Hodie est a.d. VIII id. Sext. 2774 AUC ~ 28 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Russia’s new twist in Syria policy: Restore archaeological sites – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- Polish mission announces discovery of unique urban complex in ancient Marea port of Alexandria – EgyptToday
- Roman fast food restaurant recently unearthed at Pompeii will open to the public this summer
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- The Olympics – then and now | UC Irvine School of Humanities
- Plan to teach Latin in state schools ‘utterly misconceived’, says former head – Independent Education Today
- USYD’s Australian Archaeological Institute receives $6m bequest from Professor Alexander Cambitoglou AO – Greek Herald
- Latin is the language of the enemy – UnHerd
Greek/Latin News
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Fresh Bloggery
- New Video: Deaths in the Iliad – the infographic video! | Greek Myth Comix
- A Failure of Education: Commodus’ Cruelty – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Truth is Hidden
- PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman & Gross, The Temple Scroll (Brill)
- Roman Times: The Transformation of Pharaonic deities to household gods in Roman Egypt
- The question of sympathy in Medea and Beloved (a sister post to my last) – Tragic Geek
- Fantastic Friday 2: Further Adventures in Ethnography – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Drinking with Roman Usurpers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Two Goals of Study
- Decius Mus Addressing the Legions, by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1577 – 1640) | The Historian’s Hut
- Hey Poindexter, You Don’t Know Sh*t! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Wicker fruit basket found in submerged tomb
- Come What May | Sphinx
- Referenda ad Senatum: August 6, 2021: Feelings at the Fall of the Republic, Ancient and Medieval Living Standards, and Zombies! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Blogging ancient epigram: Love’s victim: Meleager
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Oven-Goddess
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Banishment of Aliens
- PaleoJudaica.com: Recruitment brochures for the DSS community?
- PaleoJudaica.com: LMLK seal impression sifted from Temple Mount
- A Cornucopia of Classics Resources – St Andrews Classics
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @ancientlyric on a Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite
- @conflictantiq on artifact hunting and looting in the Balkans
- @SarahEBond on a ‘family’ relief from Parion
- @DocCrom on some coins of Demetrius Poliorcetes
Fresh Podcasts
The Social War was a five year war (91-87 BCE) fought between Rome and many of its allied communities—some communities pursued citizenship; others yearned for independence. Dr. Seth Kendall, Georgia Gwinnett College, joins the show to explain the particulars of the second year of the war.
Could Hannibal have won the second punic war? Jasper is busy putting the magazine together so Murray gives us his opinion.
Fresh Youtubery
- Wood and Ceramic: Introducing digital methods with Classics Library special collections | SchAdvStudy
- Journey of the Soul to the River Styx | Michael Levy
- Stupid Ancient History GCSE: 2 Philip II and Macedonia | D Midgley
- Stupid Ancient History GCSE: 3 Philip IIs changes to the Macedonian army | D Midgley
- Our Shared Human Past: Latin Now | University of Nottingham
- Conferenza – Apertura al pubblico del Termopolio della Regio V | Pompeii Sites
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Julia Haig Gaisser, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Dialogues, volume II: Actius. The I Tatti Renaissance library , 91. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Julia Gaisser, Giovanni Gioviano Pontano. Dialogues volume 3: Aegidius and Asinus. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 92. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Young Richard Kim, A.E.T. McLaughlin, Leadership and community in late antiquity: essays in honour of Raymond Van Dam. Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages, 26. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
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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
- Inside a Greek Mystery Cult – Archaeology Magazine
- How to train like an Ancient Greek Olympian – BBC Future
- From the ancient city of Knossos: The Lady of the Ring
- New AI taught the principles of ancient Greek democracy | FREE NEWS
‘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 an abundance of honey, but a shortage of water and other foodstuffs.
… 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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