Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Bloggery
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- “De solstitiis et aequinoctiis” (CPL 2277) – now online in English! – Roger Pearse
- Patience, The Greatest Virtue? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Philosophic Sects and Philosophic Sex – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia
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- Bergrede (15): Het vasten – Mainzer Beobachter
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- The Reason for Empire’s Fall – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Becking, Israel’s Past (De Gruyter)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Before the 1970 Convention
- Silly Mortals, Lifetimes Are Plenty Long! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le système de défense du littoral de la Dobroudja romaine
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- De Elgin Marbles, of: hapklare brokken – Mainzer Beobachter
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- Lessons from Catullan Poetry — ConsultTheClassics
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- Should we be Applying the Term “Religion” to Ancient Societies? – Retrospect Journal
- Pompeii: Before, During, and After the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius | by Ahona M | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
This week Balbus the Stoic is on the hot seat as he attempts to convince this feisty gathering of intellects that not only do the gods exist, but they actually care deeply for humanity’s well-being. After shoring up Cicero’s debt to Plato and Aristotle, Jeff and Dave get down to the nittus grittus (quaedam rudera) — Balbus’ gods aren’t the disinterested, off-playing-shuffleboard-somewhere-bureaucrats Velleius the Epicurean prefers. Before you know it, he’s dropping syllogisms and hegemonika to some sick beats. But is he convincing? Do the gods really exist just because a lot of people have talked about them? It quickly gets heated before the whole episode threatens to devolve into a cutthroat round of Rack-O.
Tristan of The Ancients podcasts has published his first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on 323 – 320 BC, the book tells the story of the tumultuous events that seized Alexander the Great’s empire immediately after this titanic figure breathed his last in June 323 BC. Today, we’re giving you a taster of what you can expect. Sit back and relax as Tristan reads out an abridged chapter from the book (including a swift introduction). He tells the story of a Spartan mercenary captain called Thibron, who set forth from Crete with c.6,000 battle-hardened mercenaries intend on forging his own Greco-Libyan empire in North Africa. Filled with several twists and turns the story is a symbol for the many fascinating events, and the larger than life cast, that dominates the immediate aftermath of Alexander’s death.
London is today one of the greatest cities in the world, and the story of its origins is fittingly spectacular. Founded by the Romans as Londinium in around 47-50 AD, the metropolis served as a major commercial hub and indeed military target until its abandonment in the 5th century. It wouldn’t be until the turn of the following millennium that London regained its eminence under the Anglo-Saxons. Thanks to centuries of astonishing discoveries and decades of key archaeological research, we actually know quite a lot about Londinium; perhaps even why the Romans chose to found it there in what was previously a rural and peripheral landscape under the Celtic Britons. In this episode, Tristan chats to ‘Mr Roman London’ himself Dr Dominic Perring, Professor of Archaeology at UCL, who shares incredible insights into the origins of London and what its artefacts tell us about the very first Londoners.
Fresh Youtubery
- Narmer: The First King of Upper and Lower Egypt? – YouTube | Penn Museum
- Lucanus (pars I) || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 44 – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- La pomme de la discorde Petits contes grecs – YouTube | Musée du Louvre
- Bride of Death: The Dark Side of Ancient Weddings – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Sobek: The Egyptian Crocodile God Explained – YouTube | Religion for Breakfast
- Catullus 47 in Latin & English: Porci et Socration, duae sinistrae Pisonis – YouTube | David Amster
Book Reviews
- Le système de défense du littoral de la Dobroudja romaine | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – Michael Kerschner, Der Kult der Meter/Kybele in Westanatolien und in der Ägäis: Akten des internationalen Symposions an der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 24. Oktober 2017. Sonderschriften des Österreichischen Archäologischen Institutes in Wien, 60. Wien: Holzhausen Verlag, 2020.
- BMCR – Ellen Adams, Disability studies and the classical body: the forgotten other. Routledge studies in ancient disabilities. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
- BMCR – Daniel N. Schowalter, Sabine Ladstätter, Steven J. Friesen, Christine Thomas, Religion in Ephesos reconsidered: archaeology of spaces, structures, and objects. Supplements to Novum Testamentum, vol. 177. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
- Potent theatre as New York’s Ball culture meets Greek tragedy
- ‘Antigone: A New Trans Play’ shows the universality of Greek tragedy | The Stanford Daily
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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- Classics Presents… Dr. Kale Coghlan “Eratosthenes, The Gaze of the Geographer and Ptolemaic Power” | Events Calendar
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- The Parthenon Marbles Return to Greece – A ‘revisionist’ historical fiction from Billy Cotsis – Neos Kosmos
‘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 brief disasters for humans.
… 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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