Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Quintiles (Iulias) 2772 AUC ~ 3 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Roman remains proves empire visited Largs says local man | Largs and Millport Weekly News
- [possibly paywalled] How do you read ancient scrolls too brittle to unfurl? An American scientist may have an answer. – The Washington Post
- DNA Study Reveals Philistines Were Originally From Europe : NPR
- Scribe Latinus: Capturing a Life in a Few (Latin) Word | Princeton Alumni Weekly
- Harvard’s Stephanie Burt rethinks our relationship with poetry – Harvard Gazette
- Prof. Jordan Pickett Fieldwork at Sardis | Department of Classics | The University of Georgia
- Review: Getty Villa’s ‘Buried by Vesuvius’ is exquisite and, at times, explicit – Los Angeles Times
- Ljubljanica Project Wins UNESCO Award for Underwater Cultural Heritage
- Paphos mayor steps up attack on antiquities dept over museum closure – Cyprus Mail
- Ramla Bay Masterplan could include protections for Roman Ruins – Prof. Bonanno
- Rare Byzantine Gold Coin Found in Israel | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
- Baalbek: symbol of power or living city?
- What did the Romans ever do for maths? Very little
- Roman drinking cup featuring male lovers inspires new Pride artworks – Independent.ie
Public Facing Classics
- [Sarah E. Bond] The False Narratives of the Fall of Rome Mapped Onto America
- [Peter Jones] Do Greek plays really need a ‘modern twist’? | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 3
- Hercules: Why I’m making him the subject of activities for autistic girls | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy
- antiquities trafficking and conflict financing: the fight against looting and smuggling of cultural property goods in a global perspective of peace | conflict antiquities
- An Unlikely Hybrid: Medusa, Miley Cyrus, and the Politics of the Female Tongue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Viewsheds, Views, and Surveillance | Summertime Fragments
- Ignoring Women and Magic Stones: Diomedes after Troy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Bodily Fluids of Peregrinus
Fresh Podcasts
The complex relationship between the patricians and plebeians is central to our appreciation of the 460s BCE. In this episode we’ll get to consider the complexities first hand with the entrance of Caeso Quinctius (remember this name, he’s going places!).
We jump back into the narrative history of c. 461 BCE with our guides of the moment, Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. Both are writing long after these events, which means that their accounts leave a lot to be desired at times. Nevertheless, both are interested in presenting a narrative on the theme of power. How is it distributed? Who has it and who doesn’t? And what are the mechanisms of political power in this system of armies, consuls, patricians, and plebeians?
Ancient Greece is notorious for keeping women silent, veiled, and firmly fixed beside the loom. But was life for the ladies in places like Athens really so restrictive? What did they get up to behind those veils and shaded screens? Let’s time travel back to the Classical period to find out what it was like to be them.
When Julius Caesar arrived in Egypt, he walked into a civil war between the country’s new co-rulers: Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra.
The romance between Caesar and Cleopatra is one of the most epic of ancient times. But we can’t tell you that story until you understand who Cleopatra was. And to understand Cleopatra, you have to understand the political element in which she swam.
In this episode, we take you from the cutthroat intrigue of the Ptolemaic court to the volatile streets of Alexandria—and from Cleopatra’s early life to the events that led her to take an extreme gamble and team up with the man who’d just conquered Rome.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Hugh Elton, The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity, A Political and Military History.
- [BMCR] Response: Eckert on Johnston on Eckert, Die Aphrodite der Seefahrer und ihre Heiligtümer am Mittelmeer.
- POET AND ORATOR: a Symbiotic Relationship in Democratic Athens – Classics for All
Dramatic Receptions
- Syrian refugee stories to be told through play at Edinburgh Fringe Fest – The National
- [BMCR] Also Seen: Socrates Off-Broadway. 2 hours 45 minutes (including one intermission).
- Ancient Greek Theater Revived at Three Athens Sites – GTP Headlines
Alia
- This Roman Emperor Lost His Lover And Turned Him Into a God | Flashback | OZY
- The Greek Symbolisms on the New Giannis Antetokounmpo Shoe | USA.GreekReporter.com
- 3-D printing recreates ancient sculpture destroyed by ISIS – The Washington Post
- 4th of July: Four Ancient Greek Ideals that Influenced American Independence | USA.GreekReporter.com
