Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Iun. 2772 AUC ~ 25 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Practical joke or toy? Leather ‘mouse’ shows Romans’ playful side | UK news | The Guardian
- Ancient Athenian girl brought back to ‘life’ to fight coronavirus pandemic
- Vandals damage one of Wales’ most famous Roman ruins – Wales Online
- Ancient Greeks made the most of a feast (with donkey toes and gazelle brains) | World | The Times
- Olympus excavations to start in July
- Rome unearths ancient Roman sarcophagus at Ostia Antica
In Case You Missed It
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Classics and Classicists in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] AVE ATQVE VALE, AETIE!
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: May 15
- I Had to Put Myself In Power – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Impenetrable Clique
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Divine Punishment
- English Seneca By Candlelight – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: What is the Worth of a Masters in Classics? Some Advice on Terminal MAs | Society for Classical Studies
- Gallery | The Romans in North Britain: the Antonine Wall | The Kosmos Society
- Comfort Classics: Tom Mason – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aphrodisias Regional Survey Repository
- Historical city travel guide: Rome, 1st century AD – The British Museum Blog
- Isidorus’ Etymologieën – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman Times: Terracotta sarcophagi of the Ionian Greeks at Clazomenae
- Weekend Reading: Pick up a Penguin – Classical Studies Support
- The Atlantic Article and Green Collection Cartonnage | Variant Readings
- Wounds Healed Just in Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: What’s the Point of Life?
- Misverstand: Persepolis – Mainzer Beobachter
- Changing Nature and Isolation’s End – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Edithorial: Update from One Classicist’s Lockdown
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Royals
- Roman Leather Toy Mouse Discovered | The Vindolanda Trust
- Ugly Object of the Month — May 2020 – The Kelsey Blog
- Roman Times: Nero: Hating those who denounce your mistakes
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- Apollo, Python, and Turner’s Art – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: A physician as “lower middle class” in the Roman world
- Classics in Sarasota: The manner of Apollonian Justice – a brief digression.
- Heraclitus on the True Story of Lamia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Misverstand: Aspasia – Mainzer Beobachter
- #SeeOvidI9 « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
- Peoples of Much Suffering: Look – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
‘Fresh Podcastery
The final conspiracy against Caligula involved Cassius Chaerea, an officer of the Praetorian Guard; Callistus, Caligula’s wealthy freedman adviser; and the senator Lucius Annius Vinicianus. Over the next three episodes, we’ll explore whether or not the conspiracy was about getting rid of Caligula because he was batshit crazy – or because they wanted to restore the Republic.
Ian McNeice played the Newsreader in Rome, a character who bought both a flourish and much needed exposition to the Roman forum!
Landscape Modery
note: as of next week (Saturday), we’ll be collecting Youtubery in a separate page …
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] P. A. Roche, Lucan. De Bello Civili. Book VII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Dietrich Raue, Handbook of ancient Nubia. De Gruyter reference. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Rolf Strootman, Empires of the sea: maritime power networks in world history. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, volume 4. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- Les Scythes de la région du Nord de la mer Noire aux VIIe-IVe s. av. n. è. (anciens problèmes – nouvelles solutions) | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
Alia
- Stoicism and Islam – Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life – Medium
- Ancient Accusations of Human Sacrifice – History of Yesterday – Medium
- The Myth of the Minotaur, the Legendary Beast We Can’t Forget | HowStuffWorks
‘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 rainy weather.
… 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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