Hodie est a.d. III Id. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- How did this gem—an ‘archaic Greek masterpiece’—end up for sale at Christie’s in New York after being banned from leaving the UK? | The Art Newspaper
- 2,000-year-old coins hailing ‘freedom’ of Zion, Jerusalem uncovered in West Bank | The Times of Israel
- 8,500-year-old musical instrument found in NW Turkey | Daily Sabah
In Case You Missed It
- Nude Horseman Carving Found at Vindolanda Fort | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- 2,500-year-old statues, inscription unearthed in western Turkey
- 3,400-Year-Old Artificial Pool in Italy May Have Hosted Religious Rituals | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DEMONSTRATIONES CVBANAE
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: “Jerubbaal” on a jug
- Magical Monday: A Homeric Simile and Puppy Sacrifice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Active Open Access Journals
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Akin and Alike
- Sleep, Death, and Dying: Some Anecdotes for a Monday – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Syrinx, by Carroll Beckwith (c. 1852-1917) | The Historian’s Hut
- Roman Times: Sarmatians: Descendants of the Amazons?
- Door berg en dal met Hannibal: de Alpen – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Miroshnikov, The Gospel of Thomas and Plato (Brill, open access)
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on the “Jerubbaal” jug
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Looting And Illicit Trafficking Of Antiquities
- The Gallo-Roman Site and Museum of Bavay (Bagacum) in France – Time Travel Rome
- Observation tower, ancient sanctuary from Hellenistic era found near Bulgaria’s Burgas – The Archaeology News Network
- Two Kouros statues found at the Temple of Zeus Lepsinos at Euromos in SW Turkey – The Archaeology News Network
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Can’t Live With ‘Em or Without ‘Em
Blog-like Publications
- Archaeologists discover ancient banqueting site carved in bedrock – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @SarahEBond on Egyptian blue
- @DocCrom’s #LatinForTheDay is Catullus 5
- @MichaelDPress on the recently-found Jerubbaal inscription
Fresh Podcasts
The ancient Illyrians were indigenous communities along the Dalmatian Coast and stretching across to the central Balkans. Dr Danijel Džino, Macquarie University, joins the show to discuss what’s known about these peoples.
480 BC is a year widely-celebrated in Greek history. When Leonidas’ Spartan core and their Hellenic allies fought a powerful Persian army at Thermopylae, and an outnumbered, Athenian-led navy defeated a mighty Persian armada at Salamis. Yet it was not just off the coast of Athens that one of antiquity’s most well-known battles was fought that year. 600 miles to the west of Salamis, supposedly on the same day the naval engagement occurred, another battle was fought: the Battle of Himera. In this episode, Ancient World Magazine’s Dr Joshua Hall talks us through the battle and highlights why it was so significant in the story of ancient Sicily.
Fresh Youtubery
- Performance and Ritual in Ancient Egyptian Funerary Practice | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Homeric Hymn 14, to the Mother of the Gods, read in Ancient Greek | Ancient Literature Dude
- Hymn to Khnumhotep | Michael Levy
- Lecture 2: Nero Lives! – The Pirate King. Lecture Series: ‘Afterlife and Aftermath of an Emperor’. | Dr Raoul McLaughlin
- The Rosetta Stone: What is it and Why is it so Important? | World History Encyclopedia
- Classics for All: a celebration | Classics for All
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Jonathan Eaton, Leading the Roman army: soldiers & emperors, 31 BC – AD 235. Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Military, 2020.
- [BMCR] Jennifer R. March, Sophocles. “Oedipus Tyrannus”. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Kate Cooper, Jamie Wood, Social control in late antiquity: the violence of small worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professor in Ancient History job with Harvard University Department of the Classics | 357745
- CFP: Symposium Cumanum 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
- A misty history of Roman Portugal – Part 3 – The Portugal News
- Ancient Greek Athletes Who Defined the Olympic Games
- Forget Atlantis — Here’s 4 Real Ancient Underwater Cities | Discover Magazine
- The 12 Greek Gods and Their Unique Superpowers
- Stolen – Blood antiquities | DocFilm | DW | 13.07.2021
‘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 arrival of poisonous reptiles.
… 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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