Hodie est pridie Non. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 11 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Triumphal Arch in Anavarza restored
- Campaigners launch petition to preserve Cam’s Roman villa | Gazette Series
- Hoard of ancient Roman coins found in Derbyshire field – Derbyshire Live
- Massive new business site in Milton Keynes “would lead to total loss of Roman ruins” – report | Milton Keynes Citizen
- Greece Issues Commemorative Coins for 2500th Anniversary of Battle of Thermopylae Battle of Thermopylae: Greece Issues Commemorative Euro Coins to Mark 2500th Anniversary | GreekReporter.com
- Shoes fit for the Gods go on display at Italy’s Pitti Palace
In Case You Missed It
- [still nope] Pliny the Elder died in the Mount Vesuvius eruption of A.D. 79. Is this his skull? | Live Science
- Building Discovered at Greece’s Asclepeion of Epidaurus – Archaeology Magazine
- Minoan Artifacts Uncovered at Akrotiri – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- [Claire Millington] Families and slaves at the frontiers of the Roman Empire – Banbury Historical Society talk | Banbury Guardian
- [Michael Kulikowski] Fall of the Roman Empire is revisited in new book by Penn State historian | Penn State University
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Literature Review: Environmental History and the works of J. Donald Hughes – MUSINGS OF CLIO
- Worse Through Words: National Emergencies and War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Weaponised Imperialism | Sphinx
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lateinische Wörterbücher- Eine illustrierte Bibliographie von Richard Wolf
- Fish-Eaters, Meat-Eaters and Bread: Dehumanizing Structures in the Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: When Gods Speak to Men: Divine Speech according to Textual Sources in the Ancient Mediterranean Basin
- Really Important, Hard to Understand – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Lifestyle – Mainzer Beobachter
- Deeper into the Map of Pompeii – Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Johannes Haubold, John M. Steele, Kathryn Stevens, Keeping Watch in Babylon: The Astronomical Diaries in Context. Culture and history of the ancient Near East, volume 100. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Nandini B. Pandey, The Poetics of Power in Augustan Rome. Latin Poetic Responses to Early Imperial Iconography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] D. Mylona, R. Nicholson (ed.), The Bountiful Sea: Fish Processing and Consumption in Mediterranean Antiquity. Proceedings of the International Conference Held at Oxford, 6-8 September 2017. Journal of Maritime Archaeology Special Issue, 13.3. New York: Springer, 2018. x
Dramatic Receptions
- “Medea” and “Mac Beth” Reflect Modern Tragedies | The New Yorker
- Reimagining ‘Eurydice’ | Daily Trojan
Professional Matters
- CALL. 15.02.2020: [SESSION 28] “Art Historical Approaches to the Near East“(ASOR 2020) – Boston (MA, USA)
- CALL. 15.02.2020: [SESSION 29] “Landscapes of Settlement in the Ancient Near East“(ASOR 2020) – Boston (MA, USA)
- ASOR Annual Meeting 2020 – 18-19-20-21/11/2020, Boston (MA, USA)
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 4] “Music and dance in Ancient Greek and Rome and their preservation“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
- Flavian Empire conference, June 2020 | Maynooth University
- CfP: Layout and materiality of writing in ancient documents – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- New trends in the Study of Eleatism | School of Classics | University of St Andrews
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 10] “Rethinking the Classics: Novelties on Greek textual criticism“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 9] “Ageing bodies in Antiquity. Dependency and care“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 12] “Literary Criticism in Ancient Historiography“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 8] “Single-parent families in Antiquity. Between law and social practice“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
- CALL. 30.04.2020: Cicero Digitalis. Cicero and Roman thought in the age of Digital Humanities: Projects and Methods – Torino/Vercelli (Italy)
- CALL. 30.03.2020: Ludi Plautini Sarsinates IV. Characters on Stage: “The Senex“ – Sarsina (Italy)
- CALL. 25.03.2020: [PANEL 20] “Itinerance and Memory. Images of in Ancient Greece: Multi-temporality, Cultural Agents and Visual Agendas“ (CCAH) – Coimbra (Portugal)
Alia
- Photos: Saving an Ancient Roman Sculpture, Step by Careful Step | The Getty Iris
- ′Gods in Color′: Shining new light on ancient statues | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 03.02.2020
- Woman with Scroll – Smarthistory
- Byzantine Mosaic of a Personification, Ktisis – Smarthistory
- 10 Things That Make No Sense About Hercules: The Legendary Journeys
- [paywalled] A Walk With Homer Is an Earbud Odyssey – WSJ
- Super Bowl Ad Featuring Greek Types of Love Moves Audiences | USA.GreekReporter.com
- Rome celebrates 2,773rd birthday in 2020 – Wanted in Rome
- Kousuke Masuda’s Greek Mythology Theater Manga Gets Live-Action Series, Stage Play – News – Anime News Network
‘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 that men will not only look worried, they’ll be worried.
… 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)
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