Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 26 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
… slow news day for Classics …
Classicists and Classics in the News
- [Dr Dunbabin] News – AIA Announces 2021 Gold Medal Award Winner – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News
Public Facing Classics
- Who is the ‘Draco’ in ‘Draconian measures’? – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
- [Nandini Pandey] Classics in a Time of Quarantine – EIDOLON
- [Chris Mackie] Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now
Fresh Bloggery
- Autism and Classical Myth: From.. Mythology and Education to… Special and Inclusive Teaching
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Two new epigraphic volumes announced
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Prayers
- Memnon’s Speaking Stone: Two Poems by Julia Balbilla – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Troy: Myth and Reality, The British Museum | Part 1: The judgment of Paris, signs, and the role of Helen | The Kosmos Society
- A Little Calamity, Please! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Our Coronavirus Plans – EIDOLON
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The gold and silver coinage of Philip II published to PELLA
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egypt Exploration Society: New online events launched
- Greek Myth and Apocalyptic European Nationalism :: Pharos
- Women Going Where They Shouldn’t? Earthquakes. Droughts. Portents! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Byzantijnse inscriptie – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Girls: Culture and Society at Lullingstone Roman Villa by Caroline K. Mackenzie
- Cicero and Social Distancing – In Medias Res – Medium
- Herd immunity | The Petrified Muse
Fresh Podcasts
Caligula plans his invasion of Britain. It would have been the first time any Roman solider had been there since Julius Caesar. What motivated his plans? Was he even serious? It’s often portrayed as a stupid stunt. But we discover there may be more to it. How did it fit into his German campaign and the conspiracies against him? And how does it factor into Claudius’ later invasion?
In ancient Rome, Fulvia was a mighty force of nature. She’s also one of the scariest and least appreciated badasses that Rome is ever going to see. She marries three times, each time becoming her husband’s champion, building him (and herself) up to grasp a kind of power that few women ever found. Fulvia IS the flame emoji. Grab some good walking sandals, your sharpest hairpins, and a flint, because we’re about to light this place up. Let’s go traveling.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Vasiliki Kousoulini, A history of Alcman’s early reception: female-voiced nightingales. . Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.
- [BMCR] Taco Terpstra, Trade in the ancient Mediterranean: private order and public institutions. . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019.
- Review – 50 Roman Finds from the Portable Antiquities Scheme – Current Archaeology
- [ArkyWiki] Lorenzo Calvelli, Giovannella Cresci Marrone, Alfredo Buonopane (eds.), Altera pars laboris. Studi sulla tradizione manoscritta delle iscrizioni antiche (Antichistica 24 / Storia ed epigrafia 7), Edizioni Ca’Foscari, 2019.
Professional Matters
- CALL. 01.07.2020: Techne Agathe: Ethics of Art and Technology from Antiquity to Our Times (2nd International Conference of Hellenic Studies) – Budva (Montenegro)
- CALL. 31.03.2020: III Congresso da Associação dos Arqueólogos Portugueses – Porto (Portugal)
- CALL. 30.06.2020: New Work on Fascism and Ancient Rome – London (England)
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Classicial Studies University of Pennsylvania: School of Arts and Sciences: School of Arts and Sciences – Classical Studies
- Access to Digital Resources During COVID-19: Loeb, Journals, and More | Society for Classical Studies
- Discovering Greek & Roman Cities | MST and WI MOOCs
Alia
- Did 300 Spartans Hold Off a Persian Army of Millions? | LethbridgeNewsNOW| Lethbridge, Alberta | News, Sports, Weather, Obituaries, Real Estate
- Turkish museums, cultural sites now just a click away for virtual visitors | Daily Sabah
- Open-Access JSTOR Materials Accessible to the Public – The University Times
- Deplinthing a potentate – The tricky politics of tearing down statues of Alexander the Great | Europe | The Economist
- Here’s How To Experience London’s Museums Virtually | Londonist
- Isis, ancient Egypt’s mother goddess, was worshipped throughout the ancient world
- Legends of Tomorrow Theory: Who The Arrowverse’s Other Greek Gods Are
- [pdf] What Studying Classics Taught me about my Relationship with Western Civilisation
by Hardeep Singh Dhindsa
‘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 humans living together well and prosperously.
… 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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