Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 13 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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In this episode we discuss Natalie Haynes’s 2019 novel A Thousand Ships. Digressions include identity theft, ancient clothing, and ecofascism. We also spend a while simping for basically every ancient woman mentioned.
Often up there in the upper echelons of most articles listing Rome’s worst emperors, it’s fair to say that history has not been kind to Caracalla. Whether it was contemporary sources depicting him as a deranged Heracles and Alexander the Great loving megalomaniac or the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon labelling him ‘the common enemy of mankind,’ for centuries he has been an epitome of infamy. To talk through what we know about this figure, and whether he deserves this reputation, Tristan was joined by Edinburgh University’s Dr Alex Imrie, an expert on the Severan Dynasty and the author of The Antonine Constitution: An Edict for the Caracallan Empire.
Rome is a gorgeous palimpsest of history and no one knows that better than archaeologist Darius Arya and speleologist Adriano Morabito. Darius and Adriano join Erica for an afternoon chat about Rome.
In 417 CE, the Roman poet Rutilius Namatianus journeyed from Rome back to his homeland of Gaul, not knowing whether there was a home to return to.
The most controversial part of Plato’s Republic is its fifth book, wherein Socrates argues for the political equality of men and women, the abolition of the nuclear family, a strange eugenics program, and the idea that philosophers kings and philosopher queens should be put in charge of political affairs. With us to discuss book 5 is Mary Townsend, assistant professor of philosophy at Saint John’s University in Queens and author of the book The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic.
In this week’s episode Jean Menzies and regular guest Jill Scott welcome back the podcast for a new season by finding out what the most googled questions about Ancient Greece are and have a go at answering them.
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- AIA Iowa Society Talk: Bjorn Anderson and Erin Daly [10.11.2021] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
- House Tomb 2 in the Pre- and Protopalatial Cemetery – Petras-Kephala, Crete | Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
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Book Reviews
- Themistocles. The Powerbroker of Athens (J.A.) Smith. Pp. xxviii + 284, maps, colour pls. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2021.
- Euripides: Trojan Women (B.) Goff Pp. 173. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Bristol Classical Press). 2012
- Euripides: Electra (R.) Rehm Pp. 180 Bloomsbury, 2020.
- Our ancient ancestors may have been more civilized than we are – Macleans.ca
- Pat Barker’s New Novel of the Trojan War, Reviewed | The New Yorker
- Perfecting Diseases’ Pasts: On Kyle Harper’s “Plagues Upon the Earth”
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- Conference in honour of Prof. Emeritus Demetrios Michaelides
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- Who was the first person to write about the British Isles? | Live Science
- Daily Life in Ancient Greece: What it Was Like to Live in Athens and Sparta
- 5 Fast and Furious Facts About The Lives of Gladiators | Discover Magazine
- Cultural property crime thrives throughout pandemic says new INTERPOL survey
- Can Skeletons Have a Racial Identity? – The New York Times
- Chair, Department of Classics and Philosophy – HigherEdJobs
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- Prehistoric Religion: A Pagan Riddle We Will Never Solve? – HistoryExtra
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends the downfall of a ruler or the overthrow of a monarch, and also portends civil discord and abundance.
… 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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