Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 16 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• New research tracks ancient artifacts looted by the Nazis | The Seattle Times
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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Greek & Latin
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• Shocking, Taboo Sex in Ancient Greece and Rome – Tales of Times Forgotten
• A problem with “scrupulositas” – Roger Pearse
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Meio
• Orpheus And Eurydice, by Frederic Leighton (c. 1830-1896) | The Historian’s Hut
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• Which Postumius? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » No sale for the half billion Caravaggio villa
• Trok Hannibal langs de Drac? – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lod Mosaic website
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• Blog: Asterion: Making Neurodiversity Visible in Classics | Society for Classical Studies
• Discoveries at Tarquinia: the Gemina Tomb and its grave goods – The Archaeology News Network

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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: One Millionth Record: How Reliable is the PAS database?
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• @abby_fecit on a 1st century cippus from Verona
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Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: CLI: Deconstructing Atlantis: What Makes a Myth? Plato’s Allegorical Atlantis (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

We’ve heard the original source for Atlantis, but why is it that Plato’s Timaeus and Critias can’t be termed “myths”? If it isn’t a myth, how do we know that there isn’t some history behind it? This episode details what we do know about Plato’s Atlantis and what that proves. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Elina Pyy, Women and war in Roman epic. The language of classical literature, volume 33. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: Numismatics Interest Group of the Archaeological Institute of America | Society for Classical Studies
• “Romans in Vietnam: (De)constructing Race and Space through a Transimperial Lens” | School of Architecture, Planning & Preservation
• Classics and Archaeology research seminar – Lucius Brutus and the themes of Roman myth – The University of Nottingham
• University Tutor job with MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY | 278300
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Alia

• Greece to step up Parthenon marbles pressure amid signs tide is turning | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
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• Did the Exodus happen? Israeli scholar tours Egypt to show it did – The Jerusalem Post
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends that when the king is victorious, the common people will be stronger.

… 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)