Hodie est pr Id. Jul. 2774 AUC ~ 5 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Roman treasure coming home from British Museum to Thetford | Eastern Daily Press
- DNA from 1,600-year-old Iranian sheep mummy brings history to life | EurekAlert! Science News
- Heritage Commission uncovers petroglyph of Babylonian King Nabonidus – Saudi Gazette
- Archaeologists discover hundreds of rare coins from Iron Age on HS2 route – The Irish News
- Archaeologists find part of Jerusalem’s wall destroyed on Ninth of Av – The Jerusalem Post
- Oldest known cosmetics found in ceramic bottles on Balkan Peninsula
In Case You Missed It
- Nude Horseman Carving Found at Vindolanda Fort | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Massive pottery workshop dating back to the Greco-Roman era unearthed in Egypt | Daily Mail Online
- Roman Coins Found on Riverbank in the Netherlands – Archaeology Magazine
- 2,000-year-old ‘Freedom to Zion’ coins withy features of the Jewish-Roman wars are found in Judea | Daily Mail Online
- Inscription May Reference Biblical Judge Jerubbaal | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- Was Sparta a communist state? – Bad Ancient
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Museum with no Frontiers
- Quipping with Diogenes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: International Association for Assyriology (IAA)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Text and Image: Proceedings of the 61e Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale, Geneva and Bern, 22-26 June 2015
- Long Late Antiquity in the Chrysochou Valley | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Writing Sumerian Corpus
- Master of Pleasure and Master of Pain: Three Anecdotes about Sophokles and Euripides – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Althaea, Attributed To Henry Price Bone (1779-1855) Or Charles Leslie (c. 1835-1863) | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Writing Sumerian Corpus
- Tawdry Tuesday: Sidedishes for [Obscenity] (NSFW) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Roman Religion & Roman War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 1. De periferie en het centrum – Mainzer Beobachter
- 2. Het belang van de Oudheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- 3. De waarde van de humaniora – Mainzer Beobachter
- 11. Opnieuw in een fuik – Mainzer Beobachter
- 8. De praktijk – Mainzer Beobachter
- 10. Vuile handen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Personal Investigation
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Narratives, Archaeology and Historicity (Thompson Festschrift) (T&T Clark)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Remnant of Jerusalem’s pre-exilic wall found
- PaleoJudaica.com: On sieges and starvation
- ἀλλά – Particuliterate
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Sheffield Archaeology Killed
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @postclassics on some disturbing/confusing Greek/Roman myths
- @PeterGainsford on ancient libraries
- @DocCrom on an inscription from Pompeii dealing with the earthquake of 62 CE
- @DocCrom on a military tombstone from Cirencester
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the day thread looks at some coins of Gallienus
- @Simcha_Gross on Noah on coins of Apamea
Fresh Podcasts
Today’s episode is simply magical! Join us as we welcome Dr. Britta Ager – an expert in ancient Mediterranean magic, spells, and curses – to the show and hear about her experimental work re-creating some sweet and smelly spells based on surviving recipes from the Egyptian Greek Magical Papyri. Listen in to learn about evidence for how and why people practiced magic in antiquity, from getting the gods on your good side to taking care of your animals, with a few surprises thrown in for good measure!
This week Dave and Jeff sit down with New York Times Bestselling author Ross King whose works such as Brunelleschi’s Dome and Michelangelo and the Pope’s Ceiling have set the gold standard for erudite, popular history over the last twenty years. We cover Ross’ career from academia, to novel writer, to his latest book, The Bookseller of Florence (2021). Come along as we walk the streets of Renaissance and contemporary Florence where one might have a life-altering epiphany atop a red-tiled dome or discover a long lost copy of Quintilian moldering in the dusty corner of some far-flung scriptorium. Can Jeff and Dave keep it together long enough to refrain from geeking out and going all “fan boy” on Mr. King? Just barely.
Evidence shows that Christian monasticism started in the eastern Mediterranean, and more specifically, Egypt. Professor of Medieval History, Dr Andrew Jotischky, Royal Holloway, University of London, returns to the show to discuss the formation of Christian monasticism in the eastern part of the Basin.
Are the Classics just something for privileged nerds? Dr. Anika Prather doesn’t think so. She joins the table to explain the importance of the Classics in African American thought, the importance of Africa itself in the classical world, and why we could all benefit from studying the Classics.
Fresh Youtubery
- How the Fall of Rome Transformed the Mediterranean DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- Il WebGis delle superfici pavimentali, musive e marmoree del Parco archeologico del Colosseo | Parco Colosseo
- DIVING INTO THE REAL WORLD OF POMPEII WITH ELODIE HARPER, AUTHOR OF “THE WOLF DEN” | Moan Inc.
- The Cave of Hermes | Michael Levy
- Should Museums Return Ancient Artifacts To Their Home Countries? | Hard Bargaining | Odyssey
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Nicola Spanu, Proclus and the Chaldean oracles: a study on Proclean exegesis, with a translation and commentary of Proclus’ Treatise on Chaldean philosophy. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
- [BMCR] Edmund Stewart, Edward Harris, David Lewis, Skilled labour and professionalism in ancient Greece and Rome. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Christian Laes, Alfredo Buonopane, Grumentum: the epigraphical landscape of a Roman town in Lucania. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
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
- Solidus auction includes gold aureus of Faustina the Elder
- Hermes of Praxiteles Statue a Timeless Symbol of Hellenism
- Football’s Real Home Was in Ancient Greece
‘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 rise of one man to power over many, but this man will be unjust in state business.
… 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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