Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

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Public Facing Classics

• [Caitlin Gillespie] Podcast: Who was the ancient warrior Queen Boudica? | BrandeisNOW

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Special DOMI MANENDUM Edition
• New Book Day and Teaching Tuesday: DATAM: Digital Approaches to Teaching the Ancient Mediterranean | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Misverstand: Het alfabet – Mainzer Beobachter
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• A New Book and its Many ‘Authors’ – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: FINAL REPORT | NOVEMBER 2019: Museum of the Bible Dead Sea Scroll Collection Scientific Research and Analysis
• Rome – Older Than You Thought! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• New Acquisitions: Hoplite-Style Disease Control (March 17, 2020) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Hades’ Newest Bride: A Remarkable Epitaph – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Intocht der gladiatoren – Mainzer Beobachter

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Myths and Legends: 177A-Trojan War: Rage on Apple Podcasts

“Sing, O muse, of the rage of Achilles, son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans.” It begins: the Greek army marches on Troy

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Lindsay Watson, Magic in ancient Greece and Rome. . London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
• [BMCR] Richard J. Dougherty, Augustine’s political thought. Rochester studies in medieval political thought, 2. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2019.
• [BMCR] Helen Roche, Kyriakos N. Demetriou, Brill’s Companion to the Classics, Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, 12. Leiden: Brill, 2017.
• [BMCR] Anca Vasiliu, Penser Dieu: noétique et métaphysique dans l’Antiquité tardive. Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie: nouvelle série . Paris: Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2018.
• Histria – ghid album | Spartokos a lu

Professional Matters

• CALL. 31.05.2020: Correctness in Comparison. Negotiating Linguistic Norms in Greek from the Imperial Roman until the Later Byzantine period (I – XV AD) – Wien (Austria)
• CALL. 15.05.2020: Ambiguity and Narratology – Tübingen (Germany)

Alia

• Interesting Story about Roman Quarry in Zvornik – Sarajevo Times
• Was St Patrick a runaway Roman taxman?
• Unearthed ancient treasures worth up to £5m in value, metal detectorists are reaping the rewards of a rich history
• Assassin’s Creed Odyssey is Free to Play This Weekend – Xbox One, Xbox 360 News At XboxAchievements.com
• How Early Christians Saved Lives and Spread the Gospel During Roman Plagues | Culture
• Marcus Aurelius’ guide to becoming a morning person – Big Think
• A Greek history of great plagues | Neos Kosmos
• The coronavirus is springing the Thucydides trap | Spectator USA
• Should we keep the Elgin Marbles? Museums begin rethinking their collections | inews
• Olympic torch relay began in 1936 at Hitler’s Berlin Games | FOX Sports

‘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 period of severe rain and disease, an outbreak of locusts, and a very poor crop.

… 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. XVI Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

In the News

• Fearing the end is nigh, man returns stolen 2,000-year-old artifact to park | The Times of Israel

Fresh Bloggery

• The Tomb of Hygeia, Untouched by Marriage and Offspring – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Mike Anderson’s Ancient History Blog: The Ancient History Hall of Fame
• Misverstand: Pythagoras – Mainzer Beobachter
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: GreekandLatinUCL (on YouTube)
• Keep the Silver – Give Me the Books! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Show Must Go On | Sphinx
• How A Woman Should Dress (And Sacrifice) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• An Ancient Contract for Musical Entertainment – Brice C. Jones
• Italy, the Greatest Land on Earth! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De Afrikaanse martelaren – Mainzer Beobachter
• Everything Outside Us Is Mad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• To the Nymphs of the River: Two Poems from Moero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Professional Matters

