Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 11 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• In Photos: The sunken city of Thônis-Heracleion in Alexandria reveals new archaeological treasures – Heritage – Ahram Online
• Rome starts work at Largo Argentina site ahead of Bvlgari project
• Autopsy at the Polycentric Museum of the Goats by the Ministry of Culture
• Unknown types of ancient Greek textiles identified | Science in Poland
• Nuovi scavi alla villa romana e alla fornace di Montaione – Il Tirreno Empoli

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeology has a problem with females and figurines in Israel and the Levant – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classic Books or Diverse Books?
• The Greek Archaeologist in Search of the Tomb of Alexander the Great

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE SPECVLATIONE DIVRNARIORVM 

Public Facing Classics

• Why Visiting a Museum is Like Seeing my Friends in Jail

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gordion’s Middle Phrygian ceramic chronology
• Hey D, Why Did God Make the Comma? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Electronic Babylonian Literature (eBL)
• Bestiaria Latina Blog: Gesta 56: Princeps et Mercator
• Hip to be Hypocritical – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Merchants, Measures and Money: Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective
• Roman Times: Red-figured fish plates of the 5th century BCE
• There’s No Hektor Here – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The “hugoye-list” for Syriac Studies -now at groups.io – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: hugoye-list: Syriac Studies Listserv
• Philemon And Baucis, By Elias van Nijmegen (c. 1667-1755) | The Historian’s Hut
• De laatste dagen van Plinius de Oudere – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Anniversary of discovery of the Rosetta Stone
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bible Places on the “Jerubbaal” jug
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the siege of Yodfat
• Rare stone discovered outlining ancient Rome’s city limits – The Archaeology News Network

Blog-like Publications

• The “Salt Sheep” of Chehrabad
• Opening of the Aigai Necropolis archaeological park
• Sarcophagus from the Visigoth period discovered in Roman necropolis – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @SarahEBond on that recently-found Claudian boundary marker:
• @DocCrom’s Ancient Coins of the Day are some Poppaea Sabina coins of Nero

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: The Social War – Year 1 of 5 w. Dr. Seth Kendall on Apple Podcasts

The Social War was a peninsular war that lasted five years and was fought between Rome and many of its allied communities. Roman historian, Dr. Seth Kendall, George Gwinnett College, joins the show to share what occurred during the first of five years of the war.

• ‎Peopling the Past: Breaking the Mold: Quasi-Official Coinage in Roman Egypt with Irene Soto Marín on Apple Podcasts

Money makes the ancient Mediterranean world go round…but what happens when there’s not enough metal to make official coinage? In this episode, archaeologist Dr. Irene Soto Marín shares her research on quasi-official (not counterfeit!) coinage in Roman Egypt during the 4th century CE, a period of instability and uncertainty. Join us as we learn how the Roman army created a cheap and effective monetary system to meet the needs of the local populations and how they literally “broke the mold” in doing so!

• ‎Good in Theory: A Political Philosophy Podcast: 30 – Plato’s Republic 13: Choose Yourself on Apple Podcasts

This episode covers the last bit of book 10 of Plato’s Republic. Imagine you get to choose your reincarnation. You can come back as a tyrant, a sports star, a swan, whatever you want. What do you pick? And what do you have to know to make a good choice? Socrates has some advice. In this final episode of Republic, tell the story of a man who travelled to the afterlife and came back to tell the tale. This puts a didactic bow on the all-night conversation they’ve been having and demonstrates how Socrates thinks poetry should be written.

Fresh Youtubery

• Beyond Athenocentrism – Department of Classics – Trinity College Dublin
• Natural Sciences in Archaeology | DAI
• Pokémon in Latin! Red/Blue Kanto Pokédex entries 32-40 (Nidoran, Jigglypuff) | Ancient Literature Dude
• Peopling the Past Ep 14: Kara Cooney talks about Women and Power in ancient Egypt | Peopling the Past
• Alexander the Great: Life and Reign of the King of the Macedonian Empire | World History Encyclopedia
• The Betrayal of Osiris || Egyptian Mythology w/ Dael Kingsmill | Monarch’s Factory

Exhibition Related Things

• Magno Greci ed Etruschi, una mostra al museo MArTa di Taranto – la Ringhiera

Dramatic Receptions

• Caught in a Bad Romance: Genesis Guild’s “Hippolytus” at Lincoln Park through July 25 | River Cities’ Reader

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Greek Textiles Through The Centuries
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• City of Legend: Digging up the True Story of Troy | Discover Magazine
• Tablet Reveals Babylonians Studied Trigonometry Before the Greeks
• What did the ancient Romans eat? – BBC Travel
• Colourful prehistoric ‘Chanel dress’ goes on show – DutchNews.nl

‘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 damaging drought.

… 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)