Hodie est X Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 26 Maimakterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
… slow day
Classicists and Classics in the News
- 5th Meeting for the Archaeological Work in Crete Going On in Rethymno
- Classics Professor Sees the Writing on the Wall – Ole Miss News
- Susan E. Alcock recommended as UM-Dearborn provost | News | pressandguide.com
- Carpe Diem: Holy Cross Students Teach Latin to Local Elementary Schoolers | College of the Holy Cross
Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: November 21
- Pliny, With an Epistolary Guilt-Trip – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Happy Birthday Us! Celebrating 10 years of vase animations!
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Athens University Revue of Archaeology (AURA)
- Beauty and Privilege: Latin, Paideia, and Papyri – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Core Vocab: kamatos | The Kosmos Society
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Surveying the Field: Toward Establishing a Digital Collaboration Space for Educators of the Ancient World
Fresh Podcasts
In this chapter of Season 2, we’ll meet the women who lived amid this ancient-world juggernaut. Many are Roman citizens: the wives and daughters and sisters of influential men who use every tool at their disposal to leave a lasting mark on their fast-changing world—and to survive its cutthroat rules about what women were allowed to do and be. Others are foreigners who refuse to bow to the ever-expanding Empire, fighting against it with both cunning and spears. We will explore the events and laws they had to navigate, the intrigues and wars in which they had a hand. And as always, we’ll try to understand what life was like in ancient Rome for women: what did it look like through their eyes? Lucky for us, we have some expert time traveling companions.
“Hi. I’m Dr. Rad. I’m a specialist in all things Spartacus and historical films. And I am Dr. G. I’m an expert on ancient Rome, particularly ancient priestesses. And then even more particularly, the Vestal Virgins. And together we host a podcast called The Partial Historians.”
By all accounts, Caligula was extremely popular with the people, as his father, Germanicus, had been. Suetonius reports that Caligula was “the emperor most earnestly desired”. When he entered Rome, the celebrations are said to have gone on for almost three months, and more than 160,000 animals were sacrificed—and eaten.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Miriam T. Griffin, Politics and Philosophy at Rome: Collected Papers. Edited by Catalina Balmaceda. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] FS Soldier Naiden, Priest and God: A Life of Alexander the Great. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Margaret Foster, The Seer and the City: Religion, Politics, and Colonial Ideology in Ancient Greece. Joan Palevsky imprint in classical literature. Oakland: University of California Press, 2017.
- [BMCR] Simon Pulleyn (ed.), Homer, Odyssey I. Edited with an Introduction, Translation, Commentary, and Glossary. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018.
Dramatic Receptions
Alia
- An Ancient Tradition Under a Modern Guise Celebrated at Ancient Eleusis – The National Herald
- From the Iliad to Circe: culture’s enduring fascination with the myths of Troy
- Troy – A State of Mind – Edward Lucie-Smith – Artlyst
- Dark side of Venus: goddess represents more than nudity, romance and sex
- Medusa: The Ancient Greek Myth of the Snake-Haired Gorgon
‘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 a year of prosperity.
… 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)
