Hodie est pr. III Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 7 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Roman barracks remains at Caerleon are vandalised | South Wales Argus
• Sassanid Inscription Unearthed In Ancient Necropolis Being Deciphered
• Does an ancient street’s ‘solar alignment’ honor Roman emperor Octavian? Scholars disagree. | Live Science
• Ostrich Egg Vessel, Silver Thracian Horseman Found in Roman Era Burial Mound near Bulgaria’s Lyaskovets – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
• Thracian nobles took their horses and chariots to the grave | News | The Times

In Case You Missed It

• Hotel blocking view to Acropolis must knock down top floors – Greek City Times
• Drone video shows mad flight around Roman Pantheon – DroneDJ
• Study Suggests Pompeii Residents Recycled Trash – Archaeology Magazine
• Acropolis upgrades to improve the visitor experience – Greek City Times

Classicists and Classics in the News

• University of Queensland Ancient World Study Tour of Greece – Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
• [Lee Fratantuono] Ancient Arabia | Ohio Wesleyan University
• Skoutelas selected as classics and ancient Mediterranean studies marshal | Penn State University
• UI Classics Department lets viewers stay home for Homerathon

Fresh Bloggery

• Being Boring | Sphinx
• A Sense of Place WALKING THROUGH ANCIENT MYCENAE | The Muddy Archaeologist’s Blog
• Misverstand: Een- en tweebulters – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Curator Eating from Foreign Antiquities Trade Advocate’s Hand (I)
• Comfort Classics: Daisy Dunn – Classical Studies Support
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Curator Eating from Foreign Antiquities Trade Advocate’s Hand (II)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Curator Eating from Foreign Antiquities Trade Advocate’s Hand (III)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Temporary Open Access to the Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB)
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Do Archaeologists Have an Ethical Obligation to Report Looting?
• Tawdry Tuesday: Frustrated in Isolation? Use a Sinister Replacement – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• New Online Course Opportunities via Öland Universitet | Consulting Philologist
• Royal Domestic Violence – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Deva Victrix – The Legionary Fortress – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Those MURDEROUS Hands Take A Vacation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: A new Sassanian-era inscription
• Roman Archaeology Blog: OSTRICH EGG VESSEL, SILVER THRACIAN HORSEMAN FOUND IN ROMAN ERA BURIAL MOUND NEAR BULGARIA’S LYASKOVETS
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lost NTA/OTP manuscript found!

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Simon James, The Roman military base at Dura-Europos, Syria: an archaeological visualisation. . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Lowell Edmunds, Toward the characterization of Helen in Homer: appellatives, periphrastic denominations, and noun-epithet formulas. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 87. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
• Histoire de l’étude archéologique des monuments anciens de la Crimée orientale 1917-1941 | Spartokos a lu
• THE CAMBRIDGE GUIDE TO HOMER – Classics for All

Professional Matters

• CFP: Lessons from COVID-19: Reflections on Teaching and Learning Remotely | Society for Classical Studies
• Sessional Instructor, SUMMER 2020, GRST 339, Department of Classics & Religion|University of Calgary
• Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Classical Archaeology Washington University in St Louis

Alia

• Gladiator movie celebrates 20 years on 1 May – Wanted in Rome
• What Rome Learned From the Deadly Antonine Plague of 165 A.D. | History | Smithsonian Magazine
• What did they do in Ancient Rome without toilet paper? – Big Think
• British Museum Revamps Collection Online
• ANS Adds Bronze Coinage to Ptolemaic Coins Online Research Tool
• ‘Animal Crossing: New Horizons’: Complete List Of Real And Fake Statues From Redd The Fox
• Who Were The Gladiators Of Ancient Rome? Plus 10 Fighters You Should Know – HistoryExtra
• Mummy Unwrapping Parties: ­Victorian Views of the Middle East – Waging Peace – WRMEA

‘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 strong zephyr winds.

… 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)