Hodie est a.d. III Id. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Inspired by the work I’m doing with CSCP on Pompeii, this is a rant so epic I had to cut it in half to fit each part into ten minutes! Here is the second half of my list of the four most annoying things people get wrong about Pompeii. (And thanks to Dr Sophie Hay who helped with Point 1/4!)
The Greeks engage the Persians at the naval battle of Salamis
Villa Romana del Casale was a large Roman villa in rural Sicily dating to the early 4th c CE. Its scale and opulence speaks to the wealth and power of the villa owners, and it boasts one of the most extensive and impressive collection of mosaics in the Roman empire. Guest: Dr Gillian Shepherd (Trendall Centre, La Trobe University).
After researching Macedonia while working on Alexander the Great, I was left with more questions than answers. Enter Mario of Mario’s History Talks! We discuss Ancient Macedonia’s social structure, the ancient culture’s connection to the modern country of Macedonia, his opinion of Alexander, and so much more!
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the role of Champollion in deciphering the hieroglyphs on The Rosetta Stone, when the written culture of ancient Egypt opened to the modern world.
Our guests this episode were Chris Mason from Old Songs, Jane Montgomery Griffiths & Diane Rayor. You can learn more about our guests and where to find them on our website. Thank you this week to James Jones for lending us his deep-voice.
Rome. The Eternal City. One of the most recognisable names that many associate with the Ancient Mediterranean World. To provide a detailed run down of this ancient city, Tristan was delighted to be joined by Dr Greg Woolf, Director of the Institute of Classical Studies in London. From its humble beginnings as a group of villages to the infamous slave labour that we must never forget remained at the heart of this city throughout antiquity, Greg covers all these topics in this eye opening chat. Greg is the author of The Life and Death of Ancient Cities: A Natural History.
According to our literary sources, both of whom are writing hundreds of years after the events they describe, the Twelve Tables are the result of the Struggle of the Orders. This ongoing rift between sections of the Roman population is contentious in its own ways, so it is worth considering the content of the Tables as a point of comparison. The difference between what we might expect of a law code that is the result of a class struggle and the laws themselves is quite something. So that’s just what we’re going to do in this special mini-episode! Join as we dip into the details of the law code and some of the fascinating details we learn from this document
n 1819, John Keats wrote a letter to his brother George and his sister-in-law Giorgiana, who had recently moved from London to America. In the letter, Keats included a poem, which he introduced as “the first and the only one with which I have taken even moderate pains…I hope it will encourage me to write other things in even a more peaceable and healthy spirit.” The poem was called “Ode to Psyche,” and it has taken its place among five other poems Keats wrote in 1819 and that are now called The Great Odes. In this episode, we follow our conversation with Anahid Nersessian by examining her favorite of the Great Odes, as we explore the myth of Cupid and Psyche and the way Keats’s imagination unlocked the power of an underserved goddess.
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- Tagalog, Ancient Greek, and English. Epitaph of Seikilos. Bettina Joy de Guzman
Book Reviews
- Michael Kulikowski · A Marketplace and a Temple: Ancient Urbanism · LRB 18 February 2021
- [AJA] Roman Cult Images: The Lives and Worship of Idols from the Iron Age to Late Antiquity By Philip Kiernan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
- [AJA] La decorazione architettonica di Brescia romana: Edifici pubblici e monumenti funerari dall’Età repubblicana alla tarda antichità By Antonio Dell’Acqua (Costruire nel mondo antico 2). Rome: Edizioni Quasar 2020.
- [AJA] The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire By Eleri H. Cousins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
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Alia
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- 5 historic female Greek scientists and philosophers you should know about – Greek Herald
‘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 easy childbirths for women.
… 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)
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