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In the News
- Italy strengthens case for return of ‘Victorious Youth’ bronze from Getty Museum in heritage feud that has lasted decades | The Art Newspaper
- Praedia Project: al via il 5 luglio la nuova campagna archeologica a Pompei – Cronaca – lanazione.it
- 409 silver coins dating back to 3rd century found in Sharjah’s Mleiha area | Education – Gulf News
- Pompeii’s ancient brothel to reopen to visitors after restoration
- Terni: scavi archeologici di Carsulae, il ministero della cultura autorizza altri tre anni di ricerche – Corriere dell’Umbria
- I resti di 2500 anni fa: a Castello Tesino una nuova campagna archeologica al colle di Sant’Ippolito – Valsugana – Primiero | l’Adige.it
- Cyprus showcases ancient undersea harbour | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
In Case You Missed It
- Roman stone-carved penis unearthed in UK | Huge Roman stone-carved penis unearthed during archaeological dig in Yorkshire | Trending & Viral News
- Oink vey! Pig skeleton discovered in First Temple-period Jerusalem – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- The Palladion and Pelops’s Bones – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lawrence, Egg Whites or Turnips? (Wipf & Stock)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Festschrift for François de Blois
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tisha B’Av 2021
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Your Thoughts and Dreams
- Pamphile of Epidauros: A Female Ancient Greek Historian – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Escaping the Self is Impossible – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Middle Kingdom Ramesseum Papyri Tomb and its Archaeological Context (Kitab – Egyptology in Focus)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Coming Soon: Bible & Archaeology
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Greek Vase
- Some Hateful Words Handpicked for Social Media – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Poetry, Our Oldest Pursuit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Proverb for a Ruined Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Death Before Applause – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Visigothic Christian sarcophagus found in Murcia
- Fausta – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Virtual Madaba
- Dobbelende Germanen – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Judging a scroll by its cover?
- PaleoJudaica.com: So many open-access journals!
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Newark holy stones are on display
- A6, B12, B50 and B101: Unity lies behind Change – The Classical Anthology
- Laudator Temporis Acti: One Life Only
- Forget the Fountain of Youth–We Need the Stone of Relief – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Eye-Philologists
- The Edithorial: Tories, Tyrants & Tall Poppies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dura-Europos : crossroads of antiquity
- Ultra-Ancient Poetic Authority – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Deceit Essential to Statecraft – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Dancing With the Heroes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Cadmus Slaying The Dragon, By Reinhold Timm (c. 1618-1639) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Anti-Hangover Headband Origin Myth For Diadems And Crowns | The Historian’s Hut
- De Germanen in Bonn – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on that unbreached wall in Jerusalem
- PaleoJudaica.com: New movie on the Great Revolt
- Episode 44 – The Mediterranean on Fire: Spain – The Layman’s Historian
- Hercules’ Twelve Labours Mosaic – The 21st Century Archaeology
- Hercules and Omphale Mosaic – The 21st Century Archaeology
- ARCHEOLOGIA / Quando Claudio ampliò il pomerio: ritrovato a Roma un raro cippo del 49 d.C. – Storie & Archeostorie
Blog-like Publications
- New finds at Gourimadi, Karystos
- Atalanta wrestling Peleus – A black-figure hydria from the Manchester Museum – Ancient World Magazine
- Ancient Rome Live | The Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Goods: A Long and Ignoble History
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
A bunch of 80 million year old shark teeth in Iron Age Jerusalem have set the archaeological world ablaze. What are they doing there along with 10,000 fish bones and six and a half tons of pottery? It’s gotta be a joke, right? Do our panelists speculate wildly or do they jump the shark?
It was one of the most powerful empires in history, leaving marks and remnants across the globe, but in this episode we are looking specifically at the impact of the Romans on Brittany. Tristan was joined once again by Sir Barry Cunliffe, who takes us through the Roman occupation of Brittany, the response of the residents, and the impact on both cultures. From slaves and wine, to fish sauce and rebellion, this is an intriguing look into the character of Brittany and the realities of a Roman occupation. Emeritus Professor at the University of Oxford, Sir Barry Cunliffe is the author of Bretons and Britons: The Fight for Identity.
