Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars discovered off Sicily | Italy | The Guardian
- Hatay’s historic aqueducts await help from local friends | Daily Sabah
- Excavations reveal 2,300-year-old fish skeletons in Turkey’s Patara | Daily Sabah
- Third century Roman main wall found during excavations at Brough in East Yorkshire | Yorkshire Post
- Dutch unearth Roman canal, road near UNESCO heritage sites
- US to return some 17,000 looted antiquities to Iraq
- Settler group loses control over Jerusalem archaeological park – Israel News – Haaretz.com
- Remains of twin fetuses and wealthy mom found in Bronze Age urn | Live Science
- Roman souvenir cups at old Essex County Hospital site | Gazette
- Proto-Canaanite inscription found in Israel has experts squabbling over its meaning – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Israeli Soldiers, Colonizers, Invade Archeological Site In Sebastia – – IMEMC News
In Case You Missed It
- Tornos News | Ruins of ancient banquet hall discovered in Paphos of Cyprus
- New Archaeological Finds in Jerusalem Shed Light on Second Temple Period | Voice of America – English
- Copper Coins Unearthed at Greek City Site in Russia – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- In ricordo di Lucia Vagnetti – Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria
- In Memory of Prof. Dr. Jürgen Borchhardt – DAİstanbul
- Robert K. Ritner Jr., eminent Egyptologist and beloved teacher, 1953–2021 | University of Chicago News
- In Memoriam: Remembering Don Cameron | U-M LSA Department of Classical Studies
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] CALAMITAS GERMANICA
Public Facing Classics
- Not everyone cheered the ancient Olympic games, but the sacred games brought together rival societies
- What were the Olympics like in 776 BC?
- The Greeks had their reservations about the Olympics | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- A Song from the Old Days – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Amsterdam Database of New Testament Conjectural Emendation
- You Can Always Go Back (sort of) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A Testament to the Swollen and the Cut – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The material sides of marriage. Women and domestic economies in antiquity
- Faded construction scene – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Stick(s?) in the Stern? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Oedipus At Colonus, Painted By Jean Antoine Théodore Giroust (c. 1753 – 1817) | The Historian’s Hut
- How Dionysus’ Thyrsus Staff Design Allegedly Protected Against Drunken Brawling | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman canal, road emerge as Limes gets UNESCO World Heritage status
- It Belongs in a Museum – Mainzer Beobachter
- ⚡️NEW VIDEO version of What is supplication?⚡️ and 25% OFF apparel til Thursday! | Greek Myth Comix
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dr Crom on Vespasian’s Jewish Revolt coins
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Ashkelon dogs who didn’t bark
- PaleoJudaica.com: Farming in the Shema Prayer
Blog-like Publications
Fresh Podcasts
The ‘Gospel of Jesus’ Wife’ is the latest high profile example of a forged ancient text. Scholars should have known better, but hey, where’s the fun in that? When Fox Mulder meets Elaine Benes the sparks fly and scholarship takes it on the chin. Our panelists are there ringside, sagely opining.
The Second Punic War was the second of three wars principally fought between Rome and Carthage, and lasted 17 years. British historian, Dr Kathryn Lomas, Durham University, returns to the show to explain the series of events.
The Theban Sacred Band was one of the greatest military corps of Ancient Greece, thriving from the city-state of Thebes for almost 50 years in the mid 4th century BC. In addition to their fighting prowess, however, there is another fascinating aspect to their history; this 300-man elite corps was made up of 150 pairs of male lovers, many of them buried side by side where they fell in battle. To hear more about this, Tristan spoke to James Romm, author, reviewer, and James H. Ottaway Jr. Professor of Classics at Bard College in Annandale, New York. James gives us a glimpse of Theban democracy, power struggles between leading city-states, and the growth of eros, sexual love, in Greek public life. His book ‘The Sacred Band’ is out now.
f archaeological digs are anything to go by, Rome was a society of fantastic luxury. Impressive buildings, exotic foods, obedient slaves, and more marble than you could shake a toga at. But when you read ancient sources, there were those who felt uncomfortable with the opulence, and perhaps it was making the Roman’s soft. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
Fresh Youtubery
- Usos do passado greco-romano em discursos racistas e supremacistas atuais – Rebecca Futo Kennedy | Escola História Unirio
- Festival of Archaeology – Disability in the Past | University of Southampton
- Scanning Roman objects at Lunt Roman Fort with WMG July 2021 | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
- What is SUPPLICATION in Ancient Greek Epic? Greek Myth Comix explaining Greek Myth and Literature | Greek Myth Comix
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Angelo Luceri, Claudiano tra scienza e “mirabilia”: “Hystrix”, “Nilus”, “Torpedo” (carm. min. 9, 28, 49) introduzione, testo, traduzione e commento. Spudasmata, Band 190. Hildesheim; Zürich; New York: Georg Olms Verlag, 2020.
- [BMCR] Gareth Sampson, Rome and Parthia: empires at war. Ventidius, Antony and the second Romano-Parthian War, 40-20 BC. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Military, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Opening the Ancient World: Religion, History, & Culture
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The History of Gymnastics from Ancient Greece to Today
- JR Transforms Rome’s Palazzo Farnese With an Incredible Illusion
‘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 good harvest.
… 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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