Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- 50 Graves of Slaves Who Toiled at a Roman Villa Unearthed in England | Live Science
- Archaeologists Discover Ancient Aqueduct Near Khor Virap | Asbarez.com
- Historical tombs found in stadium field in Denizli
In Case You Missed It
- Solving the Greek monkey mystery gave us an important clue to Bronze Age world
- Roman-Era Trade Center Mapped Off Africa’s Northern Coast – Archaeology Magazine
- Excavations in Black Sea’s Zeugma to continue all year round
Greek/Latin News
- [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ Τουρκία καὶ ἡ Οὐικιπαιδεία
Public Facing Classics
- [Vanessa Stovall] The Birth of a Muthos – Ad Meliora – Medium
Fresh Bloggery
- Still Enslaved, on A Technicality – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Obbink Still Writing on that Sappho
- Vale Regina. Cultural Integration & Royal Departures: Roman Britain meets Megxit. – Caveat Lector: Reading Ancient Rome
- Half Baconed Arguments – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Merely Playing with Words: Learning For School Not for Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Ethnic identities and women’s position in Graeco-Roman Egypt – Novo Scriptorium
- The Acts of the Arval Brethren of AD 120 (#Hadrian1900) – FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Phalaris, a Phucking Phine Phriend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Classics Podcasts – CAMWSgrads
- Odysseus and Polyfemos – Mainzer Beobachter
- Online Open House|An exploration of the relevance of Odysseus’s words about kingship, with Leonard Muellner and Douglas Frame | The Kosmos Society
- Some Plaster Casts at the University of Manchester – MUSINGS OF CLIO
- Ancient Everyday: Janus – The Faces of a Roman God |
- Autism and Classical Myth: Is this a Classics project or an Education project?
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: LUDUS: A Database of Ancient Boardgames
Fresh Podcasts
The woman Olympias lived almost 2,400 years ago, around 373 BCE. Her legacy is one of controversy. For over two thousand years she has been represented as the vindictive, blood thirsty mother of Alexander the Great. But who was she really? What is the true story that unfolds when we peel away the layers of two millennia of propaganda? Was the most powerful woman in Greece, who believed she was descended from Achilles, really a monster? Or have we been missing the whole story? Come relive the epic life of Olympias and find out what happens when we breathe life back into the story of a woman that helped create an empire.
Book Reviews
- [Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite] How a militaristic goddess became the Venus of Western art | Catholic Herald
- [BMCR] Jean-Michel David, Au service de l’honneur. Les appariteurs de magistrats romains. Mondes Anciens, 7. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2019.
- [BMCR] Simon Greenslade (ed.), Excavations on the Vrina Plain, Volume 1: The Lost Roman and Byzantine Suburb. Butrint archaeological monograph series, 6. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019.
- [BMCR] Jennifer Gerrish, Sallust’s Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
Professional Matters
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- Creating a buzz: Turkish beekeepers risk life and limb to make mad honey | World news | The Guardian
- Rome: Piazza Navona’s underground stadium – Wanted in Rome
- The Big Review: Troy at the British Museum | The Art Newspaper
- [Journal] Issue 3 | Pericles at Play
- Ministry launches investigation into suicide case of Zeugma Museum archeologist – Turkey News
‘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 non-fatal diseases.
… 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)
