Hodie est a.d. IV Kal Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Lord Elgin Treasures Found Off Kythera Sunk In 1802 – Greek City Times
- Ancient sarcophagus fragment discovered in Istanbul | Daily Sabah
- Paris dealer who sold golden sarcophagus to New York’s Metropolitan Museum charged with fraud and money laundering | The Art Newspaper
- Pozzuoli, i preziosi resti della villa romana diventano una giungla
- Ritrovamenti archeologici a La Giustiniana: ville e tombe sulla Cassia
- Pavimento in mosaico di villa romana scoperto a Porto Torres – Sardegna – ANSA.it
- Cycladic Ephorate seeks to map archaeological site of Rineia | Life | ekathimerini.com
- Ventotene, individuati sul fondale marino reperti archeologici
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Fresh Bloggery
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: June 26
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Bulletin of Online Emendations to Papyri
- Tyrants: The Power to Do Everything in a Rage – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog: Can Studying Classics Encourage Empathy and Equity? | Society for Classical Studies
- Comfort Classics: Stephanie Holton – Classical Studies Support
- Museums from home across the UK – The British Museum Blog
- Roman Times: Early Excavations of Herculaneum and Pompeii
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Coin Collecting and Metal Detecting Dying Hobbies: Going the Way of Bottle Digging
- Racist Commemoration of Greco-Roman History as White History :: Pharos
- Marriage | Part 2: Wedding | The Kosmos Society
- Greek Love and MuseumBums – Cambridge University Museums
- Weekend Reading: Not Buying Books – Classical Studies Support
- Stepping into the Ring with Lust – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laughing at Babies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Gods in Pigeon-Holes
- Humanism vs. Erudition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Were Achilles and Zeus Black in Greek Mythology? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Two Parisian Dealers Arrested Over Antiquities Sales
- Depicting writing
- Style as Substance in Ancient Philosophy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: The use of the antefix on Greek, Etruscan and Roman architecture
- Hercules in White: Classical Reception, Art and Myth — The Jugaad Project
- Life’s Sweetness, Our Weakness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Reading for Deep Erudition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- An old list of abbreviations used in Latin inscriptions – Roger Pearse
- Erudition, Skepticism, Credulity: A Sketch of Isaac Vossius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Edithorial: Ancient Theatre for the 21st Century: E-Books for All
- Doubled Ignorance: Plato on the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Lawmaking – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Against Latin Virtue Signaling – Arc Digital
- The Stoicism of Benjamin Franklin – Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life – Medium
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Agamemnon, a performance history
Fresh Podcasts
Professor Paul Cartledge discusses a marble kouros statue from the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios near Thebes (550-540 BC), now in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens.
Vindolanda was an auxiliary Roman fort, just south of Hadrian’s wall in the province of Britannia. It has gained significance as an archaeological site, for what we can learn about the military and the lives of everyday Romans. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University)
Book Reviews
- Review – Gloucester: the Roman forum and the post-Roman sequence at the city centre – Current Archaeology
- [BMCR] Laura Eastlake, Ancient Rome and Victorian masculinity. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Silvio Marino, Il corpo del dialogo: una teoria della comunicazione a partire dal Protagora di Platone e dal Corpus Hippocraticum. Philosophike skepsis, 5. Napoli: Paolo Loffredo Editore, 2019.
- ISURIUM BRIGANTUM: An Archaeological Survey of Roman Aldborough – Classics for All
- AFTER THE CRISIS: Remembrance, Re-anchoring and Recovery in Ancient Greece and Rome – Classics for All
Professional Matters
Alia
- Exploring Britain’s Roman roads with historian Dan Jones – HistoryExtra
- ‘Civilization is a very thin veneer’: What the plague of Athens can teach us about dealing with COVID-19 | CBC Radio
- Encased in bronze – The panoply from a Mycenaean tomb at Dendra – Ancient World Magazine
- Imaging systems to help libraries and museums uncover lost texts
- Sexuality in the ancient world | National Museums Liverpool
- Sex, Power, and Violence in the Renaissance Nude – Smarthistory
- The Antonine Wall: A Line on the landscape | HeraldScotland
- “Not just lions in the Colosseum” – How the Romans acquired wild animals – Ancient World Magazine
- Black Figures in Classical Greek Art – Smarthistory
- Herodotus and the Human Quest for Justice | Merion West
- Seizure of Looted Antiquities Illuminates What Museums Want Hidden – Smarthistory
- What Is Eudaimonia? | Psychology Today
‘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 good harvest.
… 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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