Hodie est a.d. V Id. Iun. 2772 AUC ~ 19 Thargelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad

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• Rome reopens Pantheon after three months – Wanted in Rome
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• Croatia’s Underwater Archeological Discoveries Have Tourism Potential
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Public Facing Classics

• ‘World-beating’ – or why superlatives matter (or maybe should be banned?) – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Seneca: Slowing Down Time – Lessons from History – Medium
• Ghosts and Empty Shadows – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Comfort Classics: Greg Gilles – Classical Studies Support
• women flyting, serious fighting: Homer’s Aeneas versus Rose & Lily – purple motes
• Did Hippocrates write the Hippocratic Oath? – Bad Ancient
• Isidore on Popular Types of Publication – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Shot in the Gut not the Foot! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Tree of this Week and Last Week: There is no tree.
• HEY SISTER! Translingual messages on spindle whorls from Autun
• Roman Times: The House of the Prince of Naples in Pompeii now on Wikipedia!
• Een Algerijnse officier in Vechten – Mainzer Beobachter
• De musea gaan weer open – Mainzer Beobachter

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 76: Judea Under Herod on Apple Podcasts

The Roman client king Herod (c. 73-4 BCE) ruled Judea for thirty years. Learn about his rule, and the political and religious climate of Judea just before the birth of Christ.

Professional Matters

• MA in Classical Studies at the Open University – ACE Classics

Alia

• Greek Myths and the Modern-Day Lessons We Can Learn from Them
• Greece plans €2 coin to mark ancient battle
• #openbutsafe Karl Lagerfeld – the first retrospective of his photographic oeuvre from fashion photography to architecture photos or even an LED panel on Homer’s Odyssey at the State Art Museum Moritzburg – News – GoSee
• New Royal Mail stamps celebrate Roman legacy in Britain – ITV News
• Ponte di Tiberio (Bridge of Tiberius) – Rimini, Italy – Atlas Obscura

‘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 the destruction of flocks by wolves.

… 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)