Hodie est a.d. XIX Kal. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 20 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Another gladiator chamber found at the Roman amphitheatre in Cartagena | Murcia Today
• Culture Ministry says storms responsible for damage to Bisri archaeological sites | News , Lebanon News | THE DAILY STAR

Classicists and Classics in the News

• What happens when women translate the Classics

Fresh Bloggery

• Blog: Women in Classics: A Conversation with Shelley Haley: Part II | Society for Classical Studies
• Solon Says: Sue Bad Leaders of State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Disjointing Time: Ancient Texts and Science Fiction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Biting Tax-men, Barking Philosophers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• New Harvests From Old Seeds – In Medias Res – Medium
• More podcasts for ancient historians and archaeologists – MUSINGS OF CLIO

Fresh Podcasts

• Episode #3: Communication and Letter-writing in the Ancient World (w/ Dr Antonia Sarri)

In the third episode of Discovering the Ancient World Classicist Dr Antonia Sarri discusses the ways in which written communication developed in the Graeco-Roman world, and the information about society and behaviour modern scholars can infer from these ancient letters.

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CXXXIII – Anthology of Interest II on Apple Podcasts

Three people present three Roman history topics each for three minutes. In this episode you will hear:- Scaurus and the marble columns- The 206 fragments of the Portland Vase- The paranoia of Emperor Claudius- The Roman perception of Ireland (featuring exploding sheep)- The vanity of the Alexander the Sophist- An early example of chemical warfare- Living it rough with Seneca- Goldflake and Innocence- The nazi fascination with Tacitus’ Germania

Guests: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University) ;Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Kenneth F. Kitchell, They Said It First: The Wisdom of the Ancient Greeks and Romans. Mundelein: Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Charles H. Stocking, The Politics of Sacrifice in Early Greek Myth and Poetry. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. 
• [BMCR] Jan Stenger (ed.), Learning Cities in Late Antiquity: The Local Dimension of Education. London; New York: Routledge, 2019. 

Dramatic Receptions

• Axiom Repertory Theatre Debuts New Home by Staging a Classic Greek Tragedy – anewscafe.com
• Antigone review: Intense and empathetic rewriting of the ancient Greek tragedy
• Commonweal Theatre announces remount of Trojan War drama

Professional Matters

• Preliminary Schedule – Association of Ancient Historians 2020
• Archaeological Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin – Roman Forum Field School – The Signum Vortumni Project (2020)

Alia

• CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins of the Nabataeans
• Quick Q&A: Dr. Kara Cooney – Indianapolis Monthly
• If Latin Is a “Dead” Language, Why Is It Still Taught in Schools? | Reader’s Digest

‘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 a famine, a plague of mice and the slaughter of quadrupeds.

… 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)

Hodie est Id. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 19 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Plans submitted for ‘world class’ Roman attraction in York | The Northern Echo

In Case You Missed It

• [Daisy Dunn] In the shadow of Vesuvius | Spectator USA

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Athol Daily News – At Athol High School, Latinum non est mortuus

Public Facing Classics

• [Edith Hall] Why working-class Britons loved reading and debating the Classics | Aeon Essays
• [Mary Beard] Prince Harry and the Emperor Tiberius – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
• [Adrienne Mayor] Remains Of Ancient Female Fighters Discovered : NPR

Fresh Bloggery

• [must reading] News on the Newest Sappho Fragments: Back to Christie’s Salerooms | Roberta Mazza
• Marcus Valerius Martial is Dead! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS’s Preliminary Figures for 2019 Treasure Finds Shockingly Low
• Diagnose Thyself: Why Be a Doctor? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Panpsycast Philosophy Podcast: Episode 73, Plato’s Phaedo: The Death of Socrates (Part I – The Soul and Body) on Apple Podcasts

Let me tell you about the day Socrates drank the poison. You must be aware of his trial and apology? The Athenians have not stopped talking about it since Meletus and the others condemned him. Do not worry, he did not die in fear and nor is he truly gone. He argued his case much like he always had. He died the philosopher’s death, having practiced for it his entire life.

What does this mean? Socrates spoke persuasively about matters concerning the immortality of the soul. He said the life of a true philosopher helps the prisoner, chained hand and foot in their body, to escape from the dark cave of ignorance and into the light of wisdom. This, in turn, provides the soul with the perfect means to release itself from the body after death.

When the hour arrived, and Socrates finally took the hemlock, he did not flinch. Those of us who bore witness could not help but shed a tear – we were not as brave as the wise man who lay before us. What? You would like to hear more? Are you not convinced of the immortality that Socrates proposed? Come, take a seat, I will tell you the full story…

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Hal Brands, Charles Edel, The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Athena Trakadas, In Mauretaniae maritimis: Marine Resource Exploitation in a Roman North African Province. Geographica historica, 40. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Paul Chrystal, Rome: Republic into Empire, The Civil Wars of the First Century BCE. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2019. 
• HERODOTUS: Histories Book V – Classics for All

Professional Matters

• ORP: Merchants and Markets in Late Antiquity | Society for Classical Studies
• Hahn Scholarship for Rome/Greece Study 2020 | CAAS-CW

Alia

• Review – Troy: myth and reality – Current Archaeology
• The Recorder – Open Focus: Shelburne’s Jonathan Shay increased awareness of PTSD, ‘moral injury’
• Berenice, the Jewish Queen of Rome, and the Origins of Replacement Theory – Tablet Magazine
• Jim Heffernan column: It’s time to brush up on your Latin | Duluth News Tribune
• [Western Australia] 5 Reasons Why Families Will Love This Ancient Rome Exhibition

‘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 disease.

