Hodie est a.d. III Non. Feb. 2774 AUC ~ 21 Gamelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Pola, ritrovamento storico. Spunta una figura togata di oltre duemila anni fa
- Rare £23,000 Roman lead ‘pig’ ingot will take pride of place in Craven Museum | Ilkley Gazette
- Rewriting history, evidence of olive consumption 6,600 years ago found off Haifa | The Times of Israel
In Case You Missed It
- Rare purple textiles from the time of biblical kings found for the first time in Israel | Live Science
- Ancient mummies with golden tongues unearthed in Egypt – BBC News
- Mentor shipwreck research continues | Multimedia | ekathimerini.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- Horace’s lyrics of friendship offer hope to our troubled world | Psyche Ideas
- Digging – on Netflix and in real life | Blog post by Mary Beard – The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- The (Ancient) Science of Snow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Homerica First – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Mood Swings of A Man in Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Times: The quiet nobility of the Villa Giulia Painter
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gutenberg (Latin texts)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Best Religion
- Bestiaria Latina Blog: Centum Verba 28: Feles, Vulpes, et Lupus
- Olifanten en olifanten – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Gold-tongued mummy found in Egyptian tomb
- #WCCWiki in Athens – It’s All Greek To Me
- Odyssey Book 21 – Part 4, and Ancient Geek podcast episode 4 | Greek Myth Comix
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Archaeology breakthrough as ‘dark earth’ at Vindolanda site discovers rich ‘secrets’
- PaleoJudaica.com: JSIJ 19 (2021): Josephus volume
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Samaritan Temple on Mount Gerizim
- PaleoJudaica.com: Gold-tongued mummies, but no Cleopatra
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Poundian Latinity Again
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Artefact Hunters not Exempt
Blog-like Publications
- Alexandria. The Most Illustrious, the Most Beautiful, the Most Magnificent
- A Handbook of Gods and Goddesses of the Ancient Near East
- New Detailed Map Reveals Extent of Ancient City of Pergamon – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- The Art of Tragedy: Ancient Greek Theater
- The First Italia on Coinage: Ancient Coins of Italy
Fresh Podcasts
Inspired by the work I’m doing with CSCP on Pompeii, this is part 1 of a rant so epic I had to cut it in half to fit it into ten minutes! Here are the first two (or last two?) points on my list of the four most annoying things people get wrong about Pompeii. (And thanks to Dr Sophie Hay who helped with Point 1/4!)
Claire Holleran takes us on a jaunt through the streets of Rome to introduce to the sights, sounds and shops!
Roughly two miles south of Hadrian’s Wall lie the remains of Roman Corbridge, the northernmost town of the Roman Empire. The site’s archaeology is unique. The remains highlight what was once a bustling town. As its centre was the high street. Covered walkways, street-side shops and an ornate fountain are just a few of the structures that we know were present along this central road, now known as the Stanegate. Metres away, however, you have the remains of very different structures surviving. Military buildings, ‘mini forts’ that were slotted into Corbridge’s bustling town landscape, when the legionaries returned here in the 2nd century. Though not on Hadrian’s Wall itself, this ancient cosmopolitan town had strong economic connections with those manning this frontier. It is a must-see site for anyone planning to visit Hadrian’s Wall. A few months back, I was fortunate enough to visit Corbridge and be shown around the site by English Heritage curator Dr Frances McIntosh.
Leukon was the tyrant, then king, of the Cimmerian Bosporus, a territory on the Crimean Peninsula, at the very edge of the Greek world. He took the territory, capitalized on its relationship to the rest of the Greek world to create an important Hellenized kingdom that would last for centuries.
In this first of countless (?) episodes on the Odyssey, Jeff and Dave wash ashore on the opening books, Castaway style. Here we find Odysseus’ wife and son, Penelope and Telemachus, besieged in their home on Ithaca by greedy, gluttonous, mindless suitors, and with no idea when Odysseus is ever coming home. As with the Iliad, we consider the first word of the poem — ἄνδρα (andra, man) — and investigate how this might be a guidestone for understanding the epic’s deeper themes. Other key questions: will Telemachus rise to the occasion? How do the meanings of names (glint-eyed Athena) give us insight into character? And what’s Lazy Steve doing in this neck of the woods? Don’t miss the concluding yogurt.
Fresh Youtubery
- Female Patrons in Roman Law | School of Advanced Study
- Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics In Movies And TV | How Real Is It? | Insider
- Identikiti di un capolavoro – L’olpe Chigi | Etruschannel
- CAARI Cyprus:
- Vasiliki Kassianidou lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Anna Reeve lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Thomas Kiely lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Sebastiano Soldi lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Giorgos Papasavvas lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- Christine Morris and Giorgos Papantoniou lecture: CAARI & British Museum conference 29-30 Jan 2021
- The World’s Oldest Love Poem: The Love Song of Shu-Sin | Ancient History Encyclopedia
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Eva Geith, Tulip Abd-el Hay, Jochen Schmid, Der Königspalast von Qatna. Teil II: Architektur, Stratigraphie, Keramik und Funde des westlichen Zentralbereiches. Qatna-Studien. Ergebnisse der Ausgrabungen, 6. Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, 2019.
- [BMCR] Fred K. Drogula, Cato the Younger: life and death at the end of the Roman republic. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Martyn Allen, The role of zooarchaeology in the study of the western Roman Empire. JRA supplementary series, 107. Portsmouth: Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Positions Available: Digital Humanities Project Assistant | American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Antiquarianism and Philhellenism: An emblematic exhibition to celebrate the Greek War of Independence bicentennial | Neos Kosmos
- Geometric Problems of Classical Greece: Angular Trisection – 02/02/2021 – Marcelo Viana – KSU | The Sentinel Newspaper
- Ancient Roman artefacts to go on display in Clunes | The Courier | Ballarat, VIC
‘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 civil unrest.
… 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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