Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Apr. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Elaphebolion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
Apologies for not posting yesterday — migraine issues — today gets caught up.
In the News
- ‘Cursed’ Medusa-embossed sarcophagus on display at Amasya Museum | Daily Sabah
- Ancient Roman stone quarry unearthed in Izmir | Daily Sabah
- UK Culture Secretary: “Impossible” to Give Parthenon Marbles Back
- Stephen Fry Calls For The Return Of The ‘Parthenon Marbles’ To Greece – Greek City Times
- Coin from 2nd Temple Mount era found during Tower of David conservation – The Jerusalem Post
- Slab with Marching Ancient Greek Warriors Discovered at Apollo Temples on Ancient Black Sea Island in Bulgaria’s Sozopol – Archaeology in Bulgaria. and Beyond
In Case You Missed It
- Pompeii: ancient remains are helping scientists learn what happens to a body caught in a volcanic eruption | MENAFN.COM
- A Biblical Mystery and Reporting Odyssey: 1883 Fragments – The New York Times
- Massive Roman Villa From 4th Century With Huge 60ft Mosaic Discovered In Southern Spain | The Florida Star | The Georgia Star
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- First-Wives’ Club: Oinone and Her Son – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Was Emmaus Bethel?
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Ancient Iran Day website
- PaleoJudaica.com: Passover 2021
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mémoires de la religion grecque
- Whacking Off Wards Off War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- First-Wives’ Club: Oinone and Her Son – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Helen’s Serving Girl Wrote the First Greek Sex Manual – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Guerre et paix en Assyrie: Religion et impérialisme
- Roman Times: The rise and decline of the chariot in ancient warfare
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Method of Prophecy
- PaleoJudaica.com: Mihálykó, The Christian Liturgical Papyri: An Introduction (Mohr Siebeck)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Heath, The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths (Routledge)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Louvre Collections Online
- Explaining the Cuckoo: Women Know Everything – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Akten des 23. Internationalen Papyrologenkongresses, Wien, 22.–28. Juli 2001
- Roman Times: Orestes and Iphigenia
- It Is Good For Women to Exercise Too! (But for Predictable, Instrumental Reasons) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Pliny The Younger Gave His Nurse A Small Farm | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Curule chair found in Roman funeral pyre
- Autism and Classical Myth: ACCLAIM! What I’m doing during Autism Awareness Week
- Honorius op de troon – Mainzer Beobachter
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Cento and Venice – 1618
- Antiquarianism and Philhellenism. The Thanassis and Marina Martinos
Blog-like Publications
- 14 Times The Greek Gods Shapeshifted To Rape Mortals
- The Myth Of Venus And Adonis: From Incest To Beauty
- Where Did The Centaurs Come From? A Journey Through Ancient Art | TheCollector
- The forgotten fascist legacy – Benito Mussolini’s role in preserving ancient Roman monuments – Ancient World Magazine
- Sarmizegetusa Regia – The Mountain Capital of the Dacians – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Field of Dreams: Schliemann’s Excavation of Troy – Antigone
- AUGUSTA (Sr), loc. Megara Hyblaea. Area archeologica da scoprire. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @haeferlkaffee on assorted ‘peculiar’ sarcophagi
- @SarahEBond on the translation of olisbokollix
- @parcostiantica on the theatre on the site
- @artcrimeprof on cutting up ancient texts to increase their market value
- @AimeeMaroux on assorted quotations from Greek drama
- @ancientlyric on singing Euripides
- @tigerlilyrocks on the most-recently-added wikipedia pages for women classicists
- @MichaelDPress comments on James Tabor’s take on the Shapira kerfuffle
- @SarahEBond on assorted reliefs depicting Roman commerce
- @DocCrom continues looking at Propertius for #LatinForTheDay
- @DocCrom’s ancient coin of the day is an aureus of Hadrian
- @TonyKeen46 and the #ClassicsTwitterMovie folks watched Hail Caesar! this week
Fresh Podcasts
Without recordings, and with notation and instruments long forgotten, how can we possibly know what music soundtracked Ancient Greek life? James Lloyd from the University of Reading has been studying Ancient Greek music, in particular its role in Ancient Sparta. In this episode James tells Tristan how it has been possible to recreate songs and instruments from antiquity. He takes us into the mythology connecting music to the Gods and Goddesses, and to nature, and he explains how the reaction to music in Ancient Greece may sometimes have been similar to the reaction to rock in the United States in the 20th century, and to drill in the UK today.
