Hodie est a.d. IV id. Sext. 2774 AUC ~ 2 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• 14 archaeological sites documented in Saudi Arabia – Saudi Gazette
• Minoans saw wheat as classy and lentils as plebeian fare, archaeologists deduce – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Archeologia, alla luce un nuovo settore di Vada Volterranea – Livornopress – notizie livorno

In Case You Missed It

• Possible evidence for biblical earthquake found in City of David | Live Science
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• Pompeii’s fast food joint unearthed in 2019 opens to public | Archaeology | The Guardian
• Rare Roman coin may have been ‘deliberately damaged’
• Babylonians used applied geometry centuries before Greeks – The Jerusalem Post

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE AERIS CALAMITATE 

Fresh Bloggery

• Wandering Souls and Empty Bodies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ties That Bind? Living (Ancient) History in the US and Germany
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Modernity of Horace
• Briseis Weeps – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Delusion
• A Gift For Polydektes: Miracle headache cure
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman tomb stele found in ancient Parion
• De Zeevolken: het bewijsmateriaal – Mainzer Beobachter
• Video Killed The Radio Star… | Sphinx
• Boredom and Death: Ovid’s Briseis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Memorabilia Antonina: Things read and seen in 2021, #5
• Persbericht: Ancient History Magazine – Mainzer Beobachter

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a couple of coins related to Pharsalus
• @DocCrom on Caesar, Civil War 3.90.1-2

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Ancient Delphi w. Dr Michael Scott on Apple Podcasts

In the ancient period, Delphi offered highly sought-after oracular services, hosted quadrennial sporting games, and was a nexus for culture and information sharing. Professor Michael Scott, Warwick University, joins the show to discuss Delphi in the ancient period.

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CLXXI – Roman Magic on Apple Podcasts

Magic was an essential part of the Roman world. You could use it in love, revenge, profit, life and death. All levels of Roman society made use of it, and it was an integral part of the understanding of both religion and medicine. Guest: Professor Daniel Ogden (Classics and Ancient History at the University of Exeter)

• ‎Peopling the Past: Rolling in the Dough: Bread-Making and Roman Bakeries with Jared Benton on Apple Podcasts

The sights, smells, and sounds of an ancient Roman bakery might surprise you…in this episode, historian and archaeologist Dr. Jared Benton joins the show to tell us all about the economics of ancient Roman bread-baking, from the household level to industrial-scale production and how that differed in Italy and North Africa. Come break bread with us as we take a tour of an ancient Roman bakery and listen in on a conversation that ranges from capitalism, social classes, Ostia, Djemila, and…donkeys!

• Spotify – Building Eternity – Professor Ray Laurence – Light Lines | Podcast on Spotify

B. C. is joined by Professor Ray Laurence for a talk about Ancient Roman cities. Their character, their components, their legacy. Gods and emperors at the games, ordinary folk in the streets.

Fresh Youtubery

• #DailyDose with Dr. Abi Buglass | Actors of Dionysus
• I Am Caligula Part 2: I Order The Legions To Attack The Ocean! | Pax Romana

Book Reviews

• Vergil: The Aeneid. A New Translation. Bartsch (S.) Pp. lviii + 400. London: Profile Books, 2020. Cased, £16.99. ISBN: 9781788162678. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• Cicero’s Catilinarians. D.H. Berry Pp. 288. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 2020. Paper £16.99. ISBN: 9780195326475 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• Selections from Virgil’s Aeneid, Books 7–12. A Student Reader.(A.) Carter Pp.vi + 237. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Paper, £16.99. ISBN: 978-1-350-13625-0. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• [AJA] Ursprung und Frühzeit des Heraion von Samos. Part 1, Topographie, Architektur und Geschichte By Hans Walter, Angelika Clemente, and Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier
• [AJA] The Phantom Image: Seeing the Dead in Ancient Rome By Patrick R. Crowley.
• [AJA] Reassembling Religion in Roman Italy By Emma-Jayne Graham.

Dramatic Receptions

• Laughter and Mischief Return to the Villa’s Outdoor Theater | Getty Iris

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Tenured Associate or Full Professor Job Opening in Latin Literature and Culture – Department of Classics – UCLA
• Exploring the archives of JH Iliffe – Chau Chak Wing Museum
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Story of the Old Hebrew Script – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Kerameikos: From Potters’ Quarter to Greece’s Largest Necropolis
• News – Zominthos 2021: Week 2 – Archaeological Institute of America Interactive Digs
• #KnowTheO: How Venus Came to Campus | News – Omaha, Nebraska – Eminetra
• Female ‘Kings’ Of Ancient Egypt: 3 Egyptian Rulers That You Might Not Know – HistoryExtra

‘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 pain, suffering, and misery for the majority of people.

… 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)