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In the News

• Student defaces Rome’s Colosseum – Wanted in Rome 
• Gucci to fund Tarpeian Rock restoration – ANSA.it 
• Roman coin of killer emperor found near Dover sells for half a million 
• Xanthos mosaics unprotected | Hurriyet
• The Just Legacy of Andre Gerolymatos – The National Herald 
• Aceramic Neolithic site discovered in Troodos mountains of Cyprus | Tornos 
• Happy Yo-Yo Day! Yes, Greeks Invented This Too | GreekReporter.com 
• Pliny: A second-rate author with a mysteriously good press | Catholic Herald 
• Thomas Jefferson on modern day sports and Greek mythology | WGN Radio 

In Case You Missed It

• ‘Blood Antiquities’ Looted from War-Torn Yemen Bring in $1 Million at Auction | Yahoo

News in Latin/Greek

• Finis anni scholastici | Nuntii Latini | Radio Finland 

Fresh Bloggery

• More on “Magganum” and St George – Roger Pearse

Fresh Podcasts

EPISODE 48 Give Me Back My Legions! (Part 2) — History on Fire 

A little over 2,000 years ago, Rome was a well-oiled war machine crushing everything in its path. At that time, the Roman legions were the most deadly military force in the Western world, and possibly in the whole world. Every year, they conquered new peoples and pushed the boundaries of their empire. Rape and pillage was the name of the game, and they were masters at it. But in the year 9 CE, something happened in the forests of Germany that was going to have a profound impact on the destiny of the world…

Reviews

• [BMCR] Walter Pohl, Clemens Gantner, Cinzia Grifoni, Marianne Pollheimer-Mohaupt (ed.), Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities. Millennium-Studien, volume 71. 
• [BMCR] Olivier Bordeaux, Les Grecs en Inde: politiques et pratiques monétaires (IIIe s.a.C. – Ier s.p.C.). Numismatica antiqua, 8 

Conferences and Calls for Papers

• Plato on Comedy – Durham University [July 6-7, 2019]  
• ‘Becoming’ and the Roman World – Wednesday 11 and Thursday 12 September 2019 – Durham University (UK) 

Dramatic Receptions

• Casa Romantica goes Greek with comic spin on ‘The Odyssey’ – Orange County Register 

Exhibitions

• Ancient Athenian Neighborhood Opens to Public at Acropolis Museum | GreekReporter

Alia

• Boris Johnson may have found an advocate in ancient Greece | The Spectator 
• University subject profile: classics and ancient history | Education | The Guardian 
• The Ancient Origins of the Vacation – WSJ [possibly paywalled]  
• From the Odyssey to Njals Saga: a voyage round the great myths | The Spectator 

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In the News

• ‘Blood Antiquities’ Looted from War-Torn Yemen Bring in $1 Million at Auction | Live Science
• Archaeologists Looking for Lost Greek Temple in Iran’s Nahavand 
• New Single Calls for Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece (video) | GreekReporter.com 
• Class of 2019: Classics and Religion master’s grad digs into science and engineering in ancient Rome | UToday | University of Calgary 
• Radcliffe fellow heads team helping preserve ancient Roman city of Nicomedia – Harvard Gazette
• An ‘Accidental’ War with Iran Would End in Disaster for Both Sides, Holy Cross Professor Warns | College of the Holy Cross [Thomas Martin] 
•  Athens Acropolis Museum to mark 10th birthday with walk-through excavation | Tornos News 

In Case You Missed It

• 2,000-year-old Secret Room in Rome’s Domus Aurea Is a Treasure Trove of Ancient Frescoes 

