Hodie est pr. XIII Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 5 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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Gerasa was a Greco-Roman city in the east of the Roman Empire, in what is now modern day Jerash in Jordan. Like many cities in the area it had Greek influences with a strong local semantic character, and it was significant enough to get a visit from Hadrian during his tour of the province. Guest: Emeritus Professor David Kennedy (Senior Honorary Research Fellow, Classics and Ancient History, University of Western Australia).

• ‎The Ancients: Hannibal: Crossing the Alps on Apple Podcasts

From the outbreak of the Second Punic War to the Battle of the River Trebbia, in this two-part podcast Dr Louis Rawlings, Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University, dives into the events of 218 BC and the incredible leadership of Hannibal. In this first episode, Tristan and Louis discuss the background to Hannibal Barca’s march to Italy, before focusing in on one of the greatest adventure stories from antiquity: Hannibal’s crossing of the Alps.

• ‎History of the World podcast: Vol 3 Ep 50 – The Fall of the Western Roman Empire on Apple Podcasts

337 – 476 – The fall of the western Roman Empire is the story of how barbarian tribes had learned and evolved from the empire on its doorstep, and when the Huns arrived in Europe, how those tribes were forced to pressurise the Romans and the subsequent consequences.

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Book Reviews

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a shortage of necessities.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. XIV Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Myth Dynamite: Season Two, Episode One: You Don’t Own Me on Apple Podcasts

This week, we bring you the great HELEN! We’ve wanted to bring her to the table for a long, long time now, and she will always hold a special place in our hearts as the character we slaved over countless times when we were testing the concept of Myth Dynamite. Helen was a great beauty, or so they say. She even launched c. 1000 ships with her face! Quite the party trick. We think there might be a little more to her than meets the eye (or “male gaze” – sorry lads, that’s the term for it. Take it up with John Berger if you have an alternative)! Tune in for a tale as old as time, some wrestling, some pseudoarchaeology, and most importantly some nudity.

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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a prolongation of hostilities/war.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. XV Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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• Hellenic Museum to benefit from new law which allows for stockpiled antiquities to be displayed abroad | Neos Kosmos
• A Roma scoperta una nuova porzione dei Fori Imperiali
• Excavation at RoseVille office building site reveals Roman-era findings – BBJ
• Egypt demands Italy to hand over former Italian diplomats over smuggled antiquities case – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online

In Case You Missed It

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• Comfort Classics: Christian Cameron – Classical Studies Support
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• Roman Times: The Arch of Galerius
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• Alexander The Great Before His Father King Philip II, by Sebastiano Conca (c. 1676-1764) | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Huge trove of antiquities seized from French looter
• Constantijn en de zondagsrust – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica
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• Provenances of Ancient Coins
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Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Lore and Legend : Tales From Our Mythic Past: The Dream of the Fates · S2E12 on Apple Podcasts

The  hero Odysseus has travelled over the edge of the world, through the  lands of the dead, and even crossed the very gates of dream. But has his  day of reckoning finally arrived?  

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA: How did armies store their money? on Apple Podcasts

How did armies store their money? Jasper has the answers…

• ‎Life Of Caesar: A Mushroom & A Feather on Apple Podcasts

Messallina decides the time has come. She has a poison expert released from prison and they prepare a special dish of mushrooms for Claudius’ last meal. But the mushrooms weren’t enough and so they had to finish him off – with a feather.

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• The ULTIMATE Archaeology Gift List! | Dig it With Raven
• Center for Hellenic Studies
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Book Reviews

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• [BMCR] Andrew P. Fitzpatrick, Colin Haselgrove, Julius Caesar’s battle for Gaul: new archaeological perspectives. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2019.
• [BMCR] Martin Devecka, Broken cities: a historical sociology of ruins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Jane Dieulafoy, a 19th-century French archaeologist, broke the law by wearing pants.
• Happy Saturnalia – 2020! – Reason.com
• Hellenism Then and Now – Impeding the Synthesis | Jewish Culture | Hamodia
• When Jews used olive oil as a weapon against the Romans – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

‘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 serious war.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. XVI Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Serlio’s 1540 plan of the Baths of Constantine – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reconstructing Scales of Production in the Ancient Greek World: Producers, Processes, Products, People Panel 3.4
• Semiramis, Master of Disguise – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Using Ostraca in the Ancient World: New Discoveries and Methodologies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The PalArch Foundation News
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica 2020
• Caesar on the Rubico – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Wild Origin Story Of Teiresias’s Blindness And Wisdom | The Historian’s Hut
• Burrus Prostrating Himself Before His Sovereign Lord, Painted By Otto Wallgren (c. 1795-1857) | The Historian’s Hut
• PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman Festschrift
• PaleoJudaica.com: Antiochus IV Epiphanes – forgotten villain?
• The (Ancient) Science of Snow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Ever Wondered Who Turned Medusa Into a Gorgon and How?
• Timodemides’ Allotment Plate. Manchester Museum 42015 | cahaeresearch
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: French detectorist accused of looting on vast scale after haul discovered at home
• Spencer Alley: Terracotta (Ancient and Modern) from the Italian Peninsula
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica 2020

