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- New discoveries at Rutland Roman villa – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Yesterday, Odysseus met Cassandra; today, we meet Lorna Lee’s Cassandra reflecting on the past, the future and her present in war-torn Troy. The Last Song was narrated by award winning author Daisy Dunn, winner of the 2020 Classical Association Prize.
In part three of Sophocles’ Antigone, Kreon speaks with his son who was set to marry Antigone, and Antigone is finally sentenced to her death.
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Book Reviews
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- BMCR – Pantelis Golitsis, Alexander of Aphrodisias. Commentary on Aristotle, Metaphysics (books I-III): critical edition with introduction and notes. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina, 3/1. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- BMCR – Jeffrey Murray, David Wardle, Reading by example: Valerius Maximus and the historiography of exempla. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 11. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
- Uncommon Wrath by Josiah Osgood review: how Caesar’s rivalry with Cato destroyed the Roman Republic
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- Tattoos Were for Criminals in Ancient Greece
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- Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse – A Review of Episodes Three and Four – Archaeology Review
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends better times for the lower classes, but also the destruction of the fruit harvest.
… 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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