Hodie est pr. Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Men Writing Absurd Female Characters, But Make It Ancient (Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae Part 3) on Apple Podcasts

We’re (finally) finishing with Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and all I can say is: I’m sorry.

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• That Time a Republic Really Ended
• BMCR ~ Johannes C. Bernhardt, Mirko Canevaro, From Homer to Solon: continuity and change in Archaic Greece. Mnemosyne supplements, 454. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Early exploitation of Neapolitan pozzolan (pulvis puteolana) in the Roman theatre of Aquileia, Northern Italy | Scientific Reports

Alia

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends prosperity but also the death of men and the proliferation of wild beasts.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. III Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 21 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Remains of Basilica of Vitruvius may have been found – English – ANSA.it
• Fano, ritrovati resti di un edificio pubblico romano. E’ la Basilica di Vitruvio? – VIDEO
• British Museum Chair: Exploring Whether There’s a Way to Solve this 200-year-old Dispute – The National Herald
• Students on northern Israel field trip stumble onto 1,500-year-old lioness carving | The Times of Israel
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• The continuing discoveries at Pompeii – CBS News
• Coin with oldest depiction of Temple menorah displayed for first time | The Times of Israel
• Exciting discovery in Latmos
• 1,800-year-old Roman resort uncovered in France, photos show | Charlotte Observer
• Roman burial unearthed at hidden Garforth cemetery – BBC News
• Italy helps in restoration of Aelia Arisuth / Mithra’s worshipers’ Tomb in Girgarish

In Case You Missed It

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Fresh Podcasts

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Welcome to Satura Lanx, upper beginner / intermediate podcast told in beginner-friendly, easy spoken Latin. Every other Saturday I chat about everything concerning Latin (literature, language, culture), my own life and reflections and the questions you’ll ask me.

• The Ancients: Ares: God of War on Apple Podcasts

Ares is the god of war and bloodlust in Greek mythology.One of the twelve Olympian gods, Ares was often depicted as a fierce and bloodthirsty deity – both feared, and revered by the Ancient Greeks. But despite being a major figure in the Greek pantheon, Ares has often been overshadowed by more famous siblings, or legendary heroes. So why in an Ancient society, so defined by warfare, was Ares not a more central figure? In the latest episode of our special series on Greek Gods and Goddesses, Tristan is joined by Professor Susan Deacy from the University of Roehampton to delve into Ares messy character. Together, they explore the role of Ares in Greek mythology, looking at the first kin-slayer and the reputation he left across history – asking just who was the god of war, and why should we be so afraid of him?

• History Extra podcast: Treasure, heritage & returning artefacts on Apple Podcasts

Headlines have been made recently by proposed changes to the Treasure Act in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. The changes would see more historical and archaeological artefacts defined as “treasure”, and could help museums acquire historically significant items. Speaking to Matt Elton, Lord Parkinson, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Arts and Heritage in the UK, discusses the thinking behind these proposals, and some of the other issues facing heritage in the UK.

• History Extra podcast: Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters on Apple Podcasts

From the dangers of childbirth to female sexuality, myths and legends about female monsters like mermaids and sirens can tell us a lot about different societies’ attitudes towards women over time. Speaking with Rachel Dinning, Sarah Clegg, author of the new book Woman’s Lore, examines the portrayal of women as seductive, child-killing monsters through history – from Lamashtu and Gello, to Lamia and Lilith.

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Book Reviews

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Dramatic Receptions

• Oedipus and Leonard Cohen meet in Israeli adaptation of ‘Antigone’ – The Jerusalem Post

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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, there will be abundance, but there will be a destruction of wild beasts but an increase of fish. Reptiles will come to settlements but won’t be harmful.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. V Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• More than 1,000 ancient graves uncovered in Halkidiki | eKathimerini.com
• British Museum chair: Worth trying to find solution for Parthenon Sculptures | eKathimerini.com
• Ukraine Accepts Ancient Weaponry in Embassy Event
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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

• Greek tragedies like Medea are an ethical nightmare. That’s why we need them | Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Purity and the Forming of Religious Traditions in the Ancient Mediterranean World and Ancient Judaism
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Family Values
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• 4,5 million euros to restore the Amphitheater of the Boboli Gardens
• Roman amphitheatre discovered at ancient Ategua | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Money in Mid-Republican Rome
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Fresh Podcasts

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 66: Corinth, Emergence on the Greek Stage on Apple Podcasts

We continue our look at the development of Corinth in the series. Last episode we ended with the period of tyranny that had lasted two generations and ended with the assassination of the third. However, Corinth would continue to flourish, with cultural and economic advances taking place. Corinth would end up hosting one of the Pan Hellenic games, being one of the first mainland cities to mint their own coins, while large public building would begin to dot the Acropolis….

