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- [Ephemeris] ACCVUSA IN PRAESIDEM
Fresh Bloggery
- Fake Dead Sea Scrolls and the People Who Sell Them: One Fragment’s Story | Variant Readings
- A Seven Day Plague and Tragic Fever – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: Classics Everywhere: Bringing Science, Archaeology, and Creativity to the study of Classics | Society for Classical Studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Collezione Papiri Museo Egizio: “Turin Papyrus Online Platform (TPOP)” – Un passo oltre gli archivi chiusi verso gli open data
- Misverstand: IV – Mainzer Beobachter
- It Is Good For Women to Exercise Too! (But for Predictable, Instrumental Reasons) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Law and the Art of Bookroll Maintenance – Papyrus Stories
- Social Distancing, Phoenix-style | The Petrified Muse
- Weekend Reading: Baking and Piranhas – Classical Studies Support
- Thucydides on Sitalkes, King of the Odrysians – MUSINGS OF CLIO | MUSINGS ON HISTORY, ART AND ANCIENT SOCIETY
- A Statement from Steve Green on Hobby Lobby Acquisitions | Variant Readings
- Thucydides Explains Everything | Sphinx
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitized Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) at Arachne
- Steve Green to return another 11,500 antiquities to the Iraqi and Egyptian governments, but let’s not forget the past. ~ ARCAblog
- Val Max on Indian and Phoenician Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Disease and Prediction: Hippocratic Musings in the Time of COVID-19
- Papyrology: Update (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Steve Green announces the repatriation of 11,500 antiquities | Roberta Mazza
- Explaining the Cuckoo: Women Know Everything – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Misverstand: De Friezen – Mainzer Beobachter
- High Noon Homer *or* Western Lit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Manliness of War in the Eastern Roman (‘Byzantine’) Empire – Novo Scriptorium
- Only the…sight of a few Roman ships averted the conquest of Illyria by Philip V of Macedonia! – Novo Scriptorium
- The Museum of The Bible’s Chairman’s letter leaves many unanswered questions ~ ARCAblog
- Aeneid 1.198-207: Keep yourselves safe for better times – The Classical Anthology
- “His Heart Barked”: Sex, Slaves, and Transgression in the Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Telesilla: Argive Woman, Warrior Poet – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Looting Matters: The anonymous history of a Minoan larnax
- Twee heel oude dames – Mainzer Beobachter
- A Brutal End to a Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Arrian I.24.1-6 | The Second Achilles
- Misunderstanding: Colosseum – Mainzer Beobachter
- Arrian I.25.1-10 | The Second Achilles
- Hippocrates: Unmarried Women are Sad Because of Periods – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Fresh Podcastery
Synopsis: With Rome encroaching from the north and south, the sons of Grypus battle Parthians, usurpers and local powers to keep their hold on Syria…
In this CC Shorts episode, Elton talks to Dr Jody Cundy (University of Toronto) about her work on Pausanias’ Description of Greece. The conversation ranges over the themes of wonder, travel writing, and paradoxography (‘the cataloguing of marvels’), and how Pausanias represents Greece as a place of enchantment – from its most famous ruins to a simple rock on the ground.
Something a little lighter to cheer everyone up this month – in this story, a young man throws a wild party, not realising his father has come home from a foreign business trip early, and a clever slave comes up with a novel idea for keeping the father out of the house… We’re all going through a rough time at the minute, one way or another, so rather than something scary or sad, I’ve gone for a bit of comic relief with this one! This story has been adapted from Plautus, Mostellaria, 446-531.
This episode of Tony Robinson’s Romans looks into the life of the infamously mad and ‘evil’ Emperor Caligula. We’ll be exploring his rise to power, the many attempts on his life and his most famous decision to make his horse a member of the senate. Historians Anthony Barrett and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill join Tony to explore the mind of Caligula.
Landscape Modery
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Adolfo J. Dominguez, Politics, territory and identity in ancient Epirus. . Pisa: Edizioni ETS, 2018.
- [BMCR] Olivia Elder, Alex Mullen, The language of Roman letters: bilingual epistolography from Cicero to Fronto. Cambridge classical studies . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Roger S. O. Tomlin, Britannia Romana: Roman inscriptions and Roman Britain. . Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2018.
- Ovide in Exile | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World – Online Course
- Loyola University Chicago Career Site | Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, Non-Tenure Track (One Year)
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- MAC offers Pompeii lecture series via Zoom | The Spokesman-Review
- Thucydides and the great plague of Athens have a lot to teach us in the age of the coronavirus.
- How to get to Pompei from Rome and back – Wanted in Rome
- “Portals to the Past”: Numismatics at Nickle Galleries
- Exploring the Phoenician Shipwreck – University of Malta, Department of Classics & Archaeology — Google Arts & Culture
- Pompeii Mania in the Era of Romanticism | JSTOR Daily
- The Spiritual Secrets of Crete’s Arkalochori Cave
‘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 a better reputation for women.
… 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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