Hodie est a.d. V Non. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 23 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

a quiet Saturday

In Case You Missed It

• Mysterious carving of naked man discovered near Hadrian’s Wall | Live Science
• I tesori di Pompei nel mare della Sardegna: recuperati intatti dopo duemila anni dal fondo marino – Il Mattino.it
• Hoard of Roman coins turns out to be offering for safe crossing – Leiden University

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Elizabeth French, archaeologist driven by a lifelong love of the ancient Greek civilisation of Mycenae – obituary

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Jeffrey R. Zorn’s Academic Research Site: Research Related to Tell en-Nasbeh, Tel Dor and Ancient Israel
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Open Access Journal: AABNER: Advances in Ancient Biblical and Near Eastern Research
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fishing and Greek Colonisation in the Black Sea during Antiquity
• Laudator Temporis Acti: To Bacchus
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beneath the Church of the Holy Sepulchre Jerusalem. The Archaeology and Early History of Traditional Golgotha.
• ‘Ladies’ Greek’ | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
• Summer Invitations – Classical Studies Support
• Meeting You in Song Space – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Make Your “Away Message” Simple…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Second Naval Battle of Marseille – Mainzer Beobachter
• The World of The Blood Road – Part IX – Imperial Hubris: The Rise and Fall of Caracalla and Macrinus |
• Religion vs. Sedition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• “Metropolitan Transportation”: Sardis, Colophon, and the Asia Minor Disaster of 1922 | From the Archivist’s Notebook
• Philolaus the Pythagorean – The Classical Astronomer
• From Trust to Belief | classicsforall.org.uk
• Fortunate Is the One Who Is Happy Today – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Edithorial: Memories of Talking Medea with Helen McCrory

Blog-like Publications

• London’s Roman Fort – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• What Did Ancient Languages Sound Like? – Antigone
• DUCS Talk Summary: Dr Thorsten Fögen, “Doctors and patients in Martial’s epigrams and related texts” | by Eleanor Cliffe | Ostraka | Jul, 2021 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @kittyiswitty on the Porticus Octaviae
• @fadeaccompli continues reading Gunderson, Laughing Awry

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Myth Dynamite: Nero: The Man Behind the Myth on Apple Podcasts

On the 27 May 2021, the British Museum opened their newest exhibition on the absolute OG of scandalous, dastardly Roman Emperors: Nero. He also happens to be Sarah’s personal passion project, so Abi just joined her to get all the juicy tidbits and nod along. We thought we’d try something a bit different and podcast ‘live’ in the exhibition … but it was not the smooth ‘tour-like’ experience we imagined. So in this special episode, we reflect on the highlights and our expectations, with some pro editing magic bringing in snippets from the original recording throughout.

• ‎Satura Lanx: Titus Livius (part II) || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 37 on Apple Podcasts

Heus, you want to learn Latin? Salve sodalis, you have come to the right place. This is a Latin podcast for beginners. With the series “Litterae Latinae Simplices”, you will set up for a journey into Latin literature, in easy spoken Latin.

Fresh Youtubery

• What the Stoics can teach us about living through the Covid-19 crisis, with Professor A. C. Grayling | Classics for All
• Stoicism and After: Philosophy and Life, with Professor A. C. Grayling | Classics for All
• In Conversation with Natalie Haynes | British School at Athens
• Caesar vs. Vercingetorix: The Battle of Alesia | Athena Productions
• Banquets of Power: The Politics of Dining – Prof James Davidson | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• Banquets of Power: The Politics of Dining. Part Two – Prof James Davidson | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• Echoes of Ancient Mesopotamia & Canaan – “The Magic of Marduk” | Michael Levy
• Ancient Greek is easy… GOTCHA! | polyMATHY

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] William Childs, Greek art and aesthetics in the fourth century B.C. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018.
• [BMCR] Andrea Gatzke, Lee Brice, Matthew Trundle, Garrett Fagan, People and institutions in the Roman Empire: essays in memory of Garrett G. Fagan. Mnemosyne supplements, 437. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Historian Dan Snow teams up with Colchester Museums for exhibition | Gazette

Dramatic Receptions

• Phoebe Angeni’s ‘Ithaca’ comes to Edinburgh Fringe on Demand | The Edinburgh Reporter

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: XVI FIEC International Conference | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Hill psychiatrist authors analysis of Homer’s ‘Iliad’ | The Chestnut Hill Local
• A fieldwork experience, no travel required | Penn Today
• Artistic Swimming: Ancient Roman Spectacle to Modern Olympic Sport

‘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:

[Saturday] If it should thunder today, it portends a harsh winter.

[Sunday] If it should thunder today, the winds will be turbulent and from them will come scarcity.

… 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)