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• AJA ~ La villa dopo la villa 2: Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia centrale tra tarda Antichità e Medioevo, edited by Marco Cavalieri and Carla Sfameni
• AJA ~ Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S., edited by Nicola Lercari, Willeke Wendrich, Benjamin W. Porter, Margie M. Burton, and Thomas E. Levy

Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports | Animals in the Roman Economy: Production, Supply, and Trade. Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, online conference, 11th–12th March 2021 | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier

Alia

• Repertorium – Neumz – Gregorian Chant
• The War in Ukraine is a World Peloponnesian War – CounterPunch.org

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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:

[Saturday]  If it thunders today, it portends heavy rain and an outbreak of locusts

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends danger for a politician or general and battles will be waged for his sake and wild beasts will attack humans.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• 1,800-year-old Roman pool complex reopening in Spain: Photos | The State
• Ancient artefact re-discovered in Kent Museum and Library of Freemasonry in Canterbury
• How Türkiye is taking care of its cultural heritage in quake-hit regions
• 50 years of the Vindolanda Tablets, the archaeological treasure found in Northumberland – Chronicle Live

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Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard short films with the University of Cambridge aim to inspire the study of classics
• How the FAB started construction: A time capsule and ancient Greek offerings? – The Boar
• Discipline-specific Honours units endangered by new proposal – Honi Soit

Public Facing Classics

• Was Mithras worshipped in ancient Leicester? | Blog post by Mary Beard
• The secret dildos from history – and why researchers are desperate to get our hands on them
• Gladiators fought in Roman Britain, action-packed cremation urn carvings reveal | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Mediterranean peoples: Pausanias, ethnographic interests, and local traditions (mid-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Ovid on identifying personified peoples in art to impress a girl (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on Nasamonians, Marmaridians, and Libyan Amazons (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Atlantians: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on supposed Atlantian stories about the earliest kings / gods (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on competing claims about the god Dionysos (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Pssst, Friend. Don’t Listen to the Sirens’ Song! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Pliny’s Panegyric of Trajan
• 65 of 234 days: What now? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Lost to Childbirth at 18 and 20: Two Funerary Inscriptions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SEDRA: The Syriac Electronic Data Research Archive
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Private and Public Life
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS)
• The Pythagorean Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Two Men, One Lituus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Hedonisme (5): Epikouros en daarna – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: A Persian-era city in Nahariya?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Does Hebrew have a “reduced alphabet?”
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two literary epitaphs by Antipater of Sidon
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• CAC Diss Prize – The Classical Association of Canada
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Other Blog-like Publications

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• ANE Today – The Emergence of Edom: Recent Debate
• A huge and elegant Roman panoramic room has now been discovered under the vegetation at the Terme di Baia – Stile Arte
• Paul and Thecla: Feminist Fantasy?

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 16.2-12

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Coming of the Hoplite on Apple Podcasts

When did the phalanx become the fully-developed formation we imagine? In this issue of Ancient Warfare, we explore the various changes and developments in the seventh through fifth centuries BC that eventually led to the emergence of the ‘Classical’ Greek hoplite. The Ancient Warfare team discuss issue XVI.2 of the magazine, The coming of the Hoplite: Shields, spears and shining bronze.

• Raising Standards: 2.07: Death Mask on Apple Podcasts

Servilia takes out a final curse on Atia, Timon struggles between faith and family, and Pullo’s love life becomes significantly more complicated.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: In Defence of Euripides, Aristophanic Nonsense w/ Julie Levy on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with returning guest Julie Levy about all things Thesmophoriazusae. What made Aristophanes tick and why is Euripides perfect and amazing, actually? We answer all your questions.

Fresh Youtubery

• 2023-03-09 Connecting Tattooed Bodies & Figurines at Deir el-Medina, Egypt (A Austin) – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
• How A New Translation Changes The Way We Understand Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES (w/ Stephanie McCarter) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Colloquial Latin II – confabulationes tironum cum RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• The Forgotten Punic Wars – Greece vs Carthage (481-306 BC) FULL DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• The Hephaisteion: Its Date, Interior and Purpose – YouTube | ASCSAthens

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building, edited by Charlotte R. Potts
• AJA ~ Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen – Zucht – Haltung und Verwendung, by Heidelinde Autengruber-Thüry
• AJA ~ Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome, by Maggie Popkin
• BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos. Mnemosyne supplements, 458. Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Andrea Jördens, Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III). Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 47. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Malte Helfberend, Ciceros Rede pro L. Cornelio Balbo: Einleitung und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

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Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference – Save the Date & Call for Presenters ~ ARCAblog
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Il ritrovamento dell’Ara Pacis, l’altare di Augusto
• The Aeolian Islands and Their Ancient Greek Heritage
• What Was Traded On the Silk Road? | Discover Magazine

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 destruction of four-footed animals

