Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Hidden scenes in ancient Etruscan paintings revealed | Live Science
- Puppy paws on the walls: ancient house featured unusual decorations
- Eros and marriage, new carriage discovered at Pompeii – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Excavation work in Afrin | Turkish-backed factions continue digging near the “Roman amphitheatre” in Nebi Huri fortress in Sharran district • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
In Case You Missed It
- Confiscated coins at Canadian border become opportunity
- Fondi / Ritrovata la testa romana trafugata dall’aula consiliare della città nel lontano 1979 | temporeale quotidiano
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] VERITAS DE PRAECONE
- [AkropolisWorldNews] Οὐκέτι “συνειδήσεως δεσμώτης“
Public Facing Classics
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Fresh Bloggery
- The Debate about Classics Isn’t What You Probably Think It Is – Tales of Times Forgotten
- LGBT+ History Month Quiz – Mixed up in Classics
- Ancient Roman Gladiator Ads | Latin Language Blog
- Feel the Pity, Feel the Fear! Now Stop. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kosmos Society Text Library
- Laudator Temporis Acti: What Is the Use of Homer and Oppian?
- Classics in Sarasota: Pindar’s Medea
- The Five Categories of the Soul – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Weekend Reading: A Broader View – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Nolli Map Website
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Google Ancient Places
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae Digital Collection at the University of Chicago Library
- Eternal Beauty or Sensory Truths? Epictetus and Epicurus on the Real – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: For the love of Sappho
- More Stolen Papyri to be Returned to the Egypt Exploration Society | Variant Readings
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: 36: Senex a Morte Admonitus
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Pompeii fresco restored to glory
- Blog: Classics Everywhere: Fostering Interaction and Engagement in School-Aged Children | Society for Classical Studies
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Missing Oxford Papyri Saga Continues
- Lex Papiria – disputed date? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Looting Matters: EES Papyri: update
- Our epigraphic dataset
Blog-like Publications
- Dr Tracey Walters’ Talk Summary, ‘Sex, Drugs, and Rock & Roll | by Sionna Hurley-O’Kelly | Ostraka | Feb, 2021 | Medium
- The Neo-Latin Inscription At Capernaum | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Feb, 2021 | Medium
- Portraits of Change: Ancient Coins | The Art Institute of Chicago
- Herakles in Africa – Confronting the Other in Libya and Egypt – Ancient World Magazine
- An Ancient Temple to Hecate Restored In Turkey | The Mary Sue
Fresh Podcasts
Myth Dynamite: Episode Seven: Various Artists on Apple Podcasts
Warning: there’s some talk of rape in this episode (sadly it’s quite unavoidable in myth). This week Abi and Sarah nerd-gasm HARD (yes, it’s possible for us to get MORE nerdy) because we’re bringing it back to our main man, Ovid (Latin poet of the first-century BCE/CE) and his poem, published in around 8 CE: the Metamorphoses. NOT ONLY THAT, but we also get to talk about art and artists, so basically … we’re in heaven. Yes, this episode we’re talking about ‘Ovid’s Artists’, but my goodness there are a lot of them, so technically this episode we’re talking about ‘Three Of Ovid’s Artists With A Few Scattered Along The Way’. Catchy, right?
Smarty Pants: #168: The Many Faces of Aeneas on Apple Podcasts
The Aeneid has a reputation: it’s the founding myth of Rome, used down the centuries to justify conquest, colonization, and the expansion of empire the world over. Although Virgil includes many voices in his epic, Aeneas’s is the one that tends to be remembered—and celebrated, especially by his putative descendant, the Emperor Augustus. But with her new translation of The Aeneid, classicist Shadi Bartsch reveals the many ways that Virgil undermines both the glory of Aeneas and the authority of collective memory, down to the very verb used to begin and end the poem. Bartsch joins us on the podcast to untangle how the story of Aeneas is actually many stories, all in conversation with one another.
Fresh Youtubery
- Cicero Digitalis | Alice Borgna
- Battle of Delium, 424 BC ⚔️ Athens takes on Sparta ⚔️ Peloponnesian War | History Marche
- 013. Herodotus BK 1. 12 | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- Il Carro da parata di Civita Giuliana. L’ultima scoperta di Pompei | Pompeii Sites
- La scoperta del Carro di Civita Giuliana – Le parole del Ministro Franceschini | Pompeii Sites
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] David M. Christenson, Plautus: Casina. Bloomsbury ancient comedy companions. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
- [BMCR] Michael Stewart, Masculinity, identity, and power politics in the age of Justinian: a study of Procopius. Social worlds of Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, 4. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
- Review – Classical Caledonia: Roman history and myth in 18th-century Scotland – Current Archaeology
Dramatic Receptions
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
Inscribing words, reading stories (online, March 10, 2021) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- What you find when you remove a fig leaf – BBC Reel
- Napoleon in Rome and the Origins of Archeology | Art & Object
- Incredible pictures show the ruins of ancient Roman city of Londinium along the Thames – MyLondon
- Ancient Greeks Used Dangerous Cosmetics in Eternal Search for Beauty
- Britain After The Romans: “You can think of this era as a black hole” – HistoryExtra
‘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 unrest among the common folk.
… 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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