Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 8 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- On the origins of money: Ancient European hoards full of standardized bronze objects
- Pompeii reopens Antiquarium with jewels, gold and casts – Culture – ANSAMed.it
- Explore the finds uncovered at Aswan’s partial Roman fort – EgyptToday
- Remains of Roman building discovered outside Gloucester church – Gloucestershire Live
In Case You Missed It
- Tornos News | Roman shipwreck filled with ancient treasures discovered off Greek island of Kassos
- Ancient Egypt’s newly restored Temple of Isis opens to visitors | ZAWYA MENA Edition
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Bert Hodge Hill (03/07/1874 – 12/02/1958) American Archaeologist Known For His Contributions To The Corinth Excavations
- Famous Archaeologist Sinclair Hood Passes Away Aged 103 – Greek City Times
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Knowledge, Cooperation, and the Common Good – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Digital Workflows in Archaeological Practice | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Restitution: Belgian authorities hand over a 1st century BCE Roman statue stolen from Rome in 2011 ~ ARCAblog
- Aurei in Egypt: Karanis Hoard 4 – The Social Lives of Coins
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ReMeDHe: Religion, Medicine, Disability, Health, and Healing in Late Antiquity
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Disability History and the Ancient World (ca. 3000 BCE – 700 CE)
- Roman Times: Ancient rhetoric
- Oaths, Relief, and Restoration – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Greekness
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Chronological Lists of Oriental Institute Publications
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Levantine Ceramics Project
- Boeken, boeken, boeken – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: On the Letter of Aristeas
- PaleoJudaica.com: Water from the Jesus Rock?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique “Christ, born of Mary” inscription excavated in Jezreel Valley
- Repeating History – Pompeian Connections
- Rare 5th Century AD Late Roman Marble Table Discovered in Petrich Kale Fortress near Bulgaria’s Varna – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
- Blog: Inauguration rites, in Ancient Rome and the modern U.S.A, are more than mere pageantry | Society for Classical Studies
- 1,500-year-old Byzantine Greek inscription discovered in northern Israel – The Archaeology News Network
- Roman-era shipwreck discovered off Greek island of Kasos – The Archaeology News Network
- Spencer Alley: Fresco Painting in the High Renaissance (Italy)
- Teaching Ancient Egypt Here and Now: A Syllabus – Everyday Orientalism
- At Home with Hestia
Blog-like Publications
- Images and Symbols of Egyptian Gods on Ancient Coins
- The Iron Age Tribes of Britain – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Why Were These 3 Roman Emperors Reluctant to Hold the Throne?
- The Fallen Hero Of Rome. The story of Gaius Gracchus and the… | by Cody Trusler | Exploring History | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
17. Strahil Panayotov: Assyrian eye medicineStrahil explains how Assyrian medicine worked. Who were the doctors and what did they do? Would their treatments have been effective? He discusses the problems caused by taxonomy. Different ideas about the…
For centuries, arguably the greatest external threat the Roman Empire faced came from the East. From the Sasanian Persian Empire. With its nucleus situated in Iran, at its height the Sasanian Empire was one of antiquity’s most formidable kingdoms, controlling lands that stretched from the Hindu Kush to the River Euphrates. Like the Romans, the Sasanians had to deal with various potential threats. From the north, from the lands of the steppe east and west of the Caspian Sea, nomadic peoples such as the Huns would become renowned for descending on Roman and Sasanian territories and wreaking havoc. And so, on the edges of their empire, the Sasanians constructed frontiers of various forms. For military purposes, yes. But also for economic and political purposes as will be explained. In this podcast, we’re going to look at some of these Sasanian frontiers. From a dominating fort a ‘top an alpine gorge in the Caucusus to a barrier that makes Hadrian’s Wall pale in comparison. To talk through this incredible topic, I was delighted to be joined by Dr Eve MacDonald from the University of Cardiff. Alongside her research on the Sasanian Empire and its frontiers, Eve has also done work surrounding the ancient history of Carthage and of North Africa. She is the author of ‘Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life’.
Hadrian’s Wall is a jaw-dropping engineering achievement stretching 73 miles across hundred-foot-high escarpments and rushing rivers, its earthworks dug deep into unforgiving igneous bedrock. It’s the largest Roman artifact in existence, and yet we still have no idea why it was built. It’s barely mentioned in the ancient sources, but in its rise and fall, you can trace the rise and fall of Roman Britain as a whole.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the plague that broke out in Constantinople 541AD, in the reign of Emperor Justinian. According to the historian Procopius, writing in Byzantium at the time, this was a plague by which the whole human race came near to being destroyed, embracing the whole world, and blighting the lives of all mankind. The bacterium behind the Black Death has since been found on human remains from that time, and the symptoms described were the same, and evidence of this plague has since been traced around the Mediterranean and from Syria to Britain and Ireland. The question of how devastating it truly was, though, is yet to be resolved. With John Haldon Professor of Byzantine History and Hellenic Studies Emeritus at Princeton University Rebecca Flemming Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cambridge And Greg Woolf Director of the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London
Fresh Youtubery
- What language do you speak? τίνι γλώττῃ λαλεῖς; (Learn to Speak Ancient Greek, Lesson 6) | Triodos trivium
- Identikit di un capolavoro – L’altorilievo di Pyrgi | Etruschannel
- Catullus 26 in Latin & English: Furi, villula vestra non ad Austri flatus opposita est | David Amster
- The Porus Medallion | Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
- European Origins of the Philistines (DNA) | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Do Roman Emperors Matter? | Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
- Lungo le strade di Pompei – Via dell’Abbondanza, la Fontana | Pompeii Sites
- Spartan Troop Figures | Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
- Dulce et decorum est: Wilfred Owen and Horace | Swansea Uni Classics, Ancient History, and Egyptology
Book Reviews
- Zeuxippos ou Byzance. La ville du soleil | Spartokos a lu
- Review – Living on the Edge of Empire: the objects and people of Hadrian’s Wall – Current Archaeology
- [AJA] New Directions in Cypriot Archaeology Edited by Catherine Kearns and Sturt W. Manning. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press 2019.
- [AJA] Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King’s Peace to the Peace of Apamea Edited by Andrea M. Berlin and Paul J. Kosmin. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019.
- [AJA] Life and Death in the Roman Suburb By Allison L.C. Emmerson. Oxford: Oxford University Press 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Announcement of New Co-editors for TAPA | Society for Classical Studies
- Ancient Political Philosophy University of Oklahoma Norman Campus: College of Arts and Sciences: Classics and Letters
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The Science of It: Ancient construction from Pompeii
- Story of the Ptolemaic era: What did the Macedonians do in Egypt? – EgyptToday
- Women in Ancient Roman Society
- Book Review: ‘Lore’ by Alexandra Bracken | The Young Folks
‘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 that the king who is hated by many will be the subject of a fatal plot.
… 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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