Hodie est XVI Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Poseideion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• [Press release] Ancient Roman culinary preferences revealed in Ashkelon excavation 16 December 2019
• [Paywalled] Tombs at Ancient Greek Site Were Gold-Lined Chambers – The New York Times
• Woman Arrested on Kalymnos for Illegal Possession of Antiquities – The National Herald

In Case You Missed It

• Roman Urban Planning Techniques Investigated in Cyprus – Archaeology Magazine
• British Museum to display ‘world’s first single-use cup’ fashioned by Minoans 3500 years ago | London Evening Standard
• Massive 2,000-year-old Shipwreck Discovered Off the Coast of Greek Island of Kefalonia

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Cyprus Institute joins forces with prestigious institutions for archaeological summer school – Cyprus Mail
• Caecilius est in horto: The importance of studying classical subjects by Aashi Shah, Henrietta Barnett School | This Is Local London

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] VIOLATIONES ORATORIAE. 

Public Facing Classics

• [Bill Beck] Honest Ads for Cars of Myth – EIDOLON

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Relaunch: Diotíma (v. 3.0)
• Silver For Gold: Strategic Gift Exchange for the Holiday Season – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Ghosts Signs | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• ‘Votive Reliefs on Isolated Rocks’: Religious Geography in the Highlands of Southwest Anatolia | The Votives Project
• The Twisted Tale Of The Pig War – In Medias Res – Medium
• Singing While the House Burns Down – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Troy: behind the scenes of a Hollywood epic – The British Museum Blog

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Armand D’Angour, Socrates in Love: The Making of a Philosopher. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Cynthia Stallman-Pacitti, The Life of Saint Pankratios of Taormina. Edited by John B. Burke. Byzantina Australiensia, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Altay Cokun, David Engles (ed.), Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015. Collection Latomus, volume 360. Leuven: Peeters, 2019. 

Professional Matters

• Call for Papers | Devouring Men: Food, Masculinity & Power, 24th & 25th July 2020 – Devouring Men
• Summer School: Thesaurus linguae Latinae
• ICS Annual Newsletter 2019 – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
• Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History 2020 – Exeter (England)
• Ancient Philosophy in Austin – 06-07/03/2020, Austin (TX, USA)
• CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES

Alia

• Celebrated ancient Egyptian woman physician likely never existed: Merit Ptah is often called the first woman doctor, researcher calls it a case of mistaken identity — ScienceDaily
• PORT RAIL: What’s with all the Latin being used these days? – Opinion – Tuscaloosa News – Tuscaloosa, AL
• Guide to the classics: Plato’s Republic
• Ekecheiria, the ancient Greek tradition for the Olympic Truce to be applied in Tokyo 2020 | Neos Kosmos
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• Why you must visit the Acropolis Museum when visiting Athens – Greek City Times
• A real Indiana Jones | Living | The Journal Gazette

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the birth of small locusts, but there will still be 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)