Hodie est a.d. XV kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 14 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Archeologists unearth 2,000-year-old statues in western Turkey

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

• Satura Lanx: Aliquae res mirae (ac molestae) quas in novo cursu parando experta sum on Apple Podcasts

My intermediate / advanced Latin course (entirely in spoken Latin) is finally out! I tell you everything about (Y)PLC, “(Your) Perfect Latin CURRICULUM!”.

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Book Reviews

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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• Fact or fiction? The mass-suicide at Masada | Tuvia Book | The Blogs

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a major war

[Sunday]  if it thunders today, it portends a prolongation of war.

… 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. XVI kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 13 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Looting Matters: Almagià and the Steinhardt Collection
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Other Blog-like Publications

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Fresh Podcasts

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In our last episode before a short hiatus for Christmas, Jasper tackles this question on Hannibal’s logistics that was sent in by Anne one of the Patrons of the podcast.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 43: The Greek Periphery, Macedon on Apple Podcasts

Many tribes existed throughout the Balkan region in the Neolithic to the Bronze Age where we would see defined cultures develop with the onset of the Iron Age. We hear origin stories and hints at the early Macedonians in Myth through Homer and Hesiod. We even get through Herodotus, the hint of a tribe called the Makednoi during the Bronze Age in the mountains north of Greece…

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 067: Rome and Carthage Between the Punic Wars on Apple Podcasts

The period from the signing of the Treaty of Lutatius in 241 until the siege of Saguntum in 219 is often passed over by those learning about the Punic Wars, but it is integral to understanding how the Romans and Carthaginians went to battle once again. Rome fought to stem the tide of Celtic warbands invading from Northern Italy, whereas Carthage faced an existential crisis with the Mercenary War (241-237) before its rescue by Hamilcar Barca. Hamilcar and his clan then expanded into Spain, building a powerbase which enabled his son Hannibal to challenge the Romans for supremacy in one of the greatest conflicts in antiquity.

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Book Reviews

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

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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 the birth of small locusts, although there will still be 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. XVII kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 12 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• A Trove of Artifacts Officials Call ‘Stolen’ Are Returned to Italy – The New York Times
• New York returns 200 stolen antiquities to Italy
• Second Temple era burial caves totally neglected, report finds | News 7
• Ancient mound unearthed under dam water

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Discover New First-Century Synagogue in Magdala, Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Stopping a suspect car, police find ancient items Bar Kochba rebels took from Romans | The Times of Israel
• Ancient Greeks did NOT regularly practice infanticide and kill off ‘weak’ babies | Daily Mail Online
• Missing Papyri Professor Must Return $7 Million to Hobby L…… | News & Reporting | Christianity Today

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE RE CORONARIA.

Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Food and drink | Part 1: Homer and Hesiod – The Kosmos Society
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epidicus by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspekte von Unfertigkeit in der kaiserzeitlichen Architektur: Ergebnisse eines Workshops am Architekturreferat des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 26. und 27. September 2016
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archibab News Juin 2021
• Christianity Today on the Hobby Lobby vs. Obbink Case | Variant Readings
• The Alamogordo Atari Excavation as the Archaeology of An American Experience | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The Temple of Melqart in Cádiz – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: US Post-Fact “Philanthropy” on Trafficked Antiquities
• PaleoJudaica.com: New English translation of the Talmud Yerushalmi online
• PaleoJudaica.com: Egyptian ostraca galore!
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on those apprehended Bar Kokhba-era artifacts
• Goed nieuws over papyrologie! – Mainzer Beobachter
• Spencer Alley: Nineteenth-Century German Paintings (Neoclassical)
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Alexandra Morris and Debby Sneed, interviewed by Cressida Ryan

Other Blog-like Publications

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Fresh Podcasts

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For the seventh time, listeners provide questions and Rhiannon and Matt answer! In this episode: – What happened to the original sources – Did the Romans have dogs, and how did they use them? – What types of jobs did the Romans have that don’t exist today? – Did far-flung provinces retain their own languages? – What kind of libraries did the Romans have? – Did Emperors support the arts? – Have we rethought Domitian? Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of School of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)

• The Ancients: How to Party Like a Roman on Apple Podcasts

Contrary to popular belief, parties in Ancient Rome were not all depraved wine-fuelled orgies. In fact, Roman get-togethers were relatively tame by the standards of today. They often consisted of noble families sharing elaborate food dishes and entertaining one another with theatrical hysterics. Parties among less wealthy citizens were simpler, yes, but no less raucous. Bashes of all kinds—whether to celebrate great military victories or mark important festivals such as Saturnalia—were beacons of status and huge networking opportunities, which explains why they became such a core feature of everyday Roman life. So, not all crazy sex parties after all! In this episode, Tristan is joined by Dr Ian Goh, Professor of Ancient History at Swansea University, to find out how to party like it’s 1 BC.