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• Rethinking Nero: Was The Roman Emperor Really So Bad? – HistoryExtra
• Maxims From the Delphic Oracle – The Good Men Project
• Seven Odd Things the Romans Used To Do | by Daniel Ganninger | Knowledge Stew | Dec, 2020 | Medium
• The Frightening Origins of the Sardonic Grin | by Mythili the dreamer | Lessons from History | Oct, 2020 | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ad Navseam: Ad Navseam Episode 15: I Can’t Spare a Square! – Horror Vacui and the Dipylon Vase on Apple Podcasts

Filling every nook and cranny, Jeff and Dave this week focus on their fears, and the 8th century B.C. pottery masterpiece known as the Dipylon Vase. What drives an artist and a culture to create a work like this in which every inch of the surface is covered? Is there something to this “fear of the empty space”?  What about the funeral scene that dominates the titular objet d’art, and when is that crunchy, creamy Jif sponsorship coming through?  So come on in for a whirlwind tour of early Greek art, play a quick game of Where’s Waldopolous?, and even learn about Edward Hopper’s influence on Alfred Hitchcock.  And don’t forget to water the ferns…unless you’re a pteridophobe, that is.

• ‎Thin End of the Wedge: 13. Nicolò Marchetti: Nineveh 2020. How and why archaeology? on Apple Podcasts

Nicolò discusses the work of the Iraqi-Italian team at the site of Nineveh in 2019 and 2020. What is the situation at Nineveh now? How has the site been affected in recent years? New research has revealed new information and insights. But far more…

• ‎The Ancients: Thucydides: Thoughts on the Athenian Empire on Apple Podcasts

From 478 BCE until 404 BCE, a collection of Greek city-states were united under the leadership of Athens. Beyond inscriptions and a few minor sources, there is very little to tell us about life within this empire … that is, except the works of Thucydides, an Athenian historian and general who wrote a history of the Peloponnesian War. Professor Polly Low from Durham University spoke to Tristan about what we can learn from Thucydides work about this Athenian empire. How did Athens come to have this power? How did they keep their subjects in line? What did Thucydides miss out?

• ‎The Partial Historians: Special Episode – The Year of the Four Emperors with Dr Rob Cromarty on Apple Podcasts

We are thrilled to be joined by Dr Rob Cromarty, better known as Doc Crom, for this special episode on the Year of the Four Emperors. Doc Crom, is a teacher, author, and fellow fan of #PhallusThursdays and #FannyFriday over on twitter and we recommend you follow him for his excellent tweets about Latin literature and ancient artefacts. In this very special episode we talk about his journey into Classics and his take on the personalities and power struggles involved in the aftermath of the death of the Emperor Nero.

• ‎Sweetbitter | A Sappho Podcast: Episode 5: Fragment 58 (pre-2004) on Apple Podcasts

Our guests this episode were Malcolm Choat, Ariel Sabar, Mike Sampson & Usama Gad.

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• Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
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Book Reviews

• [BMCR!!!] S. Rebecca Martin, Stephanie M. Langin-Hooper, The tiny and the fragmented: miniature, broken, or otherwise incomplete objects in the ancient world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• [BMCR] Andrea Raggi, Pierangelo Buongiorno, Il “senatus consultum de Plarasensibus et Aphrodisiensibus” del 39 a. C. Edizione, traduzione e commento. Studien und Materialien, Band 7. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
• [BMCR] Bernd Bader, Josephus Latinus. De Bello Iudaico Buch 1. Palingenesia, 119. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• [AJA] Two Late Cypriot City Quarters at Hala Sultan Tekke: The Söderberg Expedition 2010–2017 By Peter M. Fischer and Teresa Bürge (SIMA 147). Uppsala: Astrom Editions 2018.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• Cairo restored hieroglyph typecaster tells new stories
• Spectacular ancient mosaic floor returns to Israel
• Digital humanities – How data analysis can enrich the liberal arts | Christmas Specials | The Economist
• Before the Fall: 10 Roman Sites Outside of Italy
• New Pavilion At Sydney’s Barangaroo Echoes The Grecian Temple Of Poseidon In Sounion – Greek City Times
• [Reddit ~ AskHistorians] How were texts organized in ancient libraries?

‘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 it portends the birth of a few locusts, but there still will be abundance.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. XVII Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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• Lost workshop making pagan figurines in Roman Palestine rediscovered in central Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Mummified baboons shine new light on the lost land of Punt | EurekAlert! Science News
• Roman baths and site uncovered in Amman | The Independent
• Agrigento, il recupero del santuario rupestre della Valle dei templi – la Repubblica
• Basilica Cistern In Constantinople On The Verge Of Collapse – Greek City Times
• Archeologists find mysterious structure in Istanbul
• Revealed: The story of the silk and gold clad woman buried in London’s Spitalfields 1,600 years ago | The Independent

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

• Erin Thompson | The Vessel with the Pestle · LRB 15 December 2020

Fresh Bloggery

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• The Glorious Land | Sphinx
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ganzel & Holtz (eds.), Contextualizing Jewish Temples (Brill)
• Epigram of the month: But Is It Art? – MAPPOLA
• Spencer Alley: Ancient Roman Marbles Surviving in Modern Rome
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Fresh Podcasts

• Episode 7: Classics in Communities | APGRD

This episode brings together Dr Mai Musié (left) and Dr Arlene Holmes-Henderson (right) from Classics in Communities, a project combining training and research to promote the teaching of Classical subjects in UK state schools. Arlene and Mai discuss the project’s recent publication: Forward with Classics: Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (eds. Arlene Holmes-Henderson, Steve Hunt, and Mai Musié).

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends new challenges for the state.

… 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)