#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for February 24, 2021

Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 12 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Bitonto: scoperta tomba di oltre duemila anni fa – Noi Notizie.
• Positano, proseguono i lavori di scavo alla Villa Romana. Intervista esclusiva a Giorgio Russo – Positanonews
• Man Arrested for Illegal Excavation in Amphipolis
• ! Murcia Today – 2,300-year-old Shield And Compass Discovered At The Punic Wall In Cartagena

In Case You Missed It

• A fresh vision for Pompeii as new director is appointed | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 24.02.2021
• Oxford Archaeologists shed new light on ancient hairstyles | Oxford Mail
• Rare Roman-era phallus carving found in UK | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics chair asks Princeton to ‘urgently’ review department culture after Katz misconduct comes to light – The Princetonian

Public Facing Classics

• How I learnt to wield a camera | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Regional Solidarity and Hostility
• Sappho & Catullus on Brothers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Comfort Classics: Louise O’Brien – Classical Studies Support
• Laudator Temporis Acti: In Exile
• Nothing But a Shadow: Some Words on Censure and Envy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Mythical origins of the game of knucklebones in the Mediterranean World
• Flaying the Flayed Dog – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Biblingual: Biblical Languages and Linguistics
• Antiochus Yearning for Stratonice, Painted By Stefano Pozzi (c. 1699-1768) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Legendary Duel Of Titus Manlius And A Gallic Champion | The Historian’s Hut
• Numidic and Proto-Berber – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Roman Roads and Milestones in Judaea/Palaestina
• PaleoJudaica.com: How was Haman executed?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique Jewish and Christian dispute dialogues
• Alföldi on Macer Bronzes (unauthorized translation) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Patterns in SC issues – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Blog-like Publications

• Title: 9 Battles That Defined The Achaemenid Empire
• Cleopatra Part III: Cleopatra & Mark Antony. Tarsus & Paraitonion. – Time Travel Rome

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ad Navseam: Ad Navseam Episode 25: Schmidt-en with the Classics on Apple Podcasts

This week we welcome our first in-studio guest (and it’s a big one)—Newberry Award winning young adult author (and Calvin University English Professor) Dr. Gary D. Schmidt. Tune in for a wide-ranging discussion about the influence of the Classics on Gary’s life and writing, including his love for Odysseus, his loathing of Achilles, and a sneak peek at his next novel, based on the labours of Heracles. Along the way watch out for those liminal spaces, whether they are middle school or entrances to the Underworld, and wait…is that the Piano Man himself, Billy Joel? Listen to the end to hear Dave and Jeff riff their way through some viewer mail.

• ‎Life Of Caesar: Nero The Murderer on Apple Podcasts

This is where the story becomes really weird. Nero, up until now the golden child, suddenly becomes a cold murderer with the murder of Britannicus.

Fresh Youtubery

• Torna al suo splendore il grande affresco del giardino della Casa dei Ceii | Pompeii Sites
• Affresco del giardino della Casa dei Ceii – Restauro | Pompeii Sites
• Restauro Affresco della Casa dei Ceii – Stefania Giudice | Pompeii Sites
• Social Life of Roman Soldiers: The role of Wives, Children & Families in Roman Military Communities | Archaeology TV
• My Entire Classical Myth Retellings Collection | ad | Jean Bookishthoughts
• Memmius’ Speech in The Jugurthine War | Godward Podcast

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Associate/Full Professor of Classics job with University of Texas at Austin | 320731
• From Papyri to the Web: A Workshop on Papyrology and Palaeography
• 14th Trends in Classics International Conference | Τμήμα Φιλολογίας
• ‘Impact of Egyptian Civilization on Greek Civilization’ lecture to be held in Egypt’s SCC on Feb. 24 – EgyptToday
• ARCE 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting April 22-25, 2021
• Art Crime Research Opportunities: 24 February 2021
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Sayings of Epictetus – Jamaican Medium Stories
• 20 Latin Words for Gross Things | Mental Floss
• Pompeii Exhibit in Rome’s Colosseum Asks Important Questions | Art & Object
• What If Julius Caesar Had Not Been Assassinated? – HistoryExtra

‘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 good health for humans but destruction for fish and 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)