Hodie est a.d XII Kal. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 10 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Conflict antiquities’ rescue or ransom? The cost of buying back stolen cultural property in contexts of political violence. | conflict antiquities
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Synopsis: The Great King Tudhaliya’s sons, Arnuwanda and Suppiluliuma, take power in a time of growing famine. The collapse of Mycenaean Greece intensifies the predations of Aegean and Mediterranean pirates, who threaten Hittite grain shipments and ally with the Libyans to launch an invasion of Egypt. Among the earliest victims of the seaborne invaders is the storied city of Troy.
With Jasper away Murray tackles this question sent to us from patron of the podcast Kristoffer, how did ancient leaders address their troops?
A Bronze Age fortress in Egypt, Zawiyet Umm el-Rakham, existed near the border with Libya and was used for defence and to support the network of maritime trade in the Mediterranean. Dr Steven Snape, University of Liverpool, joins the show to speak about its history and broader geopolitical considerations during the era.
The battle of Plataea had been fought and won on the plains of Boeotia, seeing the Persian land forces finally defeated. Though, this wasn’t the end of the campaign, there was still yet another battle to be fought. Tradition would have it that it took place on the very same day as the victory at Plataea. This would see a transition in operations, now seeing the war arrive in Persian territory. The Greek fleet had also been preparing for operations as the campaigning season of 479 BC approached. The navy commanded by the Spartan king Leotychidas had set up base at the island of Delos after being approached by some Ionian exiles to support a revolt in Anatolia. Leotychidas was reluctant, he commanded a much smaller fleet than what had sailed the previous year. The Athenians yet to join the rest of the fleet…
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Frances Muecke, Maurizio Campanelli, The Invention of Rome: Biondo Flavio’s Roma Triumphans and its worlds. Travaux d’humanisme et renaissance, 576. Genève: Droz, 2017.
- [BMCR] Virginia Closs, Elizabeth Keitel, Urban disasters and the Roman imagination. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 104. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
- [BMCR] Maria Caldelli, Cecilia Ricci, City of encounters: public spaces and social interaction in ancient Rome. RomeScapes. Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020.
- [BMCR] Alexandra Forst , Q. Aurelius Symmachus. Official writing relationes: Latin-German . Tusculum Collection. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the need for atonement being made on account of terrible news.
… 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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