The Bay of Naples featured a mosaic of luxury estates by the first century. Classical archaeologist, Dr. Mantha Zarmakoupi, University of Pennsylvania, joins the show to share what villa-style living was like for Romans in this part of the Italian peninsula.
A codified law, nascent territorial expansion, and the creation of offices such as Quaestor and Tribune of the Plebs, all occurred in Rome during the 5th century BCE. Dr. Gary Forsythe, Texas Tech University, returns to the show to discuss what occurred with the Roman Republic during the century.
200 – 600 – The Sasanians were firmly in control of their Silk Road branch while Rome and China languished. This period saw the rise of the Gupta, Maya and Aksumites but was also the age of the mysterious Hunnic tribes of the Eurasian Steppe.
The Seleucid Empire’s vast geographic spread made it the heir to a wide variety of cavalry traditions, with the fighting style of each region being incorporated into an army of Macedonian origin: units like armored cataphracts and horse archers from the steppes, scythed chariots from the Near East, and even war elephants acquired from distant India. Scholars have long viewed the cavalry of the Seleucids (and by extension other Hellenistic powers) as being ineffectual, with the use of such “exotic” troop types limited to being a passing fad. Dr. Silvannen Gerrard joins our show to argue that the Seleucid military was in fact quite capable and adaptive, and that the often-downplayed role of unorthodox troops like elephants betrays a powerful and effective tool for warfare.
This week Patrick and an esteemed panel of historians, archeologists and classicists discuss the life and legacy of Roman emperor Hadrian. Joining Patrick on the panel are: Dr Andrew Fear, Department of Classics, University of Manchester, Frances McIntosh, Curator of Roman Collections, Hadrian’s Wall, English Heritage, Professor Richard Hingley, Professor of Archaeology, Durham University, Dr Alexander Thien, School of Classics, University College Dublin, Professor David Breeze, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, The University of Edinburgh and Professor Mary T Boatwright, Department of Classics, Duke University.
For our July podcast, we were joined by Professors Asa Eger (University of North Carolina at Greensboro), Andrea De Giorgi (Florida State University), and Reyhan Durmaz (University of Pennsylvania) for a discussion of a new volume just published by Routledge, entitled Antioch: A History, coauthored by Asa Eger and Andrea De Giorgi, covering the history of the city from the 4th century BCE to the present.
Fresh Youtubery
- Vlog in easy Latin #1 || Libros in capsam ponimus | Satura Lanx
- Ancient Egypt and Colonial Science Fiction: The Myth of Origins | Digital Hammurabi
- The hidden frescoes that inspired Raphael now on display in Rome | Rome Reports
- Menstrual Munching: “Pinnacle of Debauchery” in Ancient Rome & Greece | Classics in Color
- MY FIRST ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATION – Halos Dig Diaries 2019 | Dig It With Raven
- Last Stand of Free Celts: Struggle Against the Roman Empire | Kings and Generals
- First Latin Lesson with Italian Speakers | Scorpio Martianus
- A Journey Back to The Destructions of Jerusalem – Tisha B’Av Special | City of David
- Reconstructing the Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre | Michael Levy
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Peter Van Nuffelen, Lieve Van Hoof, Jordanes. “Romana” and “Getica”. Translated texts for historians, 75. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Virginia M. Lewis, Myth, locality, and identity in Pindar’s Sicilian Odes. Greeks Overseas. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
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
- Not a lost kingdom but a parable – how to read Athens in Plato’s story of Atlantis | Aeon Videos
- What would a day be like in Roman Verulamium? | Herts Advertiser
- Ancient Greek Healer God Asklepios, Sleep, and Sacred Dreams | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald
- Fauvel: The Frenchman Who Vied with Elgin for the Parthenon Marbles
- The Real Story Of The Ancient Olympic Games — Greek City Times
- Discover Cleopatra’s Needle, England – Middle East Monitor
- Ancient Greek Origins of Olympic Gymnastics in National Geographic | sports , greece | The National Herald
- Corruption in Sport Existed Even at the Olympics in Ancient Greece
- It was Nero’s critics who were on fiddle | World | The Times
- Tokyo Olympics: How Kyniska, a Spartan princess, became the first female Olympian
- Naked Games: Remembering the Olympics that starred nude athletes
‘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 war and the destruction of powerful people. At the same time, there will be an abundance of grain crops.
… 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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