Having recovered from a stroke in October, I’m hoping to resume blogging if possible
Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for October 30, 2023
Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Depiction of Trojan War hero Ajax found in 1,800-year-old submerged building in Greece | Live Science
- Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe move over! Meet the Roman athlete who’s ‘£15BILLION fortune’ eclipses the wealth of football’s elite at the top of 2023’s sports rich list | Daily Mail Online
- Salvage dig unearthes rare Sassanid graves in northwest Iran – Tehran Times
- Another Roman tomb found in the construction of a villa in Yalova – Turkiye Newspaper
- The Village That Looted Its Heritage and Sold off the Bronzes of Bubon – The New York Times
- The Megalith of the Mother Goddess near Buzovgrad hides 4 000-year-old secrets – Bulgaria Travel News
In Case You Missed It
- Rare 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman Britain | Live Science
- Pair of rare Roman-era swords found in Gloucestershire | The Past
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Lessons from the ancient past – The Mail & Guardian
- Classics department hosts 25th annual Roberts Lecture – The Dickinsonian
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- Necromancers, demons and friendly ghosts: humans have been fascinated with the afterlife since ancient Mesopotamia
- A Master Class in Words: On the Vitality and Vividness of The Iliad‘s Opening Lines ‹ Literary Hub
Fresh Bloggery
- A Ghost Story from Petronius for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Digitally reconstructing Palmyra
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Snob-Value of the Classics
- Fear of Ghosts in Imperial Rome – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Kernos suppléments
- Bronze Age yoke found in northern Italy – The History Blog
- Seneca en Paulus – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 28: Nyx | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Latin Howler
- Ritual Sacrifice and Lycanthropy: Pausanias for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Alike?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Journal issue on Phoenician studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Library: ETANA Core Texts
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Mainzer Althistorische Studien
- A Costume to Scare the Cicero Right Out of You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kiwi Hellenist: Who is the hero of the Iliad?
- Responses to Monstrosity – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Een krijger uit Ategua – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 29: Nemesis | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Parents
- Laudator Temporis Acti: It Isn’t Long
- Weekly varia no. 50, 10/28/23 – Noodlings
- ancient Mesopotamian women strove to overcome men’s impotence – purple motes
- horrific violence against men: context for Hera’s deception of Zeus – purple motes
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Power of Psalms in Post-Biblical Judaism (Brill)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- When Greece and Egypt Collide: Hellenic Hymnic Papyri – Antigone
- Ancient Jerusalem: From the Bronze Age to the Roman Era
- Why Sparta? Classics and the Alt Right: Part 2
- Suffering So Long for this Woman! – by Joel Christensen
- Revealing the lives of Iron Age and Roman farmers in Nottinghamshire | The Past
- Science Notes: Determining the textures and colours of the Parthenon Sculptures | The Past
- Werewolves in the Ancient Novels – Retrospect Journal
- A rare 3,300-year-old wooden yoke found in northern Italy – Arkeonews
- Unburied Grief – by Elizabeth Bobrick
- Backing Up the Future – by Joel Christensen
Fresh Podcasts
From seductive sorceresses to withered necromancers, witches play a varied – and vital – role in ancient history. Recorded in classical epics by the likes of Homer, and immortalised in tragedies by Euripides, the names Circe and Medea resonate across society and culture even today. But how did witchcraft and magic aid them in ancient societies, and what does it tell us about how women of power were viewed in the ancient world? In this episode Tristan welcomes Dr Mai Musié and Dr Regine May to the podcast to delve into the mystical world of Ancient Witches. Looking at how Circe and Medea’s powers reflected their position in society, sinister necromancy, and the role that Greek tragedies played in immortalising the idea of the Witch – why were these women so powerful, and why were they so feared?
Novam seriem acroamatis quod est Rara avis commendo! If you see the series after TuTubum spectare, seu nomen adscribere ad acroasin quam mox habitura sum, ecce nonnulla vincula quae praesto erunt:
[no description … it’s from the Vatican Latin people]
Museums and private collectors around the world have come under fire for displaying objects with questionable histories, and some have even been subject to police raids and confiscations. Hear from Professor of Art and Chair of Museum Studies Elizabeth Marlowe as she shares her insights into the world of stolen antiquities, and her work to assist the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office in the seizure of a famous bronze sculpture from the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, in this all new episode of 13.
