Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- A Leontinoi gli scavi condotti dall’Università Tor Vergata portano in luce le fondazioni di un Tempio greco – Siracusa News
- Roman finds in Limes area in Utrecht unique in the world – DutchNews.nl
- Rossett: Archaeologists shed more light on Roman settlement as villa dig progresses | The Leader
- [Paywalled] A case in Germany has big implications for the antiquities trade | The Economist
- Ancient city of Augusta in Turkey’s Adana rises as waters recede | Daily Sabah
- Archaeologists in Abkhazia discover 1,500-year-old sarcophagus
- People lived up to 40 years of age 5,000 years ago
- Irthlingborough dig seeks to unearth history of Roman settlement | Northamptonshire Telegraph
- Rossett Roman villa dig makes progress with coin discovered from around AD 337 – as archaeologists hunt for bathhouse – Wrexham.com
- Anfiteatro romano di Volterra, via alla campagna di scavi
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- William St Clair obituary | Register | The Times
- Dr Stavros Paspalas on the future of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens – Greek Herald
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Terra Petraea. The Archaeological Landscape of the Petraean Hinterland from the Hellenistic to the Byzantine Period
- A Brother or a Counterfeit: Theognis on Friendship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Make Up Words and Authorities Who Said Them! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Two pages of lost ancient text the “Orphic Rhapsodies” found in Sinai palimpsest – Roger Pearse
- Egypte in Antwerpen, of: de Levende Zon der Belgen – Mainzer Beobachter
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: Bloody-Minded
- ARCHEOLOGIA / Pescara, nuova luce sul mosaico di età romana – Storie & Archeostorie
- New book by Paul Murgatroyd – The Classical Association of Canada
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- Blogging ancient epigram: Martial’s Narnia
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Blog-like Publications
- Ancient Greek ‘pop culture’
- ANE TODAY – 202109 – The Ancient Salt Industry on the Mediterranean Coast of Israel – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Horace, Odes 3.9.27-24
Fresh Podcasts
‘If ancient soldiers were trained at all, it was generally for fighting in a formation in the battle line. But on rare occasions, generals would train and use troops for special operations.’ The Ancient Warfare team consider Ancient Warfare Magazine XV.1 which focuses on Special Operations in antiquity.
The prehistory of Sicily, well before the Greeks arrived is still to this day shrouded in some mystery. We are left with a written tradition from a number of Greek writer but they were writing about a past some thousand years before their time. Modern attempts at understanding this period are even debated, which leaves us with our best guesses based off of what is found in modern research and what the ancients say. …
Fresh Youtubery
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Book Reviews
- Monarchy and the Athenian city state | The TLS
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
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- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The Griffin Warrior: A Staggering Discovery from Ancient Greece
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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 strife in the area where the thunder is heard; it does not apply elsewhere.
… 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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