Hodie est a.d X Kal. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 12 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Tombaroli in azione all’interno dell’area archeologica | SICILIATV.ORG
• Ancora scavi archeologici abusivi ad Eraclea Minoa, 40 i fossi trovati per cercare reperti

In Case You Missed It

• Florida Republican Anthony Sabatini says Socrates, who was executed, would have been canceled today – The Washington Post
• Less Waste During Production of Marble Slabs in Ancient Roman Imperial Period Than Today

Fresh Bloggery

• The Cancel Culture They’re Really Afraid Of – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Chypre à l’épreuve de la domination lagide: Testimonia épigraphiques sur la société et les institutions chypriotes à l’époque hellénistique
• Which Dutch books should an Iranian read? – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Habertal, Nahmanides: Law and Mysticism
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cohen, Rashi, Biblical Interpretation, and Latin Learning in Medieval Europe (CUP)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Rubenstein (ed.), Studies in Rabbinic Narrative, Volume 1 (SBL)
• BHL 5955b – the “Miracula in Monte S. Michaelis in Cornubia” – Roger Pearse
• Roman Times: The Aulos
• Gassing You Up! Mollusks as Aphrodisiacs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Gesta 5: Iuvenis et Archipiratae Filia
• Epic Bad Taste – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Pinksteren – Mainzer Beobachter
• “To live in Flight”: ‘Carpe Diem’ is Too Cautious – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antigone: An Open Forum For Classics
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) Update

Blog-like Publications

• When you think of the Renaissance, think of Nagasaki, Goa and Oaxaca | Psyche Ideas

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 88: Ancient Greek Sci-fi on Apple Podcasts

In roughly the 160s CE, the Greek satirist Lucian of Samosata wrote A True History, one of history’s earliest surviving novels, with strong tinges of what we’d call science fiction.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Founding of Constantinople w. Dr. Michael Decker on Apple Podcasts

Constantinople was the principal city of the Byzantine Empire for over a millennium, was held by the Ottomans for centuries, and continues contemporarily as Istanbul in Turkey. Dr. Michael Decker, Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University, joins the show to discuss Constantinople’s founding.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Origins and History of the Ancient Celts | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Publius Ovidius Naso || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 35 | Satura Lanx
• Who were the Philistines? (History of the Philistines explained) | Epimetheus
• ‘The Oracle at Dodona: Soundscape and Religious Experience’ Dr Katerina Kolotourou | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Military Hospitals in Ancient Rome | Classics in Color

Dramatic Receptions

• Aeschylus’ Persians: A Collaborative Student Performance | Department of Classics

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

• Did the Roman Emperor Nero Invent Netflix? (Or: Some thoughts on the perversity of the human need for fictional heroes and imaginary outcomes) – Bright Lights Film Journal
• What is the meaning of Cody Garbrandt’s back tattoo?
• Rude Talk in Athens – Greek City Times

‘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 a good and fruitful rain.

… 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)