Hodie est a.d V Id. Jun. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Thargelion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad
In the News
- Ostia Antica: Roman columns discovered in river Tiber
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- Israeli, Italian colleges to collaborate on ‘Bethsaida,’ Etruscan archaeology – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- New Sparta Museum, Amphitheater to Open in Connecticut
- Roman pottery found at archaeological dig in Portslade | The Argus
- Thessaloniki Metro: The Ministry of Culture speaks about the distortion of Lina Mendoni’s statements | ATHENS 9,84
- Agencies Catch 5 Bandits in Archeological Site in Northern Israel – The Jewish Voice
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- New Machine Learning Can Match Ancient Pottery Fragments
- Israeli Archaeologists Unearth Magnificent Roman Basilica | Archaeology | Sci-News.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Greatest Gift of the Gods
- How to Turn a Virtue into a Vice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Canons “37b, 38 and 39” of the Breviarium of the Council of Hippo (393) – Roger Pearse
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Summum Bonum
- What is fish about? | The Kosmos Society
- Role-Playing Senecan Suicide – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Preliminary Thoughts on Artifact Recovery Rates from the Western Argolid Regional Project | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Tawdry Tuesday: A Wedding Recipe – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Farewell Of Telemachus And Eucharis, Painted by Jacques-Louis David (c. 1748 – 1825) | The Historian’s Hut
- Roman Times: Triton and the fate of Misenus
- Mitanni – Mainzer Beobachter
- Understanding Arts, Admiring the Artist – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Archaeology teaching for diversity and inclusion: or what a difference 10 weeks makes – CUCD EDI
- “Tell me Akkad, who knocks on your gates?” An interview with Tabernacle – Heavy Metal Classicist
- PaleoJudaica.com: The PA PM and the archaeology of the Temple Mount
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Pseudo-Neros
Blog-like Publications
- Mosaic of Theros in the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum
- 3 Ancient African Civilizations You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @isisnaucratis on assorted texts that aren’t Greek or Latin
- @campbell798 on some Nero-based graffiti from Pompeii
- @DocCromm on a similar theme
- @ATLAS_cities on a Late Antiquity inscription
- @DocCromm’s Ancient Coin of the Day thread looks at some coins of Diadumenian
Fresh Podcasts
Join us for a lively discussion with Dr. Michael Fontaine (Classics, Cornell University) as we talk about his new book—How to Tell a Joke: An Ancient Guide to the Art of Humor—a translation and analysis of ancient Roman treatises on humor from both Cicero and Quintilian. Along the way we tackle such questions as “How can a politician or a lawyer use humor to win a room?”, “Is one born funny or can it be taught?” and “Did Cicero seal his own fate by telling jokes that went too far?” Tune in for the laughs, guffaws, and occasional snickers, and be sure to share your own opinion on this all important query: “Is it possible for really attractive people to be funny?”
In this episode, Dr. Liana Brent joins Chelsea and Melissa to talk about the archaeological remains of burials in Roman Italy at the ancient cemetery of Vagnari. Find out how archaeologists and anthropologists discover information about the real lives of ancient people through their commemorative practices, funerary rituals, and graves.
Everyone knows the saying about what the world’s “oldest profession” is, but you will find a very close runner up in the kitchen. The history of those who cook professionally to make their living goes way, way back to the origins of civilization itself. It’s another epic journey across the ages, this time with a …
Flax, wool, dyes, and more were used in the Bronze Age to produce textiles in the Mediterranean Basin. Dr Serena Sabatini, University of Gothenburg, joins the show to discuss textile production in northern Italy in the Late Bronze Age.
Sophus explains the most famous piece of literature from ancient Iraq: the Epic of Gilgamesh. He guides us through the many meanings that have been found in it, from antiquity to the present day. Why does it fascinate us, and what can it offer us?
It’s time for another episode of The Ozymandias Project with Lexie Henning! Tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for an exciting odyssey as we nerd out about the eternal attractiveness of Egyptology, ponder how to convince parents to let their kids study archaeology, and think about ways to incorporate the ancient world into our everyday lives without being in academia.
At the heart of the ancient Middle East, a sophisticated, urbanized, and long-lived world, was a writing system: cuneiform, used for everything from heroic epic to receipts and medical texts, and first developed in Mesopotamia more than 5,000 years ago. Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid of Oxford joins me to talk about cuneiform literature, medicine, and mental health in this fascinating and little-known ancient world.
Fresh Youtubery
- How Athenian Democracy Was Born – Ancient Greece DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- Il Foro romano in età tetrarchica | British School at Rome
- The most beautiful garden in the world, in LATIN! Giardini di Ninfa (cum Stefano Vittori) | Musa Pedestris
- Diomedes vs Aeneas: Iliad Book 5 | Foxwede History
- Conférence annuelle de l’Ecole française d’Athènes 2021 – 1ere partie_FR | Ecole francaise d’Athenes
- Ετήσια διάλεξη της Γαλλικής Σχολής Αθηνών 2021 – Α’ μέρος_ΕΛ | Ecole francaise d’Athenes
- Roman Emperors through a Nineteenth Century lens with Professor Mary Beard, hosted by Jimmy Mulville | Classics for All
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Ralf Bockmann, Anna Leone, Philipp von Rummel, Africa – Ifrīqiya. Continuity and change in North Africa from the Byzantine to the early Islamic Age. Papers of a conference held in Rome, Museo Nazionale Romano – Terme di Diocleziano, 28 February – 2 March 2013. Palilia, 34. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2019.
- [BMCR] Maria Duggan, Mark Jackson, Sam Turner, Ceramics and Atlantic connections: late Roman and early medieval imported pottery on the Atlantic seaboard. Proceedings of an international symposium at Newcastle University, March 2014. Roman and late antique Mediterranean pottery, 15. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.
- Les kourganes près des rapides du Borysthène | Spartokos a lu https://spartokos.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/les-kourganes-pres-des-rapides-du-borysthene/
- [AJA] The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage: Agriculture, Trade, and Family By Astrid Van Oyen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020. https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/4345
- [AJA] Excavations at Maresha Subterranean Complex 169: Final Report, Seasons 2000–2016 By Ian Stern (Annual of the Nelson Glueck School of Biblical Archaeology 11). Cincinnati: Hebrew Union College Press 2019. https://www.ajaonline.org/book-review/4351
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Recitatio – Department of Classics – UCLA
- Online Workshop: Manuscripts at the Service of Epigraphy: Master Copies, Templates, and Other Exemplars in the Production of Pre-Modern Inscriptions (29 June) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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- Vergina: Where Proof of Macedonia’s Greek Origin Was Uncovered
- Where Did the Queen of Sheba Rule—Arabia or Africa? | MENAFN.COM
- The Battle of Thermopylae: When the Greeks Fought to Defend Civilization
‘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 the loss of flocks due to wolves.
… 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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