Hodie est pr. Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

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• The lost Roman Fort under Glasgow that thousands of you drive over every day – Glasgow Live
• Appeal launched for Lady of Karpathos to be displayed in Greece | eKathimerini.com
• Council of State green-lights removal of antiquities from Thessaloniki metro station | eKathimerini.com
• Bronze Age ‘infinity pool’ hosted supernatural water rituals, archaeologists say | Live Science

In Case You Missed It

• Roman Army Camp Discovered in Portugal – Archaeology Magazine
• Roman Sarcophagus Unearthed in Bath, England – Archaeology Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• They Might Be Giants’ John Linnell saves Latin on ‘Roman Songs’ solo EP (stream a track)
• Hans Pohlsander Obituary (2021) – Delmar, NY – Albany Times Union

Public Facing Classics

• We can learn from the Ancient Greeks about healing and health – Thought Leader
• Brown: The warrior class and women as freedom fighters | Opinion | mainlinemedianews.com

Fresh Bloggery

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• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of NICOT Commentary on Nahum, Habakkuk, & Zephaniah
• Writing a Site Guide for Polis | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• NEW: Build-Your-Own Ancient Greek Columns 3D model! | Greek Myth Comix
• Fire, Fools, and Lesser Fates: A Heatwave Special – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: One Book
• Roman Times: From Etruscan Lasa to Roman Lare
• A Share of Initial Beauty – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• Why Is Latin Considered a “Dead Language”? – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Fear and Loathing in Roman Statecraft – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Scrolling
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• PaleoJudaica.com: The four tiers of Paul
• “Cancel-Culture” is Unfair to Philosophy! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 197 (06/2021) | Tulliana News
• Spencer Alley: Shall We Remind Ourselves?
• The Gallo-Roman Site of Argentomagus in France – Time Travel Rome
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: There are ways of looking after excavated metal artefacts and there are “metal detectorists’ ways” of trashing excavated metal artefacts
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: No Shake Up at the BM, Then?

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• Burial monument of Amphipolis ready to be visited by 2022

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @EleriCousins on a Roman altar in the TullieHouse collection
• @DocCromm on the Altar of Junia Procula
• @DocCromm on a Saecular Games coin of Augustus
• @JakeNabel on Nero crowning Tiridates

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: 100. Athena w. Dr. Mary Lefkowitz on Apple Podcasts

Fresh Youtubery

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• The Lost Stories Of Ancient Rome’s Citizens | Meet The Romans with Mary Beard | Timeline
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Dramatic Receptions

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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• Hypatia: The Female Greek Philosopher Who Was Killed for Her Beliefs

‘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 many deaths in a short period of time.

… 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)

Hodie est ad. III Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

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• Rare ancient Roman sarcophagus discovered at Bath’s Sydney Gardens | News | Chew Valley Gazette
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• Petition Asks British Museum to Return “Karpathos Lady” Statue
• Egyptian businessman Hassan Rateb arrested over funding illegal excavation – EgyptToday

In Case You Missed It

• Greek trio arrested for trying to sell priceless Roman statue for €40,000 | Euronews
• Ancient Roman Military Camp Uncovered in Portugal | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
• Headless 1,800-year-old statue of a woman unearthed in Turkey’s ‘City of the Mother Goddess’ | Daily Mail Online
• Rome’s Colosseum reopens after extensive restoration – in pictures | The National

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE SEDITIONE AETHIOPICA Cives bello afficiuntur 

Public Facing Classics

• The new Colosseum – Column – Mary Beard: A don’s life – TLS
• Greek/Roman Mythological Figures As Taylor Swift Songs

Fresh Bloggery

• The Body as A Cloak for the Soul – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliographie de l’Egypte des Origines (BEO) – Early Egypt Bibliography (EEB)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Gospel of Thomas and Plato: A Study of the Impact of Platonism on the “Fifth Gospel”
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Manichaean Church at Kellis:Social Networks and Religious Identity in Late Antique Egypt
• Laudator Temporis Acti: An Open Mind
• The Forgotten City: A Game Based in Roman Archaeology – Archaeogaming
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archibab News Juin 2021
• Ghosts and Empty Shadows – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Lua Mater—Goddess Of Blood, Loot And Fire | The Historian’s Hut
• Penelope Unraveling Her Web, by Joseph Wright of Derby (c. 1734 – 1797) | The Historian’s Hut
• Ugarit – Mainzer Beobachter
• Reversal and Recognition: Oedipus is Just the Best! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Supernatural Heat, Some Words – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Sharing the Worst of Troubles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Unreliability of Eyewitnesses
• Invisible Lines: Doing Archaeological Fieldwork in One’s Ancestral Home Country – Everyday Orientalism
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Five people arrested Near Erbil, “for stealing ancient holy books”