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 34 – Cleopatra (1970) on Apple Podcasts

Get ready for a real trip back to ancient Egypt, where Caesar is green, triumphs feature sports cars and gladiators bring handguns to the arena. Joined by animation expert Chiara Sulprizio, we dig into this animated adult fantasy/sci-fi/historical epic by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. This is really one of the wilder takes on ancient history we’ve ever seen and even if it’s not your bag – and for many it probably won’t be – it’s definitely worth a viewing just to take in its sheer wildness and reconsider our modern myths about Cleopatra.

• The Partial Historians: Episode 120 – Rebels Without a Cause on Apple Podcasts

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Book Reviews

• A New Book Makes the Case for the Importance of the Humanities | Columbia News
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• [BMCR] Margherita Erbì, Epicuro. Lettere: frammenti e testimonianze. Biblioteca di studi antichi, 99. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2020.
• [BMCR] Thomas Kuhn-Treichel, Rollen in Relation: das poetische Ich in verschiedenen Gattungen bei Pindar. Zetemata, 156. München: Verlag C.H. Beck , 2020.
• [BMCR] Edwin Carawan, Control of the laws in the ancient democracy at Athens. Cultural histories of the ancient world. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020. 
• [BMCR] Leofranc Holford-Strevens, Aulus Gellius: Attic Nights, preface and books 1-10 (Auli Gelli Noctes Atticae: Praefatio et Libri I-X). Oxford classical texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. 
• [BMCR] Steven Skultety, Conflict in Aristotle’s political philosophy. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Christodoulos Papavarnavas, Gefängnis als Schwellenraum in der byzantinischen Hagiographie: eine Untersuchung früh- und mittelbyzantinischer Märtyrerakten. Millennium-Studien, 90. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.

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Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

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• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• More than 100 underwater animal species found living on 2,200-year-old Mediterranean shipwreck | Mirage News
• My Dreams of the Antikythera Mechanism
• The Ninth Legion: What Happened To Britain’s Lost Roman Legion? – HistoryExtra

‘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 complicated situations 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)

Hodie est a.d. XVIII kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 11 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• The Greek Archaeologist who Helped Expose Steinhardt’s Stolen Antiquities
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• Artifacts seized in Jerusalem may have been from Bar Kokhba rebels’ hiding place | News 7
• Efforts Continue to Restore Damaged Archaeological Sites in Northeastern Syria
• Ancient statue heads found in Knidos
• Balkan-based looters share tips on Facebook about vulnerable sites, potential buyers and how to escape the law
• Castro, nuova scoperta archeologica: ritrovati un volto femminile e due frammenti di arto

In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kelsey Museum Annual Reports
• Truth, Testimony, and Treason – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Mediocrity
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Axiomatic
• Did ancient writers say that Jeremiah 10:3-5 was about Christmas trees? – Roger Pearse
• The Legend Of A New Ligurian Mother’s Stubborn Labor | The Historian’s Hut
• Alexander at the Tomb of Cyrus, by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (c. 1609 – 1664) | The Historian’s Hut
• For Term Paper Season, Some Random Thoughts on Quotation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Hipparchia – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK’s Portable Antiquities Scheme Claims “Millionth Record” as a “Success”
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS Statistics For 2020. Cause for Concern?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Brock, The Bible in the Syriac Tradition (3rd ed.) (Gorgias)
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Other Blog-like Publications

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

• History Hack: History Hack: Sex and the Romans on Apple Podcasts

LJ Trafford joins us to talk all about sex and sexuality in Ancient Rome.

• Thin End of the Wedge: 40. Davide Nadali: Excavating Tell Surghul on Apple Podcasts

Davide recently returned from a season of work at Tell Surghul in southern Iraq. He discusses the site and his team’s work there. How did they choose the site and what did they want to achieve there, and what are their results so far? Why is excavation important anyway? He explains what an archaeological team looks like today, what they do, and what happens once the excavations are over. He also offers his thoughts on current discussions around how foreign teams should work in Iraq.

• Poured Over: Mary Beard on TWELVE CAESARS on Apple Podcasts

“And imagine what did it feel like to think this was new? Their life, all kinds of different images as time goes on, and people in the Renaissance and later want to recreate for themselves, particularly in painting, but not always in painting….what it is to create a likeness of someone who’s been dead for a millennium or more?” Historian and bestselling author Mary Beard (SPQR, Women & Power, Confronting the Classics) joins us on the show to talk about her new book, Twelve Caesars, what it means to make a likeness if you’ve never met your subject, power and representation and propaganda, trying to help us see under-appreciated museum displays (tapestries and coins to start) with fresh eyes, and more. Featured book: Twelve Caesars by Mary Beard. Produced/hosted by Miwa Messer and engineered by Harry Liang.

