Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
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This is the second and final part of our interview with philosopher Michael Tremblay, talking about Seneca and stoicism.
Poetry, parables, and produce – how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world? Tristan is joined by author Mark Usher to talk about what we can learn from our ancient ancestors. Discussing the impact farming has on both physical and mental well-being, the role it played in music and song, and philosophical musings about the land – Tristan and Mark discuss how can we live a sustainable, and ancient inspired, way of life?
In this episode, we explore what happened to gender in the pressure-cooker of ancient war. To do that, we skip ahead ten years to a different beach: the war-blasted, corpse-strewn sands below the walls of Troy. As the Trojan War dragged on, the most respect went to those who were able to slaughter and pillage and plunder: gender for men devolved into “Smash and Grab” masculinity. Meanwhile, gender for women became “Gender as Property”—in the most explicit terms. It’s in this toxic wasteland that Achilles’ feud with Agamemnon rose to a fever pitch—over a woman called Briseis.
Nero fiddled while Rome burned, didn’t he? At least, that’s what the history books tell us. Nero’s image as a depraved tyrant has been handed down to us by three biased sources, written after the emperor’s suicide in 68AD. These sources have informed interpretations of Nero’s legacy ever since, so much so that his involvement in the Great Fire of Rome has become a meme. Recent scholarship has sought to rehabilitate Nero to a certain extent, to try to understand him in the context of his time. He was indeed a man who succeeded in shocking the Roman elite, but also someone who could strike a chord with the public and was well thought of outside the centre of political intrigue. Rajan Datar attempts to separate fact from fiction, with guests Dr Ginna Closs, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US and author of While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination which was published in 2020; and Dr Evan Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden. He’s writing a book entitled Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire; and Dr Shushma Malik, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Roehampton. She’s the author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm.
Fresh Youtubery
- A synoptic look at the friezes on the OCR Greek Art syllabus – YouTube | Runshaw Classics
- WCC UK AGM 2022: WCC UK Small Grants Scheme – YouTube
- WCC UK AGM 2022: Assemblywomen – YouTube
- WCC UK AGM 2022 – ECR event – YouTube
- How Ancient Discoveries Still Guide Today’s Science | Footprints of Civilisation | Odyssey – YouTube
- Catullus 50 in Latin & English: Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi, Vocabulary notes – YouTube | David Amster
- Geophysical prospection of the eastern Caelian: large-scale urban research by Rome Transformed – YouTube | British School at Rome
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Adam Ziółkowski, From “Roma quadrata” to “la grande Roma dei Tarquini”: a study of the literary tradition on Rome’s territorial growth under the kings. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 70. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
- BMCR – Cesare Letta, “Tra umano e divino”. Forme e limiti del culto degli imperatori nel mondo romano. La Casa dei Sapienti, 3. Lugano: Agorà & Co., 2021.
- An academic read covering the Romans in Scotland – Scottish Field
Exhibition Related Things
- Unsilencing the Archives – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Why Was Erotic Art So Popular in Ancient Pompeii? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Dramatic Receptions
- “Oedipus Rex” on the screen – ORANGE COUNTY TRIBUNE
- Cornell Classics Puts on Terrence’s “Adelphoe” in Original Latin for Its First Play Since the Pandemic | The Cornell Daily Sun
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- Stoicism at Plato’s Academy – The Good Men Project
- Three Ways Cleopatra Contributed to Science and Medicine | Discover Magazine
- Ancient Greek Amphitheater at Laodicea Restored to Former Glory
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends people being saved by shields.
… 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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