#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for January 6, 2021

Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• To Survive Under Siege, the ‘Mother Goddess City’ Relied on Enormous Cisterns | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• Amida Mound reveals Diyarbakır’s history

In Case You Missed It

• Woman’s garden ‘stepping stone’ turns out to be an ancient Roman artifact | Live Science
• Preserved Roman wine barrels reveal ancient coopers’ art
• Byzantine-Period Church Uncovered in Israel | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
• Bananas and soy consumed in Mediterranean 3,700 years ago – Culture – ANSAMed.it
• Israeli Authorities Take Down Gang Engaged in the Illegal Antiquities Trade | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency | 22 Tevet 5781 – January 5, 2021 | JewishPress.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Department of Classics Faculty and Graduate Students to Present at the 2021 SCS/AIA — Columbia University Department of Classics

Public Facing Classics

• The metaphors of a pandemic | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Today
• Photos of the Meta Sudans from the American Academy in Rome – Roger Pearse
• Israel’s Antiquities Authority’s Robbery Prevention Unit take three people into custody for questioning on suspicion of dealing in illicit antiquities. ~ ARCAblog
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: FROM PALACE TO TOWN: Report on the multidisciplinary project carried out by the Iranian-Italian Joint Archaeological Mission on the Persepolis Terrace (Fars, Iran), 2008-2013. 1 and 4
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 11: Simia et Gemelli Eius
• Roman Times: Ancient Fibulae
• Harmless, Useless Sophistry – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Apollo Flaying Marsyas, By Girolamo Troppa (c. 1637-1733) | The Historian’s Hut
• Making Classics Accessible via Student Workbooks – ACE Classics
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Horse mounting block is 2nd c. Roman carving
• PaleoJudaica.com: Corrections to Charlesworth’s OTP
• PaleoJudaica.com: Antiquities smuggling arrests in Israel
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Wooley and Wallis’s Wonky Slab from Whiteparish
• Spencer Alley: Attempts at Idealized Sculpture in the Twentieth Century
• What Is a CTS URN? » Perseus Digital Library Updates
• Were there any Roman survivors at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest? – Bad Ancient

Blog-like Publications

• The Coins of Caesar’s Killers
• Q&A with Tim Whitmarsh: Beyond the Second Sophistic and New Directions in Classics – UC Press Blog

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎History Hack: #320 History Hack: Horses in the Ancient World on Apple Podcasts

Carolyn Willekes joins us to myth bust and talk all about the development of man’s relationship with horses in ancient history.

• ‎Ad Navseam: Ad Navseam Episode18: Cranks for the Memories – William Perkins, Alexander Dicson, and the Ars Memoriae on Apple Podcasts

Don’t forget to join us this week as we ask the question, “What’s the best way to develop a super memory?” 16th century memory mavens William Perkins and Alexander Dicson each thought he knew best, and the result was a full-on, throttle-your-Aristotle dustup. Leaning on more familiar thinkers Giordano Bruno and Peter Ramus, P and D hash out competing memory systems. Should it be image-based, or use dialectical trees? Do walnuts and a decent haircut help? Come along with us for a tour de force of – wait, what was that again? And be sure to check our social media for a free giveaway of the big fat Perkins Volume 6.

• ‎Nuntii Latini: diē quīntō on Apple Podcasts

Iōnathas Pollard trānsfuga; Britannia dē Ūniōne Eurōpaeā dēscīvit; Assange in Britanniā retentus; Iemenīa; Bellinghamia birotīs commodissima

• ‎NT Pod: NT Pod 97: The Bible With and Without Jesus on Apple Podcasts

NT Pod 97 is a conversation with Prof. Amy-Jill Levine and Prof. Marc Brettler about their new book, The Bible With and Without Jesus. It is 46 minutes long: NT Pod 97: The Bible With and Without Jesus (mp3)  This podcast discusses Amy-Jill Levine & Marc Brettler, The Bible With and Without Jesus (New York: Harper Collins, 2020)

• ‎Museum Secrets: Requiem for a Pug on Apple Podcasts

Alison Pollard, Lecturer at Oxford University, takes us to meet a very special marble table in the Ashmolean’s Arundel Collection, which was repurposed as a tombstone for a beloved pug dog.

Fresh Youtubery

• Charles Ede: Ancient Art Now | TEFAF INFO
• Albright Live
  • Episode One: Bible and Archaeology, The View from the Center
  • Episode Two: The Bronze Age, The Land before Israel
• Act 1 of Aristophanes’ Frogs: Xanthias and Dionysus Comedy Double Act | Millennial Classicist
• Apprenticeship in Ancient Egypt | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
• Greek and Roman Sources on Ancient Africa | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 010. Iliad Book 2. 155-165 -YT | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• The Journal of Roman Archaeology: Cambridge launch interview with Dr. Jennifer Trimble | Cambridge University Press
• Hércules HD | Destripando la Historia | Pascu y Rodri (Englsih subtitles)
• 34. The Bar Kochba Revolt (Jewish History Lab) | Henry Abramson

Book Reviews

• Les liens historiques de la Crimée avec la région méditerranéenne et les pays de l’Est | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• The National Theatre of Greece Presents Medea by Euripides – English Subs Available | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald

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

• What poets Dante, Homer taught me about coping with COVID-19
• The January 2021 issue of Nestor (48.1) is available

‘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 good health for the flocks.

… 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)