Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Roman temple halts work on Tas-Silġ visitors’ centre
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- Column Bearing Roman Gods Discovered In Germany | South Florida Times
- Second Temple Period stone table unearthed near Beit El – The Jerusalem Post
- Ancient Amphora Found Off Spain’s East Coast | South Florida Times
- POPOLI, ANTICHE TOMBE ITALICHE RINVENUTE LUNGO LA TIBURTINA VALERIA – ReteAbruzzo.com
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Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Speed of Travel
- Autism and Classical Myth: More on why I’m investigating Hercules in children’s literature: because there’s so MUCH
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nickname for a Politician
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Hitherto Unknown Author of Greek Comedy?
- Comfort Classics: Rebecca Futo Kennedy and Max Goldman – Classical Studies Support
- Tawdry Tuesday: A Band of F**kers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: The legacy of Etruscan fashion
- F**k Plato and His Foggy Mind! [FTS Week] – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Body that Is Our Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Miraculous Things and Gullible People – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- F**k Grammar, I’m the King! [FTS Week] – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Thales van Milete (en Babylon) – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Safety Deposit Blunder Of Ancient Chalcedon | The Historian’s Hut
- F**k Shaving, and F**k the Theater Too! [FTS Week] – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Imperatives
- The University of Manchester Joins as ACE Partner – ACE Classics
- Pynk P-words & Dewy Lacunas: What Ben Shapiro and Sappho’s Critics lack in Erotic Tempo | by Vanessa Stovall | Corona Borealis | Aug, 2020 | Medium
- Faulting the Tricks of the Goddess: Reading “Iphigenia in Tauris” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Still more on that ancient stone table
- New discoveries at the ancient Greek city of Smyrna in Turkey – The Archaeology News Network
- All (Silk) Roads Lead to …?. Modern China’s Ancient Heritage… | by Stephanie Wong | Aug, 2020 | EIDOLON
Fresh Podcasts
In this weeks episode of PillarTalk, Joe, Will and Lewis discuss some of the origins behind some of the most iconic monsters of ancient mythology including the Minotaur, Cyclops, Sirens and even Hobbits. We discuss some of the social and scientific explanations to their inclusion within folklore and oral tradition and try to deduce how ancient people may have explained these creatures!
Book Reviews
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Antipodean Antiquities: Classical Receptions Down Under
- [Ancient History Bulletin ~ PDF] Leonardo Gregoratti reviewing J.A. Baird, Dura-Europos (7-9)
- [Ancient History Bulletin ~ PDF] Craige Champion reviewing Josiah Osgood, Rome and the Making of a World State, 150 BCE-20 CE (10-12)
Dramatic Receptions
Alia
- How Did The Roman Republic Work? – HistoryExtra
- The griffin family of Lefkandi – A twelfth-century-BC alabastron from Xeropolis-Lefkandi – Ancient World Magazine
- Goddess Approved – richmondmagazine.com
- The real gladiators were well funded, well fed egotists – The Big Smoke
‘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 women and slaves daring to commit murders.
… 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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