Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 2 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News … slow news day on the Classics front … In Case You Missed It Turkey’s Newest Luxury Hotel “Floats” Over 2,300-Year-Old Ruins | Architectural Digest Albert Uderzo, the artist behind French cartoon icon…

Read more →

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 1 Elaphebolion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News Artist behind beloved French comics ‘Asterix and Obelix’ dies aged 92 In Case You Missed It The Great Plague of Athens Has Eerie Parallels to Today – The Atlantic New Analysis Refutes Nazareth…

Read more →

Notice of this appeared in my email (via David Pritchard) and near as I can tell, it is not easily shareable right now even though it is probably very appropriate for the times.  Descriptions are clipped from their pages: Stavroula Kefallonitis (Lyon 2020), Welcome Speech, Video Recording, The Funeral Oration and Nicole Loraux: 19 February…

Read more →

Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 29 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News 2,000-year-old fountain uncovered in volcano-buried city Of Pompeii In Case You Missed It Thucydides and the plague of Athens – what it can teach us now | Neos Kosmos Greek/Latin News [Ephemeris] ABNEGATIO…

Read more →

Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Apr. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Anthesterion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad In the News 2,000-year-old sundial unearthed in southern Turkey’s Denizli | Daily Sabah [possibly paywalled] Brutus minimus: lap dogs date back to Romans | The Times Subjects of Roman Empire had tiny toy dogs 2,000 years…

Read more →