Hodie est Non. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 5 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists find 10 skeletons at Gloucestershire eco park site – BBC News
- Roman fort survey near Melrose aims to unveil more secrets – BBC News
- IAA uncovers ancient magical bowls in home of Jerusalem resident – The Jerusalem Post
- GIRÊ SPî council documents several violations against archaeological sites – ANHA | HAWARNEWS | English
- Jewish archaeological sites in West Bank must be preserved – Isaac Herzog – The Jerusalem Post
- Crop finds hint at geopolitical influence on ancient agriculture – The Jerusalem Post
Greek/Latin News
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- Radiogiornale Latino 06.03.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
Fresh Bloggery
- Odysseus’s Sister and Names for In-Laws – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hilpert, Die Komposition der Chronikbücher (De Gruyter)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Conserving a Maltese Phoenician sarcophagus
- A Reminder: Medical and Philosophical Traditions Consider Women Not Fully Human – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Neo-Assyrian Palace Ware
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Commercial Landscapes of Long-distance Contacts in Western Asia, c. 3200 – 1600 BC: Perspectives from Material Culture
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Établissements antiques ruraux dans la région de l’embouchure du Danube
- The Ghost of Achilles on Snake Island – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Domitianus en de Openbaring van Johannes – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » 1st c. horse burial found in Germany
- Neplatijn – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Pythagorean Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Christian, Zu Entstehung und Theologie von 1/4QInstruction und der ‚Zwei-Geister-Lehre‘ (1QS III,13–IV,26) (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ritmeyer reconstructs the Magdala synagogue
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Portrait of the Blogger as an Old Man
- Wise and Insightful Deino – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Restaurant Review
- King Midas [Krol Midas] (1963) – Animated Antiquity
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Pompeii freedman was deliberately mummified
- Gezocht: een oudheidkundemuseum – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kiwi Hellenist: The Dorian invasion and the Nazis
- PaleoJudaica.com: TC 26 (2021)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Magic bowls and ivory plaques seized in Jerusalem
- Catullus’s Rhetoric — ConsultTheClassics
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Fresh Podcasts
How peaceful was the Roman Peace – the famous PAX ROMANA? Join me in a look at three great emperors and find out.
March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of disaffected senators. In this episode – the first of our special Ides of March miniseries this month – Tristan (with a little help from Dr Emma Southon and Dr Steele Brand) untangles fact from fiction, truth from myth, to take you back to that very afternoon in the heart of Rome’s doomed republic.
Catherine De Medici, her arrival in Paris for marriage to Henry, second son of Francis 1st. Her cultural influence and role as wife of the King, and mother to three successive French rulers. The Hotel De Bourgogne, the only playhouse in Paris Mellin de Saint-Gelais the royal librarian who penned adaptations of Italian tragedy Etienne Jodelle was hailed as the new Sophocles after his first play, but quickly fell out of favour after his second and some intemperate praise. The strong adherence to Aristotelian rules of theatre…
The continuation of the story of Renaissance theatre in France. The rise of the two theatres in Paris as travelling players were at last allowed to perform in the city. Antoine de Montchrestien and his version of Greek tragedy. The three farceurs Henri Legrand, Robert Guerin, and Hugues Gueru who made the Theatre du Bourgogne the venue in Paris for comedy. The development of the Theatre du Bourgogne under the management of Valeran le Conte and the establishment of ‘Comediens Du Roi’. The emergence of Alexandre Hardy and his prolific life as a playwright. A life in the theatre for the actors of the time…
Fresh Youtubery
- Battle of Cumae, 215 BC Hannibal (Part 18) Second Punic War – YouTube | History Marche
- Lucanus (pars II) || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 45 – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- From Ancient Phalanx to Pike and Shot Warfare – YouTube | SandRhoman History
- Giant Cl*ts: Stigmatization & Mutilation in the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
- History of The Gallic Wars – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Annabella Oranges, Euthyna: il rendiconto dei magistrati nella democrazia ateniese (V-IV secolo a.C.). Quaderni di Erga-Logoi. Milan: LED Edizioni, 2021.
- BMCR – Emily Hemelrijk, Women and society in the Roman world: a sourcebook of inscriptions from the Roman west. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- BMCR – Loren D. Marsh, Muthos. Aristotle’s concept of narrative and the fragments of old comedy. Studia comica, 12. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.
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
Alia
- When Persians Burned Down Athens and the Acropolis in 480 BC
- EUROPA: The Greek Mythological Origin Of Europe’s Name — Greek City Times
- Greek Goddess the Sphinx Embodied Concept of Knowledge as Power
- Ancient Roman history reveals a startling truth about climate change
Diversions
‘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 a major wind which will drive the affairs of powerful men.
… 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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