Hodie est a.d. III Id. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 26 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
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- Archaeologists unearth huge Phoenician defensive moat
- 5th century Roman mosaic found in Britain’s Chedworth Roman Villa – CNN Style
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Tom Winnifrith obituary | Classics and ancient history | The Guardian
- L’UE finanzia con quasi due milioni di euro Lo studio “Gli imperatori romani visti dalle città delle province” | Univrmagazine
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hanukkah 2020
- PhDs in the Netherlands: accepting proposals again
- PaleoJudaica.com: My SBL paper on Jewish and Greco-Roman Magic
- Autism and Classical Myth: “Too much green…” “everything so intense…” “Roehampton is so beautiful”… What happened at Hercules Café
- More on Chris Witmore’s Old Lands (Part 2) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Want to Hear a Story? The First Class Crudeness of This Man! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Baths of Constantine in the panorama of Antonio van Wyngaerde ca. 1560 – Roger Pearse
- Roman Times: Roman stucco
- Perseus and Andromeda in ‘The House of Mirth’ – Tragic Geek
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Stunning dark ages mosaic found at Roman villa in Cotswolds
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Radiocarbon dating revealed mosaic at Chedworth Roman Villa was designed and created in the fifth century
- Hadrian in colour, by Danila Loginov FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- The Fruitless Toil of Worry: Two Passages on Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amphora Stamps of the Northern Black Sea (Database)
- Cephalus And Procris, Painted By Godfried Schalcken (c. 1643–1706) | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Britain’s first known 5th c. mosaic found
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hanukkah and 1-2 Maccabees
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Scroll of Antiochus and the Maccabean Revolt
- PaleoJudaica.com: Another book of Maccabees? With drunken elephants!
- PaleoJudaica.com: Postdoctoral researcher on the Qur’an and Aramaic Christianity
- The life of a trafficked slave behind his trafficked funerary portrait. ~ ARCAblog
- Looting Matters: Funerary reliefs from Ostia
- 3,500-year-old place of worship with mass burials discovered in Cyprus – The Archaeology News Network
- A PORTRAIT OF A (PAGAN) LADY: MABEL GORDON DUNLAP | From the Archivist’s Notebook
Blog-like Publications
- Pheidias workshop to be restored
- Dating the Dark Age, part II – The conventional absolute chronology of Early Iron Age Greece – Ancient World Magazine
- Paris’ Prologue 3: The Plan of Hera: spannycattroy — LiveJournal
- Maxims from the Delphic Oracle. Socrates, Stoicism, and the Philosophy… | by Donald J. Robertson | Stoicism — Philosophy as a Way of Life | Dec, 2020 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
Who would literally get cheese or die trying? Who thought that walls were for wimps? Which crazed military society was the best place to be for an ancient Greek woman? It’s surprising Sparta! Strap on your armour of inquiry and join our phalanx!
In this episode, I recount the causes, battles, and effects of the Great Jewish Revolt against the Romans from 66 to 70 A.D. I will describe, in detail, the siege of Jerusalem, and the subsequent bloodbath that followed.
This week’s episode starts off with an update on a enigmatic Latin-Punic inscription mentioned a few weeks ago in the Sulcis episode. Then we dive into the site of Complutum, located near Madrid in the town of Alcalá de Henares. The remains here include…
‘I’m Spartacus!’ In the field of epic film making, the 1960 historical drama ‘Spartacus’, is legendary. Directed by Stanley Kibrick, 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.
A sturdy set of walls is a powerful deterrent: that’s why ancient empires devoted so much time to understanding how to best build (and break down) these defensive structures. The team discuss the vol.XIV-3 of the magazine, Breaking Down the Walls: Fortifications and Siege Warfare.
Fresh Youtubery
- Ecole francaise d’Athenes
- 02/12/2020- Journée maliote- L’occupation prépalatiale au cœur de l’établissement maliote
- 02/12/2020- Journée maliote- Séquence céramique néopalatiale à Malia
- 02/12/2020- Journée maliote- Séquence architecturale du palais de Malia
- 02/12/2020- Journée maliote- Residue Analysis and Culinary Practices at Malia
- 02/12/2020- Journée maliote- L’éclairage artificiel dans l’habitat à Malia
- Did Commodus End the Golden Age of Rome? – Roman History DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- Conservation in Action: Conservator’s Corner | Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
- Robert Davi reads “Apollo” by Gabriele Tinti | Parco archeologico Colosseo
- Romulus il finale | Etruschannel
- Diversity in Ancient Nubia: Interview with Dr. Aaron de Souza | Digital Hammurabi
- What Did They Do Before… Cameras? | Iszitube
- Roman Ice Core Evidence: Antonine Pandemic – Economic Recovery: Greenland Pollution: Marcus Aurelius | Dr Raoul McLaughlin
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Marion Kruse, The politics of Roman memory: from the fall of the Western empire to the age of Justinian. Empire and after. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
- Amphora Stamps of the Northern Black Sea | Spartokos a lu
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Ancient Greece and Rome on the Big Screen – full course Tickets, Wed 13 Jan 2021 at 19:00 | Eventbrite
- CFP: Ancient Leadership Series for SAGE Business Cases | Society for Classical Studies
- Fellowship: Ancient Greek Literature | Society for Classical Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- ANE TODAY – 202012 – Nefertiti on Her Chariot – The Female Use of Chariots in Ancient Egypt –
- 500 drunken elephants: The untold Hanukkah story with no Maccabees – The Jerusalem Post
- 6 Roman Mosaics You Can Visit And Explore In Britain – HistoryExtra
- Lying Down and Vomiting Between Courses: This is How Ancient Romans Would Feast
‘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 a hot summer and plenty of imports from foreign countries.
… 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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