Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 30 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends that a king hated by many will be the subject of a final plot

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends abundance, but also an abundance of mice and deer.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: The Classic Blunder! ‘Never get involved in a land war [with Sparta], Spartan Military w/ Roel Konijnendijk on Apple Podcasts

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Book Reviews

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• BMCR ~ Anton Sadovskyy, Manuscript transmission of Plato’s Laws: books 1 and 5. Serta Graeca, 35. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Greg Fisher, The Roman world from Romulus to Muhammad: a new history. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.

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• Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean

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• Sydney Festival Holding Achilles review: Epic show falls short of its lofty ambitions

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
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‘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 imports but a coughing illness will affect the 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Intact ancient papyrus scroll uncovered in Saqqara, the first in a century – Egypt Independent
• The Odessa Archaeological Museum received treasures that were tried to be illegally exported abroad | odessa-journal.com
• After 220 years, the fate of the Parthenon marbles rests in secret talks – The Irish Times
• Traces of millennia-old town discovered in northwest Iran – Tehran Times
• An excavated hill in Rome full of archaeological finds. Trying to put the puzzle back together – Stile Arte
• Using isotope and ancient DNA analysis to learn more about the mobility of Anatolian and Levantine populations

In Case You Missed It

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• Archaeological Treasures Hidden Beneath the Colosseum | Discover Magazine
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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

• What the Romans would have made of ChatGPT | The Spectator

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transitivity and Aspect in Sahidic Coptic: Studies in the Morphosyntax of Native and Greek-Origin Verbs
• Never Met an Adjective He Didn’t Like – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• Anthony Leading Cleopatra On board, By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1696 – 1770) | The Historian’s Hut
• Trying To Drink From a Raging River – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De hellenistische steden – Mainzer Beobachter
• Please do plagiarize me, I don’t care: a blogger writes about #ReceptioGate – Roger Pearse
• Are there connections to Becchina enterprises? Questions surrounding the enterprise of Matteo Messina Denaro’s fiancheggiatore, Giovanni Luppino ~ ARCAblog
• Idiot Wind | Sphinx
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• Getty Art + Ideas: Cultural Heritage Under Attack: Who Defines Heritage? on Apple Podcasts

Cultural heritage is made up of the monuments, works of art, and practices that a society uses to define and understand itself and its history. The question of exactly which monuments or practices should be considered cultural heritage evolves as the society changes how it views itself—and, perhaps more importantly, how it views its future. This slippery definition of heritage is at the core of many of the challenges preservationists and heritage professionals face today. In this episode, hosted by former Getty President Jim Cuno, Neil Macgregor and Kavita Singh discuss who gets to define cultural heritage and why that matters, using examples pulled from the French Revolution to contemporary Sri Lanka. Neil Macgregor is the former director of the National Gallery, London, the British Museum, and the Humboldt Forum in Berlin. Kavita Singh is professor at the School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Macgregor and Singh are contributors to the recent publication Cultural Heritage and Mass Atrocities, edited by Jim Cuno and Thomas G. Weiss and available free of charge from Getty Publications.

• The Ancients: The Parthenon on Apple Podcasts

The unofficial 8th wonder the Ancient World, the Parthenon is still standing today. Located on the Acropolis in Athens, towering above a busy, modern metropolis – it’s a symbol of the city’s long standing ancient past. But why was this monumental structure built? And what do we really know about it? In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan is joined by Dr Maeve McHugh from the University of Birmingham to take us through the Parthenon’s remarkable history. Looking at the mastermind behind it’s construction, the iconography of the building, and it’s role across history – just what happened within the walls of the Parthenon?

• The Partial Historians: Postumius Tubertus, Dictator on Apple Podcasts

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• Ancient Office Hours: Episode 57 – Dr. Nandini Pandey on Apple Podcasts

Dr. Nandini Pandey, a professor of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, joins Lexie to discuss how Classics provided a point of connection to her community, how Latin poetry impacted and shaped her as a scholar, and her thoughts on how we continue to grow and improve reception studies and open Classics up to a wider audience. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey!

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Book Reviews

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• BMCR ~ Edward O.D. Love, Script switching in Roman Egypt: case studies in script conventions, domains, shift, and obsolescence from hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic, and Old Coptic manuscripts. Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete, 46. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Simon Zuenelli, Das 12. Buch der Dionysiaka des Nonnos aus Panopolis: ein literarischer Kommentar. Hypomnemata, 213. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Andrea Bramanti, M. Plotii Sacerdotis. Artium grammaticarum libri I-II: [Probi] De Catholicis. Bibliotheca Weidmanniana, 6.17. Hildesheim: Weidmann, 2022.
• How to Swim Against the Stream: On Diogenes
• A.E. Stallings and the Afterlives of Antiquity | The Nation

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Alia

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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  the prolongation of war.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 27 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• The New York Times Shines Light on the Parthenon Marbles – The National Herald

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Public Facing Classics

• Philosophy Heaven | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Scythians: Clement of Alexandria [I] on the example of Anacharsis (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Egyptians: Clement of Alexandria [II] on Egyptian animal worship as less offensive than Greek customs (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Taurians and Greeks: Clement of Alexandria [III] on human sacrifice (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Persians: Clement of Alexandria [IV] on the elements among Greek philosophers and Persian Magians (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Barbarian and Judean wisdom: Clement of Alexandria [V] on the sources of Plato’s thought (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Saracens: Ammianus Marcellinus on their customs (late fourth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Isaurians: Ammianus Marcellinus on their incursions and banditry (late fourth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• PaleoJudaica.com: Fingerprinting ancient pottery
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Greek Participle
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
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• Certainty, Hope, and Cures for Disease – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 15 out of 234 days: Venusia’s weight standard – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Land of Kizzuwatna. History of Cilicia in the Second Millennium BCE until the Hittite Conquest (ca. 2000-1350)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Irrigated Landscapes beyond Political Dynamics: Long Term Water Management Strategies on the Miyānāb Plain of Khuzistan (Iran)
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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Fresh Youtubery

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• 25/27 – From Uruk to Susa: Deciphering Proto-Elamite par Jacob Dahl , Université d’Oxford (VO) – YouTube | Musée du Louvre

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Roberto M. Danese, Anna Santucci, Alessio Torino, Acheruntica: la discesa agli Inferi dall’antichità classica alla cultura contemporanea. Letteratura e antropologia, 14. Urbino: Argalía editore, 2020.
• BMCR ~ Chryssa Ranoutsaki, Purpur in Byzanz: Privileg und Würdeformel. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Gerard Boter, Flavius Philostratus. Vita Apollonii Tyanei. Bibliotheca scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana, 2043. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Myles Lavan, Clifford Ando, Roman and local citizenship in the long second century CE. Oxford studies in early empire. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Sylvian Fachard, Edward M. Harris, The destruction of cities in the ancient Greek world: integrating the archaeological and literary evidence. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Greek Origins of Marseille, France’s Oldest City
• Colchester, Essex: The purpose-built capital city of Roman Britain – Country Life
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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 foreign events causing the people to rebel.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 26 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends non-lethal diseases.

… 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)