Hodie est a.d. V Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Developer WAS allowed to clear spoil right up to where City Walls collapsed – Cheshire Live
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- 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
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- Weekend Reading: Out Of Office – Classical Studies Support
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- Queries about Quadrupeds in Linear B – It’s All Greek To Me
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Fresh Podcastery
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.
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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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)
