Hodie est a.d. IV Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- [I think I messed up the link yesterday; definitely must reading] A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel | News | The Guardian
- UM Today | The Guardian: The curious case of the stolen gospel
- Hadrian’s Wall Roman fort ‘gifted to the nation’ – BBC News
- Survey project at Amargeti village in Pafos district by Graz University
In Case You Missed It
- BBC – Culture – Did the Trojan War actually happen?
- Roman Emperors Were More Likely Than Gladiators to Die Gruesome Deaths | Live Science
- Against Mosquitoes, A Love Poem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Classicists and Classics in the News
- [Marybeth Reilly-McGreen] Holy Cross Alumna Likens Greek Classics to Hip Hop Music | Newsroom | College of the Holy Cross
- UT-Austin acknowledges 17 additional cases of sexual misconduct by employees | KTSA
- UT-Austin prof who has written on ‘pederastic intimacy’ defends his scholarship | The College Fix
Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: January 9
- Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with SCS President Shelley Haley: Part I | Society for Classical Studies
- Turtle-eaters and Their Homes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Autism and Classical Myth: What Cicero might have to say to autistic children – with an animated surprise
- Anger and Masks of Injury – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Late Bronze Age Collapse and the ‘Greek Dark Ages’ have economic, military, and climatic explanations – Novo Scriptorium
- Lower Merion grad’s book showcased in Washington D.C. exhibit | CAAS-CW
- Ancients vs. Moderns – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Melian Dialogues | Sphinx
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Stefano Maso (ed.), Dissoi Logoi. Edizione criticamente rivista, introduzione, traduzione, commento. Studi di Storia della Filosofia Antica, 7. Roma: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2018.
- [BMCR] Chavdar Tzochev, Amphora Stamps from Thasos. The Athenian Agora, volume XXXVII. Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2016.
- [BMCR] Jakob Leith Fink (ed.), Phantasia in Aristotle’s Ethics. Reception in the Arabic, Greek, Hebrew and Latin Traditions. Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- Peter Meineck’s Warrior Chorus Project: Staged Reading of Greek Tragedy by and for Veterans | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Homer in Sicily | Society for Classical Studies
- Conference: CIcero Awayday | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Local Responses to Cultural Heritage Preservation in the Age of UNESCO | Society for Classical Studies
- Union College ~ Visiting Assistant Professor Classics – HigherEdJobs
Alia
- The Perennial Problem With the Excavation of Ancient Sites
- Ancient Romans may have used Chinese medicine to treat coeliac disease | New Scientist
- Janus and New Year Coins in Ancient Rome: MA-Shops
- My Favorite Beverage Is a 2,000-Year-Old Energy Drink From Ancient Rome
- Ephesus Museum in Selçuk | Turkish Archaeological News
- Merida May Be Spain’s Best Kept Secret
‘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 danger for the king of the East.
… 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)
