Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 19 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Eccezionale scoperta archeologica nel mare di Ustica: trovato relitto con anfore databili tra il II ed I sec. a.C. – Meteo Web
- Archeologia: capitello ionico trovato in pozzo a Gela – Sicilia – ANSA.it
- Gela, gli scavi restituiscono antichi tesori: ritrovati i resti di un edificio monumentale – La Sicilia
- Crushed Bronze Age cup shines out among 1.5m detectorist finds | News | The Times
- Unprecedented 4,200-year-old rock art etching of animal herd found in Golan tomb | The Times of Israel
- Restoration project starts on Bronze-Age objects found in northeast Iran – Tehran Times
- Turkish Media Report Hagia Sophia Is Being Converted Into A Mosque – Greek City Times
In Case You Missed It
- Crew of Hagia Sophia Documentary Returns for New Explorations | Greek Reporter Europe
- Castrocielo – Il Giulio Cesare di Aquinum è tornato a casa | TG24.info
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] PROELIA SERVIA Servii adversus rem publicam reclamant
- [Ephemeris] SEPVLCRETVM AFRICVM Militum nex in campo
Fresh Bloggery
- Covering Up Our Evils: Reading Euripides’ “Andromache Online” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Virus That Crushed the Roman Army | by Sean Kernan | Publishous | Jun, 2020 | Medium
- Messages from Mykene: Othering and Smothering. Intersectional Orientalism and Sexism in a Museum Exhibition – Everyday Orientalism
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliographia classica orae septentrionalis Ponti Euxini
- Comfort Classics: Andrew Sillett – Classical Studies Support
- Roman Times: King Antiochus I Theos of Commagene: Meeting the Challenges of a Buffer Kingdom
- Turkey on collision course with UNESCO and Orthodox Christians over turning Hagia Sophia into mosque – The Archaeology News Network
- Call for Ovationes for Fall 2021 (Due July 30, 2020) | CAAS-CW
- NANAIHB Day 3: Meriones vs. Ajax – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Dreamer and Majority Opinion: Some Passages and Words – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Archaeology Blog: New discoveries at the Underwater Park of Baia
- Roman Times: Roman gaming and learning not to sweat the small stuff
- When the market incentivises plunder: Unravelling the laundering of the Eldarir family legacy. ~ ARCAblog
- The Archidamic War (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Hesiod | The Historian’s Hut
- Martial’s Guide to Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The 2020 Fall Virtual Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States | CAAS-CW
- Laudator Temporis Acti: You’re Making a Mountain Out of a Molehill
- New life for lost Greek drama: reflections on reconstructing and staging Euripides’ Melanippe Wise – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Bold Theories About Tacitus
- Drunken Helots – Fictions of Antiquity
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rancorous Hate
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “The Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir Collection”: A Dead Grandfather’s Collection Sale piece – Christie’s (5th Dec 2012)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “The Ezeldeen Taha Eldarir Collection”: Another Sculpted head from a grandfather’s estate – Christies (31 October 2018)
Fresh Podcasts
In this episode Jasper explains why Roman republican cavalry so poor? It’s thanks to patron Jo-jo Sun for sending us that.
Join us as we travel back in time to the amphitheatre of Capua—mainland Italy’s largest amphitheatre in its day—and experience a day at the gladiatorial games during the time of Spartacus.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Gary Ianziti, Massimo Zaggia, Pier Candido Decembrio. Lives of the Milanese tyrants. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 88. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Hyun Jin Kim, Geopolitics in late antiquity: the fate of superpowers from China to Rome. Routledge studies in ancient history. Abigndon; New York: Routledge, 2018.
- [BMCR] Kathleen McCarthy, I, the poet: first-person form in Horace, Catullus, and Propertius. Ithaca; London: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
Professional Matters
- CALL. 24.07.2020: Apologists and Empire – (Online)
- The Cancelled Conference, a PG online conference – 13/07/2020, (Online)
- Departmental Lecturer in Ancient History Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oxford and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
Alia
- Why Christians Have a Reputation for Smashing Sta… | Christianity Today
- Like Two Pis in a Pod: Author Similarity Across Time in the Ancient Greek Corpus | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
- One of a Kind: Some Unique Ancient Coins
- Public statues and the history of sculpture | Apollo Magazine
- Vatican Museums used to be an overcrowded ‘hell,’ say tour guides. COVID-19 may change that.
- Tear down the Arch of Titus – The Forward
- Patara, the ancient land bearing traces of Alexander the Great, Hannibal and St. Nicholas | Daily Sabah
- Usain Bolt Reveals His Daughter’s Greek Name – Greek City 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 an appearance of the gods and advancement of many good people.
… 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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