Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Iun. 2772 AUC ~ 26 Mounichion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Rome museums reopen after lockdown – Wanted in Rome
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Fresh Bloggery
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- “A Little Bit, But Not Too Long”: One of Homer’s Most Chilling Passages – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- In Homeric Matters, Affirm Nothing! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Heracles’ Labours: a map | Greek Myth Comix
- PaleoJudaica.com: BAR 2020 Summer issue
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- Starting Fights with Doctors – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Misunderstanding: Female clergy – Mainzer Beobachter
Fresh Podcasts
Who was Spartacus, really? It’s not an easy question to answer. The ancient sources agree that he was Thracian, but even this is up for debate. Still, we’re going to go out on a limb and say that to know Spartacus, you have to know the Thracians. The Thracians were a fierce warrior people, consummate mercenaries who fought in every major Greek and Roman war—and believed that they would never die. Join us as we try to breathe life into these epic people by exploring their unique mythology and religious beliefs.
In today’s special guest episode, I am joined by director and screenwriter Esme von Hoffman (Festival of Cinema NYC 2019 Winner for Best Director) for her film, Ovid and the Art of Love. Esme and I discuss her background with Classics and Roman history, what drew her to make a film about the life of Ovid, her artistic vision in adapting the film to a modern audience, and some of the decisions that she made in writing its script.
Arguably the most popular of the Hellenistic philosophies, the Stoic movement, with its emphasis on reason and self-control, attracted several famous figures such as the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, the Macedonian king Antigonus II Gonatas, and Seneca the Younger. Believing that wisdom is the highest good and can be achieved through philosophy, the Stoics encouraged the rejection of emotion and the embrace of rationality as a way to live in accordance with nature, which was granted an innate sense of orderliness and reason thanks to the embodiment of the cosmos by a rational deity.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Achille Vogliano, Scritti Minori I. Milano: LED Edizioni, 2019.
- [BMCR] Patrizia Mascoli, Iohannes de Segarellis. Elucidatio tragoediarum Senecae: Thyestes / Tantalus. Quaderni di “Invigilata lucernis”, 46. Bari: Edipuglia, 2018.
- [BMCR] Benedikt Boyxen, Fremde in der hellenistischen Polis Rhodos: zwischen Nähe und Distanz. Klio. Beihefte, Neue Folge, Band 29. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018.
- Antigone Rising by Helen Morales review – the Greek myths get subversive | Books | The Guardian
- Monumentele Patriei Noastre | Spartokos a lu
Alia
- Myth debunked: Did Pythagoras discover Pythagoras’ theorem?
- When in a pandemic… do as the Romans did – The Sunday Post
- How Boxing Became a Popular Sport in Ancient Greece | GreekReporter.com
- Antikythera Mechanism: The Ancient Greek Artefact that Continues to Amaze Scientists | GreekReporter.com
‘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 discord and from that will come a shortage of daily necessities.
… 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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