Hodie est a.d. V Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 22 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- The mathematical values of Linear A fraction signs
- Themistocles: The Brilliant Leader Who Led Ancient Athenians in the Battles of Salamis and Marathon | GreekReporter.com
- Recovering the text of the earliest Greek New Testament Commentary manuscript
- Third Parthian skeleton unearthed in Isfahan – Tehran Times
- Un’antica ancora romana scoperta dai sub sui fondali di Montalto
- Ancient Greek History Revived Through Pioneering Virtual Reality Project | GreekReporter.com
In Case You Missed It
- This artist used machine learning to make portraits of Roman emperors
- Archaeologists dig for weeks in search of ancient secrets under Brough football pitch – Hull Live
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Andrea Tschemplik (1961-2020) – Daily Nous
- American School of Classical Studies Webinar on Aegean Landscapes | community , general news | The National Herald
- Welcome Professor Dibble! | Department of Classics
- Athenian State – from Theseus to Solon to Be Held at the Archaeological Site of Eleusis | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Teaching Tuesday: Teaching and The COVIDs | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A Coptic Mother-in-Law’s Curse – Papyrus Stories
- Nature vs. Nurture, or On Hands and Walls – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- On Kindness and Need: Please Support the SCS-WCC COVID-19 Relief Fund – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Gladden Your Hearts
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cuneiform Tablet Collection at the Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE)
- Cicero Delayed Publishing a Book of Poetry Because the Acknowledgements Would Be Too Long – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Was Plato a Feminist? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- WvdK | De geboorte van Aurelianus – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Prison Break Of Coeratadas At Piraeus | The Historian’s Hut
- Autism and Classical Myth: “To marry him?”: When a second class of students at an autism base met Hercules…
- Roman History: Balbinus and Pupienus
- From Ancient Greece to Modern London: The Continued Relevance of Antigone – Xenia
Blog-like Publications
- The Antiquities of Greece and World War II
- The Ancient Condiments Our Ancestors Used | by Danny Kane | Exploring History | Aug, 2020 | Medium
- There Are No Caudine Forks. A New Solution to A Geographical… | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Sep, 2020 | Medium
- The truth about Cleopatra and Caesar’s relationship
- 2020 excavation results at the Sanctuary Poseidon Heliconius in ancient Helike, Achaea – The Archaeology News Network
- Agios Sozomenos survey and excavation project 2020 – The Archaeology News Network
- 2020 excavation findings at Apollo’s island sanctuary on Despotikon – The Archaeology News Network
- Local art appropriation in France—a study of the loot in the Louvre Museum – Smarthistory
Fresh Podcasts
Lesley McAdam joins us to talk all about the challenges of researching prehistory in the absence of documents and testimony.
We’ve asked members of the Getty community to share short reflections on works of art they’re thinking about right now. These recordings feature stories related to our daily lives. This week, educator Anna Sapenuk finds parallels in Herakles and Iolaos’s fight against the Hydra and our global battle against the coronavirus…
Special guest Helena Meskanen joins the regular team of Matthew Lloyd, Joshua Hall, and Josho Brouwers to talk about museums, including some that are not strictly archaeological. We talk about our favourite museums, relate personal experiences when visiting them, and discuss what the role of archaeological museums should be. We also touch upon open air or “living history” museums.
Dionysus was the god of wine from Greek myths and the last Olympian to earn a place on Mount Olympus. His story starts with him being born from Zeus’s thigh…and then somehow gets stranger.
How do you acknowledge the wild forces of the world without letting them destroy you? Euripides, the youngest Greek tragedian whose work survives, asked exactly this question in his radical, boundary-pushing play “The Bacchae.” In this episode of Young Heretics, Spencer Klavan explores how, with the clarity of an artist’s vision, Euripides saw the downfall of Athens coming and spoke wisely into the heart of his moment—and our own.
People didn’t travel much in the ancient world. But, for those who did they developed the ancient equivalent of guidebooks. These were often lists of manmade sites and attractions which any traveler should take the time to see. Over time, one such Greek list was written down and it became known to us as the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.
Book Reviews
- De l’antiquité au christianisme. Recueil en souvenir de V. M. Zubar | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Paul Rahe, Sparta’s first Attic War: the grand strategy of classical Sparta, 478-446 B.C. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019
- [BMCR] Giovanna Battaglini, Fregellae: il tempio del Foro e il tempio suburbano sulla via Latina. Monumenti antichi. Serie miscellanea, Volume 23. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2019.
- [BMCR] William Robert Wians, Logoi and muthoi: further essays in Greek philosophy and literature. SUNY series in ancient Greek philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press, 2019.
Professional Matters
- CORSO DI GRECO ANTICO IN RETE ΟΙΔΙΠΟΥΣ
- Ancient Medicine & Technology
- News – AIA Webinars: Critical Conversations on Race, Teaching, and Antiquity – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News
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- Lessons from Ancient Greece that we can still learn | The Conservative Woman
- How Sparta Used Harsh Training to Produce ‘Perfect’ Warriors – HISTORY
- How to Escape From a Volcano Eruption | WIRED
- [Paywalled] Opinion | The lessons two ancient philosophers have for us during the pandemic – The Washington Post
- The Winners of Re-use The Roman Ruin: Piscina Mirabilis | ArchDaily
- Top 10 goddesses in fiction | E Foley and B Coates | Books | The Guardian
‘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 disease-bearing wind.
… 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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