#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for May 2, 2021

Hodie est a.d. VI Non. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Kalymnos man arrested for illegal possession of ancient artifacts – Greek City Times
• Excavations in Anatolia’s two ancient sites shed light on history

In Case You Missed It

• Hand of Constantine colossus reunited with missing finger – The Archaeology News Network

Classicists and Classics in the News

• What Are the Classics For? – The Bulwark

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 01.05.2021 – Vatican News
• Radiogiornale Latino 02.05.2021 – Vatican News
• [AkropolisWorldNews] “Χαῖρε, ὦ φίλε Βόρις, πῶς ἔχεις;“ 

Fresh Bloggery

• Chance, Sickness, and Safe Passage Through the Storm – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Amos – a prophet or a literary construct?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cargill on the Tel Dan inscription
• PaleoJudaica.com: McDonald, The Formation of the Biblical Canon (2 vols., T&T Clark)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Theatre seats for the God-fearers?
• Book Club | May 2021: Lysias Orations | The Kosmos Society
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Allies
• “Do Nothing for Money” – Periander of Corinth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Etymology: Keep It Real – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Constantine colossus reunited with finger
• The calling of the first pupils (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The calling of the first pupils (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Kiwi Hellenist: Prometheus and liver regeneration
• On Using Humor in Public Speaking – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Cahiers de l’Institut du Moyen-Âge Grec et Latin
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Projet bibliographique en ligne du CFEETK – Karnak Temples Bibliography Online
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: I.Sicily: Inscriptiones Siciliae
• Augustus Orders the Closing of the Doors of the Temple of Janus, by Louis Boullogne the Younger (c. 1654-1733) | The Historian’s Hut
• Artemisia – Cambridge, We Have a Problem
• κοινότητα – Mycenaean Miscellany

Blog-like Publications

• 5 Female Warriors Who Were Enemies of Rome
• Did Edward Burne-Jones replicate or appropriate the Classical world and its ideals? Exploring the transmission of mythology in Pre-Raphaelite art. | by Isabel Lewis | Ostraka | May, 2021 | Medium

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Myth Dynamite: Odysseus Unmasked: Myth Dynamite x Greek Myth Comix on Apple Podcasts

Oooooooh a SPECIAL episode?! We are fancy AF. And we are absolutely DELIGHTED to be joined by the lovely Laura Jenkinson-Brown, the creator behind Greek Myth Comix. If you listened to our last two episodes of Myth Dynamite Season 2 (and if you haven’t … rude) then you will know that Abi and Sarah got a bit … well … mad about Odysseus. Listening back, we felt an external point of view might balance things a bit. That’s where Jenks comes in. Jenks’ knowledge of the Odyssey is DEEP (I mean the nerdy references alone… we can’t even) and it has inspired her comics, merch and even a ‘Choose your own adventure’ book, Odyssey-style (coming out of hiding for the FIRST TIME in this episode!) We planned to chat for 30 mins … we recorded for 2 hours. It was a joy

• ‎The Ancients: The Olympic Games on Apple Podcasts

Ancient history legend Robin Waterfield came on the podcast to talk about the Olympic Games in antiquity. The first of a small miniseries on the ancient site of Olympia. Robin is the author of ‘Olympia: The Story of the Ancient Olympic Games’.

Fresh Youtubery

• University of Iowa Homerathon 2021 [Part I] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
• University of Iowa Homerathon 2021 [Part II] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
• Seneca || 5 Quotes on the shortness of life, and the value of time (explained in easy Latin) | Satura Lanx
• 016. Iliad Book 2. 265-277 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• Romanes Eunt Domus EXPLAINED | Monty Python’s Life of Brian • Fun with Latin | PolyMATHY
• Virtuelle Eröffnung der Sonderausstellung 2021 | Verusschlact im Osnabrucker Land
• Melting Brains: Hippocrates Revolutionary Take on the Sacred Disease | Classics in Color
• Archimedes vs. Rome – The (Staggering) Siege of Syracuse 213-212 BC | SandRhoman History
• Scythians – Rise and Fall of the Original Horselords DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
• Hannah Arendt et la cité antique. L’imagination philosophique du passé | Andrea Cirla

Dramatic Receptions

• “Hecuba” – Returning to theater’s roots

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Drayads in Greek mythology
• Ten Stunning Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art | GreekReporter.com
• These frescoes adorned the oldest extant Christian house church

‘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 shortages.

… 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)