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Public Facing Classics

• A tremendous “new” ancient site in Turkey | Blog post by Mary Beard
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Fresh Bloggery

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• Nature, Naturally – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Q & A with Dr Gina May | Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• 142 antiquities valued at nearly $14 million return to the people of Italy
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Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: What do we know of the armies at the end of Roman Britain? on Apple Podcasts

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• Casting Through Ancient Greece: Interview: The Athenian Experience of War with Dr Owen Rees on Apple Podcasts

In this episode I sit down with Dr Owen Rees to focus on his newest scholarly work, Military Departures, Homecomings and death in Classical Athens. Although we are looking at the Athenian experience of war in the Classical Age, the unfolding events of particular battles will not be our focus here. Rather we will be looking at the often overlooked elements surrounding the campaigns that would embarked on. We will be more concerned with the experiences around preparing to leave for war in what would form departure scenes, this looking different to the various parts of society. This will also see us turning to the aftermath of a war or campaign in how the homecoming was also experienced by these elements of society. With wars also comes death and Dr Rees will also take us through how the Athenian War dead were treated where they would receive their own form of homecoming. We also look to how the individual hoplites experience of war may affect them through trauma or more commonly known to us today as PTSD. We view this topic through the competing theories that ask whether ancient soldiers also suffered this disorder as spoilers to today. Though, to begin our talk today I spend a little time getting to know Dr Rees, his background and motivations before we then engage in a little general historical conversation. After this we then draw our focus to the main subject for our talk and spend well over an hour looking at the research behind Military Departures, Homecomings and death in Classical Athens

• History Extra podcast: The end of Roman Britain | 7. bones, diet and migrants on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we talk to Dr Sam Leggett, an expert in archaeological bone analysis, about the latest fascinating research with stable isotopes, to find out what the bones of burials from the 5th century can tell us about how much people were moving around and what they were eating in post-roman Britain

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Anniversary Special: Let’s Learn About the Ancient Mediterranean! on Apple Podcasts

For the fifth anniversary of the podcast, Liv revisits moments from past conversation episodes. They’re so fun! We learn so much! KNOWLEDGE!

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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Celia E. Schultz, Fulvia: playing for power at the end of the Roman republic. Women in antiquity. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• MOSTRE / Gli Etruschi di Casenovole: dalla necropoli inedita le storie e i segreti di un’antica comunità maremmana [FOTO/VIDEO] – Storie & Archeostorie

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

• Teaching Fellow in Ancient Philosophy/Latin job with Durham University | 37286759
• British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships 2023, University of Reading | Mary Jaharis Center Blog
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Alia

• Eleusis, One of the Most Important Religious Sites in Ancient Greece

Diversions

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

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends good things for the state, but for people, diseases in/of their heads.

… 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)