Hodie est Non. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists discover friends of Caesars inside Vatican City – The Jerusalem Post
- Greek gods and ancient mortals ‘resurrected’ in terracotta figurines discovered in Turkey | Live Science
- Evidence of Roman reprisals in Essex? – Current Archaeology
- Nemi, stanziati 250mila euro per recuperare l’area archeologica e il tempio di Diana
In Case You Missed It
- Five Longswords Discovered in Sardis – Archaeology Magazine
- Archaeologists Return to Parthenon Marbles Shipwreck – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- What is ‘Classics’? | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- The Classical Roots of White Supremacy | Learning for Justice
- Opinion | Don’t yield ancient history and literature to the alt-right – The Washington Post
Fresh Bloggery
- Sneak Peek: Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Were thumbs-up/thumbs-down gestures used to mean life and death in Roman gladiatorial arenas? – Bad Ancient
- Een nieuw boek over Romeinse kleding – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Reasons I Need to Take Control of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Archaeology dig at Caernarfon Castle offers new history insight
- How To Be a Real Toady: Cleisophos and Philip – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dido’s Sacrifice To Juno, Painted By Pieter Pietersz Lastman (c. 1583-1633) | The Historian’s Hut
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 29: Feles, Aquila, et Sus
- The Leiden Amun papyrus – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Battle of Sybota | part 2: Aid and succour for the Corcyraeans | The Kosmos Society
- PaleoJudaica.com: Thelle, Discovering Babylon (Routledge)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Who is buried in St. James the Younger’s tomb?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome
- SIAC NEWSLETTER – 192 (01/2021) | Tulliana News
- A Winner’s Vase – the Panathenaic Amphorae – The 21st Century Archaeology
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The PAS Database, Unvalidated Scraps of Information Compiled by a Broken System: UK Archaeologists are Proud to Support it
- Blogging ancient epigram: Showers of gold: two on Danae, by Parmenion
- Darius the Great: 9 Facts About The King Of Kings
Blog-like Publications
- Celebrating Black History Month – Ancient World Magazine
- The Roman Penises Carved into Hadrian’s Wall – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
Have you ever wondered if there’s more to history than dates and major events, what some of the stories and daily lives of regular people looked like? Do you need a reminder that history is populated with real people, who had lives just like we do? Come take a sweeping journey back into the past …
Was there etiquette to starting a battle, or did they just happen? Murray investigates.
Hermes is barely out of his cradle when he comes up with a tricky plan to join the other gods on Mount Olympus. Annoying his big brother Apollo is the first step. Live from Mount Olympus is a production of the Onassis Foundation, and co-produced by The TEAM…
Fresh Youtubery
- terry stefanis
- What Have The Classics Ever Done For Me? | Roman Society
- Rapping in Latin |Nathanology
- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Andromache, Kleopatra, and Achilles | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Stupid Ancient History A Level: 12 Post War Settlement | D Midgley
- Ovid, Tristia 5,2 – Elegiac Distichon, Latin recitation | Musa Pedestris
- 005. Herodotus BK 1.5b | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Tell el-Kheleifeh, Jordan: An Iron Age II Caravanserai [ASOR 2020] | ACOR Jordan
- A Day In the Life Of A Celt: Part Three – Food | The Novium Museum
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Paolo Cecconi, Christian Tornau, Städte und Stadtstaaten zwischen Mythos, Literatur und Propaganda. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 383. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
- [BMCR] Kyriakos Tsantsanoglos, Studies in Sappho and Alcaeus. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 79. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Jane Grogan, Beyond Greece and Rome: reading the ancient Near East in Early Modern Europe. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- BSA Annual Open Lectures 2021
- “The emergence of interdisciplinary environmental history” – Data Scarcity Workshop | Department of Classics
- HALC Celebrates Bicentennial of 1821 with Online Series on Philhellenism | archive , community , associations | The National Herald
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- A famously private Roman collection finally gets a public outing | Apollo Magazine
- Satura Lanx – Satura Lanx Pages
- Sir Joshua Reynolds, Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse – Smarthistory
- King Jugurtha bribed Rome to maintain power in Numidia
- Tornos News | Ancient Greek thinker Pythagoras “brought to life” with the help of technology (video)
‘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 major harvest and destruction for men.
… 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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