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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
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- The Judgement Of Midas In The Contest Between Apollo And Pan, By Pieter Codde (c. 1599 – 1678) | The Historian’s Hut
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- Spencer Alley: Franz von Stuck (Munich’s Painter Prince)
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Assorted Twitter Threads
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Fresh Podcasts
Murray answers this question sent in by Brian ‘The romans took a lot of slaves when they won a battle but how did they turn an angry defeated warrior into a pliant slave?’
During the Late Bronze Age, the Cypriots had a variety of settlements, their own language, and were sea faring. Louise Steel, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, joins the show to share what civilization was like on the island during this period of time.
Fresh Youtubery
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- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Sappho, Achilles, & Patroklos | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Did the Romans Know the Empire Was Falling? | Kings and Generals
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Book Reviews
- [AJA] Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy By Emma-Jayne Graham. London: Routledge 2021.
- [AJA] The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome By Patrick R. Crowley. Chicago: University of Chicago Press 2019.
- [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.
- [BMCR] Robyn Faith Walsh, The origins of early Christian literature: contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman literary culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Lieve Van Hoof, Peter Van Nuffelen, The fragmentary Latin histories of Late Antiquity (AD 300-620): edition, translation and commentary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Zsolt Adorjáni, Der Artemis-Hymnos des Kallimachos. Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Texte und Kommentare, Band 66. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- Atlantic Classical Association Conference 2021 – Call for Papers – The Classical Association of Canada
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
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‘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 shortage of necessities.
… 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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