Hodie est pr. Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 2 Hekatombion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends many deaths in a short period of time.

… 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. III Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 1 Hekatombion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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• Peopling the Past: Portrait of a Lady: Discovering Seianti with Judith Swaddling on Apple Podcasts

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• Ad Navseam: If at First You Don’t Succeed, Troy, Troy, Again: Aeneid Book III, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 88) on Apple Podcasts

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• New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Adrienne Mayor, “Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities” (Princeton UP, 2022) on Apple Podcasts

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• The History Of European Theatre: Keeping It Real: Italian Theatre In Perspective on Apple Podcasts

As things moved on in the early renaissance art – painting and sculpture – led the way and theatre soon followed. Artists tried to inject more realism into their work, showing their subjects as they really were, or as close as they could get. The colours of clothes, skin tones, fruit, countryside scenery and, well, whatever the artist’s subject was, became more subtle and realistic as artists looked at the different impacts of viewpoint, light and light sources in paintings and strived to show the world as it really was. The discovery of an understanding of one thing in particular made those working in the theatre sit up and take note – perspective in art had arrived…

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends improving business for the capital city.

… 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. IV Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 29 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Fresh Podcasts

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Cleopatra VII was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Cleopatra served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies and was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra: A Life. Stacy joins Dan on the podcast to reconstruct Cleopatra’s life. From ascension to the throne, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, to her eventual death, Stacy and Dan chart the life of a ruler who controlled the largest territory of any woman.

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: Feeding Spice Caravans in the Negev, or Midnight at the Oasis, Try the Oysters and Crabs on Apple Podcasts

The discovery of oysters and crabs at Nabatean and Roman caravan sites in the Negev has us thinking, what’s going on here? What do we learn about trade and traders from food remains? Have we been too focused on the exports and not enough on the imports? One thing is for sure, you gotta eat.

• Live from Mount Olympus: Persephone 10: When You Return, Everything Will Bloom Again on Apple Podcasts

Never before has the Earth faced a challenge like this. Half the year with no harvest means half the year without food. Together, Persephone and Demeter must find a way to save humanity, and maybe learn a bit more about each other along the way.

• Peopling the Past: Portrait of a Lady: Discovering Seianti with Judith Swaddling on Apple Podcasts

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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Christopher A. Faraone, Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Ursula Kästner, Stefan Schmidt, Inszenierung von Identitäten: unteritalische Vasenmalerei zwischen Griechen und Indigenen. Beihefte zum Corpus vasorum antiquorum, 8. München: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018.

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• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
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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 a good harvest.

… 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. V Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 28 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 26.06.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Ephemeris – MAGNI SEPTEM CONGREGANTUR

Public Facing Classics

• A classicist at Glastonbury: ‘Headbanging in raincoats? It’s as English as Gardeners’ Question Time’ | Glastonbury 2022 | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

• Another Casualty of Childbirth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Fool Me As Often As You Like – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Halbertal, The Birth of Doubt
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Jewish Catacombs Of Rome
• When We Were Girls…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: I’m Vexed and Grieved
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: ‘Atiqot
• Vergeten rijkdom – Mainzer Beobachter
• Cycladic Heads, Christie’s, and Problematic Provenance |
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: What a Tangled Web we Weave: Provenance Research Once Again Reveals Lack of Care Checking Consigners’ Sales Spiels
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Founders of the Modern Spirit
• Changing the Nature of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: YU faculty research grants
• PaleoJudaica.com: Eleazar in the Bible
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: How Many ‘Planted’ Finds in British Fields?
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Whoops…. [Updated]
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Belgian Ballsup: But Dealer Insists on His Money
• LAST HOUR of Kickstarter launch! | Greek Myth Comix
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Waffenweihungen in griechischen Heiligtümern
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Études Anciennes
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Des céramiques et des hommes: Décoder les assemblages archéologiques
• More Disappointment in Life: Theophrastus’ Farewell Speech – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Child buried with glass bracelets at ancient Odeon
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Greek and Roman Provincial Coins Found in England and Wales
• Arie Zwiep, Tussen tekst en lezer – Mainzer Beobachter
• A short note on Roman copies from Praxitelean sculptures
• Trees and wood | Part 1: Homer and Hesiod – The Kosmos Society
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of new English translation of Strack-Billerbeck (vol. 2)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Moore, Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles (Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Latest on the Irbid Greco-Aramaic tomb comics
• Libyan peoples: Hanno the Carthaginian (fourth century BCE or earlier) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Egyptian perspectives: Manetho (early third century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Scholarships in Classical Studies for UK Schoolteachers | Classical Studies
• The Greek Inscriptions at Trinity College Dublin Part I: The Seminar Room — Hestia Blog
• Blog: Roe v. Wade, the GOP, and echoes of Augustus: Reproducing fascism | Society for Classical Studies
• “All Eggs Under the Great! Alexander and the Epithet Megas” Shane Wallace « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Other Blog-like Publications

• Classics in Slices: Scattered Thoughts on Interpolation-Criticism – Antigone
• Stone inscription celebrating Athenian military academy cadets discovered | The Past

Fresh Podcasts

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: Cleopatra on Apple Podcasts

Cleopatra VII was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Cleopatra served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies and was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra: A Life. Stacy joins Dan on the podcast to reconstruct Cleopatra’s life. From ascension to the throne, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, to her eventual death, Stacy and Dan chart the life of a ruler who controlled the largest territory of any woman.

