Hodie est pridie  Non. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  8 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Podcasts

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In this special episode, we’re joined by Liz Smith, who has recently completed her doctoral research of the representation of women’s dress in statuary at Macquarie University. Together we’ll trace the threads of evidence for women’s attire in the Roman world.

• 13: Audite at TLP Summer School 2019 

This is a very special episode with some very special interviewees. I went along to Pimlico Academy for the first day of our inaugural Summer School and asked a few pupils who have been taught by The Latin Programme in their schools if they wouldn’t mind chatting to me about all things Latin.

• Dies natalis | Sermones Raedarii 

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Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Catharine C. Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire. Part I. Ptolemy I through Ptolemy IV (2 vols.). Volume 1. Precious Metal. Volume 2. Bronze. Numismatic studies. New York: The American Numismatic Society, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Albert Bates Lord, David F. Elmer, The Singer of Tales. 3rd Edition. Publications of the Milman Parry collection of oral literature, 4. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019 
• [BMCR] Christopher Carey, Ifigeneia Giannadaki, Brenda Griffith-Williams (ed.), Use and Abuse of Law in the Athenian Courts. Mnemosyne supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, 419. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. 
• [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Music, Text and Culture in Ancient Greece 
• GENDER, IDENTITY AND THE BODY IN GREEK AND ROMAN SCULPTURE – Classics for All 
• TRAVEL AND HOME IN HOMER’S ODYSSEY AND CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE: Critical Encounters and Nostalgic Returns – Classics for All 
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• EMPIRE OF LETTERS – Classics for All 
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Alia

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• Ancient Greek tips for reading today’s news: Everyone matters 
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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:

If it should thunder today, it portends the appearance of future abundance but the harvest will actually be less plentiful and autumn practically devoid of fruit.

… 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. IV Non. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  6 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

• *Special Episode* – The Thread of Women’s Representation – The Partial Historians 

In this special episode, we’re joined by Liz Smith, who has recently completed her doctoral research of the representation of women’s dress in statuary at Macquarie University. Together we’ll trace the threads of evidence for women’s attire in the Roman world.

• ‎Coffee and Circuses: 43: Katherine Harloe (University of Reading) on Apple Podcasts 

Katherine joins David to discuss her work on the pioneering 18th century art historian and archaeologist Johann Joachim Winckelmann: his life, unfortunate early death, Katherine’s project on Winckelmann’s love letters and his status as a major figure in queer history, and giving his name to archaeology’s premier football tournament, the Winckelmann cup.

Katherine also discusses her own journey, growing up in the Roman town of Colchester, starting as a classics undergrad, but then moving onto modern history and then German philosophy for her PhD, and the benefits of being exposed to a range of ideas and approaches.

Following on from that, they also chat about some of the questions that need to be addressed regarding the relationship between classics and other subjects, as well as the reception of Rome in later cultures, and whether there is a disconnect between early career researchers and more established academics, especially when it comes to social media.

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Alia

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• Society Spotlight: Classics Society | Palatinate Online 
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• Anti-Oil Protesters Will Storm the British Museum with a Trojan Horse 

‘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 should thunder today, the lower classes will gain the upper hand over their superiors and the mildness of the air will be healthy.

… 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. V Non. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  5 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Bloggery

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• A Draft of a Response to Andrew Reinhard’s “Assemblage Theory” | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World 
• Simonides and Boris – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
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Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ancient History Fangirl: Fulvia: Original Gangster of Ancient Rome  

The romance between Mark Antony and Cleopatra has beguiled us for centuries. What most people don’t realize is that when Mark Antony met Cleopatra, he was already married—to someone just as epic. Her name was Fulvia.

Cleopatra had glamour and divinity and lots of money. But Fulvia had the gangs. She was a populist firebrand, military leader, and for a while, the undisputed power in Rome: both in the Senate and in the streets.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Keegan Callanan, Montesquieu’s Liberalism and the Problem of Universal Politics. 
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• [BMCR] Kostas Myrsiades, Reading Homer’s Odyssey.
• [BMCR] Glenn W. Most, Hesiod. Theogony, Works and Days, Testimonia.The Loeb classical library, 57. 
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• Vinogradov, Ju. A. et T.N. Smekalova (2019) : Гераклейский сборник. Материалы и источники по изучению хоры Херсонеса Таврического. Вып. 1  / «Geraklejskij sbornik» 1936 g. Geraklejskij sbornik. Materialy i istochniki po izucheniju hory Hersonesa Tavricheskogo. Vyp. 1, Saint-Pétersbourg, [Collection Héraclée 1936. Collection Héraclée. Matériaux et sources pour l’étude de la chôra de Chersonèse Taurique. Vol. 1].| Spartokos a lu 

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Alia

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should thunder today, it portends hurricanes and conditions where trees will be uprooted; there will be great disruption in the lives of the common 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. VI Non. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  4 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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Fresh Bloggery

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Book Reviews

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Alia

• Security beefed up at Pompeii – Lifestyle – ANSA.it 
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• Homer statue on South Lawn will be restored by the end of this week | The Cavalier Daily 
• The Coin Analyst: Girl on the Silver Dollar and the Merging of Greco-Roman and American Visions of Liberty 

‘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 should thunder today, it portends prosperity but also the destruction of dry land by mice.

… 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 Kal. Octobres 2772 AUC ~  3 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Safeguarding Greece’s antiquities from climate change | Life | ekathimerini.com 
• Louvre Holds Stolen Treasures 200 Greeks Died Trying to Protect – The National Herald 
• Greek Police Arrest Group Charged with Plundering Ancient Shipwrecks | GreekReporter.com 
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Public Facing Classics

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• [James Wells] Classics Professor Discusses Survival of Art | KBIA 
• [Sarah Bond] Did the Ancient Romans Use Infographics? 

Fresh Bloggery

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Fresh Podcasts

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• QDP Ep 148: De Itinere Catharinae – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast 

Tres amici de itinere aestivo Catharinae colloquuntur.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Francesco Iacono, The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things and Networks around the Southern Adriatic Sea. 
• [BMCR] Matthew V. Novenson, The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users. 
• LUCAN: DE BELLO CIVILI Book VII – Classics for All
• THE CHRONICLE OF THE LOGOTHETE – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Marina Carr’s take on Hecuba turns Greek account of the Trojan War on its head 
• Giulio Cesare review — power and promiscuity | Times2 | The Times 

Professional Matters

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• Finalize Your 2020 Syllabi – EIDOLON 

Alia

• The Incredibly Diverse – And Healthy – Diet of the Ancient Greeks | GreekReporter.com 
• Virtue signal: Do ancient philosophers have the answer to climate change? | PS News 
• Goddesses — Faculty of Classics 
• Nude for Thought: William Bailey at the YUAG – The Yale Herald 
• New digital streaming service National Theatre Collection launches worldwide 
• Uncertain times for Etruscan Museum in Rome – Wanted in Rome 
• Nebraska poet brings feminist, Greek myth poetry to Norman for Mark Allen Everett Poetry Series | Culture | oudaily.com 

‘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 should thunder today, it portends a corrupt tyrant for the affairs of the state.

… 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)