Hodie est pr. Non. Nov. 2772 AUC ~ 17 Pyanepsion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Scoperto il foro di Castrum Novum a Santa Marinella – Terzo Binario News
- Archaeological survey resumed at ancient hill with Bronze Age relics northwest Iran – Tehran Times
- Ancient Greeks Left Their Mark in Egypt in 591 BC — in Graffiti | News from Greeks in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
- Archaeologists prepare dig in Jesenicko after mushroom picker finds rare Bronze Age sword | Radio Prague International
In Case You Missed It
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- Bakken and Climate Change: Flows | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Comfort Classics: Chiara Sulprizio – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: glottothèque: Ancient Indo-European Grammars Online
- Roman Times: Two Thumbs Up for German series “Barbarian”
- Four Years of Presidential Memory: The Wages of a Wicked Man, Plague, Broken Walls, Fallen Armies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Election Night Erasmus: A Wound Renewed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Four Years of Presidential Memories: Sharing the Struggle For Freedom – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Four Years of Presidential Memory: Giving The Finger in Ancient Greek – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Xerxes’ non-comeback – Mainzer Beobachter
- Blog: Part I: Casting Cleopatra: It’s All About Politics | Society for Classical Studies
- Blog: Part II: Casting Cleopatra: It’s All About Politics | Society for Classical Studies
- The Torlonia Marbles-Collecting Masterpieces | Life at the BSR
Blog-like Publications
- First estimation of damages on Samos, Ikaria and Chios
- Completion of system for the fire protection of Mycenae
- Why the Romans Don’t Want You to Know About the Etruscans | by Fiona Cameron Lister | Sep, 2020 | Medium
- Only the richest ancient Athenians paid taxes – and they bragged about it
- Cartoon Classics: The Trojan War in Modern Animation – Antiquipop | L’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine
- The Mycenaean necropolis of Trapeza, Aegion, comes to light – The Archaeology News Network
- New Study Fills Gaps in Chronological Timelines of Bronze and Iron Age Societies – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Mausoleum of Augustus – Rome, Italy – Atlas Obscura
Fresh Podcasts
It’s election night 2020 in the US, and our video from 4 years ago about the language of politics is relevant once again. We discuss the changing vocabulary of democracy and what it can tell us about shifting attitudes towards popular rule and politicians. It may not be a complete break from political coverage, but at least it’s mostly about the distant past, not the uncertain future!
Thysdrus was a former Cartheginian town and Roman colony in what was the province of Africa. The area drew its wealth from growing olives and the production of oil. And has become famous in the years since as being the home of one of Rome’s best preserved amphitheatres. Guest: Dr Darius Arya (CEO of The American Institute for Roman Culture and Director of Ancient Rome Live)
Dave and Jeff serve up some Northern Renaissance art with a close look at Flemish painter Pieter Brueghel the Elder’s mysterious and haunting take on the Daedalus and Icarus myth. Is it a response to Ovid’s version of the tale or something else altogether? Jean Claude VanDamme stops by with a waffle sampler, and don’t miss: fat man on the menu. We also get at the lingering question, “Will Dave ever reveal his high school nickname?”
Mark Antony considers throwing in with Pompey before he packs his bags, follows Caesar and leaves Rome. Vorenus rekindles his romance with Niobe before he packs up his bag, raises his standard and leaves Rome. Octavian becomes a real man before he puts on his toga, packs up his bag and leaves Rome. We are also joined by special guest Alan Poul, director of the episode.
Suffrāgia feruntur, Terror Vindobōnēnsis, Clandestīnum proelium in Nigeriā gestum.
Book Reviews
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Short on-line course on digital epigraphy
- Live from the Agora – The Stoa of Attalos
- Associate or Full Professor (Classics) (Cincinnati)
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
Alia
- Lesson of the Antonine Plague | News, Sports, Jobs – Adirondack Daily Enterprise
- Seeking Out the Assassins of Julius Caesar – InsideHook
- Israeli scientists use AI to reconstruct broken Babylonian tablets – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Art Review: European Fine Art Fair Triumphs in COVID Incarnation | National Review
- 3,000-year-old Mesopotamian tablets document the earliest known case of PTSD
- Stephen Fry wants Parthenon Marbles returned to Greece
- Orlando Science Center: ‘Pompeii’ exhibit tips – Orlando Sentinel
- Life in a Roman Legion, and Life after Leaving
- The Roman Army: Its Evolution and Growth
- “Il ruolo della donna nell’antica Roma” in esposizione agli Uffizi di Firenze – Sardegna Reporter
- How Xena: Warrior Princess used Greek Myth | Den of Geek
‘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 an improvement for grain.
… 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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