Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 5 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- 3,300-year-old Canaanite jars found in Tiryns rewrite history of trade – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Iron Age skeletons uncovered during Navenby dig – BBC News
- Colonna romana e tre cippi miliari e altri resti rinvenuti a Brescia durante i lavori – Ticinolive
- En Allemagne, découverte de l’armure romaine la plus ancienne de l’histoire
In Case You Missed It
- A garden of delights for Rome’s creepiest emperor: Caligula’s purported hangout open to public | Salon.com
- Archaeologists discover King Herod had a bonsai garden – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Roman Times: Achelous and the origin of the Horn of Plenty
- Homer’s Big Brain Energy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 20: Mus in Cervisia
- No Greener Grass: Life is Painful Everywhere – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times
- Traitors and Crowns – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Metamorphosis of Syrinx, Anonymously Drawn C. 16th Century | The Historian’s Hut
- Fascinating Facts about Ancient Sparta – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: “Widow’s mite” coins
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lim on the Essenes
- PaleoJudaica.com: Blood from a stone and frogs in the oven
- Cyprus and the Long Late Antiquity | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Rome’s Domus Tiberiana to reopen after 40 years – The Archaeology News Network
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Timeline Auctions, Expert Ra Bonewitz
- Roman Gardens : Kathryn Gleason – ClassicalFix
Fresh Podcasts
Gosh, what a year this week has been! Don’t know about you, but we’re ready to Inception ourselves into wonderland, and live out our days in an idyllic ancient dreamworld That’s why today, somewhat hilariously, we bring you What A Wonderful World. Tune in to hear about ancient mythological places, and how the ancients used utopian worlds (anachronism, we know – apologies) to imagine their best lives and scrutinise their real ones. We take you on a whistlestop tour – thanks to a request from one of our listeners – of Atlantis, Cloudcuckooland and Arcadia before joining some surprising dots between the old and new. Who knew that Atlantis, Hobbiton, Stranger Things and Harry Styles all had something common? Same – we can’t tell you how often we’ve thought about that exact group of completely unrelated miscellaneous things!
At the Battle of Cannae, 2 August, 216 B.C., Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca administered one of Rome’s most crushing military defeats. Depending upon the ancient source, Roman losses on the Apulian battlefield numbered anywhere from roughly 50,000, as Livy relates, to around 70,000, as Polybius insists. Hannibal had enacted a double envelopment of the Roman army, a maneuver widely considered to be a tactical masterpiece that is to this day studied in war colleges around the world.
Fresh Youtubery
- Ilium Announcement | An Iliad Webseries Coming February 2021 | Songs of Antiquity
- SCS CAMP 2021 Euripides Helen (FULL SHOW) | UVM Classics
- Was the Tower of Babel a Ziggurat? Dr. David Rohl | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- How the Black Death Killed Rome – The Plague of Justinian DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Appuntamento con il restauro Ep. 10 | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- Archéologie de l’URSS. Collection de sources archéologiques | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Craig Jendza, Paracomedy: appropriations of comedy in Greek tragedy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Brian Walters, The deaths of the Republic: imagery of the body politic in Ciceronian Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] William Brockliss, Homeric imagery and the natural environment. Hellenic studies series, 82. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- EAA 2021: Landscapes and the Augustan Revolution
- Development grant Roman Society Archaeology Committee
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- How the Spartans would fight COVID-19 | Neos Kosmos
- New Alexander the Great Series to Be Filmed in Greece
- Ray Elliott/Voices | When Nero ruled Rome, life got complicated | Guest Commentary | news-gazette.com
- 5 Reasons Why Brad Pitt’s Troy Is Actually One Of My Favorite Movies – CINEMABLEND
- Fighting for the Parthenon marbles – BBC News
‘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 that foreign affairs will lead to a popular uprising.
… 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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