Classical News

• AkropolisWorldNews: Ὁ Τρᾶμπ ἐν τῷ Ἡνωμένῳ Βασιλείῳ 

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: June 6 
• Spice Up Your Latin!: Graffiti from the Romans to Today 
• The Arete Award: A Lifetime with the Classics – In Medias Res – Medium 
• An Ancient Christian Ritual in WH Auden – ad astra per mundum 
• Discovery of unpublished letter by Eastern bishop on Easter, from the time of Nicaea, mentioning the Acts of Pilate – Roger Pearse 
• Boudicca or Boadicea? – Mary Beard 
• What does “magganum” mean? Looking for the Commentator Cruquianus of Horace – Roger Pearse 
• Legacy Data as Data | Summertime Fragments 
• How to chair a paper or a conference panel – The retiring academic 

Fresh Podcasts

Episode 94 – Flesh Rains Down Upon Thee – The Partial Historians 

We return to Rome’s narrative from the founding of City. The year c. 462 BCE ends on a high note with the consuls both gathering honours for their military exploits. L. Lucretius Tricipitinus is awarded a triumph for his successes against the Aequii while T. Veturius Geminus scores an ovatio for his part against the Volscii. As for the title of this episode—’Flesh Rains Down Upon Thee’— well, we wouldn’t want to spoil it, but let’s just say it’s best to keep your ears alert for prodigies!

Julius Caesar and the Point of No Return – Ancient History Fangirl 

Julius Caesar was in Gaul for eight years—and while he was gone, things in Rome didn’t just stop. His enemies were sharpening their knives, just salivating for him to come back so they could prosecute him. If they got their way, Caesar could lose his legions, his fortune, and his position—and see all his achievements undone…

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Gabriel Zuchtriegel, Colonization and Subalternity in Classical Greece: Experience of the Nonelite Population. 
• [BMCR] Osman Umurhan, Juvenal’s Global Awareness: Circulation, Connectivity, and Empire. Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies. 
• [BMCR] John Briscoe, Titi Livi Ab urbe condita. Tomus III: Libri XXI–XXV.  and John Briscoe, Liviana. Studies on Livy.
• Book review: A noble death? | Jerusalem Post  [Magness, Masada: From Jewish Revolt to Modern Myth]

Dramatic Classical Receptions

• Vulfpeck Adapts Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ As A Musical In New “Disco Ulysses” Video [Watch]/

Conferences and Calls for Papers

• CFP: Language Instruction – Theory to Practice | Society for Classical Studies 
• Epigraphic Heritage in the Digital Age, Madrid, 20-21 June 2019 – Current Epigraphy 

Employment Opportunities

• PhD position in Ancient History at the Universität Heidelberg (Germany) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy 

Alia

• Archaeology and female authority in the early church | National Catholic Reporter 
• Behind the scandalous story of the £1.8m Warren Cup: an ancient Roman vessel | Telegraph [paywalled] 
• Philosophy should care about the filthy, excessive and unclean | Aeon Ideas 

 

 

We have a new template but I need to figure out how to deal with this ‘automatic drop cap’ thing which doesn’t quite look right to me …

In the News

• Behind the scandalous story of the £1.8m Warren Cup: an ancient Roman vessel | Telegraph [possibly paywalled]
• Greek Centre offers lecture about Archers of Classical Athens | Neos Kosmos 
• Swedish ambassador says “return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens is a question of moral principle” | Neos Kosmos 

Fresh Bloggery

• Crouching Aphrodite | Ancient World Magazine 
• Beach Reading: Ten Easy Latin Works |  In Medias Res – Medium 
• The Birth of Strategy from the Spirit of the Muses? | Sphinx 
• Last Full Week in Polis | Ancient History Ramblings 
• PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Ure Voice: A Panoply Interview with Professor Amy Smith
• “Our Culture”: Classics By Exclusion – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• ISAW Director Alexander Jones Receives 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 

Fresh Podcasts

145-Achilles: The Age of Heroes – Myths and Legends 

We’re back on the road to the Trojan War, with the story of Achilles. Starting from when his father interrupted the ritual to make him immortal, we’ll follow him as he goes to that epic Greek daycare run by Chiron and watch as his mother tries to keep him away from the war that is beginning to consume the Greek world.

