Hodie est  a.d. IV Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 14 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Horses return to Colchester’s Roman Circus after 1,700 years | Gazette 
• Ancient Roman, Greek Cemetery Discovered in Egypt | Asharq AL-awsat 
• Satellite Images Lead to Discovery of ‘Roman Wall’ in Iran 

In Case You Missed It 

• Special Issue on the Papyrus Thefts – EIDOLON 

Classics and Classicists in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 09.11.2019 – Vatican News 

Public Facing Classics

• [Matthew Sears] What war memorials forget – Macleans.ca
• [Tom Palaima] Tom Palaima: Going well beyond ‘Thank you for your service’ | Columnists | wacotrib.com

Fresh Bloggery

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• The Antidote for Fake Quotes Is…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue | Sphinx
• The Odyssey is Still News – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Barest Minimum of Greek
• The Vatican’s Latinist – In Medias Res – Medium 
• Weekend Reading: Sage on the Stage at the Sage – Classical Studies Support 
• Those Who Know, Avoid Fake Quotes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Romans’ first crossing with an army to Illyria – Novo Scriptorium 
• Blog: Can a New Journal Modify the Way We Teach and Understand Classical Translations? | Society for Classical Studies
• Ashley Cowie Appropriates Minoan Archaeology for Atlantis – Jason Colavito 
• Mykeens rund – Mainzer Beobachter 
• No Gain! Or, How To Defend Against A Charge of Conspiracy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Museum Theft: Museo di San Mamiliano in Sovana, Italy ~ ARCAblog 
• Not just Sparta: White Supremacist Admiration of Athens :: Pharos 
• Dental drugs in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire – Novo Scriptorium 
• Greek Dramatists Not Up to Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• The first clinical description of asthma by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st century A.D.) – Novo Scriptorium
• The Wrong Monkey: Renaissances 
• Love it When They Hate Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Arrian I.13.1-7 | The Second Achilles 

Landscape Modery

Conference playlist (I think they’ll play in order):

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] B. D. Hoyos, Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Massimo Raffa, Theophrastus of Eresus: Commentary Volume 9.1. Philosophia antiqua, 149. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
• [BMCR] Hans Beck, Kostas Buraselis, Alex McAuley (ed.), Ethnos and Koinon. Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019. 
• Scythian Art. The Legacy of the Scythian World: mid-7th to 3rd century B.C | Spartokos a lu
• Book Review – Females in the Frame, Women, Art and Crime ~ ARCAblog 

Dramatic Receptions

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• From Greek tragedy to Bill 21, Quebec film Antigone bridges millenniums | Montreal Gazette
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Professional Matters

• Assistant Professor in Classics Arizona State University:  Interfolio 
• University of Alabama Employment Site | Chair, Modern Languages & Classics 
• Tenure track Assistant professorship in Classical Greek language and culture – Universiteit van Amsterdam
• New Classicists Conference Tickets, Sat 7 Dec 2019 at 09:30 | Eventbrite 
• Warfare in Antiquity Conference 2019: Perceptions, Realties and Reception in the 21st Century

Alia

• As the British Museum opens its blockbuster Troy show, historian Tom Holland examines the truth behind Homer’s epic tales | Culture | The Sunday Times 
• ANE TODAY – 201911 – Prehistoric soundscapes. Mill-songs and the music of work in Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East – 
• How outrage mobs silence academics and how to stop them – Big Think 
• Mob Rule vs. the Father of Civilization  |  Ricochet 
• Hesiod’s ‘Theogony’ is the source of all our knowledge about the Greek pantheon – The Hindu 
• [probably paywalled] Could today’s politicians do better if they looked to Ancient Rome? 
• [not paywalled for a couple days] Parallel Lives of Donald Trump – WSJ

‘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 end to the evil plans of the powerful; a drying wind will damage trees.

… 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)

As allegations about Dirk Obbink are causing reactions throughout academe for the past while (I do have a blog post in progress on this; stay tuned), and especially in light of Eidolon’s recent issue devoted to papyrus thefts, it seems timely to bring up a conversation I’ve been having over the past couple of weeks. Prof Jean Gascou contacted me because I had mentioned a fragment of Euripides’ ‘Phoenician Women’  in conjunction with items which were being displayed frequently by Scott Carroll. Prof Gascou was wondering whether it might be a fragment of the Phoinissae that had gone missing from the Sorbonne’s collection sometime between 1965 (the last time the papyrus was seen ) and 1986 (when Prof Alain Blanchard discovered it was missing). Over the course of the conversation, Dr Gascou revealed that a number of papyri were missing from the Sorbonne’s collection and with the permission of the current directrice de l’Institut de papyrologie de Sorbonne Université (Hélène Cuvigny) here is a list of those items, with some identifying details:

