#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for May 7, 2021

Hodie est Non. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 25 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Podcast: Proof that Nabateans’ trade empire collapsed due to ancient epidemic | The Times of Israel
• IN PICTURES: New photos show amazing detail of ‘nationally important’ Scarborough Roman ruins | The Scarborough News
• Scrap for cash before coins | EurekAlert! Science News

In Case You Missed It

• Visitors Will Get Gladiator’s Point Of View With Roman Colosseum’s New Floor : NPR
• A Roman Emperor and His Finger, Separated for 500 Years, Finally Reunited
• This Grotesquely Shaped Lamp Brought Luck to Jerusalem’s Ancient Residents | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] FOEDVS ABEST De pactorum abruptione

Fresh Bloggery

• Olympians in COLOUR Collection launch! | Greek Myth Comix
• Growing Old In The Classroom – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Three Things That I’ve Learned This Year | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Discours comme image: Énonciation, récit et connaissance dans le Timée-Critias de Platon
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Germany and Greece
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Afraid of Flies
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Choice
• Roman Times: Demon God Protector of Egypt at the NY Carlsberg Glyptotek in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 20 – October 31, 2021
• Thirsty Thursday: Wondrous Waters and Wine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Rise of Civilization – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Solomon’s story supplemented?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Israel Museum Studies in Archaeology
• PaleoJudaica.com: Where is Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai really buried?
• Topography of Roman Napoca | Szabó Csaba
• Inclusive Classics | Classics at Reading

Blog-like Publications

• The Real Source Behind “Sic Semper Tyrannis” | by Mike Fontaine | In Medias Res | May, 2021 | Medium
• ANE TODAY – 202105 – Glass: Lapis Lazuli from the Kiln – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• more livetweeting from the #RaceB4Race conference
  • by @opietasanimi
  • by @aewaiwhy
• @adamarchaeology on phalluses and the evil eye

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: First Punic War w Dr Kathryn Lomas on Apple Podcasts

The Punic Wars was a series of three wars fought between two of the Mediterranean’s superpowers: Carthage and Rome; the result of which changed the balance of power in the region. Dr Kathryn Lomas, Durham University, joins the show to explain what happened in the First Punic War.

• ‎The Ancient World: Episode C3 – The Eternal Treaty on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis:  Hattusili III’s diplomacy with the pharaoh Ramesses II culminates in the world’s first peace treaty.  After his death, his son Tudhaliya IV drives out the Ahhiyawans, then defends northern Syria against Assyrian aggression.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA149 – What do we know about the formations and tactics of the late bronze age? on Apple Podcasts

Murray answers this question from one of our patrons, Mythic Lore; ‘What is known / reasonably theorised about the formations and tactics used during the late bronze age (Mycenaeans, Hittites, Luwians – Trojan War, etc)?’

• ‎Life Of Caesar: “Abominations And Wickedness” on Apple Podcasts

Nero likes hanging out under bridges where he could “take his pleasures more freely” and this leads to trouble for Sulla’s great-great-great grandson. But Nero also wants to abolish taxes because he’s a dirty commie. Then the Germans start some shit and find out why he was called “ONE CHANCE NERO”.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Inaugural SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture: Elizabeth Heintges on ‘Forgetting Sextus Pompey’ | ArchaeologyTV
• Summer Seminar Series 2021: Covid+Collapse. | ClassicsUnivRdg
• Summer Seminar Series 2021: What makes classical myth an ideal topic for autistic children? |ClassicsUnivRdg
• CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Socrates & The Greek Heroes | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Ancient Greek Comedy: History, Structure, Aristophanes and Menander | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Jeff Champion, Antigonus the One-Eyed: greatest of the successors. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2020.
• [BMCR] Stephen Harrison, Regine May, Cupid and Psyche: the reception of Apuleius’ Love Story since 1600. Trends in classics – pathways of reception, volume 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• [BMCR] Natalia Toma, Marmor – Maße – Monumente. Vorfertigung, Standardisierung und Massenproduktion marmorner Bauteile in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Philippika, 121. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
• [BMCR] Roland Oetjen, New perspectives in Seleucid history, archaeology and numismatics: studies in honor of Getzel M. Cohen. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 355. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
• [BMCR] José Carlos Martín , Roger Collins , Bachiarii opera: De fide, Epistula ad Ianuarium, Epistulae II . Corpus Christianorum. Series Latina, 69C. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
• ‘Olympus, Texas’ reboots Greek gods in irreverent Texan family saga
• Geoff Bailey’s long-awaited book on the Antonine Wall chronicles history of Roman occupation | Falkirk Herald
• Aristophanes: Four Plays (Liveright), translated by Aaron Poochigian – Shepherd Express

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Karthago – Mythos und Realität – DAI Blogs
• CAC/SCEC Program Available – The Classical Association of Canada
• Helen King « From print to wool: Vesalius and the ‘knit your own womb’ movement » 13 May 2021, at 9AM PDT. – The Classical Association of Canada
• Part-Time Lecturer, Department of Classics job with Wake Forest University | 2142007
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Decolonising museums isn’t part of a ‘culture war’. It’s about keeping them relevant | Dan Hicks | The Guardian
• Ancient Greek Shields Showed Allegiance, Struck Fear Into Enemy
• The truth behind Ancient Rome’s most controversial woman – BBC Culture
• Paris Perspective #10: Lutetia and the Foundations of Empire
• The Greatest Quotes of Ancient Greece’s Stoic Philosophers
• Talos: The Giant Mythological Robot Protecting Crete
• Roman Chariot GWP returns with LEGO’s highest qualifying spend of all time
• Ancient Roman ‘domus’ with mosaic floors tucked under modern flats in Rome | The Star
• 3d Print 18,000 Famous Sculptures and Artifacts Such As Rodin’s “Thinker”

‘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 an abundance of birds and fish.

… 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)