Hodie est a.d. III Id. Feb. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Preservation plans for Cam’s Roman villa revealed | Gazette Series
- Durham archaeological dig reveals ‘earliest resident’ – BBC News
- Heerlen Roman baths are the oldest building in the Netherlands – DutchNews.nl
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Drainage System Discovered Below Pompeii Is Restored And Functioning | IFLScience
- Dozens tablets that called upon ‘the gods of the underworld’ to curse the dead are found in Athens | Daily Mail Online
- Activists Brought a Trojan Horse to the British Museum and Camped Out in the Galleries Overnight to Protest BP’s Sponsorship | artnet News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- [Katharine von Stackelberg] Classics professor reflects on legacy of Spartacus – The Brock News
Public Facing Classics
- Life in the library … forty years ago – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
- [Elodie Paillard] As Fates would have it – what we learn from minor players in Greek tragedies and Hollywood films
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OrientDams.Visualizing the impact of dams on heritage in the Near East
- One Perpetual Sleep for A Week of Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alkidamas of Elaia about Freedom – Novo Scriptorium
- Some ‘Platonic’ Epigrams for Love Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- How dangerous women of the ancient world keep their reputation: looking at Medusa
- Don’t Piss Before the Sun – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Extreme conditions impose extreme measures: The Romans elect a Dictator after the battle of lake Thrasymene – Novo Scriptorium
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oriental Institute 2018-2019 Annual Report
- The foundation of Constantinople – Novo Scriptorium
- Sybota (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- One Love, Two Bodies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Fresh Podcasts
Lupercalia was a Roman festival which took place in the middle of February, and had the effects of purifying and cleansing the city. Participants would take part in a blood sacrifice, strip off their togas, and run naked through the streets of Rome.
We trace the etymologies and development of the words “sex” & “gender”, as well as words for women and men in Greek, Latin, and English, touching on Roman, Greek, and medieval English ideas about gender. Then we discuss the grammatical term “gender” and how it differs across languages around the world.
Book Reviews
- [Daisy Dunn] The Terror and the Fascination of Pompeii | The New Yorker
- [BMCR] Susanna Morton Braund, Zara M. Torlone (ed.), Virgil and his Translators. Classical Presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] Marie-Pierre Chaufray, Ivan Guermeur, Sandra Luisa Lippert, Vincent Rondot (ed.), Le Fayoum: archéologie, histoire, religion: actes du sixième colloque international, Montpellier, 26-28 octobre 2016. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2018.
- [BMCR] Jacopo Tabolli (ed.), From Invisible to Visible: New Methods and Data for the Archaeology of Infant and Child Burials in Pre-Roman Italy and Beyond. Studies in Mediterranean archaeology, 149. Uppsala: Astrom Editions, 2018.
Dramatic Receptions
- UCI’s “The Penelopiad” Brings New Narrative to a Classic Greek Epic – New University
- The Love of Gods and Mortals – Shepherd Express
Professional Matters
- Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient Literature (AMPAL) 2020 – Department of Classics, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus
- Classics Everywhere Deadline Approaching | Society for Classical Studies
- Greece: Greek in Greece | Ohio University
- Statement on Proposed Executive Order on Classical Design for Federal Buildings | Society for Classical Studies
- University of Sydney – Lecturer in Ancient History
- CALL. 20.02.2020: [PANEL 7] Prophets and Prophecy (EABS) – Wuppertal (Germany)
Alia
- Who was Sappho, the Greek icon Kalki Koechlin named her daughter after? – Lifestyle News
- To Be a Better Leader, Don’t Be Like Caesar | Forge
- The Odyssey: Motorcycling in Greece | Adventure Bike Rider
- Uncovering the History Behind the Myth of Troy | Art & Object
‘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 good childbirths for women.
… 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)
