Hodie est a.d. VI Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 10 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- The case for returning the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece has never been stronger
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Greek/Latin News
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Public Facing Classics
- An American Tragedy: On the Suicide of Liberal Education – Public Discourse
- Blue monkeys, bull-leaping and child sacrifice: why were the Minoans so weird? | The Spectator
- The ancient relationship between comedy and politics | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Confession of a Jesuit Father
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- Let Nothing External Spark Joy, the Stoic Way – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Reason to Live
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna
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- The Best Omen – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millenium BC? Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisces Museum Wien Vienna, Austria, 21-24 November, 2012
- Reclining Bacchus, By An Unknown 17th-Century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
- Hedonisme (1): Aristippos’ genotzucht – Mainzer Beobachter
- Comb made from human skull found – The History Blog
- PaleoJudaica.com: Today is Mani’s death day, maybe.
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 204
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- Biblical Studies Carnival 204 for February 2023 – Reading Acts
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- A Philosopher is Done with Doing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Happy World Book Day! – Classical Studies Support
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- The Bar Hill Comb
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- Archaeologists have discovered sandstone blocks belonging to a pharaoh’s temple covered with hieroglyphs in Sudan – Arkeonews
- Epicurus on the Values of Family and Friendship
- The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum | Aeon Videos
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- Discover Ancient Mesopotamia Through 7 Key Artifacts
- 4 Battles From Alexander the Great’s Legendary Persian Campaign
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- Ancient Egyptian discovery rewrites history of Sudanese kingdom
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Fresh Podcasts
The traditional myth about Medusa is that she was the monster—a fearsome snake-haired gorgon who could turn men to stone with a glance—and her killer, Perseus, was the hero of the tale. But give the story a closer look, and it’s not even clear the Greeks always saw it that way. Ancient depictions of this myth don’t always show Perseus as the hero. And there’s evidence that gorgons originally had a protective role in Greek iconography. In this episode, Natalie Haynes—bestselling author of Stone Blind—guides us in retracing the clues the ancients left us to reclaim our Gorgon Girl.
Rome is at war, and strange ships accompanied by men in shining white are seen in the sky… This story is inspired by Livy, History of Rome, 21.62.5 and 24.10.10, and is followed by a discussion including ancient UFOs, dream interpreters, and dream books.
Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within just a few decades, they were already present at the far end of the Mediterranean and even further, past the Straits of Gibraltar on the Atlantic coast of Iberia. The process of creating an interconnected Mediterranean had begun.
Fresh Youtubery
- Skulls and Animate Houses: The Development of Sedentism and Agriculture in Central Anatolia – YouTube | Oriental Institute
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Book Reviews
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Dramatic Receptions
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- Mojada updates Medea at the Phoenix – University of Victoria
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Alia
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- The Forgotten Legacy of Byzantine Education and Learning
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- The Apollonian and Dionysian: growing up in the Algarve and living in Lisbon – Portugal Resident
- The Accidental Anonymity of Ancient Portraits | The Art Institute of Chicago
- Who Is Really Buried in KV55, Egypt’s Most Mysterious Tomb?
Diversions
‘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 end of threatening business.
… 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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