Hodie est a.d. VII Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 5 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Hundreds of Israel’s archaeological sites are vanishing under concrete
- Restoration in ancient city of Aizanoi begins
- Anfore puniche usate come soprammobili, sequestro nel Palermitano – la Repubblica
- Unearthing evidence of more sophisticated manufacturing in the bronze age
- Kazakh archaeologists start field season, find new artifacts | Kazakhstan News: Latest news on Kazakh TV | Kazakh TV
- Archaeologists in search for Seleucid relics in Laodicea Temple – Tehran Times
- Punic tomb removed from Central Link site for conservation – Newsbook
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- Three Ancient Roman Boats Reconstructed in 3D | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
- New DNA Analysis Reveals Ancient Scythian Warrior Was a 13-Year-Old Girl
Public Facing Classics
- Thucydides in Times of Trouble | The Yale Review
- Hercules in White: Classical Reception, Art and Myth — The Jugaad Project
- What can Roman outbreaks of malaria teach us about Covid? | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- New Humanities Commons page for open-access publications – It’s All Greek To Me
- Another looted conflict antiquity from the Temple of Eshmun in Sidon, Lebanon seized. This time at Royal Athena Galleries in New York ~ ARCAblog
- The Truth and Curative Fire – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- No Mortal is Ever Free: Reading Euripides’ “Hecuba” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Ancient Everyday: Government in Ancient Rome – Part I |
- Comfort Classics: Verity Platt – Classical Studies Support
- Advice to a Scholar: Remember Everything! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Sibyls as female authors of prophecy and myth
- Iconoclasm and the Suburbs | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- The Language of Non-Thought – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Incendiarism
- Greek tragedy in lockdown: developing and performing theatre online with By Jove Theatre Company | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Alexander the Great and the Physician Philip of Acarnania, Painted By Henryk Siemiradzki (1843–1902) | The Historian’s Hut
Fresh Podcasts
From a greater focus on Black history and poetry to classics in state school classrooms and an understanding of the history of science. Rana Mitter and guests debate the syllabus. [Edith Hall among the guests]
Rebecca Langlands on lessons learnt in the only known ancient Roman brothel; Caroline Moorehead reviews Elena Ferrante’s latest novel; Rory Waterman reads a new poem, “Defences” (“‘Crikey!’ you say. ‘It’s gorgeous!’…”)
What did it take to be a gladiator? Who ended up in the arena, and why? And how did the gladiatorial games—one of the bloodiest sporting events known in the ancient world—come to be? From the ancient roots of Etruscan funeral games to the height of Roman spectacle, we examine the history of gladiatorial combat—and explore what life was like for gladiators in the time of Spartacus.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas of Hannah Arendt who examined totalitarianism and politics and, when covering the Eichmann trial, explored ‘the banality of evil’.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Mauro Bonazzi, Thinking, knowing, acting: epistemology and ethics in Plato and ancient Platonism. Brill’s Plato studies series, volume 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Antonio Gonzales, Marie Teresa Schettino, Les sons du pouvoir des autres: actes du troisième colloque SoPHiA, 27-28 mars 2014, Strasbourg. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2017.
Professional Matters
Alia
- Beyond Lord Byron… Philhellenes of modern times | Neos Kosmos
- Digital Mycenae
- The British School at Rome – Wanted in Rome
- Stoicism as a Martial Art – The Good Men Project
- The Year 536 Has Been Tagged as the Worst Year Ever | Nature World News
- Opinion | Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia could be in a fight against time – The Washington Post
- Roman lesbian lamp shines light on diversity for British Museum | News | The Times
‘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 wars and all sorts of bad things.
… 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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