Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 7 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Cornwall A30 dig finds artefacts thousands of years old – BBC News
- 2,000-year-old banquet hall where people ate sacrificial animals and drank wine is found in Cyprus | Daily Mail Online
- Finds – including country’s earliest pistachio nut – reveal history of Roman settlement off the A1 near Catterick | Yorkshire Post
- Colchester Museums conduct first scientific analysis of Roman cremation burials in Britain | Colchester Borough Council
- 4,000-year-old city discovered in Iraq – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
- Israeli Soldiers Bulldoze The Oldest And Largest Canaanite Cemetery In Palestine – – IMEMC News
- Pompei: riaprono Villa dei Misteri e il Lupanare – Arte – ANSA
- Ritrovato cippo Epoca Claudia, Raggi “Conoscere meglio nostre origini” – Tiscali Notizie
In Case You Missed It
- Magnificent Roman-era building unearthed under Israel’s Western Wall | Live Science
- This little piggy went to Jerusalem 2,700 years ago, raising some questions | The Times of Israel
- ‘Freedom of Zion’ coins dating to famous Jewish revolt found in the West Bank | Live Science
- Ancient Greek Helmet Found in Burial Chamber in Croatia
- 1,600-year-old mummified sheep found in Iranian salt mine – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
- University of Sheffield staff could strike over closure of archaeology department | The Star
- Japanese archaeologist examines Anatolian civilizations in situ for 40 years
- Dr. Melanie Fillios on what her excavations of ancient Greek sites show about the Bronze Age – Greek Herald
- The launch of “Olympia: The Birth of the Games” took place a few hours before lockdown and days before the Tokyo Olympics | Neos Kosmos
Fresh Bloggery
- For the Love of…A Goose? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- That Old Time (Heavenly) Rock and Roll… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Thing Things Thursday: More Sun Ra, Sheffield, and Rivers | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Well Enough to Read, Well Enough to Write? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Achilles Among The Daughters Of Lycomedes, Painted By Jan Boeckhorst (c. 1604-1688) | The Historian’s Hut
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Unseemly Gesture?
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Particuliterate: Particles in Ancient Greek Epic
- Fantastic Friday: Truffles in Thunder and Other Things Worth Knowing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Omens Cheerfully Disregarded – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Teerlingen werpen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Crown of Creation | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: Bethsaida Excavations Project website
- PaleoJudaica.com: Maier, Das Glück im antiken Judentum und im Neuen Testament (Mohr Siebeck)
- PaleoJudaica.com: A career all around late antiquity
- PaleoJudaica.com: Pig skeleton excavated in First-Temple-era Jerusalem building
- Collections: The Queen’s Latin or Who Were the Romans? Part III: Bigotry and Diversity at Rome – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- WHAT’s IT LIKE? Episode 6: Ms. Roberta Dainotto – A PhD Researcher Specialising in Ancient Greek Philology. | Classics at Reading
Blog-like Publications
- Sophocles’ Antigone and the Sources of Human Ethics – Antigone
- Ancient and Medieval Coins With Two-Sided Legends
- Archaeological museums – Ancient World Magazine
- Are the Classics Racist? A Black Classics Professor Begs to Differ by Anika T. Prather
- Sappho’s looks, and how Sappho looks at beauty – Classical Inquiries
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
The Hellenistic period brought increased variety and diversity in art in the Mediterranean. Archaeologist and ancient historian, Dr Jane Masséglia, University of Leicester, joins the show to discuss art in the Hellenistic period in eastern part of the Mediterranean Basin.
It’s thanks to Alex who emailed in this question, what was the difference between Auxilia & Foederat? Is not why the different name?
Fresh Youtubery
- Septimius Severus | Rome’s African Emperor | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
- The Meditations Project #4: Stoicism, America and the Founding Fathers (TLP Easter Mini-Course) | The Latin Programme: Via Facilis
- Did Jesus & The Apostle Paul Exist? Dr. Mark Goodacre | MythVision Podcast
- Theme for “Dido. Aeneid 4.” | Bettina Joy de Guzman
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Jonathan Price, Katell Berthelot, The future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Jewish and Christian visions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Vincent Hunink, Acta Martyrum Scillitanorum. A literary commentary. Giornale Italiano di Filologia – Bibliotheca, 24. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
- The Roman road to Judea’s destruction – The Jewish Chronicle
- When a statue is more than a statue | Art Review | Chicago Reader
Dramatic Receptions
- Genesius Guild presents Euripides’ Hippolytus In Rock Island’s Lincoln Park This Weekend | Quad Cities > QuadCities.com
- James Purefoy to Lead THE ODYSSEY at Jermyn Street Theatre
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
- ANE TODAY – 202107 – New Symbols of Hierarchy: On the Origins of the Cartouche and Encircling Symbolism in Old Kingdom Pyramids – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Derinkuyu: the ancient underground city, once home to 20,000 people
- Stone-Age Cosmetics Based On Lead-Mineral Oldest Of Its Kind
- Hercules Is Disney’s Greatest Himbo
- A Brief History of Tailgating – The News Wheel
- All Roads Lead To Rome
- Much of US’ Architecture Inspired by Ancient Greece
- The Island Of Capri’s Illustrious Roman History
- Aristotle, Ancient Greek Wisdom and the Elderly | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald
‘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 victory over an eastern king and the arrival of disease with dry hot weather.
… 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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