Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 8 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• 2,000-year-old Roman street unearthed in Turkey’s Diyarbakır | Daily Sabah
• Bitonto: Dal cantiere di Piazza Caduti spunta una tomba di 2mila anni fa
• Recuperate nel mare di Mondello tre antiche anfore romane – Giornale di Sicilia
• Antica anfora tolta al contrabbando e restituita allo Stato

In Case You Missed It

• Site of Julius Caesar’s Assassination Will Be Transformed Into Open-Air Museum | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• [Paywalled] Opinion | Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe – The Washington Post

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Πολέμου τύμπανα ἀκούεται 
• [Ephemeris] NOVVS PRINCEPS 

Public Facing Classics

• Exams in the age of Covid | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
• Annaliese Holden: Repeatedly disappointed by the UVM administration – VTDigger

Fresh Bloggery

• Did You Sleep Ok? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Writing a North Dakota Essay | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Comfort Classics: Carly Silver – Classical Studies Support
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliographie zum Hieratischen und den Kursivhieroglyphen
• Cleansing the City – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Gallo-Roman villa of Orbe-Boscéaz
• An Oenophile’s Nightmare or Dream? The Liquid Cure for a Disease – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• When did Roman emperors cease to use the title of “Pontifex Maximus”? – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Traces of Ink: Experiences of Philology and Replication
• Aeneas And Achates On The Libyan Coast, Painted By Dosso Dossi (c. 1512 – 1542) | The Historian’s Hut
• Legendary Monster Clouds Near Cyrene | The Historian’s Hut
• Aeschylus | The Historian’s Hut
• Nothing To Write about: Cicero Gives Up – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Koning van de vier windstreken – Mainzer Beobachter
• English Civil War (Remastered) | Sphinx
• PaleoJudaica.com: Garber, Teaching the Historical Jesus (Routledge)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Eliphaz and the Polyanna Psalm
• PaleoJudaica.com: Grappling with Joshua’s conquest
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Source of Great Pleasure
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek colonists and native populations : proceedings of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology held in honour of emeritus professor A.D. Trendall, Sydney, 9-14 July 1985

Blog-like Publications

• An Aaful Story: Ovid and the Geordie Spider – Antigone
• What ancient Greek handwashing can teach us about socio-economic inequality
• Classics in China: A Student Initiative | by Xinran (Olivia) Ma | AD AEQUIORA | Apr, 2021 | Medium
• 7 Roman History Myths You Need to Stop Believing | by Prateek Dasgupta, MS | Apr, 2021 | History of Yesterday

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Histories, 2.56
• a discussion thread on the lack of a commentary for Linear B tablets from Knossos
• @Vicky_Austen shares her students’ updates to various Wikipedia articles

Fresh Podcasts

• QDP Ep 175: De Cibo Fruendo – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast

Augustus et Iustus cibos considerant, quos ientaculo vel prandio vel cena sumunt—necnon horas diversas, quibus id facere solent.

• ‎Accessible Art History: Olympia by Édouard Manet on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to Season 8 of Accessible Art History: The Podcast! In this week’s episode, I’m talking about Olympia by Manet. This work is quite scandalous and served as the bridge between past periods and Impressionism. *marked explicit for a brief discussion of sex workers

• ‎Madison’s Notes: The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson on Apple Podcasts

Was Socrates guilty? What is the relationship between the philosopher and the city? What does it mean to live an “examined life”? Marcus Gibson, John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program, returns to the show to discuss The Apology of Socrates in this second episode of our series on the Platonic dialogues.

• ‎History Hack: History Hack: The Island of Delos on Apple Podcasts

Christy Constantakopoulou joins us for a discussion about the mythical birthplace of Apollo.

Fresh Youtubery

• Between the Ancient Picts and Romans : Exploring Hadrian’s Wall with Alexander Iles.| Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 014. Iliad Book 2. 225-242 -YT | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
• NEW Playing Techniques for ANCIENT Lyres? | Michael Levy

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Steve Tinney, Karen Sonik, Journey to the city: a companion to the Middle East galleries at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2019.
• [BMCR] Guy Middleton, Collapse and transformation: the late Bronze Age to early Iron Age in the Aegean. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• The archaeological work in Macedonia and Thrace
• Conference: Theognis and the Theognidea | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Lay That Ghost: Necromancy in Ancient Greece and Rome – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Philhellenes: Modern Era Guardians of Greece Abroad
• Are there any Roman buildings in Suffolk? | East Anglian Daily Times
• Il mistero dei dolmen: la Sicilia preistorica che celebrava il sole – la Repubblica
• First book detailing influence of the Romans on County Durham to be released – Durham County Council

‘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, it portends divine anger.

… 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)