… 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)

Hodie est pridie Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Turkish police seize 1,000 antiquities from collector’s home | World | The Times
• Tornos News | Exhibition on Greeks’ presence in Northwestern Med launched in Montpellier

In Case You Missed It 

• Israeli Archaeologists May Have Discovered 2,000-Year-Old Market in City of David | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
• Roman crown on show at Colchester Castle Adorn exhibition | Maldon and Burnham Standard

Classics and Classicists in the News

• WCC Leadership Award to Prof. Hallett! | Department of Classics 

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 11.01.2020 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• [Brown Newsletter] The Occasional Classicist | Classics | Brown University

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: January 9
• Racist Intimidation invokes Socrates and “Classical Education” :: Pharos
• The fall of a meteorite at Aegos Potami and record of a comet passing close to Earth in the 5th century BC – Novo Scriptorium
• Quindecemviri, Bull’s Blood, and the Taurobolium
• Weekend Reading: Wouldn’t it be Loverly? – Classical Studies Support
• Slander and Salt – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The consequences of Hubris in Human societies – The almost ‘prophetic’ word of Hesiod – Novo Scriptorium
• Shaking Us Down – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Prayer in Ancient Greece – Novo Scriptorium
• Cold-Hearted Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Mens Sana in Corpore Sano
• The Story of the Black King Among The Magi – History From Below 

Landscape Modery

Dramatic Receptions

• Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale Take On “Medea” | The New Yorker
• [paywalled] Modern Vindication for an Ancient Flop – WSJ

Professional Matters

• [Registration] RAC / TRAC 2020 « Roman Archaeology Conference
• Assistant Professor, Classics and Religious Studies UMass Boston 
• Visiting Assistant Professor Classics Union College – HigherEdJobs
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Guide to Graduate Programs in the Classics 

Alia

• Canadian Stoicism – The Good Men Project
• An Ancient Greek Festival For Creating Female Sperm | WUNC
• It’s all Greek to foreign students | Comment | ekathimerini.com
• [possibly paywalled] Britain Moves to Regulate Its Art Trade. Bring Your ID. – The New York Times
• [possibly paywalled] Opinion | The Academic Apocalypse – The New York Times

‘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 personal damage to men but there will be plenty of food for cattle and plenty of fish.

… 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)

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

• Skylight Music Theatre: ‘Gospel at Colonus’takes Oedipus story to church

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)

Hodie est a.d. VId. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 15 Poseideon II in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• [Must Reading!] A scandal in Oxford: the curious case of the stolen gospel | News | The Guardian
• Roman crown on show at Colchester Castle Adorn exhibition | Gazette
• Mycenaean Cyclades | Athens | To March 8 | What’s On | ekathimerini.com
• Hadrian’s wall fort gifted to England’s historic sites collection | UK news | The Guardian
• The Biggest Private Archaeological Museum in Eastern Europe Will Open Doors Soon, Reports Hebros News

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeology news: How ‘treasures of Apollo’ were found buried below ancient Greek ruins | World | News | Express.co.uk
• High-Status Roman Burials Found in Britain | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classical Archaeologist Margarete Bieber Reading Group | Department of Classics Cornell Arts & Sciences

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] VENETIOLANA SEDITIO 

Public Facing Classics

• [Daisy Dunn] BBC – Culture – Did the Trojan War actually happen?

Fresh Bloggery

• Looting Matters: The Oxford Papyri Scandal: “a crime against culture and knowledge of immense proportions”
• More News on Dirk Obbink and Sappho | Variant Readings
• NDQ 2019 Year in Review | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Affirming Beliefs by Using Them – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Books by their Cover from the AIA/SCS Book Room | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• I’m Not Avignour Shit! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Your Personnel Committee Has Questions | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Emotions from Greek Antiquity | The Kosmos Society
• Miraculous Things and Gullible People – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Etruscan Hydro-Technologies – Novo Scriptorium

Fresh Podcasts

• Cleopatra x Marc Antony: Lovers in a Dangerous Time (Part 5) – Ancient History Fangirl

After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony’s entire army–100,000 strong–surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate the terms of their defeat.

Those were dark, foreboding days. Friends and allies fled the palace. Marc Antony fell into a deep depression, while Cleopatra searched desperately for a way out–one that would keep her kingdom intact and her children alive.

• BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Catullus

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the poetry of Catullus – some of the greatest verse of his time, and some of the most scurrilous – and his influence on Roman and later poetry

Book Reviews

• WISDOM IN CLASSICAL AND BIBLICAL TRADITION – Classics for All
• [BMCR] Thea S. Thorsen, Stephen J. Harrison (ed.), Roman Receptions of Sappho. Classical Presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Benedikt Strobel (ed.), Die Kunst der philosophischen Exegese bei den spätantiken Platon- und Aristoteles-Kommentatoren. Philosophie der Antike, Band 36. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Artemis Leontis, Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019. 
• [Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite] The dark side of Venus — goddess of war as well as love | The Spectator

Professional Matters

• Dig Scholarships Available in 2020 – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Women Intellectuals in Antiquity Symposium | King’s College London eStore

Alia

• Responding to Disaster: The Getty Fire | The Getty Iris
• How life was on the Roman frontier in Scotland – The Scotsman
• Canadian Stoicism – The Good Men Project

‘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)