Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 11 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
A quiet Sunday …
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] SEDITIO SARMATICA
Fresh Bloggery
- Have You Tried Sending Out Your Resume? Xenophon on Job Hunting – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Mortal Enemies
- Laudator Temporis Acti: No Rest
- PaleoJudaica.com: NT Chester Beatty papyri facsimiles
- PaleoJudaica.com: Were children people in the biblical world?
- Roman Times: Armor from the original Pyrrhic victory
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access “Journal”: SCS Digital Project Reviews
- Solon Says: Sue Bad Leaders of State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Edithorial: Why Honduran Sexist Lawmakers need Aristotle’s Advice
- Near The End | Sphinx
- Just a Lazy Sunday Morning Contemplating the Nature of Things – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A prize for Mischa Meier – Mainzer Beobachter
- “Nero fiddled… Trump golfs”—but did Nero really fiddle while Rome burned? | OUPblog
- Looting Matters: The Medici Dossier and the Allard Pierson Museum
- Spencer Alley: Frescoes in Mantua by Giulio Romano (and Workshop)
- Andromeda: The Legendary Princess Of Greek Mythology
Blog-like Publications
- Could You Handle Being A Spartan Mom? | by Sarah Cottrell | Jan, 2021 | Medium
- Why I Started to Read the Greek and Roman Classics… | by Hypp Jonson | The Ascent | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
The second episode explains, at some length (and with several klaxons) exactly why the caduceus of Hermes is not correctly used as a medical symbol, and why. And I talk about Hermes a lot.
Fresh Youtubery
- Piracy and the Bronze Age Collapse | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- L’Italia con Voi. Intervista al Direttore Valentino Nizzo | Etruschannel
- Homelessness in Ancient Rome & Greece | Classics in Color
Book Reviews
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
- Napoleon’s defeat in Egypt gave birth to Egyptology
- And Now for Something Completely Different – Biblical Archaeology Society
‘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 shortage followed by 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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