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In the News

• Archaeologists explore culinary culture of Lydians with dentist tools | Daily Sabah
• Statue of Greek health goddess Hygieia unearthed in Turkey
• Kuwait takes down statue of Aphrodite from a shop after citizens complain | Kuwait – Gulf News
• The inexhaustible palace of Zominthos | eKathimerini.com
• Even after Assyria won, Judeans produced olive oil in biblical Shephelah – The Jerusalem Post
• Provincia de Burgos: Los arqueólogos investigan un posible asedio romano en Olmillos de Sasamón | BURGOSconecta

In Case You Missed It

• New archaeological finds at the ancient site of Perperikon – Българска национална телевизия

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Χάος ἐν τῷ τοῦ Καβοῦλ ἀερολιμένι 
• [Ephemeris] CONTINVAT EFFVGIVM 

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Prophecy: Near Eastern, Biblical, and Greek Perspectives
• Teaching Structural Violence in the Time of COVID | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greece’s labyrinth of language: A study in the early modern discovery of dialect diversity
• New YouTube Video for ‘The Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages’, 19 August 2021 – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Hermione and Heroic Sons – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Continence of Scipio, Attributed To Andrea Casali (c. 1705-1784) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Legendary Slippery First Step Of The Roman-Latin War | The Historian’s Hut
• Aeschylus | The Historian’s Hut
• Hannibal op zoek naar wraak – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Night-shift archaeology
• PaleoJudaica.com: Interview with Khaled al-Asaad’s son
• PaleoJudaica.com: A Bar Kokhba coin is going into space
• What Was the Name of Odysseus’ City? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Tomb of Marcus Venerius Secundio – Pompeian Connections
• Spencer Alley: Jan van den Hoecke (Follower of Rubens)
• Blogging ancient epigram: Horrors of the Deep (script)
• Blogging ancient epigram: Horrors of the Deep (slides)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Principal Parts of a First Conjugation Verb

Blog-like Publications

• Reflections on Life at the Word-face of the Cambridge Greek Lexicon – Antigone
• ANE TODAY – 202108 – Why Did the World End in 1200 BCE? – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Illustrating the Dolphin Editions | by Maud Taber-Thomas | In Medias Res | Aug, 2021 | Medium
• Pasts Imperfect (8.19.21) – by Sarah E. Bond and Colin McCaffrey – Pasts Imperfect

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Fasti 2.125-132

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Thin End of the Wedge: TEW 32. András Bácskay: Fever! on Apple Podcasts

András discusses the medical conditions that showed themselves through heat of some kind. ‘Heat’ could affect many different body parts, for various reasons. Which medicinal ingredients were used to cure ‘heat’ and why? András also gives an introduction to his latest work on ‘glosses’ in medical texts, and what the broader significance of the different types is.

• ‎The History and Philosophy of Physics Podcast: 011: Mix and Mingle Like Nothing is Single on Apple Podcasts

This episode is about Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, the final Presocratic I’m planning on covering! He thought there was a little bit of everything in everything and that mind set the universe in motion. He also did some observational science and is credited as the first to correctly explain the cause of eclipses.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Ancient Warfare Fiction on Apple Podcasts

With the summer holiday season in full swing for all the team (except Murray in Australia), we thought we’d discuss everyone’s favourite fiction books, which feature ancient warfare.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Ancient Roman Clothing w. Dr. Kelly Olson on Apple Podcasts

Professor & Graduate Chair, Kelly Olson, Western University, joins the show to discuss what ancient Romans wore. Topics discussed include: the attire, fabrics used, what colour was meant to communicate about the bearer, if undergarments were exercised, how Romans cleansed themselves, and more.

Fresh Youtubery

• ILIAD BOOK 9: Everybody Begs Achilles to Come Fight, and He Says “NO” Because He’s A Child. | Moan, Inc
• Ecole française d’Athènes
  • 30/06/2021- Journée Territoires multiples- Paysage urbain et agentivité
  • 30/06/2021- Journée Territoires multiples- Diplomatie et territoire à l’époque hellénistique
  • 30/06/2021- Journée Territoires multiples- Aménagements de la ville et de la chôra
  • 30/06/2021- Journée Territoires multiples- Le territoire civique de Cos après le synœcisme
• Elite and Levy Units of the Eastern Roman Army | Kings and Generals
• Can We Judge Historical Figures by Contemporary Standards? | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Reperti Porta Sarno presso Laboratorio Ricerche Applicate.Intervista ad antropologa Valeria Amoretti | Pompeii Sites

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Laurent Bricault , Isis Pelagia: images, names and cults of a goddess of the seas . Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 190. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
• [BMCR] Michele Solitario , L ‘Ermotimo di Luciano: introduction, translation and commentary . Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte, Band 136. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• [BMCR] A. D. Morrison, Apollonius Rhodius, Herodotus and historiography. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Alfredo Buonopane, Myriam Pilutti Namer, Luigi Sperti, Antichità in giardino, giardini nell’antichità. Studi sulla collezione Giusti a Verona e sulla tradizione delle raccolte di antichità in giardino. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Return to Palmyra (Getty Research Institute)

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Art Break: Seeing Blackness in Greek and Etruscan Art | Getty360 Calendar
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Genius at the bottom of the sea
• Let Persephone, the robot guide, lead you through this Greek cave | KECI

‘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 plague upon the cattle and confusion for the state.

… 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)#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for August 19, 2021