Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 30 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Actualité | Découverte de nouvelles fondations du pont-aqued… | Inrap
- [No they aren’t; they found his body two days after the eruption] Remains found by Pompeii really are Pliny the Elder, new tests indicate – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Archaeology clashes with development in Turkey’s ancient city of Sagalassos
- Tornos News | Surprise discovery of Late Roman era skeletons and robbers baffle researchers of ancient Pafos Agora
- Princely tomb of Iron Age mystery man discovered in Italy. And there’s a chariot inside. | Live Science
- Roman artefacts found at Llanwern housing development – BBC News
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Senior presents research at DC conference – Hillsdale Collegian
- [Daniel Mendelsohn] Daniel Mendelsohn: Ecstasy and Terror: From the Greeks to Game of Thrones
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] TEMPESTAS \”GLORIA\” LITORA CELEBERRIMA DESTRUIT
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Fresh Bloggery
- Philosophers, Brush Your Teeth! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Pergamon Altar
- What About Essayschylus? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Three Things Thursday: Survey Archaeology, Western Literature, and Poetry from a Former Student | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- The Battle of Mykale | The Kosmos Society
- Kiwi Hellenist: Detecting the earth’s curvature
- The ‘Wives’ of Telemachus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Horace: A Break From Serious Labor – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Classical Studies Talk at HMP Stafford | Classical Studies
Fresh Podcasts
- QDP Ep 155: De Pelliculis Nuper Visis – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast
- Tres amici de pelliculis colloquuntur, quas inter ferias hiemales viderunt.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Pietro Li Causi (ed.), Seneca. Epistula ad Lucilium 124. Palermo: la Bibliotheca di Classico Contemporaneo, 2019.
- [BMCR] David Paniagua (ed.), Polemii Silvii Latercvlvs. Fonti per la storia dell’Italia medievale. Antiquitates, 51. Roma: Sede dell’Istituto Palazzo Borromini, 2018.
- [BMCR] Michael P. Foley, Against the Academics: St. Augustine’s Cassiciacum Dialogues, Volume 1. New Haven; London: Yale University Press, 2019.
Professional Matters
- NEH Seminar for Pre-Collegiate Teachers | Society for Classical Studies
- IIE: Enhancing U.S.-Greece Academic Collaboration through International Academic Partnerships | Society for Classical Studies
- The Archaeology of Ritual: Rethinking ritual practices in Sanctuaries and Necropoleis of the ancient Mediterranean world – 07-08/02/2020, Berlin (Germany)
- Summer School: Thesaurus linguae Latinae
- CALL. 28.02.2020: [PANEL 4] Rome’s forgotten poetry: Poetic production between community-based art, folklore, and avant-garde entertainment (CCC) – Lyon (France)
Alia
- Archaeologists biggest spenders in staff expenses figures | Palatinate Online
- ANE TODAY – 202001 – Fossil Pollen and the Story of Olives in the Mediterranean Basin –
- The Tragedy That Was Athens | Issue 136 | Philosophy Now
- What Philosophy Does To Philosophers | Issue 136 | Philosophy Now
- By Toutatis! France unveils statue to Asterix creator – France 24
- Boris Johnson can conquer more than Brexit as the new Alexander the Great
- Honey and olive oil on Rome’s Palatine Hill – Wanted in Rome
- 3D recreation shows elaborate headdress of Asterix-like Iron Age mystery warrior | The National
- Portraits and statues digitally repainted to bring ancient royalty to life / Boing Boing
- In Focus: How the belt of a goddess revealed the true colours of the Parthenon marbles – Country Life
- Promtheus’ Fire: Climate Change in the Time of Willful Ignorance – CounterPunch.org
‘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 an outbreak of disease after a period of shortages.
… 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)