Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
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- Rare Cuneiform Tablet Bearing Portion of Epic of Gilgamesh Forfeited to United States | OPA | Department of Justice
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Was it really Jerubbaal’s jug?
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: IL MEDITERRANEO E LA STORIA II. NAVIGANTI, POPOLI E CULTURE AD ISCHIA E IN ALTRI LUOGHI DELLA COSTA TIRRENICA
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- An updated timeline on the history of the statue of the Victorious Youth: Comparing the Getty’s last statements regarding the statue with the facts and with Italy’s current political manoeuvring. ~ ARCAblog
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: SIAC Newsletter (Société Internationale des Amis de Cicéron)
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- How to Unfriend with Lysias – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- The Horrific Trial Of Vestal Minucia | The Historian’s Hut
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- Historical Renames – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: SOTS Booklist 2021
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- The missing section of Jerusalem’s walls
- Archaeologists discover new urban precinct in Egyptian settlement of Marea – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a curse tablet from the RIB collection
- @OptimoPrincipi on a bronze head of Nero found near the River Alde back in 1907
- @MichaelDPress on recent suggestions that David et al were nomads
- @DocCrom’s Ancient Coin of the Day thread looks at some Lycian League issues
Fresh Podcasts
Jeff and Dave bring the first show from Vomitorium West, where they take a close look at the sophist Gorgias (483–375 BC). When he wasn’t hitting the Olympia/Delphi orators circuit for some cool drachmai, Gorgias was in Athens claiming to be able to answer any question anyone one might put to him. Who was this guy? Did he actually believe his own press? In this work, G defends Helen of Troy so convincingly you’ll be fist-pumping. That is, until he pulls the rug out from under the whole project with the work’s final word. Oh, and make sure you know your millihelens from your terahelens before you wander down to the harbor with Robertson Davies and Isaac Asimov. Then again, you probably don’t exist (G says nothing does), so don’t sweat it. Finally, check out Jeff’s smoove beatbox.
On January 10th, 49 BCE, Julius Caesar, with an army, crossed the Rubicon River, hence, commencing a civil war in Rome. Professor Richard Alston, Royal Holloway, University of London, makes a fifth appearance on the show to share what happened, and to treat the middle period of Caesar’s life.
In this episode, Alice and Nicolas interview members of NMT Automatics, a theatre company which specialises in updating ancient myths for modern audiences. Co-founders Jennie Dunne and Jonathan Young have been working with director Andres Velasquez and dramaturg Mairin O’Hagan to develop a new play, Tempus Fugit: Troy and Us, which weaves together an Ancient Greek war story from Homer’s Iliad with the tale of a modern military couple, Alec and Bea. The Visualising War project has been feeding into their research process, so we enjoyed catching up with them to find out how the play has evolved….
Fresh Youtubery
- Roman Britain’s Missing Legion – with Dr Simon Elliott | Council for British Archaeology
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- Song of Seikilos. Barbitos lyre. Ancient Greek music. Bettina Joy de Guzman.
- ILIAD BOOK 4: ZEUS FORCES THE TROJANS TO BREAK THE TRUCE CAUSE HERA SAID SO | Moan Inc
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- BA postdoctoral fellowships at Glasgow
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
‘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 drought and a plague 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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