Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 14 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Roman made jewellery found on the body of a 2,000 year old barbarian woman from the Caucasus | Daily Mail Online
- Horses return to Colchester’s Roman Circus after 1,700 years | Gazette
- Ancient Roman, Greek Cemetery Discovered in Egypt | Asharq AL-awsat
- Satellite Images Lead to Discovery of ‘Roman Wall’ in Iran
In Case You Missed It
Classics and Classicists in the News
- [Brent Davis] How do you crack the code to a lost ancient script? | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
- [Christopher Rollston] GWU Professor Translates Ancient Inscriptions Discovered at the Site of Machaerus
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- [Matthew Sears] What war memorials forget – Macleans.ca
- [Tom Palaima] Tom Palaima: Going well beyond ‘Thank you for your service’ | Columnists | wacotrib.com
Fresh Bloggery
- Meet the Speaker: Hannah Cornwell – Io: The UT Austin Department of Classics Blog – Medium
- The Antidote for Fake Quotes Is…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- I’m Sorry, I Haven’t A Clue | Sphinx
- The Odyssey is Still News – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Barest Minimum of Greek
- The Vatican’s Latinist – In Medias Res – Medium
- Weekend Reading: Sage on the Stage at the Sage – Classical Studies Support
- Those Who Know, Avoid Fake Quotes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Romans’ first crossing with an army to Illyria – Novo Scriptorium
- Blog: Can a New Journal Modify the Way We Teach and Understand Classical Translations? | Society for Classical Studies
- Ashley Cowie Appropriates Minoan Archaeology for Atlantis – Jason Colavito
- Mykeens rund – Mainzer Beobachter
- No Gain! Or, How To Defend Against A Charge of Conspiracy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Museum Theft: Museo di San Mamiliano in Sovana, Italy ~ ARCAblog
- Not just Sparta: White Supremacist Admiration of Athens :: Pharos
- Dental drugs in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire – Novo Scriptorium
- Greek Dramatists Not Up to Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The first clinical description of asthma by Aretaeus of Cappadocia (1st century A.D.) – Novo Scriptorium
- The Wrong Monkey: Renaissances
- Love it When They Hate Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Arrian I.13.1-7 | The Second Achilles
Landscape Modery
Conference playlist (I think they’ll play in order):
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] B. D. Hoyos, Rome Victorious: The Irresistible Rise of the Roman Empire. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- [BMCR] Massimo Raffa, Theophrastus of Eresus: Commentary Volume 9.1. Philosophia antiqua, 149. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
- [BMCR] Hans Beck, Kostas Buraselis, Alex McAuley (ed.), Ethnos and Koinon. Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und Epigraphische Studien 61. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
- Scythian Art. The Legacy of the Scythian World: mid-7th to 3rd century B.C | Spartokos a lu
- Book Review – Females in the Frame, Women, Art and Crime ~ ARCAblog
Dramatic Receptions
- Theatre: Myth, MeToo and movement in circus-themed Persephone Bound | Montreal Gazette
- From Greek tragedy to Bill 21, Quebec film Antigone bridges millenniums | Montreal Gazette
- Arms and A Man | Theatre | Ely Standard
Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor in Classics Arizona State University: Interfolio
- University of Alabama Employment Site | Chair, Modern Languages & Classics
- Tenure track Assistant professorship in Classical Greek language and culture – Universiteit van Amsterdam
- New Classicists Conference Tickets, Sat 7 Dec 2019 at 09:30 | Eventbrite
- Warfare in Antiquity Conference 2019: Perceptions, Realties and Reception in the 21st Century
Alia
- As the British Museum opens its blockbuster Troy show, historian Tom Holland examines the truth behind Homer’s epic tales | Culture | The Sunday Times
- ANE TODAY – 201911 – Prehistoric soundscapes. Mill-songs and the music of work in Ancient Mediterranean and the Near East –
- How outrage mobs silence academics and how to stop them – Big Think
- Mob Rule vs. the Father of Civilization | Ricochet
- Hesiod’s ‘Theogony’ is the source of all our knowledge about the Greek pantheon – The Hindu
- [probably paywalled] Could today’s politicians do better if they looked to Ancient Rome?
- [not paywalled for a couple days] Parallel Lives of Donald Trump – WSJ
‘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 end to the evil plans of the powerful; a drying wind will damage trees.
… 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)
