Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Iun. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Thargelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists Discover Giant Defensive Minefield From Roman Iron Age – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Boy who dug up Roman coin hopes to make a pretty penny | News | The Times
- Mysterious traces of ‘Ancient Road’ in Phrygia
- 2,300-year-old Hellenistic-Roman anchor dedicated to Aphrodite salvaged | Daily Mail Online
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed Beneath Italian Vineyard | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Roman Iron Age Gaming Pieces Found in Norwegian Cairn – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Regional exchange of ceramics – case studies and methodology
- Have We Tried Using Bay Leaves on Coronavirus? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Fiona Radford – Classical Studies Support
- Uses of Roman Numerals | Latin Language Blog
- Kiwi Hellenist: An experimental translation of Homer
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Progeny of Night
- Eratosthenes, A ‘Second Rate’ Man – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman mosaic floor found under Italian vineyard
- Night Terrors and Anxiety Attacks in Hippocrates – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Early Athens: Settlements and Cemeteries in the Submycenaean, Geometric, and Archaic Periods
- Roman Times: Roman boxing: More Bloodsport than Gentlemen’s Competition
- The History Girls: Sex, Death and Eternal Love by Elisabeth Storrs
- Turn of the Tide | Sphinx
- Forgeries, Inks, and Writing Surfaces | Variant Readings
- Historical city travel guide: Athens, 5th century BC – The British Museum Blog
- New Comic: Heracles’ first Labour: the Lion of Nemea | Greek Myth Comix
Fresh Podcasts
Bridget Kendall traces the origin and meaning of Aesop’s fables and explores what they can teach us about understanding our own extraordinary times with three world experts: Edith Hall, Professor of Classics at Kings College London; Vayos Liapis, Professor of Theatre at the Open University of Cyprus; Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University.
We’re baaack! We’ve been hearing a lot about heroes in the news lately and it’s got us thinking. The word’s being used to describe doctors, nurses, paramedics, delivery people, truck drivers, and grocery store workers– all the people who are keeping our society going through the COVID-19 pandemic. But what do we really mean when we call someone a hero? Do our heroes today resemble the heroes of myth? Or are we using the label “hero” to escape societal responsibilities?
On the last morning of his life, Caligula entered the temporary theatre on the Palatine in a good mood. The conspirators attacked him in a narrow corridor, on his way back to the palace during the lunch break between performances. The lead conspirator, the praetorian guard Chaerea, stabbed Caligula in the neck, shouting “hoc age” – TAKE THAT! Then he was set upon by a crowd of assassins. Then they brutally murdered his wife and child. The assassins searched for Claudius to bump him off too – but he couldn’t be found.
In this episode, we discuss the years 413-412 BC of the Peloponnesian War, including the Athenian response to the Sicilian Disaster, the Spartan and Theban devastation of Attic agriculture and commerce from Decelea, the dissolution of the “friendship” between Athens and Persia, the Spartans’ building up of a navy and encouraging of revolts of Athenian subject-allies in the eastern Aegean, and a series of treaties between Sparta and the Persian satrap Tissaphernes.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Manuel De Souza, Olivier Devillers, Neronia X: Le Palatin, émergence de la colline du pouvoir à Rome. De la mort d’Auguste au règne de Vespasien, 14-79 p.C. Mémoires 55. Pessac: Ausonius Publications, 2019.
- [BMCR] Erik N. Ostenfeld, Ancient Greek psychology and the modern mind-body debate. . Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2018.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- 2020 Award and Fellowship Winners | Society for Classical Studies
- Congratulating 2020 Graduates | Society for Classical Studies
- CALL. 06/30/2020: ArcheoFOSS 14. Software, hardware, processes, data and formats in archaeological research – (Online)
Alia
- How A Total War Saga: Troy blends myth and reality | PC Gamer
- ANE TODAY – 202005 – Coping with Ethnicity in Pharaonic Egypt –
- Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat? | GreekReporter.com
- All Greek to Me: Why we can’t get enough of modern takes on ancient literature – Cherwell
- The Historical Memory of Constantinople, 567 Years After the Fall | GreekReporter.com
- Archaeologist uncovers ‘ingenuity of Pythagoras’ in ancient tunnel below Greek island | World | News | Express.co.uk
‘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 a war in the north, but it won’t affect trade.
… 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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