Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Mitreo di Marino, partiti i lavori di riqualificazione dell’area archeologica
- Archeologia: scoperta a Messina una Necropoli del II sec a. C. – MessinaOra.it
- Sicilia, scoperta antica villa romana nel cantiere della rete ferroviaria [FOTO] – LiveUnict
- Damage caused at Roman archaeological site near Scarborough | Gazette & Herald
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Greece’s Army of Lovers | The New Yorker
- Atripalda, che scoperta! Rinvenuti setti murari di epoca romana durante lavori a impianto di carburanti – Irpiniaoggi.it
- Why Were These Ancient Adults Buried in Jars on the Island of Corsica? | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- ‘Missing link’ in alphabet’s history said unearthed in Israel on Canaanite sherd | The Times of Israel
- Ruins, gods and cats: Rome′s ′Area Sacra′ to be renovated | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 16.04.2021
- Unusual Roman Villa Uncovered in Northern England – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Miller joins “Women in Classical Mythology” course on Zoom | Department of Classics and Religious Studies
- Professor Richard Talbert explores conceptions of time in Edward F. Arnold Visiting Professor Lecture – Whitman Wire
- Athena Kirk explores ancient Greek lists in new book | Cornell Chronicle
- ‘Benefactors and the Polis’ by Marc Domingo Gyax | Princeton Classics
Public Facing Classics
- Libraries and Memory Lane | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- How to eulogise the Duke of Edinburgh | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- Canons 9-14 of the breviarium of the Council of Hippo (393) – Roger Pearse
- Three Things Thursday: New Book, Teaching, and | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavating the Extra-Ordinary: Challenges & Merits of Working with Small Finds: Proceedings of the International Egyptological Workshop at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 8–9 April 2019
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Debate
- The Tyranny of Titles: The Complex Case of Oedipus – Antigone
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Making open access photos of ancient cultural heritage available via Flickr: a few thoughts by Dan Diffendale
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliothèque numérique de l’Ifao
- Let’s Talk About Sweat, Baby – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Genetics
- “I Guess the Ancients Sucked Too…” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dictator Gaius Marcius Rutulus’ Surprise Destruction Of A Hostile Tarquinii And Falisci Military Camp Near Rome | The Historian’s Hut
- Vertumnus and Pomona, painted by Abraham van Dijck (c. 1635/1636-1680) | The Historian’s Hut
- Missing link?! Verrek, het klopt – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Wax bust of Flora definitely not by Leonardo
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Dabrowa, Camps, campaigns, colonies
- PaleoJudaica.com: Amun Amen?
- PaleoJudaica.com: New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (ed. Hornkohl & Khan; Open Book)
- Blog: Diversifying Classics in Germany: An Interview with Katharina Wesselmann | Society for Classical Studies
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Newly-Discovered UK Roman Site Raided by Thieves
- New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait – The Archaeology News Network
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento – 1625-1627
- Fireside Friday: April 16, 2021 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Blogging ancient epigram: Smutty and sweet, round two
- Ladies Who Lunch – Pompeian Connections
Blog-like Publications
- Results of the underwater excavations off Salamina in 2020
- Exhibition of Loverdos collection in its final stages
- MeKeTRe is back. The team running the online repository
- PaleoJudaica.com: Excavating in the plague year: ‘Auja el-Foqa
- Christianity and Christian Symbols Appear on Ancient Coins
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @CastingGreece on the Battle of Plataea
- @AntiquityJ on the recent find of an alphabetic pottery fragment from Tel Lachish
- @MichaelDPress on some early exhibitions by the PEF
- @drcorabeth with another ‘old text rabbit hole dive’ … a volume of Virgil
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a silver denarius of Gius Papius Mutilus
Fresh Podcasts
‘The second half of the third century AD saw Rome’s military leadership embroiled in a deadly power struggle. Meanwhile, on the empire’s frontiers, trouble was brewing…’
Fresh Youtubery
- Domus Palatina. Nuove ricerche nella Casa di Augusto | British School at Rome
- Disability in the Ancient and Modern Worlds | Society for Ancient Medicine
- Dantedì 2021 | Giandomenico Cupaiuolo • Cesare | Paradiso, Canto VI, 34-72 | Parco Colosseo
- The Persian Wars: Ancient Greece vs. the Achaemenid Persian Empire | World History Encyclopedia
Book Reviews
- Monnaies de l’antique Chersonèse: catalogue des déterminants | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair, Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Randolph Ford, Rome, China, and the barbarians: ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Matthew Landauer, Dangerous counsel: accountability and advice in ancient Greece. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
- The Bloody Fate of Julius Caesar’s Killers | National Review
- [BMCR] Ross Shepard Kraemer , The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity: what Christianity cost the Jews. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Latinitas et doctrinarum orbis: Latin and the modern age – Schola Latina
- https://www.amherst.edu/news/calendar/node/797995
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
‘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 abundance but also an outbreak of field voles.
… 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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