Hodie est Non. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 20 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Why new discoveries are still being found at Pompeii | CNN Travel
- Infant grave, statues in ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium excite archaeologists | Daily Sabah
- Before WWI, Trench Fever Plagued the Ancient Romans and Napoleonic Soldiers | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Greek Woman Arrested on Kalymnos for Antiquities Trafficking | archive , greece , general news | The National Herald
- Greek Immigrant in Roman-Era London Used Amulet to Ward Off Plague | GreekReporter.com
- Roman Furnace Almost 1,500 Years Old Unearthed in Bulgaria – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
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- The Crown: fact or fiction? | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- Decline and fall: what Donald Trump can learn from the Roman emperors | Classics | The Guardian
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ANE 3: A DISCUSSION LIST FOR THE STUDY OF THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST
- Kassman Essay Prize 2020 – winners announced! | Classical Studies
- I am You and You are Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Truth about Daedalus and Icarus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- New volume published by Presses de l’Ifpo | Current Epigraphy
- Roman Times: Pan: Purveyor of Music and Panic
- Weekend Reading: O Christmas Tree – Classical Studies Support
- Sleep, Pregnancy, and Head Wounds: Some Hippocratic Aphorisms – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Formatting Bronze Age Tablets – It’s All Greek To Me
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Journal of Greek Archaeology Volume 5 (2020): Free Sampler
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Crosby Garret loophole to be closed
- Come and Take It: The End of Eidolon | Society for Classical Studies
- How the invention of the book changed how people read | The British Academy
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Great Court – The British Museum Blog
- An auction of antiquities to support Classics is the right path to killing a discipline | Roberta Mazza
- Stephen Fry, the 100th Lego Classicist – Classicult
- Paris’ Prologue 14: Alternative Version. Priam Sends Servants to Murder Paris: spannycattroy — LiveJournal
Blog-like Publications
- My Classics Will Be Intersectional, Or… | by Donna Zuckerberg | Dec, 2020 | EIDOLON
- Climbing Mt Olympus in “36 Hours”– A Practical Guide to the Home of the Gods | by James Hua | Ostraka | Dec, 2020 | Medium
- Byedolon. Some of The Editors’ Favorite… | by Sarah Scullin | Dec, 2020 | EIDOLON
- Can Public Scholarship Save Your Life? | by Yung In Chae | Dec, 2020 | EIDOLON
- On Speaking Terms. A Farewell to Eidolon | by Sarah Scullin | Dec, 2020 | EIDOLON
- Live restoration in the museum
Fresh Youtubery
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- 150. Iliad 1 (A). 605-611 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Kent Centre for Heritage webinar: Heritage Crime and Archaeology | Kent Law School
- Across a Narrow Sea: Ancient Greeks and Romans in the Eastern Adriatic | AIA Boulder Society
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Roberto Fiori, Re e popolo: Istituzioni arcaiche tra storia e comparazione. Göttingen: V&R Unipress, 2019.
- [BMCR] Consuelo Ruiz-Montero, Aspects of orality and Greek literature in the Roman Empire. Pierides studies in Greek and Latin literature, volume VIII. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2020.
- Book Review: The Socrates Express | WBAA
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Malcolm Choat, ‘A Forger, his models, methods, and motives: The papyri of Constantine Simonides’: FORVM ANTIKE seminar |
- CFP: (Un)Forgotten Realms | Society for Classical Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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- Not a magic wand – Picking an application for conducting network analysis – Ancient World Magazine
- Press Release: The Roman Republican Die Project Launches Site
- Blood of Zeus Renewed For Season 2 At Netflix | Screen Rant
- The Fall of the Roman Empire: Possible Dates and Theories
- When did the Roman Empire Fall?
- Why Did the Roman Empire Fall?
‘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 outbreak of mangy diseases.
… 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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