Blog-like Publications

• Rome’s Crisis in the 3rd Century: A Look at 7 Key Events in History
• These ancient weights helped create Europe’s first free market more than 3000 years ago | Science | AAAS
• Dissertation Spotlight: The “Oracular Tale” and the Oracles of the Greeks | Society for Classical Studies

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @LevineRx takes us on a tour of Vryokastro/Kythnos
• @DocCromm has an Ancient Graffiti of the Day post
• @FlavianSophist on the portrayal of Dionysos in Hades
• @DocCromm’s Ancient Coin of the Day is a stater of Opuntian Locris

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎This Week in the Ancient Near East: Where Did Babies Come from in the Iron Age, or, Biblical Archaeology Smokes a Cigar in the Waiting Room on Apple Podcasts

Iron Age figurines in the Southern Levant depict naked women and not a lot else. The usual explanations are goddesses or magical devices related to fertility. But isn’t everything sort of related to fertility? What were mostly male Biblical Archaeologists missing? Probably quite a bit. Our panelists wax eloquent in this family friendly episode.

• ‎The Endless Knot: Canuck, and re-thinking Canada’s story on Apple Podcasts

This episode is being released for Canada Day, but it’s not a celebration. This year, even more than most, we feel that this day needs to be one of reckoning with our past and trying to make a better present and future. So we talk about the history of the word Canuck and the various stories that Canadians tell themselves about their county, and we also discuss the role of Classics in the early history of the colonial project in Canada, as well as how to think about Classics today in relation to Indigenous issues. And then we finish with some quick etymologies of uniquely Canadian words and phrases. Content note: there is brief mention of residential schools and discussion of historical racism.

• Control & the Imagery of Power: The Case of Emperor Augustus | Forum

In Episode 1 of SHAPS 2021 ‘Control’ podcast series, Dr Roslynne Bell (Honorary Research Fellow, Classics & Archaeology)  talks with Dr Henry Reese about the use of imagery to disseminate the political messages of the Emperor Augustus (27BCE–14CE) throughout the Roman Empire.

• ‎The Ancients: The Truth About Spartan Society on Apple Podcasts

Sparta. Situated in the southern Peloponnese, this ancient Hellenic city-state has become ingrained in popular imagination as the home of unmatched Greek super soldiers, trained for war since youth and raised within a system unlike any other in the Classical Greek world. But away from common perception, what do we actually know about Spartan society? Especially during the city’s ‘golden age’ in the 5th and early 4th centuries BC? What evidence do we have for some of the most renowned stories of Spartan lifestyle? How much of it can we believe? To provide a concise overview, Tristan was delighted to be joined by Professor Stephen Hodkinson, one of the leading authorities on ancient Sparta. Part 2 will be released in a couple of weeks.

• ‎Peopling the Past: In Living Colour: Painting and Pigments with Hilary Becker on Apple Podcasts

Ever wonder how ancient artists created the vividly-coloured frescoes that adorned the houses of Pompeii and Herculaneum? Dr. Hilary Becker joins Chelsea and Melissa to tell us all about nature’s palette and the raw materials that were used to create the reds, yellows, blues, whites, blacks, greens, and purples of the Roman world. Focusing on the archaeological remains of the only surviving pigment shop in ancient Rome, join us on a colourful journey from dangerous extraction to elusive transaction!

Fresh Youtubery

• Ghosts: From Aeschylus’ The Persians to Wajdi Mouawad’s The Blood of Promises | Archive of Perforances of Greek and Roman Drama
• Ευριπίδη «Φοίνισσες» – Σκηνοθεσία: Γιάννης Μόσχος – Αρχαίο Θέατρο Επιδαύρου: 30, 31 Ιουλ. & 1 Αυγ. | National Theatre of Greece
• Could you make a Hamburger in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY | Invicta

