Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 21 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Clash over Roman-era olive press found in Mġarr development site
- 1,800-year-old Roman remains found in valley of eastern Turkey | Daily Sabah
- Local Tour Guides Help Rescue Roman-era Mikvah From Being Paved Over | The Detroit Jewish News
- US bans import of art and antiquities from Afghanistan
- Naples court demands US museum return ancient statue – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Byzantine marble pillar discovered in Ashdod sand dunes during patrol – The Jerusalem Post
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- Ph.D. Candidate Gleans New Insight From Ancient Evidence | Syracuse University News
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Aristophanic Coinage?
- PaleoJudaica.com: How did Aramaic extinguish Akkadian?
- Eternal Beauty or Sensory Truths? Epictetus and Epicurus on the Real – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Feel the Pity, Feel the Fear! Now Stop. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- An Introduction to the Poems of the Chronography of 354 – Roger Pearse
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Party Over Family
- War, Some Proverbs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kiwi Hellenist: The dates of Jesus (conference paper, ASCS 43, Feb. 2022)
- Classics: The Straight Path to Hell! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Where Did That Come From?
- Domitianus (38): De blozende keizer – Mainzer Beobachter
- Art Crime Research Opportunities: 22 February 2022
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hixton on no-longer-first-century Mark
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lions in Israel and the Bible
- PaleoJudaica.com: Byzantine-era marble pillar found in Ashdod
- Lead ingots from Late Bronze Age found along Israel’s coast link Cyprus and Sardinia – The Archaeology News Network
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- Pokémon in Latin! Red/Blue Pokédex entries 1-49 – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
- The Ptolemaic Dynasty of Ancient Egypt: From Ptolemy I to Cleopatra VII – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Matthew Sharpe, Federico Testa, The selected writings of Pierre Hadot: philosophy as practice. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
- BMCR – Peter Adamson, Christof Rapp, State and nature: studies in ancient and medieval philosophy. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- Gordon D. Fee, Bodmer Papyri, scribal culture, and textual transmission: collected works on New Testament textual criticism. New Testament tools, studies and documents. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
- JCT – The Burning Road (H.) Sidebottom Pp. 344, maps. London: Zaffre, 2021.
- JCT – In Search of the Argonauts. The Remarkable History of Jason and the Golden Fleece (H.) Lovatt Pp. xvi + 255, ills. London: Bloomsbury Academic 2021.
- JCT = The Passion of Perpetua (M.) Donato, (C.) Engargliola, (E.) Gendreau-Distler, (E.) Hasapis, (T.G.) Hendrickson, (J.) Nguyen, (S.) Pant, (S.) Podila, (A.) Riordan and (O.) Thompson (edd.) Pp. x + 93 Cambridge: Pixelia Publishing, 2021.
- JCT – Introductory Latin for Kids. A Straightforward Course for Young Beginners (T.) Zhang Pp. 223, ills. Wellington: Halsgrove, 2021.
- The 3rd c. BC crisis in the northern Black Sea region in light of the epigraphic material from Olbia Pontike | Spartokos a lu
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- Death in Transition Archaeology Conference
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Alia
- Step Into Moabite Jordan – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Colchester’s Roman Circus – Essex, England – Atlas Obscura
- Heroes and Villains in Western Philosophy – The Objective Standard
- The Times’ landmark shift on the Marbles | eKathimerini.com
- Roman Invasion Of Britain: How Did The Britons React? – HistoryExtra
- Oldest City in Europe is Strofilas in Greece
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
if it thunders today, it portends the winds carrying diseases, but not fatal ones.
… 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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