Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 7 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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In Case You Missed It

• The Nemi Ships were elaborate floating palaces built by Caligula in the 1st Century AD. – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard appointed as British Museum trustee after Downing Street battle over ‘pro-European’ views | inews

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] PRIMARIUS BRITANNIAE MINISTER INFECTUS 

Fresh Bloggery

• Her Greek Has Made All Her Celebrity – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• “The Rape of the Sabine Women” – A Founding Myth of Rome on my Latest Roman Denarius | ROMA INVICTA
• Eastern Fortifications of Troy VI | Turkish Archaeological News
• Gladiator of niet? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Troy: Myth and Reality, The British Museum | Part 3: Thoughts on the book and the exhibition | The Kosmos Society
• Hobby Lobby and Penance: Some Observations and Suggestions | Variant Readings
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egyptology Resources
• Cleobulina’s Poetic Riddles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Excavated Naqada Artefact on eBay?
• Myth-in-a-Minute: Daily Challenge
• MoM| Brownwashing – Mainzer Beobachter

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 042: The First Punic War – The Sicilian Wrestling Ground on Apple Podcasts

The First Punic War, lasting from 264 to 241 B.C., was the longest uninterrupted war in the ancient world, fought between the Roman Republic and the Phoenician city-state of Carthage. Exploring the origins of the conflict is essential, tracing the earliest instances of Romano-Punic relations to the intervention of Rome on the behalf of the Mamertines in 264. While the Romans may be able to hold their own in land engagements, will they be able to meet the awesome nautical power of Carthage and emerge victorious in the clash off Cape Ecnomus, the  largest naval battle in the ancient world?

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Jennifer A. Baird, Dura-Europos. Archaeological histories. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018.
• [BMCR] Tom Geue, Author unknown: the power of anonymity in ancient Rome. . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.

Professional Matters

• Stranger Things. Fantasy in Antiquity in Historiography and Reception

Alia

• King Solomon’s lost city will remain lost forever | The Spectator
• How to survive a plague – When Athenians feared a disease would wreck their democracy | Books and arts | The Economist
• The Spiritual Secrets of Crete’s Arkalochori Cave
• Imperator: Rome – Magna Graecia missions guide: Athens, Sparta, and Syracuse – PC Invasion

‘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 arrival of a powerful human who will bring good cheer.

… 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)