Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 24 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends plentiful fruit crops but there will be disease and rebellion among the common folk.

… 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. XV Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 22 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a shortage of necessities

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends both famine and war

… 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. XVI Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 21 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• 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, plants will put out many shoots but they won’t produce fruiit.

… 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 Id. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• 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 a general change for the worse.

… 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 pr. Id. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 9 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• A Brother or a Counterfeit: Theognis on Friendship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: An Oddly Dwarf Crossbow Fibula
• A Treatise on Human Beings, Rejected by a Life of Virtue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A rare sort of psychopomp | Greek Myth Comix
• Androgyne in myth – The Kosmos Society
• Laudator Temporis Acti: He Is Still There When I Come Back to Him
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus Publications
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Society of Biblical Literature Annual Meeting Seminar Papers
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Établissements scythes tardifs du nord-ouest de la Crimée
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman mother buried with child, in-law
• Most of My Pictures Seem to Have Suddenly Disappeared, 13 September 2022 – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Byblos’ pelgrimsweg naar Afqa – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Fame
• The Aeneid’s Enlivening Alliteration — ConsultTheClassics
• Northern peoples: Antonios Diogenes’ Wonders Beyond Thule and ethnographic fiction (second century CE / ninth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Looting Matters: Roman Bronze Bust Returned to Italy
• Looting Matters: Steinhardt Panathenaic Amphora Returns to Egypt
• Looting Matters: The Steinhardt Oinochoe Attributed to the Berlin painter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient coins etc. seized in Hebron
• PaleoJudaica.com: Dell (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Biblical Wisdom Literature

Other Blog-like Publications

• Will the Wise Man get Drunk? An Ancient Philosophic Controversy – Antigone
• D.A. Bragg Returns Stolen Italian Sculptures from the Getty Museum
• New discoveries show that Claros continued to serve as an oracle center after Christianity – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a funerary inscription from Roman Lincoln
• @DocCrom on coins depicting the Flavian Amphitheatre
• @DocCrom on Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.329-340

Fresh Podcasts

• The Endless Knot: Endangered Alphabets, with Tim Brookes on Apple Podcasts

We spoke with Tim Brooks of the Endangered Alphabets project about the cultural importance of scripts, the pressures on marginalized and isolated scripts, his beautiful wood carvings, and the various initiatives he and his group have been working on to support script revitalization and creation around the world.

• Ad Navseam: Royal Boxing Day: Vergil’s Aeneid Book V, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 96) on Apple Podcasts

This week the guys close out their look at Book V with continued questions about the relevance of this break in the epic’s main action. Are we really supposed to find deep meaning in flaming arrows? Is there coded symbolism when Dares starts flexing and popping his pecs like Schwarzeneggar auditioning for Conan: This Time He’s Even More Greased Up? And what’s with that “Trojan Game”? Maybe there’s a reason it never translated to the board or video variety. Is its sole function to bring out Dave’s grim loathing of parades? But hold tight–there’s also some genuine, keel-smoldering pathos here. Juno’s intent on barbecuing the Trojan fleet and there’s poignant loss at the end.  So don’t throw in the towel, go the full ten rounds.

Fresh Youtubery

• 26. Severus Alexander – Proper Little Mummy’s Boy – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• The Hades & Persephone Retelling That SHOCKED Me … – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• The myth of Zeus’ test – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube | TED-Ed
• Salvete omnes (spoken Latin) – YouTube | NagorldionBriton

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Alejandro Díaz Fernández, Provinces and provincial command in Republican Rome: genesis, development and governance. Libera res publica, 4. Zaragoza: Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2021.
• BMCR – Benno van Dalen, Ptolemaic tradition and Islamic innovation: the astronomical tables of Kūshyār ibn Labbān. Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus – Texts, 2. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
• Établissements scythes tardifs du nord-ouest de la Crimée | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Stephanie Holton, Sleep and dreams in early Greek thought: Presocratic and Hippocratic approaches. Medicine and the body in Antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
• BMCR – Katell Berthelot, Jews and their Roman rivals: pagan Rome’s challenge to Israel. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• White Supremacy Or A Fetish For Minimalism? The Met Confronts The ‘Conspiracy’ To Deprive Ancient Greek Sculpture Of Color

Dramatic Receptions

• 2022 NY Euripides Summer Festival Productions of Ion and Orestes Available Online – The National Herald
• A gutting ‘Iphigenia at Aulis’ lands with poetic heartbreak
• HECUBA Interview – Director Lynne Parker talks about going from stage to screen – interviews • Movies.ie – Irish Cinema Site
• Broadway hit musical Hadestown brings its retelling of Greek myth to San Antonio’s Majestic Theatre | Things to Do | San Antonio | San Antonio Current

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• International meeting: Parthenon and Democracy at the Acropolis Museum
• BMCR 30th Anniversary Celebration – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• MA in Classical Studies (Research Track) – BIU International School
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• What to Know About Alexander the Great and his Mysterious Death | Discover Magazine
• These 5 Modern Inventions Actually Have Ancient Roots | Discover Magazine
• The Greek Myth Behind The Origin Of Mint
• The heritage repatriation debate – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• World-famous sarcophagi in Turkish museums | Daily Sabah
• How one Ancient Greek thinker revolutionized math — and possibly started a cult
• Being a prisoner in ancient Rome
• The Ancient “Computer” That Shouldn’t Exist | History of Yesterday
• Drama and democracy: from Ancient Greece to SUDS – Honi Soit
• The Family & the Orchard: The Story of Civilization in the “Odyssey” ~ The Imaginative Conservative

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 disease.

… 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)