Hodie est Non. Sext. 2774 AUC ~ 27 Hekatombaion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Greece and Turkey fires live: Latest wildfire updates and death toll as Olympia saved | The Independent
- Le terme romane di Rimini tornano sottoterra, cemento sul grande mosaico – Chiamamicitta
In Case You Missed It
- Safani Gallery’s lawsuit against Italy over disputed antiquity dismissed in court | The Art Newspaper
- 4th-century BCE baskets still containing fruit found in sunken Egyptian city | The Times of Israel
- Rare Boundary Stone Dated to Emperor Claudius’ Reign Unearthed in Rome | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Archaeologists unearth 1st Jerusalem evidence of quake from Bible’s Book of Amos | The Times of Israel
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Why Latin isn’t just for posh boys – Prospect Magazine
- In Memoriam Daniel P. Harmon | Department of Classics | University of Washington
- Bringing an archaeology project into the digital age | MSUToday | Michigan State University
- Humanities Center Summer Program Teaches the Classics to Local High Schoolers | BU Today | Boston University
Fresh Bloggery
- The Oratorical Practices of Gaius Caligula – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Easy Mistake
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: MYTHLAB
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Diorisis Search 0.5-β
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Biblioteca digital del mito tebano con ediciones críticas y traducciones
- In which I muse on some of the things I found interesting about memory in Toni Morrison’s Beloved… – Tragic Geek
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Good Christian Ruler in the First Millennium: Views from the Wider Mediterranean World in Conversation
- The Three Fates, by Susan MacDowell Eakins (c. 1851 – 1938) | The Historian’s Hut
- Euripides | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Incompetent thief jailed for attempted robbery of Roman gold coin hoard
- Hall of Verulanus and Harbour Baths of Ephesus | Turkish Archaeological News
- DAInsight 2021 – DAI Blogs
- Introduction to Indo-European Linguistics and Culture Textbooks for the Perplexed | Consulting Philologist
- Spencer Alley: European Prints before 1925
- History Mysteries of Caroline Lawrence: Aesop’s World by Caroline Lawrence
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: New Classes of Data: Sam Hardy on Artefact Hunting in Former Yugoslavia
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @profyarrow on a coin from the Priene hoard
- @DocCrom on a coin of Augustus depicting Gaius and Lucius
Fresh Podcasts
Derek, (host of The Hellenistic Age podcast) joins Lexie to talk about different styles of podcasting about the ancient world, look at ancient studies from a STEM background, and solve the ”tv series” problem of bringing ancient complex material to life in popular culture. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey!
The ancient Olympic Games occurred once every four years, prizes only went to the winner of each competition, and some city-states enshrined victors with tax exemptions and free food for life. Professor Judith Barringer, The University of Edinburgh, returns to the show to share more.
Cleopatra. Hers is one of the most famous names that endures from antiquity. The victor of a civil war. The mistress of Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. The last ruler of Ptolemaic Egypt. The protagonist of one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays. A fearsome leader and brilliantly astute politician. The whereabouts of her tomb remains one of the great mysteries of the ancient world. But what about the baths? Over the past year Dr Chris Naunton has been looking into old references to ‘Baths of Cleopatra’, a building supposedly somewhere under modern Alexandria. Where in the city could its remains be today? And could this building really have links to Cleopatra? In this podcast, Chris talks Tristan through his research into this lost building of ancient Alexandria
Caesar returns to Rome and plans his triumph. Servilia pushes forward her plans with Octavia, forcing Atia to retaliate. Cato and Scipio commit suicide bringing an end to the civil war, and Vorenus and Pullo attempt to settle back into society in the fat old bitch herself. And by that, we mean Rome.
Fresh Youtubery
- TikTok Time Travellers | Council for British Archaeology
- How Common were WOMEN WARRIORS in Antiquity? | World of Antiquity
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Ingo Gildenhard, Cristiano Viglietti, Roman frugality: modes of moderation from the archaic age to the early empire and beyond. Cambridge classical studies. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Shpresa Gjongecaj-Vangjeli, Trésors de monnaies antiques trouvés en Albanie (Ve-Ier siècle av. J.-C.). Recherches archéologiques franco-albanaises, 2. Athènes: Ecole française d’Athènes, 2019.
- Adewale Maja-Pearce · Strewn with Loot · LRB 12 August 2021
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
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
- How ancient Babylonian land surveyors developed a unique form of trigonometry — 1,000 years before the Greeks
- Humanism in renaissance Italy – Smarthistory
- Humanism in Italian renaissance art – Smarthistory
- Levantines and Arabians have different origins, Middle East genomic study finds – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Light my fire: torches ablaze since antiquity – The University of Sydney
‘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 women being more wise.
… 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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