Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 14 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the appearance of venomous reptiles.

… 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 Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 13 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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Fresh Podcasts

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Hippolyte and her golden belt. Penthesilea and the fall of Troy. The Daughters of Ares. Atalanta and the golden apples. They’re everywhere in Greek mythology: fierce, deadly women warriors. But in a society as male-dominated as ancient Greece, what did this obsession with strong warrior women mean? We take a look at some of the more well-known Amazon myths of ancient Greece–and the mystery of their meaning in context.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: CLXXI: Mythology Meets History, Theseus as an Athenian Politician & Generally Awful Guy on Apple Podcasts

That’s right, we’re returning to the story of Theseus because there is still more to that oh-so-problematic man! The myths of Theseus are uniquely Athenian, means of tying mythological heroes with Athenian might and the larger mythological history of Homeric tradition. (Begs the question, why did they have stories of him being quite so messy?!)

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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Stefano Briguglio, La notte di Argo: saggio di commento a Stazio, Tebaide 1, 390-720. Millennium, 11. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2020.
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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
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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 an unexpected cold period during the summer which will damage the necessities of life.

… 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 Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 13 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

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• Tomb from Greco-Roman era discovered in Egypt
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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Jerome Eisenberg of Royal Athena
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 196
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• Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
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Fresh Podcasts

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• The Ancients: Rise of Rome: The Fall of the Samnites on Apple Podcasts

In the final part of our Samnite Wars episodes, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Kathryn Lomas from Durham University to find out more about these conflicts and the effect they had on the rise of Rome as an ancient superpower. With three wars between the Roman Republic and the Samnite armies, beginning in 343 BC and ending with a Roman victory in 290 BC – what happened in those 53 years? In this episode, Tristan and Kathryn cover the second and third wars, and look at the impact these fabled events had on the socio-political make up of the Italian peninsula. With Rome successfully taking control of large swathes of central and southern Italy, and the arrival of Pyrrhus, one of history’s most infamous men – is this the beginning of Roman domination across the Mediterranean?

• Today at Museum of the Bible: Tommy Wasserman on Apple Podcasts

Tommy Wasserman discusses New Testament manuscripts and new printed Greek editions. He is Professor at Örebro School of Theology (Sweden) and Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole (Norway).

• The History Of European Theatre: Mountebanks, Charlatans, and the Origins of Commedia Dell’arte on Apple Podcasts

The influence of Italian literary theatre can be seen in later works, but if there is one form that infiltrated the general consciousness of theatrical comedy on the continent it is the Commedia Dell’arte.

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• Apollo Slew the Python (Improvisation for Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre) – YouTube | Michael Levy
• Serial Killers: The Human Monsters of the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Iliad 1.1-43. Ancient Greek with lyre. Iliad A Day, for 365 days or shorter! Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• Iliad in English, spoken. Iliad 1.1-43. Iliad A Day. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

Book Reviews

• AJA – The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things, and Networks Around the Southern Adriatic Sea, by Francesco Iacono
• AJA – Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: Il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano, by Valentina Limina
• AJA – The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct, by Andrew Poulter, with contributions by Michael Boyd, Anastasia Cholakova, Ventzislav Dinchev, Eleanor Ghey, Pam Grinter, Peter Guest, A. Hammon, Tania Hristova, Barbara Hurman, Cluny Johnstone, W.H. Manning, Heike Neumann, Rachel Parks, Thomas Smith, Vivien Swan, Roger Tomlin, Ivan Tsurov, Pavlina Vladkova, and Susan Watts
• Atlas de la chôra proche de de Chersonèse Taurique II | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Ralph Araque Gonzalez, Inter-cultural communications and iconography in the western Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Freiburger archäologische Studien, Band 9. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2018.
• BMCR – Fabio Della Schiava, Blondus Flavius. Roma instaurata. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Biondo Flavio, 7. Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 2020.
• BMCR – Catalina Balmaceda, “Libertas” and “res publica” in the Roman Republic: ideas of freedom and Roman politics. Impact of empire, 37. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

Dramatic Receptions

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• Face of Zeus on Mt Olympus: Ancient Carving or Optical Illusion
• The Oracle that Stopped Alexander the Great’s Invasion of India

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 hot weather, severe rain, and a shortage of grain.

