Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 7 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- The mystery of two looted heads | eKathimerini.com
- Marsala, durante scavi per le fogne scoperta una necropoli punica con camere ancora inviolate – La Sicilia
- Unearthed figurine suggests ancient Britons favoured mullets | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Ancient Jordan site restoration brings locals, refugees jobs – France 24
- Fondi, reperti archeologici sequestrati dalla Finanza: presto esposti al Museo Civico
In Case You Missed It
- 2 Roman-era sarcophagi excavated during work on wildlife clinic at Ramat Gan Safari – www.israelhayom.com
- Roman phallus millstone unearthed during road improvement project | Hereford Times
Classicists and Classics in the News
- In Defense of the Classics | National Review
- “Discontinued or altered beyond recognition”: Students react to proposed changes to their majors in the FSR – Whitman Wire
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE PROSOPOBIBLII OBSCVRATIONE
Public Facing Classics
- Old technology | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- How a Roman emperor would handle Navalny | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- 18 February AD 121 – Titus Haterius Nepos, prefect of Egypt, visits the Memnon Colossus (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Three Things Thursday: Teaching, Narrative, and Classics (again) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oriental Institute Excavations in the Plain of Antioch
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Prepublication: Mesopotamian Chronicles
- Roman Archaeology Blog: A14 upgrade: Ancient relic engraved with giant phallus found by archaeologists
- The Power of Story: A Podcast on the Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Throwback Thursday! Food on the Go, Pompeii Style | AntiquityNOW
- Roman Times: Tales of Telephus
- Roman Times: Living well in the Roman Empire
- Absentmindedness is…uh, What? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Millstone with phallus found during roadwork
- De Babylonische Oorlog (5) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Bible Lands E-Review (BLER)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Neil, Dreams and Divination from Byzantium to Baghdad, 400-1000 CE (OUP)
- Innovations in the late bronze – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Military reforms of Servius Tullius – Rise of Rome to supremacy in Latium – Novo Scriptorium
- Blog: Impeachment and Republican Rome | Society for Classical Studies
- Spencer Alley: Anthony Blunt on Nicolas Poussin – Classical History
- Blogging ancient epigram: Sex pirates, by Rufinus
- Male Same-Sex Desire in Ancient Greece | Garstang Museum of Archaeology
Blog-like Publications
- Linear A still keeps its secrets
- The Love Lives of the Roman Gladiators | Lessons from History
- How to Read Paintings: Et in Arcadia ego by Nicolas Poussin | by Christopher P Jones | Thinksheet | Jan, 2021 | Medium
- ANE TODAY – 202102 – Neo-Assyrian Deportation and the Levant –
- Roman Baths of Como – Como, Italy – Atlas Obscura
- The Moral Philosophy of Plutarch | Merion West
Fresh Podcasts
Murray tells us about the development of the Macedonian phalanx.
Sabina bought some much needed legitimacy to the rule of Hadrian. As a grand-niece of Trajan she was an important dynastic link to the previous emperor, and in death Hadrian could deify her, and be the husband to a god. Part VIII of ‘Empresses of Rome’ Guest: Professor T. Corey Brennan (Classics, Rutgers University).
[no description provided … it’s about Aristophanes]
Fresh Youtubery
- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Visual & Verbal Artistry | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Police in Ancient Egypt | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Decree in honour of Straton of Sidon | Attic Inscriptions Online
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Marc D. Lauxtermann, Byzantine Poetry from Pisides to Geometres: Texts and Contexts. Volumes 1 and 2. Wiener byzantinische Studien 24/2. Vienna: Austrian Academy of Sciences Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] José Bernardino Torres-Guerra, Introducción a la literatura griega antigua. Temas de historia antigua. Madrid: Síntesis, 2019.
- [BMCR] Stamatia Dova, The poetics of failure in ancient Greece. New York: Routledge, 2020.
- [BMCR] Anna-Lena Körfer, Kaiser Konstantin als Leser: Panegyrik, performance und Poetologie in den carmina Optatians. Millennium-Studien, 77. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- 2021 Survey of Louisiana Classics | The Louisiana Classicist
- Picturing Greek Culture under Rome | Department of Classics
- [PDF] Steven Hunt and Arlene Holmes-Henderson, A level Classics poverty
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Facebook news ban: The rise and fall of Mark Zuckerberg like Roman emperor Augustus
- Ancient gold coin, and an imitation, offered in CNG auction
- Tornos News | Honey and pepper used as aphrodisiacs by ancient Greeks
- The Casa della Regina Carolina Project at Pompeii
‘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 an abundance of reptiles and worms.
… 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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