Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 14 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Compromise reached to protect ancient mass grave in southern Athens | Life | ekathimerini.com
- Pompeii’s ancient drainage system is set to be used more than 2,000 years AFTER it was built | Daily Mail Online
In Case You Missed It
- Trump wants to ‘Make Federal Buildings Beautiful Again’ with neoclassical order | US news | The Guardian
- Hurrah for the heroic detectorists digging up our heritage
Fresh Bloggery
- Assailing the Salted Sea – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Monuments from Jerash, Jordan – Novo Scriptorium
- Bentley on Ancient Shoulders – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Just launched: DiogenesWeb
- The Reason for Empire’s Fall – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Actual, Classical, Ancient-Classroom-Approved Pig Latin
- The Wrong Monkey: Propertius
- Historical re-enactment and ancient warfare: what can play-fighting tell us about real fighting? – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- Review: A Digital Tool that Helps Teachers Generate Latin and Greek Vocabulary Lists | Society for Classical Studies
Fresh Podcasts
Join Dr Rad as she reminiscences about one of her film favourites and pays tribute to the man that has unwittingly dominated her life for over a decade…
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Simon Lentzsch, Roma victa: Von Roms Umgang mit Niederlagen. Schriften zur Alten Geschichte. Stuttgart: J.B. Metzler, 2019.
- [BMCR] Cecilia Mussini, Stefano Rocchi, Giovanni Cascio (ed.), Storie di libri e tradizioni manoscritte dall’Antichità all’Umanesimo: in memoria di Alessandro Daneloni. Münchener Italienstudien, Band 5. München: Herbert Utz Verlag, 2018.
- [BMCR] Edward Feser, Aristotle’s Revenge: The Metaphysical Foundations of Physical and Biological Science. Neunkirchen-Seelscheid: Editiones Scholasticae, 2019.
- [Scheidel, Escape from Rome] Rising from Roman ashes
- Nouvelles trouvailles de pièces antiques et d’artefacts archéologiques dans le nord de la mer Noire | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
- The Waltonian – Eastern’s Production of Antigone and the Importance of Female Power: Inside the recent production put on by the Eastern Theatre Department and how they adapted an ancient Greek tragedy to be their own.
- Step aside, Odysseus — UC Irvine retells Greek classic in ‘The Penelopiad’ – Los Angeles Times
Professional Matters
- CALL. 04.05.2020: Lost in connection. Connectivity in time of transformations – Napoli (Italy)
- CALL. 28.02.2020: The Case for Critical Ancient World Studies – Oxford (England)
- CALL. 15/02/2020: Conversation and Dialogue in Latin (21st ICLL 2021) -Santiago de Compostela (Spain)
- CALL. 28/02/2020: The Ancient Near East. Cultures in Contact (9th Annual Postgraduate Conference in Assyriology) -Oxford (England)
Alia
- Spartacus Was a Real Gladiator and the Baddest Rebel Leader in Rome | HowStuffWorks
- Shock of the Nude review — where would art be if the ancient Greeks had invented Pornhub? | The Times
- What Happens When Antiquities Are Obliterated? A Sociologist Investigates. | UVA Today
- Trump’s Impeachment Lawyer Alan Dershowitz May Have Owned Looted Antiquities, an Art Crime Expert Says | artnet News
- The Evolution of Pandora – 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 a brief period of destruction for humans.
… 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)
