#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for January 30, 2021

Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 17 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Egypt discovers 16 burials in Taposiris Magna Temple in western Alexandria – EgyptToday

In Case You Missed It

• Purple-Dyed Iron Age Textiles Discovered in Israel – Archaeology Magazine
• Fine Funerary Sculptures Found During Salvage Operations In Peania – Greek City Times
• Minoan Language Linear A Linked to Linear B in Groundbreaking New Research

Classicists and Classics in the News

• The Rest Is History podcast: where Brexit meets Roman Britain | British GQ

Fresh Bloggery

• Gambling and Work – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Online Open House | Performing Ancient Greek Lyric and Music, with Bettina Joy de Guzman | The Kosmos Society
• Hard to Beat That Greek Stuff – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Drawing For Sanity – Classical Studies Support
• Museum of the Bible Returns Artifacts to Egypt and Iraq – Brice C. Jones
• Poisoned Arrows and an Etymology for Toxic – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Will there be clarity about the Sapfo fragments? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Can the instrumenta domini dismantle the domus domini? – Sportula Europe
• Classics Everywhere: Building Intergenerational Communities Around the Study of Antiquity | Society for Classical Studies

Blog-like Publications

• The Persian wars: a triumph or a defeat for the Greeks? | by Katy Gargiulo | Ostraka | Jan, 2021 | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The History Of European Theatre: Plautus and Shakespeare: Two Brothers? on Apple Podcasts

The influence of Plautus and other Roman playwrights has long been understood, but what are those influences and how did the Roman plays come to the attention of Rennaisance playwrights? How manuscripts survived after antiquity and were rediscovered in the early Renaissance. The growth of secular drama in Italy and the role of Duke Ercole d’Este in Ferrara Terence Vs Plautus as the Roman plays became known and appreciated in northern Europe. How early English plays used the Roman models and how the growing education system in Elizabethan England used Latin plays. The influence of Plautus on Shakespeare and similarities in settings, characters and plots. Ben Johnson’s debt to Plautus.

• ‎Myth Dynamite: Episode Four: Blind Love (Part One) on Apple Podcasts

If you ask us, this episode is *eye*conic. We’re *eye*ing up one of our favourite mythological figures, the Cyclops, Polyphemus (yes he’s got a name guys, let’s use it). He’s our *blind* drunk, *eye*rate, *eye*ronic friend with just the one peeper (or is it just one?). In Part One of this topic, we’ll be taking you through his journey from epic monster to preening (if ambitious) pastoral suitor and finding out how he got there. You might have to turn a *BLIND EYE* to his actions – but hey, Nobody’s perfect, right?

• ‎Myth Dynamite: Episode Five: Blind Love (Part Two) on Apple Podcasts

If you ask us, this episode is also pretty *eye*conic. In Part Two of this topic, we bring you the main theme of the Cyclops – transgression (ooooooooh). Transgressing more than just the social norm of “don’t kill people for cheese”, Polyphemus is found crossing (or failing to cross) boundaries of love, genre, and landscape. All in all, he’s just a big, hairy guy with a bit of an anger issue and we think he deserves some Blind Love.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Battle of Salamis (Greek/English subtitles) – Ancient Greek History | Alpha Ωmega
• The month of January in Ancient Rome: religious events, imperial anniversaries, famous dates | American Institute for Roman Culture
• Athena vs Poseidon: The Naming of a City | Athena Productions
• Michael J. Harrower | Finding an Ancient Town: Discovery and Excavation of Beta Semati, Ethiopia | Oriental Institute
• Roman Empire in Ancient Greek | Ancient Greek in Action! ep.6

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] William Hansen, Classical mythology: a guide to the mythical world of the Greeks and Romans (2nd edition). Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020
• [BMCR] Pat Wheatley, Charlotte Dunn, Demetrius the Besieger. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Coulter George, How dead languages work. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Dramatic Receptions

• Stage Left Theater launches Alone Together series with ‘An Iliad’ | The Spokesman-Review
• The Killing Of A Sacred Deer’s Greek Tragedy Inspiration Explained

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: Classics and Social Justice SCS 2022 | Classics and Social Justice
• SCS Urges Kansas Regents to Abandon Temporary Suspension of Tenure Protections | Society for Classical Studies
• Lector/Senior Lector/Language Program Director,  Yale Classics
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Another Thing: A Local Masterpiece – A Nike by Skopas at Tegea
• Hidden fate of lost ninth legion: Were 5,500 Roman troops wiped out in LONDON? | Daily Mail Online
• Google Searches for ‘Super Bowl’ Driving Collapse of Roman Numeralization
• Facebook Hypocrisy: the Antiquities Marketplace – Archaeology Review
• The Academy of Athens: A Neoclassical Masterpiece
• Roman remains in Gloucestershire and where to find them – Gloucestershire Live
• In the 18th century, collecting antiquities was a curiously creative pursuit | Apollo Magazine

‘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 death on a large scale.

… 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)