Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Coin Sellers Jailed in UK
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pompeii Linked Open Data (P-LOD)
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Wisdom That Comes With Age
- Nogmaals Judas – Mainzer Beobachter
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeology of Mind in the Hebrew Bible (De Gruyter, open access)
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- What’s on Your Mind, Catullus? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Fresh Podcasts
Welcome to Satura Lanx, upper beginner / intermediate podcast told in beginner-friendly, easy spoken Latin. Every other Saturday I chat about everything concerning Latin (literature, language, culture), my own life and reflections and the questions you’ll ask me.
This week, Jeff and Dave get back to the Aeneid after a brief, Tarzanian hiatus. As the epic nears its end, we witness the intense and interesting interplay between Turnus and the titular hero. Aeneas seems quite secure in his fate, but still he begins the move from representing civilization to savagery. Turnus, on the other hand, ricochets between the poles of Hector and Achilles: sometimes cruel and bloodthirsty, other times sympathetic and winsome. What does Vergil really want us to think about these hulking war machines? Why does Lavinia blush? What’s gotten into Amata? And most importantly, why won’t Jeff mow his lawn? These questions and more we will seek to answer over the course of 70 tedious, grueling minutes. Still, you might just find this episode the bees’ knees.
This episode contains references and words of a sexual nature. Did Alexander the Great and the Queen of the Amazons really have sex for 13 days solid? What do we know about his male lovers? And how did his sex life stand up to that of his dad’s? Today, the guest is our very own Tristan Hughes, interviewed by Kate Lister, host of the History Hit podcast Betwixt The Sheets.
The legend of the Minotaur and its labyrinth has captivated us for centuries, but is there any evidence of it really existing? In this episode, Tristan visits the Ashmolean museum in Oxford to interview Dr. Andrew Shapland, the curator of a new exhibition exploring the Bronze Age settlement of Knossos in Crete – the home of the mythical King Minos, the Minotaur and the labyrinth. Together they explore ancient artefacts that hint at human sacrifices being carried out, and find out through archaeological evidence if there is any truth behind the myths.
Join us on this journey back in time to New Kingdom Egypt, Ptolemaic Egypt, Classical World China, and medieval Iceland.
7000 BCE onwards – Proto-Indo-Europeans are believed to have spoken a language ancestral to over four hundred languages of the modern world. Why do we believe this when there is no firm evidence of a Proto-Indo-European language though?
Fresh Youtubery
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- Catullus 71 in Latin & English: Si cui iure bono sacer alarum obstitit hircus – YouTube | David Amster
- The Truth About Human Sacrifice in Ancient Rome – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Revisiting ancient ceramic production in N Peloponnese: the ceramic landscapes of Corinth and Sikyon – YouTube | British School at Athens
- Roads and resources on Archaic/Classical Samos – YouTube | British School at Athens
- Bodies in motion: Experiencing the sacred in ancient Greece, the case of Ancient Karthaia, Kea – YouTube | British School at Athens
- Horrea Piperataria: lo scavo, la storia, il contesto – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
Book Reviews
- Messalina: The truth about Rome’s killer ‘whore empress’
- Messalina: killer, nymphomaniac, empress of Rome – or an invention by lying men?
- BMCR ~ Susanne Froehlich, Stadttor und Stadteingang: zur Alltags- und Kulturgeschichte der Stadt in der römischen Kaiserzeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Virgil Society AGM day: reading and lectures (Saturday 13 May 2023, online) Tickets, Sat 13 May 2023 at 14:15 | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Alia
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- Stoicism in the age of Covid – The Conservative Woman
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends bad things for the common people.
… 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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