Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~ 21 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
Some major catching up …. some more catching up tomorrow I think (it’s been a busy few days in the Classical interwebs)
In the News
- Bulgaria’s Plovdiv erects columns at ancient Roman Forum site | The Sofia Globe
- Roman artefacts in frontier tunnel could be shipwreck remains
- The second cohort was here: Roman marker found near Valkenburg – DutchNews.nl
- Mystery of Chedworth’s 1,800-year-old Roman glass shard solved | Science | The Guardian
- Work underway for £5m Roman Baths project – Somerset Live
- Rome cracks down on illegal trading at Colosseum – Wanted in Rome
- Murcia Today – 6th Century Graves Found At Villaricos Roman Villa In Mula
In Case You Missed It
- 4,600-Year-Old Greek ‘Pyramid’ Found in the Aegean Sea … Is Not a Pyramid at All
- Decorative ancient mosaic discovered in Alexandria – Greco-Roman – Heritage – Ahram Online
- Last Supper in Pompeii | Apollo Magazine
- Pompeii row erupts between rival scientific factions | Science | The Guardian
Latin/Greek News
Public Facing Classics
- [Mary Beard] The first moon landing: second century AD – TheTLS
- [Stephen Dando-Collins] Can Donald Trump Be Compared to Caligula, the Mad Emperor of Rome? | History News Network
Fresh Bloggery
- Trimming down Greek Vocab – Amy Pistone
- A Tale of Two Scholars, and the Center for Minoan Linguistic Research that never came to exist
- AD 119 – Hadrian visits Campania to aid the towns by gifts and benefactions (#Hadrian1900) – FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Catullus’s model boat » Armand D’Angour
- The Cyclops Had Three Eyes and They Were His Brothers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comix from Crete: Talos guards Crete from the Argo | Greek Myth Comix
- The History Girls: The Wrong Caesar by L.J. Trafford
- The Jealousy and Play of Alexander the Great – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 18
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 21
- Dancing With The Lion – an interview with Jeanne Reames, Part One | The Second Achilles
- Dancing With The Lion, an interview with Jeanne Reames, Part Two | The Second Achilles
- Blog: Anti-Catholicism, Classical Curriculum, and the Beginnings of Latin Drama in the United States | Society for Classical Studies
- Dickinson Classics China-related activities | Dickinson College Commentaries
- Weekend Reading: Myth and Mermaids – Classical Studies Support
- The Curriculum Vitae of Telephos of Pergamon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- SIAC Newsletter 175 (7/2019) | Tulliana News
Fresh Podcasts
Dame Mary Beard, DBE, FSA, FBA is Professor of Classics at the University of Cambridge. She is the author of multiple books, including Confronting the Classics, and most recently, the manifesto, Women & Power. Dame Mary is a respected blogger and television personality. She is Classics editor of the Times Literary Supplement and a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books
Book Reviews
- Rure vivere in Moesia Inferiore. La population dans le milieu rural d’une province périphérique de l’Empire romain | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Anton Powell (ed.), A Companion to Sparta (2 vols). Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World: Ancient History.
- [BMCR] C. Harlaut, J. W. Hayes, Pottery in Hellenistic Alexandria: Aux origines d’Alexandrie et de sa production céramique; Hellenistic Pottery Deposits from Alexandria. Études Alexandrines, 45.
- [BMCR] Duccio Chiapello, Laura Bellani, La decifrazione della Lineare A.
- [BMCR] Lillian Larsen, Samuel Rubenson (ed.), Monastic Education in Late Antiquity: The Transformation of Classical ‘Paideia’.
- [BMCR] Maria A. Liston, Susan I. Rotroff, Lynn M. Snyder, Andrew Stewart, The Agora Bone Well
Dramatic Receptions
- ‘Penelope’: A world-premiere at Tanglewood | The Berkshire Eagle
- The Bacchae Review: Euripides Tragedy Becomes Harlem Entertainment – DC Theatre Scene
- Prometheus Theater to perform “Hippolytus” at Arcate d’arte Festival – Tehran Times
- Finding the Greek Tragedy in Netflix’s ‘Dark’ | Film School Rejects
Professional Matters
- CFP: Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song | Society for Classical Studies
- Conference: Seneca 2020 | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Classics and Civic Activism | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Classical Representations in Popular Culture | Society for Classical Studies
- Assistant/Associate Professor, Greek Literature and Culture (JPF04704) – UCLA Academic RECRUIT
Alia
- Watch: Protester dressed as ancient Roman jumps into Trevi fountain | Euronews
- Latin is not just for encyclicals. For all Catholics, it is our living history. | America Magazine
‘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, it portends good things for the common people, but bad things for those at the top [I very much adapted this one]
… 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)
