Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Dead Sea Scrolls: Mysterious scribe wrote eight diverse scrolls – The Jerusalem Post
- Archaeologists Find Ancient Houses, Tombs in Abandoned Greek Town | food & travel , travel | The National Herald
- Vaults Of A Roman Amphitheatre Discovered Under Home In Toledo
In Case You Missed It
- Italy unveils new hi-tech floor design for Colosseum area | Reuters
- Archaeologists Just Unearthed an Ancient Bust of the Roman Emperor Augustus in a Small Italian Town
- Greek Museums Reinvent Themselves During Lockdown
- How Ancient Greeks, Romans Controlled the Spread of Disease
Classicists and Classics in the News
- David Raeburn, Classics teacher and translator who directed Greek plays into his 90s – obituary
- La mort de l’archéologue Pierre Amiet
- News – President of Greece honors two AIA members with ‘Order of Phoenix’ – Archaeological Institute of America
- Colosseum: New plans | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- “Give the Child a Book and Order Them to Read” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online resources related to Nimrud
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Marathon
- Roman Times: The aspis and rise of the Argives
- Souls of (in)Equal Worth? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Livy | The Historian’s Hut
- De ondergang van het Romeinse Rijk – Mainzer Beobachter
- Pliny the Younger’s Dreamy Breakthrough Case As A Lawyer | The Historian’s Hut
- Sextus (The Son Of Pompey) Applying To Erictho, To Know The Fate Of The Battle Of Pharsalia, Engraved By Robert John Dunkarton (c. 18th century) After John Hamilton Mortimer (c. 1740-1779) | The Historian’s Hut
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Cobb, Slavery, Gender, Truth, and Power in Luke-Acts …
- PaleoJudaica.com: A Holy Fire crowd this year
- PaleoJudaica.com: Methuselah and Resurrection Genomics
- Passio Mariae Barbae – The Philological Crocodile
- PaleoJudaica.com: A prolific scribe at Qumran?
- What a dog called Margarita can teach us about Ancient Rome – MAPPOLA
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento – 1632-1634 (II)
- Approaching the environmental and social carrying capacity of the Pergamon Micro-Region – Pergamon Micro-Region
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Annals, 2.5.1
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a denarius of Julius Caesar
- @DrMichaelJTayl1 on @Roelkonign’s recent article in TAPA
Fresh Podcasts
Hoc in colloquio Augustus et Iustus, Catharina absente, de bestiis domesticis sive familiaribus colloquuntur.
The third and fourth centuries in the Roman Empire were marked with perpetual internal conflict. Dr Adrastos Omissi, University of Glasgow, joins the show to explain.
Fresh Youtubery
- Homeric Hymn 11, to Athena, read in Ancient Greek | Ancient Literature Dude
- Ancient Abyssinia and the History of the Ethiopian Empire | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Iowa Classics Colloquium: Miriam Byrd [4.27.2021] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
- Stupid Ancient History GCSE: 30 the Abduction of Virginia | D Midgley
- Mythologica APHRODITE | Ancient Greek lesson LIVE in LATIN • with Chris “Pernox” Davis | ScorpioMartinus
- Welcome to World History Encyclopedia!
Book Reviews
- The Darwin of the Classics
- [BMCR] Matthew McCarty, Mariana Egri, The archaeology of Mithraism. Babesch supplements, 39. Leuven: Peeters, 2020.
- [BMCR] Wolfgang Polleichtner , Digitalisierung in Unterricht und Lehre der Alten Sprachen . Didaskalika, 3. Speyer: Kartoffeldruck-Verlag, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Art Crime Research Opportunities: 3 May 2021
- Webinar: Learning from the Past: Classics and the Contemporary World | Society for Classical Studies
- CLASS AND CLASSICS. HISTORIOGRAPHY, RECEPTION, CHALLENGES Tickets, Mon 31 May 2021 at 09:00 | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
‘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 mild weather and plentiful 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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