Hodie est ad. XI Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 11 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Un guerriero di bronzo dell’età nuragica: la scoperta nel sito di Cuccuru Mudeju – Sardiniapost.it
- Gaza antiquities among casualties of Israel-Hamas war – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- Temple of Zeus to be restored to its former glory in SW Turkey | Daily Sabah
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Troy Is Burning: Anne Carson and Rosanna Bruno Reimagine Euripides’s “The Trojan Women”
- In Memory of Prof. Dr. Altan Çilingiroğlu (1944-2021) – DAİstanbul
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- “Their Only God is Money” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: What William Ross is doing this summer
- PaleoJudaica.com: Fine (ed.), The Arch of Titus (Brill)
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Gesta 28: Vetula et canicula eius
- The Rise of Foreign Education in Rome – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Pompeii’s Regio V: Vibrant gladiator frescos and proof of October eruption date
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Lorenzini Head cleaned by artifact-optimized laser
- Could Jesus read and write? (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kon Jezus lezen en schrijven? (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Death of Archimedes
- Laughing at Babies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Samaritan Passover 2021
- PaleoJudaica.com: Getatchew Haile 1931-2021
- PaleoJudaica.com: Kutash, Goddesses in Myth and Cultural Memory (Bloomsbury)
- PaleoJudaica.com: A gold coin hoard and the Persian conquest of Jerusalem
- Plutarch’s Advice on Being a Good Father – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Don’t Be a Blowhard
- Calliope, Muse of Epic Poetry, Painted By Charles Meynier (c. 1768-1832) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Unflattering Aging Of The Graiai Over Centuries | The Historian’s Hut
- Mondelinge literatuur – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Volunteer to be a Scribe of the Cairo Geniza
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Orion Center Newsletter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Attachment to Home
- PaleoJudaica.com: A (former) demoniac but not a prostitute and not Jesus’ wife
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Fraud and Secrecy in the Art Market
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Barford Buys Syrian Antiquity
- ‘The Groans of the Britons’ « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
Blog-like Publications
- Love and the Soul: the timeless tale of Cupid and Psyche – Antigone
- Roman Legion XX: Military Life In Roman Britain
- Hypatia of Alexandria: The Life and Death of a Female Philosopher
- The legendary mysterious Library of Alexandria | by sam asif | Medium
- Thirteen Dad Jokes from Ancient Rome for Father’s Day | by Mike Fontaine | In Medias Res | Jun, 2021 | Medium
- Patriotic Obscenity: Aaron Poochigian and the Comedy of Aristophanes – Los Angeles Review of Books
Fresh Podcasts
In a conversation recorded as part of our virtual lecture series, Olivette Otele discusses her book African Europeans: An Untold History, which charts the long history of Africans in Europe and explores the role that African individuals – from enslaved people to Roman emperors and medieval saints – have played in European history.
Stretching out from the north west of France, Brittany has long been as identifiable with the Atlantic Ocean as with its continental neighbours in Europe. Whilst Sir Barry Cunliffe’s research and archaeological interests have taken him far and wide over the last six decades, this close neighbour of Britain continues to fascinate him. In this first of two episodes, Sir Barry takes us through the pre-Roman history of Brittany, stretching from the Mesolithic Period to the Iron Age and connections with Ancient Greece. From standing stones to voyages, bronze and lead axes to beakers, Barry explains how Brittany maintained its own identity, and the importance of its relationship with the ocean. His most recent book, Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity, is out now with Oxford University Press.
Heliodorus of Emesa (3rd/4th century CE) wrote the longest novel to have survived from antiquity, an adventurous romance that reemerged into Europe in the 1500s.
There was an approximate 23-year interregnum between the first and second Punic Wars. Dr Kathryn Lomas, Department of Classics and Ancient History, Durham University, joins the show to explain what occurred with Carthage during this period.
People in the past looked up at the stars and planets, too. How did ancient cultures perceive the night sky? How did they explain the movement of celestial bodies? How did astronomy figure into ancient religion, calendars, city planning, and more? Was it aliens? Nope, but it was pretty much all math. Sorry.
Fresh Youtubery
- Race and Classics | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter | The Glenn Show
- Latin lesson for beginners || Genitive case || Casus genetivus | Satura Lanx
- Mythologica HADES | Ancient Greek lesson LIVE in LATIN • with Chris “Pernox” Davis | Scorpio Martianus
- Catullus 35 in Latin & English: Poetae tenero, meo sodali, velim Caecilio, Papyre | David Amster
- 6 Nonbinary Folks in Classical Mythology | Classics in Color
- How Rome Conquered the Ancient Celts | Kings and Generals
- MYTH SALON: Tales of Home: Learning Who We Are From Homer’s Odyssey with Dr. Joel Christensen | The Mythology Channel
- The Ancient Egyptian Lyre – “The Holy Nile” | Michael Levy
- «Ιππείς» του Αριστοφάνη σε σκηνοθεσία Κ. Ρήγου – Αρχαίο Θέατρο Επιδαύρου: 25, 26, 27 Ιουν., 21:00 | National Theatre of Greece
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Pavel Gregorić, George Karamanolis, Pseudo-Aristotle: “De Mundo” (“On the Cosmos”): a commentary. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Egert Pöhlmann, Ancient music in antiquity and beyond: collected essays (2009-2019). Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 381. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Online Workshop: Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed… and Drawn: Multigraphic Graffiti Across Times and Cultures (2 July) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The ‘heirs’ to the ancients | eKathimerini.com
- The Acropolis Museum Celebrates 12 Years Today – Greek City Times
- Archaeological findings to be displayed in future Piraeus metro station – Greek City Times
- Stunning archaeological find: Is there an ‘underworld’ under the earth? – The Jerusalem Post
- Bactria: The Ancient Greek State in Afghanistan
- Amazons and Warrior princesses on celluloid: The legacy of Xena 20 years on | Neos Kosmos
- 20 years on, revisiting Xena: Warrior Princess’ widespread appeal, path-breaking run-Art-and-culture News , Firstpost
‘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 shortage of wine but an increase in other crops and plenty of fish.
… 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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