Hodie est Kal. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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- Missing section of main Roman road found at Green Hammerton – The Stray Ferret
- Elgin Marbles: ‘partnership’ raises hope of deal for first return to Greece in 200 years | The Sunday Times
- British Museum Executive Calls for ‘Parthenon Partnership’ Over Elgin Marbles – Bloomberg
- British Museum calls for ‘Parthenon partnership’ with Greece over marbles | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
- Elgin Marbles could return to Greece under ‘Parthenon partnership’ to establish ‘cultural exchange’ | Daily Mail Online
- What Did He Just Say? Decoding The British Museum’s Offer Of An “Active Parthenon Partnership” With Greece
- Archaeologists Discover Why Ancient Roman Dice Were So Dodgy – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Amphipolis Tomb Could Open To Visitors By End of 2022
- Rare 1,700-year-old vase found for 1st time in Diyarbakır excavatıons | Daily Sabah
- Pre-Roman Scotland was an advanced society … not the Hollywood depiction | The National
- Have Scholars Finally Deciphered Linear Elamite, a Mysterious Ancient Script? | History| Smithsonian Magazine
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Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 31.07.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
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Fresh Bloggery
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Lugt, The Rhetorical Design of Isaiah 40-48/55 (Brill)
- Matchmaking With the Ancients – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Lyres vs. Liars – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Gellius, Totally Understanding Oral Traditions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Role-Playing Senecan Suicide – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Muses in the Getty lab
- De gelijkenis van de farizee en de tollenaar – Mainzer Beobachter
- Strijd tot de dood – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Home of Eber and Raps
- Did Ancient People Really All Have Horrible, Crooked, Rotten Teeth? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism (Brill, open access)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Wills, Introduction to the Apocrypha
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Of Men and Mice
- Evict the Rich, Feed Everyone? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dominion for Dummies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Geschichte des Königreichs Pontos
- Carpe Diem is Too Late – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Neergedraaide duim – Mainzer Beobachter
- July 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
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- VIVAT REGINA!
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Fresh Podcasts
Listen to the beginning of Virgil’s Aeneid read in Latin. Aeneidis Vergilii initium Latine recitatum. This is part of “Lectiones aestivae”, the summer series where I read passages of Latin texts from all ages.
One of the greatest military commanders in history – it’s no wonder Hannibal and Rome so frequently fought. In the second episode of our Hannibal mini-series, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Louis Rawlings from Cardiff University to examine Hannibal’s movements and clashes post-Trasimene. Looking at the Roman reaction to their second defeat and what happened next, why are these 10 months so important? With horses bathing in vinegar, famed military strategies, and animals being sacrificed – what happened on the road to Cannae?
Was Marcus Aurelius really the enlightened ruler that history books and modern movies portray him as? And is his brand of Stoic philosophy applicable to the modern world? With us to discuss these and other questions is Donald Robertson, a psychotherapist and the author of How to Think Like and Emperor and Verissimus.
Ever wondered how realistic the epic film Gladiator is? Tony Sullivan drops by to tell us all about his new book looking at exactly that
How did piracy feature in ancient Greece? What was it and how did the Greeks respond? In this episode I give an overview from Homer through to the Hellenistic.
Fresh Youtubery
- Female Gladiators – Did They Exist? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
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- Battle of the Jaxartes 329 BC – Alexander the Great DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- The Terrible Fear & Power of Tattoos in the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
- L’economia romana arcaica 一 Gabriele Cifani – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
- Pompei apre i suoi archivi digitali alla libera consultazione attraverso il sistema Open Pompeii – YouTube | Pompeii
Book Reviews
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- The Epigraphic Text: from Context to Meaning
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Alia
- Who Beheaded The Kritios Boy, the Masterpiece of Ancient Greek Art?
- Filming Ben-Hur Chariot Race Scenes – The American Society of Cinematographers
- Twelve Labors of Hercules Exemplify Greek Mythology
- The Greek Origins of Saint Mark’s Horses in Venice
- The Greatest Motivational Speech Ever, by Leonidas, King of Sparta
- Thucydides if the Father of History, but Really, Also the Father of Journalism – The National Herald
- A breast is a breast is a breast
- Five Things the Ancient Greeks Can Teach Us About Medicine Today
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 good things for the affairs of state and general abundance.
… 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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