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
Public Facing Classics
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
Fresh 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.
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.
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.
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).
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
- Ancient Advanced Technology – Critical Questions | Brien Foerster Interview | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- Latin lesson for beginners || Accusative case || Casus accusativus | Satura Lanx
- The Mysteries of Melinoe (Ancient Greek Goddess of Ghosts) | Michael Levy
- 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
Dramatic Receptions
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)
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