Fresh Youtubery
- Who are Nyx & Nemesis in Greek Mythology? #greeklegends #shorts #goddess #greekgods – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
- Introducing “Rara avis” season 2 || Podcast in spoken Latin for advanced learners – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Galen’s Morbid Fascination: Public Dissections In The Ancient World – YouTube
- Newest excavation on the Via Appia: into the trenches! – YouTube | Darius Arya Digs
- Greek Philosophy to String Theory – Failures in Logic – YouTube
- Rise of the Hittites – The Legions of Hatusa DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- Why was the Roman Republic so powerful? #animation #history #interestingfacts – YouTube | Stick Figure History
- Overboard! A Classics for All Debate – YouTube | Classics for All
- A Moot Trial of Cicero – YouTube | Classics for All
Book Reviews
- Mary Beard’s ‘Emperor of Rome’ explores the exploits of its pitiless rulers | Culture | EL PAÍS English
- [BMCR] Oliver Thomas, The Homeric Hymn to Hermes. Cambridge classical texts and commentaries, 62. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Marie-Hélène Marganne, Gabriel Nocchi Macedo, Pratiques et stratégies alimentaires dans l’Antiquité tardive. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 11. Liège: Presses universitaires de Liège, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat?
- Carl Sagan on the Brilliance of Ancient Greek Scientist Eratosthenes
- The Ancient Greeks of Kashmir, India
- The Diet of Ancient Greek Olympian Athletes
- The Mystery of the Oldest Throne in Europe at the Palace of Knossos
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 prosperity, fewer enemies, and good times for the state.
… 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)
Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for October 28, 2023
Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Cicero cleared at Supreme Court of murdering five opponents in 2,086 year old case
- Depiction of Trojan War hero Ajax found in 1,800-year-old submerged building in Greece | Live Science
In Case You Missed It
- ‘I’ve never unearthed anything this big in my life’: Assyrian sculpture with rich history dug up in northern Iraq
- Spy satellites reveal hundreds of undiscovered Roman forts
- ArtDependence | Scientists recreate the Fragrance of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy
- 2,700-year-old massive sculpture unearthed in Iraq – Tehran Times
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Politics is Horrifying: Plato on Lykanthropy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Question
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Blog Post #88: Graduate Student Feature with Sophia Taborski – Peopling the Past
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transitions funéraires en Occident: Une histoire des relations entre morts et vivants de l’Antiquité à nos jours
- Werewolf Week, JAMA Edition: Diagnosis and Therapy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Light on Old Manuscripts: The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Vici.org: Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die göttliche Weisheit des Hermes Trismegistos: Pseudo-Apuleius, Asclepius
- Nero’s Gouden Huis (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 27: Pygmalion | Greek Myth Comix
- Nero’s Gouden Huis (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Weekend Reading: Projects Everywhere! – Classical Studies Support
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- KulturGutRetter – practical test successfully completed – Kulturgutretter
- DAI4UKR: Cataloguing and Mapping the Linear Band Pottery Sites in Ukraine – Documenting, Recording and Saving Ukrainian Archaeological Heritage
- Véronique Dasen delivers the James E. Gordon Lecture | Classics at Reading
Other Blog-like Publications
- Archaeologists Discovered Submerged Stoa Complex in Ancient Salamis, Greece – Arkeonews
- Another intact Etruscan tomb has now been found and opened in the Osteria Necropolis, in Montalto di Castro. It is full of precious ceramics. I dig it. The story – Art Style
- Around 28 October 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
- New discoveries at Tell Muhammad | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Meet the absentee gods and nefarious spirits of ancient Mesopotamia | Aeon Videos
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Join us this week as Dave and Jeff launch le paquebot onto the deep waters of pedagogical history, namely, H. I. Marrou’s seminal work The History of Education in Antiquity. Written in 1956 by a very learned Frenchman, and translated into English by Charles Lamb, the work is a sweeping review, artfully written, of how education functioned from the very beginnings of Western civilization down to the end of antiquity in the fifth century A.D. With Marrou as guide, the guys begin to examine such pressing questions as, what’s a proper definition of education, can Classical education exist today, and, will they succeed in escaping the book’s Introduction before the clock runs down on the episode? Join us for the first in this multi-parter.
