Hodie est a.d. XIV Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Gamelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- More than 800 historic burials, a Bronze Age boat and even a cat’s paw print on a Roman tile found along Lincoln’s new bypass – Lincolnshire Live
- The Romans are coming back as new book claims Mancetter IS the site of warrior Boudica’s last battle | atherstone.nub.news
- Roman snake ring found in Buckinghamshire declared treasure – BBC News
In Case You Missed It
- Early Roman Military Base Discovered in England – Archaeology Magazine
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- The 8 Ancient Greek Words for Love – Greek City Times
Classics and Classicists in the News
- [Andrew Laird] Visiting professor talks Aztec use of Latin language – The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
- A Professor Was Called a Pedophile Because of His Work. Academics Are Keeping Their Distance.
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 15.02.2020 – Vatican News
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- [Ephemeris] DE OECOLOGIA IN MEDIVM FERENDA Europaea oeconomia se mutabit
- [Ephemeris] SEIVNCTIO SINENSIS Sinenses male uersantur
Fresh Bloggery
- Love Keeps the World Together: Get Philosophical About Valentine’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Spell to Attract a Woman – Papyrus Stories
- ‘Life tips’ by Cleobulus from Lindos – Novo Scriptorium
- Blog: Making Greek Vases Come to Life Through Animation | Society for Classical Studies
- Against Mosquitoes, A Love Poem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Paideia Institute Names New Director of European Operations
- Futility vs. Utility in Study – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Literature in Ancient Rome | Eagles and Dragons Publishing
- Weekend Reading: Love and Romans – Classical Studies Support
- To Heracleitos: A translation of Callimachus Epigram 34
- Servian Wall at McDonald’s – Rome, Italy – Atlas Obscura
- The Magic Words of Healing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- On the Feasibility of Automated Detection of Allusive Text Reuse | The Tesserae Project
- Philo Can’t Feel His Face (When He’s With You): On Sense and Minds – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Wrong Monkey: The Siglia in an Edition of an Ancient Latin or Greek Text
- Oligarchy and Plutocracy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Polybius’ description of Pontus and Byzantium – Novo Scriptorium
- Online Open House | The Muse(s)’s “white noise”: the background of sound-scape and the gustatory acoustics of Pindar’s epinician odes,with Maria G. Xanthou | The Kosmos Society
- “The One You Love”: The Best Love Poem Ever – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Articles About Love, Sex, & Classics – EIDOLON
- Sybota (4) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nescit Vox Missa Reverti
- Restitution: A Roman Marble Sarcophagus Fragment of Sidmara Type ~ ARCAblog
- A Gift For Polydektes: Wearing down a replica to make it appear genuine
- Kiwi Hellenist: Did Roman engineers stand under bridges?
- The newspaper and a table cloth: Yakup Eksioglu, Scott Carroll and some Green papyri? | Roberta Mazza
Fresh Podcastery
Synopsis: Demetrius II returns to Syria, but his unpopularity – and support for the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra II – results in a usurper named Alexander Zabinas taking most of his kingdom. Fleeing a military defeat, Demetrius is denied entry to Ptolemais-Akko by Cleopatra Thea, an act that leads to his death. The elevation of their son Seleucus V results in a darker tragedy…
In 39 CE, Caligula walked into the Senate and tore them all a new one. The gloves came off. The nice guy act was over. He criticized them for enabling Sejanus’ persecution of his family and for criticizing Tiberius when in fact they urged him on. Then he reinstated majestas. The Senate responded by thanking him and singing his praises.
Returning to the narrative, Hamilcar Barca, continuing his campaigns into the Spanish interior, died suddenly battling against hostile tribes in 228 BC. With Hamilcar’s eldest son, the famous Hannibal, still in his teens, Hamilcar’s son-in-law, Hasdrubal the Fair, succeeded the great Barcid leader in Spain. Charming, sophisticated, and diplomatic, Hasdrubal consolidated Hamilcar’s foothold in southern Spain by a series of treaties, guest-friendships, and political marriages along with occasional judicious campaigns. His newly-established capital, New Carthage, quickly grew to be one of the greatest cities of the burgeoning Carthaginian empire due to its natural harbor and ready access to the markets of Spain and North Africa. By the time of Hasdrubal’s own death in 221 BC, the Carthaginian army and cities in Spain had been forged into a formidable power base which would serve the young Hannibal well in the trials to come…
This program is about the Roman writer Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, known to us as today Juvenal, who, between about 100 and 130 CE, wrote some of history’s most influential works of satire. Juvenal’s sixteen satires, though they vary in length and content, are today perhaps most famous for their ruthless, obscene, snarling criticism of Roman culture – specifically, the culture of Rome during the late Flavian and early Nerva-Antonine dynasties. In a sentence, Juvenal’s satires are an angry denunciation of Roman decadence – of the grotesque materialism, hedonism, and disingenuousness of Roman culture during the opening decades of the 100s CE, and to a lesser extent, a nostalgic threnody for the lost republican past. A conservative, and a critic of social change, Juvenal looked at the world around him and saw decay, sensualism, and vice.
Landscape Modery
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- Call for Proposals | Ancient MakerSpaces 2021
- Theognis and the Theognidea Conference – Hunter College (CUNY) – May 1st, 2020 | CAAS-CW
Alia
- Remedies sought for a drowning friend – revisiting the Temple of Apollo in Didyma | Turkish Archaeological News
- Keats and the Elgin Marbles—Message from Parthenon | The Daily Star
- Classical echoes – An Irishman’s Diary on Padraic Colum and Homer
- Leda and the Swan throughout Art History – Beauty, Rarity, History: The M.S. Rau Blog Blog from ArtfixDaily.com
- Fans of ‘Mad Max,’ Young Love, and Greek Mythology Should Watch ‘Highway to Hell’
- Eliseo Gil Trial Highlights How Forgers Prey on True Believers
‘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 positive things for the people, but bad things will come for the powerful out of the discord.
… 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)