• CALL. 18.04.2020: The Sportula 2nd online conference: Losing Chains: Systems of Support in Classics, Ancient and Modern – Online
• CALL. 15.04.2020: New Jerusalem: Conceptions of Revelation’s Holy City in Late Antique Christianity – Leuven (Belgium)
• COVID-19 Measure: Annual Meeting Submission Deadlines | Society for Classical Studies
• CALL. 30.04.2020: 1st TIR-FOR Symposium – Barcelona (Spain)
• CALL. 12.04.2020: III Encontro de Arqueologia de Lisboa – Lisboa (Portugal)
• CALL. 15.04.2020: CISSR Annual Meeting on Christian Origins – Bertinoro (Italy)
• CALL. 10.04.2020: Identity and Identification, 300 C.E.-1200 C.E. – Cardiff (Wales)
• New Publication: “Careers for Classicists: Undergraduate Edition” | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• After Dead Sea forgeries exposed, how do we know the scrolls in Israel are authentic? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Our ‘Brexit’ from the Roman Empire – spiked
• Pandemics from Homer to Stephen King: what we can learn from literary history
• How to Explore Art While the Getty Galleries Are Closed | The Getty Iris
• Was St Patrick a runaway Roman taxman?

‘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 something unexpected which will bring disaster to both humans and animals.

… 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. XVII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

In the News

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• Inspired by Coronavirus Doom, Repentant Thief Returns Ancient Missile to State Agency | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 20 Adar 5780 – March 16, 2020 | JewishPress.com

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Fresh Bloggery

• Obligatory Ides of March Post: Caesar Wanted to Go Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Dionysius Does Digamma – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Cicero on the “Unforgettable Ides of March” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Problem with the Ides of March: Not Enough Cicero, Not Enough MURDER – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Forger Among Us: The Museum of the Bible Dead Sea Scrolls and the Recent History of Epigraphic Forgeries – Archaeology Bible Epigraphy – Bible – Rollston Epigraphy
• Cicero, Always Chirping about the Ides of March – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• MoM | De positieve en de negatieve heuristiek – Mainzer Beobachter
• Give Me Some F**king Books!!! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Scaife Viewer Update
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The MoB’s forged Dead Sea Scroll Fragments and a Profile of the Forger

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 041: Polybius of Megalopolis – Historian of the Hellenistic Age on Apple Podcasts

Polybius of Megalopolis (~200 – 118 B.C.) was a Greek nobleman and high ranking member of the Achaean League, whose political career was prematurely ended when he was taken as a political hostage to Rome. Rather than disappearing into obscurity, Polybius took it upon himself to compose a “universal” history, so as to explain to his fellow Greeks how the Romans managed to conquer the inhabited world in only 50 years. In this episode, we are going to spend time discussing the life and works of Polybius, who provides us with not only the best written account from the Hellenistic period, but is also one of the finest historians the Greco-Roman world has ever produced.

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 74: Marcus Aurelius (The Meditations) on Apple Podcasts

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations show an intelligent emperor coping with the realities of an empire buckling under its own weight.

• The Assassination of Julius Caesar – Nightlife – ABC Radio

The political assassination of Julius Caesar is one of history’s defining moments. Shakespeare immortalised it and now phrases lines like “et tu, brute” are pretty much everyday phrases. But what exactly happened on March the 15th 44BC? Associate Professor Kathryn Welch joined Indira on the Nightlife to take you through the murder of Rome’s dictator for life.

• QDP Ep 159: De Mulieribus – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast

Tres amici de mulieribus laudandis loquuntur.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Irene Leonardis, Varrone, unus scilicet antiquorum hominum: senso del passato e pratica antiquaria. Biblioteca di Athenaeum, 62. Bari: Edipuglia, 2019.
• [BMCR] Csaba Szabo, Sanctuaries in Roman Dacia: materiality and religious experience. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 49. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
• [BMCR] John Heath, The Bible, Homer, and the search for meaning in ancient myths: why we would be better off with Homer’s gods. Routledge monographs in classical studies . London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
• Military Book Review The Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Julius Caesar
• L’élevage, la chasse et l’environnement naturel de l’État olbien à l’époque archaïque. | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• BWW Review: A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM at Lebanon Community Theatre
• Adelaide Festival review: The Iliad – Out Loud

