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- Odysseus before Alcinous, King of the Phaeacians, painted by August Malmström (c. 1829-1901) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Tale Of An Ancient Palm Grove Massacre In Sinai | The Historian’s Hut
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- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Drone flight over the Mausoleum of Augustus
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Achaemenid foes
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- Blog: Review: A Conversation with the Creators of Alpheios Reading Tools | Society for Classical Studies
- UK Culture Secretary: “Impossible” to give Parthenon Marbles back – The Archaeology News Network
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- 1,500-year-old mosaic found during illegal excavation in Turkey – The Archaeology News Network
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Blog-like Publications
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Assorted Twitter Threads
- @EllieMRoberts began a #ClassicsTwitter thread on Greek myth books for kids
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay thread is Propertius, Elegies 3.3.27-36
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is on the coinage of Datames
- @DLibatique10 started a #ClassicsTwitter thread on preferred Greek fonts
- @sentantiq on the ‘music’ of Homer
- @TheClassicalCo on the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion
Fresh Podcasts
The illegal trafficking of artifacts is an ongoing problem in archaeology. Dr. Donna Yates joins the hosts to discuss her work in tracking trafficked antiquities and how this problem can be stopped. This episode originally aired on January 1, 2018.
Fresh Youtubery
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- Living Latin at TCD (Featured)
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- Amazing Artefacts- Cruel Curses | Visitthecity
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Sylvain Delcomminette, Pieter d’Hoine, Marc-Antoine Gavray, The reception of Plato’s “Phaedrus” from Antiquity to the Renaissance. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 384. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- Rethinking the visual aesthetics of ancient Egyptian writing
- Conference: Contact, Colonialism, and Comparison | Society for Classical Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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- ‘An escape from dark times’: how ancient history podcasts bring comfort and clarity | Podcasts | The Guardian
- Take a virtual tour of the Roman ruins of Palmyra in Syria – in pictures | The National
- Scylla and Charybdis Embodied Male Fears in Greek Mythology
- Thrasymachus: A New Face of Evil
- Plato’s Reflections on Human Evil and Malice
- The Ancient Greek Stars Lighting Up Our Night Skies | GreekReporter.com
- Pandemics determined fate of ancient wars, says professor
‘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 civil wars.
… 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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