1300 BCE – 900 CE – History has seen repeated tensions between the three Abrahamic religions whose history is intertwined and all come from the same original theory of there being one almighty God. The different interpretations of God’s teachings have divided the monotheistic followers into distinct religions and sects of those religions too.
2019 – Between the publication of Volume Two and Volume Three, Chris was interviewed by the man behind the successful YouTube channel, the Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, Nick Barksdale. Here is the audio version.
This episode from our sibling podcast The Ancients is all about that hero of British folklore; Boudica. Her leadership of the Iceni in an uprising against the forces of the Roman Empire in around 60 AD is echoed around school classrooms. But what evidence do we have for her actions, appearance and eventual defeat? Caitlin Gillespie is the author of ‘Boudica: Warrior Woman of Roman Britain.’ In this first of two episodes, she speaks to Tristan about the sources that have helped us to find out more about this legendary woman.
The first part of a summary of Roman Theatre presented as my personal top ten of the most influential, interesting and surprising aspects of Roman Theatre. This episode goes from number 10 to number 6. The top 5 will follow next time. No spoilers as to the content of the episode here. You’ll have to listen to hear the countdown.
Fresh Youtubery
- Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
- Crypta Balbi Museum (Museo Nazionale Romano) | American Institute for Roman Culture
- How to pronounce Latin words || Vowels length and words stress | Satura Lanx
- Il Paesaggio del Parco archeologico del Colosseo | Parco Colosseo
- E’ tutto oro quello che luccica. Tesori della Collezione Castellani #7 | Etruschannel
- 7 Surprising Cosmetic Techniques Used in Ancient Rome | Classics in Color
- Il braccio di ferro di Dante con Orazio e Ovidio in Paradiso — Corrado Bologna | Andrea Cirla
- La musica etrusca. Progetto “Un museo da ragazzi” | Etruschannel
- Florence, Italy: a world heritage city | Darius Arya Digs
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Gianfranco Adornato, Gabriella Cirucci , Walter Cupperi, Beyond “art collections”: owning and accumulating objects from Greek antiquity to the early Modern period. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
- [BMCR] Emlyn Dodd, Roman and Late Antique wine production in the Eastern Mediterranean: a comparative archaeological study at Antiochia ad Cragum (Turkey) and Delos (Greece). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 63. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020.
- [BMCR] Serena Perrone, Cratete. Introduzione, Traduzione e Commento. Fragmenta Comica, 2. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019.
Dramatic Receptions
- Ensemble Theatre Company Presents John Tufts Starring In AN ILIAD
- BWW Review: CALIGULA at Teatr Polski Wroclaw
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Teaching Fellow in Latin (3 years) – Edinburgh | Mendeley Careers
- Anna Peterson to speak on “To the Ends of the Earth: Philostratus and the Spaces of Hellenism” – Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
- Book Launch: The Life of Comedy after the Death of Plautus and Terence – Department of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The mystery of the Roman cavalry saddle: Did it ever have a wooden tree? – Horsetalk.co.nz
- Girls and Dolls in the Roman Empire | JSTOR Daily
- Sculpture of Ancient Greek Boxer Still Haunts Viewers Today
- Pavlopetri, Greece’s Ancient Underwater City
- Poem of the Week: Hymn to Aphrodite by Frederick Seidel | Poetry | The Guardian
‘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 better reputation for women.
… 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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