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 17 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Smiling Sphinx Statue Unearthed in Egypt | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Mini Roman-Era Sphinx Discovered Near Egyptian Temple
• Remember that ancient Roman “dildo”? It might just be an old Roman drop spindle | Ars Technica
• Acropolis Museum Welcomes ‘Venus in a Gold Bikini’ | GTP Headlines

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics Professor Melissa Mueller Named Spotlight Scholar | College of Humanities & Fine Arts
• Mary Beard short films with the University of Cambridge aim to inspire the study of classics
• Classics Researcher Improves Oracy Skills in UAE | Mirage News

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἡνωμένον Βασίλειον
• Professor Peter Parsons obituary

Public Facing Classics

• Cleopatra’s daughter: the forgotten queen – ABC Radio National
• The Athenian case for lockdown | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Boy Cicero Reading, or A Boy Reading Cicero?
• The Aging Body, A Failing Ship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Catalogo dei papiri greci del Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d’Arte dell’Università di Padova
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Praktiken der Aneignung: Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sessions 6–8, Single Contributions
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Rezeption römischer Schlachtenreliefs im Antikenfilm
• A Reminder: Medical and Philosophical Traditions Consider Women Not Fully Human – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De joden van Rome – Mainzer Beobachter
• Teaching Thursday: More on ChatGPT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Other Blog-like Publications

• Researchers help reveal evidence of rare Roman Temple
• Leicester Cathedral Revealed – a Roman shrine beneath the Cathedral?
• Excavations reveal Roman altar stone in shrine or cult room | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• SO I’VE FOUND ANOTHER EXCUSE TO WRITE ABOUT THE GODDESS INANNA

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 4.18

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Septimius Severus on Apple Podcasts

Given his incredible career, you’d perhaps expect the name of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to be better known. Born in North Africa in 145AD, he rose to power after distinguishing himself as a military commander at a time of great instability in the Roman Empire. Finally bringing the Year of the Five Emperors to an end, Severus was in power for nearly two decades – so how did he end up perishing in York? In this episode, Tristan welcomes back author (and Severus’ unofficial 21st Century biographer) Dr Simon Elliot. Together, they explore the life and legacy of Septimius Severus – looking at his impact on the history of Ancient Rome, as well as the bloody events surrounding his campaign in Scotland, and asking how one of the most powerful men in the world was eventually bought down.

• The Partial Historians: The Partial Recap – 430s BCE on Apple Podcasts

We recap the confusing details of the 430s BCE. Be careful – there’s a lot of dictators about! …

• The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos: Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Anger of Achilles on Apple Podcasts

Achilles has anger issues. The great Greek warrior sits out most of the Trojan War because he’s angrily sulking. When he finally enters battle, he does so in a fit of rage that causes him to commit atrocities and bring dishonor on himself. So what can we learn from this angry character in Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad? With the help of Harvard classics expert Greg Nagy and anger counsellor Dr Faith Harper, we look at how anger can creep up on us and what we can do to defuse this sometimes explosive emotion.

Fresh Youtubery

• Discover Roman Women: Tombstone Inscriptions – YouTube | The Roman Baths
• Making History Podcast | Content Club Film 1 : “Rome’s Forgotten War” – YouTube | Content Club
• Antiquities Circle Lecture: Dionysos between Osiris and Christ – YouTube | Tampa Museum of Art
• Ivan Matijašić on Herodotus as a model for Ammianus Marcellinus’ account of the Battle of Adrianople – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos, by Ute Günkel-Maschek
• AJA ~ Ausgrabungen in der frühbronzezeitlichen Siedlung im Heraion von Samos 1966, by Hans Peter Isler
• AJA ~ Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, by Sarah F. Derbew Mary Ann Eaverly
• Mr. Socrates Goes To Beijing
• BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos. Mnemosyne supplements, 458. Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Elena Partene, Dimitri El Murr, Kant et Platon: lectures, confrontations, héritages. Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Greek tragedy reimagined with poetry by former Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani – Neos Kosmos
• Travelling Homer: how the National Theatre is staging a multi-city Odyssey | Theatre | The Guardian
• The UK’s National Theatre Staging Homer’s Odyssey across England – The National Herald
• ‘Medea’ receives multiple meritorious achievement awards | Peninsula Daily News

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Summer School: An Interdisciplinary History of Writing – Hamburg – 17-28 July 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• 2023 Colloquium – Peopling the Past
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Teaching and Research Fellow in Ancient History – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers
• Teaching and Research Fellow in Roman History and Latin – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Was Homer Real?
• On International Women’s Day, Dido Speaks to Us Across the Millennia – WhoWhatWhy
• How story of legendary warrior Queen Boudica inspired women’s march in Colchester
• Did clitorises strike fear into the Greeks and Romans?
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy | The Economist

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 the downfall of humans and the proliferation of wild beast.

… 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)