Hodie est IV Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ [still not sure about the Attic date] in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Tornos News | “From Homer’s World: Tinos and Cyclades in the Mycenaean Age” at Athens Benaki Museum
- Les carnyx et les casques gaulois de Tintignac sont de retour en Corrèze
- The Most Important Ancient Greek Archaeological Discoveries of 2019 | GreekReporter.com
In Case You Missed It
- Could a Jewish author have been first to record destruction of ancient Pompeii? | The Times of Israel
- Tornos News | Greek government preparing Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis to receive visitors from 2022
- Largest ever Roman Shipwreck Found in the Eastern Mediterranean – The National Herald
Classics and Classicists in the News
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 28.12.2019 – Vatican News
- [Ephemeris] LABES AEREONAVIS
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Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: December 29
- Annual Atopia: the Not-Top 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Electrum: Studia z Historii Starożytnej / Journal of Ancient History
- Quoting Horace Like Boris – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer’s Thebes: Epic Rivalries and the Appropriation of Mythical Past
- Ancient Atheizers, Up and Atom! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- New titles on Roman religion in 2019 | Szabó Csaba
- On the Wings of Stolen Virtue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dacia Felix: the Geten – Mainzer Beobachter
- Some More Things Were Published – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Vergil project
- When You Can, Live as You Should – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dacia Felix: de Skythen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Madness and the Children of Herakles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mycenaean Atlas Project
- Hearth structures in Klissoura cave 1, Greece; the oldest evidence for the emergence of ceramic technology (~32-34 kyr BP) – Novo Scriptorium
Fresh Podcastery
Hodie dies brevissima est totius anni!
Landscape Modery
Book Reviews
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Ancient Botany
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Herodotus, Histories Book V
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Homer and the Good Ruler in Antiquity and Beyond
- SENECA: AGAMEMNON – Classics for All
Professional Matters
- Professor, 9 Month Salaried (Classics) job with Florida State University | 1925878
- XIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Ciencias de las Religiones: Sacra Imago: religiones, símbolos y representaciones – 13-14-15/05/2020, Granada (Spain)
- Atena e Minerva. Tra Iconografia e Letteratura – 03-04-05-06/06/2020, Veletri (Italy)
- Graduate Archaeology at Oxford International Conference 2020: Innovative Approaches to Archaeology – 23-24-25/03/2020, Oxford (England)
- Art Crime Research Opportunities: 28 December 2019
- Thirteenth Annual Graduate Conference in Classics: Honor and Shame in Classical Antiquity – 20/03/2020, New York (NY, USA)
- The World in Pieces: Fragments and the Fragmentary – 23-24/06/2020, Leiden (Netherlands)
- Beyond Modern Science I: Basic Terms of Ancient Scholarly Knowledge and Practices – 09-10/01/2020, Mainz (Germany)
Alia
- Virtual Tour of Ancient Thessaloniki Reveals the City’s Magnificent Past (video) | GreekReporter.com
- Archaeological discoveries are happening faster than ever before, helping refine the human story
- Arch of Marcus Aurelius – Tarabulus, Libya – Atlas Obscura
- Sea Creatures on Ancient Coins
- Parthenon Marbles Damaged by Vandals, British Museum Cleaning – The National Herald
‘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 bodies will be in good shape.
… 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)
