Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 14 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• The graffiti left by the Romans working on Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland – Chronicle Live
• Work to light up Colchester’s iconic Roman Wall is complete | Gazette
• Decision made on Thessaloniki metro antiquities | News | ekathimerini.com

In Case You Missed It 

• BBC – Travel – The re-discovery of a long-lost Greek city

Classics and Classicists in the News

• A Marathon Reading of the Iliad | Department of Classics
• Scrapping Latin in schools a mistake, says Auckland students and teacher | 1 NEWS | TVNZ
• Classics: ‘We must save the Classics in school – here’s how’| Tes
• FSU’s first female Rhodes Scholar returns for Classics Week – Florida State University News
• The Catherine Pelican Memorial Lecture in Greek Culture on March 16 – The National Herald
• [NLE] Important Statement about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ὁ Χαβιὲρ Πέρες δε Κουέλλαρ ἀπέθανεν 
• Radiogiornale Latino 07.03.2020 – Vatican News
• [Ephemeris] DE FRATRVM CONIVRATIONE 
• [Ephemeris] VIRVS IN ORBE De sententiis ultimis 

Public Facing Classics

• [Kathryn Wilson] The Golden Age and Climate Crisis – EIDOLON

Fresh Bloggery

• Blog: Contingent Faculty Series: Addressing Vulnerability and Insecurity | Society for Classical Studies
• Hipparchia and His Wealth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Dreams | Part 2: Dreams in later Greek texts | The Kosmos Society
• Bait and Switch: Plato’s Republic and Hitler’s Mein Kampf :: Pharos
• Classics at the Intersections: Notes on the Athenian Metic
• Law and the Art of Bookroll Maintenance – Papyrus Stories
• Weekend Reading: The Love of Lost Books – Classical Studies Support
• Skip Sleep & Blast Through Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Turkey Day 2 – Perge and the Perge Museum | Reading Acts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Getty Provenance Index®
• Oculus Tigris (“Eye of the Tiger” in Latin) – In Medias Res – Medium
• A Woman’s Prudence? Letting her Body Serve the Needs of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The harvester who became a magistrate – an inscription from 260-270 AD – Roger Pearse
• De Reie tegen de Schelde – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Arrows of Apollo | Sphinx
• Plato’s Sister and the Women Among His Students – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Tracking Inside the Self: Aesara the Pythagorean – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Rich
• Fear of the Revengeful Pen – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Arrian I.18.1-9 | The Second Achilles
• Turkey Day 3 – Colossae, Laodicea, and Hierapolis | Reading Acts
• Writing Advice: Choose a Great Subject – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Women’s writing in the ancient world – It’s All Greek To Me
• A List of Women Authors from Ancient Greece and Rome for International Women’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Arrian I.19.1-11 | The Second Achilles
• Religious syncretism in Roman Dacia | Szabó Csaba
• It’s Definitely Not All Greek to Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Fresh Podcastery

• Quomodo vita nostra his diebus mutata sit | Sermones Raedarii

Quid agamus cotidie, ego et familia, cum scholae clausae sint.

Landscape Modery

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] S. J. Heyworth, Ovid. Fasti: Book III. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Richard Hingley, Londinium: a biography. Roman London from its origin to the fifth century. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• [BMCR] Adam J. Goldwyn, Dimitra Kokkini, John Tzetzes. Allegories of the Odyssey. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, 56. Cambridge MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Lars Hübner, Homer im kulturellen Gedächtnis. Eine intentionale Geschichte archaischer Homerrezeption bis zur Perserkriegszeit. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 5. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• ARISTOPHANES AND THE POETICS OF SURPRISE – Classics for All
• Dieux et héros de l’ancienne côte nord de la mer Noire | Spartokos a lu
• Military Book Review The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy

Dramatic Receptions

• Girl power meets Greek comedy in ‘Lysistrata’
• Joliet Junior College to present ‘A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum’ | The Herald-News
• An Iliad returns in a stunning new setting | Theater Review | Chicago Reader

Professional Matters

• One-Semester Visiting Assistant Professor/Instructor – Classics Gettysburg College – DiverseJobs.net
• Visiting Assistant Professor of the Classics job with Colgate University | 1962373

Alia

• Sotheby’s to offer $60m Francis Bacon triptych in May New York sales | The Art Newspaper
• Hades, Greek God of the Underworld, Had a Pretty Good Gig | HowStuffWorks
• In Search of Sparta – The American Interest
• To Understand Trump, Putin and Erdogan, Read This Greek Classic – Bloomberg
• The authors reclaiming the forgotten voices of ancient women – BBC News

‘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 rain.

… 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)