Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 24 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Suetonius’s Warning about Tyranny — ConsultTheClassics
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Fresh Podcasts
Today we depart slightly from a focused look at ships, and branch out to consider mythology that has some loose ties to ships. The Greek mythological king and hero Theseus of course slew the Minotaur, but today we explore the ties of that story, and others, to Athenian naval ambition. Later politicians like Pisistratus and Cimon used the myths of Theseus to help promote the spread of the Delian League, and today we consider this evolution. We also consider the myths, and ties they might have to sacred ships in Athenian history. We also discuss a philosophical question that is known as ‘The Ship of Theseus,’ although we really don’t find any answers. But it’s fun to think about.
Kelly Sue DeConnick is a trailblazing comic book writer. She is credited with creating the new and improved version of the Captain Marvel heroine Carol Danvers that influenced the story foundation for the 2019 Captain Marvel movie. In response to criticism about her feminism, she created the series Bitch Planet, which has inspired a whole generation of female comic book readers. She moved from Marvel to DC comics where she reimagined the Aquaman series and, most recently, she completed DC’s Wonder Woman Historia: The Amazons. Adrienne Mayor, is a pre-eminent folklorist and research scholar in the history of science and classics at Stanford University. She has written more than a half-dozen award winning books, including the seminal works The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women Across the Ancient World and Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology. Her latest title, Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws, and Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities, was released in early 2022. Though a generation apart, these two accomplished women begin their discussion with a mutual-admiration love-fest, and then dive into a spirited dialogue that includes super heroes, the myth of a female utopia, grieving like the Greeks and the consequences of having sex at Aphrodite’s shrine.
Fresh Youtubery
- Exploring Ancient Greece with Dr. Rita Roussos – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Racing Greek Epic: Ancient and Modern Racecrafts in Contra-Tension – YouTube | Manchester Classical Association
- Exceptions to the Latin Stress Rule? – YouTube | PolyMATHY
- CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Herodotus, Emily Greenwood – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Catullus 48 in Latin & English: Mellitos oculos tuos, Iuventi – YouTube | David Amster
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Homer and Greek History – CounterPunch.org
- The Oracle of Siwa: How a remote oasis in Egypt drew history’s most powerful men | Middle East Eye
- Modern Stoicism for all, from Christians to atheists – Big Think
- Jews, Romans, and Pigs: An Impossible History
Diversions
‘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 the arrival of slaves.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends prosperity imported from abroad.
… 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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