• Today at Museum of the Bible: Mike Holmes on Apple Podcasts

Prof. Michael W. Holmes discusses his deep experience with the wording of the New Testament and early Christian texts. He is New Testament General Editor of the newly-published NRSV revision as well as the SBL Greek New Testament and the Greek and English translation of the Apostolic Fathers.

• Career in Ruins: S5, Ep1: Career in Ruins in the Field on Apple Podcasts

We are back! And what better way to come back then to take a day out to visit the Durotriges Big Dig. Ran over 9 seasons, this research project focuses on Iron Age Dorset, examining the transition between the Iron Age and Roman Britain, and how this is represented in the archaeological record. Not only does the project offer up lots of interesting research questions and discoveries, but it also provides Bournemouth University students with an opportunity to participate in practical archaeological process. During their visit, Lawrence and Derek catch up with some of the lectures and students to find out more and learn what the field school is all about.

• Ancient History Fangirl: Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Heracles x Omphale on Apple Podcasts

This week, we’re going to talk about that time Heracles, the strong man, son of Zeus and noted impenetrable penetrator, lived as a woman. Yes, you read that right. And not only did he live as a woman, he was the submissive to a powerful female dom who took up his lionskin and club as symbols of her own power.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Heirs of Solomon – Ethiopian Empire #1 – EXTRA HISTORY – YouTube | Extra Credits
• How I started to speak Latin: ITER meum ad Latinitatem! – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• The Spookiest Almost-Vampires From Greek Mythology – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Battle of the Persian Gate 330 BC – Alexander the Great DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• AAIA ANNUAL REPORT 2022 – YouTube | AAIA

Book Reviews

• Voyage autour du Caucase, chez les Tcherkesses et les Abkhases, en Colchide, en Géorgie, en Arménie et en Crimée | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Conference-Related Thingsxx

• 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

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Guide to the Roman Luxembourg: 30 Sites to Visit – Time Travel Rome
• Alexander the Great Campaigns Influenced Egyptian, World Cuisine
• Book Review: ‘Meditations’ proves Roman emperors can be relatable – The Daily Evergreen
• Who Was Josephus? The Controversial Backstory of the Famed Historian – aish.com

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 danger from the army for men in power.

… 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. VII Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 26 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Ukraine seizes stolen antiquities collection after police raids in Kyiv – News | Khaleej Times
• ‘Alas for me, I am dead’: Greco-Roman tomb in Jordan offers clues about life in Capitolias
• Will the real King Herod please stand up? – Books – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

• Tortoise and its egg found in latest Pompeii discovery | Reuters

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Digital Exhibit Reveals Buried Roman-Era Secrets Uncovered By Duke Archeologists | Duke Today

Greek/Latin News

• DE UCRAINIS 

Fresh Bloggery

• Blank Space | Sphinx
• Calling on Achilles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Frontiers of the Roman Empire
• Laudator Temporis Acti: For You Too
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: KELLIA / dictionary
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “DPR” Financed by Antiquities?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission
• Crooked Judges and Justice’s Roar – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Broken Hopes of a Once Prosperous Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Greece Unforgotten – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Tortoise and her egg found in Pompeii
• Armenië, de Parthen en Rome – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Damage to Museums in Ukraine and the Looting to Order Allegations
• What’s next? – The Classical Astronomer
• Chaldeans, Greeks, Egyptians, and Judeans: Aristides of Athens (second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Eating Rome: Moretum
• Scythian and barbarian wisdom: Diogenes of Laertes (early third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Photo of the Month – June 2022 – DAİstanbul

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCromm on Einsledelen Eclogues 2.23-31

Fresh Podcasts

• Satura Lanx – Latin language and literature for beginners: Aliqua verba Latina quae Italis difficilia videntur on Apple Podcasts

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Fresh Youtubery

• The Varian Disaster – YouTube – Great Military Battles
• The Ancient Egyptian Practice and Process of Mummification – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• JCT – Desperate Undertaking (L.) Davis pp. xii+402. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2022.
• JCT – The Iliad and the Odyssey: The Trojan War: Tragedy and Aftermath (J.) Parker pp. 272. Pen and Sword Military, 2021.
• JCT – Homer: the Very Idea (J.I.) Porter pp. xiv+277, ills. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2021.
• JCT – Olympia: The Birth of the Games (J.A.) Martino, (M.P.) O’Kane pp. 266. Las Vegas, NV: Histria Books, 2021.
• BMCR – Emma Griffiths, Children in Greek tragedy: pathos and potential. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Thomas J. Keeline, Cicero. Pro Milone. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 15th Trends in Classics International Conference | Τμήμα Φιλολογίας
• 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

• One-year Assistant Professor Without Review in Greek History and Language | Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
•  One-year leave replacement Lecturer in Classical Studies and Latin Language | Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The One-Off Battle of Issus Chess Set Could Be Yours for $1.9 Million – Robb Report

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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends wars and plenty of bad things.

 [Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a winter that is especially harmful to 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)