Hodie est Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

… not a day to be trusting news sources …

In Case You Missed It

• Coronavirus and the classics—what the ancient Greeks can teach us about pandemics | Prospect Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• Nuntii Latini mensis Martii 2020 – Latein-Monatsnachrichten – Bremen Zwei – Radio Bremen

Public Facing Classics

• [T.P. Wiseman] Essay | Classics | Rome’s legendary foundations by T. P. Wiseman

Fresh Bloggery

• Easter Waxaxes – Mainzer Beobachter
• Write Me, Let Me Know You’re Ok – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Gift For Polydektes: Numismatic titles in archive.org’s National Emergency Library
• Teaching Tuesday: Strategies in Studenting | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Misverstand: Ambiorix in Tongeren (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Comfort Classics: Lilah Grace Canevaro – Classical Studies Support
• Some Casual Misogyny in The Scholia to the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Introducing Classics into Scottish State Schools – ACE Classics
• The poet grins in his urn — Catullus and the far-reaching offence caused by Poem 16
• Gendered Knowledge and the Impossibility of Love? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Porson: Critic, Librarian, DRUNKARD – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hymn to Hygeia
• Book Club | April 2020: Barker/Christensen Homer’s Thebes | The Kosmos Society

Fresh Podcasts

• Caligula #19 – Lindsay Powell on Caligula | Life Of The Caesars

Ray recently interviewed Lindsay Powell about Caligula. I asked Ray for show notes. This is what he gave me. “We talked of keeping the sources in context, considering the times they lived it and agenda. He went deep. Then his analysis of the events in the German border and the coast of Britain. And his apparent fickleness, which in a ruler, effects everyone but also how people like Suetonius probably used that.” See? That’s what I have to work with.

• ‎Classics Confidential: The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body on Apple Podcasts

The interviews in this episode of Classics Confidential were recorded at a workshop entitled The Forgotten Other: Disability Studies and the Classical Body. The workshop took place at Kings College in June 2018: it was organised by Dr Ellen Adams, Senior Lecturer in Classical Art & Archaeology at Kings College London, and Dr Emma-Jayne Graham, Senior Lecturer in Classical Studies at The Open University.

• ‎Myths and Legends: 177C-Trojan War: When I am Gone on Apple Podcasts

Achilles is back and it’s god vs. god, Greek vs. Trojan, Achilles vs. Hector in the most epic battle of the Trojan War.

Dramatic Receptions

• 594 – Court Theatre reschedules The Gospel at Colonus to the 2020-2021 season – Gay Lesbian Bi Trans News Archive – Windy City Times

Professional Matters

• CALL. 06.04.2020: Stranger Things. Fantasy in Antiquity in Historiography and Reception – Online
• [search ‘suspended’] Assistant Professor in Classical Studies | Society for Classical Studies
• FIEC: Free access to online libraries
• Cicero Digitalis

Alia

• The story of how stone from Hadrian’s Wall was plundered during the medieval era | The Scotsman
• What did people do before toilet paper?
• Ivanka Trump taking up guitar, studying Greek mythology while caring for kids during pandemic – Washington Times
• Archaeology mystery: Historian’s shock Alexander the Great tomb claim – ‘Body was stolen!’ | World | News | Express.co.uk
• Wonder Woman Star Wants An Amazonian Spinoff Movie | Screen Rant

‘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 civil discord and the collapse of fortunes.

… 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)