Hodie est a.d. pridie nonas Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~ 4 Metageitnion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad.
Our first attempt at a weekend edition with some variation of the sort of content one gets in the daily edition (when one is more in a hurry to catch up, I think), with an idea that it will be perused at a more leisurely pace … expect it every Sunday around noon Eastern time …
In the News
- Forgotten Sculpture of Alexander the Great Found in Greek Museum’s Storage | GreekReporter.com
- Underwater archaeology facts and information |National Geographic
- Skull found at ancient site in southern Turkey shows neurosurgery performed 2,200 years ago – Daily Sabah
- [Paywalled] Computer reveals lost secrets of ancient texts | World | The Times
- Italy Declares War on McDonald’s
In Case You Missed It ~ Long Reads
- Heracleion: Treasure Trove Discovered at Egypt’s Atlantis
- How European sailors learned celestial navigation | Aeon Essays
- The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer | The New Republic
Public Facing Classics
- [Matthew Sears] Opinion: Cast in Crete: How history in Greece – and beyond – is created – The Globe and Mail
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
Mouse Meets Frog: Both Die Terribly – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Blog: Addressing the Divide Between Art History and Classics | Society for Classical Studies
Weekend Reading: On Leisure and Libraries – Classical Studies Support
Book Club | August 2019: Apollodorus Library, 3.8–3.16 | The Kosmos Society
Dirk Obbink, Scott Carroll, and Sappho | Variant Readings
The Poor Trojans Are All Dead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Bingeworthy Past Podcastery
[a podcast which began long ago which you should have listened to by now]
Landscape Modery
Professional Matters
Twitter Highlights
[I’m still trying to figure out how best to handle this section]
Alia
- A Hero for Our Times | Courthouse News
- Ambition, greed and death: the Roman roots of ‘Game of Thrones’
‘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 it should thunder today, there will be a food shortage for both humans and animals
… adapted from the text and 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)
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