Hodie est pr. XV Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 3 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- 12th century BC cemetery found during Larnaca anti-flooding works | Cyprus Mail
- Revived Roman treasures to mark the soldiers who occupied Scotland | The Scotsman
- Flats could destroy Cartagena’s legacy of Carthage | World | The Times
- Hellenic Museum to benefit from new law which allows for stockpiled antiquities to be displayed abroad | Neos Kosmos
- A Roma scoperta una nuova porzione dei Fori Imperiali
- Excavation at RoseVille office building site reveals Roman-era findings – BBJ
- Egypt demands Italy to hand over former Italian diplomats over smuggled antiquities case – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online
In Case You Missed It
- Late Roman Burial Analyzed in London – Archaeology Magazine
- Lost workshop making pagan figurines in Roman Palestine rediscovered in central Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Archaeological trove spanning millennia emerges from construction work in ancient Jaffa – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Ιντιθ Χολ: Αισιοδοξία για επιστροφή των Γλυπτών του Παρθενώνα | Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ
- UVM Faculty and Students Reel From Proposed Cuts | Off Message
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] SINENSIS POLLVTIO
Fresh Bloggery
- An art assignment for all: make an anatomical votive | The Votives Project
- IO SATURNALIA! I bring gifts: build-your-own Labyrinth and Knossos Palace kits and Stocking Fillers! | Greek Myth Comix
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Edition Topoi Collections: Ancient Columns
- Lanciani on the Baths of Constantine and some references – Roger Pearse
- No, Virginia…There is No Tragic Flaw – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Christian Cameron – Classical Studies Support
- ENCODE project first event | Current Epigraphy
- Back When Single-quire Codices Were Strange | Variant Readings
- Early 16th century maps of Rome and the Baths of Constantine – Roger Pearse
- Roman Times: The Arch of Galerius
- Seneca’s Advice on Buying Gifts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alexander The Great Before His Father King Philip II, by Sebastiano Conca (c. 1676-1764) | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Huge trove of antiquities seized from French looter
- Constantijn en de zondagsrust – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica
- PaleoJudaica.com: On Matthew’s Magi
- PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on the sources for the Hanukkah story
- Kiwi Hellenist: The Christmas stories: Matthew vs. Luke
- Dionysian December
- Should Latin and Greek Be Compulsory?
- Funding Guide for BIPOC Students in Classics
Blog-like Publications
- ANE TODAY – 202012 – Photographing Iraq –
- Archéologie palatine et images | L’Antiquité à la BnF
- ‘How does religious practice in the worship of Apollo and Dionysus at Delphi in the 4th century BCE compare with Friedrich Nietzsche’s conception of the two gods?’ — by Jessamyn Madden-Aberdein | by Anonymous Athene | Ostraka | Dec, 2020 | Medium
- The Wild Holiday That Turned Ancient Rome Upside Down | Getty Iris
- Provenances of Ancient Coins
- National Endowment for Humanities Funds ANS-Oxford University OXUS-INDUS Project
- Trial of Socrates – Ancient World Magazine
Fresh Podcasts
The hero Odysseus has travelled over the edge of the world, through the lands of the dead, and even crossed the very gates of dream. But has his day of reckoning finally arrived?
How did armies store their money? Jasper has the answers…
Messallina decides the time has come. She has a poison expert released from prison and they prepare a special dish of mushrooms for Claudius’ last meal. But the mushrooms weren’t enough and so they had to finish him off – with a feather.
Fresh Youtubery
- Le nuove sale dell’Antiquarium di Pompei | Pompeii Sites
- Io, Saturnalia! Celebrate the festival at the Temple of Saturn! | Darius Arya
- Discussion: Roman relics and Renaissance collectors, 1350–1500 | British School at Rome
- The ULTIMATE Archaeology Gift List! | Dig it With Raven
- Center for Hellenic Studies
- Entwining Greek with Asian Speech: Timotheus of Miletus’ The Persians 140-161 | Milena Anfosso
- Tonal Ochlophobia in Greek: Evidence from the Musical Documents | Dieter Gunkel
- In Times of War and Crisis: Regional Identities and Greek Archaeology | Aimee Genova
- CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Diseases in the Ancient Greek World, with Leonard Muellner
- Spoken Latin – Tricky Latin words: quidem, quidam, equidem | Satura Lanx
- The Roman Siege of Jerusalem in Virtual Reality (History Tour) | Invicta
- A Day In the Life Of A Celt: Part Two – Currency | The Novium Museum | Novium Museum
- ABDERA, A TRADE AND CULTURAL NEXUS BETWEEN THE AEGEAN SEA AND THE THRACIAN HINTERLAND | European Association of Archaeologists
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Louis Godart, Anna Sacconi, Les archives du roi Nestor. Corpus des inscriptions en linéaire B de Pylos, I-II. Volume I, Séries Aa-Fr; Volume II, Séries Gn-Xn. Pasiphae. Pisa; Roma: Fabrizio Serra editore, 2020.
- [BMCR] Andrew P. Fitzpatrick, Colin Haselgrove, Julius Caesar’s battle for Gaul: new archaeological perspectives. Oxford; Philadelphia: Oxbow, 2019.
- [BMCR] Martin Devecka, Broken cities: a historical sociology of ruins. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Ovatio for Dr. Fauci (Michigan Classical Caucus) | Society for Classical Studies
- SCS virtual meeting 2021 “New Approaches to Spectatorship” – Sciencesconf.org
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Jane Dieulafoy, a 19th-century French archaeologist, broke the law by wearing pants.
- Happy Saturnalia – 2020! – Reason.com
- Hellenism Then and Now – Impeding the Synthesis | Jewish Culture | Hamodia
- When Jews used olive oil as a weapon against the Romans – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
‘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 serious war.
… 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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