… 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 Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 11 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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• 1,600-year-old Anglo-Saxon cemetery holds speared man and wealthy woman | Live Science
• Roman remains and an ancient crypt unearthed beneath new university site in Gloucester – Gloucestershire Live
• Israeli Soldiers Invade Sebastia – – IMEMC News
• Archeologia, a Pompei si torna a scavare nel complesso dei “riti magici” – Ildenaro.it
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In Case You Missed It

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Economy and the Maritime Cultural Landscape of Greece
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cities, Resources and Religion – Economic Implications of Religion in Graeco-Roman Urban Environments
• New-old comic: Divine Inspiration redrawn! | Greek Myth Comix
• Divine Inspiration (redrawn!) | Greek Myth Comix
• The July Poems in the Chronography of 354 – Roger Pearse
• Best of all things is water – The Kosmos Society
• Bordeaux 2022 – XVI Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (VII) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Cheerfulness
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Other Blog-like Publications

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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• The Delicious Legacy: The curious search for Cyrenaic Silphium on Apple Podcasts

What is Silphium and why was it so valuable for ancient Greeks and Romans alike? In today’s episode I am exploring the long history of the mysterious plant Silphium, how is it connected with the prosperous ancient Greek colony of Cyrene, in modern day Libya, and I try to answer the question if indeed went extinct! Join me for another archaeogastronomical adventure into the deep Meditarannean past; let’s taste some ancient recipe with Silphium and see if we can unravel the mystery of its supposed disappearance and how we today can we get a taste of it…!

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Textual Ghosts, The Intersection of Athenian Autochthony and Disability, w/ Justin Lorenzo Biggi on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with Justin Lorenzo Biggi who studies Athenian citizenship, autochthony, and how both intersect with disability in ancient Athens. It turns out Autochthony isn’t just about being born of the snakey-legged early peoples of Athenian mythology…

• A.D. History Podcast: How Did The Library of Alexandria Actually Burn Down? | 391 AD-400 AD on Apple Podcasts

The Library of Alexandria evokes powerful images for the destruction of the greatest institution of higher learning and research in the ancient world. Many assume the Library of Alexandria’s demise occurred in a single sweeping inferno. In reality, the Library’s destruction occurred in several major episodes over the span of centuries. We not only explore the history of the celebrated Library and how it actually met its fate, but focus on the events of 391 AD; with the Library enduring one of the final nails in its coffin. As an unfortunate innocent bystander – it was the victim of the anti-pagan Christian purges occurring due to Theodosius I declaring the Roman Empire’s official adoption of Christianity as the single state religion…

Fresh Youtubery

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• What were Roman Vacations like? #shorts #history #documentary – YouTube | Invicta
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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Maria Chiara Bettini, Chiusi Villanoviana. Monumenti etruschi, 14. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2021.
• BMCR – María Dolores Jiménez López, Sintaxis del griego antiguo. Manuales y Anejos de Emérita, 54. Madrid: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, 2020.
• BMCR – Helaine L. Smith, Mirth and laughter. Aristophanes: seven comic scripts. : Helaine L. Smith, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Wonders of Ancient Greek Technology Displayed at Athens Museum
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• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

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

‘Classical’ Opinion Pieces

• Cassidy Hutchinson and Greek tragedy show that courage is rare and cowardice more common
• Brown: What Can Zelensky learn from Scipio Africanus and Q. Fabius Maximus? – Mainline Media News

Alia

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• VICTORIA K Tells The Story Of “Persephone” With New Single – BraveWords
• Talos: The Giant Mythological Robot Protecting Crete
• The extraordinary tale of Hadrian’s Wall: ‘Men have been deified for trifles compared with this admirable structure’ – Country Life
• The Ancient Greek Tradition of Birthday Cake

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 vision of the gods and the promotion of many good people.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends lifesaving river waters.

… 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. VIII Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should thunder today, it portends peace for the community, but disaster for the herds and an outbreak of a dry cough.

… 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)