#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for July 2, 2022

Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Victoria and Albert Museum returns—and reattaches—a third-century marble head of Greek god taken from Turkey
• Archaeologists race against time to safeguard antiquities against sinking  – Tehran Times
• Drought reveals ruins of ancient bridge in Rome – World News
• 2000-year-old human remains and animal sacrifices found in Dorset | Bournemouth University
• Radar probe to reveal mysteries of lost Roman city beneath York | York Press
• Interesting archaeological discoveries – This year’s first excavation season in Chrysi – Anatoli [google translated]
• Images show how Colchester would have looked in Roman times | Gazette

In Case You Missed It

• In the Netherlands, Volunteer Archaeologists Find Roman Temple Complex | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• The Bookseller – Author Interviews – Natalie Haynes | ‘They had a couple of centuries of untrammelled patriarchal interpretation, it’s about time they made a bit of room’

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – CLADES INDICA 
• Nuntii Latini mensis Iunii 2022 – Bremen Two

Fresh Bloggery

• Weekend Reading: Catching Up – Classical Studies Support
• ‘Afghan Genizah’ Paper: The ‘Silk Roads Programme’ at Cambridge University’s King’s College should NOT be included
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Augmented Triad
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Head of Eros remounted to massive Roman sarcophagus in Turkey
• De Dame van Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Motley Crew
• Reconstructing Mycenaean scribes and archives… in Lego!
• Dots between words in Northwest Semitic inscriptions
• Syrian and Phoenician diasporas | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Egyptian diasporas | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Spencer Alley: Nicolò dell’Abate (ca. 1509-1571) – Emilia to Fontainebleau
• Chrodoara van Amay – Mainzer Beobachter

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Contemporary Responses to Greek Myth and Tragedy through Drama, Film, and Visual Art | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Lod Mosaic Center Opens in Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Funny Vespasian - The Pragmatic Roman Emperor Who Built Fantastic Colosseum | History of Yesterday

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: Memorizing Latin: The Why and Some What, Part 1 (Gvrgle 3) on Apple Podcasts

Here’s your chance, dear listener, to add some famous Latin quips and sayings to your memory storehouse and repertoire. In this Gvrgle we teach you how to assimilate and regvrgitate some bon mots from Cicero, Solomon, Urbano Appendini, King David, Vergil, Terence, and more. If you want to join the project, become a LatinPerDiem patron (patreon.com/latinperdiem) for $1.99/mo or sign up for Dr. Noe’s LLPSI class (latinperdiem.com/llpsi). This will get you the master document of the 20 sayings with translations, plus two high quality audio files (Latin only, and Latin with English translation). Quid expectatis?

• The Ancient World: Episode S6 – Castle of the Slave on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: Joseph and Hyrcanus of the Tobiad clan served as tax farmers in Coele Syria for nearly half a century, weathering the transition from Ptolemaic and Seleucid control along with the constant maelstrom of Jerusalem politics.

• The Layman’s Historian: Episode 49 -Zama: Battle of Giants on Apple Podcasts

With Hannibal’s recall to Africa, we finally reach the final showdown of the Second Punic War. Scipio and his disgraced survivors of Cannae faced Hannibal’s veterans of Italy on the plains of Zama. The victor would decide the war – and the course of history.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Roman Epic Poem The Aeneid: Introduction and Summary – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Exhibition Related Things

• Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color | Apollo Magazine

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Lecturer In Greek Culture and Classical Receptions job with UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL | 299486
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

‘Classical’ Opinion Pieces

• What History Says About Whether The United States Will Fall Like Rome
• The Recorder – As I See It: Are we the next Roman Empire?

Alia

• Building a virtual Roman city: teaching history through video game design | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• Visual Translation: A Creative Tool for Practising Metacognition and Analysing Agency and Power | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• Ancient Greek Lyres Make a Comeback in Thessaloniki
• What Happened at an Ancient Greek Symposium
• The Rich History of the Acropolis of Lindos

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 a nice late autumn.

[Sunday]  If it thunders today it portends a long winter.

… 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)