Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 5 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- ‘A search for anything to sell in ancient walls’: How Covid sparked a rush of antiquities looting in Turkey | The Independent
- Sepolcreto di via Roma scoperta solo una parte servono altre indagini – Il Piccolo Trieste
- Royal Pictish ‘power centre’ unearthed on Dunkeld hillfort
- Da un cantiere per una pompa di benzina emerge un anfiteatro romano
In Case You Missed It
- First ever ancient Roman complex discovered in Britain, broken into – The Jerusalem Post
- Ritrovata una necropoli a Messina – Metropolitan Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- ‘Benefactors and the Polis’ by Marc Domingo Gyax | Princeton Classics
- Miller joins “Women in Classical Mythology” course on Zoom | Department of Classics and Religious Studies
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- O Sappho, Who Wrongs You? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Sickness and Knowledge – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Painting in Context – Webinar Series
- Roman Times: Daedalic Style of the 7th century BCE
- Weekend Reading: An Idle Classicist – Classical Studies Support
- A Fact at the Center of a Case – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urkunden zur Chronologie der späten 12. Dynastie: Briefe aus Illahun
- “Rape in the sky” – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough ‘potential world first’
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman site uncovered in Scarborough hailed as first of its kind in UK
- Blog #23: Graduate Student Feature with Phoebe Thompson – Peopling the Past
- 1700-year-old necropolis discovered in Corsica – The Archaeology News Network
- Unearthing the little-known ancient theatres of Greece’s Epirus region – The Archaeology News Network
- Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough ‘potential world first’ – The Archaeology News Network
- Tell Umm el-Marra (Syria) and Early Alphabetic in the Third Millennium: Four Inscribed Clay Cylinders as a Potential Game Changer – Archaeology Bible Epigraphy – – Rollston Epigraphy
- The Transatlantic Voyage of a Greek Maiden | From the Archivist’s Notebook
- Bad Ancient: Was Livia the Ultimate Evil Stepmother? – The Partial Historians
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Neil Brodie on Metal Detected Finds in England and Wales
Blog-like Publications
- Odysseus: the First Western Man | Merion West
- A portrait of Apollo? – Examining a black-figure olpe in Rhodes – Ancient World Magazine
- Ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ὁ ἐρῆμος. Τῆς Ἀγάπης Κυριακιδῆς | by In Medias Res | In Medias Res | Apr, 2021 | Medium
- New perspectives on Early Rome – An essay contest – Ancient World Magazine
- The Road Not Taken: Cicero and Lesser Creatures – Antigone
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @TheClassicalCo on the bronze statue of Trebonius Gallus
- @RichardBott7 on the Kafkania Pebble
- @ASCSAthens on the statue known as the Antikythera Youth
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Histories 2.49-50
- @drcorabeth’s #OldBookThreadOfTheDay is an edition of Echard’s Terence
- @GettyMuseum on assorted images of the lyre
- @BuffyAntiqua on various translators’ prefaces/notes to Catullus
Fresh Podcasts
Sean was joined by Michael Fontaine – Professor of Classics at Cornell University and author of a new translation of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s How To Tell A Joke
Tacitus shares some Salacious Stories from Nero’s Rome in the year 58 CE – mostly about ambitious women.
Fresh Youtubery
- Virtual Field Trips from The Novium Museum | Novium Museum
- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Ancestral Customs & Heroic Pollution in Ancient Greek Civilization | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Archaeology Abridged: A Toast to Ancient Greek Wine Drinking with Prof. Kathleen Lynch | ArchaeologyTV
- CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | A Middle Ground in the Middle Sea, with Jan-Mathieu Carbon | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Luby Kiriakidi, Ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ὁ ἐρῆμος – LLaGO 2021 | Paideia Media
Book Reviews
- Demetrius the Besieger: A neglected successor to the great conqueror
- Ancient Greek drama in the wider Mediterranean | The TLS
- The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox review: Classical doctors and their dangerous remedies
- Echoes of Ancient Greece: “The Underworld of Hades” | Michael Levy
- Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia | Spartokos a lu
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Classics at Howard University | Society for Classical Studies
- TAG Conference – Save the Date! | Department of Classics
- Reframing Classics: ‘The Brutish Museums’ | 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
- 11 Roman Rulers Who Tried to Destroy Christianity (and Failed)| National Catholic Register
- Why Philo Matters |
- An Ancient Greek Approach to Risk and the Lessons the Modern World
- Siren Song of the Idle Life – WSJ
- Greece’s Top Mythological Sites That You Can Still Visit
- The Regulation of Stolen Cultural Artifacts | The Regulatory Review
- Roman Marcus Aurelius arch in Tripoli among restoration work – in pictures | The National
‘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 an abundance of daily necessities.
… 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)#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for April 16, 2021
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