Demetra Kasimis, “The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy” (Cambridge UP, 2018) | New Books Network 

Demetra Kasimis’s new book, … interrogates the role and unstable place of the metics (metoikoi) in Athenian society.  The book focuses on three different presentations and discussions of the metics, in Euripides’ Ion, in Plato’s Republic, and in Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides …

Reviews

• [BMCR] Chris Doyle, Honorius: The Fight for the Roman West AD 395-423. Roman imperial biographies.
• [BMCR] Gesine Manuwald, Reviving Cicero in Drama: From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage
• [BMCR] Ricardo Martínez Lacy​ (ed.), Hermenéutica de la esclavitud: actas del XXXVII coloquio del GIREA. Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité​. 
• In Statecraft, What is Tragedy Good For? [The lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order]
• GODS AND ROBOTS: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology – Classics for All
• THE SINGLE LIFE IN THE ROMAN AND LATER ROMAN WORLD – Classics for All
• HOW TO THINK ABOUT WAR: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Wilson’s ‘Oedipus’ | Epidaurus | ekathimerini 

Obituaries

• Dr Judith McKenzie | Faculty of Classics 

Alia

• 2018-2019 Annual Report | Ancient World Mapping Center 
• Why cultural heritage benefits the rich and powerful above all | Aeon Essays 
• Greece: New silver crown coin in “Greek Culture” series dedicated to the historian Thucydides | Coin Update 
• More on the 9.2% Drop in Language Enrollments | Inside Higher Ed

In the News

• Vat Of Ancient Fish Sauce May Confirm Date That Pompeii Was Destroyed 
• Gold, bronze coins honor Roman military victories | Coin World 
• Looking back at RU grad student-organized international conference ‘Food & Drink in the Ancient World’ (31 May-1 June 2019) 

In Case You Missed it

• Bronze Age Siberian ‘Birdman’ Wore a Collar of Beaks and Skulls  | Live Science 
• Ancient Roman Penis Graffiti Shows Humans Will Never Change | IFLScience 
• A Submerged Ancient Greek Fortress on Israel’s Coast | Mosaic 
• Professor inspired by Ancient Greeks creates games to teach students about power and responsibility | Neos Kosmos 
• 2,300-year-old scripture found on school’s wall | Hurriyet 

Fresh Bloggery

• The Original Christian Heretic | The Classical Association in Northern Ireland 
• The History Girls: A Mini Greek Odyssey: Our Mythological Half Term. By Anna Mazzola
• Domitian, Ovid, Lucan and Friends: Quintilian With Some World-Class Shade – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Digitizing Gonçalves’ Lexicon Magnum Latino-Sinicum | Dickinson College Commentaries 
• Western Cyprus | Summertime Fragments 

Fresh Podcasts

Constantine, the first Christian Emperor? | Antiquity In Question 

This episode talks about Constantine I the first Roman Emperor to legalise Christianity, we take a deeper look at Constantine to see if he really was a Christian and therefore, if he can be called the first Christian Emperor?

Itinera Podcast: Episode 22 – Donna Zuckerberg 

Donna Zuckerberg, Editor in Chief of Eidolon  and author of Not All Dead White Men sits down with me on the finale of season 2 of Itinera to discuss the creation and evolution of Eidolon, the reception of classics in Red Pill communities, and how she conceives of her role as an ally. Recorded at the Annual Conference of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in 2018.

S.3 E.2 Ask a Classicist with Sanne Vliegenthart: Classics is Everywhere! by That’s Ancient History

It’s the third round of That’s Ancient History’s ‘Ask a Classicist’ specials where host Jean Menzies is joined by a complete classics novice and answers all of their pressing antiquity related questions (or tries to).

