#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for February 9, 2021

Hodie est a.d. V Id. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 27 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Stash of more than 600 Roman-era silver coins discovered in Turkey | Live Science
• Sorry Italy: Tourists return looted treasures – Wanted in Rome
• Ruins of majestic historical gateway unearthed near Persepolis – Tehran Times
• Troy Museum visitors to watch restorations live | Daily Sabah
• Roman soldier’s payslip from 1,900 years ago reveals he was left BROKE after military deductions | Daily Mail Online
• Archaeologists discover table where Roman emperor Hadrian held power breakfasts at foot of Apennines | World | The Times
• 1800-year-old coin found by soldier offers look at ancient life in Israel – The Jerusalem Post

In Case You Missed It

• Syria ‘finds’ body of famed archaeologist beheaded by Islamic State
• Greek Gods and Mortals Come to Life in Terracotta Figurines – GreekReporter
• Scientists One Step Closer to Cracking Minoan Linear A Script | Archaeology, Linguistics | Sci-News.com

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] SEDITIO CONTRA SEDITIONEM 

Public Facing Classics

• ‘Witch’ tweets reflect society’s fear of older women, says Mary Beard | Mary Beard | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

• A People & Their Despot – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Meet the new boss, same as the old boss | Aegean prehistory
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus Inscriptionum Phoenicarum: necnon Poenicarum
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Etruscan Texts Project
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus Inscriptionum Phoenicarum: necnon Poenicarum
• The Same Joke Three Times – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Defending the Borders
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: 31: Lepus, Aquila et Scarabaeus
• Taurobolium – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Reynolds, John among the Apocalypses (OUP)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Happy international Greek Language Day!
• PaleoJudaica.com: More Shanks memorials
• PaleoJudaica.com: Soldier’s payslip from the siege of Masada
• Late Scythian necropolis discovered in Crimea – The Archaeology News Network

Blog-like Publications

• An Ancient Ghost Story by Pliny the Younger | by Jed Graham | History of Yesterday | Medium
• The Coinage of Ancient Numidia
• How Chariot Racing Teams Saved Constantinople From the Huns – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Live from Mount Olympus: We’re Related??? on Apple Podcasts

Perseus meets two powerful half-siblings he never knew he had, and confronts his mother Danae about the secrets she’s kept his whole life.

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CLVIII – Plotina on Apple Podcasts

When Trajan came to the big city he bought his provincial wife with him. Plotina stood on the steps of Domitian’s palace and promised the people of Rome that she’d keep it real. And from what we can tell from our ancient sources, that’s exactly what she did. Part VII of ‘Empresses of Rome’ Guest: Professor T. Corey Brennan (Classics, Rutgers University).

Fresh Youtubery

• Actors of Dionysus | Lysistrata | 16+MATURE
• Storie dal Colosseo. Lezioni di epigrafia. I tituli picti della galleria intermedia [ENG SUBS] | Parco Colosseo
• The Last Man Standing: Life of Seleucus I Nicator | Ancient History Guy
• The Lasting Legacies of Mesopotamia: Ideas, Monuments, Images | Penn Museum
• Orestes in Aeschylus’s Oresteia | Ellie Mackin Roberts
• Riding through the Ancient World (Carolyn Willekes, Mount Royal University) | New Directions in Classics
• Black Athena Revisited | What It Gets Wrong | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 007. Overview of Herodotus’ Histories | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• 27/01/2021- Recherches en cours. Klimonas, Chypre | Ecole francaise d’Athenes

Book Reviews

• ‘A Thousand Ships,’ by Natalie Haynes book review – The Washington Post
• [BMCR] Michael J. MacDonald, The Oxford handbook of rhetorical studies. Oxford handbooks. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2017. 
• [BMCR] Fleur Kemmers, Functions and use of Roman coinage: an overview of 21st century scholarship. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Floris Verhaart, Classical learning in Britain, France, and the Dutch Republic, 1690-1750: beyond the ancients and the moderns. Oxford Historical Monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: Interplay of Spectacle in the Roman Arena (Undergrad Conference) | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Etruscan Texts Project | CES Electronic Resources | University of Massachusetts Amherst
• Rome and Pompeii star together in Colosseum show – Culture – ANSAMed.it
• Roman soldier’s payslip proves some things never change

‘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 failure of the barley crops.

… 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)