Hodie est a.d. XIX Kal. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 6 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Seleucid, Parthian and Islamic relics unearthed in west-central Iran – Tehran Times
- Turkey Arrests 78 in Operation Targeting the Illegal Antiquities Trade
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: Patria
- Ancient Greek Dance-off – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- Update: Dr. Christine Morris Confirms She Has Not Found the Trojan Horse – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Fantastic Friday 3: Final Adventures in Ethnography – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kiwi Hellenist: ‘Archaeologists claim they’ve discovered the Trojan Horse’
- Het Gilgameštablet en andere illegale oudheden – Mainzer Beobachter
- Was Sappho Really a Lesbian? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A House Divided
- Spencer Alley: Gerbrand van den Eeckhout (Versatility in Amsterdam)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Online Resources Fuel the Illegal Antiquities Trade in the Balkans
- The Two Sides of Agrippina the Younger – The Partial Historians
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Anchorites rejected many aspects of ordinary life and practiced denying various bodily pleasures. Professor Andrew Jotischky, Royal Holloway, University of London, returns to the show to discuss ancient anchorites in the Mediterranean Basin.
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- Transformers, X-Men, and Ancient Egypt
- Chrysippus: The Man Who Laughed Himself to Death | Athena Productions
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Book Reviews
- Ovid – a Very Short Introduction (L.) Morgan. Pp. xx + 120. Oxford University Press, 2020.
- The Arrow of Apollo. (P.) Womack Pp 354, map. London: Unbound Books, 2020.
- [BMCR] Pierre Destrée, Malcolm Heath, Dana Munteanu, The Poetics in its Aristotelian context. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
- [BMCR] Michael Greenhalgh, Plundered empire: acquiring antiquities from Ottoman lands. Heritage and identity, 6. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Krešimir Matijević, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft in der späten Römischen Republik. Fachwissenschaftliche und fachdidaktische Aspekte. Gutenberg: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
- An antihero washes up at Schenley ice rink in Quantum’s ‘An Odyssey’ | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
- THEATRE Tempestuous Trojan triumph | Morning Star
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Alia
- ‘Plunder’ follows Napoleon’s theft of artworks to enrich the Louvre – CSMonitor.com
- World’s Largest Underwater Sculpture Inspired By Greek God — Greek City Times
- The Taliban destroyed Afghanistan’s ancient treasures. Will history repeat itself?
‘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 war for everyone but an abundance of crops.
… 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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