QDP Ep 139: De Carmine Secundo Sulpiciae – Quomodo Dicitur? Podcast 

A Latin language podcast …

Conferences and Calls for Papers

• Conference: 11th Eleatica International on Ancient Philosophy | Society for Classical Studies 
• CFP: The Soul in Ancient Philosophy | Society for Classical Studies 

Employment

• Stipendiary Lectureship in Classics | Lady Margaret Hall 
• Professor, 9 Month Salaried (Classics) job with Florida State University 

Alia

• Why cultural heritage benefits the rich and powerful above all | Aeon Essays 

We’ll be adding a few more categories this week  and still need to figure out how the weekend edition is going to work (and find a better template for mobile), but otherwise, this looks like it is a doable daily thing … please pass the link on to your colleagues who are skeptical of social media ….

In the News

• Tomb raiders turn to Facebook to peddle treasures stolen from conflict zones – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) 
• Translating the female voice | Varsity 
• Archaeologists to Seek Grave of First Roman Emperor to Die in Battle, Trajan Decius in 251 Battle of Abritus, near Bulgaria’s Razgrad – Archaeology in Bulgaria 
• 2200-year-old fortress linked to Biblical battle found under sea water at Tel Dor | International Business Times
• Leadership and mimicry: What the Greek-Roman biographer Plutarch knew about Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes – Raw Story

Classical News

• Comitia Europaea | Nuntii Latini | Radio Finland 
• Akropolis World News: Ἀληθῶς τὸ δίπλωμα βούλει; φύτευσόν μοι δέκα δένδρα! 

Fresh Bloggery

• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Latin Proverbs and Fables Round-Up: June 3 
• The World of The Dragon: Genesis – Part V – The Two Emperors of Rome | Eagles and Dragons
• The end of history? 18th century style | Mary Beard 
• Latin Spells Deciphered from TV Shows Part I | Latin Language Blog 
• Your Latin Sucks! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• Through the Eyes of Ruby: Discovering Color and Trade in ‘The World Between Empires’ – History From Below 
•  What Does Productivity Even Mean to a Classics Administrator? | Society for Classical Studies 
• What an Ancient Roman Shoe Found in a Well Tells Us About Fashion | History Echo

Fresh Podcasts

Vercingetorix: All You Love Must Burn (Part 3): The Show Notes – Ancient History Fangirl 

Ancient Greece Declassified: 24 A History of Inequality w/ Walter Scheidel 

We live at a time of increasing economic inequality worldwide. What is driving this trend? And what are the factors that can stabilize or even reduce levels of inequality? Answering this question empirically would require a deep dive into the archives of history. One would have to sift through millennia of economic data across continents and civilizations.

Our guest today took on this gargantuan task of writing a “global survey that covers the broad sweep of observable history” regarding inequality (as he puts it). Walter Scheidel is professor of Classics and History at Stanford University. He is a prolific author, and one of the most cited historians of Rome alive today. In 2017 he rekindled the debate about the history of inequality with the publication of his book The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the 21st Century. 

Reviews

• [BMCR] Martin Eckert, Die Aphrodite der Seefahrer und ihre Heiligtümer am Mittelmeer: archäologische Untersuchungen zu interkulturellen Kontaktzonen am Mittelmeer in der späten Bronzezeit und frühen Eisenzeit. 
• [BMCR] Diane J. Rayor, William W. Batstone (ed.), Latin Lyric and Elegiac Poetry: An Anthology of New Translations, 2nd edition.
• [BMCR] Dwayne A. Meisner, Orphic Tradition and the Birth of Gods. 

Dramatic Receptions

• Review of Boudica at the Barn Theatre in Welwyn Garden City | Welwyn Hatfield Times 
• Theater review: A river of truly tragic twists in ‘Eurydice’ at the Underground | Duluth News Tribune 
• Theater: Ancient Greek comedy inspires fresh farce – The Morning Call 

Alia:

• Museio | Circe and Witchcraft in Ancient Greece 
• The Odyssey, Book 9: revision/commentary VIDEOS with COMIX! | Greek Myth Comix 
• 164 | Death of the Republic — Talking Politics [Tom Holland] 
• Attorney General William Barr, in exclusive CTM interview, on caring about his reputation: “Everyone dies” – CBS News [Homer!]  
• William Barr Laughs at Homer—but He Doesn’t Get the Joke