Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 6 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- New Building Found at Epidaurus’ Asclepieion in Sensational Archaeological Discovery | GreekReporter.com
- Scavi clandestini nelle necropoli di Ragusa: tre persone denunciate – IlGiornale.it
In Case You Missed It
- Wessex FM – News – ‘Rare’ 2,000-year-old grave of Iron Age warrior discovered in West Sussex
- Scientists say heat from Mount Vesuvius turned a victim’s brain into glass | The Art Newspaper
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Important Developments with the New Sappho Papyrus | Variant Readings
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Vanitas, Sappho, Mixantik and the eBayers
- Contextualizing the New Sappho Information | Variant Readings
- Forget Wealth, I Know About Foxes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 30 art objects held in precautionary seizure at the Brussels Antiques & Fine Arts fair ~ ARCAblog
- Dictatorships, Tyrants, and Kings – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Solving Ancient Puzzles – sci five | University of Basel – Medium
- Indigenous and Contemporary | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- The Death of the Individual and the Life of the Whole – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Wrong Monkey: A Few Significant Latin Works
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Classics and Class
Fresh Podcasts
In this month’s episode we talk to Professor David Langslow about the origins of language, in particular of Indo-European languages. We discuss their development, the diversification and also the role which Latin has played and continues to play in the modern world.
Today’s episode covers how the removal of Ancient Greek artifacts from Greece by Lord Elgin played out, how these sculptures became part of the collection of the British Museum, and why the controversy over all this has continued until today.
Statius’ Thebaid, Books 7-12. Six hundred years after Aeschylus, Statius once again brought the Theban epic to a thunderous conclusion.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Judith Fletcher, Myths of the Underworld in Contemporary Culture: The Backward Gaze. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Hermann Weidemann, Marcus Tullius Cicero. Über das Schicksal. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] M. Rahim Shayegan (ed.), Cyrus the Great. Life and Lore. Ilex Series. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2019. Pp. 250.
- [BMCR] Frederick Whitling, Western Ways: Foreign Schools in Rome and Athens. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Michael Fulford, Amanda Clarke, Emma Durham, Nicholas Pankhurst, Late Iron Age Calleva: The Pre-Conquest Occupation at Silchester Insula IX. Silchester Roman town: the Insula IX town life project. Volume 3. Britannia monographs series, 32. London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 2018.
- [BMCR] Rebecca Langlands, Exemplary Ethics in Ancient Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Professional Matters
- The Grammar of Being Human: Greek Grammar and American Slavery – University of Pittsburgh
- EpiDoc Workshop – 20-24th April 2020 in London – Current Epigraphy
- Parthenon Symposium – Gender In Ancient Greece And Today | Calendar | wsmv.com
- Apply Now to Study Abroad on the Classics in Italy Program This Summer | University of Arkansas
- Women Intellectuals in Antiquity Symposium | TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
- ACE ‘World of the Hero’ Event at the British Museum – ACE Classics
Alia
- How a Greek war 2,500 years ago applies to Trump’s 2020 impeachment trial [Opinion] – HoustonChronicle.com
- Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli – Wanted in Rome
- Stop torturing yourself – What the philosophical comedy of “The Good Place” owes to the Romans | Prospero | The Economist
- Super Bowl LIV: The Tradition and Facts Behind Roman Numerals Explained
- Part of Sir Isaac Newton’s Manuscripts Were Written in Greek | Greek Reporter Europe
- VIDEO. Exhibition Marc Chagall and the Greek world | Monaco Tribune
- Team creates game-based virtual archaeology field school | EurekAlert! Science News
- Archeologists participate in NSF-funded project to prevent sexual harassment | EurekAlert! Science News
- Hecate, The New Goddess In ‘Sabrina,’ Is A Real Deity | Revelist
- What ancient Rome may teach on post-Brexit tourism – BBC News
- Tales of Impossibility: The 2000-Year Quest to Solve the Mathematical Problems of Antiquity, by David S. Richeson | Times Higher Education (THE)
- Huge US university cancels subscription with Elsevier
- Rome: Pantheon is Italy’s top tourist site – Wanted in Rome
‘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 death everywhere.
… 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)
