Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 16 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Researcher discovers early, complex brain surgery in ancient Greece
- Bronze Age cemetery discovered in West Bank village – Middle East Monitor
- Roman sites in Spain: Inside Virtus Iulia, the Roman city in the south of Spain | Culture | EL PAÍS in English
In Case You Missed It
- Roman Coin Hoard Analyzed in Poland – Archaeology Magazine
- Southwestern Ends Largest Evangelical Archaeology Program…… | News & Reporting | Christianity Today
- Bible Museum, Admitting Mistakes, Tries to Convert Its Critics – The New York Times
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE PANDEMIA ET PERICULIS
Fresh Bloggery
- Misunderstanding: Famous last words – Mainzer Beobachter
- Less Human Apart: Isolation and Civilization in Myth, Science Fiction and RL – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Monuments from Pompeii, Italy – Novo Scriptorium
- Teaching Tuesday: How to Read an Article | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Comfort Classics: Rob Cromarty – Classical Studies Support
- Philadelphia Classical Society – Student Renderings of Mediterranean Antiquity | CAAS-CW
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Six more volumes of the monograph series Bibliothèque d’archéologie méditerranéenne et africaine are now online
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les vaisseaux du désert et des steppes: Les camélidés dans l’Antiquité (Camelus dromedarius et Camelus bactrianus)
- Monuments from Sbeitla, Tunisia – Novo Scriptorium
- Hoe bestuur je een wereldrijk? (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Hoe bestuur je een wereldrijk? (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Reading Euripides’ “Herakles” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Fresh Podcasts
The Greeks finally find a way into Troy.
When Alexander Severus leads the Roman armies east, he meets Artaxerxes and the Sasanians in battle but his tactics are unprepared. Artaxerxes attacked unexpectedly with his entire force and trapped the Romans like fish in a net; firing their arrows from all sides at the encircled soldiers, the Persians massacred the whole army. Guest: Dr Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Caroline Petit, Galen’s treatise ‘De indolentia’ in context. A tale of resilience. Studies in ancient medicine, 52. Leiden: Brill, 2018.
- INTERTEXTUALITY IN FLAVIAN EPIC POETRY: Contemporary Approaches – Classics for All
- Review | Madeline Miller’s ‘Circe’ – The Santa Barbara Independent
Professional Matters
- UK Ancient Historians’ Annual Meeting – 09-10/05/2020, Herts (England)
- Athens: Economy and Democracy Conference – 09-10/07/2020, Cambridge (England)
- 13th Annual MOISA meeting: The Sounds of the Beyond: The Mysteries of Ancient Greek and Roman Music – 29-30/06-01/07/2020, Strasbourg (France)
- The Ancient Scholia on Cicero’s Speeches – 30/06-01/07/2020, Leiden (Netherlands)
- Classical Civilisation A-level Teachers Day – 01/07/2020, Warwick (England) | Fasti Congressuum
- News – 2020 AIA Photo Contest Results – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News
Alia
- Picasso, bulls and bullfighting | Apollo Magazine
- [misleading headline for tv hype] Egypt breakthrough: ‘Precise location’ of Alexander the Great’s tomb revealed by expert | World | News | Express.co.uk
- Who lived near Pömmelte, the ′German Stonehenge′? | Science| In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 08.04.2020
- Locating Golgotha: The authentic site of Christ’s Crucifixion
‘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 heavy rains and an outbreak of disease.
… 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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