Hodie est Id. Dec. 2772 AUC ~ 28 Maimakterion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
n.b. I managed to locate some items lost in yesterday’s mishap …
In the News
- RECOVERING AN ANCIENT BATTLE FROM THE SEA FLOOR
- New Archaeological Discoveries At Temple Dedicated To Zeus In Southern Syria – Greek City Times
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Classics professor’s translation of ancient Greek play recently in demand – GVNext
- Interview – Dr Tim Kendall – Sharon Janet Hague, Author
- How did Enoch Powell, a man with no shame, come to haunt our times? | Boris Johnson | The Guardian
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] ASPERGITVR MEDICAMEN
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Philo on his own mind
- PaleoJudaica.com: Machaerus
- Brevity and Wit: Demetrius on Compression – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- What is this about calligraphy? – Mainzer Beobachter
- Imperialism Begins – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: “Emerging” Aphrodite
- Palladio and the Baths of Constantine – Roger Pearse
- Dr. Fauci Has a Classics Degree! – Tales of Times Forgotten
- December Debates: Should We Accept Gifts from Bad People? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: van Oort (ed.), Manichaeism and Early Christianity (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Collier Prize in Ancient Numismatics
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hasmonean-era oil lamp found on Pilgrimage Road
- How Gift-Giving is Like Getting Drunk: Fronto with Seasonal Advice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Slave’s Lot
- Looting Matters: Stockholm and a statue from the Medici Dossier
- Paris’s Prologue 1-20: Table of Contents : spannycattroy — LiveJournal
- Estimating the Size of The Corpus | The Tesserae Project
- Review of Ancient Aliens S16E04: Giants of the Mediterranean – Jason Colavito
- 10 Most Important Ancient Coins Ever Minted
- Quaestiones in magica: E-J Graham | romanmagic
- The Deification of the Roman Emperor | Mike Bird
Fresh Podcasts
Greco-Roman historians including Herodotus, Tacitus and Pliny the Elder would have us believe that the Garamantes were simple uncivilized cattle herders, living in sporadic camp dwellings. Until archaeological excavations began in the 1960s, this categorisation remained in place. Luckily, archaeologists like David Mattingly have dedicated years of research to sifting the fact from the fiction in the story of these residents of present day Libya. In this episode, David provides us with the revised version of the Garamantes’ civilisation. This includes masterful innovations in irrigation which allowed the Garamantes to farm two crops a year under the heat of the Saharan sun, as well as evidence of a social hierarchy and engagement in foreign trade. Listen as David turns the stereotype of the Garamantes on its head.
312 – Was this the battle that caused Christianity to become the globally mighty religion that we know today, or did the Christian scribes of history use Constantine as a propaganda tool to push the word of Jesus into the consciousness of everybody?
In this week’s episode we are discussing race and diversity within the discipline of Classics, Ancient History, Archaeology and Egyptology, the challenges people of colour face within this discipline and ways we as a department can overcome these obstacles. In the episode we are joined by CAHAE Society members Dan and Tahira, fellow UoM lecturers Dr Hannah Cobb & Dr Roberta Mazza and Tanya from Teach Black Studies UoM. Here the CAHAE society we feel very passionately about making our discipline as inclusive and diverse as possible, we hope in the future we can continue to make progress and change in the wider discipline as a whole.
Fresh Youtubery
- Stupid Ancient History A Level: 8 The Persian Wars pt 2: The Battle of Salamis | D Midgley
- Story of Medusa | Greek Mythology #shorts | Mythology Short Stories
- Searching for identity: Byzantine southern Italy | British School at Rome
- Assyriology Today November 2020 | Digital Hammurabi
- #EOTalks 12: Powerful Text-Things: Papyrology and the Material Turn by ROBERTA MAZZA | Everyday Orientalism
- The Wrath of Cerberus | Michael Levy
- Drinking with Dionysus – Alcohol in Ancient Greece | Uncorked | Archaeology Now
- The Origins of Sumerian Civilization | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Spoken Latin Live Q&A with Satura Lanx (Irene)
- 003. Iliad Book 2. 35-47 YT | Walter M. Roberts III, PhD
- ACOR Jordan:
- Temple of Winged Lions: Reassessment Based on Archives (Archaeology of Petra & Nabataea) [ASOR 2020]
- The Economy of the Nabataean & Roman Port of Aila (Aqaba): A diachronic perspective [ASOR 2020]
- Iron Age Ceramic & Chronological Evidence, Khirbat al-Jariya (Archaeology of Jordan II) [ASOR 2020]
- Post-Destruction Recovery & Resilience, Khirbat Iskander (Interdisciplinary Approaches) [ASOR 2020]
- Rural complexity after urban collapse: an EB IV olive oil “factory” at Khirbet Ghozlan [ASOR 2020]
- ACOR’s Photo Archive as a Tool for Research & Engagement in Archaeological Heritage [ASOR 2020]
- Mars Was a Bottom?
- Battle of Pharsalus 48 BC – Caesar’s Civil War DOCUMENTARY
Book Reviews
- Recueil d’articles pour le 70e anniversaire de Ju. A. Vinogradov | Spartokos a lu
- The Spartans – A review of a book by Andrew J. Bayliss – Ancient World Magazine
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- British Icon of the Week: Stephen Fry, the Witty and Captivating Actor, Comedian, and Writer | Anglophenia | BBC America
- New analysis finally solves a maddening mystery about the ancient Greeks
- Hacker’s Discovery Changes Understanding Of The Antikythera Mechanism | Hackaday
‘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 plenty, but also disease.
… 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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