• Inv.Sorb. 385 (Magdôla) = Peut-être littéraire (mention de Chrysippos) – perte constatée en 1976
• Inv.Sorb. 510 (Ghôran) = fr. peut-être littéraires – perte constatée en 1980
• Inv.Sorb. 2151 (Reinach) = formulaire magique – perte constatée en 1991
• Inv.Sorb. 2172 (Reinach) = Hexamètres astronomiques ou astrologiques (perdu, mais nous conservons toujours une copie de Papathomopoulos) – perte constatée en 1991
• Inv.Sorb. 2177 (Reinach) = littéraire (historique ?) – perte constatée en 1991
• Inv.Sorb. 2179 (Reinach) = littéraire (biblique ?) – perte constatée en 1991
• Inv.Sorb. 2280 (de La Haye – Nahmann) = fr. sûrement littéraire – perte constatée par moi-même (11/2012)
• Inv.Sorb. 2289 (Reinach) = mot carré – perte constatée en 1991
• Inv.Sorb. 2295 (Ghôran) = Homère, Iliade, XVIII, ca. 450 – perte constatée en 1989
• Inv.Sorb. 2347 (Ghôran) = Euripide, Phénicienne, v. 31 sqq. – perte constatée en 1986

Perhaps someone out there has come across one or more of these items? Perhaps other collections want to publicize what is missing from their collections?

 

Hodie est  a.d. VI Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 12 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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• Greece: New bid to understand prehistoric engineering feat 
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In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

• Students, archaeologists uncover artifacts at ancient Greek site 

Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

• Autism and Classical Myth: Mythical Hope 7 – But Hercules is horrible…
• I Made Your Poems Worse: You’re Welcome! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
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• “Don’t Know Grammar, Don’t Give a F**k” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Opgegraven potten en pannen – Mainzer Beobachter 
• Vergil Was a Sycophantic Hack – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017) 
• Arrian I.12.1-10 | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Rise of Septimius Severus 

The team are back to discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine XIII.3 The Rise of Septimius Severus.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Justina Gregory, Cheiron’s Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. 
• [BMCR] John Boardman, Alexander the Great: From his Death to the Present Day. Lawrenceville: Princeton University Press, 2019. 
• What We Are Reading Today: How to Be a Bad Emperor by Josiah Osgood 
• [Review of Dunn, Of Gods and Men] A grown-up guide to the Classics | Catholic Herald 

Dramatic Receptions

• Britannia review — Life in ancient Britain just got even madder | Times2 | The Times 
• Portland theatre company produces a modern-day rendition of 2500-year-old Greek play – Vanguard 

Alia

• [Lucretius] The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge | The New Yorker 
• Tombs of Vergina: When Definitive Proof of Macedonia’s Greek Origin Was Uncovered | GreekReporter.com 
• The secret words from Oxyrhynchus – The Irish Catholic 
• Progressives Now See the Classics as a Gateway to the Alt-Right 
• Ancient coins – The Secular Games of The Circus Maximus 

‘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 outbreak of gluttony stemming from horrible 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)

Hodie est  a.d. VII Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 11 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Underwater excavation findings in Portitxol bay * Euro Weekly News Spain 
• New revelations about life on the edge of the Roman empire almost two thousand years ago – Chronicle Live 
• First Roman-era cemetery discovered in Saqqara – Egypt Today 

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Shipwrecks Found Off Coast of Kasos – Archaeology Magazine 

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ Νοτία Ἀφρικὴ τὸ παγκόσμιον τρόπαιον κτᾶται 

Public Facing Classics

• The Greens’ New Deal – EIDOLON 

Fresh Bloggery

• A Slave Revolt in the Bath – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• The Edithorial: 10 Tips for Aspiring Academics Learned Since 1989 
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The King of Podical Sternutations 
• Early Christian Letter Collections | cahaeresearch 
• Uncle Menelaos: Longhair, Clever Words, Just Don’t Care – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Birthday Parties on the Roman Frontier – Papyrus Stories 
• Read Homer and Vergil – Everything Else is Crap – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2020 | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Ovid, Heroides | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Divani Palace Acropolis Fortification Wall – Athens, Greece – Atlas Obscura 
• DH at Dickinson, 2019 | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Butcherly Feare in Making Latines – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Memorabilia Antonina: Britannia, Season 1, Episode 2 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Medical Papyri: Text, Context, Hypertext 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: HORACE’s SERMONES BOOK 1: CREDENTIALS FOR MAECENAS 
• Achilles’ Other Son, a Dream – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Lycians – Lydians – ‘Luwians’? – Novo Scriptorium 
• Arrian I.11.1-8 | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• *Special Episode* What Does Your Toga Say About You? – The Partial Historians 

Dr Amy Place from the University of Leicester sits down with Dr Rad to discuss the humble Roman toga, fashion and social identity, and everyday life in late imperial Roman North Africa!

