Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Octobres 2772 AUC ~ 20 Boedromion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Tornos News | Prime Minister briefed on restoration work at Ancient Greek theatre of Dodoni
- Wroxeter ‘pendants’ turn out to be Roman make-up tools – BBC News
- 2,000-year-old milestone used as coffee table in Turkey’s west – Turkey News
In Case You Missed It
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] ITALIA NOVUM IMPERIUM HABET De rebus Italicis
- [Akropolis World News] Ἐπιβολὴ τοῖς διυλιστηρίοις
Public Facing Classics
- [EL Meszaros] Latin Unmoored – EIDOLON
- [Mike Fontaine] How to Fake it Till you Make it Scanning Plautine Verse
- [Nick Fesette] Reading of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ Transports Listeners to Ancient Greece | The Emory Wheel
Fresh Bloggery
- Scholarship vs. Skill – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- FIEC: Introducing the Board Members of FIEC
- Egyptian prosecutor requests that former honorary consul of Italy be placed on INTERPOL’s red notice list ~ ARCAblog
- Four Proverbs for Fools – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Wagner’s Nightmare | Sphinx /
- From Senecan’t to Senecan – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Christopher Stray, Classics in Britain: Scholarship, Education, and Publishing 1800-2000. Classical Presences.
- [BMCR] Felix Budelmann, Tom Phillips (ed.), Textual Events: Performance and the Lyric in Early Greece.
- [BMCR] Livia Capponi, Il mistero del tempio : la rivolta ebraica sotto Traiano. Piccoli saggi 61.
- [BMCR] Paola Ceccarelli, Lutz Doering, Thorsten Fögen (ed.), Letters and Communities: Studies in the Socio-Political Dimensions of Ancient Epistolography.
Professional Matters
- CFP: NYU Society for Ancient Studies Undergraduate Ancient World Conference | Society for Classical Studies
- Classical Association of New England Summer Institute – July 13-18, 2020 | CAAS-CW
- CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES
- Giornata in memoria della prof. Angela Donati – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
Alia
- Song of Arms and a Man GCA – Latin Qvarter
- The Bible may have a naming discrepancy, and a Duke researcher plans to correct it – The Chronicle
- Greece’s Temple of Poseidon to Host First-Ever Catwalk Show | GreekReporter.com
- U. of C.’s Oriental Institute celebrates centennial – hpherald.com
- ‘Latin is immortal’: Why ancient Rome is making history in Blacktown
- Pompeii and Santorini exhibition in Rome – Wanted in Rome
- Why knowing Roman history is key to preserving America’s future – The Washington Post
- The Beauty of Roman Law | Ricochet
- Getty Will Devote $100 Million to Preserve and Study Ancient Art and Sites around the World | The Getty Iris
‘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 both famines and war.
… 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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