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Luis Alejandro Salas, Cutting words: polemical dimensions of Galen’s anatomical experiments. Studies in ancient medicine, volume 55. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
• [BMCR] Éric Rebillard, The early martyr narratives: neither authentic accounts nor forgeries. Divinations: rereading late ancient religion. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Reviel Netz, Scale, space and canon in ancient literary culture. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Call for Papers -17th International Colloquium on Roman Provincial Art – May 2022 – Current Epigraphy
• Interdisciplinary Workshop Roman Waters
• Animals. Myths, Knowledges, Symbologies
• CFP: Plato 2022 | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Xena: How Hollywood Created a Greek Warrior Princess that Never Existed
• Speculation grows that the Parthenon Sculptures could finally be going home to Greece – Greek City Times
• Turkey’s mysterious ‘portal to the underworld’ – BBC Travel

‘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 an improvement in the situation of the capital city.

… 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)

Hodie est ad. IV Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Bureaucratic ballast sinking archaeological research project | eKathimerini.com
• The burial monument of Amphipolis can be visited in the first half of 2022 ATHENS 9,84
• Pressure grows on UK to hand back ‘Elgin’ Marbles after Scottish decision | The National
• Iran’s ‘Poirot’ among a wave of vigilante archaeologists leading illegal digs through royal graves
• Hopes New Roman Chamber Will Be Discovered In Carmona
• New sites discovered around Turkey’s ancient marvel Göbeklitepe | Daily Sabah
• Rivive il Piccolo teatro romano, un gioiello nel cuore di Pola – Il Piccolo Trieste
• Madrid Police Recover 90 Gold Coins From The Roman Empire
• Greek Police Arrest 2 Trying to Sell Rare Roman-Era Statue | Entertainment News | US News

In Case You Missed It

• Colosseum Opens Its Belly to the Public – The New York Times
• Experts Discover Camp Used By Roman Soldiers Sent To Conquer Northwest Iberia
• Egypt’s top prosecutor back to Cairo with looted artifacts from France – Politics – Egypt – Ahram Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Radiogiornale Latino 27.06.2021 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• Singing to the gods: a millennium’s span of ancient Greek hymns, gloriously portrayed | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le petit Robert électronique: Louis Robert publications online
• PaleoJudaica.com: Starr, Toward a History of Jewish Thought: The Soul, Resurrection, and the Afterlife (Wipf & Stock)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: An Act of Vandalism
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Archaeologists excavate King’s Quarter redevelopment to find Roman artefacts
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Gesta 36: Perdix et Venator
• Roman Times: Ancient Amber
• Yes to Vergil, No to Lucan – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De paleografie van 4QBéatitudes – Mainzer Beobachter
• Informers, Flatterers, and Figs: On Sycophants – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Römer et al. (eds.), The Joseph Story between Egypt and Israel (Mohr Siebeck)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Nissinen, Reste altorientalischen Prophetentums in der Bibel (De Gruyter)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Two Kinds of Falsehood
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Family Resemblance
• What Hephaestus Really Wanted from Thetis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• King Midas Turns An Oak Branch To Gold, Painted By Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) | The Historian’s Hut
• Adieu Tristesse – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: King of Fools
• Roman Times: The Meidias Painter: Art amidst the Persian Wars
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Sandstone equestrian relief found at Vindolanda
• Hypothesis and auxiliary hypothesis – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Teigen, A Manichaean Church at Kellis (Brill, open access)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Heller, Shul Going (Wipf & Stock)
• Did Atlantis exist? – Bad Ancient
• PaleoJudaica.com: The ancient coin market
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tel Agol and Amos’ earthquake
• The Body as A Cloak for the Soul – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Spencer Alley: Art by Scarsellino (Guercino’s Early Inspiration)
• Yes, Classics is Toxic (Reprise) – Notes from the Apotheke

Blog-like Publications

• Maiden, Mother, Crone: Everything You Need To Know About Hecate
• Ancient cybersecurity? Deciphering the Spartan scytale – Antigone
• 9 Greek Philosophers Who Shaped The World
• An ancient stigma – Greek tattoo culture, part 1 – Ancient World Magazine

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @d_j_walsh on a Mithraic inscription from Virunum

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Classical Wisdom Speaks: Sex, Soldiers and Thebes with James Romm, Paul Cartledge and Helene Foley on Apple Podcasts

Formed in 379 BC to combat the Spartan threat… Hailed by Plato as a force that could never be beaten… The last hope to preserve the freedom of Greece… Buried together on the spot they fell…. 300 male lovers reveal a dramatic ancient tale whose story will leave you gripped into the end. James Romm of Bard College, and author of the Sacred Band, discusses Sex, Soldiers and Thebes with Cambridge Professor, Paul Cartledge, and Columbia Professor, Helene Foley. Moderated by Anya Leonard of Classical Wisdom. They delve into the history of Thebes, the evolution of male eros and the essential role of the Sacred Band in fighting for Greek democracy.

