Hodie est pr. id. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 3 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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In Case You Missed It
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- Mary Beard to fund two Cambridge Classics undergraduates from underrepresented backgrounds – University of Cambridge
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Greek/Latin News
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Public Facing Classics
- A glimpse of the future | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- The erotic secrets at the heart of Pompeii
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ADOPIA: Atlas Digital Onomastique de la Peninsule Ibérique Antique
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Temple of Esna II: an Evolving Translation
- Three Things Thursday: Riding, Reading, and Teaching | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Earning a Living
- Send Us Someone Smart – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Teaching Caesar’s Gallic War
- Cleansing the City – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Tarquin The Elder Consulting Attus Navius, Painted by Sebastiano Ricci (c. 1659 – 1734) | The Historian’s Hut
- For Those In the Know – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Girls: The Good Bits of Nero – by L.J. Trafford
- “Rewriting History” Is Not Inherently a Bad Thing – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Perzen, Grieken en pseudohistorici (6) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Classical Imagery in the Album Artwork of White Supremacist Metal Bands – Pharos
- PaleoJudaica.com: Excavating in the plague year: Tel Burna
- PaleoJudaica.com: Orpah – defamed mother of giants?
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- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento – 1639-1640
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two more young hunks
- Oh! You Pretty Things | Sphinx
Blog-like Publications
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- ANE TODAY – 202105 – Mesopotamian Sculpture in Color – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Genetic similarities between the first Bronze Age Aegean cultures
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Ancient Egyptians had a sustenance, linguistic, cultural, and religious relationship with animals. Egyptologist Dr Salima Ikram, American University in Cairo, joins the show to explain.
I recently had the opportunity to read an advance copy of a historical novel set in the ancient world. It’s called The Wolf Den. Rich and immersive, it really does make you feel like you’ve traveled back into the past, letting us see it through the eyes of some of Pompeii’s most interesting – and overlooked – women. I sat down with author Elodie Harper to talk about her inspirations, her characters, and what it meant to be a woman in the ancient world.
In this episode Murray, Jasper and Mark talk to Bret Devereaux. In 2020 Bret presented his paper Mail Armour in the Middle Republic: Adoption, Prevalence and Impact to the Society for Classical Studies/Archaeological Institute of America Joint Annual meeting.
Alexandria, or Alexandria-by-Egypt as it was called, was the easily the greatest city of the Hellenistic Age. Founded by Alexander the Great in 332/331, it became the pet project of the Ptolemaic dynasty, who turned it into the capital of their mighty empire. Through the dynasty’s direction and enormous amounts of money, the city was endowed with magnificent works of art and architecture, all the while playing host to an great body of scholars and artists. From the cosmopolitan makeup of its population to its legendary monuments like the Lighthouse of Pharos and the Library, I will be giving a sightseeing tour of Alexandria during its heyday under the reign of the Ptolemies.
When Phillip became Emperor in 244CE, Rome was cracking at the edges. Enemies were at the border, the economy was straining, and the Emperor was an easy target for a disgruntled military. Who wants to rule Rome at this time? Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Fresh Youtubery
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- 2021-04-28 Kevin Burrell – Kushites in the Hebrew Bible | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
- How Virgil Framed Dido | Edith Hall
- SCRIBO – In Search of Labyrinths and Scripts – Nicoletta Momigliano | Inscribe
- Indirect Statement and the Sequence of Tenses | Keith Massey
- Stage 37 Intro: Sequence of Tenses |Keith Massey
- Working-Class Access to Classics in Britain 1689-1939 | Edith Hall
- Great Thinkers: Aristotle | Edith Hall
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom celebration of Schiffman Festschrift
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Nero at the British Museum: tyrant, sadist, celebrity — the man behind the myth | The Times
- Mythology in the most spectacular mosaic ever discovered in the Roman Empire – Darwin and God – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
- 6 Major Archaeological Discoveries That Suggest Ancient Women Around the World Were Way More Powerful Than You May Believe
‘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 war in the East and great shortages.
… 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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