Hodie est Id. Octobres 2772 AUC ~ 17 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Professor Obbink and missing EES papyri | Egypt Exploration Society
- Hobby Lobby Scandal Widens as Museum of the Bible Admits Oxford Prof Sold Illicit Papyri to Green Family
- St. Paul’s Shipwreck Found? Hold on Just a Second.
- Boxford mosaic fully uncovered – Current Archaeology
- In Case You Missed It
- Harold Bloom, A Rare Best-Selling Literary Critic, Dies At 89 : NPR
- By rapping ‘The Iliad,’ classics professor makes ancient literature relevant
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- [Meghan Claire ONeill] Diogenes and Direct Action – EIDOLON
- [Walter Scheidel] What did the Romans ever do for us? | Spectator USA
- [Mary Brown] Brown: Ad Astra and the tug of the Vergilian topos in the 21st Century | Opinion | mainlinemedianews.com
- Mary Beard examines the most-famous nudes in art in provocative BBC series The Shock Of The Nude | inews
Fresh Bloggery
- Breaking: EES Stolen Manuscripts Update | Variant Readings
- How Many Oxyrhynchus Papyri Have Been Sold? | Variant Readings
- The Omen Before the Wall – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Beyond Mainland Greece: The Tomb of Darius the Great in Naqsh-e Rustam, Iran. – Hieroglyphs, Heroes, and Heretics
- * Peacocks! * Pythagoras! * Homer! * Ennius! * (Featuring the Loser Euphorbus) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Oedipus (aka Rosy Sida) and the Nike of Samothrace — Faculty of Classics
- Mythical Hope 4 – Life is hard: so mourn for us? | Mythology and Autism – Susan Deacy
- Bacchylidean Meter | Curculio – Michael Hendry
- Episode 31: Men of Iron: The Polybian Roman Legion – The Layman’s Historian
- Who Cares about Bird-Signs? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Mysteries & Western Mysteries: Fun with First Lines
- Epoiesen, Islands, and a New Phone | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- ‘Clytemnestra’: The Murdering Stepmother of Athens, c. 420 BCE – Ancient Herstories
- Following In Their Ink Stains – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Who was Achilles? – The British Museum Blog
Fresh Podcasts
Tres amici de itineribus Augusti autobirota susceptis colloquuntur.
Abhinc nonnullos dies in morbum incidi. Nunc rursus bene valeo.
How did an ancient Roman harbor end up in ruins? Scientists realized the culprit was a long-forgotten natural disaster that left tell-tale geological clues — and possibly an eyewitness account in an ancient religious text. But solving this mystery led to a bigger question: what if it happens again? For more information on this episode visit nationalgeographic.com/overheard
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Claudia Moser, The Altars of Republican Rome and Latium: Sacrifice and the Materiality of Roman Religion. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Benjamin Henri Isaac, Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- [BMCR] Michel Fartzoff, Famille et cité dans l’Orestie d’Eschyle: la trame du tissu tragique. Collection d’études anciennes: série grecque, 158. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2018.
- La Crimée à l’époque Sarmate V | Spartokos a lu
- Professor gives great detail on fall of Rome in ‘Mortal Republic’ | Features
- [Mortal Republic] Decline and Fall of American Democracy? – Los Angeles Review of Books
- Review: ‘Orpheus Girl’ By Brynne Rebele-Henry : NPR
Dramatic Receptions
- Up Pompeii – An Audio Revival at the Shaw Theatre | Review
- Review: Partying to End the Patriarchy in a Dionysian ‘Girls’ – The New York Times
Professional Matters
- CAAS Board of Directors letter to The Paideia Institute | CAAS-CW
- Board Letter to the Paideia Institute | Society for Classical Studies
- Upcoming Seminars in Paris Led by Richard Talbert | Ancient World Mapping Center
Alia
- History buffs go wild for hoodies depicting outfits worn by notable figures | Daily Mail Online
- This Week in History: The Death of the Emperor Claudius – Nightlife – ABC Radio
- Rape of Proserpina: Bernini’s Most Dramatically Lifelike Marble Sculpture
- Avoiding Self-Indulgence: A Defence of Medieval Literature – The Oxford Student
- Queen Elizabeth Responds to Philhellene’s Plea for Return of Parthenon Marbles | Greek Reporter Australia
- The Apotheosis of Emperors – CounterPunch.org
- 7 Reasons Alexander the Great Was, Well, Great | HowStuffWorks
- The Road to Palmyra. Special exhibition at Glyptoteket
- ‘The Mysteries Project’ explores Greek mythology – Winona Post > Article
- Tornos News | Explore oldest underwater “lost city” in the Mediterranean off Greek island of Pavlopetri (video)
- Mountainous Arcadia, a mythical destination in the Peloponnese | Neos Kosmos
- What unearthing ancient cities teaches us about exploring outer space | Popular Science
‘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 shortage caused by a dry and burning wind affecting the crops.
… 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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