Hodie est  a.d. V Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Developer WAS allowed to clear spoil right up to where City Walls collapsed – Cheshire Live
• Historic Cam remains of incredible Roman bath house will be preserved by housing developer Bovis after residents’ campaign – Gloucestershire Live

In Case You Missed It

• MAGA War on Architectural Diversity Weaponizes Greek Columns – The New York Times
• Opinion | What’s So Great About Fake Roman Temples? – The New York Times

Classics and Classicists in the News

• Books and Coffee discusses new take on old classics | | purdueexponent.org
• Professor Donald Russell FBA | St John’s College, Oxford

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 08.02.2020 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• How do we review television – intelligently? – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: February 9
• The History Girls: How Not to Besiege a Town by L.J. Trafford
• The Edithorial: Poussin’s Disabled Divinities: Orion and the Rising Sun
• Polyphemus’ Daughter – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Deeper into the Map of Pompeii – Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project
• Nilometer – Mainzer Beobachter
• Paraklausithyron
• Absentmindedness is…uh, What? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Out Of Office – Classical Studies Support
• Debt, Asylum, Slavery, and Freedom – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Gaudeamus Igitur
• “Words have no meanings in death”: Translating Catullus 101
• I Know Simon and Simon Knows Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Queries about Quadrupeds in Linear B – It’s All Greek To Me
• The Truth about Pythagoreans – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• ‘Classics Beyond Whiteness:’ Relevant, inclusive | Wake Forest News
• The Historian’s Hut: Did You Know?: Rome’s Underhanded Acquisition Of Disputed Land In 446 BCE
• Poring Over the Pugna Porcorum – In Medias Res – Medium

Fresh Podcastery

• ‎Bibl•e•pigraphy: #2 Inscriptional Proof of a First Century CE Christian? Erastus the Aedile ≠ Erastus the City-Manager (Rom 16:23) on Apple Podcasts

This podcast explores the Erastus Inscription from ancient Corinth, which many scholars conclude refers to a first century Christian named Erastus (Rom 16:23). Clint tests this hypothesis and discusses the oft-neglected circumstances surrounding the inscription’s discovery and publication.

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 71: The Gods Depart (Statius’ Thebaid) on Apple Podcasts

Statius’ Thebaid, Books 7-12. Six hundred years after Aeschylus, Statius once again brought the Theban epic to a thunderous conclusion.

Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Fred C. Woudhuizen, The Luwians of Western Anatolia: Their Neighbours and Predecessors. Oxford: Archeopress, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Philipp Sidney Horky (ed.), Cosmos in the Ancient World. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Camilla Colombi, La necropoli di Vetulonia nel periodo orientalizzante. Italiká, 5. Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2018. 
• [BMCR] Nathaniel B. Jones, Painting, Ethics, and Aesthetics in Rome. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] David Pritchard, Athenian Democracy at War. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019. 
• [BMCR] Ulrike Steinert (ed.), Assyrian and Babylonian Scholarly Text Catalogues: Medicine, Magic and Divination. Die babylonisch- assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen, Band 9. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2018. 
• Military Book Review Maecenas

Dramatic Receptions

• Read the Reviews for the Metropolitan Opera Premiere of Agrippina | Playbill

Professional Matters

• 81st Annual Latin Week contests – February 22, 2020 | CAAS-CW
• CALL. 15/02/2020: Sixth Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Heritage of Western Greece with special emphasis on Arete -Syracuse (Italy)
• Oberlin College & Conservatory Applicant Portal | Thomas F. Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics

Alia

• The Best Board Games of the Ancient World | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
• Climate activists bring Trojan Horse to British Museum in BP sponsorship protest | London Evening Standard
• NGC Ancients – Bronze Coinage of the Greek Kings of Ptolemaic Egypt
• Homer Or Hollywood: 5 Inaccuracies In Brad Pitt’s Troy (5 Times They Got It Right)
• Gwent has a stunning array of Roman ruins – here’s a quick guide | South Wales Argus
• Spartacus Was a Real Gladiator and the Baddest Rebel Leader in Rome | HowStuffWorks
• Museum Bums team get to the bottom of Greek love in Cambridge
• Confucius and Cicero | EurekAlert! Science News
• A re-evaluation of manner of death at Roman Herculaneum following the AD 79 eruption of Vesuvius | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
• Irene Siegel revisits Ravenswood mural: ‘I’m still excited by art” – Chicago Sun-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 bad things for the barley crop.

… 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)