Professional Matters

• CALL. 15.04.2020: Ertegun Conference on Roman Imperialism – Oxford (England)
• CALL. 01.05.2020: Small Towns: Una realidad urbana en la Hispania Romana – Alicante (Spain)
• CALL. 15.04.2020: Nea Paphos Colloquium III “Another acropolis at Paphos: Fabrika hill and beyond“ – Athens (Greece)
• CALL. 15.04.2020: Antiquities, the Art Market and Collecting in Britain and Italy in the 18th century – London (England)
• CALL. 30.04.2020: Nostoi II: Traveling in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea + Inland Routes from the Early Bronze to the End of the Early Iron Age – Heraklion (Greece)
• Live webinar “PESTILENTIA” – Schola Humanistica
• CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES

Alia

• Scientist bids to rewrite history of Roman rout by chemical footprints | World | The Times
• Watch-from-home Greek theatre in the coronavirus era | Neos Kosmos

‘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 but 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  Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

In the News

• Acropolis Museum Suspends Events Over Virus, Acropolis Upgrades Coming – The National Herald
• Tornos News | Greek museums and archaeological sites suspend operation until March 30
• Major Pompeii show in San Francisco delayed as key loans remain in Italy during lockdown | The Art Newspaper

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] CHOLERA FELIX 
• [Ephemeris] CLAVSVRA LONGOBARDORVM Consilia Italica 

Public Facing Classics

• [Joanna Kenty] Julius Caesar refused to be crowned king

Fresh Bloggery

• Resources for Teaching Remotely – Amy Pistone
• Spartan Women Once Said… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Domitianus in Nijmegen – Mainzer Beobachter
• A Woman’s Party Invitation and a Girl’s Epitaph: Some Documentary Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Kiwi Hellenist: Abaris of Hyperborea and his magic arrow
• An Eyewitness to Useless Prayers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Blog: ‘Greater the Profit…When Two Go Together” [Il. 10.224-5]: Homeric Adventures in Collaboration and Open Access Publishing | Society for Classical Studies
• A Horror of PhD Theses – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Why we like a good robot story | OUPblog
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Roman Society YouTube Channel
• Mise en ligne des médaillons romains contorniates de la BnF | L’Antiquité à la BnF
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: AVI : Attic Vase Inscriptions : Attische Vaseninschriften
• Report: All the “Dead Sea Scrolls” at the Museum of the Bible Are Fakes | Variant Readings
• “Greetings to My Sister”: A Letter Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Virtual Magic Bowl Archive
• Arrian I.20.1-10 | The Second Achilles
• Corona & papyri – Mainzer Beobachter
• Two Antiquities Trafficking Lectures for your now-Online Class
• “If it is a girl…”: A Letter about Child Exposure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Morphosis: How Many Did Justinian Kill?
• What Does Helen Look Like? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• An Unconventional Union: “Mr. and Mrs. George Kosmopoulos” | From the Archivist’s Notebook
• A Life of Active Leisure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Missing “Robinson Papyrus” Found? | Variant Readings
• Academics and Peripatetics – All the Same – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Opus Africanum – Mainzer Beobachter
• Arrian I.21.1-6 | The Second Achilles

Fresh Podcastery

• ‎The Ancient World: Episode T16 – The Sons of Thea on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: While the Ptolemies intrigue in Coele Syria, Antiochus VIII Grypus and his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus struggle for seventeen years to win control of the north.  After the rivals die in quick succession, the kingdom comes under control of Seleucus VI and Demetrius III, the allied sons of Grypus.

• Caligula #16 – Bless The Rains | Life Of The Caesars

Sometime around the year 40, Caligula executed Ptolemy, the king of Africa Proconsularis and Roman ally. It’s usually portrayed as evidence of his insanity and greed – but perhaps there is an alternative explanation.

• ‎Fictorical: S1E4: Thermopylae – Hot Gates & Big Stakes on Apple Podcasts

This week we cover one of the most legendary last stands in all history, Thermopylae.  Xerxes and his colossal horde march on Greece to conquer and enslave.  Leonidas and his 300 Spartans lead a Greek force in the defense of the narrow pass of Thermopylae or the “Hot Gates”.  Join us as we discuss the history, tactics, and “man love” that played a role in this bloody battle.

