Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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Classicists and Classics in the News

• John McKie, classicist, master cruciverbalist and compiler of The Wee Stinker | HeraldScotland

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] SECLVSIO INDICA 
• [Ephemeris] NVNTIA OLYMPIA

Public Facing Classics

• The art of wasting time – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Revilers
• Heard And Seen: Disagreeing With Thucydides About Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Facing the Dead? Framing Mummy Panels from Hawara – Papyrus Stories
• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 183 (03/2020) | Tulliana News
• A Penis on the Screen: Playing a Bard During a Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Freedom of Religion
• Online Open House | Disease and Social Order: The Plague Narratives of Thucydides and Lucretius, with Robert Cioffi | The Kosmos Society
• Computer reconstrueert het Latijn – Mainzer Beobachter
• Martial on Poetic Obscurity | Curculio – Michael Hendry
• First-Wives’ Club: Oinone and Her Son – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Ephedrismos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Dealing with the Antiquities Trade Virus
• Fake Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Sell Them: One Fragment’s Story | Variant Readings

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Renee M. Gondek, Carrie Lyn Sulosky Weaver, The ancient art of transformation: case studies from Mediterranean contexts. . Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2019.
• [BMCR] Nora Goldschmidt, Barbara Graziosi, Tombs of the ancient poets: between literary reception and material culture. . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
• [BMCR] Donato Loscalzo, Saffo, the hetaira. Syncrisis, 4. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019.

Professional Matters

• Loyola University Chicago Career Site | Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, Non-Tenure Track (One Year)

Alia

• Born and killed in Egypt, the story of the first female mathematician, Hypatia – Face2Face Africa
• How to get to Pompei from Rome and back – Wanted in Rome

‘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 imported abundance.

… 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)