Greeced Lightning is back! We’re kicking off Season 2 with a foreign film and a very special guest. Josh Lindal of Screens of the Stone Age podcast joins us for the story of Romulus and Remus and the movie Il Primo Re: twin drama, swamp settlements, ancient hominids, and how often we think about the Roman Empire.

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• Iceman - The 2017 German/Italian/Austrian film of a fictionalized version of the life and death of Ötzi, the 5,000-year-old mummified man discovered in the Ötztal Alps in 1991.
• An Ancient Ballgame Makes A Comeback In Mexico - NPR coverage of the resurgence of ulama, the Mesoamerican ball game.
• Screens of the Stone Age: Skyrim - SotSA podcast checks out the megafauna in the game Skyrim!
• Dionysius' Roman Antiquities Book I - In Roman Antiquities 1.79, Dionysius of Halicarnassus describes contemporary Romans' veneration of the casa Romuli.
• Casa Romuli - Iron Age hut foundations on the Palatine Hill, the traditional site of the hut of Romulus.
• Lupa Capitolina - Originally thought to be an ancient sculpture, this depiction of a she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus is most likely medieval, according to radiocarbon dating.
• Plutarch: Life of Romulus - The Loeb translation of Plutarch's Life of Romulus.
• Livy: Ab urbe condita - Translation of Livy's historical work, "From the founding of the city." Use the blue arrows or the navigation bars at the top of the screen to jump to the next section of text.
• Josh's source: Atapuerca - At 1.4 million years old, Atapuerca, Spain is the oldest archaeological site in Western Europe.
• Josh's source: Dmanisi, Georgia - This site is the oldest evidence of humans outside of Africa, at 1.8 million years old!
• Josh's source: Ceprano Man - All about the Ceprano skull from the Middle Pleistocene period, discovered in Italy in 1994.
• Josh's source: Kostenki mammoth bone structures - Josh's source with more info on the practice of using mammoth bones as building material
• Josh's source: Terra Amata Shelter - One of the oldest known structures, identified by post holes