#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for February 14, 2021

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 2 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Los 40 campamentos que permitieron a Augusto dominar el norte de Hispania | Cultura | EL PAÍS
• Nine Roman coins found near Norwich declared as treasure | Eastern Daily Press
• ‘Astonishing’ dig reveals domestic life in the iron age | Science | The Guardian

In Case You Missed It

• Lovers of Sappho thrilled by ‘new’ poetry find, but its backstory may have been fabricated | National Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Brian Bigio presents current research at The Australasian Society for Classical Studies | Department of Classics
• Obituary: Emeritus Professor Cyril Mango | Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] SILENTIVM NVNTIORVM Censura Sinensis 

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Adams et al. (eds.), Sirach and Its Contexts (Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Dell, The Solomonic Corpus of ‘Wisdom’ and Its Influence (OUP)
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the “Return to Palmyra” exhibition.
• Roman Times: Bust of a Priest with Silver Inlaid Eyes, Roman or Sasanian?
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Arena similar to Rome’s Colosseum discovered in western Turkey
• The Intoxication of Force – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Did the priests of Isis have a cross marked on their foreheads? – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-DOK: Digital Repository: Ancient Near Eastern Studies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-DOK: Digital Repository: Ancient History
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-DOK: Digital Repository: Classical Philology
• Scholastica Baths in Ephesus | Turkish Archaeological News
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mind the gap? Margins of error in scroll reconstruction.
• Roman Times: A Christianized Roman mosaic of the 3rd – 4th century CE
• The final unciae? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Metal Detectorists Digging up More Ancient Bronze Figurines than Archaeologists?
• “The One You Love”: The Best Love Poem Ever – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Interesting theological elements in Pindar’s poems – Novo Scriptorium
• Rome’s original constitution – Novo Scriptorium

Blog-like Publications

• Cult and multiculturalism – A shared sanctuary at Early Iron Age Kommos – Ancient World Magazine

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Rest Is History: 21. The History of the Future on Apple Podcasts

What is history’s take on the future? Oracles, prophecies, apocalypse, scientific projection. Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook discuss them all.

• ‎The Rest Is History: 22. Weird Wars on Apple Podcasts

The Rest is History brings you the top ten strangest conflicts of all time. Obscure, little-known, downright strange. Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland choose five each.

• ‎The Ancients: Myths of Masada on Apple Podcasts

In 73 AD, 967 Jewish rebels against the Romans committed mass suicide atop the Masada Fortress. Or did they? In this second part of Tristan’s interview with Jodi Magness from the University of North Carolina, who co-directed the 1995 excavations of the Roman siege works at Masada, we separate myth from mystery. Jodi weighs the question of Josephus’ sole account of this event against the archaeological evidence, and the external forces which may have influenced the mythologising of Masada.

• ‎Spartan History Podcast: 021. Governing Spartans on Apple Podcasts

21st official episode of Spartan History Podcast

Fresh Youtubery

• Origins of the Hyksos | DNA | Ancient Egypt | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Attila invades the Western Roman Empire:Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, 451 AD – Part 2/2 | History Marche
• Spoken Latin – Short Latin words you probably mix up (enim, etiam, autem, tandem) | Satura Lanx
• 010. Herodotus BK 1. 9 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• ETRU per San Valentino | Etruschannel
• Lucretius Book 2, Latin reading, Hexameter, Lukrez | Musa Pedestris
• Au Louvre ! Psyché ranimée par le baiser de l’Amour | Musee de Louvre
• Colosseum displays riches of Pompeii within its walls | Rome Reports
• The Best Roman Love Story: Philemon & Baucis | Classics in Color
• Battle of the Nile 47 BC – Caesar’s Civil War DOCUMENTARY | Kinds and Generals

Book Reviews

• Order Beyond Adler | The Russell Kirk Center

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• ASCSA Presents Greek Painting in Context – Free Webinar Series | archive , culture & arts , events | The National Herald
• Workshop on Scientific Imaging of the Dead Sea Scrolls – The Lying Pen of Scribes
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The 8 Ancient Greek Words For Love – Greek City Times
• The Deep Influence Of Greek Mythology On Valentine’s Day – Greek City Times
• If You Lived In Ancient Greece, You’d Probably Be Eating These Foods
• Tornos News | Hippocrates, the latest ice sculpture of an Ancient Greek to grace Astoria Park in New York

‘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 loss of progeny and a flood of poisonous reptiles.

… 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)