Hodie est a.d. V id. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- More than 56,400 cultural goods seized and 67 arrested
- Roman human remains found under Lucy Cavendish College | Varsity
- Bronze Age migrations changed societal organization, genomic landscape in Italy
- Prehistoric tombs found during excavations in Istanbul’s busiest square
- A Looted Statue of a Greek Goddess is Being Returned to Libya | Observer
- Researchers discover genetic similarities between today’s Greeks and those from 2,000 BC – Greek City Times
- 1,120 assets seized in Sardinia in 2020 | Cagliari – Vistanet
- In Sicilia una “primavera dell’archeologia”: gli scavi in corso a Catania – LiveUnict
- The Aqueduct of Constantinople: Managing the longest water channel of the ancient world | EurekAlert! Science News
In Case You Missed It
- It May Have Been Kanye West—Not Kim Kardashian—Who Bought an Ancient Roman Sculpture Allegedly Looted From Italy
- ‘The Colosseum is the last thing I would spend money on’: experts angry over plans for €15m floor at Italy’s most famous site | The Art Newspaper
- Napoli: una nuova campagna di scavi a Ercolano – Metropolitano.it
- Sky Launches ‘Domina’ Depicting Ancient Rome From a Female Prism – Variety
- Scientists unravel the mystery behind deadly cave once believed to be the gateway to hell | Herald Sun
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Howard University Is Going to Lose Its Classics Department. Congress Could Save It for Peanuts.
- Howard University’s Decision To Cut Classics Department Prompts An Outcry : NPR
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] ISRAELIS PROELIA.
Public Facing Classics
- Putting a name on a Roman skeleton | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
- The Tender, Loving Side of the Romans
Fresh Bloggery
- Monuments of Marathon – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hatice Gonnet-Bağana Collection
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Anzu.Digital: Ancient Near East Online Event Calendar
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: On Becoming a Biblical Scholar
- Latin Learning: The Enemy of English Prose – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Murofamy: More Rat Facts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Romulus’ Choice: Astronomy or Conquest – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: How to Become a General
- Roman Times: Archaic Period Horse Sculptures
- Socrates | The Historian’s Hut
- The Battle Of The Soldiers Born Of The Serpent’s Teeth, Painted By Jean-François de Troy (c. 1679 -1752) | The Historian’s Hut
- An Ancient Law So Bad That It Served As Aristotle’s Prime Example Of Laws That Need Amending | The Historian’s Hut
- Perzen, Grieken en pseudohistorici (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Reckoning | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: What was “Torah” in antiquity?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of J. Rendel Harris biography
- PaleoJudaica.com: One of Pliny’s officers found at Herculaneum?
- PaleoJudaica.com: On the coinage of the Bar Kokhba era
- Leaving, Forgetting Troy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Marble head of Emperor Augustus discovered in Italian town – The Archaeology News Network
Blog-like Publications
- Panta Rhei: What Did Heraclitus Mean?
- How Pindar’s Homer might save from harm the heroic glory of Ajax – Classical Inquiries
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DrMichaelJTayl1 with a lengthy defense of Classics
- @TrimontiumTrust on Poppaea Sabina
- @tigerlilyrocks on recent additions of women classicist to Wikipedia
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the day looks at denarii of Quintus Pomponius Musa
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay looks at Tacitus, Annals 4.1.3
- @SarahEBond on lighting in rock-cut tombs of Cyrene
Fresh Podcasts
Dr. Bruce W. Frier, University of Michigan Law School, University of Michigan, joins the show to discuss the composition of contract law in Rome.
Forget the Games, ancient Olympia’s importance stretched much further than simply being the birthplace of its namesake sporting festival. Boasting hundreds of years of history, at its height this critical sanctuary was home to some of the most stunning art and architecture in the ancient world. Its cultural history is astonishing, known about by scholars thanks to both an extraordinary amount of archaeology surviving and several vital ancient literary accounts. In this second episode of our mini-series on ancient Olympia, Professor Judy Barringer from the University of Edinburgh shines a light on Olympia’s early history and how the site rose to become one of the most important religious centres in the ancient Greek World. Judy is the author of Olympia: A Cultural History.
Fresh Youtubery
- Kevin Willmott in conversation with Edith Hall | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
- CSMFHT Reads the Odyssey: Book 2 | Classics Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens
- Anna Conser, Ἐν θεάτρῳ θεωρεῖν : περὶ τοῦ Ἡρακλέους καὶ τοῦ Ἁμιλτόνος – LLaGO 2021 | Paideia Media
- Tempus tantum nostrum est || Vos ad novum cursum de Senecae prima epistula ad Lucilium invito! | Satura Lanx
- New Music for Ancient Lyre – Inspired by Homer | Michael Levy
- Pokémon Red/Blue Pokédex entries 10-20, translated into Classical Latin! | Ancient Literature Dude
- The Battle of Pelusium: a Persian Victory Decided by Cats | World History Encyclopedia
- The Archaeology of Pilgrimage in Ancient Italy – Marco Romeo-Pitone | SchAdvStudy
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Nicola Chiarenza, Annette Haug, Ulrich Müller, The power of urban water: studies in premodern urbanism. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Ceramic Assemblages from the 1960 Excavation at Koroni in Attica
- Women Wealth and Power in Republican Rome
- Event: Wood and Ceramic: Introducing Digital Methods with Classics Library Special Collections | Society for Classical Studies
- Labor in Classical Antiquity 2021
- CFP: Statius – author of a coherent œuvre? | Society for Classical Studies
- Definite Term Lecturer in Classical Studies at Waterloo (application deadline June 9) – The Classical Association of Canada
- Senior Lecturer in Classical & Mediterranean Studies Vanderbilt University: College of Arts and Science: Humanities: Classical and Mediterranean Studies
- Home | People in Motion in the Ancient Greek World
- 2021 MLA Leadership Institute | Society for Classical Studies
- New Research on Nero Webinar Registration – Zoom
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- What do ancient coins tell us about Bar Kochba and the Omer period? – The Jerusalem Post
- Was the AD 365 Mediterranean Earthquake Normal? – Eos
- The Antikythira Mechanism: The World’s First ‘computer’ Invention by Ancient Greeks – Hellenic News of America
- Pompeii Was Destroyed 1,924 Years Ago, But Many People Still Don’t Know These Things About The City
- Ancient Roman theme park opens its doors | Reuters Video
- The Life of Heinrich Schliemann, the Discoverer of Troy
‘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 abundance from both land and sea.
… 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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