Hodie est pr. Id. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 30 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- In Memory of Hershel Shanks – Biblical Archaeology Society
- 2,000-Year-Old Terracotta Figurines of Deities, Mortals, Animals Found in Turkey | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- [Ephemeris] IVRIVM VIOLATIO
Public Facing Classics
- Did Romans eat breakfast? | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- Lovers of Sappho thrilled by ‘new’ poetry find, but its backstory may have been fabricated
- If Classics Doesn’t Change, Let It Burn
Fresh Bloggery
- Western Death Cult | Sphinx
- No Fence-sitters in a Time of Civil Strife – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: Katrina Kelly – Classical Studies Support
- Three Things Thursday: Art, Books, and Classics | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Roman Times: Burial of a Celtic Prince
- The Death of Augustus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Hesiod’s Warning to Judges & Legislators – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Conference: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Ancient Mediterranean
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Agrigento: Archaeology of an Ancient City. Urban Form, Sacred and Civil Spaces, Productions, Territory
- Senators, Take Note: Crimes Less Offensive than Acquittal – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Ambition in the Roman Republic – A guest post by A. David Singh |
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Ancient Splendor
- Emperor Justin II And His Shipment Of Grain To Starving Romans | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Dorset County Museum saves Dewlish mosaic
- Kapiteel uit Petra – Mainzer Beobachter
- Why Were Women Prohibited from Fighting in Most Ancient Societies? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: Reports: road works damage Mount Ebal altar complex
- PaleoJudaica.com: Allen et al. (eds.), Passion, Persecution, and Epiphany in Early Jewish Literature (Routledge)
- Classics and the world of Final Fantasy XIV – The Skirophoria
- Valentine’s Day Special: 4 Do’s and Don’ts of Mythic Romance
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Christie’s and Collecting Histories
Blog-like Publications
- Delenda est servitudo – When abolitionists quoted the classics – Ancient World Magazine
- Inspection of conservation works at the Olympeion
- Reginaldus’s Milwaukee Years and Final Months: A Personal Account | by Susan Baglien | In Medias Res | Feb, 2021 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
In the late sixth-century BC, it became clear that the expanding Persian Empire and the Greek city states in Asia and the Aegean would soon come into conflict…
Fresh Youtubery
- THR The Fall of Rome | Cambridge Union
- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Sappho’s Song & Aromatic Words | Center for Hellenic Studies
- CYA Virtual Lecture Series || The Metamorphoses of Education Abroad | College Year in Athens
- Introducing Classics for All | Classics For All
- Ancient Egyptian Ethnicity |Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Catullus 51 Metre Tutorial (Ille mi par esse deo videtur), Sapphic Stanza, Latin recitation | Musa Pedestris
- 009. Herodotus BK 1. 8 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Representations of “The Other” in Greek Art | Runshaw Classics
- Le pugilat, la “boxe” grecque? | Acta Videos
- Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
Book Reviews
- Michael Kulikowski · A Marketplace and a Temple: Ancient Urbanism · LRB 18 February 2021
- Autels et objets sacrés associés de Kytaia | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Christine Plastow , Homicide in the attic orators: rhetoric, ideology, and context . Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
- [BMCR] Dana Fields, Frankness, Greek culture, and the Roman Empire. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
- [BMCR] Artemis Karnava, Massimo Perna, Inscriptiones Graecae: Inscriptiones Amathuntis, Curii, Marii. Inscrptiones Cypri syllabicae. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Online Open House | A Young Woman’s Journey to Womanhood: Greek and Indic Models from Menander and Kālidāsa, with Arti Mehta | The Kosmos Society
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Gender gap: Women represent two-thirds of doctorates, only one-third of academic jobs | EurekAlert! Science News
- HMNS Transports Visitors to Ancient Pompeii | Houstonia Magazine
- The Empire’s Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome – Feb. 26
- Palmyra and the myth of civilisation – Prospect Magazine
- It’s a triple anniversary for Domvs Romana
- Restoration Of The Temple Of Olympian Zeus In Athens – Greek City Times
‘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 many deaths and unseasonable winds.
… 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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