Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Mart. 2774 AUC ~ 25 Anthesterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Edition Topoi Collections: Cylinder Seals
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dissertations from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Knowledge@UChicago
- Plato’s Sister and the Women Among His Students – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Fresh Podcasts
Tres sodales imaginibus usi locos considerant, quos singuli desiderant. In hoc colloquio imaginem (vid. infr.) et locum a Iusto proposita tractant.
On his way home to Seriphos, Perseus spies a terrifying monster in the sea below. It’s headed straight towards a high cliff where Perseus glimpses a solitary figure on a rocky ledge. Could that be — a girl???
Fresh Youtubery
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- “Wine, Self, and Song” (Dr. Jessica Romney, MacEwan University) | New Directions in Classics
- The Little Things Lecture Series: Debra Trusty, Tour of the Acropolis Museum of Athens [3.3.2021] |University of Iowa Department of Classics
- Le donne del Colosseo | Parco archeologico del Colosseo | Parco Colosseo
- The Ashmolean’s Attic Inscriptions: Collection History | Attic Inscriptions Online
Book Reviews
- Review: Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth – Biblical Archaeology Society
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- [BMCR] Luca Castagnoli, Paolo Ceccarelli, Greek Memories: theories and practices. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- Assistant Teaching Professor, Greek Literature and Culture – Department of Classics job with Georgetown University | 2107170
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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- Study finds gender gap ever-present in archaeology | The McGill Tribune
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today it portends the downfall of humans and the proliferation of wild beasts.
… 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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