#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for July 9, 2021

Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Tomba dei Leoni: apre per la prima volta al pubblico il monumento

In Case You Missed It

• 1,800-Year-Old Headless Greek Statue Found At Turkey’s Metropolis Site | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald
• Opulent 2,000-year-old ‘city hall’ unearthed near Western Wall in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE PRAESIDIS HOMICIDIO 

Fresh Bloggery

• Destroyer, Born on the Ground, Pitiable: Etymologies for Helen – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Lengthening Late Antiquity on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ANE mailing lists
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Vom byzantinischen zum arabischen Ägypten: Neue dokumentarische Papyri aus dem 5. bis 8. Jh. (P.Heid. XI)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Firsthand Experience
• Reputable Tales about Ariadne; And Strange Ones – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Return of Ulysses, Painted By Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (c. 1783 – 1853) | The Historian’s Hut
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Like Is Dear to Like
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dendara. La Porte d’Horus: Commentaire – Traduction
• Through mountain and valley with Hannibal: the Island – Mainzer Beobachter
• Autism and Classical Myth: Autistic children speaking out via classical myth – at the Children’s History Society conference, June 2021
• PaleoJudaica.com: ANE List anniversary
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Copper Scroll: treasure chest or quest?
• WHAT’s IT LIKE? Episode 5: Prof. Amy Smith –- A Specialist in Art History, Ancient Greek Ceramics & Classical Antiquities. | Classics at Reading
• The Greco-Roman Site and Museum of Ampurias – Time Travel Rome
• Spencer Alley: Antoine Coypel and Charles-Antoine Coypel (Paintings)
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two outstanding boys
• Ancient and modern – The Classical Astronomer

Blog-like Publications

• The Philosophical Life: The Value of Diogenes Laertius’ Biographies – Antigone
• Reconstructing Roman industrial engineering | Ars Technica
• On Ancient Mintmarks and Determining an Ancient Coin’s Origin
• Phrasikleia and the boy – Two sixth-century Attic funerary statues – Ancient World Magazine

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @SarahEBond on how mosaics can reveal building techniques
• @DocCromm’s #LatinForTheDay is Ovid, Ibis, 73-80
• @fadeaccompli was reading Rome the Cosmopolis
• @MichaelDPress questions some claims made by the British Museum in a recent Telegraph article

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Raising Standards: 1.07: Pharsalus (with Ken Cranham) on Apple Podcasts

Vorenus and Pullo are shipwrecked on an island, Caesar and Pompey fight it off offscreen, and the beginning of a relationship between Servilia and Octavia. There is also a special interview with Ken Cranham, who played Pompey.

• ‎Classically Trained: Episode Ten: Troy (2004) on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we discuss the 2004 film Troy, starring Brad Pitt. Unsurprisingly, we had a lot to say. Featuring: American imperialism, and Homeric combat, and just a little bit more complaining about the costuming in Troy: Fall of a City.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Minoan Civilization in the Bronze Age w. Dr Louise Hitchcock on Apple Podcasts

The Minoans were a civilization on the Island of Crete that flourished, and ended, during the Bronze Age. Professor in Archeology, Louise Hitchcock, The University of Melbourne, joins the show again to share what’s known about them.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Neo-Assyrian Empire at war on Apple Podcasts

“Famously warlike and imperialistic, the Neo-Assyrians cut a swathe across the ancient Near East. Surviving artwork and written sources give us clues as to how they accomplished this.” The team discuss Ancient Warfare XIV.6, the Neo-Assyrian Empire at war.

Fresh Youtubery

• Francesca Gazzano on Special Deaths in Herodotus | Herodotus Helpline
• Analyzing the Fight Scenes of TROY – Part 3: Hector vs Ajax & Hector vs Patroclus | AMO Pankration
• The Kingdom of Pylos | A Forgotten History. | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• SCRIBO – The mathematical values of fraction signs in the Linear A script – The INSCRIBE Team

Book Reviews

• [AJA] Recycling and Reuse in the Roman Economy Edited by Chloë N. Duckworth and Andrew Wilson (Oxford Studies in the Roman Economy). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020
• [AJA] Mortuary Variability and Social Diversity in Ancient Greece: Studies on Ancient Greek Death and Burial Edited by Nicolas Dimakis and Tamara M. Dijkstra. Oxford: Archaeopress 2020.
• [AJA] Excavations by K.M. Kenyon in Jerusalem 1961–1967. Vol. 6, Sites on the Edge of the Ophel By Kay Prag (Levant Suppl. 18). Oxford: Oxbow 2017.
• [BMCR] Mercedes Aguirre, Richard Buxton, Cyclops: the myth and its cultural history. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Lorenzo Gagliardi, David Kremer, Cittadinanza e nazione nella storia europea. Centro di ricerca coordinato Studi sulla giustizia/Facoltà di giurisprudenza dell’Università degli studi di Milano, 34. Milano: Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre, 2020.
• [BMCR] Bruno Jacobs, Ancient information on Persia re-assessed: Xenophon’s “Cyropaedia”. Proceedings of a conference held at Marburg in honour of Christopher J. Tuplin, December 1-2, 2017. Classica et Orientalia, 22. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
• [BMCR] Damjan Donev, The busy periphery: urban systems of the Balkan and Danube provinces (2nd – 3rd c. AD). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 61. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• In Pictures: A New Show Explores Ancient Pompeii Dining Rituals, From Vermin Delicacies to Bone Toothpicks

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

• Marcus Aurelius: Rome’s Reluctant Warrior-Emperor – HistoryExtra
• Making wine on Rome’s Palatine Hill – Wanted in Rome
• 3 Pilgrimage Paths from Galilee to Jerusalem – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Byzantine Coins Uncovered During Excavation in Israel
• The Most Famous Creatures from Greek Mythology

‘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 appearance of the gods and the promotion of many good people.

… 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)