Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Puppy prints and wall illusions found in 1,500-year-old house in Turkey | Live Science
• Excavations at Turkey’s Antandros site to continue year-round | Daily Sabah
• Archaeology, purple fabrics found in the Timna Valley, Israel – Culture – ANSAMed.it
• Ancient Coins Found in Roman Ruins – Numismatic News

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] NOVILVNIVM SINENSE 

Public Facing Classics

• Keyboard warrior | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Beazley Notebooks Project
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: MARC Records for the Getty Publications Virtual Library
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• Roman Times: Anthesteria: a precursor to Roman Saturnalia?
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Connected Contests: Ancient Athletes Online
• Apollo And Marsyas, Painted By Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (c. 1696-1770) | The Historian’s Hut
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• Skaras or Arar? (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: MOTB returns 5K artifact to Egypt
• Guest Post: Dr Cora Beth Knowles’ Art-Nouveau-Classics bookplate and exclusive download! | Greek Myth Comix
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ugaritic deserves a medal
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• Spencer Alley: Quattrocento Tempera Painting in Florence III

Blog-like Publications

• Two Roman column capitals donated to Graeco Roman Museum of Alexandria
• ANE TODAY – 202101 – The Enigmatic Tablets from Late Bronze Age Deir ‘Alla –
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• Unearthed Pompeii Pub Is Amazing | The Mary Sue
• Facebook Hypocrisy: the Antiquities Marketplace – Archaeology Review
• Constantine the Great: Pious Christian or Clever Pragmatist?

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎History Extra podcast: The hunt for Caesar’s killers on Apple Podcasts

Author and journalist Sir Peter Stothard discusses his latest book, The Last Assassin, which chronicles the hunt for Julius Caesar’s murderers, a momentous episode in ancient Rome’s story that triggered a brutal civil war and the dawn of the imperial age.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Were there hard borders which stopped imperial expansion? on Apple Podcasts

What were borders like in the ancient world? Were there hard borders which stopped imperial expansion? Jasper gives us his opinion.

Fresh Youtubery

• Painting the Past: Reconstruction of Romano-British House Slave | Wessex Archaeology
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• Hymn to the Hyades (Nymphs of Rain) | Michael Levy
• Archaeology Abridged: Living on the Edge of the Roman Empire with Dr. Elizabeth M. Greene | Archaeology TV
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• Diretta Twitch sulla serie tv Romulus | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Emanuele Dettori, Antidorus, Dionysius Iambus, Epigenes, Lysanias, Parmenon, Silenus, Simaristus, Simmias. Supplementum grammaticum Graecum, 1. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
• [BMCR] Franco Montanari, History of ancient Greek scholarship: from the beginnings to the end of the Byzantine age. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
• [BMCR] Rafał Toczko, Crimen Obicere: forensic rhetoric and Augustine’s anti-Donatist correspondence. Forschungen zur Kirchen- und Dogmengeschichte, volume 120. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Verlag, 2020.

Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

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• Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics Bowdoin College- HigherEdJobs
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Another Thing: A Local Masterpiece – A Nike by Skopas at Tegea
• Roman Schools Eleanor Dickey (CLAS Public Lecture Spring 2021)
• Fabio Viale’s Tattooed Marble Marvels
• A Guide To The Roman Army, Plus 10 Facts About Life In The Legions – HistoryExtra

‘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 malaria affecting all.

… 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)