Hodie est a.d XIII Kal. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 9 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Stolen treasure including Roman and Viking jewellery discovered by amateur metal detectorist in Worcestershire field | Worcester News
- Torna alla luce un santuario romano in scavi a San Casciano – Toscana – ANSA.it
- Saudi Arabia, Greece to establish cultural weeks, loan antiquities to each other – Saudi Gazette
In Case You Missed It
- Pompeii welcomes back looted Roman frescoes – Wanted in Rome
- Roman-era skeleton found near Mount Vesuvius may be from famous rescue mission | Live Science
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery
- Seneca and Cicero on Education and Research – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Wreading Wednesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Like Father, Like Son
- From my diary: the Tertullian Project cleanup – Roger Pearse
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Hoax
- Introducing… Gods’ Collections | The Votives Project
- Mahindra Lecture: Classical Athens and Contemporary White Ethnonationalism – Pharos
- Speechless About the Life of the Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Career Choice: War Criminal or Man of Letters? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Simple Life
- De Midden-Bronstijd – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Rabin, The Biblical Hero (JPS)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Sigvartsen, Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Apocrypha and Apocalyptic Literature (T&T Clark)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Seeking the Seleucid Laodicea Temple
- PaleoJudaica.com: Book event essays (1): Feldman, The Story of Sacrifice
- Was Cleopatra VII the final Ptolemaic Ruler? – Bad Ancient
- Roman baths emerge from sand dunes of southern Spain – The Archaeology News Network
- Stolen frescoes returned to the Pompeii Museum – The Archaeology News Network
- The British Museum and the Abduction of Persephone – The Archaeology News Network
- Spencer Alley: Guercino in Bologna – 1643-1644
- Looting Matters: The so-called Marcus Aurelius and the so-called Ryedale hoard
Blog-like Publications
- Reading Greek Literature with The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass – Antigone
- To Preserve Ancient Mosaics, Experts Are Burying Them Underground
- David Hendin – Coins Tell the Story of Ancient Sepphoris
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day features some coins of Marcus Aemilius Lepidus
- @SarahEBond on items have been stolen from Pompeii over the years
- @PeterCNStewart shares a pile of photos of 3rd century military tombstones from Apamea
Fresh Podcasts
The chance find of a strange Roman period half lamp in Jerusalem and the even chancier discovery that the other half is in Hungary has shocked the archaeological world. What is this strange light fixture and how can its separation lead to some high-class speculation about lamps, symbolism, and ancient psychology? What is light anyway, and why is it so darned good? Our panelists are incandescent in this episode.
Rome ruled Egypt for several hundred years. Anthropologist, Dr. Anna Lucille Boozer, The City University of New York, joins the show to discuss what life was like in Roman Egypt.
- Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics – Series 7 – Medusa – BBC Sounds
- Standard Issue Podcast: SIM Ep 504 Pod 155: Myths, panic, secrets, and lies on Apple Podcasts
What have the Greek myths ever done for us? Loads, it turns out, as writer, broadcaster, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes explains to Mickey in this week’s podzine. They chat about how the Classics still resonate, why they’re for everyone, and how the women in Greek myth have been given short shrift by (relatively) modern interpreters. What a surprise, eh? We can all agree that panic attacks are fucking horrible, but they’re still quite often dismissed or lumped in with other mental health issues. Jen chats to mental health advocate Claire Eastham, who has had 371 panic attacks and so is perfectly placed to discuss why they happen and how to deal with them; something she also covers in her new book F**K I THINK I’M DYING.
Fresh Youtubery
- Introduction to the Ancient Greek World | Center for Hellenic Studies
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Joseph Dalbera, Apulei Metamorphoseon: index verborum, liste de fréquence. Alpha-Omega, Reihe A, 266. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Olms-Weidmann, 2020.
- [BMCR] Constanze Güthenke, Feeling and classical philology: knowing antiquity in German scholarship, 1770-1920. Classics after antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Andrew Faulkner, Apollinaris of Laodicea: Metaphrasis Psalmorum. Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- University of Haifa: Lectureship/Professorship in the History of the Med
- Senior Lecturer in Classical and Mediterranean Studies job with Vanderbilt.edu | 339032
- Intensive courses in Ancient Greek and Latin at King’s College London
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Parthenon sculptures in British Museum: ‘Unfinished’ National Monument of Scotland is a reminder to right a long-standing wrong – Ian Johnston | The Scotsman
- 8 Important Historical Palestinian Monuments Destroyed by Israeli | Al Bawaba
- Persephone/Persephone A Mythic Journey Through Greek Mythology – Harrisburg Magazine
- The Undiscovered Areas of Pompeii | Art & Object
‘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 prosperity for those in the East, but for those in the West, not so much.
… 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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