Hodie est a.d. III Id. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 15 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Elgin’s casts of Parthenon marbles reveal details since lost from statues | Art and design | The Guardian
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- Buried Christian (and Pagan) Basilica Discovered in Ethiopia’s ‘Lost Kingdom’ of Aksum | Live Science
- Study ready for restoring, opening ancient Amphipolis Tomb | Life | ekathimerini.com
- What lies beneath – The discovery of an ancient complex in Thessaloniki ignites old debates | Prospero | The Economist
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- Autism and Classical Myth: Hope 12 – Ciceronian thoughts on the Choice of Hercules ahead of a Congress in Warsaw informed a little by Binary Computation
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Iconography and archaeology of pre-Roman Italy
- The History of Saturnalia, Part III: SaTURDnalia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Read and Review – Thrace, control and social complexity – Musings of Clio
- “The Four in Crete”: A Travel Book Leads to an Archival Adventure | From the Archivist’s Notebook
Fresh Podcasts
The (actually kind of) thrilling story of a weaving contest between a goddess and a woman challenging the cruelty and tyranny of the Olympians leads us into three stories: Pandora’s box; the great flood of the Grecian world; and the love story of Idas and Marpessa, two people who saw the gods taking whatever and whoever they wanted, and said “no.”
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Beaudoin Caron, John M. Fossey, Tzveta Manolova, Paul Denis, Mylène Choquette (ed.), Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Mediterranean Antiquities, Volume 3, The Metal Objects and the Gems. Monumenta Graeca et Romana, volume 22. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Walter Ameling, Hannah M. Cotton, Werner Eck, Avner Ecker, Benjamin Isaac, Alla Kushnir-Stein, Haggai Misgav, Jonathan Price, Peter Weiß and Ada Yardeni (ed.), Corpus inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae. Volume IV: Iudaea/Idumaea Part 1, 2649-3978. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018.
- [BMCR] Athanásios Tziafálias, Richard A. Bouchon, Laurence Darmezin, Jean-Claude Decourt, Bruno Helly, Gérard Lucas, and Isabelle Pernin (ed.), Corpus des inscriptions d’Atrax en Pélasgiotide (Thessalie). Études épigraphiques, 7. Athènes; Paris: Ecole française d’Athènes; De Boccard, 2016.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Live stream of the conference “The Lydians and Their Neighbors”
- PhD Scholarship in “Epitaphs and Social Change in Late Antique Italy (300-600 CE)” at St Andrews – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
Alia
- Aspendos Theater – Serik, Turkey – Atlas Obscura
- What Boris Johnson has(n’t) learned from the ancient Greeks. Part 1. | Ancient and Modern Rhetoric
- 5 Things Everyone Gets Wrong About Cleopatra | HowStuffWorks
- Caesar and His Untimely End on the Ides of March: Stack’s Bowers NYINC
- Looted in Germany by Stalin’s brigades, a restored goddess goes on view at the Hermitage | The Art Newspaper
- Folio from a Shahnama, The Bier of Iskandar (Alexander the Great) – Smarthistory
- The symbol of Masada – Jerusalem Post
- The fall of Masada – Jerusalem Post
- Masada and its scrolls – Jerusalem Post
‘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 hot summer and many imports from foreign lands.
… 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)
