Hodie est a.d. Kal. Septembres 2772 AUC ~ 3 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Family discover ‘perfectly preserved’ Roman tomb hidden beneath home in southern Spain – The Local
- Roman mosaic in ‘exciting’ discovery one of three of its kind, says expert – BBC News
- The Frenchman Who Vied with Lord Elgin for the Parthenon Sculptures | GreekReporter.com
- How team uncovered Roman bath house under former Jack’s store | Gazette
- Archeologists unearth ancient memorial tomb in Aizanoi
In Case You Missed It ~ Long Reads
- British Museum hands looted ancient tablets to Iraq
- The Frenchman Who Vied with Lord Elgin for the Parthenon Sculptures | GreekReporter.com
Public Facing Classics
- [John Byron Kuhner] Shakespeare’s Greek Novel – In Medias Res – Medium
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- What do medicine specialists ‘see’ in Greek Mythology – Pain, Anaesthesia, Analgesia – Novo Scriptorium
- Time Travel – Ancient Rome blog Caligula’s Great Spectacle at Puteoli – Time Travel Rome
- She Used to Love Him, Then She Killed Him… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Fast and sacred ships | The Kosmos Society
- Thirsty as A Wolf: How Lykia Got Its Name – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- SIAC Newsletter – 176 (8/2019) | Tulliana News
- Petrarch’s Guide to Social Media – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Learning Etruscan | Crews Project
- Philosophers Need Life-Coaches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: Horror and Self Reflection: Jordan Peele’s Us, Plato, and Modern America | Society for Classical Studies
Bingeworthy Past Podcastery
Soon to hit the 40-episode mark, the Life of Caesar Podcast is currently about halfway through the principate of Tiberius:
Landscape Modery
Reviews
- [BMCR] Paul T. Keyser, John Scarborough (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World.
- [BMCR] Alan Kim, Brill’s Companion to German Platonism. Brill’s companions to philosophy. Ancient philosophy, volume 3.
- [BMCR] Daniel King (ed.), The Syriac World. Routledge worlds.
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Introspection and Engagement in Propertius
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain
Dramatic Receptions
- Inverell Theatre Company presents ‘Rome Sweet Rome’ | The Inverell Times
- Review – Stephen Fry’s Mythos, A Trilogy: Gods at The Lowry, Salford – Christina Blaney – Manchester Evening News
Professional Matters
- Conference Camina Latina Epigraphica, Berlin, Sept 4-6, 2019 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- CFP: Classics and Civic Activism | Society for Classical Studies
- Linked Pasts 5: back to the (re)sources – Sciencesconf.org
Alia
- Exclusive: Mel Gibson To Play Odysseus In New Warner Bros. Pic – GWW
- The Death of Alexander the Great: One of History’s Great Unsolved Mysteries | Literary Hub
- The Vandals—facts and information
- The myth of the wild German forest | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 30.08.2019
- ‘The original ‘debate me’ troll’: Washington Post op-ed smears Socrates
- Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Got Ancient Greek Sexuality Right
- Teaching Troy a lesson – Villages-News.com
- ANE TODAY – 201908 – The Ancient Near East after 1919 –
‘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, it portends a good harvest and good times.
… 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)
