Hodie est pr. Kal. Aug. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Zeus Temple’s entrance found in western Turkey’s Aizanoi  | Daily Sabah
• Another UNESCO world heritage site in Slovakia dates back to the Roman Empire – spectator.sme.sk
• Cache of 2,300-year-old coins found in Romania by man digging hole for swimming pool ⋆ Universul.net
• Excavations in the ruins of Conímbriga reveal enormous archaeological potential – The Portugal News

In Case You Missed It

• Iraq: 17,000 ancient looted artifacts returned | Culture| Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 30.07.2021
• Submarine robot captures underwater footage of ancient Roman ship laden with wine jars – video | World news | The Guardian

Classicists and Classics in the News

• State schools to teach ‘elitist’ Latin | News | The Times

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Michigan State University Excavations at Isthmia
• “Phoenician Letters”: Greeks on Where Writing Game From – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: No Escape
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Because I Said So
• Roman Times: The Romanization of northwest Iberia (modern Portugal)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: International database of Homer’s Iliad translations
• Nothing Colonialist About the Classics…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Swedish Archaeology in Jordan, Palestine and Cyprus
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Away With Him!
• Forgetting the Classics – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Cinerary remains of Bronze Age woman, twins found in urn
• Warwick Classics: What is the Classics Play? – OurWarwick

Blog-like Publications

• Exekias and the Aithiopis – Scenes from a lost epic on two black-figure amphoras – Ancient World Magazine
• The Gladiatrix – The Roman gladiators that were women – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Dan Snow’s History Hit: Decoding the Roman Dead on Apple Podcasts

Often known as ‘Britain’s first town’, Colchester is a city rich in ancient history and on 24 July 2021, a new exhibition will open at the Colchester Museum revealing more about some of its earliest Roman occupants. Called ‘Decoding the Roman Dead’, the exhibition focuses on cremations found in the area around Colchester dating to almost 2,000 years ago. Thanks to new scientific methods, the team have been able to analyse these burnt remains and find out some astonishing details about who these people were. From gender to pathology to where in the Roman Empire these people came from. To talk all about the new exhibition, and to shine a light on the wealth of information archaeologists can learn from ancient cremations, Tristan from our Sibling podcast The Ancients chatted to Dr Carolina Lima and Dr Glynn Davis. Carolina and Glynn are two of the curators of the exhibition.

• ‎A.D. History Podcast: How Did Aurelian Reunite the Roman Empire? | 271AD-280AD on Apple Podcasts

For this premiering episode of A.D. History, it is again one of those special occasions where your hosts Paul and Patrick use their combined intellects to tackle a major topic together. In this decade, they go all in and tell the history of how one Lucius Domitius Aurelianus – better known as Emperor Aurelian – did what no other Roman leader could during the Third Century Crisis… reconquer all prior Roman territory that had splintered from the Empire during this Third Century disaster. We look at why Aurelian succeeded where all of his third century contemporaries and predecessors abjectly failed; discussing what he understood that they did not. Aurelian’s achievement amazingly occurred entirely within the first five years of the 270s, serving as the first act of two that would give Rome a new lease on its already vaunted existence.

Fresh Youtubery

• Cupid and Psyche – Dancing with Apollo Residency. JDP, Oxford July 2021 | TORCH
• The Warrior Queen Zenobia of the Palmyrene Empire | World History Encyclopedia
• Where I fell in LOVE with Latin | polyMATHY
• Myths & Misadventures – Pegasus & Bellerophon | National Hellenic Museum
• The Kithara of Ancient Greece – “Odysseus and the Sirens” | Michael Levy
• The Hunt For The Lost Roman Mansion | Time Team | Odyssey | Odyssey
• TLP Summer School 2021: Animals in Aesop with Caroline Lawrence | The Latin Programme

Book Reviews

• Ex-Journal reporter’s detective work debunks a sham ‘Gospel’
• [BMCR] Bettany Hughes, Venus and Aphrodite: a biography of desire. New York: Basic Books, 2020.
• [BMCR] Oliver Pilz , Kulte und Heiligtmer in Elis und Triphylien: untersuchungen zur sakraltopographie der westlichen Peloponnes. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Adjunct Instructor, Department of Classics – Job at University of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, OH
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• How can we end antiquities trafficking? | Arts and Culture | Al Jazeera
• Did Christians ban the Games? Tales, myths and other fun facts about the ancient Olympics – Denver Catholic
• [caveat lector] The Philistines were Likely of Greek Origin, According to DNA
• Ancient Greek Cheesecake Was Served To Athletes At The First Olympic Games — Greek City Times
• July 31, 1801: The Day Elgin Took the First Parthenon Sculptures
• Ancient Greek Olympic Games Banned Women From Participating. So They Started Their Own

‘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:

[Saturday] no entry for this day

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends slightly better things for the state and general abundance.

… 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)