Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Aug. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Parthenon Sculptures: Pressure growing on British Museum – BBC News
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- Earliest glass workshop north of the Alps discovered
- Lost ancient wonder: archaeologists remain hopeful in their pursuit of Laodicea Temple – Tehran Times
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- Diatribe: The ugly side of Homer’s Iliad – Neos Kosmos
Fresh Bloggery
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- Women and science | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- What Audience Are You Writing For? Cicero on the Middle-Ground – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rumor
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le papyrus Prisse – Un recueil de sagesse de l’Égypte ancienne
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archäologie des Mithraskultes: Architektur und Kultpraxis am Beispiel der Tempel von Güglingen, Kreis Heilbronn
- Banning Even the Freedom of the Eyes: The Moral Tale of the Tyrant of Troezen – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Once a Lion, Now a Pig–An Erotic Explanation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Delicacy Mooching Revenge Of Pliny The Younger Against Pontius Allifanus – The Historian’s Hut
- Caesar Defeats The Troops Of Pompey, By Justus van Egmont (1601–1674) and Gerard Peemans (1637/39–1725) – The Historian’s Hut
- Aristotle – The Historian’s Hut
- Lucius Cornelius Sulla (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: To Quarrel with a Circle
- Persia to Greece: an exhibition at the British Museum. – AncientBlogger
- Experiencing The Roman Inscriptions Of Britain in Schools
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- Who Was Emperor Diocletian?
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- Aeneid VII.212-322 – by publius vergilius maro
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- How Did Rome Keep Law And Order During The Life Of Christ | Living In The Time Of Jesus | Odyssey – YouTube
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Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Call for posters: «Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean», Venice 23-25 November 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
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- Summer School in Homer 2023 | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
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- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
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- The Ancient Snake-eaters of Mount Athos, Greece
- Cleopatra’s Identity Politics – WSJ
- Ancient Greek Girl Buried Wearing Ceramic Flower Wreath
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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends good things for state affairs, but for people, diseases affecting the head.
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends disagreements among the common people coming to an end.
… 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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