Hodie est Kal. Apr. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Elaphebolion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Fortuna, Iside e Igea riemergono dalle acque calde di San Casciano dei Bagni – Il Cittadino Online
- Israeli researchers claim to solve mystery of engraved crosses at Holy Sepulchre | The Times of Israel
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Bert De Vries Obituary (1939 – 2021) – Grand Rapids, MI – Grand Rapids Press
- Calvin Remembers Bert De Vries – News | Calvin University
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Easy
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Greek Proverb
- Some Casual Misogyny in The Scholia to the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “A Body With Wings:” Returning to Euripides’ “Helen” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Archaeology of Early Christianity | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Ancient Roman Social Media | Latin Language Blog
- Comfort Classics: Lucy Angel – Classical Studies Support
- Faded Elegances in Faded Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PhD Research in Assyriology: Showcasing the next generation of scholars in the history, archaeology, and languages of the ancient Near East
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: “Ancient history: to c 500 CE” at OAPEN
- Roman Times: The Muses
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Migration Myths and the End of the Bronze Age in the Eastern Mediterranean
- The Nicene Creed in Hippo 393 / Carthage 397 – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antike Malerei zwischen Lokalstil und Zeitstil: Akten des XI. Internationalen Kolloquiums der AIPMA 13.-17. September 2010 in Ephesos
- Theano: Philosopher, Author, Wit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Lover Betrayed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Clamps on Coins (CW: Castration?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Textbook: Making Sense of World History
- The Ineffective Tiburtine Siege Of Rome | The Historian’s Hut
- Death of Epaminondas, By An Unknown 18th-Century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Getty acquires rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi Lucretia
- Het Mausoleum van Augustus – Mainzer Beobachter
- Romeinse geboorteaankondiging – Mainzer Beobachter
- The archive documents about Moses Shapira – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Holy Sepulcher: quarry, temple, churches
- PaleoJudaica.com: Professional pilgrim graffiti in Church of the Holy Sepulcher?
- PaleoJudaica.com: JQR Winter 2021
- Re-writing Women’s History – Pompeian Connections
- Fine Marbles in 14 Different Colors from Constantine the Great’s Danube Bridge Opening in 328 AD Found in Roman City Ulpia Oescus in North Bulgaria – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
- Gray trade/white crime? | Market of Mass Destruction
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Pair due in court over Chelmsford Iron Age Coin find
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A Lancashire Detectorist’s View of Archaeologists
- Myths are like Ogres are like Onions
Blog-like Publications
- First Thoughts on the “New Naso” – Antigone
- The New Naso: A Preliminary Appreciation – Antigone
- A Very Short Introduction to the New Naso – Antigone
- Naming and Shaming in the New Naso – Antigone
- The Truth About the New Naso – Antigone
- Retracing the Old Steps of the New Naso: Authorship, Transmission and Reception – Antigone
- The New Naso: A Few Thoughts on Authorship and Date – Antigone
- Numismatic Notes on Naso’s Nose – Antigone
- Following Common Scents in the New Naso – Antigone
- An edition of the New Naso attributed to Ovid – Antigone
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay thread
- @rubsmontoya on some 19th century drawings of Pompeii by Luigi Bazzani
- @pompeii_sites on Roman housing
- @TheClassicalCo on the Apollo Belvedere
Fresh Podcasts
Rhiannon Evans, Caillan Davenport, Gillian Shepherd and Matt Smith each share three items of Roman interest for three minutes! You will hear: – Silius Italicus and his unbearable bunion – Pomponius Mela and the wonders of the Nile – Snarky soldiers at the Vindolanda fort – Legacy hunters and the jewels of Matidia – Unusual dedications to the gods – Early sources for the great fire of Rome – The effectiveness of Roman concrete – How Rome dealt with mass burial of the poor – Sea monsters – Curse tablets and sporting fanatics – Vedius Pollio throws a clumsy slave to the lamprey – The rare instances of Romans sacrificing people Guests: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University) Assoc. Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt) Dr Gillian Shepherd (Director, Trendall Centre, La Trobe University)
“The idea is that you put the scroll in the machine and it does a pirouette. And as it turns around, the x-rays see what’s inside the scroll from every possible angle, 360 degrees, all the way around. And we can invert that and recover a complete representation of what’s inside, in three dimensions.” In … Continue reading “Reading Ancient Scrolls with Modern Technology”
The Pictish Beast is a mysterious animal carved on Pictish standing stones. Nobody knows what kind of animal it is. But it must have been really important to the Picts, as over 40% of animals carved into their stones are the Pictish Beast. Is it an elephant? Is it a kelpie? Is it an ancient prehistoric monster the likes of which no living person has ever seen? What is it?? In this episode, Genn and Jenny spend roughly an hour debating what, exactly, the Pictish Beast might have been. We state our cases, lay out our supporting facts, get really opinionated, and knock back a few drinks along the way.
It’s our second episode in The Partial Recap series. This is a short, sharp, scripted overview of all the big events that defined the 450s BCE. If you’re inspired to delve into more details, all the episodes from this decade can be found in our Foundation of Rome series.
Fresh Youtubery
- Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
- AIA Iowa Society Talk: Steven Ellis [3.29.2021] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
- History retold through ancient metalworks – Dr Maria Kostoglou | The Know Show
- Why did Rome attack Greece ⚔️ Battle of Cynoscephalae, 197 BC (Part 2/2) | History Marche
- ARMATURAE – Secutor | Acta Videos
- Geronimo Stilton a Pompei – Intervista all’archeologa e alla restauratrice | Pompeii Sites
- Varusschlacht im Osnabrucker Land
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] John Osborne, Rome in the eighth century: a history in art. British School at Rome studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Lucy C.M.M. Jackson, The chorus of drama in the fourth century BCE: presence and representation. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Carlos Machado, Urban space and aristocratic power late antique Rome: AD 270-535. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics job with Furman University | 330692
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Men Have Feared Women For Millennia. Just Look at the Monsters of Greek Mythology | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
- Hades Is Not the Devil | The Mary Sue
‘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 civil discord and loss of wealth.
… 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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