Salvete sodales! Welcome to our series, “Rem Tene;” a Latin podcast presented by Latinitas Animi Causa for beginner and intermediate learners of the Latin language built and designed for the acquisition and understanding of it as a language, not just a code to decipher. In this episode, I, Andreas, tell a scary story originally told by Pliny!
Sermo Raedarius quo librum fabularum nubeculatarum commendo, c.n. “Origines Pictae”. Librum heic invenies.
This is a History Daily episode about the Great Fire of Rome–another natural or potentially man made disaster that we felt was perfect for our odds and sods season–topics that just didn’t fit into past arcs or that we didn’t get to. The day was July 18, 64 AD. When the Great Fire of Rome reduces two-thirds of the city to ashes, Emperor Nero uses the catastrophe as an excuse to persecute a new religious group: the Christians.
Revisiting the vastness of classical witchcraft… Liv speaks with Antonia Aluko who studies Roman witches and intersectionality, they talk all things Medea and Circe as they’re found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Fresh Youtubery
- Sogno di Volare – Interviste sul Cantiere della Regio IX – YouTube | Pompeii
- Musée du Louvre
- L’Assyrien par Ariane Thomas – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Ougaritique par Jaroslaw Maniaczyk – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Élamite par Véronique Pataï – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- The Phoenician by Hélène Le Meaux – Discovering ancient writings and languages - YouTube
- Le vieux Perse par Julien Cuny – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- Le Hittite par Vincent Blanchard – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – Introduction d’Ariane Thomas – YouTube
- Le Sumérien par Grégoire Nicolet – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- La naissance de l’écriture par Véronique Pataï – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Araméen par Vincent Blanchard – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- British Museum Theft: A Lesson in Public Accountability for Archaeology? – WB 27th Oct 2023 – YouTube | Archaeosoup
- Who’s buried inside the Mausoleum of Augustus? – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
Book Reviews
- JCT ~ The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and the Gods. A Tale of the Persian Wars (T.) Holland, Pp. 209, b/w & colour ills, colour map, London: Walker Books, 2023.
- JCT ~ Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (R.) Waterfield, Pp. xxvi + 255, ill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- JCT ~ Platonism: A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity (M.) Bonazzi, Pp. xvi+233. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- JCT ~ The Greeks: A Global History (R.) Beaton, Pp xii + 588, maps, colour pls. London: Faber & Faber, 2021.
- JCT ~ Plato Goes to China. The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism (S.) Bartsch, Pp. xvi + 279. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Mary Beard’s ‘Emperor of Rome’ explores the exploits its pitiless rulers | Culture | EL PAÍS English
Dramatic Receptions
- Frogs | World’s First Film In Ancient Greek!
- ‘Odyssey’ play, acting company comes to Wharton Center – The State News
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- AIA: 1177 BC Revisited – WIVB Calendar
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters – Greek History, Culture or Political Thought – HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
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 a shortage of necessities.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a year of serious diseases.
… 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)
Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for October 27, 2023
Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Skeleton discovered among other unexpected surprises from a Hadrian’s Wall excavation project
- Repatriating Greece’s stolen heritage | Cyprus Mail
- The eye of one of the Riace Bronzes? The Superintendence slows down on the finds found in August – Gazzetta del Sud
- Majestic Minoan Palace Uncovered at Archanes, Crete
In Case You Missed It
- Declassified images from American Cold War spy satellites reveal HUNDREDS of lost Roman forts across Syria and Iraq | Daily Mail Online
- Cold War satellite images reveal nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East | Live Science
- Beads found in Israel are the oldest known example of the use of organic red pigments
- 15,000-year-old red-shell beads earliest example of organic red pigment – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- New ancient literature | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- Plaster casts (and dinosaurs) in Pittsburgh | Blog post by Mary Beard
- Classicist Mary Beard explains what we know and don’t know about ruling the Roman Empire – OPB
Fresh Bloggery
- Europeans, Asians, and Greeks: Aristotle on hierarchies, slaves, and environmental determinism (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Barbarians and Greeks: Theophrastos theorizes hierarchical relations of humans and animals (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Slaves to Lucre
- Don’t Eat Brains: Zombie-Tydeus for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Quoting Parallel Passages in Full
- Three Things Thursday: Reading a Bit | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Materialien und Arbeitsmittel aus Projekten des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (MAPDAIK) 3: Die Kinderbestattungen von Elephantine
- Ancient Vampires 2: What’s Really Scary is Misogyny – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Animals in Religion, Economy and Daily Life of Ancient Egypt and beyond
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stabiae. Ricerche, progetti, prospettive
- Hesiod’s House of Horrors – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 5,000-year-old mother goddess found in İzmir’s most ancient settlement – The History Blog
- De krijgers van Riace: verdronken schoonheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- Romeinse forten in Syrië – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 26: Thetis | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Pindar’s Prayer
