Hodie est a.d. IX kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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In the News

• a quiet day

In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends civil wars for the city and disease for forest-dwelling creatures.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. X kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Unfinished Roman-era Statue Unearthed in Veria, Greece

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Public Facing Classics

• Boris and the Romans | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

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It’s fair to say that winter battles weren’t commonplace in the ancient Mediterranean world. There is, however, one striking exception. A clash that occurred in mid/late December 218 BC, in northern Italy very close to the Po River. This clash was the Battle of the River Trebia, fought between the Roman consular army of Sempronius Longus and the conglomerate Carthaginian force under the leadership of the legendary Hannibal Barca. In this special podcast, Dr Eve MacDonald, Dr Louis Rawlings and Dr Adrian Goldsworthy talk you through the run up to this decisive winter clash, before delving into the details of the battle itself. From Hannibal and his weary, worn down force emerging from the Alps to Roman soldiers wading through the icy waters of the Trebia, sit back and enjoy as Eve, Louis and Adrian talk you through the story of Hannibal’s first great victory against the Roman Republic.

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire that flourished in the Late Bronze Age in what is now Turkey, and which, like others at that time, mysteriously collapsed. For the next three thousand years these people of the Land of Hatti, as they called themselves, were known only by small references to their Iron Age descendants in the Old Testament and by unexplained remains in their former territory. Discoveries in their capital of Hattusa just over a century ago brought them back to prominence, including cuneiform tablets such as one (pictured above) which relates to an agreement with their rivals, the Egyptians. This agreement has since become popularly known as the Treaty of Kadesh and described as the oldest recorded peace treaty that survives to this day, said to have followed a great chariot battle with Egypt in 1274 BC near the Orontes River in northern Syria…

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends disease for the people, but not a serious one.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XI kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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In Case You Missed It

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• Young Boris Johnson was passionately advocating for the return of the Parthenon marbles – Neos Kosmos

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Fresh Podcasts

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: King Herod on Apple Podcasts

Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the infamous figures from the whole of history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. To talk about King Herod, with a particular focus on the material and meaning of his monumental tomb at Herodium, Tristan was re-joined by Holy Land archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness. A wonderful speaker, Jodi has previously been on the podcast to talk all about the Siege of Masada and Jewish burial at the time of Jesus.

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• Ecole française d’Athènes
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Alia

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• Watch: A 3D Flythrough Tour of Classical Athens – Greek Herald

‘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 hot summer with abundant 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 17 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Antiquities inspectors find 1,900-year-old sarcophagus lid in dump – www.israelhayom.com
• Archeologists unearth altar site for Greek goddess in western Turkey

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• Long-lost Temple of Hercules Gaditanus from the 9th century BC found off the coast of Spain  | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Domitianus in Leiden (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Litwa, Posthuman transformation in ancient Mediterranean thought
• Steun de Mainzer Beobachter – Mainzer Beobachter
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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.8.9-18

Fresh Podcasts

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The permanent home of the Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, has been the subject of a heated, decades-long debate. Currently housed in the British Museum, Greece has been proactively campaigning for their return since the 1980s. But, how did this controversy start and why did the marbles end up in London, to begin with? In this episode, we find out with the help of Nick Malkoutzis and Georgia Nakou, two Greek journalists and contributors to Macropolis (www.macropolis.gr). You can also hear more from Nick and Georgia on the English-language podcast about greek politics and society, The Agora.

• New England Classical Journal Podcasts: Reinventing Classical Pedagogy: Content-Based Instruction in the Intro Latin Classroom on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we interview Professors Daniel Libatique and Dominic Machado of the Holy Cross Classics Department. We delve into their recent article, Lector Intende, Laetaberis: A Research-Based Approach to Introductory Latin, that was published in NECJ’s spring 2021 issue. How have colleagues received their new idea of pedagogy? How effective has their approach been during the pandemic? What are the pros and cons of content-based instruction? Listen to find out.

• Subject to Change: The declines of the Roman Empire with Edward Watts on Apple Podcasts

Edward Watts startled me with his claim that the Western Roman Empire didn’t fall in AD 476. And he has other revisionist takes on Roman history. (Domitian a much better emperor than Trajan??) I love Roman history and enjoyed this episode hugely. His book The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea is absolutely terrific. A superb balance between the detail and a sweeping narrative.

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Book Reviews

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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 hot and disease bearing wind.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Notorious Pontius Pilate is the one who built Jerusalem aqueduct, study finds – Israel News – Haaretz.com
• Egypt resumes hunt for Nefertiti’s tomb amid historical debate – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East

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Fresh Podcasts

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Synopsis: Even as Anatolia, Syria and Egypt confronted the Bronze Age Collapse, the eastern kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia and Elam continued their ancient cycle of dynastic conflict.

• The Ancients: King Herod on Apple Podcasts

Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the most infamous figures from the whole of history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. To talk about King Herod, with a particular focus on the material and meaning of his monumental tomb at Herodium, Tristan was re-joined by Holy Land archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness. A wonderful speaker, Jodi has previously been on the podcast to talk all about the Siege of Masada and Jewish burial at the time of Jesus.

• History of the World podcast: Vol 4 Ep 7 – The Byzantine Empire, Part Two on Apple Podcasts

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  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Cooking pots for ritual activity?
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – From Amyntas III to Cassander
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – A Closed Deposit of 4th Century B.C pottery from Ancient Methone, Pieria
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Οresteion: Views on the pottery of an Arcadian polis
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Framing the Ceramic Identity of Maroneia
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Exploitation of vegetal resources in Malia
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Evidence of Minoan tsunami deposits
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Human landuse as main factor of change
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – In search of a lost city
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Coastal landscape changes at Palaikastro
  • 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – From dirt to pots
  • 16/11/2021-Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Synergy between natural and built environment
• Mid-season Update | Kara Cooney

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] John Walsh, Elizabeth Baynham, Alexander the Great and propaganda. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021
• . [BMCR] Erlend D. MacGillivray, Epictetus and laypeople: a stoic stance toward non-stoics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020. 
• [BMCR] Sara Lindheim, Latin elegy and the space of empire. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021. 
• [BMCR] Rosa Maria Piccione, Greeks, books and libraries in Renaissance Venice. Transmissions: studies on conditions, processes and dynamics of textual transmission, volume 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021. 

Exhibition Related Things

• 5 things you didn’t know about Ancient Greece from the National Museum of Australia’s new exhibition | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Why This Ancient Civilization Fell Out of Love With Gold for 700 Years | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
• Boris Johnson is a classical Greek hero: The audience is waiting for him to fall
• Boris Johnson’s zeal to return Parthenon marbles revealed in 1986 article | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
• A is for … ox? How the Latin alphabet is descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs | CBC News
• 15 Heroes of the Trojan War | History Hit
• Volunteer on a dig for the thrill of digging up the past (you’ll also learn to hate buckets)

‘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)