Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 8 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Πολέμου τύμπανα ἀκούεται 
• [Ephemeris] NOVVS PRINCEPS 

Public Facing Classics

• Exams in the age of Covid | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
• Annaliese Holden: Repeatedly disappointed by the UVM administration – VTDigger

Fresh Bloggery

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• Comfort Classics: Carly Silver – Classical Studies Support
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliographie zum Hieratischen und den Kursivhieroglyphen
• Cleansing the City – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Gallo-Roman villa of Orbe-Boscéaz
• An Oenophile’s Nightmare or Dream? The Liquid Cure for a Disease – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• When did Roman emperors cease to use the title of “Pontifex Maximus”? – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Traces of Ink: Experiences of Philology and Replication
• Aeneas And Achates On The Libyan Coast, Painted By Dosso Dossi (c. 1512 – 1542) | The Historian’s Hut
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• Aeschylus | The Historian’s Hut
• Nothing To Write about: Cicero Gives Up – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Koning van de vier windstreken – Mainzer Beobachter
• English Civil War (Remastered) | Sphinx
• PaleoJudaica.com: Garber, Teaching the Historical Jesus (Routledge)
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek colonists and native populations : proceedings of the First Australian Congress of Classical Archaeology held in honour of emeritus professor A.D. Trendall, Sydney, 9-14 July 1985

Blog-like Publications

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• 7 Roman History Myths You Need to Stop Believing | by Prateek Dasgupta, MS | Apr, 2021 | History of Yesterday

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Histories, 2.56
• a discussion thread on the lack of a commentary for Linear B tablets from Knossos
• @Vicky_Austen shares her students’ updates to various Wikipedia articles

Fresh Podcasts

• QDP Ep 175: De Cibo Fruendo – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast

Augustus et Iustus cibos considerant, quos ientaculo vel prandio vel cena sumunt—necnon horas diversas, quibus id facere solent.

• ‎Accessible Art History: Olympia by Édouard Manet on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to Season 8 of Accessible Art History: The Podcast! In this week’s episode, I’m talking about Olympia by Manet. This work is quite scandalous and served as the bridge between past periods and Impressionism. *marked explicit for a brief discussion of sex workers

• ‎Madison’s Notes: The Apology of Socrates: A Conversation with Marcus Gibson on Apple Podcasts

Was Socrates guilty? What is the relationship between the philosopher and the city? What does it mean to live an “examined life”? Marcus Gibson, John and Daria Barry Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University’s James Madison Program, returns to the show to discuss The Apology of Socrates in this second episode of our series on the Platonic dialogues.

• ‎History Hack: History Hack: The Island of Delos on Apple Podcasts

Christy Constantakopoulou joins us for a discussion about the mythical birthplace of Apollo.

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Steve Tinney, Karen Sonik, Journey to the city: a companion to the Middle East galleries at the Penn Museum. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2019.
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Online Talks and Professional Matters

• The archaeological work in Macedonia and Thrace
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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Lay That Ghost: Necromancy in Ancient Greece and Rome – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Philhellenes: Modern Era Guardians of Greece Abroad
• Are there any Roman buildings in Suffolk? | East Anglian Daily Times
• Il mistero dei dolmen: la Sicilia preistorica che celebrava il sole – la Repubblica
• First book detailing influence of the Romans on County Durham to be released – Durham County Council

‘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 divine anger.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 7 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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• 4th Century Bishop’s Basilica with Marvelous Early Christian Bird Mosaics Opened for Visitors Bulgaria’s Plovdiv in Big Restoration Project with US Funding – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
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In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] ALEXIS LIBERETVR

Fresh Bloggery

• Dreaming of the Catalog of Ships? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Achilles’ Ambush of Troilus
• Tapestry Of Artemis Accepting The Sacrifice Of Iphigeneia, by Salomon de Bray and Pieter de Cracht (c. 17th century) | The Historian’s Hut
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• Maximalisme en minimalisme – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was the Rebellious Son a glutton or an idolator?
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Life of Mary Magdalene
• PaleoJudaica.com: Coins, ancient and modern
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Antikythera Mechanism and astronomy
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Rulers and the Ruled
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Baalbek Reborn
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman gallery found under Topkapı courtyard
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• Ausonius: Sidonius Companion ctd, and two afterthoughts

Blog-like Publications

• 9 Times The History of Art Inspired Fashion Designers
• Persephone: Goddess of Spring and Queen of the Underworld

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @TrimontiumTrust on Octavia the Younger
•  @sentantiq responds to a strange item about Odysseus as the first ‘Western’ man
• @postclassics in a similar mood
• @EleanorGhey on a Roman coin hoard from Shropshire
• @SaveRome on some favourite sites in Rome

