Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 9 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Roman Times: Primitive Cypriot figurines of the Archaic Period
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• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 22: Asinus et Leo
• Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
• Jupiter And Mercury Visiting Philemon And Baucis, Painted By Jacob Jordaens (c. 1593–1678) | The Historian’s Hut
• Caesar verovert Corfinium – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Kulik et al. (eds.), A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission (OUP)
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• How to write cuneiform – The British Museum Blog
• Herennius’ Unciae (308) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• A Roman Water Nymph – Corinium Museum

Blog-like Publications

• Underwater Archaeological Research off Kasos in 2020
• Hades (2020) – A review – Ancient World Magazine
• Imperial Rome Defeated. Five decisive military defeats of… | by Christos Antoniadis | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Rest Is History: 16. Pompeii on Apple Podcasts

Why does Pompeii continue to hold such a fascination for so many people? And which secrets are still to be uncovered from beneath the ashes? Dr Sophie Hay, a leading expert on the ruined Italian city, joins Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook to answer lots of listener questions.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Were the Theban Sacred Band trained to target officers? on Apple Podcasts

Were the Theban Sacred Band trained to target officers? Murray gives us the answer.

• ‎Life Of Caesar: Nice Guy Nero on Apple Podcasts

Nero becomes emperor on the murder of his step-father. He’s 16 or 17 years old. Why didn’t the Senate stop him? It might have something to do with Seneca and Burrus. Seneca wrote him a speech where he promised to be nice. And, indeed, the first five years of his rule seemed to go well. His mother, Agrippina, ruled by his side.

• ‎The Hellenistic Age Podcast: Interview: Alexander the Great in Ancient Art & Literature w/ Meg Finlayson on Apple Podcasts

Alexander the Great is easily one of the most popular subjects for writers and artists throughout antiquity. In addition to the many biographies that present wildly different views on the man, there are a dazzling number of depictions of the conqueror in coinage, statues, and various other works of art. Joining us is Meg Finlayson who discusses her research on the image and legacy of Alexander, breaking down the historiography of writers like Plutarch and Arrian while also extensively analyzing pieces such as the so-called “Alexander Sarcophagus”.

Fresh Youtubery

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• Rome before the Empire, the Temple of Portunus | Smarthistory
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• Interviste all’ETRU. Romina Laurito | Etruschannel
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• Act 2 of Aristophanes’ Frogs: Dionysus meets Heracles | Millenial Classicist

Book Reviews

• Lectures du Bosphore. / Bosporskie chtenija. | Spartokos a lu
• La colonie de Berezan’ dans les études de 2010-2014 | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Paul Erdkamp, Koenraad Verboven, Arjan Zuiderhoek, Capital, investment, and innovation in the Roman world. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Maria Chiara Scappaticcio, Seneca the Elder and his rediscovered ‘Historiae ab initio bellorum civilium’. new perspectives on early-imperial Roman historiography. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• [BMCR] Arnaud Besson, Constitutio Antoniniana. L’universalisation de la citoyenneté romaine au 3e siècle. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, 52. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• SCS 2021 Meeting Recordings Now Available | Society for Classical Studies
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• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Temple of Portunus, Rome – Smarthistory
• Are the Persian Gulf city-states slave societies? | Aeon Essays
• Is the Curtain Coming Down on Criminal Schemes in the Art Market?
• Roman roads were the infrastructure of empire
• Story of the Ptolemaic era: What did the Macedonians do in Egypt? – EgyptToday

‘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 abundance of crops, but also of mice and deer.

… 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)