Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 22 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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- Türkiye’s 150,000 historical artifacts waiting to return – Türkiye News
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Family of Pa-di-Amun-neb-nesut-tawy from Thebes (TT 414) Revisited: The Case Study of Kalutj/Nes-Khonsu (G108 + G137)
- Midas, Pan And Apollo From A Manuscript Known As The Book Of The Queen, Attributed To The Master Of The Cité Des Dames (flourished 1410-1414) | The Historian’s Hut
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- Kiwi Hellenist: Jesus’ empty tomb and The matron of Ephesus
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Lost and not-so-lost gospels
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- For the Love of…A Goose? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Celts: Poseidonios and others on banqueting and violent customs (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Illyrians: Theopompos on banquets (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Celts: Poseidonios and others on banqueting and violent customs (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Mysians / Moesians: Poseidonios on their identification and customs based on Homer (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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Book Reviews
- BMCR – Garrett Ryan, Greek cities and Roman governors: placing power in imperial Asia Minor. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
- BMCR – Jean Alvares, Ideal themes in the Greek and Roman novel. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge, 2022.
- BMCR – Katja Piesker, Ulrike Wulf-Rheidt, Umgebaut Umbau-, Umnutzungs- und Umwertungsprozesse in der antiken Architektur. Diskussionen zur archäologischen Bauforschung, 13. Regensburg: Verlag Schnell and Steiner, 2020.
- BMCR – Jon C. Cubas Díaz, Das Sepulkralwesen im Rauen Kilikien am Ende der Antike. Funerärarchäologie und Grabepigraphik einer spätantiken Landschaft. Forschungsstelle Asia Minor im Seminar für alte Geschichte der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Asia Minor Studien Band 98. Bonn: Dr. Rudolf Habelt GmbH, 2021.
- BMCR – Maya Feile Tomes, Adam J. Goldwyn, Matthew Duquès, Brill’s Companion to Classics in the Early Americas. Brill’s Companions to Classical Reception, volume 21. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
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Alia
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- “Rome and Persia in Late Antiquity” published in Persian – Tehran Times
- Ancient Mesopotamians Were Violently Anti-abortion, if the Woman Initiated It – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
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:
- If it thunders today, it portends an unhealthy drought.
… 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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