Hodie est a.d. IV Id Sept. 2772 AUC ~ 23 Metageitnion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Archeologia, a Malafede scoperta vasca del IV secolo avanti Cristo – Corriere.it
- Positano. Villa Romana, l’affresco recuperato andrà ad impreziosire la sala congressi del nuovo edificio comunale – Positanonews
- Due sarcofagi trafugati a Eloro e recuperati a Noto dai Carabinieri: erano in un casolare – Siracusa News
- Rome archaeologists discover ancient stone pool – Wanted in Rome
In Case You Missed It
- Rare Roman gaming piece found on Chester building site – BBC News
- Archaeologists stumble on ‘remarkable’ Roman building by chance in grounds of Bamburgh Castle – Chronicle Live
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Remembering the Work of Marguerite Harl († 30 August 2020) | Septuaginta &c.
- Cypriot researcher awarded €1.25m grant to study ancient trade routes | Cyprus Mail
Greek/Latin News
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Twins
- PaleoJudaica.com: On ancient synagogues
- PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeology and the “Deal of the Century”
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on those Phoenician figurines
- “Should We Kill Our Mother?”: Reading Euripides’ “Electra” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Broken Cities | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Digital resources supported by the ICS – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- Legal Strategies When You Can’t Deny Or Defend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Unjust and Unprofitable
- WvdK | Thoukydides over revolutionaire veranderingen – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Story Of Julius Caesar And The Sacred Grove Of Massilia | The Historian’s Hut
- Hesiod | The Historian’s Hut
- Absolutely Correct « whatwouldcicerodo
- Teaching Indigeneity and the Classics: A Syllabus – Everyday Orientalism
- Antony and Cleopatra: The Ancient Sources Part 1 – Raoul McLaughlin « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
Blog-like Publications
- The weirdest deaths from ancient history
- 2,400-year-old mask of Dionysus unearthed in western Turkey – The Archaeology News Network
- Coins of the Ludi Saeculares and Rome’s Millennial Games
- There Are No Caudine Forks. A New Solution to A Geographical… | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Sep, 2020 | Medium
- Daniel Mendelsohn Makes a Powerful Case for the Art of Digression | Literary Hub
- Nymphaeum of Egeria – Rome, Italy – Atlas Obscura
Fresh Podcasts
The Wars of the Diadochi begin, as Perdiccas prepares to attack Ptolemy in Egypt to recover Alexander’s body and secure his southern flank. Meanwhile, Eumenes is tasked with defending Anatolia from Antipater, Craterus, and Antigonus the One-Eyed, as the coalition assembled against him prepares to cross into Asia.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Wolfram Hörandner, Andreas Rhoby, Nikos Zagklas, A companion to Byzantine poetry. Brill’s companions to the Byzantine world, volume 4. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Paul Schollmeier, Rewriting contemporary political philosophy with Plato and Aristotle. An essay on Eudaimonic politics. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- [BMCR] Henry P. Colburn, Archaeology of empire in Achaemenid Egypt. Edinburgh studies in ancient Persia. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2019.
Professional Matters
- Antiquities Circle Lecture – Nikos Stratakis: Antiquity Today
- Curso de verano “Un Imperio de mármol: piedras ornamentales y canteras en la Península Ibérica en época romana“ – 30/09-01-02/10/2020 (Online)
- Frames and Framing in Antiquity – 16-17-18/10/2020 (Online)
- The Hardt Foundation’s 67th Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique- 23-24-25-26-27 / 08/2021 (Geneva, Switzerland)
- 15th Trends in Classics: “Labor imperfectus. Unfinished, Incomplete, Partial Texts in Classical Antiquity“- 27-28-29-30/05/2021 (Thessaloniki, Greece)
- 2020 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit Winners | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Jesus Holding a Magic Wand? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- How to Escape From a Volcano Eruption | WIRED
- How Sparta Used Harsh Training to Produce ‘Perfect’ Warriors – HISTORY
- Was the End of the Minoans the Will of the Gods?
- The School of Athens: A detail hidden in a masterpiece – BBC Culture
‘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 strife in the place where the thunder was heard and also elsewhere.
… 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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