Hodie est Kal. Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 14 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Wildfire breaks out near tomb of Agamemnon in Greece | World news | The Guardian
- AgCult | Parco archeologico di Segesta, riprendono gli scavi a Entella
- Archaeologists find Assyrian siege ramp at biblical city of Azekah – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Bronze age Britons made keepsakes from parts of dead relatives, archaeologists say | Science | The Guardian
- From the Seabed, Figures of an Ancient Cult – The New York Times
Classicists and Classics in the News
- EMBCA Presents the 2,500th Anniversary of Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis | archive , community , associations | The National Herald
- Obituary: Jim Coulton, architectural historian who explored the ancient world and its buildings | HeraldScotland
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] ALBARVSSIAE GRAVIS ICTVS
- Nuntii Latini mensis Augusti 2020 – Latein-Monatsnachrichten – Bremen Zwei – Radio Bremen
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Fresh Bloggery
- Marcus Aurelius Would Have Done Better to Have Had No Sons – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Professors
- Eleutherai | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: An Educator’s Handbook for Teaching about the Ancient World
- This, Cicero, Is Thy Heart… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Things That Drive Me Crazy about Plato’s Republic | Dickinson College Commentaries
- Comfort Classics: Jennifer Gane – Classical Studies Support
- Pliny Plans a Staycation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Texts Added to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) on June 29, 2020
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-VITAE
- The Battle of Aktion (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Autism and Classical Myth: Meeting Hercules: with students at a primary school’s Autism Base
- August 2020 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- PaleoJudaica.com: An undersea Tanit sanctuary?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on 2020 discoveries
- Book Club | September 2020: Plato Timaeus and Critias | The Kosmos Society
- PaleoJudaica.com: Clint Burnett on the NT and inscriptions
- PaleoJudaica.com: Some assembly required
- Blog: Classics Everywhere: Promoting a Passion for the Ancient World in the Midst of a Pandemic | Society for Classical Studies
- New and Old | Greek Myth Comix
Fresh Podcasts
William Sitwell joined me on the pod to discuss the history of the restaurant. Tracing its earliest incarnations in the city of Pompeii, we discuss the events that shape the way we eat today.
A group of freedmen at a party demand a story, and get an exciting tale set on the night of a full moon… I’m delighted to be joined on this episode by Dr Liz Gloyn, from Royal Holloway University, to talk about ancient and modern werewolves, folklore, class and ghosts. This month’s story comes from Petronius, Satyricon, 61-62.
Book Reviews
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Evil Lords
- [Classical Journal ~ PDF] Empire of Letters
- [Ancient History Bulletin ~ PDF] Maia Kotrosits reviewing Virginia Burrus, Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things (71-73)
- [Ancient History Bulletin ~ PDF] Jeremy A. Simmons reviewing Matthew Adam Cobb , Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE (74-77)
Alia
- Rome Municipality gives you the unique opportunity to experience history through virtual reality | TheMayor.EU
- We Have Ancient Greece to Thank For Contemporary Gardens | Literary Hub
- Your starter for Tenet: the archaeological mystery behind the film of the summer
‘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 a good harvest and good cheer.
… 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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