Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Sext. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Hekatombaion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- A Pieve di Cadore una casa romana tutta da scoprire
- In Sicilia riaprono altri due siti: l’Area Leontinoi e Megara Hyblaea – Travelnostop
- Dopo il recupero dei mosaici la Domus romana di Madonna delle Grazie cambierà volto – FOTO | emmelle.it
- Feature: Greece steps up efforts for return of Parthenon Sculptures ahead of 200th anniversary of War of Independence – Xinhua | English.news.cn
Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Varro grammaticus
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Greeks
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dictionnaire Historique et Encyclopédie Linguistique du Latin
- What A Piece of Work is Man: Reading Sophocles’ “Antigone” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Victoria Austen – Classical Studies Support
- Roman Times: The symbolism of the Centauromachy
- Kimon: The Battle of Eurymedon, and Thasos | The Kosmos Society
- The Key to a Long Life: Magic (Or Maybe Climate and Diet) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Mixed up in White Supremacy: Racial Stereotypes – Mixed up in Classics
- EP Wegener (1908-1958) (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Fortification Walls of Troy I | Turkish Archaeological News
- carpe diem: Odes 1.11 – The Classical Anthology
- Beyond Justice’s Realm – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: More from McGrath on Gnostic origins
- An intimate snapshot of Beirut’s devastation through a look at the Sursock Museum ~ ARCAblog
- In Your Room | Sphinx
- The Wrong Monkey: Manuscripts and Methods by Michael D Reeve
Fresh Podcasts
Why did the huge western Roman empire shrink to the point where a Goth king could topple the last emperor?
Juno has just finished her opening monologue in which she whips herself into a frenzy of rage at Hercules. As the chorus enters, they sing of the dawn, then deliver an encomium of the simple country life, away from the ambition, greed, and corruption of city life. (Seneca apparently knew little of country life, which can be just as full of ambition, greed, and corruption as city life. But the sentiments are conventional.) The poetry here is more lyrical and contemplative than the thrusting, fiery rage of the opening monologue. The meter is in anapestic dimeters.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Peter Heslin, Propertius, Greek myth, and Virgil: rivalry, allegory, and polemic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] Benedikt Eckhardt, Private associations and Jewish communities in the Hellenistic and Roman cities. Supplements to the Journal for the study of Judaism, 191. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Retraction of 2020.07.49
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: The Lives of Texts
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Women of Substance in Homeric Epic
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: Politics and Philosophy at Rome
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF]: The Cambridge Companion to Hippocrates
Alia
- Stoicism and Islam – The Good Men Project
- Tornos News | The Enigma of Keros: Documentary on one of the top riddles of antiquity
- What Five Said In Greek On Umbrella Academy Translated
- Oh God, not the bashing of the Peloponnesian War again – The Washington Post
‘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 abundance of honey, but a shortage of water and other food items.
… 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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