• Episode 34 – The Die is Cast – The Layman’s Historian

Hasdrubal’s sudden assassination catapulted Hamilcar’s eldest son, the twenty-five-year-old Hannibal Barca, to power as Carthage’s supreme general in Spain. Raised to be a soldier by his father and trained in both the theoretical and practical arts of warfare, Hannibal quickly subdued most Spanish tribes southeast of the Ebro…

• 041: Polybius of Megalopolis – Historian of the Hellenistic Age by The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Polybius of Megalopolis (~200 – 118 B.C.) was a Greek nobleman and high ranking member of the Achaean League, whose political career was prematurely ended when he was taken as a political hostage to Rome. Rather than disappearing into obscurity, Polybius took it upon himself to compose a “universal” history, so as to explain to his fellow Greeks how the Romans managed to conquer the inhabited world in only 50 years. In this episode, we are going to spend time discussing the life and works of Polybius, who provides us with not only the best written account from the Hellenistic period, but is also one of the finest historians the Greco-Roman world has ever produced.

Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Michael Schmitz, Roman conquests: the Danube frontier. . Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019.
• [BMCR] Wolfgang Polleichtner, Ethik in der Pädagogik – Pädagogik in der Ethik. Didaskalika, 2. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Nicolas Lamare, Les fontaines monumentales en Afrique romaine. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 557. Roma: École française de Rome, 2019.
• [BMCR] Tanja Susanne Scheer, Natur, Mythos, Religion im antiken Griechenland = Nature, myth, religion in ancient Greece: [interdisziplinäre Tagung vom 12. bis 14 November 2015, Althistorisches Seminar der Georg August Universität Göttingen]. Potsdamer Altertumswissenchaftliche Beiträge, 67. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• LONG LIVE LATIN: The pleasures of a useless language – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• UGA Theatre offers contemporary take on myth with Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ – UGA Today
• REVIEW: Shocking Modern Mashup in The Bacchae (Guthrie Theater/SITI Company) – Twin Cities Arts Reader

Professional Matters

• CALL. 03/15/2020: Parenti serpenti. You cannot choose your family. Difficult kinship between myth and ancient theater – Siena (Italy)
• CALL. 03.04.2020: Prometheus Trust Conference 2020 – Mancetter (England)
• CALL. 03/31/2020: [WORKSHOP] Cultures of contact: Modes of Interaction within Ancient Communities (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
• CALL. 31.03.2020: [WORKSHOP] Recent Fieldwork in the Near East (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
• CALL. 01.04.2020: Animus, anima, animalia – Yesterday, today, tomorrow – Bucarest (Romania)
• CALL. 22.03.2020: “Faith – Heresy – Magic“ Manifestations of deviant beliefs and magical practices in the material culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Kiel (Germany)
• CALL. 18.03.2020: The Women’s Classical Committee Annual Meeting 2020: Green Shoots in Classics – Manchester (England)
• Battle Magic. Supernatural Support for Physical Combat – 26-27 / 06/2020, Solingen (Germany)
• CALL. 20.03.2020: AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – Chicago (IL, USA)
• AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – 07-08-09-10/01/2021, Chicago (IL, USA)
• CALL. 31.03.2020: Apotropaia and Phylakteria. Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece – Athens (Greece)
• CALL. 03.04.2020: Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama – Oxford-Egham (England)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings
• CALL. 20.04.2020: Flavian Sicily. An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites – Siracusa (Italy)

Alia

• CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Travels With Hadrian
• This is Sparta! Gerard Butler Honored in Ancient Greek City | GreekReporter.com
• Naked bodies and power structures: A cultural history of bathing | Arts | DW | 13.03.2020
• Montegrappa’s Marble Venus De Milo Limited Edition Pen
• Venta Silurum – Roman Wales – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• [Paywalled] Ides of March linked to eruption of misfortunes | Register | The Times
• Selling sex: Wonder Woman and the ancient fantasy of hot lady warriors – Asia Times
• How Etymologies Bear Imprints of Historic Discrimination and Prejudices – Palestine Chronicle
• Exploring Greek Myths with Stephen Fry – CNN Video

‘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 heat waves and drought and a throng of mice and fish.

