Hodie est Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 5 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Media studies scholars to attend ‘Siren Echoes’ conference | Cornell Chronicle
- Students reenact the Battle of Actium with noodles, narration in front of Union | Culture | dailynebraskan.com
Public Facing Classics
- [Paul Cartledge] How To Build A Democracy Like The Ancient Greeks In 8 Tips – HistoryExtra
- [Mary Beard] Feminism in Barcelona – TheTLS
Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: October 31
- “The army is the glory of the Emperor”; evolution of military power in the Roman East (Part 2) – Novo Scriptorium
- Werewolf Week: WOLF MADNESS!!! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Krateros, the digital repository for the collections of epigraphic squeezes at the Institute for Advanced Study
- Latin Hell (for Halloween) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Surprising Plot Twists from Servius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Hidden colour in Greek and Roman sculpture | OUPblog
- Bronze Age settlement of Scoglio del Tonno, Apulia, Italy; maritime routes connecting the eastern and central Mediterranean – Novo Scriptorium
- Happy Halloween: Werewolves in Greek and Roman Culture – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: What Can Greek Tragedy and Horror Movies Tell Us About Filicide? | Society for Classical Studies
- Heliocentrism in Homer’s Iliad? – Novo Scriptorium
- Humanizing a Monster (or Monsters Deserve Love Too) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The World of Isle of the Blessed – Part V – The Death of an Emperor |
Fresh Podcasts
Happy Halloween! This year we’re talking about the etymology and origins of “Magic”, the differences between religion and magic, Greek and Roman spells and curses, and some rather bizarre tales about Virgil & Aristotle
Today we talk to Dr. Aven McMaster about the Ancient World.
Book Reviews
Dramatic Receptions
Alia
- The Trump administration’s obsession with an ancient Persian emperor – The Washington Post
- How to deal with life’s setbacks? Think like a Stoic
- How Africa got its name – Big Think
- Archeaology: Paestum to award to ‘oldest intact shipwreck’ – Culture – ANSAMed.it
- How ‘the father of American Egyptology’ underestimated what some call the real-life Wakanda | Public Radio International
- Tornos News | London event to showcase the timeless allure of Minoan civilization
- Archaeologist highlights link between contemporary and Bronze-Age olive oil production | Jordan Times
‘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 thunders today, it portends discord in the city.
… 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)