Book Reviews

• The Ingenious Language by Andrea Marcolongo review – nine epic reasons to love Greek | Books | The Guardian 

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre program runs Antigone as first production of the semester – The Runner 

Professional Matters

• Annual Meeting Early Registration Deadline Approaching | Society for Classical Studies 

Alia

• Excavating the CA archive: Roman villas – Current Archaeology 
• Why the alt-right loves ancient Greece and Rome – Vox 
• ‘Heroes & Hoplites’ display explores ancient Greek warfare at the Hellenic Museum | Neos Kosmos 
• Take your journey through Homer’s Odyssey – Greek City Times 

‘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 disease for both humans and beasts in the west.

… 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. VIII Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 10 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• 3 ancient shipwrecks discovered off Aegean island of Kasos 
• Team excavates first Roman catacomb tomb discovered in Saqqara – Egypt Independent 
• Colchester’s unique Roman Wall to be scanned and digitised for first time | Anglia – ITV News 

In Case You Missed It

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• Ancient Greek Settlement With Purple-Producing Shells and Carved Fish Tanks Discovered on Tiny Island 
• Ancient Greece: 2,500-year-old Shipwreck With Stone Pyramid Anchors Discovered Off Greek Island Near Possible Long Lost Port 

Classicists and Classics in the News

• GWU Professor Translates Ancient Inscriptions Discovered at the Site of Machaerus 
• The Vatican’s Latinist – In Medias Res – Medium x
• Meet the Speaker: Hannah Cornwell – Io: The UT Austin Department of Classics Blog – Medium 

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE CORRVPTO AERE De Indiaco aethere

Public Facing Classics

• The Murky Provenance of the Newest Sappho – EIDOLON 

Fresh Bloggery

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• Comparative size of the Roman and German armies before and during the Invasions – The Germanic penetration of the Empire – Novo Scriptorium 
• The Temple and the Man – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World 
• Time Travel – Ancient Rome blog Julia the Elder: Exile to Pandataria – Time Travel – Ancient Rome blog 
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Genre in Archaic and Classical Greek Poetry: Theories and Models 
• Vestibular migraine (VM) and Menière’s disease (MD) in the writings of Aretaeus of Cappadocia and in the Chinese book Huangdi Neijing – Novo Scriptorium /
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Judeans in Babylonia: A Study of Deportees in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries BCE 
• Have Archaeologists Uncovered the Tomb of the Macedonian Amazon? | History Hit 
• Arrian I.10.1-6 | The Second Achilles 
• Klafthmonos Square Parking Structure Fortification Walls – Athens, Greece – Atlas Obscura 
• Arrian I.1-10 Some Thoughts | The Second Achilles 

Fresh Podcasts

• Seminar sessions ~ Dr Liz Gloyn – Are monsters immortal? 

Episode one features Dr Liz Gloyn from the Department of Classics who explains why ancient monsters have continued to hold such a prominent position in western culture and why our perceptions of them are changing.

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CXXX – Unpopular Reforms (Gracchi III) 

Tiberius Gracchus had introduced property laws that, while unpopular with the ruling elite, went down well with the people of Rome. You can please some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time. But that’s just politics, isn’t it? Nothing to lose your head over. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)

Book Reviews

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• Artefacts et sacralité dans l’histoire du Bosphore | Spartokos a lu 

Professional Matters

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• Lecturer or senior lecturer (assistant or associate professor in American terminology) In Archaeology Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Alia

• Art in crisis: identifying and returning looted objects – The British Museum Blog 
• From ashes to AI: How technology puts a new lens on ancient texts | NOVA | PBS | NOVA | PBS 
• Who are the Tory ‘Spartans’? | The Week UK 
• Pompeii ready to reveal more of its haunting past 
• Human Rights Lawyer Blasts British Museum for Displaying ‘Pilfered Cultural Property,’ Urges Repatriation of Stolen Objects -ARTnews 
• Ancient 70-Mile-Long Wall Found in Western Iran. But Who Built It? | Live Science 

‘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 destruction of grain by insects

… 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)