Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 11 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Dagli scavi dello svincolo spunta una strada romana | Cronache Maceratesi
- Archaeologists unearth ancient chamber tomb in southeast Turkey
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- Was Nero cruel? British Museum offers hidden depths to Roman emperor | British Museum | The Guardian
- Update on Roman Gladiator Arena Discovered in Turkey – Archaeology Magazine
- Iron Age Weapons Found at Hillfort Site in Germany – Archaeology Magazine
- Dead Sea Scrolls: Artificial Intelligence sheds new light on their author – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Testing the West at Howard University: Thoughts on a Very Strange Op-Ed – Blue Book Diaries
- Students & Professors Attempt to Prevent Howard University Classics Department From Being Dissolved – Erudera College News
Fresh Bloggery
- Theatre of Dreams or Illusion | Turkish Archaeological News
- Plato Says It’s Like We’re Drunk All The Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Fame
- 1 pm EST = 6 pm BST Today (4-22) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: CEDOPAL: Centre de Documentation de Papyrologie Littéraire
- The Battle of Zama, By An Unknown 16th-century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
- The Hilltop Battle Of Consul Popilius Of Rome Against A Gallic Army | The Historian’s Hut
- Tweemaal Egypte – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Tiny altars found in Gallo-Roman home
- PaleoJudaica.com: Seleznev et al. (eds.), The Gospel of Matthew in its Historical and Theological Context (Mohr Siebeck)
- Autism and Classical Myth: Making classics better though autism and classical myth…
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Friedeman (ed.) A Scripture Index to Rabbinic Literature
- PaleoJudaica.com: British Museum uncancels Nero
- Cooking in the shadow of Mount Olympus – The Archaeology News Network
- Grave of Gothic warrior buried with his weapons unearthed in downtown Thessaloniki – The Archaeology News Network
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay thread is Tacitus, Histories, 4.52
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a look at some coins of Paeonia
Fresh Podcasts
Rome dates its beginning to the 21st April 753BCE, when legend has it that it was founded by the twins Romulus and Remus. While not the only myth connected to this event, it has been the most enduring, and commemorating it became an important event in the Roman calendar. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
Continue being introduced to the ancient greek gods in under five minutes in this weeks Access Classics podcast series where you will be introduced to Zeus’ long suffering daughter, Aphrodite by our wonderful presenters Maria and Eleanor.
Dr. Shaily Patel is Assistant Professor of Early Christianity at Virginia Tech. She is an expert on ancient magic, early Christian literature, and ideological criticisms of the New Testament. She is currently writing a book about the ways in which early Christian writings featuring Simon Peter are caught between two simultaneous but opposing cultural trends: the allure of “magic” in the Roman imagination and the categorial vilifying of magicians among ancient writers. In her wider work, she is concerned with the problem of representation in historical accounts, especially the representation of groups and ideas that challenge established “orthodoxy.”
A tiny inscribed potsherd dating to the first half of the 15th century BCE from Lachish in southern Israel has six little letters. Is this the earliest alphabetic inscription in the southern Levant? Does it change the story of the alphabet? And who breaks nice pottery to write a note? Our panelists are puzzled, but not necessarily surprised.
The story of a heavily outnumbered Greek army, led by a Spartan commander, called the Battle of Thermopylae has captured people’s interests, and imaginations, for eons. Dr Chris Carey, Emeritus Professor, University College London, joins the show to share what happened.
Synopsis: King Muwatalli II relocates the Hittite capital to the new royal city of Tarhuntassa near the Mediterranean coast, then faces off against the young pharaoh Ramesses II in the Battle of Qadesh. After Muwatalli’s death, his son and brother – Urhi-Teshub and Hattusili – contend for the Hittite throne…
In this episode, we discuss Gladiator (2000), featuring orientalism, unfortunate Freudian weirdness, bad takes on imperialism, and… queer giraffes?
The battle of Plataea would finally be fought and decided after 10 days in the plain of Boeotia
Fresh Youtubery
- A NEW Virtual Course on Rome’s Engineering & Architecture, LIVE from ROME itself! | American Institute for Roman Culture
- ‘Freud, the Greeks and the Invention of Personality’ Dr John Curran | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Cult Heroes, Kleos, and Myrtles | Center for Hellenic Studies
- SunoikisisDC SS 2021 – Session 2 | Sunoikisis DC
- Ancient Greek Tragedy: History, Playwrights and Performances | World History Encyclopedia
- ETRU e il Natale di Roma 2021 | Etuschannel
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Eleutheria Papagianne, Spyros Troianos, Ludwig Burgmann, Kirill Maksimovič, Alexios Aristenos: Kommentar zur “Synopsis Canonum”. Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, Neue Folge Band 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] David Christenson, Plautus: Pseudolus. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Two-year Lectureship in Classics (Greek Literature)
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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‘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 a timely rainfall for germination of crops.
… 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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