Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 17 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
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Public Facing Classics
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Fresh Bloggery
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- How Many Pieces for the Soul? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Secret Gospel of Mark – Mainzer Beobachter
- Remember the Name Medea: Reading Apollonius Rhodes’ “Argonautica” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Philosophy Commons
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Itiner-e
- Rat Trap | Sphinx
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- Er staat geen ú maar lu – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ivory legs from the Temple Mount
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jongkind starts reviewing the Cambridge Greek Lexicon
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- The History Blog » Blog Archive » First intact bed burial found in Greece
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Value of a Discovery
- Picturing salvation — Chora’s brilliant Byzantine mosaics and frescos – Smarthistory
- New archaeological sites attract scientific interest in the Peraia of Samothrace – The Archaeology News Network
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Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @LevineRx on the Temple of Olympian Zeus
- @chapps does a polychrome restoration of the young Hercules in the Met
- @CastingGreece on the Battle of Plataea
Fresh Podcasts
How are the Classics relevant to modern leaders? What lessons can they learn from Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides or Aristotle? And what can these ancient texts teach us in light of our modern technology and the state of democracy?
Adelheid, Nicolò, and Ingolf explain about the ICAANE. Why was it started, and how did it become what it is today? What does it take to organise an ICAANE? What lessons were learned from the recent, virtual ICAANE? And what can we expect from future…
“Schlosser could be described as the least-known famous art historian.” In the 16th and 17th centuries, Central European nobles gathered and displayed art and natural wonders side by side in spaces known as art and curiosity cabinets, or kunst- und Wunderkammer. Viewers were awed by the spectacle of traditional fine artworks alongside objects like ostrich … Continue reading “The Legacy of European Art and Curiosity Cabinets”
The story of Boudicca’s revolt is as epic as you can get. It’s got murder and pillage, Romans behaving badly, cities on fire, and a layer of destruction that was scorched into the earth. But it’s also the story of a people on a precipice of great change. Who was Boudicca? Who was this iron-age warrior queen who stood up to the Romans—and whose name was so revered and feared that stories of her are still being spun almost 2,000 years later? In this episode, we’re going to find out.
Jeremy Salkeld (EnclavedMicrostate) talks with Trevor Culley (Trevor_Culley) about an answer the latter wrote on the subreddit about depictions of Alexander the Great in Persia. Building from that answer’s discussion, this episode takes us from the fragmentary bits and pieces of the Alexander legend in Babylonian inscriptions and Middle Persian papyrus fragments, up to the developed form found in Sasanian letters and medieval epic poetry.
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Book Reviews
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- What We Can and Can’t Learn from a New Translation of the Gospels | The New Yorker
- [BMCR] Bruno Currie, Ian Rutherford, The reception of Greek lyric poetry in the ancient world: transmission, canonization and paratext. Mnemosyne supplements, Monographs on Greek and Latin language and literature, volume 430. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Ralph Rosen, Helene Foley, Aristophanes and politics: new studies. Columbia studies in the classical tradition, volume 45. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom lectures: Rabbinics & DSS; Huqoq Synagogue
- Call for papers – Visiting the Past: A Re-enactment Handbook – Archaeology Orkney
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a strong Zephyr.
… 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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