Hodie est a.d IV Id. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 30 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Sound and Wholesome Rule?
- Autism and Classical Myth: Preparing Historians at Work for future professions via remote placements between Roehampton, Warsaw and Bar-Ilan
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: British Institute at Ankara Electronic Monographs: Roman Roads and Milestones of Asia Minor
- Thinking about Ontologies – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Robert Wood and the Eighteenth-Century ‘Search’ for Troy – Antigone
- The Romance of Ruins – Antigone
- “Enough About Plato”: Dionysius on Prose Style – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Two New Tombs in Osirisnet
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- The Oracle, painted by Camillo Miola (c. 1840 – 1919) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Legend Of Enigmatic King Arkamani / Ergamenes | The Historian’s Hut
- The Heretic of Carthage (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Pubic Untellectual | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: Digital Corpus of Literary Papyrology
- PaleoJudaica.com: From BAR’s new editor
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- Archaeology, architecture, and “Romanizing” Athens | OUPblog
- More about Epicurus – The Classical Astronomer
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- Photo of the Month – June 2021 – DAİstanbul
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Blog-like Publications
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- Coinage in the Roman Provinces: ANS Conference Highlights, Part 2
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCromm’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a series of coins of Nero
- @GettyMuseum looked at some creation myths from Mesopotamia
- @Chapps did a digital reconstruction of a Dionysian relief
Fresh Podcasts
This is the era of Roman history where the Goths from the north begin to pose a serious threat to the stability of the faltering Roman empire. When they begin to lay siege to Roman cities Decius rides to confront them, not realising the challenging battles that await him. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)
Super heroes and super twisted plots… is Sophocles a better psychological playwright than Euripides? How can we understand ancient art? And would Plato have liked cubism? This Classical Wisdom Speaks Episode is with Nickolas Pappas, Professor of Philosophy and Executive Officer of the Philosophy Program, at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is an expert in Plato and author of several books, including “Plato’s Exceptional City, Love, and Philosopher, Politics” and “Philosophy in Plato’s Menexenus” as well as “The Routledge Guidebook to Plato’s Republic.” We discuss how we can understand ancient art and theater and the role psychology plays in its understanding…
In popular culture, Nero is thought of as the Emperor who played the fiddle as Rome burned to the ground. Whilst this might not be strictly factual, it does hint towards another side of this infamous character. For this episode, Dr Shushma Malik returns to The Ancients to discuss Nero’s interest and talents in the arts: in poetry, on stage and playing the kithara. Shushma shares the evidence provided by Tacitus, Suetonius and Cassius Dio to explore how commonplace these hobbies were, how Nero’s performances were received and whether they can give us a deeper understanding of Nero’s matricidal behaviour. Shushma is a lecturer at the University of Roehampton and the author of, ‘The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm’.
Theatre artist and cultural historian, Dr. Andrew Walker White, joins the show to discuss what scholars know about early theatre in Greece.
London began its life as Old Londinium—an informal trading community that sprang up around the narrowest point in the Thames, and was burned to the ground by Boudicca’s army just decades after its founding. This week, we asked bestselling urban fantasy author Ben Aaronovitch to take us on a tour of Old Londinium—say, the day before Boudicca’s arrival. Join us as we explore the streets and rivers of this diverse and enterprising trading town, and then wander all the way up Watling Street to Hadrian’s Wall.
A history of a language that was once spoken from Egypt to Afghanistan and played an important role in the creation of great religious writings.
Fresh Youtubery
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Book Reviews
- [AJA] The Fight for Greek Sicily: Society, Politics, and Landscape Edited by Melanie Jonasch. Oxford: Oxbow 2020.
- [AJA] The Archaeology of the Mediterranean Iron Age: A Globalising World c. 1100–600 BCE By Tamar Hodos. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
- La série Histria | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Nadezhda Kavrus-Hoffmann, Pablo Alvarez, A catalogue of Greek manuscripts at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Jean-Marc Narbonne, Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink, Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen, Foucault: repenser les rapports entre les Grecs et les Modernes. Collection Zêtêsis. Serie “Textes et essais”. Quebec: Presses de l’Université Laval, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
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- Alexander Mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii – Smarthistory
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends many deaths, but also prosperity.
… 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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