Hodie est pr. VI Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Unearthed Ancient British chieftain and probable shaman reveal secrets about old burial rituals | The Independent
- Ancient Greek Site Where Men were Buried with their Horses to be Restored | GreekReporter.com
- Pompeii ruins show that the Romans invented recycling | Science | The Guardian
In Case You Missed It
- Foreign diplomats recite Ancient Greek texts as part of #stayhome campaign | Neos Kosmos
- Did the Nazis Cover Up a Jewish Discovery in Spain’s ‘Oldest Christian Basilica’?
- The Ancient Battlefield That Launched the Legend of Hannibal | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
Classics and Classicists in the News
- Oxford don held in theft case was given huge loan by Christ Church college | News | The Times
- Iris Love, Stylish Archaeologist and Dog Breeder, Dies at 86 – The New York Times
- Major in Classical Studies ‘crucial link’ for refugee rights work – News
- Madeline Miller interview: the author on myth, nostalgia, and how power corrupts – Vox
- Medway students earn recognition in National Latin Exam – News – The Enterprise, Brockton, MA – Brockton, MA
- Cyprus accuses British company of illegally excavating ancient shipwrecks – Cyprus Mail
- Ancient tomb uncovered in Central Link works to be moved 10m
- Brooke Holmes on Plague in Antiquity and Today | Princeton Classics
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] BOREOAMERICA EVERSA De contagione Americana
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- The Ideal Statesman and Pompey’s True Aims – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Christ Church loans and other Dirk Obbink answered and unanswered questions. ~ ARCAblog
- Next stop, Athens… – It’s All Greek To Me
- Begraven in een pot – Mainzer Beobachter
- Murdered Immigrant Children and a Plague: A Different Medea Story – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Misverstand: De beslissendheid van de Perzische Oorlogen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Ancient Greece a Symbol to Rally Neo-Nazis :: Pharos
- Comfort Classics: Laura Jenkinson-Brown – Classical Studies Support
- Being Human With Cicero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Weekend Reading: Lockdown Learning – Classical Studies Support
- Confronting Covid-19 With Help from Ancient Philosophy
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: SCHOLIA: Studies in Classical Antiquity
- Squeeze Digitization Grant Awarded to IAS – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Confinement
- Pliny’s Slightly Less Stupid Treatments for Sickness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- De koperen rol – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Intercourse with Superior Minds
- The Seleukids in the Upper Satrapies – MUSINGS OF CLIO | MUSINGS ON HISTORY, ART AND ANCIENT SOCIETY
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Self-Indulgent Ones
- A Miscarriage of Justice, an Avenging Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Royal Virtues
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Cambridge Greek Play
- Research at the End of the World
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Siege Weapons
- I Knew That Marble Bled – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Pilate, Jesus, and the imperial cult
- More old photographs of the Meta Sudans – Roger Pearse
- Stumbling After Pleasure Like a Drunk Looking for Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Achsenzeit – Mainzer Beobachter
Fresh Podcastery
The second episode of The Planchet features guests Dr. Lucia Carbone, Assistant Curator for Roman Coins for the ANS, and Dr. Katie Cupello, expert on Mark Antony and Roman portraiture, as they talk about Antony, his many wives, political iconography, and his program of coinage in the Roman East.
A retrospective on the material we’ve covered thus far as we head into Early Christianity and Late Antiquity, plus some announcements.
Landscape Modery
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Mark Humphries, Cities and the meanings of late antiquity. Brill research perspectives. Ancient history. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Adam Trettel, Desires in paradise: an interpretative study of Augustine’s City of God 14. Augustinus, Werk und Wirkung, Band 8. Leiden; Boston: Ferdinand Schöningh, 2019.
- [BMCR] Peter White, Augustine. Confessions. Books V-IX. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics . Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- SCS Board Endorses Statement by ASA Regarding Student Educational Progress | Society for Classical Studies
- Open Position: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Classical Archaeology | Department of Classics
- Universität Basel: PhD Student in Ancient History
Alia
- Archaeology breakthrough: 2,000-year-old find changing history of Roman Empire revealed | UK | News | Express.co.uk
- [Paywalled] Eric Felten’s Downtime: An Ovid for the age of Covid
- Antigone, Heroes, and COVID-19 – The Bulwark
- Why Harry Potter’s Spells Are Cast In Latin | CBR
- Chinese noodles not the inspiration for pasta, historians say, its roots are in ancient Greece – and they have the texts to prove it | South China Morning Post
- What If Alexander The Great Had Lived Longer? – HistoryExtra
- Four amazing astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece
- Admire Oracles: Delphi, Gods and Wine – Hellenic News of America
- Stoicism in a time of pandemic: how Marcus Aurelius can help | Books | The Guardian
‘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 great hope for fruits but scarcity of harvests.
… 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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