Hodie est pr. Non. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- The History and Classics Ancient History Social Inclusion Program – Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Greek/Latin News
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Public Facing Classics
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Fat Knights, Censorious Censors, and Cato the Elder – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Fire, Sex, and Children Weakened the Human Race: Some Thoughts for February – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Folk Etymologies: Useless and Uneducated in Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Biblical Studies: Material Culture Online and in the Classroom
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- The Death Of Epaminondas, Painted By Isaac Walraven (c. 1686-1765) | The Historian’s Hut
- Het ideale handboek (volgens mij dan) – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Unique lead miniatures found in Gallo-Roman grave
- PaleoJudaica.com: Survivals from Israelite religion?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Virtual Palmyra exhibition
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- The Fight to Preserve an Ancient Homeland in Syria | Getty Iris
- Online Exhibition Explores Palmyra in English and Arabic | Getty Iris
- The Scutum – the Shield of the Roman Legionaries – The 21st Century Archaeology
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Blog-like Publications
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- An introduction to iconographic analysis – Smarthistory
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Fresh Podcasts
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What was life like on Hadrian’s Wall? This week, we’re going to explore the living conditions along the Wall–at the forts and the milecastles, in the officers’ quarters and soldiers’ barracks, and in the bustling civilian towns that sprang up around the military encampments. There’s a treasure trove of archaeology at forts along the Wall–especially at Vindolanda, where fragile artifacts are perfectly preserved in deep anaerobic soil.
The four components of the Ancient Indian battlefield: infantry, cavalry, chariots … and elephants. These magnificent creatures were dominant in conflicts to the east of India, in South-East Asia, but also to the west, in Greece and Africa. For this episode, Anirudh Kanisetti and Tristan discussed the role of Indian war elephants, their strengths, weaknesses and training; and what they tell us about Ancient India.
The history of Rome is complex, even in the early Republic. Sometimes it’s hard to keep all the details straight so we thought it might be a good time to try something new. The Partial Recap series will be a scripted overview of each decade of Roman history. First cab off the rank is the decade of the 460s BCE. This is the last complete decade we’ve covered in our Foundation of Rome series, and we’ll be working through the previous decades over the next few months. Part of the benefit of these episodes will be to help refresh the memory of the key events of each year. We’re also trying out a scripted style that easy allows us to share a transcript, which is a good step forward in terms of accessibility for our podcast. As technology progresses, we’re hoping to automate accurate transcripts for our conversational episodes. Join us for a Partial Recap of the 460s BCE!
Fresh Youtubery
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- CAARI Cyprus
- Anastasia Leriou & Giorgos Vavouranakis lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Christina Roditou lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Angelos Papadopoulos lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Pauline Maillard lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Ersin Hussein lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Christian Goransson lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Craig Barker lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
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Book Reviews
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- The Archaeological Work in the Peloponnese
- Conference: The Cathartic History Conference | Society for Classical Studies
- immediate need of middle school Latin teacher (2/3/21) | The Louisiana Classicist
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- BAS Names New Editor – Biblical Archaeology Society
- The Dig on Netflix: a refreshingly accurate portrayal – according to an archaeologist
- Rome, the sequel | The Spectator Australia
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- 2021: Homer’s Odyssey Study Guide | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
‘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, humans will not only appear to be troubled, but also will be troubled in their minds.
… 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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