Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Quint. 2772 AUC ~ 20 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- New method solves old mystery: Hafnium isotopes clinch origin of high-quality Roman glass | EurekAlert! Science News
- PA approves new promenade near Rabat’s Roman Villa
- Ancient relics get swallowed up in Turkey’s push to go green – StarTribune.com
In Case You Missed It
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- “Fancy an Indian studying Greek!” How I found my place in the Classical Tradition as a British Indian – The Oxford Student
- New York public schools turning out students fluent in Latin
Fresh Bloggery
- Skylla and Charybdis? An Easy Choice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Ryan Stitt – Classical Studies Support
- Take Two… | Sphinx
- Roman Times: Roman opponents: The Parthians
- Ice cream: the inside scoop – The British Museum Blog
- Plague and Famine in Late Antiquity and Byzantium | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- NANAIHB Day 4: Patroklos vs. Makhaon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- So Over the Rainbow. Pet Loss in the Time of Covid–19 | by JR O’Neill | Jul, 2020 | EIDOLON
- The Sneaky Volscian Infiltration Of A Roman Garrison At Anxur | The Historian’s Hut
- Athena Appearing To Odysseus To Reveal The Island Of Ithaca, By Giuseppe Bottani (1717–1784) | The Historian’s Hut
- Zoom with Odysseus, Zeus and Other Mythological Stars | The Getty Iris
- Collections: How Your History Gets Made – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Laudator Temporis Acti: In Praise of Ignorance
Fresh Podcasts
John Bracey, aka @magisterbracey on Twitter, is a Latin teacher in Massachusetts teaching Latin using the Comprehensible Input technique.. He has an MA in Classics from Boston College and in 2016 he was named Latin Teacher of the Year by the Massachusetts Foreign Language Association. He leads workshops for teachers around the US on language teaching….
I was thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the wonderful Simon Elliott. In this episode, Simon and I got to grips with the epic Roman Navy, and what it was doing on the shores of Britain. Enjoy!
Historian April Pudsey joins us to talk all about her research into what it was like to be a child in Roman Egypt.
Book Reviews
- Military Book Review The Life of Alcibiades: Dangerous Ambition and the Betrayal of Athens
- [BMCR] Douglas Underwood, (Re)using ruins: public building in the cities of the late antique West, A.D. 300-600. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Friedrich Meins, Paradigmatische Geschichte: Wahrheit, Theorie und Methode in den Antiquitates Romanae des Dionysios von Halikarnassos. Palingenesia, Band 113. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2019.
Professional Matters
- CALL. 22.07.2020: International Online Conference “Greek Epic and Artificial Intelligence“ – (Online)
- Classical Collections Network Online Event – 28/07/2020 (Online)
- SCS Board Endorses Letter to ICE on Visa Exemptions | Society for Classical Studies
- Part-Time Lecturer of Classics at USC
- LatinNow in Lockdown
- PaleoJudaica.com: More questions about the Cave One scrolls
- Ancient Everyday: Government in Ancient Rome – Part II |
- Online Open House | Experimental Archaeology of Ancient Greek Warfare | The Kosmos Society
- Dying to Kill a Tyrant – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Alia
- Tear down the Arch of Titus – The Forward
- The Spartans: ‘Children of Abraham, Brothers of the Jews’ – Watch Jerusalem
- Here’s a 10-minute look at Roman time-looping mystery The Forgotten City | PC Gamer
‘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 life sustaining river water.
… 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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