Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 23 Poseideon in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Greek inscription found by chance in the Negev – The Jerusalem Post
- Statuette of Asklepios, bust of Serapis found in Kibyra
- Ancient Egyptian seal found by archeologists in Turkey
In Case You Missed It
- Dr. Fauci has a Classics degree! // News // Department of Classics // University of Notre Dame
- Woman’s garden ‘stepping stone’ turns out to be an ancient Roman artifact | Live Science
- To Survive Under Siege, the ‘Mother Goddess City’ Relied on Enormous Cisterns | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Archaeologists in Turkey Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Temple of Aphrodite | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Ritual bath unearthed at site where Judas betrayed Jesus | Live Science
- Archaeologists in Turkey Unearth 2,500-Year-Old Temple of Aphrodite | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Roman Wine Barrels in Champagne | VinePair
- Rome’s Colosseum to get state-of-the-art floor like in gladiator times – The Local
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Kudos to all 2021 AIA/SCS participants! | Department of Classics
- Fr. Reginald Foster, Former Vatican Latinist, Dies at 81 | Catholic Herald
- Echoes. Remembering Reginaldus Magnus. Published 1/6/2021
- Virginia Woolf’s literary confessions to be sold at auction
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] PERFIDA AGGRESSIO
Fresh Bloggery
- Gallery | Health and healing | The Kosmos Society
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Timaeus: Proceedings of the Tenth Symposium Platonicum Pragense
- Less Human Apart: Isolation and Civilization in Myth, Science Fiction and RL – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le nouveau testament et les droits de l’Antiquité
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 12: Simiae et Viatores Duo
- Mostly, Almost Final Draft of my Review of Christopher Witmore’s Old Lands | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- What do the scholia of Juvenal look like in the Montpellier manuscript? – Roger Pearse
- Roman Times: Sasanian military organization
- Reflections on Tyranny: Euripides, Archilochus, Tibullus, and… Gibbon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alexander in India (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Moazami, [Zoroastrian] Laws of Ritual Purity (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: CFP: workshop on late-antique miracles & paradoxography and biblical reception
- THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A DILETTANTE: RALPH HENRY BREWSTER | From the Archivist’s Notebook
- Spencer Alley: Alabaster, Bronze, Plaster, Silver, Wax, Terracotta, Marble
- Unciae of the 130s – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Lockdown Looting: Massive Hoard of Stolen Ukrainian Artifacts Seized
- Quaestiones in Magica: Britta Ager | romanmagic
- Was the dog-demon of Ephesus a werewolf? | OUPblog
Blog-like Publications
- Aequora Arrives in Mainland China: Teaching Latin in Hefei | by Evan Dutmer | In Medias Res | Jan, 2021 | Medium
- Food That Conquered The World: Roman Legions — Fields and Fury | by Danny Kane | Exploring History | Medium
- Vallum Aulium – Hadrian’s Wall – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Ancient Roman Coins: The Many Faces of Nero
Fresh Podcasts
This week we’re going deep into biblical archaeology and the fields new techniques with Bar Ilan University Prof. Aren Maeir, who for the past 25 years has led the excavations at Tell es-Safi, more commonly known as biblical Gath. We talk about the Philistines — a complex mosaic of Sea Peoples who migrated to the Holy Land from the Aegean during the biblical era — and about a couple new studies that have recently come out that change perceptions of the Levant in the 9th and 10th centuries BCE.
It’s 218 BC, and Hannibal has made the mammoth journey across the Alps en route to Italy, accompanied by his army, their horses, and their elephants. But the real battle is yet to come, and in this fantastic second episode with Louis Rawlings, he takes us onto the battlefield with the Carthaginian army and into the fight against their Roman and Allied opposition. Louis and Tristan discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each side, and the tactics deployed under Hannibal’s remarkable leadership.
Fresh Youtubery
- 011. Iliad Book 2.166-181 -YT | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Zecharia Sitchin DEBUNKED! | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Identikit di un capolavoro. La Cista Ficoroni | Etruschannel
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Science Notes – Parsing the properties of Egyptian purple pigments – Current Archaeology
- In a Win for UK Antiquities Dealers, Britain Will Abandon the EU’s Strict Regulations on Importing Cultural Heritage Now That It’s Finalized Brexit
- Lawmakers Are Cracking Down on the ‘Unregulated’ US Art Market. Here’s How a New Anti-Money Laundering Law Will Affect Dealers
- What can leaders learn in uncertain times from Greek gods?
- Why Epicureanism, not Stoicism, is the philosophy we need now
- Greek civilization treasures are not for export or sale – Hellenic News of America
- The aesthetic prejudice towards white classical statues | The Spectator
- How Roman finds at South Shields caused a national sensation in Victorian times – Chronicle Live
‘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 coughing sickness but also an abundance of fish and fruit.
… 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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