Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 16 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- In Photos: Five ancient Egyptian tombs uncovered in Saqqara – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- An archaeological investigation analyses peas | EurekAlert!
- Siloam inscription shows the complexity of repatriation of antiquities – The Jerusalem Post
In Case You Missed It
- Officials Recover Thousands of Cultural Goods in Crackdown, Including Roman Gold Coins | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Scientists are tantalizingly close to cracking any ancient texts wide open
- Huge artificial lake in Sicily is identified as an ancient sacred pool | Daily Mail Online
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Dal Classics professor retells Star Wars saga as epic poem – Dal News – Elius-books
- St. Olaf professor unearths new solution to Pompeii mystery – St. Olaf College
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Professor Ray Laurence: Animation, History and University Research — Cognitive
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Comedy
- A Pause in the War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Gifts of Chicks and Shells: The Fragment of the Poet Hedyle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Five stray canons of the Council of Hippo (393) – canons 2 and 3 – Roger Pearse
- Laudator Temporis Acti: National Characters
- The Charaktêres site – Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie At Persée
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sociedada Braciliera de Estudios Clássicos: Publicações de 1984 a 1995
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine
- A Woman’s Party Invitation and a Girl’s Epitaph: Some Documentary Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Charaktêres: Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice Knowledge Hub
- The History Girls: Rutland Roman Villa – the story of a remarkable discovery. By Caroline K. Mackenzie.
- Een pseudocitaat van Seneca – Mainzer Beobachter
- Excavation unearths 1,500-year-old mystery at Roman site in rural Britain – The Archaeology News Network
- A Bilingual Edition of Peramás’s On the Guaraní Way of Life | CRSN
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- A woman’s “Scent” in an Early Iron Age settlement outside Thessaloniki
- Catullus: Foul-mouthed Genius? – Antigone
- Five more ancient Egyptian tombs discovered in Saqqara.
- Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants – Atlas Obscura
- Archaeologists identify sacred pool aligned with the stars – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @AntiquityJ on that Phoenician pool at Motya
- @DocCrom on a coin of Commodus
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.14.1-12
Fresh Podcasts
Murray is on his own this week and tackles this question sent in by Patron of the podcast Paul, ‘Name one event in Ancient Warfare where the majority of the sources are in agreement with an event happening, be it a battle or an event during a battle, etc. but you call foul – never happened – and vice versa.’
Fresh Youtubery
- Introducing Latin in Primary Schools – YouTube | Classics for All
- Talk: Transitions and Transformations: The Body and Disability in Ancient Egypt by Kyle Lewis Jordan – YouTube | Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
- ODYSSEY BOOK 16: Telemachus and Odysseus Reunite! – YouTube | Moan Inc.
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Andrew R. Dyck, Alan Cottrell, Angelo Poliziano, Miscellanies. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 89-90. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
- BMCR – Annette von Stockhausen, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Uta Heil, Christian Müller, Lieferung 5. Bis zum Vorabend der Synode von Konstantinopel (381). Athanasius Werke, Band III/Teil 1 Urkunden zur Geschichte des Arianischen Streites 318-328. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- CFP: Seneca 2022 International Conference | Society for Classical Studies
- Upcoming Lecture on Bees in Ancient Literature | The Louisiana Classicist
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- The small Scottish town where St Patrick was born, according to Roman links research – Daily Record
- Thucydides Can Explain Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine | The National Interest
- Why Christianity Was Different from Other Religions in Ancient Rome
- Corfu, Homer’s Odyssey and Odysseus’ Petrified Ship
- The Common Ancient Greek And Celtic Origins Of St. Patrick’s Day — Greek City Times
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 heavy rains and disease, an outbreak of locusts, and infertility.
… 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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