Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archeologia: resti edificio epoca romana rivenuti a Latisana – Friuli V. G. – ANSA.it
• 5,500-year-old houses, tombs found in Turkey’s Arslantepe | Daily Sabah
• Roman treasure from AD60-100 found by Newport History Society member | Shropshire Star
• Last remaining Roman chandelier reconstructed by Spanish archaeologists | Daily Mail Online
• Egypt unearths remains of Greco-Roman town in Alexandria – CGTN

In Case You Missed It

• L’imperatore Augusto torna a casa! | Guida Sicilia
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• New Analysis Reveals Vesuvius Victims’ Diverse Diets | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Double International Distinction for our Professor Annalisa Marzano | Classics at Reading

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE PETITIONE BACTRIANA. 

Public Facing Classics

• Bettany Hughes: how our ancient past can help us to make sense of the pandemic
• Madeline Miller on The Song of Achilles: ‘It helped people come out to their parents’ | How I wrote | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Writing and scribes in ancient Israel
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Useful Skills
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Studies in the Language of Targum Canticles, with Annotated Transcription of Geniza Fragments
• Sappho After Sophocles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Latin Roots for Better Vocabulary | Latin Language Blog
• A Woman Doing Business – Papyrus Stories
• She Used to Love Him, Then She Had to Kill Him… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman Times: Pompeii Walk – 1st 30 minutes
• Hack Your Latin Supplemental: Future Less Vivid Conditions | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Hack Your Latin Supplemental: Learn the Word modo | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Hack Your Latin Supplemental: Get a Grip on quidem | Dickinson College Commentaries
• The Highest Good: Friendship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Caesar in Tarragona – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: An Unworthy Leader
• The Shocking Truth about Ancient Greek Makeup – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Archaeologists Supporting Collection-Driven Exploitation of the Archaeological Record and Smoking
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Religious Growth

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @arturoviaggia on some mosaics from near Baalbek

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Infrastructure in Late Ancient Pompeii w. Dr. Eric Poehler on Apple Podcasts

Pompeii presents an opportunity to understand the dynamics of city infrastructure better in the ancient period. Professor Eric Poehler, University of Massachusetts Amherst, joins the show to explore Pompeii’s infrastructure in the later period of its existence.

• ‎Ad Navseam: The Whole Enchilada: Epicureanism and Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura (Ad Navseam, Episode 51) on Apple Podcasts

This week Jeff and Dave may have bitten off more than they can chew as the subject of the day is, well, everything. In the 1st century BC Lucretius sat down and attempted to, in dactylic hexameter mind you, explain the origin of all things without resorting to divine explanations. How would this have played amongst the smart set of his day? And why should we listen to someone who may have bought the farm by overdosing on Love Potion #9? We might better understand all of it with a better grasp of the philosophy Lucretius adhered to—Epicureanism. Hold the chariot, aren’t those the guys who just swan around at cocktail parties and sample overly fancy hors d’oeuvres? We’ll untangle it. Promise. Kinda.

Fresh Youtubery

• Koios: The Axis on Which the Heavens Revolve | Athena Productions
• How to Make Hercules’ Nemean Lionskin 1/2 | Millennial Classicist
• Classics for All, Historically, with Professor Edith Hall | Classics for All
• Children of the Hapi: Ancient Egypt and Nubia in Afrofuturistic Music | Digital Hammurabi
• Classics Student’s First Play Reaction to Assassin’s Creed Odyssey! | Classics in Color
• The Food of Roman Verse: Cute Cukes | Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, & Egyptology
• The Roman Masterpiece Hidden In The Cotswolds | Time Team | Odyssey
• Classical Art, Blackness, and Lizzo’s “Rumors” | mytholtea

Book Reviews

• Book Review: ‘A Thousand Ships’ is not the average retelling of Homeric Epics

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

• The Attic Inscriptions: Education Project | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
• The Greek Origin of Zodiac Signs in Astrology
• Greek Funeral Customs, From Ancient Times to Today
• Top 10 ancient Greek mythological heroes – Greek Herald
• The Rise of the Akkadians | Discover Magazine

‘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 thunders today, it portends both and abundance of crops and the death of cattle

[Sunday]  If it thunders today it portends more of the same.

… 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)