Hodie est a.d V Kal. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 17 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- University of Sheffield justifies closure of Department of Archaeology | The Star
- Tracce etrusche in val di Fiemme: insegnante trova vasi e frammenti archeologici – Fiemme – Fassa | l’Adige.it
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Remembering Eilat Mazar, the archaeologist of Jerusalem – The Jerusalem Post
- American Archaeologist Devotes Life to Reviving Ancient Nemean Games
- Movement Afoot To Keep Classics Department At Howard University – Free Press of Jacksonville
Public Facing Classics
- The Uneasy History of Swimming and Race, as Relayed Through Art
- Do we need a new (ancient) Greek dictionary? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Verbal Aspect Theory and the Prohibitions in the Greek New Testament
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Like Man, Like Woman: Roman Women, Gender Qualities and Conjugal Relationships at the Turn of the First Century
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mortuary Practices and Social Relationships at the Naqada III Cemetery of Tarkhan in Egypt
- Open, Free, and Student Friendly Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Lucius Thorius Balbus
- The History Girls: Greek courtesans – beautiful and savvy by Elisabeth Storrs
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reaching Athens: Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
- Ancient Greeks beyond Greece – Institute of Classical Studies Blog
- The “Vita Sanctae Keynae”, an extract from the “Vita S. Cadoci”, and a modern myth about the year 490 at St Michael’s Mount – Roger Pearse
- “The Ascension of Fools” Some Ancient Comments on Stupidity – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Wave of All Waves – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Carbo – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
- The Ichthyophagi Legend Of The Red Sea Flood | The Historian’s Hut
- Achilles Among The Daughters Of Lycomedes, Painted By Jan de Braij (c 1626/1627-1697) | The Historian’s Hut
- The first naval battle at Marseille – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Writing in the Dirt?
- PaleoJudaica.com: “Nero got a bad rap” – NYT
- PaleoJudaica.com: Remembering Eilat Mazar
- Women’s Fashion: What Did Women Wear In Ancient Greece?
- GREEKS THEY ARE CALLED THOSE WHO SHARE IN OUR EDUCATION | From the Archivist’s Notebook
- Greek Mythology and Ancient Daily Life in Film and TV | Getty Iris
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Bologna – 1646-1648
- Sparta Storymaps – Using ArcGIS for Classical Studies. | Classics at Reading
- Blogging ancient epigram: Bristling Nemesis
Blog-like Publications
- Archaeologists identify giant 4,000-year-old war memorial – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Hipparchia of Maroneia – World History Encyclopedia
- Germanicus: A Roman General’s Journey To Egypt – HistoryExtra
- Will the real Lesbia please stand up? – Engelsberg Ideas
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
King Philip II of Macedon is famous for a number of things including being the father of Alexander the Great. Dr Ian Worthington, Professor of Ancient History, Macquarie University, joins the show to discuss what scholars know of Philip’s life.
The legions of Rome were the nucleus of Rome’s military might for centuries. From campaigning in northern Scotland to the Persian Gulf, these devastating battalions extended and cemented Roman power. Yet of these legions there was one whose end is shrouded in mystery: the Ninth Legion. So what might have happened to this legion? Joining Tristan, from our sibling podcast The Ancients, is Dr Simon Elliott to talk through the theories surrounding the Ninth’s disappearance. Simon has recently written a book all about the Ninth’s disappearance, and in this podcast, he takes us through the various theories and evidence surrounding this mystery.
During the early days of his reign, Emperor Decius issued an edict commanding that all Romans should make a sacrifice for the good of the empire. While some happily went along with it, for others it went against what they believed in, and not everyone living within the borders of Rome were happy with the Emperor’s wishes. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Fresh Youtubery
- TWLCRM ICAANE 2021 (“…A Community-Based Approach to Archaeological Heritage Preservation”) #Petra | ACOR Jordan
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- “ACOR is…” | ACOR Jordan
- Can you solve the Trojan War riddle? – Dennis E. Shasha | TED-Ed
- Bernard Frischer, “Virtual Field Trips to Ancient Rome”, Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2021 | Paideia Media
- Thersites: Iliad Book 2 | Foxwede History
- τί φιλεῖς; What do you love? (Learn to speak Ancient Greek, Part 9) | Triodos trivium
Book Reviews
- Military Book Review From Trophy Towns to City-States: Urban Civilization and Cultural Identities in Roman Pontus
- Alexandria by Edmund Richardson review – the quest for the lost city | History books | The Guardian
- Environment and Habitation around the Ancient Black Sea | Spartokos a lu
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- AMPRAW 2021, Center & Periphery in the Classics
- Mathematical epigraphy and the Interactive Corpus of Indus Texts
- Annual Meeting Survey Available | Society for Classical Studies
- Classics in Conversation: Virgil’s Map Tickets, Thu 3 Jun 2021 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
- Lecturer in Classics & Ancient History (Education and Scholarship) at University of Exeter
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The ancient fortress that sheds new light on Wales’ past | Wales | ITV News
- The mystery of Scotland’s ‘legless’ Roman – where did it come from? | The Scotsman
- Opinion | The Jewish History of Israel Is Over 3,000 Years Old. That’s Why It’s Complicated. – 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, it portends the same thing.
… 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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