Hodie est a.d XV Kal. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 7 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- ‘A vast underwater museum’: Greece plans to open shipwrecks and other submerged heritage sites for visitors to explore | The Art Newspaper
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- Esposto – denuncia di SiciliAntica alla Procura per i furti nelle tombe delle aree archeologiche dell’ennese. – il Fatto Nisseno – Caltanissetta notizie, cronaca, attualità
- Roman baths emerge from sand dunes of southern Spain – La Prensa Latina Media
- Roman era cremation tombs found during road tests – Marche – ANSA.it
- Archaeologists teach computers to sort ancient pottery | EurekAlert! Science News
- Enna: aree archeologiche sotto attacco dai tombaroli – Eco di Sicilia
- Carabinieri Monza restituiscono tre affreschi a Pompei – Monza in Diretta
In Case You Missed It
- Grotesque ‘good luck’ lamp from Roman Jerusalem is missing half its face | Live Science
- Constantinople’s Ancient Aqueduct Examined – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- Acropolis Museum ready to welcome its visitors – Archaeology Wiki
- Comfort Classics: Campbell Price – Classical Studies Support
- Summer Reading List 2021 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Battle Cry
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Life or Death
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Network of Museums & Cultural Organisations of the Historical Centre of Athens
- Little By Little: Memory and Education – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Autism and Classical Myth: Acclaiming autism and mythology in children’s education on 24 May – along with Hercules from Roehampton and London newly imagined…
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Athenians versus Persians
- Summer reading, 2021 | Aegean prehistory
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Amarna Reports
- Large Leo and his Larger Wife – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Odd Attempted Linkage Of Atlantis To The Ancient Greek Gods | The Historian’s Hut
- The Satyr And The Peasant, By Johann Liss (1597 – 1631) | The Historian’s Hut
- Pytheas – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman baths emerge from sand dunes of Cádiz
- I’m an expert and I think there are fakes in the Sotheby’s Precolumbian antiquities sale
- PaleoJudaica.com: Vatican issues archaeology awards
- PaleoJudaica.com: Stepped pools, chalk vessels, and ritual purity
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zornberg, Moses: A Human Life (Yale)
- Amazon Warrior Women: Myth or History?
- In Dialogue: Trans Studies and Classics. A conversation with Vanessa Stovall and Mary Beard on Twitter dialogue and the trans community | Society for Classical Studies
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento – 1642
- Latin and Fanfiction
- Photo of the Month – May 2021 – DAİstanbul
- WYSIWYG Classics, Or: Making Roman diversity visible, audible, and accessible for 21st century audiences – CUCD EDI
Blog-like Publications
- Palimpsests: How Recycled Books Preserve Lost Treasures – Antigone
- The Reginaldus Biography Project: An Update | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | May, 2021 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Pietas coinage of Antoninus Pius
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Annals 12.66.2
Fresh Podcasts
Nefertiti was an Egyptian queen in the fourteenth century BCE. British archaeologist and Egyptologist, Dr Joyce Tyldesley, The University of Manchester, joins the show to share what’s known about who she was and the life she lived.
Fresh Youtubery
- Un museo da ragazzo – Il vino per gli Etruschi | Etruschannel
- A Conversation between Vanessa Stovall, Ky Merkley, and Mary Beard | Society for Classical Studies
- The Forgotten Ancient Kingdom of Magadha | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Dialoghi in Curia | “Le donne che fecero l’Impero” di Marisa Ranieri Panetta | Parco Colosseo
- Where to start with Ancient Greek literature according to an Ancient Historian [cc] | Jean Bookishthoughts
- Foucault’s Confessions 2: Peter Brown, May 6, 2021, Rice University
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Cynthia Damon, Joseph Farrell, Ennius’ Annals: poetry and history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Maria Elisa Garcia Barraco , Larvae conviviales. The banquet skeletons in ancient Rome . Roman Antiquities, 35. Rome: Arbor Sapientiae, 2020.
- Electrum coins of Cyzicus in the collection of the Odessa Archaeological Museum, Catalogue | Spartokos a lu
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Emulation, Competition, and Conflict in Aegean ‘Art’ of the 15th c. BCE
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics – HigherEdJobs
- When Gods and Heroes Retreat: The Death of Myth on Roman Sarcophagi
- Tokens in Classical and Hellenistic Athens: Politics, Communities, Contexts
- Consuming Goddesses: an Analytical Project on LM IIIC Ceramics
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Is This an Authentic Photo of Submerged Roman Mosaics in Turkey? | Snopes.com
- Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes is coming to the National Museum of Australia | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
- Did Ancient Greeks Enjoy Swimming and Going to the Beach?
- The Archaeological Museum of Delphi – Greek City 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 discord and war as a result and a shortage 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)