Hodie est pr. X Kal. Ian. 2772 AUC ~ 8 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Restoration of Isis Temple in Aswan completed – EgyptToday
- Nail believed to be part of Cross of Christ discovered in Milevsko | Radio Prague International
- Italy to rebuild Colosseum’s lost arena floor – Wanted in Rome
In Case You Missed It
- Discovery of 66 new Roman Army sites shows more clues about one of the empire — ScienceDaily
- Israeli archaeologists recreate stone floor of the Roman-period Jewish Temple
- Abandoned Iron Age Settlement Excavated in England – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Christmas cancelled – Column – Mary Beard: A Don’s life – TLS
- A tribute to Ian Jenkins | Apollo Magazine
Fresh Bloggery
- Playing with (real) clay – It’s All Greek To Me
- Pindar Never Met 2020 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos
- How We Spend Our Days–Do Nothing Rather Than Something Useless – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Hekate: The Dark Side of Artemis?
- In the Shallows Now – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kyprianos Update (22 December 2020)
- In memoriam: Anthony Birley (1937-2020) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Seneca on Why Presents Should be Opened RIGHT AWAY – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “Will I Conceive Like Other Women?” Mary and Gabriel in the Protoevangelium of James – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Mary’s Pregnancy and Joseph’s Dream: the Protoevangelium of James Continues – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-DOK: Digital Repository: Classical Archaeology
- The Tale Of A Dragon Sighting In 6th-Century Rome | The Historian’s Hut
- Helen Brought To Paris, Painted By Benjamin West (c. 1738-1820) | The Historian’s Hut
- Read Collections of Miscellany! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Johnson: F**k Hellenistic Poetry – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Horn of Salvation – Mainzer Beobachter
- Brekekekeks, the Frogs, the Frogs! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Masterplan | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: Minov, Memory and Identity in the Syriac Cave of Treasures
- PaleoJudaica.com: Gal Gadot defends Cleopatra casting
- Preserving the past: The secret life of the Roman pomegranate | Bacchus and beyond
- The Winners and Losers of the Spartacan War – The Partial Historians
- Spencer Alley: Sixteenth-Century Italian Tomb Marbles
- Herodium – The Palace Fortress of King Herod – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Paris’ Prologue 25: Alternative Version: Paris’ First Wife was Actually Arisbe: spannycattroy — LiveJournal
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Detectorists Pretending to be “Archaeologists”
Blog-like Publications
- Homer and heroic hexameter – Honi Soit
- Why The City Of Rome Still Stands Today | by Cody Trusler | Exploring History | Medium
- Uncovering a Roman Army Base at Legio – Biblical Archaeology Society
- 9 Favorites from the Getty Museum Challenge, Selected by Curators | Getty Iris
Fresh Podcasts
Rob Cain goes on a rant about modern and ancient heroes. He discusses the heroes of literature and reviews the heroes celebrated on TV as he was growing up. What is a modern hero? What is a classical one? Do heroes pay a price? 18:45 into the podcast a musical tribute is given to Khaled al-Asaad, a Syrian archaeologist and the head of antiquities at the ancient city of Palmyra, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Khaled al-Asaad refused to reveal the secrets of ancient artifacts of the city to the ISIL Militants and was beheaded for his bravery.
Historyland’s Josh Provan joins Alina to talk all about the murky period of the 25th dynasty and Piye’s conquest of Egypt
This week Dave and Jeff wade into the deep waters of Greek Tragedy for the first time with a two-part look at Euripides’ Alcestis. Even devotees of tragedy may not be familiar with this one! But before we get there we poke around at a few questions: why did tragedy arise in Athens? Why did actors wear masks, and what’s a deus ex machina? Then it’s on to Euripides himself—a poet well ahead of his time and the man the Athenians loved to hate—and his macabre marital masterpiece Alcestis. Apollo and Thanatos (NOT the purple guy) trade rap-battle insults while hubby Admetus behaves so insufferably maybe you’d die to get away from him too!
Fresh Youtubery
- Christmas: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies | Alliterative
- Death Before Surrender – The Roman Seppuku DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Were the Ancient Macedonians Greeks? | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- 006. Iliad Book 2. 95-108 – YT | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- A spasso per Pompei con Geronimo Stilton #2 | Pompeii Sites
- Christmas in a Pandemic – MMXX | Partial Historians
- Jordan Bayley introduces Herodotus Pudding | Herodotus Helpline
- Stupid Ancient History A Level: 9 Persian wars part 3 | D Midgley
- How to cook Herodotus Pudding | Herodotus Helpine
Book Reviews
- [AJA] Roman Artists, Patrons, and Public Consumption: Familiar Works Reconsidered Edited by Brenda Longfellow and Ellen E. Perry. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press 2018.
- [AJA] Protecting the Roman Empire: Fortlets, Frontiers, and the Quest for Post-conquest Security By Matthew F.A. Symonds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018.
- [AJA] Urbaner Ballungsraum im römischen Nordafrika: Zum Einfluss von mikroregionalen Wirschafts und Sozialstrukturen auf den Städtebau in der Africa Proconsularis By Paul Scheding (Studien zur antiken Stadt 16). Wiesbaden: Reichart 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Associate/Full Professor of Classics job with University of Texas at Austin | 308123
- Presidential Panel: William Sanders Scarborough and Black Classicism at the Turn of the Twentieth Century | Society for Classical Studies
- Bordeaux 2022 – XVI Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae | Current Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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- Watch: Sprawling Roman-style amphitheatre in UAE has discreet modern touches too | Uae – Gulf News
- Jaffa Port Has Extensive Greek History – Greek City Times
- Gal Gadot defends Cleopatra casting after ‘whitewashing’ controversy – BBC News
- New Lighting Scheme Completed at Temple of Hephaestus and Philopappos Monument | GreekReporter.com
- Social media posts share outdated findings about Pompeii volcano victim | Fact Check
- George And Amal Clooney’s Love Story: How The ‘Parthenon Marbles’ Brought Them Together – Greek City Times
‘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 disease, but not a harmful disease.
… 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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