Hodie est pridie Non.Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- University Senate votes to dissolve Department of Classics, split kinesiology and SLAM – The Miami Student
- In Memoriam: Edward Courtney | Society for Classical Studies
Public Facing Classics
- [Marguerite Johnson] Hidden women of history: Neaera, the Athenian child slave raised to be a courtesan
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- Time, Legacy Data, and Flow | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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Fresh Podcasts
Hey everyone! New episode is out and we are breaking away from our written sources to study the frontier that is built to separate the northern boundaries of the Roman Empire and the barbarous Germans. Is this a solid wall of defenses to keep the ever dangerous horde back or a second rate line? What, if any, is the interaction between the two neighbors now that things have settled? And why are we covering several centuries worth of history in this one episode?! Listen to find out!
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Kelly E. Shannon-Henderson, Religion and Memory in Tacitus’ Annals. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Nicola Terrenato, The Early Roman Expansion into Italy: Elite Negotiation and Family Agendas. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Orazio Cappello, The School of Doubt: Skepticism, History and Politics in Cicero’s ‘Academia’. Brill studies in skepticism, volume 1.. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
- Dionysus in the Underworld (Bacchae & Frogs – King’s Greek Play 2020) | King’s College London eStore
- Adaptation of The Odyssey is coming to Boston | Boston Standard
- An Iliad: Troy Story 2
Professional Matters
- Lecturer in Ancient Greek Literature at University of Birmingham
- The SCS Forum Prize | Society for Classical Studies
- Excellence in Teaching Award Winners | Society for Classical Studies
- Roman Forum Field School – The Signum Vortumni Project – ISAR
- Flavian Empire conference, June 2020 | Maynooth University
Alia
- Wait, Why Are the Parthenon Marbles in London? | JSTOR Daily
- “The Birth of Venus” and Botticelli’s Celebration of the Nude Body – Artsy
- CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: The Celtic Coinage of Gaul
- Beyond Petra – Archaeology Magazine
- 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 heavy winter but also 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)
