Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Public Facing Classics
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- Opinion | Ancient Rome Has an Urgent Warning for Us – The New York Times
Fresh Bloggery
- Drinking Etiquette For the Impeachment Blues – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Late Antique Countryside | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nature and the Pitchfork
- Comfort Classics: Caroline K. Mackenzie – Classical Studies Support
- A fragment of De Pythonissa by Methodius of Olympus (d. ca. 300), and more, discovered in Old Slavonic – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Encyclopædia Iranica Online Now Freely Accessible at Brill
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- A Comic’s Lament: Tragedy is So Easy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Babylonian War (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Encyclopedia Iranica Online (Brill)
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
- Metahistories, Decline, and the Roman Economy | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Monuments from Capaccio and Ercolano, Italy – Novo Scriptorium
- Memorabilia Antonina: Things read and seen in 2021, #2
- Lupercalia and its relationship to Valentine’s Day | The Vindolanda Trust
- Classics at the Intersections: Changing Classics to Save Classics? A View from Below
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We talk about the etymology of “Etymology” itself, and then discuss the basics of historical linguistics, including Grimm’s Law, Verner’s Law, and more. We also talk about Isidore of Seville, the etymological puns of Latin poets, and the way Mark does his research for his videos.
Sodales de ingenio vel de indole aut intro aut ‘extro’ versa loquuntur.
Hermes flies Perseus to the Island of Cisthene, where the Gray Sisters live. They’re three very old ladies — how hard could it be for Perseus to get what he needs? Plenty hard, as he quickly finds out.
Cleopatra was a boss lady who loomed large during her lifetime as one of the most successful monarchs of the East. But there were other royal women in the countries around her, suffering the same trials. Two of them – Alexandra and Mariamne of Judea – became friends with Cleopatra. This is the story of that friendship, and these women’s lives. It’s also the story of one of Cleopatra’s greatest rivals and one of the hottest messes in the ancient world: Herod the Great.
Fresh Youtubery
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- ‘The Ancient Greek Novels’, Helen McVeigh | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- LUPERCALIA: the February 15th festival of wolves and Luperci in Ancient Rome | American Institute for Roman Culture
- INTERVIEW Rebecca F Kennedy, PhD (Classics, Gender, Identity) | Asar Imhotep
- Storie dal Colosseo. Lezioni di epigrafia. I terremoti del V d.C. e la fine dei giochi [ENG SUBS] | Parco Colosseo
- Stupid Ancient History GCSE: 21 The Government of the New Republic | D Midgley
- Catullus 28 in Latin & English: Pisonis comites, cohors inanis | David Amster
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- Hattusa | Rise and Fall of the Ancient Hittite City | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Book Reviews
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Alia
- Tornos News | Ancient Greek horse still exists today on the Greek island of Skyros (video)
- “Studying Greek and Latin is more than just translating the Iliad and the Odyssey,” he says. “It’s getting to know people centuries ago and putting into perspective what mankind is capable of doing; what mankind is capable of enduring.”
- Rebuilding the canon: Columbia professors push for diversity in their syllabi – Columbia Daily Spectator
- What bathing rituals reveal about status, purity and power – CNN Style
‘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 good things for the common people but discord for those in power.
… 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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