Hodie est ad. X Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 12 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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Greek/Latin News
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Public Facing Classics
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- The rules of social media | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
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- Penn Museum Blog | Digging Digital Data
- The Aedes of Vesta on Cistophori of C. Fannius | Pocket Change
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Who Vets the Dealers?
Blog-like Publications
- The Enduring Appeal of the Stoics – Antigone
- Which Were The 5 Greatest Ancient Roman Cities (After Rome)?
- Tattooed Thracians killing Orpheus – A red-figure krater from the Allard Pierson – Ancient World Magazine
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Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCromm’s Ancient Coin of the Day looks at some coins of Larissa
- @SarahEBond on how Romans reckoned the time
- @DocCromm’s #LatinForTheDay is Martial, Epigrams, 5.5
- @fadeaccompli took notes on Perry’s Gender, Manumission, and the Roman Freedwoman
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Fresh Podcasts
Why are white nationalists and the far right so fond of Ancient Greece and Rome? Katherine Harloe, Professor of Classics and Intellectual History at the University of Reading, looks at the ways in which the classical world is both used to lend respectability to the politics of hate, and distorted to give the false impression that it was an all-white space. But this is not just a modern problem – from British colonial India to fascist Italy, Katherine delves into the last 300 years of history to explain how the ancient world and white supremacy became entwined, and asks what classicists today can do about it.
This episode covers book 9 of Plato’s Republic. In this episode, Socrates is going to finally answer the question that started it all. Back in book 2, Glaucon and Adeimantus challenged Socrates to prove to them that it’s worthwhile to be just. To them, the life of injustice looks pretty good, if you can get away with it. Money, sex, power, what’s not to like? Socrates has been building up his answer since episode 4 of this series. He’s built an imaginary city, and education system and a group of superhuman philosopher kings to rule it all. In this episode, he’s going to finally explain what’s wrong with injustice. While the tyrant’s life may look fun from the outside, Socrates says it’s not so great when you get behind the music. According to him, the tyrant’s life is desperate, paranoid, and miserable. Not only is the philosopher king happier than the tyrant, he’s 729 times happier!
The novel, and in particular the romance genre, is at the heart of a billion dollar industry, but when did they originate? In this episode, Professor Tim Whitmarsh from the University of Cambridge takes us back to some of the world’s earliest fictional narratives, the novels of Ancient Greece. Tim and Tristan explore the themes of this literature, the elements of it which are echoed in modern novels, its possible links with Persian, Jewish and Indian literature, and the stories of cultural hybridization found in the texts. Tim is the author of Dirty Love: The Genealogy of the Ancient Greek Novel.
With Father’s Day just past, Brandeis University classical scholar Joel Christensen joins us once again to offer some reflections on what ancient Greek epics offer us on the topic of Fathers and Sons.
Water, water, everywhere…but how much of it can we drink? In this episode, Chelsea and Melissa chat with Dr. Mark Locicero about Roman drainage systems in the ancient North African town of Volubilis (modern Morocco) and Ostia in Italy. Find out how ancient Mediterranean people controlled and accessed clean drinking water and how that differed based on status, class, and location. We explore issues that are still very relevant to our lives today, including global water shortages, waste, and inequality.
Fresh Youtubery
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Book Reviews
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
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Alia
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- Take a walk through the ancient city of Bishapur – Tehran Times
- Queer History Lesson: The history behind the word lesbian
- Alex Michaelides recommends 6 books influenced by mythology | The Week
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and its Connection with the Present
- Everyday Life in Ancient Athens
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‘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 especially damaging hot weather
… 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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