Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 11 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Thracian Pits, Roman, Byzantine Buildings Found in Rescue Digs in Sexaginta Prista Fortress in Bulgaria’s Danube City Ruse – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
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- Tornerà ‘alla luce’ il relitto della nave mercantile romana di Grado | Il Friuli
- Civitavecchia / Recuperata anfora greco-romana dal gruppo subacqueo della Guardia di Finanza | temporeale quotidiano
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Greek/Latin News
- [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἐν τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ ἐν τῇ Τουρκίᾳ
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Keep Watch
- Laudator Temporis Acti: What Is a Scholar?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique boundary stone excavated in Golan Heights
- A Vote Against Pericles is a Vote Against Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Compassion, COVID, and Scholarship | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Comfort Classics: Abigail Graham – Classical Studies Support
- Roman Times: Mummy masks – an Egyptian (and Roman!) tradition
- Four Years of Precious Memory: Children, Afraid of Masks – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Aeneas Crowns Cloanthus, Painted by Ferdinand Bol (c. 1616-1680) | The Historian’s Hut
- An Ancient Greek Horror Story to Make You Scream – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: What do Hebrew “watermelon,” “pagan priest” and “park” have in common?
- Depicting the dead: ancient Egyptian mummy portraits – The British Museum Blog
- Graves and Quarries – News from the Survey in the West and Northwest of Ancient Pergamon – Pergamon Micro-Region
- #EOTalks 14: “Not in any significant or proper sense… Greek”: Orientalism and the Mycenaeans by DIMITRI NAKASSIS – Everyday Orientalism
Blog-like Publications
Fresh Podcasts
This week Jeff and Dave take a close look at the Roman poet Ovid’s (43 B.C. – 18 A.D.) first public work, Amores I.1. We cover such important literary notions as recusatio, ἀδύνατον, and what it must be like to live in Des Moines, IA. Come for the literature, stay for the measured mayhem. Apollo at war, Mars playing rhythm guitar, Venus with sword and helmet, and Athena fanning loves flames. It’s a mixed up, muddled up, shook up world.
Join this episode with Peterhouse College Cambridge alumni Mr O’Neill to discuss all things Horace..
SAPIENS host Chip Colwell talks with experimental archaeologist Farrell Monaco about her work re-creating ancient Roman bread and what it means to reconnect with bakers of the past. Farrell also offers some tips for pandemic-era bakers who want to take their new hobby to the next level.
Our super spooky, terrifying Halloween episode that’s definitely not a lighthearted romp where a Greek god makes a podcast, trick-or-treats as Hercules, and emcees a poetry competition. Nope. Not at all.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Synnøve Des Bouvrie, Tragic workings in Euripides’ drama: the anthropology of the genre. Kobenhavn: Museum Tusculanum Press, 2018.
- [BMCR] Paolo Fedeli, Gianpiero Rosati, Ovidio 2017: prospettive per il terzo millennio: atti del Convegno Internazionale (Sulmona, 3/6 aprile 2017). Teramo: Ricerche & Redazioni, 2017.
- [BMCR] Jason Lucas, Carrie Ann Murray, Sara Owen, Greek colonization in local contexts: case studies in colonial interactions. University of Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology monograph, 4. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2019.
- [BMCR] Christophe Bourquin, Humor in der Aeneis. Ein rezeptionstheoretischer Versuch. Klassische Philologie, 6. Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2019.
- Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’s Wife – TheHumanist.com
Online Talks and Professional Matters
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Alia
- Ancient Greeks Voted to Kick Politicians Out of Athens if Enough People Didn’t Like Them | History | Smithsonian Magazine
- ‘Barbarians’ True Story: The Real History Behind the Netflix Show
- Can individual differences be detected in same-shaped pottery vessels by unknown craftsmen?
- ‘Blood of Zeus’ Review: Netflix Series Invents an Intense Greek Myth – Thrillist
- Phryne: the dramatic trial of the Ancient Greek courtesan who undressed…
‘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 shortage of necessities.
… 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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