Hodie est a.d. III Non. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 18 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Roman citizens paid emperor piles of silver to leave them alone, inscription reveals | Live Science
- Bizarre 3rd Millennium BC ‘Trojan Cups’ Imported from Troy Become November 2020 ‘Exhibit of the Month’ in Bulgaria’s National Museum of Archaeology – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
- The Antiquities Authority, University of Palermo review resuming work in ancient Sabratha | The Libya Observer
- Archeology, an ancient Roman villa and 4 burials discovered in the plain of Venafro – isNews.it
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- A new discovery in tourist-free Pompeii is proof that this pandemic has its upsides
- ‘Trench fever’ found in teeth of ancient Romans reveals the disease began 2,000 years ago | Daily Mail Online
- Game die from Second Temple period uncovered in Beit El – Inside Israel – Israel National News
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Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 177
- PaleoJudaica.com: Inscribed altar to Pan in ancient church wall
- PaleoJudaica.com: Re-measuring Goliath?
- Election Defeat Prompts Comparisons to Roman Emperors by White Supremacists :: Pharos
- “What’s Worse Than This Ignorance?” Reading Sophocles’ “Oedipus At Colonus” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Comfort Classics: David Stuttard – Classical Studies Support
- Hellenistic Currency Systems in the Kelsey: The Ptolemies, Part II – The Social Lives of Coins
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Sappho and Dionysus
- Podcast #12: Thrown Together: Potters, Painters, and Ceramic Production with Sanchita Balachandran – History From Below
- Roman Archaeology Blog: UNE DOMUS ANTIQUE AU PÈGUE (DRÔME)
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Pompeii: Dig uncovers remains of rich man and slave killed by Vesuvius
- Cato’s Radical Tax Plan – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: Ancient origins of the griffin
- Europa, Painted By Pinturicchio (c. 1454–1513) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Legend Of Narses’ Buried Treasure | The Historian’s Hut
- PaleoJudaica.com: Online exhibition: Living in Ancient Judah
- PaleoJudaica.com: Gaming die excavated near Beit El
- PaleoJudaica.com: Rollston on forging DSS etc.
- New Book: Provenance Research Today (with discount code)
- Brainstorming a Flexible Typology database for Republican Coinage – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Paris’ Prologue 12: Alternative Version. Priam Receives the Oracle after Paris is Born: spannycattroy — LiveJournal
- Greek Tragedy & Heavy Metal, Pt. 1: Aeschylus – Heavy Metal Classicist
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- PLV Inscriptions (Birrens) | Per Lineam Valli
- An Intern Abroad, or not really. – The Palestine Exploration Fund
- Caesar In Britain: What Happened When He Crossed The Channel?
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- Eidolon Is Dead. Long Live Eidolon. | by Nandini Pandey | Dec, 2020 | EIDOLON
- numishare: Roman Republican Die Project: Nomisma LOD models + IIIF annotation for die studies
- Found: Cases of ‘Trench Fever’ in Ancient Rome – Atlas Obscura
- Identifying Slut-Shaming, Racism, and Transphobia in the Byzantine World
Fresh Podcasts
In this episode we speak with Bram Fauconnier on ‘Education’.
‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, is legendary. Directed by Stanley Kubrick, adapted from the Howard Fast novel by Red Scare blacklisted screenwriter, Dalton Trumbo, and starring Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Peter Ustinov and Jean Simmons; it is a classic. But how much of the plot has emerged from the true story of a Thracian gladiator and slave who escaped his Roman captors and led an unsuccessful but impressive rebellion against their oppressors? How much of the film’s message was formed by the personalities involved in its creation, and the context in which it was made. In her own words, Dr Fiona Radford devoted years of her life to the man with the most memorable chin cleft in the world – Kirk Douglas, specifically as Spartacus. Her thesis traced the production history of this film, examining in particular the effect that the turbulent process had on the portrayal of female characters. Having taught at Macquarie University, ANU and the University of Sydney, she currently teaches history at secondary school level, and her conversation with Tristan in this episode is an eye-opener to 1950s film making as well as the legend of Spartacus.
Fresh Youtubery
- Pompeii Sites
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- Where is Mount Olympus ? | Greek Mythology #shorts | Mythology Short Stories
- Oedipus at Colonus, Sophocles | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Workshop – INVENTION OF WRITING: Production of Images and Language Notation | Inscribe
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Tabea L. Meurer, Vergangenes verhandeln: spätantike Statusdiskurse senatorischer Eliten in Gallien und Italien. Millennium-Studien zu Kultur und Geschichte des ersten Jahrtausends n. Chr., 79. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Arabella Cortese, Identity and cultural exchange in ancient Cilicia: new results and future perspectives. Internationales Kolloquium 18.-19. Mai 2018 in München. Mitteilungen zur spätantiken Archäologie und byzantinischen Kunstgeschichte, 7. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2020. Pp. 160.
- [BMCR] Antón Pazos, Relics, shrines, and pilgrimages: sanctity in Europe from late antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Malcolm Choat, ‘A Forger, his models, methods, and motives: The papyri of Constantine Simonides’: FORVM ANTIKE seminar |
- [Postdoc] Aristotle’s Anatomical Ideas and Research
- CFP: Specialized Labor in Classical Antiquity | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Non-human Animals in Ancient Greek Philosophy and Religion | Society for Classical Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
Alia
- BUILDING A ROMAN VILLA – Current Archaeology
- We Build The LEGO Roman Colosseum, The Biggest Set In History – IGN
- King Cyrus and the Beginnings of the Persian Empire
- Being Persian: Being a Subject of the Persian Empire
- What to know about Peristera shipwreck, Greece’s first underwater museum
‘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 an overconsumption of flocks due to a shortage of fish.
… 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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