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Hodie est pr. Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Center for Hellenic Studies
UoM CADAE Society
Archaeology Now
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Classical Association Northern Ireland
AIA
Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
MythVision
Classics in Color
American Institute for Roman Culture/Darius Arya
Kristin Dean
David Amster
Alia
Hodie est a.d. III Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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On Ithaca, Queen Penelope’s ruse of weaving and unweaving the shroud has been discovered. But just when it seems she will be forced to submit to one of her tormentors, a mysterious stranger appears in her halls… This series of Lore & Legend is called ‘The Gates of Dream’ — exploring tales of encounters between the heroes and heroines of Greek Myth, and the Gods and Spirits of the Greek Underworld – the Lands of Dream, Death, and Darkest Fate.
The book I am talking about in this episode is “Lingua Latina per se illustrata: Familia Romana” by Hans H. Ørberg.
We’re now on episode three of the A-Z of Archaeology! In this episode we join Alice, Jenny and Nikki as they discuss cabinets of curiosities and antiquarians. They delve into the differences between antiquarians and archaeologists and between cabinets of curiosities and museums and also discuss the very relevant topic of whether museums should repatriate their stolen items back to their country of origin! Next up, “D: Dorstone”, with a very special guest (three guesses who it might be).
Rams and ramming, is the topic of this Ancient Warfare magazine podcast. The chaps focus on the Actian Victory monument and the Egadi and others found around Sicily. Jasper, Murray, Marc, Lindsay and Mark are joined by Stephen DeCasien.
The Roman Forum, also known by its Latin name Forum Romanum (Italian: Foro Romano), is a rectangular forum (plaza) surrounded by the ruins of several important ancient government buildings at the centre of the city of Rome. Citizens of the ancient city referred to this space, originally a marketplace, as the Forum Magnum, or simply the Forum. For centuries the Forum was the centre of day-to-day life in Rome: the site of triumphal processions and elections; the venue for public speeches, criminal trials, and gladiatorial matches; and the nucleus of commercial affairs. Here statues and monuments commemorated the city’s great men. The teeming heart of ancient Rome, it has been called the most celebrated meeting place in the world, and in all history. Located in the small valley between the Palatine and Capitoline Hills, the Forum today is a sprawling ruin of architectural fragments and intermittent archaeological excavations attracting 4.5 million sightseers yearly.
In 43 Claudius is consul again. Messalina is setting him up with girls to bang while she’s running sex parties in another part of the palace. Then he invades Britain, finishing the job Julius Caesar started nearly a century earlier.
Let’s trace the paths of some of ancient Rome’s first imperial superstars: the wives, sisters, and daughters who rose with Octavian (later Augustus) to become Rome’s first family: Livia, Octavia, Julia, Messalina, both Agrippinas. In a time of great change, these women had to navigate both public love and hate. They had access to power in ways that few women had before them, but to grasp it was a delicate and dangerous game.
Book Reviews
Professional Matters
Alia
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends conspiracies among the supporters of the rich and famous.
… 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 a.d. IV Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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The Wars of the Diadochi begin, as Perdiccas prepares to attack Ptolemy in Egypt to recover Alexander’s body and secure his southern flank. Meanwhile, Eumenes is tasked with defending Anatolia from Antipater, Craterus, and Antigonus the One-Eyed, as the coalition assembled against him prepares to cross into Asia.
Book Reviews
Professional Matters
Alia
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends strife in the place where the thunder was heard and also elsewhere.
… 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 a.d. V Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Lesley McAdam joins us to talk all about the challenges of researching prehistory in the absence of documents and testimony.
We’ve asked members of the Getty community to share short reflections on works of art they’re thinking about right now. These recordings feature stories related to our daily lives. This week, educator Anna Sapenuk finds parallels in Herakles and Iolaos’s fight against the Hydra and our global battle against the coronavirus…
Special guest Helena Meskanen joins the regular team of Matthew Lloyd, Joshua Hall, and Josho Brouwers to talk about museums, including some that are not strictly archaeological. We talk about our favourite museums, relate personal experiences when visiting them, and discuss what the role of archaeological museums should be. We also touch upon open air or “living history” museums.
Dionysus was the god of wine from Greek myths and the last Olympian to earn a place on Mount Olympus. His story starts with him being born from Zeus’s thigh…and then somehow gets stranger.
How do you acknowledge the wild forces of the world without letting them destroy you? Euripides, the youngest Greek tragedian whose work survives, asked exactly this question in his radical, boundary-pushing play “The Bacchae.” In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan explores how, with the clarity of an artist’s vision, Euripides saw the downfall of Athens coming and spoke wisely into the heart of his moment—and our own.
People didn’t travel much in the ancient world. But, for those who did they developed the ancient equivalent of guidebooks. These were often lists of manmade sites and attractions which any traveler should take the time to see. Over time, one such Greek list was written down and it became known to us as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Book Reviews
Professional Matters
Alia
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a disease-bearing 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)
Hodie est a.d. VI Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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In this final episode Dr Peter J Williams, Dr Dirk Jongkind and Dr Chee-Chiew Lee join us again for a final roundtable discussion with Dr Andrew Ollerton to discuss together how they each read the gospels and how academic scholarship can raise…
Book Reviews
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the powerful engaging in corruption of government, but they will not be successful.
… 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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