Hodie est pr. Id. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 19 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Podcasts
How did armies get or store potable water while on campaign? Murray has the answer…
Athens was engaging in developing new alliances on the Greek mainland in response to the hostility with Sparta. This would also see a number of campaigns launched by the Athenians to establish their security, these being fought by Sparta’s allies. However, as these events on the mainland were unfolding, a plea for help from a rebel king in Egypt would arrive requesting Athenian assistance in fighting the Persians. In 465 BC Xerxes would be assassinated bringing his 21-year rule to an end. This would see his son Artaxerxes come to the throne, though, under suspicious circumstances. The coming to the throne of a new king was usually a period that would see regions attempt to breakaway from the empire. Artaxerxes accession would be no exception, seeing Egypt breakout in revolt, led by a Libyan king named Inaros. It would be he who would request the Athenians come and assist them in their bid for freedom….
Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Bookes More. In the second half of Book I!, there are just too many stories of transformation to list here!
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- Cyrus the Great and the Jews – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
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Book Reviews
- BMCR – Fabio Stella, Noos e noein da Omero a Platone. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1518. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021.
- BMCR – Danijel Džino, Ryan W. Strickler, Dissidence and persecution in Byzantium: from Constantine to Michael Psellos. Byzantina Australiensia, 26. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
- BMCR – F.K. Haarer, Justinian: empire and society in the sixth century. Debates and documents in ancient history. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
- RCR – Owen Humphreys, London’s Roman Tools: Craft, Agriculture and Experience in an Ancient City, Archaeology of Roman Britain 3 (Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2021).
- Art du style animalier scythe d’Europe de l’Est (classification, typologie, chronologie, évolution) | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Three-year PostDoc position at Scuola Normale Superiore
- Postdoctoral fellowships in Dept of Classics & Ancient History
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- Behold the World’s Oldest Animation Made on a Vase in Iran 5,200 Years Ago | Open Culture
- Lehigh Valley Ramblings: Affordable Housing and Julius Caesar
- The Legacy Of The Greeks: Classical Greece And Its Influence On Sydney
- Ancient Greek Art and Africa
- UK Class in Classics Survey – CUCD EDI
Diversions
‘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 war and the death of flocks.
… 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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