Hodie est pr. Non. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists appeal to Greek prime minister to halt restructuring of five big antiquities museums | The Art Newspaper
- Graves of nearly 600 cats and dogs in ancient Egypt may be world’s oldest pet cemetery | Science | AAAS
- Pompeii’s Alexander Mosaic being restored | NHK WORLD-JAPAN News
- 4 million euros for Utrecht research into the ancient Roman border | RTV Utrecht
- Turkish-US pact cracks down on archaeological trade
- [Paywalled] Pompeii story lives on as buried city keeps giving up its secrets | World | The Times
- Czech archaeologists say 5th century tomb near Hradec Králové truly an ‘extraordinary’ find | Radio Prague International
- IN PHOTOS: Italy reopens ‘forgotten’ mausoleum of Roman emperor Augustus – The Local
- Six Children Discover Ancient Artifacts in Libya | Asharq AL-awsat
- SikilyNews.it – Taormina, riapre dopo quattro mesi il Teatro Antico: evento con Tigano, Samonà e Bolognari
- Hadrian’s Wall turns 1900 | News and Star
- George Clooney Calls for the Return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Archaeology great Moreno, who studied Riace Bronzes, dies – Italy – ANSAMed.it
- Underwater archaeology pioneer George Bass dies at 88
- The Holberg Prize names public philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum as 2021 Laureate | EurekAlert! Science News
- Classics Department Carries on Bardic Reading Tradition with Seneca’s Troades – The Oberlin Review
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classica Orientalia. Essays Presented to Wiktor Andrzej Daszewski on his 75th Birthday
- The Pythagorean Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Did the Phoenicians circumnavigate Africa? – Bad Ancient
- The Ups & Downs of Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Sorry for the Late Response… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Much Nonsense
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il diritto alla sepoltura nel Mediterraneo antico
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Penser la tolérance durant l’Antiquité tardive
- Weekend Reading: Being Bookish – Classical Studies Support
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Love of Country
- Guest blog: Greek epigram in the Roman west, by Gideon Nisbet – MAPPOLA
- Countermarked Denarius – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Spencer Alley: Anthony Blunt on Nicolas Poussin – Rejected Paintings
- Rowing the Same Ship, Twice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Blog-like Publications
- GRADO (Go). Un museo sommerso dove visitare il relitto di una nave romana. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
- Archaeologists Excavate 1,600-Year-Old Burial Containing Ornate Treasures – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Youtubery
- BRAINCAST – Pospo Meets Dr Moudhy Al Rashid – Mental Health in ancient times | Maudsley Learning
- CHS Dialogues With Gregory Nagy | Odysseus, Nóos and Nostos | Center for Hellenic Studies
- SCS CAMP 2021 Euripides Helen (FULL SHOW) | UVM Classics
- 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed Eric Cline and Glynnis Fawkes | UVM Classics
- SAILING WITH THE GODS Professor Sandra Blakely, Emory University, Thurs. Dec. 3 7:00 p.m. (at UVM) |UVM Classics
- Aether: God of the Heavenly Sky | Athena Productions
- CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Lysias Funeral Oration & collective memory, with Julia Shear | Center for Hellenic Studies
- In the footsteps of Vespasian: defining the fortress of the II Augusta at Wimborne Minster, Dorset | Current Archaeology
- ‘Even the Germans did not do that’: the British military requisition/occupation of Museo di Napoli | British School at Rome
- OI Ancient Literature Workshops, Session 3: The Autobiography of Hadrian? | Oriental Institute
- Il PArCo volante 1/Il Palatino | Parco Colosseo
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Emma Gee, Mapping the afterlife: from Homer to Dante. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Michael Blömer, Rubina Raja, Funerary portraiture in greater Roman Syria. Studies in classical archaeology, volume 6. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
- [BMCR] Frank Müller, Carla Benocci, Valter Proietti, Gary Vos, The so-called Aldobrandini Wedding: research from the years 1990 to 2016. Amsterdam: FM Art Publications, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Submissions | Animus: The University of Chicago’s Undergraduate Journal for the Classics
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies job with Bucknell University | 2105918
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- How One Looted Artifact Tells the Story of Modern Afghanistan – The New York Times
- Pompei, il futuro è una smart city 5G – Wired
- Pompei, accertamenti su infiltrazioni mafiose nei lavori di restauro – la Repubblica
‘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 the same as yesterday and even better.
… 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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