Hodie est Id. Mai. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• British Museum to bring back record-breaking Pompeii exhibition with screening of live event | London Evening Standard
• Feast of snails and pig sheds life on Hellenist life in ancient Galilee – The Jerusalem Post
• Pompeii to unveil new remains as it reopens after COVID-19 lockdown | Euronews

In Case You Missed It

• Rare Coin from Bar-Kochba Revolt Discovered at the Foot of the Temple Mount – The Jewish Voice

Greek/Latin News

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Fresh Bloggery

• The Sorrow of Times Like These – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sabar on the missing-papyri scandal
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Antiquities Market Today: Looting and Faking
• Roman Times: Plato’s neighbors
• Hexameter Fury and Hissed Barbarism – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Comfort Classics: Mirko Canevaro – Classical Studies Support
• Changing Shapes and Fluid Forms: Shapeshifters in Greek Poetry | cahaeresearch
• Ways to die in Roman London – Caroline Lawrence | Museum of London
• Don’t Panic – EIDOLON
• Speaking with Joy Connolly – EIDOLON
• Parasitical Vergil, Dismal Sophocles, Stupid Terence – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Reminder: One Who Is Disordered Cannot Create Order – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: AIA New York Society Newsletter
• The History Girls: The Ancient Guide to Coping with Lock-down by L.J. Trafford
• Misverstand: Salome, de zwoele verleidster – Mainzer Beobachter
• Historical city travel guide: Rome, 1st century AD – The British Museum Blog

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Partial Historians: Episode 104 – Aventine, Aventine on Apple Podcasts

We return to the City of Rome in 456 BCE and follow the ongoing domestic struggles that Rome faces in defining herself in terms of transparency at law.

• CC Shorts – Jody Cundy (Part 2) by Classics Confidential

In this second part of our CC Shorts interview with Dr Jody Cundy (University of Toronto), Jody tells the story of how she began studying Classics, and shares some of her favourite ancient and modern texts – including Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, and Marcel Detienne’s ‘Gardens of Adonis’.

• ‎We’ll Always Have Athens: Stephen Fry: City of Myths on Apple Podcasts

It’s fair to say Stephen Fry is a man of many talents. After dazzling guests at a dinner party while retelling Greek myths, the British actor, comedian and author discovered his talent for bringing these ancient tales to life. He knows his Theseus from his Prometheus, his Medea from his Medusa, and has a knack for making us feel that the myths are still alive and kicking in the city’s old temples, winding streets and hills. He’s even written a book on the subject, suitably titled “Mythos”. Fry joins us from lockdown in his home in Norfolk, UK, to share his three favourite myths about Athens.

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Lukas de Blois, R.J. van der Spek, Einführung in die Alte Welt. . Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
• [BMCR] Martin T. Dinter, The Cambridge companion to Roman comedy. Cambridge companions to literature. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Jesús Luque Moreno, Conspectus metrorum: guía práctica de los versos latinos. . Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2018.

Dramatic Receptions

• Modern Detroit Meets Ancient Rome In This Story Of Strong Women Clamoring For Respect & A Better Place In Society – GirlTalkHQ

Professional Matters

• 2nd Attic Vase Inscriptions (AVI) colloquium (8-10 June 2020) – CANCELLATION – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Alia

• Late great engineers: Archimedes of Syracuse | The Engineer The Engineer
• Tornos News | Museum of Cycladic Art’s Picasso show in Athens honored at Global Fine Art Awards
• What can Greek mythology teach us about the Covid crisis?
• Roman legions fought barbarians along the Danube River for centuries
• False claim: “Middle finger” gesture derives from English soldiers at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415 – Reuters
• High-tech Israeli research lab carbon dates with extreme accuracy

‘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 abundance.

… 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)