Hodie est Kal. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- The Most Twisted Scene in Any Ancient Greek Novel – Tales of Times Forgotten
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- Out Now: The Aeolic Dialects of Ancient Greek: A Study in Historical Dialectology and Linguistic Classification | Consulting Philologist
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- More than 50 pairs of tweezers found during an excavation of a 2,000-year-old Roman settlement – Romans to blame for no-body-hair trend – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists uncover giant Bronze Age barrow cemetery | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Fresh Podcasts
Salvete sodales! Welcome to our series, “Rem Tene;” a Latin podcast presented by Latinitas Animi Causa for beginner and intermediate learners of the Latin language built and designed for the acquisition and understanding of it as a language, not just a code to decipher. In this episode, I, Andreas, talk to you a bit about the weather and specifically what I enjoy doing when it rains, snows, the sun is shining, etc. We gloss some words throughout the episode in English and repeat them. We don’t, however, gloss everything. Our brains are really good at deducing meaning when we know a lot of the context surrounding words or phrases.
Human and Horse relationships have long be intertwined; from the ancient Eurasian plain, through to modern cowboys. But how did these huge, independent creatures become domesticated – and what was the original intention behind such an act? Originally tamed for their meat and milk, the domestication of horses – and the origins of horse riding, aren’t two events that coincided. So when did the horse move from food to friend? And who’s responsible for this change? In this episode Tristan welcomes Carolyn Willekes to the podcast, to talk about this remarkable evolutionary journey. Looking at what archaeological evidence can tell us, from horse teeth to buried skeletons, and the cultural influences that horses had across the ancient world – when did human’s domesticate horses, and can they be considered man’s best friend?
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the revelatory collection of Biblical texts, legal documents, community rules and literary writings. In 1946 a Bedouin shepherd boy was looking for a goat he’d lost in the hills above the Dead Sea. He threw a rock into a cave and heard a hollow sound. He’d hit a ceramic jar containing an ancient manuscript. This was the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of about a thousand texts dating from around 250 BC to AD 68. It is the most substantial first hand evidence we have for the beliefs and practices of Judaism in and around the lifetime of Jesus. The Dead Sea Scrolls have transformed our understanding of how the texts that make up the Hebrew Bible were edited and collected. They also offer a tantalising window onto the world from which Christianity eventually emerged. With Sarah Pearce Ian Karten Professor of Jewish Studies and Head of the School of Humanities at the University of Southampton Charlotte Hempel Professor of Hebrew Bible and Second Temple Judaism at the University of Birmingham and George Brooke Rylands Professor Emeritus of Biblical Criticism and Exegesis at the University of Manchester
Shakespeare wrote about them. Hollywood glamorized them. For thousands of years, they’ve come down to us as the ultimate star-crossed lovers: the Ptolemaic queen Cleopatra, and the Roman commander Marc Antony. In the wake of Caesar’s death, Cleopatra fled to Egypt–and began picking up the pieces. Meanwhile, Marc Antony defeated Caesar’s assassins in battle, and then set his sights on invading Parthia. But to invade Parthia, he needed the money and support of Rome’s richest client ruler: Cleopatra. And Cleopatra had an agenda, too: she needed another Roman protector to shore up her power in Egypt. Find out what happened when these two met on the banks of the River Tarsus.
Ideas, goods, and fashions bounced around from place to place in the Iron Age Mediterranean, the most recognizable of which was a particular style of art that we call “Orientalizing.” But this distinctive and widespread artistic style, rooted in the imagery of the ancient Near East, was only a byproduct of the movements of actual people through an interconnected sea.
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Book Reviews
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Dramatic Receptions
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Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- The Greek Myth Behind the Word ‘Tantalize’
- Practicing stoicism to confront uncomfortable situations: How to embrace the thought of Seneca, Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius to survive daily life | EPS | EL PAÍS English
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Diversions
‘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 an abundance of crops, except for barley and there will be an outbreak of dangerous 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)
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