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Book  Reviews

• [BMCR] Philipp Baas, Proceedings of the XXth International Congress on Ancient Bronzes: resource, reconstruction, representation, role. BAR international series, 2958. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2019.

Exhibition Related Things

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

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• Lexicalisation and Grammaticalisation in Greek and Latin
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• 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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• The UC3M creates a digital public archaeology | EurekAlert!
• The U.K. Has Held Onto the Parthenon Marbles for Centuries—But the Tide Is Turning. Here’s Why I Expect Them to Be Returned by 2030 | Artnet News

‘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 many setting out for war, but few returning.

… 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. XIX kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 10 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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In Case You Missed It

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• Cyprus—Trade Emporium of the Ancient World – Biblical Archaeology Society

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE BATAVICI VICTORIA.

Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ägyptens schöne Gesichter: Die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual
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• Cyril of Alexandria’s lost “Commentary on Hebrews” now available in English! – Roger Pearse
• Loyal Hounds for the Charcoal Man – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• De Fiscus Judaicus: een vergeten ostrakon – Mainzer Beobachter
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Kiperwasser, Going West (Rabbinic Culture) (SBL Press)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cirafesi, John within Judaism (Brill)
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• Blog: Call It What It Is: Racism and Ancient Enslavement | Society for Classical Studies
• CIMS-CIG Student Travel Bursary (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
• Homer and Dorothy Thompson Fellowship (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
• Frederick and Joan Winter Student Travel Bursary (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
• 17.11.21 Pompeii Revisited – Department of Classics – Trinity College Dublin

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Virgil, Georgics 1.505-514
• @DocCrom on an aureus of Claudius relating to the conquest of Britain
• @fadeaccompli is reading Richlin’s Garden of Priapus

Fresh Podcasts

• Live from Mount Olympus: Bonus Mythlet 4: “I Belong to No Man!” on Apple Podcasts

When Athena burst from her father’s head she looked just like a hoplite warrior, with armor and a helmet.  Dr. Kate Birney tells us about this fierce aspect of the goddess as well as the civilized attributes of the patron goddess of Athens.  No wonder she’s Danae’s favorite goddess – and maybe yours too? Visit our pages on social media or search #livefrommountolympus to find images of Athena made by the residents of the city that bears her name with pride….

• Khameleon Classics: The Medea Myth Before and After Euripides, with Jesse Weiner on Apple Podcasts

Medea was a source of fascination for ancient scholars as early as Hesiod’s Theogony, and yet the early classical sources make no mention of the intentional infanticide that Euripides made an infamous and essential part of the myth. Conversely, authors writing after Euripides bore his iconic tragedy and its infanticide in mind even as they focused on other aspects of the story and characterised Medea differently. In this episode, Shivaike Shah and Professor Jesse Weiner from Hamilton College explore the myths surrounding Medea, from the earliest Greek literature through Roman antiquity and beyond. They consider the many receptions of Medea in modernity: in particular, Joel Barlow’s Columbiad, an early American epic poem that drew upon Medea, Jason and the Argonauts to frame two key moments in the history of American colonisation and independence.

Fresh Youtubery

• HFF Annual Lecture 2021 | Honor Frost Foundation
• Pokémon in Latin: Gen 1 Pokédex entries 51-59 | Ancient Literature Dude
• The Ancient Lyre and Kithara with Michael Levy | World History Encyclopedia
• What are the newest discoveries at Pompeii? | American Institute for Roman Culture
• How do we measure the decline and fall of Ancient Rome in today’s context? | American Institute for Roman Culture
• “A Place of very great Antiquity” | British School at Athens
• Booknotes+ Podcast: Roosevelt Montás, “Rescuing Socrates” | C-SPAN

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Günther Pfund, Von Picus bis Licinius: historischer Kommentar zu den “Chronica urbis Romae” im Chronographen von 354. Roma Aeterna, 11. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 
• [BMCR] Alberto Cafaro, Governare l’impero. La “praefectura fabrum” fra legami personali e azione politica (II sec. a.C. – III sec. d.C.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021. 

Exhibition Related Things

• Met exhibit examines origins of civilization in Africa – UPI.com

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Two-Year Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Classics and Race job with College of the Holy Cross | 420651
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Find mosaics and mystery in an outpost of the Roman empire
• The Ancient Celtic Coinage of Britain
• Ground-Breaking Proposal for Return of Parthenon Marbles
• Rockport Collection of Ancients at Heritage Dec. 19 – Numismatic News
• What Was Wrong With Translating the Torah Into Greek? – Jewish History

‘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 both civil war 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)