Hodie est pr. XVIII Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Archaeologists uncover anti-Roman sentiment in Jesus’s hometown of Nazareth
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In Case You Missed It

• Three Well-Preserved Ancient Boats Unearthed in Serbia – Archaeology Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• [Eric Rebillard] Classics scholar awarded Guggenheim fellowship | Cornell Chronicle

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] AFRICANA EXPVLSIO 

Public Facing Classics

• The pleasures and problems of old-fashioned TV – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
• [Nandini Pandey] Classics after Coronavirus – EIDOLON

Fresh Bloggery

• The Least Corrupt Politician – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: MOB Donor Cheated US Taxman with False Valuations of Manuscripts?
• Autism and Classical Myth: The labours of Hercules – why and how they still matter, though not necessarily for my project
• Temple of Athena and Troy VI bastion | Turkish Archaeological News
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Europeans
• Citânia De Briteiros: An Ancient Celtic Settlement in Portugal | The Kosmos Society
• Antiochepedia = Musings Upon Ancient Antioch: Cleopatra & Mark Antony at Antioch
• Introducing Media Archaeology, Archaeogaming, and Digital Archaeology | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Comfort Classics: Pam Herbert – Classical Studies Support
• Laudator Temporis Acti: They Are Never At a Loss
• Antiochepedia = Musings Upon Ancient Antioch: Antony & Cleopatra Coins from the Antioch Mint
• Revising The Future of the Past – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Reflections on Tyranny: Euripides, Archilochus, Tibullus, and… Gibbon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Roman military system according to Polybius – Novo Scriptorium

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Alexandros Kampakoglou, Studies in the reception of Pindar in Ptolemaic poetry. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 76. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
• [BMCR] Soteroula Constantinidou, The gaze of Homer: light and vision in the Iliad. . Athens: Institut du Livre – Kardamitsa, 2019.
• [BMCR] Silke-Petra Bergjan, Susanna Elm, Antioch II: the many faces of Antioch: intellectual exchange and religious diversity, CE 350-450. Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia, 3. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2018
• THE LANGUAGE OF ROMAN LETTERS: Bilingual Epistolography from Cicero to Fronto – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• New Movement Collective review – eerie journeys into Auster and Homer | Stage | The Guardian

Professional Matters

• CALL. 15.09.2020: XVII. Internationales Hippokrateskolloquium: Das Corpus Hippocraticum – Einheit in der Vielfalt? – München (Germany)
• Affiliated Group Panel Report Submissions | Society for Classical Studies
• FIEC: Call for Applications: Scholarship for Doctoral Studies

Alia

• Which Ancient Medicines Turned Out to Be Real? | Gizmodo UK
• Ancient Greek Texts Encouraged Hope and Endurance when They Spoke of End Times – The National Herald
• British actors retrace the steps of Homer’s Odysseus in “The Trip to Greece” (VIDEO) – Greek City Times
• Plague and Civilization – CounterPunch.org

‘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 good health and prosperity.

… 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)