Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
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- Mendoni: The British Museum’s Claims for the Partnenon Sculptures Are Unhistorical – The National Herald
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- Greece to Help Albania Protect and Promote its Monuments, Archaeological Sites | GTP Headlines
- British Museum only discussing loan | eKathimerini.com
- Stilled life: Why did farmers flee a homestead in the Galilee 2,100 years ago? | The Times of Israel
- University of Sheffield archaeologists given two-year reprieve from departmental closure and staff will not be made redundant | Yorkshire Post
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- Why Britain should want to return the Parthenon Marbles, argued by a professor of Aegean history | Euronews
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Fresh Podcasts
Don’t you just hate it when all you want is to have a nice visit with your mom, share some tea and a huggable portion or two, but then she decides to trick you by showing up as the goddess Artemis or some lace-booted Thracian huntress? Personally, I know that I’ve had it with that and in this episode Aeneas has too. We pick up the story where Aeneas and a few comrades are washed up on strange Libyan shores convinced they’ve lost most of their fleet and friends. But wait! Venus appears in disguise and nudges her son and his disheveled band toward the rising city of Carthage just over that hill there. We get some intriguing backstory on Dido (Carthage’s plucky queen), too, including what seems to be evidence for Aeneas’ and Dido’s perfect Tinder match–tragic loss of spouse? Check. Destined to found a new empire in the West? Check. Years of storm-tossed sea wanderings? Check. Let’s get these kids together! But before that can happen a few matters need to be resolved: can dull, duty-bound Aeneas make an attractive impression on the queen? Can he get over his obvious “wall envy”? Will Dave ever find his way out of fog-bound Edinburgh? Bodotria!
“This interconnection between Greek tradition and science and mathematics, and the Babylonian traditions in astronomy and all these other very technical and very advanced sciences, this was a moment which really created the basis for science, mathematics, and so on in the Western world, and indeed, throughout the world, in later centuries and millennia.”…
New research has begun to reconstruct the smell of ancient perfumes from Egyptian tombs. But rich folks always try to smell better. The bigger question is what did the past smell like as whole? Our contestants detect zesty notes of burning dung and a cloying variety of herbs and spices.
Sophie reveals the secrets of the votive statues from Mari. How did people choose to represent themselves, and why did they make those choices? Why are the male statues walking? And what do the markings on some them tell us about the life of the statue?
Fresh Youtubery
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- Units of History – Sassanid Horse Archers DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
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Alia
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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 an anticipated rest from evils.
… 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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