Hodie est Id. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 8 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Extreme Toilet Circumstances and A Wish for Good Fortune – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• “Lanawstl” or “Llanawstl” near Machen in Monmouthshire – a reference to St Austol? – Roger Pearse
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• Collections: Fortification, Part II: Romans Playing Cards – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

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• ‎Ithaca Bound: Pottery in Archaic & Classical Sparta w. Dr Adrien Delahaye on Apple Podcasts

Pottery in ancient Sparta was used for storage, shipping, communicating moral lessons, and more. Dr Adrien Delahaye, French School at Athens, joins the show to explore what scholars know about Spartan pottery in the Archaic and Classical periods.

• ‎Nuntii Latini: diē duodecimō mēnsis Novembris on Apple Podcasts

Dē rēbus Haitiānīs; Americānī dē Aethiopiā dēdūcuntur; Eurōpa in perīculō; Rūthēnia Alba Eurōpae mīnātur; Seattlēnsēs anxiētāte labōrant; Diēs Caelibum; Dracō in caelō; Discipulus periit.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: How were Roman marines equipped, how did they fight? on Apple Podcasts

Daniel asks, ‘I was curious about Roman marines. I see them depicted in video games the same as a classic 1st century legionary, but with their red clothing and shield swapped out with blue. Did Marines fight, and were they equipped the same as a regular legionary soldier? Did they participate in land battles and were they seen as inferior or superior to the regular army? Did they have the same terms of service as their land bases counterparts?

Fresh Youtubery

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• Homeric Hymn 13, to Demeter, in Ancient Greek | Ancient Literature Dude
• Duel of the Italian-Americans! Latin VS Portuguese VS Romansh! | polyMATHY
• 3D Models and the Classics Classroom (Bethany Hucks) | New Directions in Classics
• The Perfectly Preserved Roman Town Hidden In Wales | Time Team | Odyssey

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Erika Simon, Jakob Zeyl, Alan Shapiro, The gods of the Greeks. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2021.
• [BMCR] Andreas Serafim, Religious discourse in Attic oratory and politics. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
• [BMCR] Stephen Harrison, Christopher Pelling, Classical scholarship and its history: from the Renaissance to the present. Essays in honour of Christopher Stray. Trends in classics, 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
• Book review: Anne Carson’s modern reworking of ancient Greek tragedy, Arts News & Top Stories – The Straits Times
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Alia

• The Goddess Hera’s Place in Ancient Greek Mythology
• Computational modelling provides insight into the Roman economy | SIMREC Project | Results in brief | H2020 | CORDIS | European Commission
• Football Was Invented In Ancient Greece And It Was Called Episkyros
• Was Plato a mythmaker or the mythbuster of Western thought? | Aeon Essays

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a prosperous but sickly time, with bodies tormented by parasites.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends venomous snakes being gently dealt with by humans.

… 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)