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Hellenistic Age Podcast: Interview: On Antigonus II Gonatas w/ Robin Waterfield on Apple Podcasts

After facing decades of civil wars and invasions following the death of Alexander, peace was restored in Macedonia by the capable Antigonid king Antigonus II ‘Gonatas’, who strengthened the kingdom’s hegemony over the Greek Peninsula in a reign that lasted an impressive 40 years. Despite this, we know very little about the man and his exploits. Author and independent scholar Robin Waterfield (“Dividing the Spoils”, “Taken at the Flood”) joins the show to discuss his new book “The Making of a King: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks”, which seeks to chronicle the life of Antigonus and provide a guide through the often-hazy period of the 3rd century BC.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Building Construction in Ancient Rome w. Dr Christopher Siwicki on Apple Podcasts

Dr Christopher Siwicki, The Norwegian Institute in Rome, joins the show to discuss how buildings were constructed in ancient Rome.

• Sermo Raedarius 112 – Vale Italia pars 3 | Spreaker

Hoc sermone loquor de novis officiis meis apud patrem Franciscum, nec non de duobus carminibus quae proximo disco continentur, c.i. “Vale Italia” est.

• ‎The Dirt Podcast: Sorry to Barge In on Apple Podcasts

This week, Anna and Amber are playing catch-up after attending the SAA conference, recovering from vaccine shots, and life in general. We’ll be taking the rest of April off for a short break. In the meantime, please enjoy a cleaned-up version of a Dirt After Dark episode where Anna treats Amber to the story of the Roman emperor Caligula’s absurd pleasure boats on a tiny, tiny lake.

Fresh Youtubery

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• Catullus 51 in Latin & English: Ille mi par esse deo videtur, Pronunciation & Meter Notes | David Amster

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Len Krisak, Christopher McDonough, Virgil. The Aeneid: a new verse translation. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2020.
• [BMCR] Alan Bowen, Francesca Rochberg, Hellenistic astronomy: the science in its contexts. Brill’s companions in classical studies. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

Dramatic Receptions

• Back from the underworld, ‘Eurydice’ gets amphitheater production at UNO | Arts | nola.com

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• PhD-Positions: IDK Philology, LMU Munich
• “Future for the past” is the working title for a prospective edited volume
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Taste the Cretan Wine and Beer | food & travel , wine & spirits | The National Herald
• Philosophical Myth Writing: Talking to Tae-Yeoun Keum – BLARB
• The Hidden Treasures of Olympus, the Mountain of the Greek Gods
• Paphos sprucing up its sites | Cyprus Mail
• Discovering Switzerland’s buried treasure – SWI swissinfo.ch
• Paris museum removes Roman numerals in the names of kings
• Fleeing a Modern War, Syrians Seek Refuge in Ancient Ruins – The New York Times

‘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 powerful statesman losing both his reputation and property.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 6 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Domus mosaici marini: nuova luce ai gioielli di Turris – L’Unione Sarda.it

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 18.04.2021 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• Love’s contradictions: Catullus on the agony of infatuation | Psyche Ideas

Fresh Bloggery

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• The Ruin Exceeding our Stockpiles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Jensen, The Greco-Persian Wars (Hackett)
• PaleoJudaica.com: 9 Facts about Hannibal
• PaleoJudaica.com: Heyden et al (eds.), Jerusalem II: Jerusalem in Roman-Byzantine Times (Mohr Siebeck)
• Roman Times: Centaur battling a Giant?
• “Nothing Wakes the Dead”: Your Weekly Reminder that Life is Short – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » A new model of Roman saddle construction
• Popović over de Dode-Zee-rollen – Mainzer Beobachter
• 9 Facts About The Centaurs Of Greek Mythology
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Graces
• PaleoJudaica.com: Virtual Baalbek
• Homeric Orchards and Trees: Metaphors for Origins and Reception – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: King (ed.), The Syriac World (Routledge)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: An Occasion for Prayer

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Ancients: Edges of Empire: Chesters Roman Fort on Apple Podcasts

Described as one of the most complete cavalry forts that survives in Britain, Chesters Roman Fort is also home to the best preserved military baths on the island. In this episode, English Heritage Curator Dr Frances McIntosh takes Tristan around the site, and explains how it can tell us more about everyday life on this far flung frontier.

