Hodie est non. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Scoperto un ponte romano di età repubblicana sulla Tiburtina
- Uncovering the real route of Hadrian’s Wall | Letters | The Guardian
- Pompeii Is Turning Into a High Tech Research Center to Study Climate Change and Archeological Preservation
- Decapitated Roman skeletons found on HS2 route near Aylesbury | Roman Britain | The Guardian
- Brass study helps uncover close ties between Rome and Germanic Bohemia | Radio Prague International
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Fresh Bloggery
- Not The Family Next Door – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #47: Pots, People, and Foodways in Roman Republican Italy with Dr. Laura Banducci – Peopling the Past
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 1
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das Grottenheiligtum am Osthang: Eine Mikrostudie zur späthellenistischen Kultpraxis. Mit einem Beitrag zu den Faunenresten von Peggy Morgenstern
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Forschungsgeschichte als Aufbruch: Beiträge zur Geschichte der Christlichen Archäologie und Byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, XXIV. Tagung der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Christliche Archäologie, Bonn, 10.–12. Mai 2018
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Horos: Ancient Boundaries and the Ecology of Stone
- Fetia coinage – article alert – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The Weakness of Bodies and the Strength to Be Better – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Somewhere Over the Rainbow
- Hey Poindexter, You Don’t Know Sh*t! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Homer, Inventor of Geography – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Domitianus (30): Apotheose – Mainzer Beobachter
- Assailing the Salted Sea – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Becoming a popular history writer: Post PhD (Part 2) | MANCHESTER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC HISTORY & HERITAGE
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Bacchae Bacchae Move: The Warwick Classics Play – OurWarwick
- When Things Go Wrong: Smuggling Artefacts from Baghdad to London in the late 19th Century – SOAS History Blog
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Fresh Podcasts
Olympia hiemalia celebrantur … Jōhannēs Stoltenbergius novum mūnus susceptūrus … Dux Chalifātūs diruptus …
Another episode of my Latin language podcast, where we speak about Persius and Petronius, the mysteryous author of “Satyricon”.
The Temple of Hercules Victor in the Forum Boarium
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- Come STUDIARE il LATINO, con @Satura Lanx – YouTube | Alessandro do Concini
- Heinrich Schliemann …yet again! Why still delve into his biography 200 years after his birth? – YouTube | ASCSA Athens
- Penultimate Stress Rule: How to accent any Latin word CORRECTLY – YouTube | polyMATHY
- Profiling Cleopatra – Extra History #Shorts – YouTube | Extra Credit
- Akrotiri and the Eruption of Thera: The Pompeii of the Aegean – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Is There An Ancient Roman Mining Town Buried In Wales? | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Robert Forgács, Latin and music in the early modern era: education, theory, composition, performance and reception. Brill research perspectives. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
- BMCR –David M. Johnson, Xenophon’s Socratic works. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
- BMCR – Laura M. Banducci, Foodways in Roman Republican Italy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- What We Owe to the Greeks – The American Conservative
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Lecture Announcement: Assyrians, Hittites and Romans in Boğazköy / Ḫattuša – DAİstanbul
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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- Ancient Egyptian chronology and historical framework – Smarthistory
- Old Kingdom and First Intermediate Period, an introduction – Smarthistory
- Predynastic and Early Dynastic, an introduction – Smarthistory
- Reporting for jury duty in ancient Greece | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
- A Subterranean Cosmopolitan Past in the City of Alexandria | Egyptian Streets
- The Stunning Ancient Greek Temple of Aphaea
- The Gospel of Thomas: casting a new light on Early Christianity – Engelsberg Ideas
- Ophiuchus and the Theory of the Long Lost 13th Sign of Zodiac
‘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, there will be a major harvest, but destruction for humans.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, there will be destruction of grain supplies, especially barley.
… 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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