• ‎The Ancients: Vindolanda: Jewel of Roman Britain on Apple Podcasts

Situated roughly two miles south of Hadrian’s Wall in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, Vindolanda is home to some of the most remarkable archaeology from Roman Britain. Its history spans several centuries; it is a must see site for anyone wanting to know more about the ancient history of Britain. To learn more about Vindolanda, Tristan met up with Dr Andrew Birley, the Director of Excavations at Vindolanda.

• ‎History of the World podcast: Vol 3 Ep 76 – SUMMARY – The Classical World, Part One on Apple Podcasts

700 – 400 BCE – From the time when the Assyrians were the greatest power on the planet, a sudden surge of culture and learning from east to west would bring the world forward from a relative dark age to an age of modern thinking.

• ‎Byzantium & Friends: 52. Crowd behavior in imperial Rome and Constantinople, with Daniëlle Slootjes on Apple Podcasts

A conversation with Daniëlle Slootjes (University of Amsterdam) on the behavior of crowds in late antique Rome and Constantinople, based on her chapter “Crowd Behavior in Late Antique Rome,” in the edited volume Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century (Cambridge 2015) 178-194. As our own political world is increasingly revolving around mass protests, it is time to revisit what we know about the dynamics of crowds in imperial Roman cities, whether they acted for or against the regime of the day. Check out also the volume that Daniëlle co-edited with Erika Manders, Leadership, Ideology, and Crowds in the Roman Empire of the Fourth Century (Stuttgart 2019).

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Alexander III of Macedon w. Dr Pat Wheatley on Apple Podcasts

Alexander III, known to many as Alexander the Great, was King of Macedon, and in a short period of time, conquered an immense amount of territory, including defeating the formidable Achaemenid Empire. Professor Pat Wheatley, University of Otago, joins the show to discuss what scholars know about Alexander’s life.

Fresh Youtubery

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• Cicero First Catilinarian (Quo usque tandem), Latin recitation feat Stefano Vittori, Norma/Norba | Musa Pedestris
• Facts Vs. Feelings: Which Was More Important to Ancient Thinkers? | Classics in Color
• How Bronze Age Trade Was Conducted DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
• Roberta Mazza, Performing papyrology: Dismounting cartonnage, dismembering codices and other tricks | Digital Edition of the Coptic Old Testament
• Iris Rainbow Goddess with English titles | Panoply Vase Animation Project
• The sustainability of cities in the Roman Mediterranean | British School at Rome

Book Reviews

• La vie économique en Dobroudja roumaine (Ier-IIIe s. de n. è.) | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Sadi Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity: a study of the evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
• [BMCR] Christian Gnilka, Pratum Patristicum. Chrêsis, 10. Basel: Schwabe AG, 2019.

Exhibition Related Things

• Exhibit ‘Painters of Pompeii’ brings rare Roman art to OKC museum

Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Missing, incomplete, biased. Priceless. The key role of documentation
• Modern Economics and the Ancient World: Were the Ancients Rational
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Ancient, Sacred Olive Tree of the Acropolis that Never Dies – Greek City Times
• Lessons from Livy on How Great Civilizations Rise and Fall – Foundation for Economic Education
• Nero and the Johnson Empire | The Conservative Woman

‘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 good harvest.

… 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)

Hodie est ad. VI Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeologists excavate King’s Quarter redevelopment to find Roman artefacts – Gloucestershire Live
• Anfore romane nello scavo Piave Servizi, stop al cantiere – Tribuna di Treviso Treviso
• Agropoli, ente no profit: reperti archeologici detenuti illegalmente – SUD TV
• Birdoswald Roman Fort dig aims to answer ‘big questions’ – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• Underground tunnels of Rome’s Colosseum fully opened to public | Italy | The Guardian

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Notre Dame classical architecture leader, Thomas Gordon Smith, dies
• David Raeburn, 93: Head teacher and classicist who taught at Oxford into his nineties | Readers’ Lives | The Times