• ‎The Ancients: The Legacy of Thermopylae on Apple Podcasts

Ever since its occurence in 480 BC, the Battle of Thermopylae has been the stuff of legend. Echoes of this battle, reportedly fought between a seven thousand strong Greek army and a Persian force of anywhere between 100 thousand and one million, can be found dotted across the literature and history of Ancient Greece and Rome. Professor Chris Carey from University College London has written a book on Thermopylae and, in this episode, he tells us how its shadow continues to the present day, where the battle and its heroes are referenced by those fighting for freedom, as well as in films and video games.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Life of Tacitus w. Dr Gavin Kelly on Apple Podcasts

Many scholars regard Tacitus as the greatest Roman historian from the period. Dr Gavin Kelly, Professor, The University of Edinburgh, joins the show to discuss his life and writings.

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Alia

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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 discord and thoughtlessness among the people.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 5 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Painting in Context – Webinar Series
• Roman Times: Daedalic Style of the 7th century BCE
• Weekend Reading: An Idle Classicist – Classical Studies Support
• A Fact at the Center of a Case – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urkunden zur Chronologie der späten 12. Dynastie: Briefe aus Illahun
• “Rape in the sky” – Mainzer Beobachter
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough ‘potential world first’
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman site uncovered in Scarborough hailed as first of its kind in UK
• Blog #23: Graduate Student Feature with Phoebe Thompson – Peopling the Past
• 1700-year-old necropolis discovered in Corsica – The Archaeology News Network
• Unearthing the little-known ancient theatres of Greece’s Epirus region – The Archaeology News Network
• Roman stately home unearthed in Scarborough ‘potential world first’ – The Archaeology News Network
• Tell Umm el-Marra (Syria) and Early Alphabetic in the Third Millennium: Four Inscribed Clay Cylinders as a Potential Game Changer – Archaeology Bible Epigraphy – – Rollston Epigraphy
• The Transatlantic Voyage of a Greek Maiden | From the Archivist’s Notebook
• Bad Ancient: Was Livia the Ultimate Evil Stepmother? – The Partial Historians
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Neil Brodie on Metal Detected Finds in England and Wales

Blog-like Publications

• Odysseus: the First Western Man | Merion West
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• New perspectives on Early Rome – An essay contest – Ancient World Magazine
• The Road Not Taken: Cicero and Lesser Creatures – Antigone

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @TheClassicalCo on the bronze statue of Trebonius Gallus
• @RichardBott7 on the Kafkania Pebble
• @ASCSAthens on the statue known as the Antikythera Youth
• @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Histories 2.49-50
• @drcorabeth’s #OldBookThreadOfTheDay is an edition of Echard’s Terence
• @GettyMuseum on assorted images of the lyre
• @BuffyAntiqua on various translators’ prefaces/notes to Catullus

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Moncrieff Highlights: How To Tell A Joke In Ancient Rome on Apple Podcasts

Sean was joined by Michael Fontaine – Professor of Classics at Cornell University and author of a new translation of Marcus Tullius Cicero’s How To Tell A Joke

• ‎Life Of Caesar: Salacious Stories on Apple Podcasts

Fresh Youtubery

• Virtual Field Trips from The Novium Museum | Novium Museum
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• CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | A Middle Ground in the Middle Sea, with Jan-Mathieu Carbon | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Luby Kiriakidi, Ὁ Ἡρακλῆς ὁ ἐρῆμος – LLaGO 2021 | Paideia Media

Book Reviews

• Demetrius the Besieger: A neglected successor to the great conqueror
• Ancient Greek drama in the wider Mediterranean | The TLS
• The Invention of Medicine by Robin Lane Fox review: Classical doctors and their dangerous remedies
• Echoes of Ancient Greece: “The Underworld of Hades” | Michael Levy
• Acta Archaeologica Lodziensia | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Classics at Howard University | Society for Classical Studies
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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• Why Philo Matters |
• An Ancient Greek Approach to Risk and the Lessons the Modern World
• Siren Song of the Idle Life – WSJ
• Greece’s Top Mythological Sites That You Can Still Visit
• The Regulation of Stolen Cultural Artifacts | The Regulatory Review
• Roman Marcus Aurelius arch in Tripoli among restoration work – in pictures | The National

‘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 an abundance of daily necessities.

