Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Quintiles (Iulias) 2772 AUC ~ 22 Skirophorion in the second year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- NOSTALGIA: Cirencester’s rich Roman history | Wilts and Gloucestershire Standard
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Fresh Bloggery
- “First Century” Mark, Dirk Obbink, and Hobby Lobby | Variant Readings
- The “First Century” Mark Purchase Agreement: Some Initial Questions | Variant Readings
- Revisiting Some of Scott Carroll Comments in Light of the “First Century” Mark Purchase Agreement | Variant Readings
- Blog: Addressing the Divide Between Archaeology and Classics | Society for Classical Studies
- Concordance Liberation: Terence | Dickinson College Commentaries
- Poetic Licence | Sphinx
- How Many Angels on the Head of a Pin? How Many Oarsmen on Achilles’ Ships? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Magical amulets among the Dead Sea Scrolls?
- Ancient Witches VII (Guest Voice: James Harrington) | John Mark N. Reynolds
- The late antique edition of Livy by the Nicomachean family – Roger Pearse
- Entering the Classical World through Silent Cinema – ACE Classics
- Kiwi Hellenist: Bad Latin in the movies: Life of Brian (1979)
Fresh Podcasts
A conversation with Curtis Dozier, the creator of Pharos – a website dedicated to counteracting the right-wing appropriation of Greko-Roman cultures, primarily via fact-checking and interpreting dubious online writings.
It’s 53 BCE and Marcus Licinius Crassus is tired of watching Pompey and Caesar take all the glory. Crassus raises an army to invade Persia, a gambit which determines Rome’s fate. Meanwhile, Caesar’s divide and conquer tactics reach new heights as he turns the Gauls against themselves.
In the year 26, Sejanus went after Agrippina again, this time by attacking her close friend and cousin, Claudia Pulchra, who was accused of adultery and treason. Agrippina loses her shit and gets all up in Tiberius’ face in public. In the same year, Tibbo finally decided to leave Rome and finally retired to his sex dungeon on the island of Capri. With Tibbo out of the way, Sejanus didn’t fuck around. Almost immediately he made a direct attack on Agrippina and her children
- BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, The Mytilenaean Debate
- Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Roman Conquest of Spain
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Margarita Sánchez Romero, Rosa María Cid López (ed.), Motherhood and Infancies in the Mediterranean in Antiquity. Childhood in the Past Monograph Series.
- [BMCR] Martin Avenarius, Christian Baldus, Francesca Lamberti, Mario Varvaro (ed.), Gradenwitz, Riccobono und die Entwicklung der Interpolationenkritik: Methodentransfer unter europäischen Juristen im späten 19. Jahrhundert. Ius Romanum, 5.
- ARCHILOCHUS: THE POEMS: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary – Classics for All
Dramatic Receptions
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