Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 9 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey | Live Science
- Via degli Orti, alla ricerca di nuove tombe del II secolo Avanti Cristo: lavori in corso
- Natale di Roma: the legends and traditions behind Rome’s birthday
- Happy birthday to Rome: Eternal City celebrates 2,774 years today
- Actualité | Un monument funéraire de l’âge du Fer et une … | Inrap
- Archeologia, scavi in Piazza San Giustino, scoperta clamorosa: spunta il mosaico individuato nel 1880 da Vincenzo Zecca
- Archaeologists restore 3 ancient Roman statues in Jerash | MENAFN.COM
In Case You Missed It
- Site of Julius Caesar’s Assassination Will Be Transformed Into Open-Air Museum | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Il mare restituisce a Palermo tre anfore romane – Gazzetta del Sud
- Vandals sack Roman-era estate and bathhouse just discovered in UK | Live Science
- Baalbek Reborn App Offers a Virtual Tour of Lebanon’s Roman Ruins | Mental Floss
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Bard Professors James Romm and Daniel Mendelsohn on Ancient Greece’s Army of Lovers
- Bard Faculty Franco Baldasso, Adrianne Colburn, and James Romm Receive Franklin Research Grants from the American Philosophical Society
- Howard University to dissolve classics department – The Washington Post
- Professor David Ungvary Receives 2021–22 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship from Harvard University
Fresh Bloggery
- Skipping the Passive for the Straight-Up Aggressive – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Hold Olympics, End a Plague? Make Herakles Your Friend Too – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML
- Final Bit and Bobs and What This Book Is Not | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Roman Times: Phlyax play https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2021/04/phlyax-play.html
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rebirth
- The Siren, painted by Louis Loeb (c. 1866-1909) | The Historian’s Hut
- “You’re Too Keen On Dead Stuff” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman baths found in Frosinone
- Een vroege hunebedvorser – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Gladiator arena from Roman era unearthed in Turkey
- PaleoJudaica.com: T&T Clark Handbook for Septuagint Research (ed. Ross & Glenny)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Phoencian artifacts in the British Museum
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dusenbury, The Innocence of Pontius Pilate (Hurst)
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Torah and tattoos
- 21 April AD 121 – Hadrian celebrates Rome’s 874th birthday with circus games (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Classics, ‘standard modern languages’, and machine translation – Teaching Classics and Ancient History in HE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: 12th ICAANE Online
- From Banquets to Sappho: Current Research & Recent Publications (2021.2). | Classics at Reading
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s #EpigraphyTuesday post on the Vatican Naophorous
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Histories 3.71-2
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day are coins relating to Nero’s deification of Claudius
- @BCRPM on Christopher Hitchens’ view on the need to return the Parthenon Marbles
- @SokolowskiLuk on some portraits of Commodus
- @WhoresofYore on some gossip associated with Julius Caesar
- @Branbourgeois on Cornel West’s opEd in the Washington Post on Howard University
- @theo_nash on the Cambridge Companion to Sappho and P.Sapph.Obbink
Fresh Podcasts
Ecce! Here it is, the tearjerking, heartbreaking, bird-shrieking, deeply satisfying reunion between long-lost Odysseus and his heroic son Telemachus. Jeff and Dave guide you through all the action as Tely returns to the hut of the humble swineherd Eumaeus (swineherd good, goatherd bad, cowherd so-so) to rondezvous with dad. Don’t miss Eumaeus’ backstory, plenty of bird omens, and Odysseus dodging stool legs while disguised as a beggar. You not only get Jeff’s penetrating literary analysis, but you also learn he has some bones to pick with Homer over these extended lessons in xenia (do we need so much wine, meat, and sparkly robes?) in these “troughy” books. And be sure to smirk derisively at Dave’s typical string of self-indulgent, piffling puns. Achoober? Srsly?
University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor, Dr Paul Cartledge, joins the show to discuss commerce in archaic Greece.
A plague which affects people from across society, the mass exodus from city centres and numerous opinions on how best to stay well … all familiar to people today, but also to the people of the 2nd century AD. In this fascinating chat with Dr Nick Summerton, from our sibling podcast The Ancients, we explore the causes and effects of the Antonine Plague, the guides to healthy living from Galen, Marcus Aurelius and Aristides, and whether there are overlaps with the current situation. Nick is a practicing doctor and is the author of ‘Greco-Roman Medicine and What it Can Teach Us Today’, published by Pen & Sword.
It’s time for a special episode of The Ozymandias Project with Lexie Henning! Tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for an hour long odyssey as we discussed her path from journalism in Lebanon into gaming, using the Bible to trick her mom into not confiscating her books, potentially using “Old World” to teach history, increasing female representation in the gaming industry and inspiring women to break stereotypes. Note: The Ozymandias Project team elected to release this episode during what is normally our off-week to spotlight a powerful woman in response to the recent resurgence of a sexual harasser in the podcasting/entertainment space. This is a content warning regarding sexual harassment. If this subject is triggering in any way, please skip right to the episode itself, beginning at 1:46.
Alexander returned to Persia from India to begin the work of ruling his new empire. He seemed frankly uninterested in dealing with the logistical nightmare that was the governing of his new empire and he was already planning a southern campaign into Arabia. At the age of 32 in 323BC, Alexander caught a fever and died soon after. It’s at this point that the story often ends, but what happened after the death of Alexander? This episode, we cover the Wars of the Diadochi. Who will inherit Alexander’s Empire? Tune in to find out!!
Fresh Youtubery
- The Founding of Rome: The Story of Romulus and Remus in Roman Mythology | World History Encyclopedia
- The Trojan War EXPLAINED – Legends and Facts | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- White marbles (once painted) of ancient Rome | American Institute for Roman Culture
- Choesros of Persia Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empre Chapter 42 Part 3 | historyscientist
- Manger à Pompéi | CAC SCEC
- Identikit di un Capolavoro – L’aratore di Arezzo | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Chrysanthi Gallou, Death in Mycenaean Lakonia: a silent place. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2019.
- [BMCR] Gilbert Dagron, Bernard Flusin, Denis Feissel, Constantin VII Porphyrogénète: Le livre des cérémonies. Corpus fontium historiae byzantinae 52/1-5. Paris: Association des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisations de Byzance, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Byzantine Material Culture and Topography is the theme of The BSA
- Virtual Lecture: Jesper Majbom Madsen (University of Southern Denmark) // Events // Department of Classics // University of Notre Dame
- Art Crime Research Opportunities: 21 April 2021
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Turkey’s ancient cities shed light on vast Mesopotamian history | Daily Sabah
- Britannia Still Rules the Waves – Numismatic News
- The Spartan Agoge: Investigation of Badassery – The Delta Statement
- Richborough: Kent’s ancient ‘lost city’ where the Romans thrived for 400 years – Kent Live
- The Ancient Greek Treasure of the Amphiareion of Oropos
‘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 plentiful crops but war for the state.
… 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)
