Hodie est Kal. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 9 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Northern warriors who fought the Romans in Scotland to be celebrated at Antonine Wall | The Scotsman
- International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama 2020 gets cancelled – Cyprus Mail
- Roma, ancora vandali a Villa Pamphilj. Raggi: “Questi barbari vanno fermati” – La Stampa – Ultime notizie di cronaca e news dall’Italia e dal mondo
- Smugglers Are Using Coronavirus Lockdowns To Loot Artifacts
- Could human manure hold the secret to Jesus’s youth in Nazareth?
In Case You Missed It
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- ‘The Sacrifice of Iphigenia’ and Agamemnon’s Dilemma: In Defence of Agamemnon
- Deformed ‘alien’ skulls offer clues about life during the Roman Empire’s collapse | Live Science
- Thracian nobles took their horses and chariots to the grave | News | The Times
- 2,000-Year-Old Boat Unearthed in Croatia – Archaeology Magazine
- Athens Museum Offers Online Tour of Cycladic Art | GreekReporter.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Johnson – The real reason to study the classics | Books and arts | The Economist
- Classics Department goes digital, moving spring Homerathon online – The Daily Iowan
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Killing the God of Plague and Famine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Prayer to Zeus
- Metamorphoses 15: myths and history – Joanna Kenty – Medium
- Comfort Classics: David Meadows – Classical Studies Support
- Tending Our Field and Our Future – EIDOLON
- Roman Archaeology Blog: The British Museum is displaying 4 million items from its collection online
- Remembering the long returned Orpheus Taming the Beasts Mosaic ~ ARCAblog
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Drone video shows new excavations at Pompeii
- The Epidemic’s Over, We’re Fine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Pollice verso – Mainzer Beobachter
- Testing a Goddess, Fooling the Scholia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Explorations into Roman surgery
- A Latin Love Triangle: Zeus, Echo and Narcissus PART II | Latin Language Blog
- Verulamium – The Roman Town – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Ruins of Liternum – Naples, Italy – Atlas Obscura
- PaleoJudaica.com: The imperial cult at Herculaneum
- April 2020 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
Fresh Podcasts
Ridley Scott’s Gladiator premiered on the 1st May 2000, and to mark the 20th anniversary David and Jay look back on the box-office smash, multi-award winner and cultural phenomenon. They discuss The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), on which Gladiator was based, recreating Rome for the 21st century, whether was Commodus really that bad, what connects Maximus to George Bush Jr, the inspiration by Hans Zimmer’s score, and if Hollywood is ready to make a film with an African emperor…
Cleopatra, the last great queen of Egypt, doesn’t really need an introduction. You can see her in your mind already: Pretty and sultry with her cat-eye makeup, covered head to toe in shiny gold. Extravagant, self-serving: this epic seductress used every magic trick in her lady arsenal to hold onto power. That’s the Cleopatra the ancient Romans want us to see. The truth is that few women’s stories have been more brutally revised by sexist haters. Who was Cleopatra, beyond the smoke and hate and glitter …
Alia
- Learn About the Early Renaissance Sculpture of “David” by Artist Donatello
- Museum association relaxes rules on selling art – The Washington Post
- Ancient Olympia showcased via digital application
- Hercules Is Disney’s Next Live-Action Remake | PEOPLE.com
- 5 Classic Sword-And-Sandal Movies (& 5 That Are Underrated)
‘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 signifies a fleeing of the common people and a loss of honour.
… 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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