Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 24 Thargelion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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In Case You Missed It
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
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- F**k Those Vergilian Bees! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Looting Matters: Geometric horse due to return to Greece
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Man of Varied Interests
- Memories for Life: Materiality and memory of ancient Near Eastern inscribed private objects | The Votives Project
- A Share of Initial Beauty – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Madeleine Perridge – Classical Studies Support
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- Blog: Women in Classics: Froma Zeitlin | Society for Classical Studies
- Roman Times: Mars: The Roman God of War
- Historical city travel guide: Thebes, Egypt, 13th century BC – The British Museum Blog
- 5 Top Tips: Applying for Classics at Uni – Ellesthetics
- Monsters from Greek Mythology Inspire White Supremacist Activists :: Pharos
- Roman Times: The Roman viewpoint on old age
- SA Reviews: How to Think Like Shakespeare – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Weekend Reading: Discomfort and Diversity – Classical Studies Support
- What Books have You Read? Give Them Up. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- On Containing Identity – vox clara
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ptolemaic Monograms Published to PCO
- Archaeologists Search for Home of Apolonia in Egypt – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Alexander’s ancestors
- We Need Sick Days for Mental Health – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- It’s a Man’s World: the lives of ancient women – Lytham St Annes Classical Association
- Prostitution in Ancient Greece and Rome | TheCollector
- Roman Times: Philoctetes and Compassion for Hercules on the Pyre
- “Beware the many, if you do not fear the one” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Seeing US in Tacitus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Legacy of Destruction: How not to put History on a Pedestal. – Caveat Lector: Reading Ancient Rome
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Fresh Podcasts
The institutions of the Spartans take root and develop
Professor Ray Laurence struck viral gold with his animated Youtube videos depicting teenage life in Ancient Rome. With more students studying ancient history for their HSC in NSW then anywhere else in the world, we chat with Prof Laurence about the allure of Ancient Rome, and the digitisation of historical resources.
In this episode, Rebecca Rideal chats to historian, broadcaster and bestselling author Professor Bettany Hughes about Ancient Greece, virgin sacrifice and her brand new Channel Five series Greek Odyssey. Written and narrated by Rebecca RidealProducer/Editor: Peter CurryVoice Actors: Duncan Barrett and Laura DarrallTheme music: “Circles” by The Broxton Hundred
When we last left Cleopatra, she was creeping out the back door of a chaotic Rome in the wake of Julius Caesar’s death. In some ways, she’s just as vulnerable as she was as a young exile. But Cleopatra is only now, a seasoned leader, and she isn’t one to sit back and let the gods take the wheel on her destiny. She’s managed to harness Rome’s powers in her favor and ensure her family’s continued legacy successfully before. And she can do it again—if she can just figure out how best to play the…
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With an Egyptologist’s perspective, PhD student Henry Bohun joins the show to help explore the complexities of the relationship between the Greco-Macedonian rulers of the Ptolemaic Dynasty with that of their native Egyptian subjects. Despite being Macedonian to the core, the Ptolemies nevertheless saw themselves as heirs and continuators of the Pharaonic tradition, and the ways in which they did are explored in this episode.
Book Reviews
- Warfare and Society in the Barbarian West – A book from 2003 by Guy Halsall – Ancient World Magazine
- [BMCR] Marc Brüssel, Altsprachliche Erwachsenendidaktik in Deutschland: von den Anfängen bis zum Jahr 1945. . Heidelberg: Propylaeum Fachinformationsdienst Altertumswissenschaften, 2018.
- [BMCR] Robert Wisniewski, The beginnings of the cult of relics. . Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Lisa Maurice, Screening divinity. Screening Antiquity. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
- Review: ‘Alaric the Goth’ by Douglas Boin – The Atlantic
Professional Matters
- Managing Committee Statement in Support of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour Communities | American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Alia
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- Sudanese Campaign to Recover Mummy of ‘Queen of Upper and Lower Egypt’ from Vatican | Asharq AL-awsat
- LI actors to read ‘Ulysses’ for Virtual Bloomsday | Newsday
- How learning Latin could change your life | TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities
- The Beachwood Reporter – How Studying History Made Me A Stoic
- Penshaw Monument: Durham’s very own Greek temple, and why it’s worth a visit
- 8 Life Lessons From the Stoics – The Good Men Project
- The Globe of the Vatican Obelisk – Rome, Italy – Atlas Obscura
- Was Julius Caesar Really a Military Genius?
- OBJECT OF THE WEEK: Roman York’s Ivory Bangle Lady | York Press
- Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Turkish daily says ancient site in Thessaloniki built 300 years before Mohammed is a mosque – Greek City Times
- The Athenian Plague, a Cautionary Tale of Democracy’s Fragility | The New Yorker
- Digital Mycenae | Apollo Magazine
- The Ancient Greek Prostitute Who Became Absolutely Powerful
- Ancient and Mythological Street Names in Belfast « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends burning hot temperatures but an abundant harvest and a good stream of river fish. But bodies will be weak.
… 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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