφέρειά του (480–323/300 π. Χ.). Classical Pottery of the Northern Aegean and Its Periphery (480–323/300 BC): Proceedings of the International Archaeological Conference, Thessaloniki, 17–20 May 2017 Edited by Eleni Manakidou and Amalia Avramidou. Thessaloniki: University Studio Press 2019.
- [AJA] Thesprotia Expedition IV: Region Transformed by Empire Edited by Björn Forsén (Papers and Monographs of the Finnish Institute at Athens 24). Helsinki: Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens 2019.
- [AJA] Elite Burial Practices and Processes of Urbanization at Gabii: The Non-adult Tombs from Area D of the Gabii Project Excavations Edited by Marcello Mogetta (JRA Suppl. 108). Portsmouth, R.I.: Journal of Roman Archaeology 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the arrival of a hot and disease-carrying wind.
… 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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