Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 12 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Pinocchio unearthed in western Turkey
- Troy boy! Meet Achilles at the British Museum’s new blockbuster show | The Times
- Researchers lay out first genetic history of Rome
- Greece: New bid to understand prehistoric engineering feat
- Three Culture Ministry associations challenge Elliniko development plan | News | ekathimerini.com
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Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Autism and Classical Myth: Mythical Hope 7 – But Hercules is horrible…
- I Made Your Poems Worse: You’re Welcome! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Teaching Thursday: Diversifying my Graduate Historical Methods Syllabus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- The Annoying Liberal Arts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The World of Isle of the Blessed – Part VI – Mass Murder in Roman York |
- “Don’t Know Grammar, Don’t Give a F**k” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Opgegraven potten en pannen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Vergil Was a Sycophantic Hack – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire: Proceedings of the Thirteenth Workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Gent, June 21-24, 2017)
- Arrian I.12.1-10 | The Second Achilles
Fresh Podcasts
The team are back to discuss Ancient Warfare Magazine XIII.3 The Rise of Septimius Severus.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Justina Gregory, Cheiron’s Way: Youthful Education in Homer and Tragedy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] David Frankfurter, Christianizing Egypt: Syncretism and Local Worlds in Late Antiquity. Martin Classical Lectures. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] John Boardman, Alexander the Great: From his Death to the Present Day. Lawrenceville: Princeton University Press, 2019.
- What We Are Reading Today: How to Be a Bad Emperor by Josiah Osgood
- [Review of Dunn, Of Gods and Men] A grown-up guide to the Classics | Catholic Herald
Dramatic Receptions
- Britannia review — Life in ancient Britain just got even madder | Times2 | The Times
- Portland theatre company produces a modern-day rendition of 2500-year-old Greek play – Vanguard
Alia
- [Lucretius] The Slowness of Literature and the Shadow of Knowledge | The New Yorker
- Tombs of Vergina: When Definitive Proof of Macedonia’s Greek Origin Was Uncovered | GreekReporter.com
- The secret words from Oxyrhynchus – The Irish Catholic
- Progressives Now See the Classics as a Gateway to the Alt-Right
- Ancient coins – The Secular Games of The Circus Maximus
‘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 an outbreak of gluttony stemming from horrible diseases.
… 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)
