#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for April 1, 2022

Hodie est Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 28 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient smells reveal secrets of Egyptian tomb
• Looted Libyan artifacts returned by U.S. | Reuters
• Black market deals raise fears for ancient Afghan jewellery treasures | Financial Times

In Case You Missed It

• Early Christian mosaic to be ‘released’ from jail, Megiddo Prison move – The Jerusalem Post
• Tornos News | British Museum faces legal action over 3D scan of stolen Parthenon Marbles

Fresh Bloggery

• Cleobulina’s Poetic Riddles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• So Long and Farewell | Latin Language Blog
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Concealment
• Three Things for Teaching Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Reflections on the Cambridge Latin Course | Cambridge School Classics Project Blog
• Munier’s “Conciliae Africae” – read his Proemium in English – Roger Pearse
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Help
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archibab News Mars 2022
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ‘Sadness’ in the Ancient Egyptian lexicon: a lexical-semantic analysis of the Lexeme ind
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nomisma and ANS digital projects accessible at HTTPS
• Munier’s “Conciliae Africae” – read his Chronological Overview in English – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pleiades Updates for 31 March 2022
• Did Archaeologists Really Discover a Hebrew Curse Tablet from Mount Ebal Bearing the Name YHWH? – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Book Club | April 2022: Xenophon Symposium – The Kosmos Society
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 193
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Dealers Called out on Marketing Nonsense by Thinking Collector
• PaleoJudaica.com: Assyrian New Year 2022
• PaleoJudaica.com: Fishbane, Biblical Text and Exegetical Culture (Mohr Siebeck)
• BIPOC Features: Dora Gao – Notes from the Apotheke
• Spencer Alley: Taddeo Zuccaro and Prospero Fontana – Villa Giulia
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two from Woodward’s ‘Tales of Sea-Sorrow’
• The Top 12 Classics-themed Video Games Coming in 2022

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• 3D Imaging and Modelling for Classics and Cultural Heritage | Institute of Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Lamia, Sirens, and Female Monsters: Feminist Reframings of Classical Myth in 19th-Century Literature – Antigone
• SPOT, a quadruped robot to Protect Pompeii
• Hit the Ode, Flacc! The Fifth Antigone Competition – Antigone
• Pasts Imperfect (3.31.22)
• Nestor – April 2022 issue available

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @isinaucratis on the provenance of a ring at the Getty
• @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 2.25.1-10

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient History Hound: The Idea of Marathon with Dr Sonya Nevin. on Apple Podcasts

In her book, The Idea of Marathon, Dr Nevin explores the Battle of Marathon from different angles. Not just the events prior to it, but what we know about the battle and how later generations made sense of it all (this includes the modern period). Join us as we cover a lot of ground (historically inaccurate pun intended). There are complaining Greeks, disappearing horses and possibly the greatest canine art cameo ever.

• Ancient Office Hours: Episode 37 – Dr. Jeremy J. Swist on Apple Podcasts

Dr. Jeremy J. Swist, a lecturer in Classics at Brandeis University, joins Lexie to discuss why Classicists only tend to be on Twitter, turning his love of metal music into a career in classics, and whether the age of streaming will help produce more music, literature, and art that will leave a lasting cultural legacy. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey!

• Coffee & Cocktails® Podcast: Ep. 35: Sexuality in Ancient Rome & Pompeii’s Secret Cabinet on Apple Podcasts

When Pompeii was first excavated in the 18th century, the individuals involved in the re-discovery of this coastal town were surprised (or dare I say ‘shocked’) to discover the massive array of erotic male (and female) genitalia scattered throughout the ancient establishment. Considered taboo and eventually locked away into Pompeii’s now famous, ‘Secret Cabinet’, this museum of wonders was closed off to women until the 1980s. In this fascinating episode, I talk with Australia’s favourite Ancient Historians and hosts of The Partial Historians podcast, Dr Peta Greenfield and Dr Fiona Radford, about the history of sexuality in Ancient Rome and how Roman society’s concepts of ‘gender’, agency, and sexual acts were largely linked to the Roman citizen’s understanding of social status and political power.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: How did Generals plan campaigns? on Apple Podcasts

Murray tackles this question from Jorn Schneider, ‘How did generals plan campaigns and how did armies find out where to go without maps?’

Fresh Youtubery

• Was the Godfather of Democracy & Western Thought a Woman? | Armand D’Angour | Wondros Podcast Ep 151 – YouTube } Wondros
• Spring Seminar Series 2022: Prof Hella Eckhardt (Reading) ‘Bridge over troubled water’ – YouTube | ClassicsUnivRdg
• The Trojan War Was Real?! | Debunking TikTok Ancient History Hot Takes – YouTube | Lady of the Library
• New Acquisitions: Introduction to unboxing ancient objects – YouTube | Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
• ODYSSEY BOOK 18: A Random Beggar Challenges Odysseus-In-Disguise To A Fight And He Loses … Duh. – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• 16/03/2022- SemGRAnt- Between Private and Civic – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes Ecole française d’Athènes

Book Reviews

• RCR – Charles Goldberg, Roman Masculinity and Politics from Republic to Empire (London and New York: Routledge, 2021).

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• New Book Launch Celebrating Dedicatee Sarah B. Pomeroy | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Lecturer – Department of Classics (JPF07447) – UCI – Recruit
• Lecturer Pool, Classics – HigherEdJobs
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Listen To Homer’s Epic “Odyssey” As A Podcast — Greek City Times
• 10 amazing Jewish archeological finds, discovered by accident –

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 civil discord and declining fortunes.

… 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)