Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~ 16 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- [paywalled] Busted: builders arrested for theft of Hadrian’s head | World | The Times
- Excavation reveals complex story of ancient Tas-Silġ site
- Rome’s Capitoline Museums display stolen treasures recovered by Italy’
- Archaeology Festival | Laconia | July 19-21 | What’s On | ekathimerini.com
- Austin College digs up stunning mosaics in ancient Galilean synagogue
In Case You Missed It
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- In memoriam Fergus Millar | Georgy Kantor’s blog
- Things I learned from Fergus Millar – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Farewell J.-B. Piggin, of ” Piggin’s Unofficial list” of Vatican manuscript releases online – Roger Pearse
- Breaking News | Sphinx
- Beginning with the End in Mind for 2500 Years – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Page | Summertime Fragments
- Comix from Crete: Zeus and Amalthea | Greek Myth Comix
- Pliny on the Utility of Gossip – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Colosseum and a Cluster of Charming Accidents – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Classics at the Intersections: E Pluribus Plures: Identities in a Multiethnic Ancient
Fresh Podcasts
While at VidCon this year, we sat down and chatted with a few of our fellow educational YouTubers: The Cynical Historian, Knowing Better, 12tone, and Step Back History. This is a compilation of our discussions about their channels, their reasons for making videos, and their experience of VidCon and its educational companion event, EduCon. If you don’t already watch their videos, we strongly recommend you check them out. Thank you to them all for taking part!
Sermo 97, quo uti conor libro Nicolai Flocchini c.t. “Verba Manent”, sed bonis rationibus.
Mai joins David to discuss her work on outreach, particularly her project on the 4th century Eritrean Gospels from Ethiopia. Mai talks about the importance of broadening our understanding of the ancient world to include regions outside Greece and Rome – the Mediterranean didn’t exist in a bubble, but was well connected to areas like Sub-Saharan Africa, China and India – and she reflects on how such projects encourage diverse participation in Classics by highlighting this inter-connectivity…
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Francesco De Angelis, Miti greci in tombe etrusche : le urne cinerarie di Chiusi. Monumenti antichi. Serie monografica, 8.
- [BMCR] M. C. Bishop, Lucius Verus and the Roman Defence of the East
Dramatic Receptions
- Euripides’ The Suppliants to become clear for English speakers – Cyprus Mail
- New York Euripides Summer Festival Presenting Two Plays – The National Herald
- The Bacchae: Fierce and Uncompromising, Nothing to Condemn – Times Square Chronicles
Professional Matters
- [Course] Living Latin in Paris
- FIEC: L’ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE – GUIDELINE FOR ABSTRACTS
- Placement Maintenance Complete and New Publication | Society for Classical Studies
- Open Rank Teaching Faculty, Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies – HigherEdJobs
Alia
- British Museum trustee resigns over BP sponsorship and repatriation – BBC News
- Time Travel – Ancient Rome blog Mind the Cap: London’s Mithraeum
- Christie’s Intractability on Tutankhamun Statue Lays Bare Auction Houses’ Greed
- How the Ancient Greeks Designed the Parthenon to Impress—And Last – HISTORY
Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If there is any thunder today, a great ruler will come to power.
… adapted from the translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition
