Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 7 Hekatombaion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Another victim of the coronavirus in Israel: archaeological excavations – The Jerusalem Post
- Italian town wants compensation for Nazi destruction of ancient Roman ships built for Caligula
- Researcher Says Female Artisans May Have Created Fine Pottery During Archaic Period | GreekReporter.com
- Man Charged With Smuggling Roman-Era Mosaic From War-Torn Syria
- AP PHOTOS: Ancient Greek theaters return to life in pandemic – ABC News
- Greece seeks return of Parthenon Marbles amid restoration project | Greece News | Al Jazeera
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Fresh Bloggery
- Blog: Classics Everywhere: Recreating Ancient Drama for the Modern (and Digital) Stage | Society for Classical Studies
- Beware The Street-Corner Cynics! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Even the Stoics Can’t Prove Their Own Doctrines – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Achilles and Briseis a popular motif in late Roman and early Byzantine art
- Weekend Reading: The Masked Classicist – Classical Studies Support
- Wandering Souls and Empty Bodies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Facts and Interpretation
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: July 24
- Breaking Up With Plato. Love Lessons I Learned Too Late | by Heather Harwood | Jul, 2020 | EIDOLON
- The Nika Riots. How a chariot race sparked off the… | by Ceithernach | History of Yesterday | Jun, 2020 | Medium
- Portland’s ‘Naked Athena’ – Antiquipop | L’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine
- The Roman Ruin At The Hairdresser | Spitalfields Life
- #EOTalks: Summer-Fall 2020 – Everyday Orientalism
- PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Tracing the Potter’s Wheel! A Panoply Interview with Dr Jill Hilditch
- “The Black Flamingo” by Dean Atta (2019) – Mixed up in Classics
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: California Man Charged with Unlawfully Importing Mosaic Not-Bought-From-ISIL
- The Most Shameful Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Learn to Type Polytonic Greek in 30 Short Chapters
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- A Hometown to Be Sick Over – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Adventures in Preposterous Etymology – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- An Indulgent Smile for Those Scallywags – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- PaleoJudaica.com: More on those hanging gardens
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- Roman Archaeology Blog: UN NOUVEL ÉTABLISSEMENT ANTIQUE DÉCOUVERT DANS LA PLAINE D’ALÉRIA (HAUTE-CORSE)
- Roman Times: The Fate of Crispus
- Reflections: Against the denial of racism in classics – Mixed up in Classics
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Fresh Podcasts
In 9CE three Roman legions were walking through Germany when they were ambushed in what would become one of the most notorious defeats throughout Rome’s history. The loss of the legions were a crippling blow to Rome’s plans of expansion, and redrew the borders in the province. Guest: Barry Strauss (Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies at Cornell University, author of Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors From Augustus to Constantine).
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] John Yardley, Livy. History of Rome. Books 21-22. Loeb classical library, 233. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] James R. Harrison, L. L. Welborn, First urban churches 5: Colossae, Hierapolis, and Laodicea. Writings from the Greco-Roman world supplements 16. Atlanta: SBL Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Matthew R. Crawford, The Eusebian canon tables: ordering textual knowledge in late antiquity. The Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- THE EMERGENCE OF THE ENGLISH – Classics for All
- XENOPHON ON VIOLENCE – Classics for All
- SNG Poland, Vol. I: The Archaeological and Ethnographical Museum in Łódź, Part 3 – Bosporus – Cilicia, | Spartokos a lu
Alia
- The Roman portrait: a collector’s guide | Christie’s
- This Is How They Wiped Themselves in Ancient Rome | JSTOR Daily
- Italo-Roman building techniques – Smarthistory
- Cleopatra: What Is The Real Legacy Of The Last Pharaoh? – HistoryExtra
- Dr. James Chamberlain: Pandemic lessons from Socrates – The Dispatch
- Herakles: The Ancient Superhero | Tor.com
- Rick Steves: Pompeii gives taste of life in ancient Rome | Times Colonist
- The attempt to conquer Scotland with an order for ‘genocide’ | The Scotsman
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a famine after a period of great plenty.
… 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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