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This episode, we are dealing with 422 and 421 BCE. The previous year had been a very dramatic for Rome. They seem to have come perilously close to a disastrous military defeat. Luckily, they had the four horsemen on their side… “The Four Horsemen” is our affectionate name for the group of cavalry commanders who dismounted and led the Roman army on foot when everything turned against them during the battle against the Volsci in 423 BCE. The most notable amongst them was a plebeian hero Sextus Tempanius. In 422 BCE, these men were elected to serve as plebeian tribunes. But will they continue to be exalted by the Roman people? Or will they demand change from the patricians and become just as troublesome as many of their predecessors? Join us as we explore the fallout from the Volscian conflict.
In the year 29 BC the great Roman poet Virgil published these lines: Blessed is he who has succeeded in learning the laws of nature’s working, has cast beneath his feet all fear and fate’s implacable decree, and the howl of insatiable Death. But happy too is he who knows the rural gods… They’re from his poem the Georgics, a detailed account of farming life in the Italy of the time. ‘Georgics’ means ‘agricultural things’, and it’s often been read as a farming manual. But it was written at a moment when the Roman world was emerging from a period of civil war, and questions of land ownership and management were heavily contested. It’s also a philosophical reflection on humanity’s relationship with the natural world, the ravages of time, and the politics of Virgil’s day. It’s exerted a profound influence on European writing about agriculture and rural life, and has much to offer environmental thinking today. With Katharine Earnshaw Senior Lecturer in Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter; Neville Morley Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter and Diana Spencer Professor of Classics at the University of Birmingham
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Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Chris L. de Wet, Maijastina Kahlos, Ville Vuolanto, Slavery in the Late Antique world, 150-700 CE. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Sandra Zajonz, Demosthenes, Gegen Aristokrates: Einleitung, Text, Übersetzung und Kommentar. Texte und Kommentare: eine altertumswissenschaftliche Reihe, 71. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Annetta Alexandridis, Lorenz Winkler-Horaček, Destroy the copy – Plaster cast collections in the 19th-20th centuries: demolition, defacement, disposal in Europe and beyond. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Katerina Carvounis, Sophia Papaioannou, Giampiero Scafoglio, Later Greek epic and the Latin literary tradition: further explorations. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 136. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
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- National Museum exhibition explores art, culture of Greco-Roman world
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, It portends birds being injured in the summer and the destruction of fish.
… 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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