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jonah (Anchor Bible commentary)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lenzo G., The Greenfield Papyrus (Peeters)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Burke on Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2023
- Looting Matters: Hecht and a calyx-krater attributed to the Achilles painter
- PaleoJudaica.com: On King Sennacherib
Other Blog-like Publications
- Interview with a Gladiatrix – Antigone
- ANE Today – A Reverse History of the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria: From the Underwater Remains to the First Structure – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Origins of our Alphabet – by Armand D’Angour
- Heroic Appearances – by Joel Christensen
- Declassified CIA Satellite Spy Program Reveals Lost Ancient Roman Forts – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists excavate a partially submerged stoa complex in ancient Salamis | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Autumn 44 BCE: To Tiro from Cicero the Younger (in Athens)
- The Arch of Titus’s Menorah Panel in Color – Biblical Archaeology Society
Fresh Podcasts
“Why does Marcus Aurelius never take the blame for appointing his son his heir rather than the most qualified, like 3 of the 4 emperors before him? Maybe he should have spent less time philosophising and more time being a father.”
A dire warning from the spirit of Africa! A Haunting in Athens! And someone cuts the hair of Pliny’s freedman. Pliny the Younger presents a Roman Haunting in Three Parts. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University).
More spooooky ancient sources: this time, the two most famous descents into the Underworld, a mere 800 or so years apart… Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler; Virgil’s Aeneid translated by JW Mackail.
Fresh Youtubery
- Who is Thetis in Greek Mythology? #shorts #achilles #ancientgreece #greeklegends #greekgods #zeus – YouTube | MoAn, Inc.
- Inside the AI-Powered Race to Decode Ancient Roman Scrolls – YouTube | Time
- Who is Pygmalion in Greek Mythology? #shorts #galatea #madelinemiller #ancientgreece #greeklegends – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Juan Carlos Moreno García, From house societies to states: early political organisation, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Multidisciplinary approaches to ancient societies, 3. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022.
- [BMCR] Irina Chernetsky, The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence: the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
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 heavy rain.
… 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)
Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for October 26, 2023
Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists uncover Sassanian funerary ruins in northwest Iran – Tehran Times
- Research reconciles two dominant hypotheses of Indo-European language origin
- Roman coins found in Welsh field turn out to be buried treasure
- Archaeologists Find the First Red Paint Made From Plants | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
- Spy photos of Syrian desert reveal ancient Roman forts | Science | AAAS
- Spy Satellites Over Syria Reveal Hundreds of Ancient Roman Forts – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Iron Age settlement and skeleton has been found in Evesham | Evesham Journal
- Ancient complex unearthed in central Athens | eKathimerini.com
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Assyrian Deity Statue Uncovered in Iraq
- Iraq dig unearths 2,700-year-old winged sculpture largely intact
- 2,000-year-old decorated Roman sandal unearthed in Spain | Live Science
- Police in Spain Seized Greco-Scythian Artifacts That Were Allegedly Stolen From Ukraine—But Experts Doubt Their Authenticity
- Carlisle’s Roman bath excavation project to return – BBC News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Why the Roman Empire is worth thinking about | Connecticut Public
- What the Hell Happened: The Roman Empire Trend & Modern Masculinity | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Werewolf Week In Rome: Don’t Look a Wolf in the Eyes! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Boxing Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Computational Assyriology
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proceedings of the International Conference on Taphonomy and Post-Funeral Practices in Pre-Roman Italy: Problems and Perspectives. Papers of the International Workshop held atthe University of Basel, January 12th, 2021
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: eAkkadian: An online Coursebook
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AOI) update
- Ancient Greek Vampires 1: Empousa – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Ideal Historian
- Paideia – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 25: Talos | Greek Myth Comix
- #ClassicsTober23 24: Hephaestus | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Augustine in a Sour Mood
- Continuing Adventures in AI – Noodlings
- PaleoJudaica.com: A new Book of the Dead manuscript excavated in Egypt
- PaleoJudaica.com: New open-access book: The Sinai Palimpsests
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Spell of the Antique World
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Excavations at Körzüt Castle unearth 2 cuneiform inscriptions and a new Urartian Susi temple – Arkeonews
- Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
- 5,000 years old Mother Goddess statuette unearthed in Yeşilova Mound – Arkeonews
- Ancient Egyptians May Have Spiced Their Mummies – Gastro Obscura
- Hera on Ancient Coins – Queen of the Gods
- Lost Roman forts discovered using Cold War spy satellites | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- 5,000 years old Mother Goddess statuette unearthed in Yeşilova Mound – Arkeonews
- Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
- A stretch of Roman road unearthed in Altino. Tweezers (surgical?) found in the cloaca from 2000 years ago – Art Style
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
We venture out into new seas — or new remote cabins-in-the-woods — with a new Halloween special listen-along commentary. Hear our real-time gasps, jeers and cheers as we group watch Travis Stevens’ indie horror / Greek tragedy A Wounded Fawn (2022). We discuss theater, art, shoes and much more. Let us know if this format works!
