Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Quintiles (Iulias) 2772 AUC ~ 12 Skirophorion in the second year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Doric monument emerges at Paestum – ANSA.it
- 1943 letter reveals British Museum Trustee favored repatriation of Parthenon Marbles | Life | ekathimerini.com
- Cult Economist Jailed for Hiding Rare Coins Says They’re His Now
- Bettany Hughes on the secrets of Ancient Egypt’s stereotype-busting women
- Acclaimed Cambridge professor critiques Pope Francis’ approval of new ‘Our Father’ | News | LifeSite
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Fresh Bloggery
- Entering the Classical World through Silent Cinema | CRSN
- PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Ure Voice: A Panoply Interview with Professor Amy Smith
- Clay play day and baking double bill: Cypro-Minoan – It’s All Greek To Me
- Classicists Receive ACLS Development Grants (2019) | Society for Classical Studies
- Throwback Thursday! Beer Archaeology?! Yes, please. | AntiquityNOW
- We Have The Technology… | Sphinx
- Elemental Reflections for Marriage – 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?
My guest this week is Fiona Macintosh, Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and Curator of the Ioannou Centre at Oxford University. We chat about the influence of the classics on English literature and its place in our modern world, her own path to her classical education, and the lessons she’s learned as a teacher.
Even as late as 24 CE, Tiberius seems to be mostly rational, although his view on majestas was hardening. He refused to allow Further Spain to erect a temple to himself and his mother. And when Sejanus asked for permission to marry Livia Julia, Drusus’ widow, Tibbo turned him down.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Karl R. Krierer, Ina Friedmann (ed.), Netzwerke der Altertumswissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert Beiträge der Tagung vom 30.-31. Mai 2014 an der Universität Wien.
- [BMCR] Jane DeRose Evans, Coins from the Excavations at Sardis: Their Archaeological and Economic Contexts: Coins from the 1973 to 2013 Excavations.
- ROMAN RECEPTIONS OF SAPPHO – Classics for All
- Has Daisy Dunn chosen the wrong Pliny to write about? | The Spectator
- Greek to Me by Mary Norris review – ‘WTF, Socrates?’ | Books | The Guardian
Dramatic Receptions
- Making Sense of the Present by Pulling From the Past – The New York Times
- Stone’s Throw Production Presents AGAMEMNON by Aeschylus
Conferences and Calls for Papers
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- FIEC: 2 FULLY-FUNDED PHD POSITIONS AT GHENT UNIVERSITY (BELGIUM)
- Chinese Doctors Take Hippocratic Oath on Greek Island of Kos | GreekReporter.com
- Roman tradition of boats to resume in ancient city | Hurriyet
- Tabulae 2019 | UNC Department of Classics
- [Reviewish] A classical analogy to our grand old republic… – The Ukiah Daily Journal
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