Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 5 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- British Museum appoints a curator to research history of Parthenon Marbles and other contested objects | Neos Kosmos
- In Athens, rare snow blankets Acropolis, halts vaccinations
- Rare Roman Bronze Coin Unearthed in Israel | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Philip A. Stadter November 29, 1936 – February 11, 2021 In Memoriam | Department of Classics
- Feb. 16: Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06 Says Classics Must Change | Princeton Alumni Weekly
- The Classics Survived University Witch Hunts Before, And Will Do It Again
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The material politics of houses at Çatalhöyük, 7000–6300 BCE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient History Encyclopedia
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Wine Cure
- Pitiless Force a Pitiful Possession – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Ancient Advice for a Rich Woman – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Autism and Classical Myth: RuPaul, Enid Blyton and beyond: UR Pride and Our Mythical Childhood present…. a ‘Show and Tell’ of classical and LGBT+ themed works for children and Young Adults
- Comfort Classics: Peter Frankopan – Classical Studies Support
- 5F Form Scholars Talk – Complete forgetting and the wax tablet: an introduction to cultural and political memory via Homer and Plato – Tragic Geek
- Friends to Find, Friends to Avoid – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Xenophon Explores The Pros and Cons of the Social Contract – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Publishing the Eastern Korinthia Survey – Corinthian Matters
- Monuments from Jordan (Amman, Madaba, Mount Nebo, Pella) – Novo Scriptorium
- The Garlean Castrum – The Skirophoria
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dura-Europos dodgy dealings detected
- AA.VV. Le terme suburbane di Pompei. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Photographs of Arabia by Wilfred Thesiger
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: 34: Mors et Cupido
- De Babylonische Oorlog (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on the Timna Valley textiles
- PaleoJudaica.com: “Disentangling Moses from Hammurabi”
- PaleoJudaica.com: On Herod Antipas
- Spencer Alley: Anthony Blunt on Nicolas Poussin – Allegorical Paintings
Blog-like Publications
- Emerson on Stoicism. Marcus Aurelius and American… | by Donald J. Robertson | Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life | Medium
- Let’s Talk About the Roman Republic | by Sam Young | Feb, 2021 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
Peter Reavill joins us to talk all about metal-detecting, the Treasure Act and the British Library’s Portable Antiquity Scheme.
In this week’s episode Zeus sends Hermes to demand that the fair-tressed Calypso release weeping Odysseus (still with us?) after seven years of island imprisonment. No amount of organic oat hair milk can cheer her, the added shine, volume, and bounce notwithstanding. We look at books 5-8, with Odysseus and Nausicaa having a go at jarts, while Demodocus (Homer himself in disguise?) plucks out the hottest hits of the Mycenaean Era. Odysseus weeps (again!) and drops some layered metanarratives, but not before the white goddess offers him a magic, life-saving pair of trousers in the middle of a shipwreck.
Dion was born in Syracuse and became a trusted advisor to the city’s tyrant. But Dion’s relationship with the next tyrant was no so hot, and after falling out, Dion became a reformer. As a student of Plato, he saw an opportunity to implement the philosopher’s ideal Republic, and he seized the moment to try.
Xiaoli introduces us to silver in the Sumerian city of Umma. She explains where it came from and how people got hold of it. Who was able to use it and what for? She tells us how we might understand whether it could be called money. And explains the…
You are probably familiar with the term decimation. The word is usually used in English to mean “to cause great destruction or harm”. However, to ancient Rome, the word had a very different and very specific meaning. It was one of the most devastating and brutal forms of punishment that the military could inflict.
Fresh Youtubery
- What Have The Classics Ever Done For Me? (Subtitles) | Cambridge Classics
- The month February in Ancient Rome | American Institute for Roman Culture
- The year 146 BC in Ancient Rome. Carthage must be destroyed and more! | American Institute for Roman Culture
- Seven Wonders of the Ancient World – 3D DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- Sappho of Lesbos: The Female Poet of Ancient Greece | Ancient History Encyclopedia
- “Destruction of the Library of Alexandria” by Dr. Nancy Serwint | Archaeology TV
- Is There A Roman Fortress Buried In The Countryside? | Time Team | Timeline
- Joseph Bonaparte’s Greek Vase: The Digital Daily Dig
- World History by a Jew ™ – Mopsus: Myth to Man – Z15D by Seth Fleishman
- Catullus 7 in Latin with Pronunciation & Meter Notes: Quaeris, quot mihi basiationes tuae, Lesbia | David Amster
- ACOR Lecture: “An Invocation to Jesus in a Safaitic Inscription?”
- Identikit di un capolavoro – Le lamine di Pyrgi | Etruschannel
- BETTER THAN MEN? WOMEN AND RELIGION IN ROMAN DALMATIA | European Association of Archaeologists
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Stelios Panayotakis, Michael Paschalis, Costas Panayotakis, Slaves and masters in the ancient novel. Ancient narrative. Supplementum, 23. Eelde: Barkhuis, 2019.
- [BMCR] Crescenzo Formicola, Figure ovidiane, controfigure rushdiane (Aracne, Niobe, Filomela,…). Biblioteca di Vichiana, 2. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2019.
- [BMCR] Stefan Rebenich, Hans-Ulrich Wiemer, A companion to Julian the Apostate. Brill’s companions to the Byzantine world, volume 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Researcher position in DH in Bordeaux – GymnAsia – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- 2021 Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop: Ovid’s Little Aeneid (Metamorphoses 13.623–14.582) | Dickinson College Commentaries
- Cultures of mobility and borders in the Ancient Near East
- London Summer School in Classics 2021
- Lecturer in ATHENS, GA for University of Georgia, Department of Classics
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics – Jobs at Carleton – Carleton College
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Archaeologists baffled by Roman fixture at UK’s Hadrian’s Wall: ‘We don’t know why!’ | World | News | Express.co.uk
- What’s in a bottle? | Arts & Culture | Yale Alumni Magazine
- START|SELECT: “Super Mario Odyssey”: A Modern Epic
- Sutradhara’s tales: Pune’s Roman connection… bangles offer the clue! | Hindustan 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 a very fruitful summer.
… 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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