… 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. III Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 19 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia

In the News

• The Ancient Nabataeans of Jordan Travelled All The Way to Yemen and Oman | Al Bawaba
• Eight interventions being planned to upgrade Acropolis site | Life | ekathimerini.com

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ Σίνα τὴν νόσον βραδέως νικᾷ 

Public Facing Classics

• [Joel Christensen] Plagues follow bad leadership in ancient Greek tales
• [Thomal Nail] Why a Roman philosopher’s views on the fear of death matter as coronavirus spreads
• [Adrienne Mayor] ANE TODAY – 202003 – Ancient Automatons in Myth and History –
• [Joanna Kenty] Julius Caesar refused to be crowned king

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Musisque Deoque. Un archivio digitale di poesia latina
• Memorabilia Antonina: On suddenly switching to online teaching
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pedecerto: Metrica Latina Digitale
• Τhe earthquake that brought down the Colossus of Rhodes; a solidarity example from the ancient world – Novo Scriptorium
• How Did Odysseus Marry Penelope? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Scapegoating Foreigners for Plagues – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Strange Days Among The Ruins – In Medias Res – Medium
• Cyprus in the Long Late Antiquity | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Quick Note on Creating a Podcast Lecture | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• ‘Antinous as Vertumnus’ – Minato City, Japan – Atlas Obscura
• Online Open House | Wives of Returning Veterans in Classical Athenian Drama, with Erika Weiberg | The Kosmos Society
• Gifts of Chicks and Shells: The Fragment of the Poet Hedyle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Why we like a good robot story | OUPblog
• Resources for Teaching Remotely – Amy Pistone
• Restauratie en reconstructie – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Wrong Monkey: Cassiodorus and the Preservation of the Latin Classics

Fresh Podcasts

• 1.8 Journeying to the Underworld
• 2.1 Key Sites (Mycenae, Tiryns, Troy)
• 2.2 Life in the Mycenaean Age
• 2.3 Decorative Arts

A podcast by DJ Watkins and AJ Keen of Bristol Grammar School to help GCSE Class Civ pupils to revise for their Myth and Religion and Homeric World topics.

• Dies tertius, pulchra est urbs deserta. | Sermones Raedarii

Quam pulchra sit hodie urbs deserta audietis.

• BBC Radio 4 – Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics

[all five series available now]

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Brigitte Steger, Piazza Armerina : la villa romaine du Casale en Sicile. Antiqva 17. Paris: Picard, 2017.
• [BMCR] Stephen Mitchell, Phillipp Pilhofer, Early Christianity in Asia Minor and Cyprus: from the margins to the mainstream. Ancient Judaism and early Christianity, 109. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
• [BMCR] Isabelle C. Torrance, Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians. Companions to Greek and Roman tragedy . London; New York: IB Tauris, 2019.
• [BMCR] Simon Thijs, Obsidibus imperatis: Formen der Geiselstellung und ihre Anwendung in der Römischen Republik. Philippika, 129. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.

Dramatic Receptions

• BWW Review: SITI Company’s Updated, International BACCHAE at Guthrie Theater

Professional Matters

• CFP: Ethics of Art and Technology from Antiquity to Our Times | Society for Classical Studies
• SCS Staff Working Remotely | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• How AI could help translate the written language of ancient civilizations
• Fantastic Voyages: Myth, Legend, And The Recreation Of Ancient Boats – DeeperBlue.com
• CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Travels With Hadrian
• Review – Fashion of Archaeology – Current Archaeology
• This is Sparta! Gerard Butler Honored in Ancient Greek City | GreekReporter.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 abundance, but the wild beasts will be destroyed; fish will increase and reptiles will invade settlements, but will not be harmful.

… 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)