Hodie est pr. Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Giant statue of Roman emperor reunited with long-lost finger | Italy | The Guardian
- Egypt recovers two smuggled Greco-Roman antiquities from Italy – Egypt Independent
- Italy: Marble head of Emperor Augustus unearthed in Molise
- All’Imago Museum arrivano anche le statue della collezione “Matres Matutae”
- Rome Forum theft tops 500,000 works recovered by Italy
- Kalymnos man arrested for illegal possession of ancient artifacts – Greek City Times
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- The classics: Is their message elitist or universal?
- University of Iowa’s reading of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ unveiled https://www.press-citizen.com/news/
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] MILITVM REGRESSVS.
Fresh Bloggery
- Part of 2nd century BC necropolis unearthed at building site in Sicily’s Messina – The Archaeology News Network
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Fragment of Epicurus
- Autism and Classical Myth: Mything out in Reading and London… “Making classics better” while starting summer-term teaching at Roehampton
- Fronto on How to Wear a Mask – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Good Friday, the Epitaphios, and COVID-19 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Polysymphony: Interpreting and Translating Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Creating capitals: The rationale, construction, and function of the imperial capitals of Assyria
- When did the Pope start to use the ancient pagan title of “Pontifex Maximus”? – Roger Pearse
- The Short-Lived Volscian City Of New Satricum | The Historian’s Hut
- Croesus Showing His Treasures To Solon, painted by Caspar van den Hoecke (c. 1585-1641/1648) | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tell Leilan Project
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jongkind concludes Cambridge Greek Lexicon review
- New archaeological finds near the Roman villa in Contrada, San Pietro di Tollo – The Archaeology News Network
- 1500-year-old infant cemetery unearthed at the walls of Thessaloniki – The Archaeology News Network
- Bringing the Roman world back to life, one lap-dog at a time! | The Petrified Muse
- Working-Class Classics: Myths, Stories and Experiences – CUCD EDI
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two lovely bums
Blog-like Publications
- What Can a Dog Called Margarita Teach us About Ancient Rome? – Education in the Making. | Classics at Reading
- Aristophanes’ Lysistrata: A Fair and Honest Peace – Antigone
- The Battle Of Ctesiphon: Julian’s Persian War, an In-Depth Guide
- ANE TODAY – 202104 – My Meeting with Mellaart or, Dutch Cigars and the Case of the Missing Wall Paintings – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Ancient Roman Coinage From Republic to Empire
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @campbell798 on the tomb of Gaius Vestorius Priscus in Pompeii
- @adamarchaeology on some specific phallus images from the ancient world
- @Sicilyepigraphy on the languages of ancient Sicily
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Annals, 1.7.1
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the day is an aureus of Antoninus Pius
- @Dustin_McK initiated a useful discussion thread of online resources, catalogues, and databases
- @fadeaccompli was tweetreading Mask of the Parasite
- @TheClassicalCo on a really amazing statue of an aristocratic lad
Fresh Podcasts
The Rosetta Stone is one of the most significant artifacts known to have been found in the Mediterranean Basin. Dr. Jed W. Buchwald, Professor, Caltech, joins the show to discuss it.
Joshua, one of our patrons asks, what was day-to-day life like for the legions when they were not on campaign or actively involved in a war? Jasper tells us all about it.
Following Socrates’ claim that the ideal republic should be ruled by a class of “guardians,” the question naturally arises: Who or what will keep these guardians in check? How do you prevent the government from becoming an unaccountable and oppressive regime? Our exploration of Plato’s Republic continues, this time with Angie Hobbs, professor of the public understanding of philosophy at the University of Sheffield in England. She has written several books including Plato and the Hero, which touches on a lot of the topics we will be discussing today. Her latest book is a short guide to Plato’s Republic in the Ladybird Expert Series. Stay tuned at the end of this episode for a chance to win a copy of the book.
Today we head back two thousand years to the rich, rowdy, ruthless Roman world of the Emperor Domitian. Our guide is the much-loved novelist Lindsey Davis. *** For years Lindsey Davis has been captivating readers with her series of detective novels set in the first century AD. Her great protagonists, Falco and Flavia Albia, are names that are probably already familiar to you and enough in themselves to conjure memories of thrilling, twisting tales in Ancient Britain or in the Eternal City itself. This spring Davis has published the latest book in her Flavia Albia series, A Comedy of Terrors, which is set in Rome during the reign of the Emperor Domitian, and more specifically during the week running up to the Festival of Saturnalia.
Fresh Youtubery
- What Can a Dog Called Margarita Teach us About Ancient Rome? | ClassicsUnivReading
- Phaedra and Hippolytus | Dionysos Alexiou | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Battle of the Milvian Bridge – Constantine vs Maxentius – Extra History | Extra Credits
- Dantedì 2021 | Rosa Diletta Rossi • Orazio, Ovidio | Inferno, Canto IV, 73-102 | Parco Colosseo
- Cicero 一 Denker des Abendlandes | Andrea Cirla
- Avenging Varus – Campaigns of Tiberius (10-14 AD) DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Sappho fragment 44 set to music | Steve Simons
- 2021 Fenwick Scholar Presentation – White Supremacy and Classics | Education technology
- Using Coins as Sources | Cambridge University Press
- The Suppression of the School Of Athens Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Chapter 40 Pa | historyscientist
Book Reviews
- Kicking Homer to the Curb: The American Scholar Who Upended the Classics – The New York Times
- Review: “Hearing Homer’s Song” | The New Republic
Dramatic Receptions
- Domina: the real woman behind the Sky series’ Livia Drusilla | Evening Standard
- UCCS students return to Colorado Springs stage with brutal Greek tragedy | Arts & Entertainment | gazette.com
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom Workshop on the DSS (3 May 2021)
- 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, it portends a shower of blessings.
… 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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