Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 28 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Lot 448: The Race To Recover Italy’s Looted Etruscan Treasures
- Archaeology: Room found where Roman emperor Hadrian held power breakfasts 1,900 years ago | Daily Mail Online
- Dewlish Roman mosaic bought by Dorset County Museum – BBC News
- Roman soldier’s payslip from 1,900 years ago reveals he was left BROKE after military deductions | Daily Mail Online
- Half of a Roman coin found in Norfolk declared as treasure | Eastern Daily Press
- Scoperti e sequestrati reperti archeologici datati tra il VII e III secolo a.C. | Radio Lombardia
In Case You Missed It
- IDF soldier finds rare 1,800-year-old coin during training exercise in north | The Times of Israel
- More than 650 silver Roman coins found in a jug in Turkey – CNN Style
- Biblical Archaeology Review founder dies at age 90
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Author discusses his book on a fight over the classics that points to answers to questions about the humanities
- Classics & Education: Social-Justice Critics Seek to Impoverish Students | National Review
- Fountain Lake alum translates Homer’s “The Odyssey” into ASL
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Nog even iets over papyrologie – Mainzer Beobachter
- There’s Only One City: Istanbul – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Bringing Greek Myth Into British Sign Language – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Editorial Committee of the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome Open access archive
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Unreliable Allies
- Book By Its Cover: Deserted Villages | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A Reminder: The Wages of a Wicked Man, Plague, Broken Walls, Fallen Armies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Breasts of Helen
- Superstition and Hypocrites: Always a Problem? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Hey Tough Guy! Get Comfortable With Masks – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Late Roman Republic coin hoard found in Turkey
- De grenzen van de Oudheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Khaled al-Asaad’s body recovered?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Still more Shanks memorials
- PaleoJudaica.com: Antionus Pius coin found during IDF training exercise
- Epigram of the month: Roses are red, violets are blue… – MAPPOLA
- ALIPH and the Iraqi Ministry of Culture rescue the Arch of Ctesiphon – The Archaeology News Network
- Bringing Greek Myth Into British Sign Language – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
Blog-like Publications
- Counterfeiting: The Oldest Profession – Numismatic News
- Rome & Jerusalem: The Historical Context of Jesus Christ
Fresh Podcasts
This week Dave and Jeff clamber aboard a trireme and follow Telemachus as he leaves Ithaca (for the first time?) and heads to the Peloponnese in search of news of his missing father. After leaving Nestor (and escaping his grumpy old man, “back in my day” monologues) it’s on to Sparta to visit Menelaus and Helen. Here things are so tense that Helen has to mix some sort of magic sedative into the Mountain Dew. Stick around for Menelaus and Helen’s strikingly different versions of the Trojan Horse story, and possible answers to the questions “Could the Trojan War have been avoided if they had just had better coffee?” and “Who cares what Jeff wore on his first day of high school?”
Fresh Youtubery
- The History of Valentines Day: From the Lupercalia to Cupid | Ancient History Encyclopedia
- The Questioning of Coeus | Michael Levy
- David White, “De mente et corpore exercendo atque alendo in Columellae Re Rustica” – LLiNYC 2019 | Paideia Media
- Seneca, Medea ACTUS 3, Latin Reading, Iambic Trimeter (Jambischer Trimeter), Metre explanation | Musa Pedestris
Book Reviews
- Tales from Egyptology’s golden age – Culture – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
- Greek Women Are Mighty Lively in Haynes’ Pandora’s Jar – PopMatters
- [BMCR] Ralph Hexter, Laura Pfuntner, Justin Haynes, Appendix Ovidiana: Latin poems ascribed to Ovid in the Middle Ages. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 62. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Llewelyn Morgan, Ovid: a very short introduction. Very short introductions. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Fabio Gasti, La letteratura tardolatina: un profilo storico (secoli III-VII d.C.). Studi Superiori, 1197. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Antiquity and the Anthropocene
- From Romula to Galeria Valeria: The Women of the Tetrarchy. Talk by Byron Waldron – The University of Nottingham
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Human eye beats machine in archaeological color identification test | EurekAlert! Science News
- The Curious Case Of The Missing Color Blue | Lethbridge News Now
- Captivating new Texas museum exhibit uncovers the tragic tale of Pompeii | kvue.com
- Snow Statue of Hippocrates Goes Up in Astoria Park | Astoria Post
‘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 favourable conflicts of beasts over humans.
… 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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