Hodie est pr. Kal. Apr. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Elaphebolion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Tarragona exhibe una de las escaleras «mejor conservadas del mundo romano»
- Sole Survivor: Astonishing Restoration Of A 4th Century Roman Sandal Made Of Grass – The Tennessee Tribune
- Dig to map ancient Paphos comes to an end | Cyprus Mail
- Segesta, importante scoperta archeologica. Rinvenuto l’ingresso dell’agorà
In Case You Missed It
- Harassment in archaeology is occurring at ‘epidemic rates’
- British comedian and philhellene Stephen Fry urges UK to return the marbles | Neos Kosmos
- Ancient Greek Terracotta Relief Fragments Found in Bulgaria – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- ‘The Latin teacher’: Joseph Bond is teaching the classical language at St. Bernard | News | cullmantimes.com
- From Togas to Troy: Oxford’s Covid ‘Classical Conversations’ | University of Oxford
- L’étude de l’Antiquité rend-elle la société plus raciste ? Certains professeurs américains le croient
- Greek Students Take Part in Eratosthenes’ Greatest Experiment
- Greek battle reenacted on Quad for research project | The Utah Statesman
- Professor Paul Cartledge receives one of Greece’s highest honours — Faculty of Classics
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE RE HONGKONGENSI
Fresh Bloggery
- The Retraction of Dirk Obbink’s Sappho Chapter and the Question of Authenticity | Variant Readings
- Introducing Particuliterate – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- δέ – Particuliterate
- Sulpicia’s Song, At Last – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Early Plea for Social Distancing
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Arma et nummi: Forschungen zur römischen Finanzgeschichte und Münzprägung der Jahre 49 bis 42 v. Chr.
- Comfort Classics: An Anniversary – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Music in Performance
- Cleobulina’s Poetic Riddles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Death Of Hector (Achilles Dragging The Body Of Hector), Painted By Gavin Hamilton (c. 1723-1798) | The Historian’s Hut
- Roman Times: Tiresias, soothsayer extraordinaire
- Catullus Not For Curates – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Tempe Canyon – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: On the provenance and authenticity of the Sappho papyri
- PaleoJudaica.com: BHD Passover and Last Supper essays
- PaleoJudaica.com: Stahl, The “God of Israel” in History and Tradition (Brill)
- Blog: Contingent Faculty Series: A Conversation with Bonnie Rock-McCutcheon | Society for Classical Studies
- Turkish Smuggler Caught with Dozens Byzantine, Persian Gold Coins at Bulgaria-Turkey Border – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
- Classics and the Unprotected Characteristic: Towards a Network of Working-Class Classicists – CUCD EDI
- Teaching Latin in a Girls’ Grammar School – CUCD EDI
Blog-like Publications
- Who Were the Flavian Emperors? (8 Facts) | TheCollector
- Eating Yourself Empty: Erysichthon and the Environment – Antigone
- The Limes Arabicus – The Desert Frontier of the Roman Empire – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a Latin inscription from the Oift Bridge
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay
- @artcrimeprof summarizes her review of John Boardman’s recent biography
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a aureus of Maxentius
- @artcrimeprof on museum policies regarding provenance
Fresh Podcasts
Dave and Jeff katabisate back into Hades where we watch a parade of mythic women, but no marching bands or fun-size Snickers in this parade, just more murder, mourning, and malevolence. Tune in for Epicaste, Antiope, Alcmene, and many more unpronounceable ladies. Then it’s more blasts from the passed: Agamemnon shows up with a story of the worst “welcome home” present ever while planting some doubts in Odysseus’ mind. Achilles himself drifts forward giving Odysseus a taste of what awaits him. Ajax Telamon gives our hero the silent treatment and refuses to “hug it out.” And even Sisyphus, the original rock-n-roller, has a cameo, eternally doomed but still managing to drop some 19th century economic theory on all y’all.
Are the Humanities under attack? Are the Classics being Canceled? And if so, how and why should we come to its defense? We live in an era that frequently questions the utility and benefit of classical education and a liberal arts core curriculum—a mode…
Odysseus is finally going home.
Fresh Youtubery
- Strategikon – Army Manual of the Eastern Roman Empire | Kings and Generals
- “Reconstructing the role of cats and dogs in classical antiquity” (Michael MacKinnon) | New Directions in Classics
- Tiberius’ seaside villa of Sperlonga: wondrous marble sculptures | Darius Arya Digs
- Greek Drama and Social Release | CAC SCEC
- Hymn to Hermes “Bee Women” (2nd practice). Ancient Greek. Chelys lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman
- Curator’s Tour: Casting Light on Classical Sculpture. Part 2: Aphrodite | Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- FIEC: 8 Promotionsstipendien in den Altertumswissenschaften
- News – AIA Launches #BuildYourOwnMonument 2021 Competition! – Archaeological Institute of America IAD
- CFP: Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW | Society for Classical Studies
- Tim Moore to participate in online panel on Laughter and Interpretation | Department of Classics
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Hermes of Praxiteles Statue Remains a Timeless Symbol of Hellenism
- Palaeolithic Lesbos
- ‘Courage Is What Happens When We Lean Into Our Fear’ | Grazia
- Liam Shaw | Gears within Gears · LRB 30 March 2021
- Artemisia Gentileschi Joins Getty’s Collection | Getty Iris
- Tornos News | Cassope: An ancient theater in Greek Region of Epirus with a great view of the Ionian Sea
- Marbles United, not Marbles Returned | eKathimerini.com
‘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:
No entry for today.
… 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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