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE EVTHANASIA HIBERICA 

Fresh Bloggery

• Blog Post #30: Producing the short film “Sēmata (Signs)” for the curated exhibition, “An Archaeology of Disability” – Peopling the Past
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• Chief Minister of Bullsh*t – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Rhetoric is for Losers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• Online and downloadable: the 5th century Oxford manuscript of Jerome – Roger Pearse
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Colosseum underground opens to the public
• Dishonoring the Gods – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• African BLOG TAKEOVER #13 | CRSN
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• African BLOG TAKEOVER #15 | CRSN

Blog-like Publications

• On the Roman Road: A Journey with the poet Ausonius – Antigone
• Eagles on Ancient Coins
• Colonialism is built on the rubble of a false idea of ancient Rome | Aeon Essays
• The Greek Pyramids – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @TrimontiumTrust on Julia Domna

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Emperors of Rome: Episode CLXVIII – The Battle of Abritus (Decius III) on Apple Podcasts

The Goths are leaving Roman territory, and while they successfully sacked some cities there has been no lasting damage to the provinces – but the same can’t be said for the reputation of the Emperor, Decius. He rides with his troops to confront them in battle, becoming the first Roman emperor to die at the hands of a foreign enemy. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Senior Lecturer, Roman History, Macquarie University/Humboldt Research Fellow, Goethe University, Frankfurt)

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Law in Ptolemaic & Roman Egypt w. Dr Uri Yiftach on Apple Podcasts

Dr Uri Yiftach, Tel Aviv University, joins the show to share what law was like in the Ptolemaic & Roman Egyptian periods.

Fresh Youtubery

• Sparta vs Argos: The Battle of 300 Champions | Athena Productions
• History of the Etruscan Culture: the First Great Italian Civilization | World History Encyclopedia
• Alexander the Great’s Greek: Civilization V. How is his pronunciation? | PolyMATHY
• Learn Latin Live! Beginner Conversational Latin: School | Scorpio Martianus

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Francesca Kaminski-Jones, Rhys Kaminski-Jones, Celts, Romans, Britons: classical and Celtic influence in the construction of British identities. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Response: Thompson on Goldhill on Stray, Clarke and Katz, Liddell and Scott: the history, methodology, and languages of the world’s leading lexicon of Ancient Greek 

Dramatic Receptions

• White Snake Projects Announces ‘A Survivor’s Odyssey’ – Opera Wire

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

• Rediscovering the Music of Ancient Greece
• What Emperor Claudius would have thought about the City law pay war – Legal Cheek
• Twelve Labors of Hercules Exemplify Greek Mythology
• Medusa Trailer Unleashes Greek Mythology’s Stone-Cold Monster
• The Parthenon Report: Birth of a Philhellene – Greek City Times

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a winter that is very harmful to crops.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends danger for men in power from the army.

… 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)

Hodie est ad. VII Kal. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Colosseum’s visitors finally stand among the ghosts of lions and gladiators | Reuters
• Research news – Experts discover camp used by 10,000 Roman soldiers sent to conquer Northwest Iberia – University of Exeter
• Ancient Greek Necropolis to be Revealed in New Exhibition Site
• Archaeological site registry available online | eKathimerini.com
• UK’s Boris Johnson and Libya’s interim prime minister welcome return of looted Greek statue | The National
• Marsala, scavi e necropoli in via De Gasperi. E’ tutto fermo, come finirà?
• Major new archaeological dig for Birdoswald revealed – cumbriacrack.com
• Marsala: lavori fermi in via De Gasperi tra scavi punici, fognature e criticità. Mancano soldi e volontà

In Case You Missed It

• Officials Seize 782 Ancient Artifacts Acquired Illicitly by Single Belgian Collector | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] INSVLAE RVINA

Public Facing Classics

• Friday essay: rethinking the myth of Daphne, a woman who chooses eternal silence over sexual assault

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: types, motifs, stylistic devices
• Three Things Thursday: Agency, Data, and Digital Archaeology | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• PaleoJudaica.com: Liebman, The Evolution of Love (Wipf & Stock)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Sokol, The Snake at the Mouth of the Cave (Koren)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cambridge lectures on ancient Jerusalem
• ACE Phase 3: Filming at the Liverpool World Museum – ACE Classics
• This Unforgetting Stone (Another Epitaph) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Society for Late Antiquity
• Roman Times: Tigers and Roman bestial entertainment
• A Roman Feast, By Roberto Bompiani (c. 1821 – 1908) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Legend Of Aeschines’ Humble Rejection Of Applause | The Historian’s Hut
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lightstone, In the Seat of Moses (Cascade)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Anabasis on the Arkasid world
• PaleoJudaica.com: Russia’s restorations of Palmyra
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Everything That Happens
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Looting in Afrin
• Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans, Part II: Citizens and Allies – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two toasts (AP 12.49 and 51)

