Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 4 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Egyptian temple reveals previously unknown star constellations | Live Science
- Historical artifact, Roman Zeus statue seized in Turkey
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Bust of Greek God Hermes Found During Work on Athens’ Sewage System | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Centre Alexandrin d’Étude des Amphores
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus Winckelmann
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ICAR: Iconography and archeology for pre-Roman Italy
- Hearing Corwin Hall | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Roman Times: The cult of Serapis: Visions and Portents
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roundup of Resources on Ancient Geography
- “Provenance Research Today” book release to debut at the International Catalogue Raisonné Association conference ~ ARCAblog
- The museums reopen – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient geography galore!
- Hated By the People, Plotted Against by Friends – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Happy World Toilet Day!
- The timeless behavior of political crooks – Novo Scriptorium
- Fleecing a Discipline – Mycenaean Miscellany
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “A Papyrologist who Worked on this Manuscript, a Man Whose Reputation is Unimpeachable”.*
Blog-like Publications
- Hobby Lobby’s Museum of the Bible Steals; Does It Also Lie? | by Melissa Bailey Kutner | EIDOLON
- DUCS Talk Summary: Philip Hardie, “Lucretian Flights of the Mind: Epicurus and Newton.” | by Sionna Hurley-O’Kelly | Ostraka | Nov, 2020 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
Classicists in Transition, a podcast by the Ghent Institute for Classical Studies, hosted by Dimitri Van Limbergen and Alison John. In this episode, we talk to dr. Serena Causo on the theme of judgement!
Chris Naunton joined me on the podcast to talk about the work of the many people who contributed to our understanding of ancient Egypt.
Emlyn Dodd is a Fellow at the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens and is currently directing a survey project across Cycladic islands which, among other things, is investigating the production of wine and oil in the Classical to Late Antique eras. He spoke to Tristan about what the evidence from Pompeii tells us about grape growth and wine production there, and whether this can be scaled out to other settlements in the Roman Mediterranean.
It’s 453 BCE and just as Rome seems to be heading towards a legal milestone disaster strikes: it’s a plague!
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Andrew N. Sherwood, Milorad Nikolic, John W. Humphrey, John P. Oleson, Greek and Roman technology : a sourcebook of translated Greek and Roman texts (2nd edition).
- [BMCR] Federico de Romanis, The Indo-Roman pepper trade and the Muziris papyrus. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- The gods at home: Cult images in context in the Roman Empire
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
Alia
- The Abduction of Helen tapestry – Smarthistory
- Becoming Osiris: How the ancient Egyptians would join the gods after death – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- People in biblical Israel 3,000 years ago suffered lead contamination – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
‘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 good things for women.
… 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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