… 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)#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for April 16, 2021

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Mitreo di Marino, partiti i lavori di riqualificazione dell’area archeologica
• Archeologia: scoperta a Messina una Necropoli del II sec a. C. – MessinaOra.it
• Sicilia, scoperta antica villa romana nel cantiere della rete ferroviaria [FOTO] – LiveUnict
• Damage caused at Roman archaeological site near Scarborough | Gazette & Herald

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Greece’s Army of Lovers | The New Yorker 
• Atripalda, che scoperta! Rinvenuti setti murari di epoca romana durante lavori a impianto di carburanti – Irpiniaoggi.it
• Why Were These Ancient Adults Buried in Jars on the Island of Corsica? | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• ‘Missing link’ in alphabet’s history said unearthed in Israel on Canaanite sherd | The Times of Israel
• Ruins, gods and cats: Rome′s ′Area Sacra′ to be renovated | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 16.04.2021
• Unusual Roman Villa Uncovered in Northern England – Archaeology Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Miller joins “Women in Classical Mythology” course on Zoom | Department of Classics and Religious Studies
• Professor Richard Talbert explores conceptions of time in Edward F. Arnold Visiting Professor Lecture – Whitman Wire
• Athena Kirk explores ancient Greek lists in new book | Cornell Chronicle
• ‘Benefactors and the Polis’ by Marc Domingo Gyax | Princeton Classics

Public Facing Classics

• Libraries and Memory Lane | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
• How to eulogise the Duke of Edinburgh | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Canons 9-14 of the breviarium of the Council of Hippo (393) – Roger Pearse
• Three Things Thursday: New Book, Teaching, and | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavating the Extra-Ordinary: Challenges & Merits of Working with Small Finds: Proceedings of the International Egyptological Workshop at Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, 8–9 April 2019
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Debate
• The Tyranny of Titles: The Complex Case of Oedipus – Antigone
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Making open access photos of ancient cultural heritage available via Flickr: a few thoughts by Dan Diffendale
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliothèque numérique de l’Ifao
• Let’s Talk About Sweat, Baby – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Genetics
• “I Guess the Ancients Sucked Too…” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Dictator Gaius Marcius Rutulus’ Surprise Destruction Of A Hostile Tarquinii And Falisci Military Camp Near Rome | The Historian’s Hut
• Vertumnus and Pomona, painted by Abraham van Dijck (c. 1635/1636-1680) | The Historian’s Hut
• Missing link?! Verrek, het klopt – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Wax bust of Flora definitely not by Leonardo
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Dabrowa, Camps, campaigns, colonies
• PaleoJudaica.com: Amun Amen?
• PaleoJudaica.com: New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew (ed. Hornkohl & Khan; Open Book)
• Blog: Diversifying Classics in Germany: An Interview with Katharina Wesselmann | Society for Classical Studies
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Newly-Discovered UK Roman Site Raided by Thieves
• New evidence regarding emerald production in Roman Egypt coming from Wadi Sikait – The Archaeology News Network
• Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento – 1625-1627
• Fireside Friday: April 16, 2021 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Blogging ancient epigram: Smutty and sweet, round two
• Ladies Who Lunch – Pompeian Connections

Blog-like Publications

• Results of the underwater excavations off Salamina in 2020
• Exhibition of Loverdos collection in its final stages
• MeKeTRe is back. The team running the online repository
• PaleoJudaica.com: Excavating in the plague year: ‘Auja el-Foqa
• Christianity and Christian Symbols Appear on Ancient Coins

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @CastingGreece on the Battle of Plataea
• @AntiquityJ on the recent find of an alphabetic pottery fragment from Tel Lachish
• @MichaelDPress on some early exhibitions by the PEF
• @drcorabeth with another ‘old text rabbit hole dive’ … a volume of Virgil
• @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a silver denarius of Gius Papius Mutilus

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Breakaway empires of the third century AD on Apple Podcasts

‘The second half of the third century AD saw Rome’s military leadership embroiled in a deadly power struggle. Meanwhile, on the empire’s frontiers, trouble was brewing…’

Fresh Youtubery

• Domus Palatina. Nuove ricerche nella Casa di Augusto | British School at Rome
• Disability in the Ancient and Modern Worlds | Society for Ancient Medicine
• Dantedì 2021 | Giandomenico Cupaiuolo • Cesare | Paradiso, Canto VI, 34-72 | Parco Colosseo
• The Persian Wars: Ancient Greece vs. the Achaemenid Persian Empire | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• Monnaies de l’antique Chersonèse: catalogue des déterminants | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] James Clackson, Patrick James, Katherine McDonald, Livia Tagliapietra, Nicholas Zair, Migration, mobility and language contact in and around the ancient Mediterranean. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Randolph Ford, Rome, China, and the barbarians: ethnographic traditions and the transformation of empires. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Matthew Landauer, Dangerous counsel: accountability and advice in ancient Greece. Chicago; London: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
• The Bloody Fate of Julius Caesar’s Killers | National Review
• [BMCR] Ross Shepard Kraemer , The Mediterranean diaspora in late antiquity: what Christianity cost the Jews. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Dramatic Receptions

• Duke Theater Studies to present Greek tragedy ‘Medea’ – The Chronicle

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends abundance but also an outbreak of field voles.

… 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)