Blog-like Publications

• Slave Collars in Ancient Rome | JSTOR Daily
• ANE TODAY – 202106 – Temples and Cult Places in Iron Age Transjordan – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Off the Dusty Bookshelf: Freya Stark’s Ionic Pilgrimage | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Jun, 2021 | Medium
• I know a guy who knows a guy… – The closeness centrality and its meaning – Ancient World Magazine
• The Team Resurrecting Ancient Rome’s Favorite Condiment – Gastro Obscura

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @ancientblogger with some advice for aspiring podcasters
• @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the day thread looks at some coins of Carthaginian Sicily
• @FlavianSophist on the Nero exhibition at the BM

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Plato’s Myths w. Dr. Tae-Yeoun Keum on Apple Podcasts

Plato wrote on a variety of topics, including mythology. Dr. Tae-Yeoun Keum, University of California, Santa Barbara, joins the show to discuss the myths that show up in Plato’s writings.

• ‎The Ancient World: Episode C6 – The Splendid Flame on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: In the wake of the Sea Peoples, the Hittite Great King Kuzi-Teshub focuses on rebuilding and strengthening his kingdom.  A powerful new threat soon emerges in the form of King Tiglath-Pileser I of Assyria.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: How “useful” are the accounts of warfare as described in the Old Testament? on Apple Podcasts

Jasper tackles this question from patron of the podcast Ken. How “useful” are the accounts of warfare as described in the Old Testament? I’m interested in a discussion about sources as much as anything (i.e. why were they written, to whom and which biases might have been present). Are any of the Old Testament accounts helpful in triangulating sources?

• ‎Life Of Caesar: Filthy Rabble on Apple Podcasts

Agrippina is dead and Nero decides to party. Tacitus disapproves. He doesn’t like Nero’s parties and he doesn’t like his poetry. But then a comet appears, and everyone assumes it means the end of Nero’s reign – so they start looking for a replacement.

Fresh Youtubery

• Vandal Kingdom in Africa and the Sack of Rome in 455 DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
• Black Is Queen: The Divine Feminine in Kush | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
• Tracing the Sea Peoples in Ancient Mythology | An Age of Heroes | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Four stories about Alexander the Great | Latin Book Club | Latinitium

Book Reviews

• Books | Troy on Display: Scepticism and Wonder at Schliemann’s First Exhibition – Museums Association
• [BMCR] Stefan Feuser, Hafenstädte im östlichen Mittelmeerraum vom Hellinsmus bis in die römische Kaiserzeit: Städtebau, Funktion und Wahrnehmung. Urban spaces, 8. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• [BMCR] Julieta Cardigni, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii o la farsa del discurso: Una lectura literaria de Marciano Capela. Buenos Aires: Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2018.
• [BMCR] Gilles Gorre, Stéphanie Wackenier, Quand la fortune du royaume ne dépend pas de la vertu du prince: Un renforcement de la monarchie lagide de Ptolémée VI à Ptolémée X (169-88 av. J.-C.)?. Studia Hellenistica, 59. Leuven: Peeters, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Nero at the British Museum review: The many narratives of an infamous emperor
• Rome extends Torlonia Marbles show until 2022 – Wanted in Rome

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• FIEC: CfP: Sixth International Conference on the Ancient Novel
• Race and Racism: Beyond the Spectacular: authors may submit papers as of August 1, 2021 | Society for Classical Studies
• Digital Italy seminar – Katherine McDonald
• Meeting of Community College Faculty | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Pottery Shards in Croatia Reveal Roman Olive Oil and Military History – Olive Oil Times
• What did Italians eat 2,000 years ago? New discoveries reveal a diverse menu
• St. Helena: the First Archaeologist | Queens Gazette
• Sailor Moon Was Inspired By Greek Mythology & a Japanese Folk Tale
• New research program aims to digitize thousands of ancient objects kept in Cyprus Museums | in-cyprus.com

‘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 wars and many disasters.

… 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)