Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 12 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- 2,500-year-old terracotta gets Valentine Day’s love in Italy | AP News
- Brescia punta sul teatro romano: progetti per restauro e riutilizzo del sito | Bresciaoggi
- Greek MEP appeals to European lawmakers over reunification of Parthenon sculptures | eKathimerini.com
- New ancient fortification walls discovered in Turkey’s Pergamon | Daily Sabah
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Public Facing Classics
- Dark Academia: Classics in Alex Michaelides’s “The Maidens” and Mark Prins’s “The Latinist”
- New takes on old myths | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- “The One You Love”: The Best Love Poem Ever – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Antiquities Collectors: A Dying Breed One Day
- Likemindedness and Trees: An Excerpt from a Wedding Homily for Valentine’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Renan en Orient
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ΦΑΙΔΙΜΟΣ ΕΚΤΩΡ: Studi in onore di Willy Cingano per il suo 70° compleanno
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer / Odyssey 9-12 at Dickinson College Commentaries
- Laudator Temporis Acti: European Union
- Hunting, Leaping, and Drunk on Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Les Temples immergés de la Nubie
- An account of St Valentine of Rome from 1730 – Roger Pearse
- Maybe it’s the Medizing, Maybe it’s the Wine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Poets in the Posse, Entertainers in the Entourage – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Late Roman cemetery found outside Mantua
- De mysteriën van Mithras – Mainzer Beobachter
- Plagiarism on Quora: The Latest Scandal – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: Weeks, Ecclesiastes 5-12 (T&T Clark)
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Climate change threatens Hadrian’s Wall treasures in England
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman fort damaged by suspected illegal metal detecting
- Domitianus (35): Dominus et deus – Mainzer Beobachter
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period, an introduction – Smarthistory
- The Fantastic Evolution of the Roman Cavalry Units | History of Yesterday
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Fresh Podcasts
The guys wrap up their three-part dive into De Natura Deorum, and this time it is Cotta the Academic’s turn up at the plate. Where will Cotta (our stand-in for Cicero himself here) land on all this? Does he just want some friendly clarification of earlier arguments or is he out to fully dismantle both Velleius and Balbus (see previous two episodes)? Or is this dialogue’s most important feature what it reveals about the differences between Greek and Roman philosophy? Even a skeptic like Cotta has a place in his heart for reading birds’ signs and sheep livers, and Numa’s capeduncula. But why? Be sure to stick around for some ramen noodles and a twist ending that would have even The Usual Suspects and The Sixth Sense doing a slow, golf clap.
Paulina Przystupa, a Ph.D. student at the University of New Mexico, discusses how archaeology inspires comic books and proposes ways archeologists can help build connections with the comic book community. Listen to the episode and read a transcript on Berkeley News.
Fresh Youtubery
- In conversation with Rosa Andújar – YouTube | Greek and Latin UCL
- The Myth of the Missing Half – YouTube | BBC Radio 4
- The myth of Narcissus and Echo – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube | TED-ed
Book Reviews
- Examining the Greek Epic Poet Homer as an Idea – The National Herald
- BMCR- Roberta Berardi, Nicoletta Bruno, Luisa Fizzarotti, On the track of the books: scribes, libraries and textual transmission. Beiträge Zur Altertumskunde, 375. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- BMCR – Lee L. Brice, New approaches to Greek and Roman warfare. Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, 2019.
- Valentines Day: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- 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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Alia
- Schliemann’s Hellenes, Homer’s Troy and the Greek miner from Australia – Neos Kosmos
- Virgil has edge on Shakespeare in helping students to love literature | Mirage News
- The Roman Conquest of Britain
- How ‘Canceled’ Reached Peak Semantic Power – The Atlantic
- Mermaids & Mermen: Facts & Legends | Live Science
‘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 the air spreading plague and the flourishing of wild beasts and mice.
… 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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