Hodie est pridie Idus Iunias 2772 AUC ~ 10 Skirophorion in the second year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Shackled Skeletons from Ancient Greece to Get Underground Display | Greek Reporter
- Archaeology: Fragment with inscription in Ancient Greek from 2nd century found in Bulgaria’s Plovdiv | The Sofia Globe
- Tornos News | Greek amphitheater on show at New York’s Governors Island
- Acropolis Museum’s 10th year anniversary is time to review our campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles | Neos Kosmos
- Daphne and Delos to get restoration funding | Neos Kosmos
- Roman fort could be hidden under Largs town centre says archaeologist | Largs and Millport Weekly News
In Case You Missed It
Fresh Bloggery
- More Than a Common Tongue – EIDOLON
- Reading Hazony by the Elgin Marbles | Gates of Nineveh: An Experiment in Blogging Assyriology
- A look at art crime through the eyes of some of ARCA’s 2019 postgraduate participants ~ ARCAblog
- An International Conservation Partnership Is Preserving Herculaneum, Ancient Roman Town Buried by Vesuvius | The Getty Iris
- The History Girls: On Misogyny
- From Cyprus to Greece (and an advertisement for myself) | Summertime Fragments
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Obscure Proverb
- Norbanus, Caesar, Oedipus: Candidates for Impeachment? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Fresh Podcasts
At the same time as Hermes takes flight to Calypso’ island, in order to rescue Odysseus, Athena takes flight to Ithaka, in order to “rescue” 20-year old Telemachus: from his remarkable immaturity. This episode picks up the story in the twentieth year of Odysseus’ absence, and details the “Ithacan constitutional crisis” confronting Penelope, Telemachus, and the people of Ithaka: “What to do, when your king/your husband/your father, may or may not, be dead?
By modern standards the Romans had some fairly unusual ideas, which could be putting it mildly when it comes to the subject of adultery. For the most part the Romans were lack lax in repercussions, unless of course you were embarrassing a man of high status. Guest:
Dr Rhiannon Evans (Senior Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
Book Reviews
- ONCE AND FUTURE ANTIQUITIES IN SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY – Classics for All
- [BMCR] Gary D. Farney, Guy Jolyon Bradley (ed.), The Peoples of Ancient Italy.
- [BMCR] Maria Sapio (ed.), Le armi di Athena: il Santuario settentrionale di Paestum.
- [BMCR] Frédérique Duyrat, Wealth and Warfare: The Archaeology of Money in Ancient Syria. Numismatic studies, 34.
- [BMCR] Marcus Deufert, Kritischer Kommentar zu Lukrezens ‘De rerum natura’. Texte und Kommentare, Band 56.
Dramatic Receptions
- Five productions in 2019 International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama – In-Cyprus.com
- Reclaiming Black Womanhood in ‘Klytmnestra’ – The Kojo Nnamdi Show
Conferences and Calls for Papers
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