Hodie est pr. Non. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 24 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- After a global tour: Egypt’s sunken antiquities return to Bibliotheca Alexandrina’s Antiquities Museum – EgyptToday
- Israeli forces seal off archaeological site north of Nablus
- Turkey to carry 600 archaeological excavations in 2021 amid COVID-19 normalization – Xinhua | English.news.cn
- SANA: Ankara-backed militants transfer Syria’s cultural heritage, antiques to Turkey
- Plan to protect and promote Colchester’s Roman Circus to be approved | Gazette
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In Case You Missed It
- The Acropolis becomes more accessible to visitors – Greek City Times
- Hobby Lobby Is Suing a Classics Professor for Allegedly Selling the Company Antiquities He Stole From Oxford University
- Roman Basilica Complex Unearthed in Israel – Archaeology Magazine
- Punic Tomb, Over Two Millenia Old, Uncovered In Malta – Art Insider
Classicists and Classics in the News
- 5 Questions: Meet BAR’s New Editor – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Likely Stories : A Thousand Ships, by Natalie Haynes | KWBU
- Princeton isn’t fundamentally changing classics. It’s keeping it alive. – The Princetonian
- An Epic Virtual Odyssey | Brandeisian Stories | Why Brandeis | Undergraduate Admissions | Brandeis University
Greek/Latin News
- [AkropolisWorldNews] Πεφυλαγμένοι περιηγηταί
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Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: RECENT AND ONGOING U.S. and CANADA BASED ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECTS IN TURKEY
- Rutilius Namatianus, the Jews, and some notes on the fate of the unique manuscript – Roger Pearse
- WARP 2021 Study Season | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: TAY: The Archaeological Settlements of Turkey
- Potential allusions to kingship on Augustan coinage – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Suffimenta – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Heroic Grief: Celebrating a New Book on the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Canons 29-36 of the breviarium of the Council of Hippo (393) – Roger Pearse
- “Everything is Laughter in The End”: An Epitaph – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Sisyphus, Painted By Antonio Zanchi (c. 1631-1722) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Battle of the Dogheads (4) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Greco-Roman Antiquity, the Basis of White Identity – Pharos
- PaleoJudaica.com: BAR Caption Contest
- PaleoJudaica.com: Interview with BAR’s new editor
- How The Light Gets In | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: Fake and real news about the Shapira scroll affair
- Fireside Friday: June 4, 2021 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Blog-like Publications
- Learning from the Master: Socrates’ Examined Life – Antigone
- Nikos Stampolidis elected Director-General of the Acropolis Museum.
- Why The Roman Military Conquered the Balearic Islands
- Flattening the palaestra ground – A red-figure cup from Rhodes – Ancient World Magazine
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCromm’s Ancient Coin of the Day looks at some messaging on Vitellius’ coinage
- @profyarrow on a suffimenta scene on an Augustan aureus
- @MichaelDPress on Hobby Lobby suing Dirk Obbink
Fresh Podcasts
Synopsis: The Sea Peoples cut a swath of devastation across the Levant before their final confrontation with the pharaoh Ramesses III of Egypt. The Hittite Great King Suppiluliuma II abandons the capital of Hattusas before its final destruction…
Patron of the podcast, David wonders how long it took armies to set up for a battle? Did the opposition interfere or were there rules for that?
The Hellenic league had now been victorious in two major engagements of 479 BC, at Plataea on the Greek mainland and Mycale in Persian territory. This would effectively see the end of the Persian invasion, and the Greeks victorious. Though, this was not immediately apparent and measures would be taken in the years to come to make sure they would not return…
Fresh Youtubery
- Hylas: A metrical search engine for Greek and Latin poetry | Mike Tueller
- In the footsteps of the first war: the Roman army between Galicia and northern Portugal | romanarmy.eu
- Irad Malkin on Demonax of Mantineia at Cyrene | Herodotus Helpline
- Piranesi@300 Conference – Day 2 | British School at Rome
- Latin Vlog: Norma, Italy, cum Stefano Vittori et Luke Ranieri @ScorpioMartianus | Musa Pedestris
- Alasdair Grant, “George Finlay among the Scottish Philhellenes” | British School at Athens
- Meet a Roman Gladiator – Chichester Roman Week 2021 | Novium Museum
- Professor Charles Brittain, “Protagorean Hermeneutics” | British School at Athens
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Hedwig Schmalzgruber, Speaking animals in ancient literature. Kalliope – Studien zur griechischen und lateinischen Poesie, 20. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2020.
- [BMCR] Deborah Kamen, Insults in classical Athens. Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Traditions of Materia Medica (1300 BCE – 1300 CE)
- Conference: EARLY MODERN AND MODERN COMMENTARIES ON VIRGIL | Society for Classical Studies
- The Mint of Istiaia. The history of the city seen through the numismatic production
- 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 Origins of Beer Geeks and Wine Snobs | Wine Enthusiast Magazine
- Army of the Dead: All Of Snyder’s References To Greek Mythology Explained
- Absolving Nero | Arts | Felix Online
- The Olympians | | richmond.com
- The Magnificent Ancient Greek Theaters of Messene and Sicyon
- Greek Tragedy And Horror Part I: Horror’s Great-Great-Great Grand Pappy – Fangoria
- Una “mansio” romana nel cuore della Sicilia: Philosophiana, la storia sotto i nostri piedi
‘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 cloudy and damp weather to such an extent that mould will develop and crops will rot.
… 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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