Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Stunning Archaeological Finds in Greece Dig Reveal Ties to Apollo
- 1st Century BC Traces of Earliest Roman Presence in Bulgaria on Danube Discovered Halfway between Major Antiquity Cities Bononia (Vidin) and Ratiaria (Archar) – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
- American Council of Learned Societies President Joy Connolly Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Taishi Nakase selected as Princeton valedictorian, Lucy Wang named salutatorian
- ASU Dean’s Medalist to continue her passion for linguistics to show the world the beauty of classics | ASU News
- How Jesus’ foreskin became one of Christianity’s most-coveted relics — and then disappeared | CBC Radio
Public Facing Classics
- ‘Meditations’ Review: A Stoic Emperor’s Bestseller – WSJ
- Heroic Self-Sacrifice | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Pederson, Babylon. The Great City (open access)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Sources for the Bar Kokhba Revolt
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Olga Tufnell’s ‘Perfect Journey’: Letters and photographs of an archaeologist in the Levant and Mediterranean
- Wild and Desolate: The True Story of Odysseus’ Journey Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Chance and Virtue: Epictetus Says some Things – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Music Monday: More Sun Ra Notes | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Your Last Day
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urban Society In Roman Italy
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Literary Letters: Selections in Translation
- Roman Times: Usil, the Etruscan god of the sun
- Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
- A Forest With Apollo And Daphne, by Jean-Victor Bertin (c. 1767-1842) | The Historian’s Hut
- Nog eens Regulus – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Rescheduled Wuppertal LXX conference now going online
- PaleoJudaica.com: Did Peter give investment advice?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Damage to West Bank sites reported
- PaleoJudaica.com: Carbon-dating the Dead Sea Scrolls
- The Praetorian Guard: From Elite Bodyguard to Power-Hungry Kingmakers
- Classical Association Inclusive Classics Panel 2021 – CUCD EDI
- ACE the Movie – ACE Classics
Blog-like Publications
- Virgil’s First Eclogue: No Idyll – Antigone
- Inside the Yearlong Deep-Clean of the Getty Museum | Getty Iris
- Roman Villa of Nennig and its Gladiatorial Mosaic – Time Travel Rome
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the day features some coins of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus
- @MetalClassicist looks at some ‘ancient’ heavy metal artwork
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Annals, 1.1.3
- @TrimontiumTrust on the Dacians
- @postclassics on reception of Classical myth
Fresh Podcasts
We talk about the history of the book, the reading habits of the ancient Romans, the pliability of sheep skins, and the mechanisms of semantic change that cause words to evolve over time. Oh, and we discuss Charles Darwin’s own language for his new theory.
Greg Woolf joins us to talk early settlements in the Mediterranean.
University of Toronto, Associate Professor, Dr. Seth Bernard, joins the show to discuss how the City of Rome was constructed during the republican period.
Fresh Youtubery
- Live in Latin! How to use the Athenaze books to learn Ancient Greek | Ancient Greek lesson | Scorpio Martianus
- Zeus/Jupiter: Greek Myth Comix explains the Olympian Gods (OCR GCSE learning and revision) | Greek Myth Comix
- Greek Goddess Artemis: Goddess of the Hunt and the Moon in Greek Mythology | World History Encyclopedia
- 14/04/2021- Jean-Baptiste Vietty et la Morée | Ecole française d’Athènes
- Antigone isn’t wasting her life on men! Jodie Whittaker is Antigone at the National Theatre
- Iron Man: TAS intro/theme song in Latin | Ancient Literature Dude
- Pompei 79 d.C. Una storia romana | Parco archeologico del Colosseo
- Civs 101: Greece | History Respawned
- New Music for Lyre – Inspired by Ancient Greek Philosophy! | Michael Levy
- Bodies, Bronze, and Başur: What the dead have to say about it | British Institute at Ankara
- Rediscovering the Antonine Wall in Central Scotland | Antonine Wall
- Total War: Guide To Invading Britain with Phil Wang – Episode 1, Conquest | Total War
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Philippe Rousseau, Destin des heros et dessein de Zeus dans l’intrigue de l’Iliade, (2 vols.). Villeneuve-d’Ascq: ANRT Thèse à la carte. Lille: Université Charles de Gaulle, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- AAR Rome Prize Winners in Ancient Studies | Society for Classical Studies
- Migrant Craftspeople in the Black Sea and its approaches during the Archaic period | Spartokos a lu
- Call for Papers: 40th International Mediterranean Survey Workshop 2021 Spring – DAİstanbul
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Second Public Conference
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Why You Should Read Marcus Aurelius’s ‘Meditations’ | Esquire
- Pompeii reopens to visitors after covid-19 shutdown – Wanted in Rome
- Ancient cities on Mediterranean coast fascinate visitors amid pandemic
- Italy showcases mosaics dating back to ancient Rome – La Prensa Latina Media
‘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 omens from the sky.
… 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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