Hodie est a.d. III Non. Mai. 2774 AUC ~ 23 Mounichion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- The Tale Of How A Raven Determined The Winner Of An Ancient Duel Between A Gaul and A Roman | The Historian’s Hut
- A new “first” alphabet? – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Solomon’s shipping empire disputed
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- GEPHYRA 21, 2021 Published – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
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Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Tacitus, Annals, 2.69.3
- @sentantiq on Joseph Campbell’s approach to myth
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Fresh Podcasts
Mark Antony was an imminent figure in Rome’s transition to an empire; he was also famously a partner of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Professor Richard Alston, Royal Holloway, University of London, is back on the show to discuss what’s known about his life.
Owen Rees and Giles Penman join us to discuss shades of the ancient world in Great War commemoration.
The current shifting season is the perfect backdrop for our first episode of the season:Greco-Roman Winemakers of the ancient world. Because – who doesn’t need a drink after the last decade *cough cough* We mean “year.” That said, people have had lots of reasons to wine (and whine) since – well – ever. And today, we have Dr. Emlyn Dodd, a Greco-Roman Archaeologist who’s gonna take us through the ancient, fascinating, and ever-timely traditions and technologies around wine cultivation, as practiced in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds.
Fresh Youtubery
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- Pompeii LiveCulture | Pompeii Sites
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Caroline Mackenzie, A Latin lexicon an illustrated compendium of Latin words and English derivatives. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020.
- [BMCR] Charles Ortloff, The hydraulic state: science and society in the ancient world. Routledge studies in archaeology. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Current Research in Egyptology 2020/2021
- Introduction to TEI for scholarly texts | School of Advanced Study
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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- May 2021 issue available | Nestor
- L’Acropoli di Napoli, tra storia, archeologia e abbandono
- Fall Of Roman Britain: How Life Changed For Britons After The Empire – HistoryExtra
‘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 a difficult time in politics and wheat being more plentiful than barley. Vegetables, however, will be ruined.
… 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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