Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
… slow news day on the Classics front …
In Case You Missed It
- Turkey’s Newest Luxury Hotel “Floats” Over 2,300-Year-Old Ruins | Architectural Digest
- Albert Uderzo, the artist behind French cartoon icon Asterix, dies aged 92 | The Art Newspaper
Fresh Bloggery
- Doom! Doom! | Sphinx
- Misverstand: De marathon – Mainzer Beobachter
- Australasian BLOG TAKEOVER #5 | CRSN
- Australasian BLOG TAKEOVER #4 | CRSN
- Penelope Gives a Suitor a Tongue-Lashing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Two massive earthquakes create havoc in Zagreb in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic ~ ARCAblog
- Teaching Tuesday: Pandemic Papers | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Troy: Myth and Reality, The British Museum | Part 2: Frescos, the Horse, Odysseus, and written transmission | The Kosmos Society
- Solon Blames the Rich – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New computational tools for Ancient Greek corpus linguistic
- Theological approach to Aeschylus’ tragedy “Persians” – Novo Scriptorium
- Medicae: Women Doctors from the Roman Empire – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Flexible Provenance of the Museum of the Bible Genesis “Dead Sea Scrolls” Fragment (Gen 31:23–25[?]; 32:3–6, DSS F.191): Three Snapshots – The Lying Pen of Scribes
- Online Conference Logistics (or How to Stream a Conference) | Our Voices
- Wasting Some Free Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Tyfus in Athene – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman Epitaphs to and for Wives – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Fresh Podcasts
Severus Alexander was an emperor who spent much of his reign at war, but he was ill-suited to it and would likely have preferred to be elsewhere. His main enemy was the Sasanians, an empire that rose out of the ashes of the Parthians, and would be a leading regional power for the next 400 years. Guest: Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
On this episode of the podcast, Rafael Castro, an undergraduate at the University of California, Berkeley, and his colleagues explain why some of the weather and atmospheric effects recorded in ancient Roman poetry seem to describe symptoms of a large volcanic eruption, an environmental disaster that likely exacerbated the impacts of war and contributed to widespread starvation. They think the mysterious eruption is consistent with an event at Mount Etna, a famous volcano in the Roman province of Sicilia (now Sicily), in February of 44 BCE.
Today we’re going to move from the early 4th century into the early 5th century, from the end of Constantine’s reign to the devolution of Roman authority in Gaul. From Constantine’s death to the fall of the Western Roman Empire the Franks and Romans were involved in a long process where the former replaced the latter, as a people and as leaders, as Gaul transformed into the new Francia…
The biggest battle of the war so far has the gods themselves being drawn into the war, fighting over the fate of the sacred city of Troy
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli, Recipienti bronzei a labbro perlato: produzione, circolazione e destinazione. Biblioteca di Studi etruschi, 60. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018.
- [BMCR] Jere Mark Wickens, Susan I. Rotroff, Tracey Cullen, Lauren E. Talalay, Catherine Perlès, Floyd McCoy, Settlement and land use on the periphery: the Bouros-Kastri peninsula, Southern Euboia. . Oxford: Archaeopress, 2018.
- [BMCR] Rossella Giglio Cerneglia, Il culto di Iside nel Mediterraneo tra Lilibeo e Alessandria d’Egitto: atti del convegno, Marsala, 13-14 maggio 2011, (2 vols.). Mare internum, 8-Jul. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra, 2017.
- What Compelled the Roman Way of Warfare? #Reviewing Killing for the Republic
- Cambridge World History of Violence | Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History
- Sur les traces des archéologues. Apollonia Pontica Collections du Louvre et des musées bulgares | Spartokos a lu
Professional Matters
Alia
- Buried alive, reborn again: Review of “Pompei e Santorini: l’Eternità in un Giorno”, Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome
- Thucydides and the great plague of Athens have a lot to teach us in the age of the coronavirus.
- Asterix: a world of joyful innocence born in the aftermath of war | Books | The Guardian
- Mickey Rourke & Bai Ling in Trailer for Roman War Epic ‘The Legion’ | FirstShowing.net
- Animated GIFs Show 7 Ancient Ruins ‘Reconstructed’
‘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 the beginning of new business among the common folk.
… 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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