Hodie est pr. Id. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 1 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• a quiet Saturday

In Case You Missed It

• Discovery of shackled skeleton in a ditch: Slavery in Roman Britain
• Princeton removes Greek and Latin for classics students to combat institutional racism – The Boar

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Facing financial strain, university cuts programs, 2 tenured profs and facilities department – Calvin University Chimes
• Catching up with Classicists | Classics | The University of Winnipeg

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Διπλῆ θαυμαστὴ χειρουργία 
• [Ephemeris] EXPLORATORIS ENVNTIATIO 

Fresh Bloggery

• Fantastic Friday: Diets of Salt and A Tortoise without a Heart – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Fate
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le grand livre de pierre
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Changes in contents of burials over the 3rd millennium BC in Egypt
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Follow the Pots Project
• Restoration type separated by centuries! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Not This, But That – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: Congratulations and Competitions – Classical Studies Support
• More Roman Technology via Fabatus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Lorem ipsum: Filler Fail, Killer Tale – Antigone
• Drink To Rest and Refresh the Weary Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: The Painters of Pompeii: Roman Frescoes from the National Archaeological Museum, Naples
• Yes, Young Women in the Nineteenth Century Knew What Sex Was – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Boeken over Karthago – Mainzer Beobachter
• “A Great Ox Stands on my Tongue”: the Pitfalls of Latin Translation – Antigone
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Noceto Vasca Votiva dated to 15th c. B.C.
• Classics at the Intersections: Open Letter to the SCS on Supporting Departments and Programs
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Stolen heritage: The illegal and rising trade in Yemen’s rare manuscripts
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: What Happened to your FLO? What Happened to the Artefacts?
• Studying disability in ancient Greece « Archaeology « Cambridge Core Blog

Blog-like Publications

• The Ancient City of Perrhe – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The first Iberian lead plate found in a regulated excavation in the Pico de los Ajos in Yátova is in archaic writing – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• “Quid, Si Comantur?”: Pic(k/t)ing out Entangled Epistemologies of Ex(cess) in (Em)bodied Techne | by Vanessa Stovall | Jun, 2021 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @MikeTueller on the Hylas tool for searching metrical patterns
• @DocCromm’s #LatinForTheDay is Ovid, Amores 3.11b.37-41

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Movies We Dig: Episode 25 – Blood of Zeus (2020) Part I, with Christie Vogler & Zoé Thomas on Apple Podcasts

“Screw your winged horse, I want a Manticore!” We break down the first four episodes of Netflix’s original anime series with repeat guest Christie Vogler and newcomer Zoé Thomas. We dig into the show’s pop cultural influences, its novel takes on mythology and the design choice to make everyone super hot. We also talk at length about Hera’s anger, Zeus’ faults and convenient vases depicting exactly the myth you need to tell. The mention of unmixed wine also really shakes our kraters. Additional questions: Would a similar show set in Rome with as much attention to artistic style feature too many ugly sculpture? How many brains does a three headed dog need? Should we all just play kottabos when we party? We also introduce new literary lens where all stories are actually about Alexander the Great.

Fresh Youtubery

• Proximity and Classics | Conversation Series on Philosophy & Ideas | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Avenging Varus – Battle of the Long Bridges (15 AD) DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
• Interview with Elodie Harper, Author of The Wolf Den | World History Encyclopedia
• Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe | Godward Podcast
• Theodora’s Greek: Civilization V. How is her pronunciation? | polyMATHY
• Museum Week – Arte Ovunque |  Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Jan Bremmer, The world of Greek religion and mythology: collected essays II. Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 433. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2019.
• [BMCR] Silvio Leone, Polis, Platz und Porträt die Bildnisstatuen auf der Agora von Athen im Späthellenismus und in der Kaiserzeit (86 v. Chr.-267 n. Chr.). Urban spaces, Band 9. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• What are the critics saying about the British Museum’s Nero exhibition? | The Week UK

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Thucydides on Partisanship, Insurrection, and the Risks of Civil War – The Bulwark
• The Concepts of Heaven and Hell in Ancient Greece
• Why Ancient Greeks Mixed Wine With Seawater

‘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 the same thing as yesterday.

… 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)