Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
n.b. We’ve added a link below (in the ‘Professional’ section) to Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar … It is a good source for online social events and talks with a Classics bent …
In the News
- 1,800-year-old heating system discovered in Diyarbakır
- Palazzolo Acreide, ritrovata una domus romana – QdS
- Valle dei Templi, nuovi reperti aprono scenari inediti. Samonà: “Stagione fruttuosa” :ilSicilia.it
- Latina, Una grandiosa villa romana a Satricum: le nuove scoperte
In Case You Missed It
- Well-Preserved Brain Cells Found in Vesuvius Victim | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- A Day by the Rhone – Archaeology Magazine
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] AVREA AVRORA ABIECTA http://ephemeris.alcuinus.net/nuntius.php?id=1796
- diē sextō decimō mēnsis Octōbris — Nuntii Latini
Fresh Bloggery
- Satire and Vice’s Eternal Wage – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Cressida Ryan – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Economics of Urbanism in the Roman Eas
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018
- Roman Times: The Minoan snake goddess and other “mistresses of animals”
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Open House | Uncanny Intruders: Ghosts and Greek Literature, with Robert Cioffi
- Weekend Reading: Casting and Recasting – Classical Studies Support
- The Wrong Monkey: Random Notes
- Four Years of Presidential Memories: Truth, Lies and Corrupt Judges – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Four Years of Presidential Memories: Outidanoi, Not Even People – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola (1952) – Mixed up in Classics
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bloomsbury Open: Biblical Studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bloomsbury Open: Classics
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: Oct. 16
- Mr Pitiful | Sphinx
- The Lacedaemonian Polity banishes Archilochus’ Poetry; some interesting socio-political elements – Novo Scriptorium
- Treaty between Hannibal and King Philip V of Macedon – Novo Scriptorium
- Orpheus and Eurydice read by Llewelyn Morgan
- 5th Century BC Ancient Greek Shrine Discovered in First Ever Excavations on Tiny St. Peter Island off Bulgaria’s Black Sea Coast near Sozopol – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
- The Edithorial: On Zoom-Age Academia and the Problematic Thomas Carlyle
- “He Said Some Other Nice Things About Women”: Reading Aristophanes’ “Assemblywomen” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Report on 2nd year of the Coptic Magical Papyri Project
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Civilian Hierarchy
- We Need An Art of Forgetting – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Four Years of Presidential Memories: A Failure of Education, Commodus’ Cruelty – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Lukas, arts en evangelist? – Mainzer Beobachter
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Tutorials @ AtticGreek.org
- Archilochus – Patience as medicine – Novo Scriptorium
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Looting and the (Whole) Market
- No Accidental Murder! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Praying Mantis: Seercraft in Ancient Sparta, Barry Trainor (QUB) « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
Blog-like Publications
- Pasargadae – The First Dynastic Capital of the Archaemenid Empire – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Ancient Troy – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Heritage to Auction Roman Republican Denarius Collection
- The Elite Gay Army of Ancient Greece | Lessons from History
- Greek And Latin In Chains. The Prison Graffiti of the Nazi Via… | by Gabriel Kuhl | In Medias Res | Oct, 2020 | Medium
- Influences from Gandhara & Interior of Africa in Ancient Temple on the Red Sea in Egypt – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- The Real Story Behind the 300 Spartans | by Andrei Tapalaga ✒️ | History of Yesterday | Oct, 2020 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
Xerxes launches the second invasion of Greece
- Gladys Berejiklian is not the first politician to face questions about a personal relationship – Mornings – ABC Radio [not really a podcast]
The NSW premier’s relationship with disgraced former MP Daryl Maguire has led to calls for her resignation. If you look at Roman history, it’s not the first time a lover has caused a political leader strife. Associate Professor of Classics & Ancient History at La Trobe University, Rhiannon Evans, tells Virginia Trioli about the case of Mark Antony.
Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo – brother-in-law of Caligula – is sent by Claudius to Germany to deal with some rebellious tribes. But he’s TOO successful, so Claudius calls him home. Messalina decides to get married again – while still married to Claudius. Surprisingly he isn’t too happy about it when he finds out. So she has a date – with a sword.
16th official episode of Spartan History Podcast, Jason and the Golden Fleece part 4.
… I was delighted to be joined by Dr Lyndsay Coo, a leading expert on Sophocles and his lost plays, to talk through the life and legacy of this famous dramatist. We first talk about Sophocles and his seven surviving plays, before going on to the many, many fragments that survive and their significance. This was an enthralling and eye-opening chat. Enjoy.
- History of the World podcast: Vol 3 Ep 41 – Ancient Rome: From Republic to Empire on Apple Podcasts
509 BCE – 284 CE – A whistle-stop tour of some of the aspects of Rome and how some of them changed over time.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Gabriela Ryser, Education, religion, and literary culture in the 4th century CE. A study of the underworld topos in Claudian’s De raptu Proserpinae. Beiträge zur Europäischen Religionsgeschichte (BERG), 7. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH, 2020.
- [BMCR] Stefan Krmnicek, Jérémie Chameroy, Money matters: coin finds and ancient coin use. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] Barbara Borg, Roman tombs and the art of commemoration: contextual approaches to funerary customs in the second century CE. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Rosario Moreno Soldevila, Alberto Marina Castillo, Juan Fernández Valverde, A prosopography to Martial’s epigrams. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- Recherche sur les inscriptions grecques antiques de la région nord de la mer Noire | Spartokos a lu
- Gladius by Guy de la Bédoyère, review — the story of the soldiers who built the Roman empire | Culture | The Sunday Times
Dramatic Receptions
- BWW Blog: Bringing Ancient Greek Tragedy to Today’s Virtual Stage
- Sonic theatre adaptation of Greek tragedy addresses identity, history, and change | The Star
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- CANADIAN CLASSICAL BULLETIN – BULLETIN CANADIEN DES ÉTUDES ANCIENNES
- See what’s happening this week in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
Alia
- Treasures in Clay Jars – Biblical Archaeology Society
- A Closer Look at Hollywood’s Historical Accuracy in the 1963 Film ‘Cleopatra’ | Egyptian Streets
- Megasthenes, Heracles and the Graeco-Indian Classical Antiquity – The Sunday Guardian Live
‘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 plentiful grain supply brought from foreign lands.
… 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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