#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for February 6, 2021

Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 24 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

A slow news day!

In Case You Missed It

• Painted Terracotta Figurines Discovered in Turkey – Archaeology Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] IOSEPHI CONSILIVM

Public Facing Classics

• [not paywalled] Don’t yield ancient history and literature to the alt-right | Newsday

Fresh Bloggery

• Donkeys and Mares: Tinder for Misogynists – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Misrepresentation
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hymn to Pan
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: EAMENA Jordan Exhibition
• On Poets and Fishmongers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Art of Reading Slowly – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Self-Reflective Classics – Classical Studies Support
• Missed Your Target But Hit Your Step-Mother? That’s Not So Bad: Plutarch on Adapting to Chance – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Joy (of) Division – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Dozens of terracotta cult figurines found in ancient Myra
• Worthless museum pieces? – Mainzer Beobachter

Blog-like Publications

• Towards a New Understanding of the Port of Claudius – Portus Project
• Artemisia Gentileschi’s Danaë: Female Pain as Male Pleasure | by Chloe Wong | Ostraka | Feb, 2021 | Medium
• Βαρβαρίζοντες ἑλληνίζομεν·. περὶ τῆς τοῦ Σκύθου διαλέκτου παρʼ… | by In Medias Res | In Medias Res | Feb, 2021 | Medium
• The Ancient City of Termessos – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Museum of the Bible Returns Looted Artifacts to Egypt and Iraq

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎You’re Dead To Me: Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine on Apple Podcasts

Greg Jenner is joined by historian Dr Kristi Upson-Saia and comedian Stu Goldsmith to explore the strange world of Ancient Greek and Roman medicine. Welcome to a time when health was fleeting, water could be dangerous and communal bum sponges were all the rage. The team will take you through a variety of common ailments from tight atoms to wandering wombs and provide startling cures in the form of electric eels and beavers’ anuses. Welcome to the world of ancient medicine!

Fresh Youtubery

• CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Ancient Greek Lyric and Music, Bettina Joy de Guzman
• Seneca: Don’t read too many books! | Latin Book Club | Seneca the Younger, letter 1.2 | Latinitium
• Spirits of the Ancestors | Michael Levy

Book Reviews

• [JRA] E. A. Friedland, and M. Grunow Sobocinski, eds., with E. K. Gazda. 2015. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• [JRA] K. D. S. Lapatin, ed. 2019. Buried by Vesuvius: The Villa dei Papiri at Herculaneum. Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum.
• [JRA] P. Erdkamp, and C. Holleran, eds. 2019. The Routledge Handbook of Diet and Nutrition in the Roman World. London and New York: Routledge.
• [BMCR] Michael Everett Brumbaugh, The new politics of Olympos: kingship in Kallimachos’ Hymns. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Adam Lecznar, Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in twentieth-century literature and thought. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Charles W. King, The ancient Roman afterlife: di manes, belief, and the cult of the dead. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020.
• Catalogue de la collection d’antiquités du comte Alexei Sergeevich Uvarov | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Epigraphy and Gender in the Graeco-Roman World (SCS, Jan 5-8, 2022) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Exhibition Lecture: Science and Spectacle in Galen’s Rome Registration, Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 5:00 PM | Eventbrite
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics job with Carleton College | 316903
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Did the Amazon female warriors from Greek mythology really exist? | Live Science

‘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 the destruction of grain supplies, especially barley.

… 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)