Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 26 Skirophorion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- French archaeologists conduct excavations in Syria
- What is the future of the 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls? – The Jerusalem Post
- Second Temple period Jewish ritual bath uncovered, in need of rescuing – The Jerusalem Post
- Rome opens Colosseum for moonlight tours this summer – Wanted in Rome
- Nave romana ritrovata davanti alla spiaggia di Marausa – La Stampa – Ultime notizie di cronaca e news dall’Italia e dal mondo
- Huge Atlas statue to guard Sicily’s Temple of Zeus once more | Culture | The Guardian
- Il Tempio dei giochi Isolimpici: un gioiello nella stazione Duomo della Linea 1 – Identità Insorgenti
- Fondi per gli scavi del teatro Ellenistico, Firetto: “Utile un ripensamento”
- Archeologisch samenwerkingsverband PAN leidt tot nieuwe historische inzichten | News articles | University of Groningen
- Wagengraf shows Celtic elite life on the Maas – NRC
- Man in northern Greece found with thousands of ancient coins, jewellery | News | ekathimerini.com
- Rome illuminates Temple of Hadrian with free light show
In Case You Missed It
- Il mare del Circeo restituisce tesori, recuperata un’antichissima anfora | Luna Notizie – Notizie di Latina
- ‘Sensational’ Egypt find offers clues in hunt for Cleopatra’s tomb | Science | The Guardian
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- Civilization and its Dissed Contents – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Another Metal Detectorist Arrested
- Turn Your Life Around! Reading Aristophanes’ “Clouds” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Archaeology without Antiquity | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Roman Times: The beautiful mosaics of Empúries
- Made Miracle. Tiresias Beyond the Gender Binary | by Charles-Elizabeth Boyles | Jul, 2020 | EIDOLON
- Notes from Naxos | American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO)
- #NANAIHB Round 2, Match 3: A Contest for Achilles’ Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Diodorus Siculus | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The House of Serenos, Part I: The Pottery (Amheida V)
- Misverstand: De stad Nijmegen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Salona – Capital of the Roman Province of Dalmatia – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Got Hieroglyphics? Now Read What they say
- Constantine the Great – Youth and Rise – Time Travel Rome
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Inherited or Imitated Way of Walking
Fresh Podcasts
This edition of Staging the Archive was recorded in June 2020, bringing together Dr Estelle Baudou (Marie-Curie Research Fellow at the APGRD; actor and dramaturg) and Struan Leslie (movement director and choreographer; founding Head of Movement at the RSC 2008-2013). Estelle and Struan begin with a photograph from last year’s danced chorus workshop to discuss their professional and personal understandings of the changing role of the Chorus.
Despite my royal status and lineage, I am begging you. Spare me, please. May you get everything you want as a huntsman…
For most of his life, Claudius was the Rosemary Kennedy of the Caesars. Without the ice pick lobotomy. Hidden from the public. If he wasn’t allowed to participate in Roman affairs, he would look elsewhere. He became a historian, writing a ton of books about his family, the Carthaginians, and about Etruscan history. But he wasn’t boring. He was a bit of a womaniser, and loved to watch games in the arena, gambling, eating, drinking. Things only started to turn around for him when became Caligula’s co-consul in 37 – but whether or not this was Caligula’s little joke is hard to say.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Anne Kolb, Roman roads: new evidence – new perspectives. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Gianfranco Adornato, Eva Falaschi, Alessandro Poggio, Pittori, tecniche, trattati, contesti tra testimonianze e ricezione. Archeologia e arte antica. Milano: LED Edizioni, 2019.
- The History of Heraclea Pontica, Sinope, and Tios in the Archaic and Classical Periods | Spartokos a lu
Alia
- Think Like a Roman Emperor. How Marcus Aurelius Thrived as One of… | by Steven Gambardella | Personal Growth | Medium
- ‘When the politics change, so must the statues’ | The Art Newspaper
- 11 Facts About the Antikythera Mechanism
- Has my star sign changed? Why the 13th sign Ophiuchus ‘discovered by Nasa’ isn’t new, and what it means for your horoscope
- Sweet life to destruction: Pompeii comes alive in Aarhus – The Post
- Jerusalem vs. Tel Aviv and the battle over Israel’s biblical archeology – The Jerusalem Post
- The American who restored the priceless mosaics of Hagia Sophia
- Gli Etruschi e la politica: Eracle e il passaggio dall’aristocrazia alla democrazia
- Were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually in Babylon?
‘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 the king of the East will be defeated in war and dry weather will lead to disease.
… 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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