Hodie est Id. Mart. 2772 AUC ~ 21 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympia
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- Acropolis Museum Suspends Events Over Virus, Acropolis Upgrades Coming – The National Herald
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Public Facing Classics
- [Joanna Kenty] Julius Caesar refused to be crowned king
Fresh Bloggery
- Resources for Teaching Remotely – Amy Pistone
- Spartan Women Once Said… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Domitianus in Nijmegen – Mainzer Beobachter
- A Woman’s Party Invitation and a Girl’s Epitaph: Some Documentary Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kiwi Hellenist: Abaris of Hyperborea and his magic arrow
- An Eyewitness to Useless Prayers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: ‘Greater the Profit…When Two Go Together” [Il. 10.224-5]: Homeric Adventures in Collaboration and Open Access Publishing | Society for Classical Studies
- A Horror of PhD Theses – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Why we like a good robot story | OUPblog
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Roman Society YouTube Channel
- Mise en ligne des médaillons romains contorniates de la BnF | L’Antiquité à la BnF
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: AVI : Attic Vase Inscriptions : Attische Vaseninschriften
- Report: All the “Dead Sea Scrolls” at the Museum of the Bible Are Fakes | Variant Readings
- “Greetings to My Sister”: A Letter Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Virtual Magic Bowl Archive
- Arrian I.20.1-10 | The Second Achilles
- Corona & papyri – Mainzer Beobachter
- Two Antiquities Trafficking Lectures for your now-Online Class
- “If it is a girl…”: A Letter about Child Exposure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Morphosis: How Many Did Justinian Kill?
- What Does Helen Look Like? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- An Unconventional Union: “Mr. and Mrs. George Kosmopoulos” | From the Archivist’s Notebook
- A Life of Active Leisure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Missing “Robinson Papyrus” Found? | Variant Readings
- Academics and Peripatetics – All the Same – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Opus Africanum – Mainzer Beobachter
- Arrian I.21.1-6 | The Second Achilles
Fresh Podcastery
Synopsis: While the Ptolemies intrigue in Coele Syria, Antiochus VIII Grypus and his half-brother Antiochus IX Cyzicenus struggle for seventeen years to win control of the north. After the rivals die in quick succession, the kingdom comes under control of Seleucus VI and Demetrius III, the allied sons of Grypus.
Sometime around the year 40, Caligula executed Ptolemy, the king of Africa Proconsularis and Roman ally. It’s usually portrayed as evidence of his insanity and greed – but perhaps there is an alternative explanation.
This week we cover one of the most legendary last stands in all history, Thermopylae. Xerxes and his colossal horde march on Greece to conquer and enslave. Leonidas and his 300 Spartans lead a Greek force in the defense of the narrow pass of Thermopylae or the “Hot Gates”. Join us as we discuss the history, tactics, and “man love” that played a role in this bloody battle.
Hasdrubal’s sudden assassination catapulted Hamilcar’s eldest son, the twenty-five-year-old Hannibal Barca, to power as Carthage’s supreme general in Spain. Raised to be a soldier by his father and trained in both the theoretical and practical arts of warfare, Hannibal quickly subdued most Spanish tribes southeast of the Ebro…
Polybius of Megalopolis (~200 – 118 B.C.) was a Greek nobleman and high ranking member of the Achaean League, whose political career was prematurely ended when he was taken as a political hostage to Rome. Rather than disappearing into obscurity, Polybius took it upon himself to compose a “universal” history, so as to explain to his fellow Greeks how the Romans managed to conquer the inhabited world in only 50 years. In this episode, we are going to spend time discussing the life and works of Polybius, who provides us with not only the best written account from the Hellenistic period, but is also one of the finest historians the Greco-Roman world has ever produced.
Landscape Modery
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Michael Schmitz, Roman conquests: the Danube frontier. . Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2019.
- [BMCR] Wolfgang Polleichtner, Ethik in der Pädagogik – Pädagogik in der Ethik. Didaskalika, 2. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] Nicolas Lamare, Les fontaines monumentales en Afrique romaine. Collection de l’École française de Rome, 557. Roma: École française de Rome, 2019.
- [BMCR] Tanja Susanne Scheer, Natur, Mythos, Religion im antiken Griechenland = Nature, myth, religion in ancient Greece: [interdisziplinäre Tagung vom 12. bis 14 November 2015, Althistorisches Seminar der Georg August Universität Göttingen]. Potsdamer Altertumswissenchaftliche Beiträge, 67. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
- LONG LIVE LATIN: The pleasures of a useless language – Classics for All
Dramatic Receptions
- UGA Theatre offers contemporary take on myth with Margaret Atwood’s ‘The Penelopiad’ – UGA Today
- REVIEW: Shocking Modern Mashup in The Bacchae (Guthrie Theater/SITI Company) – Twin Cities Arts Reader
Professional Matters
- CALL. 03/15/2020: Parenti serpenti. You cannot choose your family. Difficult kinship between myth and ancient theater – Siena (Italy)
- CALL. 03.04.2020: Prometheus Trust Conference 2020 – Mancetter (England)
- CALL. 03/31/2020: [WORKSHOP] Cultures of contact: Modes of Interaction within Ancient Communities (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
- CALL. 31.03.2020: [WORKSHOP] Recent Fieldwork in the Near East (66e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale) – Frankfurt am Mainz (Germany)
- CALL. 01.04.2020: Animus, anima, animalia – Yesterday, today, tomorrow – Bucarest (Romania)
- CALL. 22.03.2020: “Faith – Heresy – Magic“ Manifestations of deviant beliefs and magical practices in the material culture of Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages – Kiel (Germany)
- CALL. 18.03.2020: The Women’s Classical Committee Annual Meeting 2020: Green Shoots in Classics – Manchester (England)
- Battle Magic. Supernatural Support for Physical Combat – 26-27 / 06/2020, Solingen (Germany)
- CALL. 20.03.2020: AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – Chicago (IL, USA)
- AIA Colloquium on Archaeomusicology: Soundscape and Landscape at Panhellenic Greek Sanctuaries – 07-08-09-10/01/2021, Chicago (IL, USA)
- CALL. 31.03.2020: Apotropaia and Phylakteria. Confronting Evil in Ancient Greece – Athens (Greece)
- CALL. 03.04.2020: Performing the Archive in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama – Oxford-Egham (England)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SCS Presidential Talks delivered at Annual Meetings
- CALL. 20.04.2020: Flavian Sicily. An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites – Siracusa (Italy)
Alia
- CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Travels With Hadrian
- This is Sparta! Gerard Butler Honored in Ancient Greek City | GreekReporter.com
- Naked bodies and power structures: A cultural history of bathing | Arts | DW | 13.03.2020
- Montegrappa’s Marble Venus De Milo Limited Edition Pen
- Venta Silurum – Roman Wales – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- [Paywalled] Ides of March linked to eruption of misfortunes | Register | The Times
- Selling sex: Wonder Woman and the ancient fantasy of hot lady warriors – Asia Times
- How Etymologies Bear Imprints of Historic Discrimination and Prejudices – Palestine Chronicle
- Exploring Greek Myths with Stephen Fry – CNN Video
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends heat waves and drought and a throng of mice and fish.
… 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)
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