Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 29 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Mt. Vesuvius May Have Turned Ancient Roman Brains Into Glass
- A tantalising glimpse of Roman life on the Gwent Levels | South Wales Argus
- [Khalkedon] Historic port city viewed from sky
In Case You Missed It
- Tornos News | British Museum may face fine if it doesn’t return Parthenon Marbles to Greece
- Archaeologists uncover evidence that legendary Amazons were based on real women warriors | The Art Newspaper
Public Facing Classics
- [Maxwell T Paule] The Whitening Thief – EIDOLON
- [Peter Jones] What would the ancient Greeks have made of Megxit? | The Spectator
- [Mary Beard] Trump in the flesh – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- Don’t Mix a Fire With a Knife: Some Pythagorean Sayings – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Juvenal’s Tenth Satire
- Rome Should Be Proud Of Its Fall – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Letter to Brill on the Museum of the Bible’s Dead Sea Scrolls Fragments: A Positive Outcome | Roberta Mazza
- F**k Your Faulty Footnotes, Fool! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Het graf van Marcus Mallius – Mainzer Beobachter
- Spice Up Your (Animals’) Love Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Passione Christi Usque Ad Impassionem Christianorum: De Stoicismo Christiano (Latine)
Fresh Podcasts
Antony joins David to discuss his PhD ‘Gods Behind Glass’, which looks at the interpretation of Romano-British religious practice and identity in museums. They discuss changing views of religion in Roman Britain, including shifts from interpreting it as accommodation to domination, the sensory experience of ritual, where people’s perceptions of the Roman religion originate from, and Mithras (obviously).
Antony also talks about his time as curator of the archaeological collections of Lincolnshire County Council, making the jump from this to the PhD, how he’s learnt a lot about the Chinese Bronze Age, and Edinburgh at New Years.
Our only explanation for this episode is that it was Jenny’s birthday–and she wanted to have some friends over. So we invited Katy and Nathan from Queens Podcast to come on our podcast and drink us under the table.
Join us on a drunken ramble through the Julio-Claudian dynasty, where we go on and ON about our favorite topics: Agrippina (Elder and Younger), Cleopatra, badass women in history, and whether Caligula and Henry VIII were in fact the same person.
From his sickbed he named his favorite sister, Drusilla, to inherit the imperial “property and the throne”. But when he recovered, he decided to rid himself of some enemies, real or imagined, including Gemellus, Macro and Silanus, his former father-in-law.
Nikita Gill on goddesses, Sandeep Parmar on Hope Mirlees, Francesca Wade looks at the careers of classicist Jane Harrison and LSE’s Eileen Power and Victorian Leonard looks at attempts to write more women back into the story of classics. Shahidha Bari presents.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Trevor Bryce, Warriors of Anatolia: A Concise History of the Hittites. London; NewYork: I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- [BMCR] P. N. Singer, Ph. J. van der Eijk, Piero Tassinari (ed.), Galen. Works on Human Nature. Volume 1, ‘Mixtures (De temperamentis)’. Cambridge Galen translations. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] Paul Allen Miller, Horace. Understanding Classics. London; New York: I.B. Tauris, 2019.
- [BMCR] Lucio Ceccarelli, Contributions to the History of the Latin Elegiac Distich. Studi e testi tardoantichi, 15. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- CALL. 07.02.2020: Child Slavery in the Roman Empire – Edinburgh (Scotland)
- CALL. 15.02.2020: Pacific Partnership in Late Antiquity Conference – Adelaide (Australia)
- CALL. 29.02.2020: Foreign Nations in the Prophets – London (England)
- CALL. 07.02.2020: Cicero Away Day – Birmingham (England)
- ROMAN DAILY LIFE IN PETRONIUS AND POMPEII Summer Seminar | CAAS-CW
Alia
- The Year of the Amazon? | by Christopher Benfey | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
- Who Was Elektra? | The Getty Iris
- [Journal] Karanos. Bulletin of Ancient Macedonian Studies
‘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 peace in the city.
… 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)
