Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Octobres 2772 AUC ~ 19 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Erebuni Fortress archaeologists discover new temple and “fantastically beautiful” mosaics | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
- Gruesome discovery of “incredibly rare” Roman bones in Devon – Devon Live
- New finds beef up case for redrawing map of Roman empire | UK news | The Guardian
- Dig rewrites the history of county’s Roman fort – Burnley Express
In Case You Missed It
- Amphipolis may be open to visitors to northern Greece by 2021 | Neos Kosmos
- Long-Sought Village Jesus Visited After Crucifixion Possibly Found | Live Science
Public Facing Classics
- [Mary Boatwright] Duke professor talks about ancient revolts, importance of them in the modern context – Elon News Network
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Accusatives of Exclamation
- Against Mosquitoes, A Love Poem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Relaunch of the expanded Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- Thinking of Classical Parallels – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PLV Inscriptions (Carrawburgh to Housesteads) | Per Lineam Valli
Fresh Podcasts
“What if women ended the Peloponnesian War, am I right?” asks Aristophanes in his classic comedy Lysistrata. Famous for its depiction of a sex strike that brings the warring Greek states to their unsexed knees, the play has been remixed countless times as generations of artists adapt its core conceit to their own times. So we figured we’d go back to the old Prince of Comedy himself to see what all the fuss is about.
The scholar Michael Schmidt, in the book The First Poets, calls Pindar “the most careful architect that poetry has ever had.” Pindar was active around fifth century BCE and was the master of victory odes, or epinikia, which honored athletes and Olympic crown winners. He most likely wrote these songs on the lyre or the aulos, ancient pipes with double-reeds like oboes. 45 of these victory songs survive today; the first written for a winner of the 400-yard dash and last for a wrestling champion. It seems that Pindar was one of the first artists to see a way of cashing-in on the “cult of sportsmanship” that sprung up in Greek society
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Ian Fielding, Transformations of Ovid in Late Antiquity.
- [BMCR] Jenny H. Schlehofer, Nekropolen der Polis Halieis (Argolis). Bestattungs- und Beigabensitten in archaischer und klassischer Zeit. Band 1: Auswertung
- [BMCR] Tonio Hölscher, Visual Power in Ancient Greece and Rome: Between Art and Social Reality. Sather classical lectures, 73.
- [BMCR] Hilla Halla-aho, Left-Dislocation in Latin: Topics and Syntax in Republican Texts. Amsterdam studies in classical philology, 28
Professional Matters
- CFP: Honor and Shame in Classical Antiquity | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: The Ancient Novel and Material Culture | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Global Classics and Africa | Society for Classical Studies
- University of British Columbia Assistant Professor 2019-2020: Ancient Greek Material Culture
Alia
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- 2019 Getty Medal Honors Artists and Thinkers with a Commitment to Truth | The Getty Iris
- 2000 Years of Latin Prose: Chapter 1: Ennius — Latinitium
‘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 shortage of necessities.
… 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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