Hodie est a.d. VI Non. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Skirophorion in the fourth year of the 699th Olympiad

In the News

• Recuperata anfora di Pompei nelle acque davanti a Nora – Arte – ANSA
• 5 New or Upgraded Museums to Open in Greece – Greece Is

In Case You Missed It

• Ornate stone carving discovered at Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Greek Court Greenlights Removal of Thessaloniki Metro Antiquities

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Frederick Williams Obituary (1942 – 2021) – Carbondale, IL – The Southern Illinoisan

Public Facing Classics

• The Parthenon Report: Social Justice is now on the menu – Greek City Times

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lemmatized Royal Inscriptions of the Neo-Assyrian Period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lyon dans les textes grecs et latins: La géographie et l’histoire de Lugdunum, de la fondation de la colonie à l’occupation burgonde (43 avant - 460 après J.-C.)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sending Laurion Back to the Future: Bronze Age Silver and the Source of Confusion
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kyprianos Update (1 July 2021)
• Buying Books in Rome circa 86 CE | Variant Readings
• Jesus Christ: the ‘Vitruvian Man’ on the Cross – Antigone
• The Ways of Madmen And Wicked Fools – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Virgil’s Tomb by Moonlight, with Silius Italicus Declaiming, by Joseph Wright (c. 1734–1797) | The Historian’s Hut
• Drafting the Long Late Antiquity on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A curve in the road: some personal news | Classically Inclined
• From Numa to Nu Morals – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Caesar zegeviert in Ilerda – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Safe passage coin hoard found in Brabant
• Toxic Masculinity – Historian Edition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Atonement without blood?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 184
• PaleoJudaica.com: Useful info for time-traveling bibliophiles
• PaleoJudaica.com: Stefan Reif on his autobiography
• Meet the Portrait Mummy of Herakleides | Getty Iris

Blog-like Publications

• Excavations are beginning in ancient Lyttos

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @fadeaccompli was reading Gunderson, Laughing Awry

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Centaurs in Greek Mythology w. Dr Emma Aston on Apple Podcasts

Part-human, part-horse, centaurs show up in various Greek mythology. Dr Emma Aston, University of Reading, joins the show to discuss the role of centaurs in Greek mythology.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Are there any other examples of gaining entry to a city using something like a Trojan horse? on Apple Podcasts

Listener Rick wonders if there are there any other examples of gaining entry to a city using something like a Trojan horse? Or are there any other examples of using ingenious methods to get into a city?

• ‎Casting Through Ancient Greece: 34: Persia’s Greek War with Trevor Culley on Apple Podcasts

We have now reached the end of the Greco-Persian Wars, but with most of our sources focusing on the Greek experience and perhaps not giving us a completely accurate picture of the Persians. In this episode we are going to delve deeper into Persia’s experience in the Wars, look at their motivations and what led them to, ultimately being unsuccessful. To do this I have invited Trevor Culley from the History of Persia Podcast to come on and share his knowledge about the Persians with us, and help us look at the Persian perspective during the Wars. Trevor’s personal experience with both Persian history and podcasts began with a college extra credit assignment to listen to the first Hardcore History episode on the Achaemenids. He was instantly enthralled with the stories of the Kings of Kings and coming a little late to the party, started listening to podcasts. On one hand, He started heading down the road toward PhD that will let him study ancient Persia for a living. On the other, as he binged his way through both the History of Rome and early episodes of the History of Byzantium he was always excited for the episodes dealing with the Parthians and Sassanids. Trevor was surprised and disappointed to discover that there was not a similarly dedicated podcast dealing with the great empires east of Rome. This would inspire and motivate him to create the History of Persia Podcast back at the start of 2019.

Fresh Youtubery

• Intervallo ETRU Serie I Ep. 26 – La collezione Castellani – I bronzi | Etruschannel
• [Contains strong language] Prostitutes, Youths & Potty-Mouthed Clowns: Who Swore in Ancient Greek | Manchester Classical Association
• Ευριπίδη ΦΟΙΝΙΣΣΕΣ – Σκην.: Γ. Μόσχος [Πρεμιέρα: 30, 31/7 & 1/8] [Πρόβες/Backstage/Work in progress] | National Theatre of Greeece

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships at Newcastle University
• Work for “Meaningful sherds: sigillata from pre-consumption deposits”
• Scientific Project Staff / Doctoral Candidate at the Department of Classical Archaeology
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Why roads aren’t marked on the Madaba map, the earliest map of the Holy Land – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• How the Venus de Milo Shaped the Western Idea of Female Beauty

‘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 pleasant late autumn.

… 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)