In this special bonus episode, we’re joined by Jennifer Saint, former English teacher turned bestselling novelist whose debut novel Ariadne took the world by storm and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award in 2021. Since then, she’s followed up with Elektra and, most recently, Atalanta, two vivid and unique reworkings of ancient stories and it was fascinating to chat to Jenny about her early interest in these characters, her transition from scholar to teacher to writer, her childhood love for Cyprus and how the ironing board can bring inspiration! In this series, we meet guests from all walks of life, fascinating people with a connection to classics who lead fascinating lives and we discuss where studying the past can take you; what classicists bring to the workplace (and the world!); how to forge your own path; and the resonance of the #ancientworld.
In celebration of recently winning a gold Signal Award, we are revisiting our series from last year on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The Celts of the Iron age—roughly 600s BC to 43 AD—had a real preoccupation with severed heads. They took heads in battle. They displayed the heads of their enemies in prominent places. But what did all this decapitation mean? Some believe there was a set of religious beliefs around severed heads—but nobody knows what they were. And the severed head keeps popping up in later mythology and legend, creating more questions than answers. Join us as we investigate the very mysterious Cult of the Severed Head.
Revisiting an unofficial Spooky episode… Zagreus, Zagreus, Zagreus. It’s gross, it’s weird, it’s both an afterthought and supremely important. Welcome to the story of thrice born Dionysus, better known as Zagreus.
In excavating massive Iron Age burial mounds in southern Siberia, Dr. Gino Caspari is doing some of the most innovative archaeology in the world, and he’s doing it in one of the most remote places on the planet. Dr. Caspari is an expert on the Scythians, the enigmatic, powerful people who ruled the vast grasslands of Eurasia during the Iron Age.
Fresh Youtubery
- Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae, and Titanides – YouTube | Max Dashu
- Magic/Machine #etymology – YouTube
- The Sound of the Ancient Greek Kithara – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Horace Ode 1.9 Latin & English: Vidēs ut altā stet nive candidum Sōracte – YouTube | David Amster
- Anna Polishchuk on linguistic and ethnocultural decoding of feceit in Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
- Historian Reviews THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY By Elodie Harper (+ Early Review of THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA) – YouTube | MoAn Inc
- Chi (RI)cerca trova: Gli archi di Ledro: un arco per ferire – un arco per guarire – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Sian Lewis, Tyranny: new contexts. Dialogues d’histoire ancienne supplement, 21. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021.
- Odessos durant l’Antiquité tardive (IVe s. – début du VIIe s.) | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Christophe Burgeon, La vie d’Auguste de Nicolas de Damas. Turnout: Brepols, 2022.
- [BMCR] Hartmut Leppin, Paradoxe der Parrhesie: eine antike Wortgeschichte. Tübingen: Mohr Siebrek, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Gaza in History
- Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid | Department of Classics
- Beyond Alexander: The Impact of Alexander the Great in Greece, Persia, and Egypt Beyond Alexander- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology – University of Liverpool
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends an increase in animals, but they will be short of water.
… 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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