Hodie est pr. id. Sext. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Pompeii’s 2000 year old fast food restaurant to open to public
- Roman Key Handle Unearthed in Eastern England – Archaeology Magazine
- Ancient Greek Warship Found off the Coast of Egypt | culture & arts , culture | The National Herald
- Prof Cambitoglou’s $6 million bequest to University of Sydney Archaeology Institute | Neos Kosmos
Classicists and Classics in the News
- GTP Headlines Greece Expresses Sorrow for Philhellene Archaeologist Stephen Miller’s Death | GTP Headlines
- Donald Kagan, leading neo-conservative historian, dead at 89 – ABC News
- Opinion | Donald Kagan: A Classicist Who Fought for Free Expression on Campus – POLITICO
- Vale Stephen Miller, Ancient Nemea archaeologist and Philhellene | Neos Kosmos
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE STVPRIS AETHIOPICIS
Fresh Bloggery
- Cicero: I Love Athens, Let Me Change It – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digital Grammar of Greek Documentary Papyri Project
- Like Blood Poured Over Milk: It Gets Worse When Achilles Dies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Liverani, Historiography, Ideology and Politics in the Ancient Near East and Israel (Routledge)
- The Fate of the Van Kampen Collection | Variant Readings
- That As of Ariminum – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Cicero: When I Think of Greece, I Think of Athens – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Textbook: Guide to Ancient Near Eastern Art
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sailing from Polis to Empire: Ships in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Hellenistic Period
- Revising the Book: Still Thinking About an Introduction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Lazy Boys
- No, Archaeologists Have Not Found the Trojan Horse – Tales of Times Forgotten
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Section of Hadrian’s Wall found in Newcastle
- De Zeevolken: meer problemen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Blog: Larissa, Nudity, and Lasas | Society for Classical Studies
- Spencer Alley: Hans von Aachen (Suave Elongation)
Blog-like Publications
- Mycorrhizal Mythophony: Towards Black (&) Classical Myth Studies | by Vanessa Stovall | Corona Borealis | Aug, 2021 | Medium
- Introducing the Paideia Dolphin Editions | by Jason Pedicone | In Medias Res | Aug, 2021 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a solidus of Vetranio
- @DocCrom on HA, Hadrian 4.10
- @fadeaccompli was reading Rosivach’s When a Young Man Falls in Love: the Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy
- @arturoviaggia on imagery which might be Pagan or Christian
Fresh Podcasts
Among Pompeii’s great wealth of surviving artefacts is one with a rich globe trotting history that only goes to emphasise the interconnected nature of the ancient world: the Pompeii Lakshmi, a small statuette originally crafted in India. But what do we know about this object? Does it really depict Lakshmi? How might it have reached Pompeii? Where in India do we think it was crafted? Laura Weinstein came on the podcast to answer all these questions and talk through what we know about this iconic object.
It’s only four little letters, well maybe five, but another tiny Iron Age inscription has raised more than a few eyebrows. What’s the significance of this latest scribble? Is it the name of a biblical character, or the name of a guy who didn’t want his lunch stolen? And why are our panelists talking about being stuck in a suburban cul-de-sac?
This week the throw-down continues as Dave, Jeff, and Dr. Patrick M. Owens dig into a pile of Latin textbooks and see which ones are worthy of a podium finish. Need to brush up on your ecclesiastical Latin? You’d better know your Collins from your Henle. Do the names “Cambridge” and “Oxford” conjure images of Britishy erudition? Maybe not so fast. Dashed off caricatures of oddly proportioned “melon heads” not your thing? Learn which books NOT to open. So, tune in ( if you can take a break from gilding your cute little Duolingo owl and trying to advance to the Amethyst League). Also, Rosetta Stone, Ossa Latinitatis, and Hans Ørberg.
From the second she rolled out of the carpet in Caesar’s chambers (or climbed out of a sac) the chemistry between Cleopatra and Caesar is what legends are made of. However, their romance took place against a backdrop of civil war and siege. Who gains control of Egypt and where is Cleopatra’s brother/husband? Find out by tuning into this weeks episode!
To understand the Italian Community, Samnites, in the Iron Age (9th to 6th centuries), scholars predominantly rely on funerary evidence. Dr. Rafael Scopacasa returns to the show to share what’s known about the community in this period of time.
The Second Secession is a contested moment in Roman’s early republican history. The fallout from two key events lead us to this point according to our later written sources: one is the murder of Lucius Siccus Dentatus “the Roman Achilles” and the other is the murder of the young plebeian Verginia (also known as Virginia). We’ll be exploring what the sources can tell us and what we might make of this challenging moment in Rome’s history.
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Catullus (c84-c54 BC) who wrote some of the most sublime poetry in the late Roman Republic, and some of the most obscene. He found a new way to write about love, in poems to the mysterious Lesbia, married and elusive, and he influenced Virgil and Ovid and others, yet his explicit poems were to blight his reputation for a thousand years. Once the one surviving manuscript was discovered in the Middle Ages, though, anecdotally as a plug in a wine butt, he inspired Petrarch and the Elizabethan poets, as he continues to inspire many today.
Fresh Youtubery
- Myths & Misadventures – Pegasus & Bellerophon | National Hellenic Museum
- Stupid Ancient History GCSE:L 4 Key sources on Alexander | D Midgley
- Ancient History GCSE: 5 The Birth of Alexander the Great | D Midgley
- Termopolio della Regio V, Casa di Orione e Casa del Giardino | Pompeii Sites
- Les dagues de gladiateurs: des armes pour tuer? | Acta Videos
Book Reviews
- Philip & Alexander. Kings and Conquerors. (A.) Goldsworthy Pp.xliv +620, maps, b/w & colour pls. London: Head of Zeus, 2020.
- Two New Latin Courses: Suburani and De Romanis – Suburani (A Latin Reading Course) Book 1. Pp. 302, colour ills, colour maps. Haverhill: Hands Up Education, 2020.
- Pandora’s Jar. Women in the Greek Myths. (N.) Haynes. Pp. x + 308, ills. London: Picador, 2020.
- [BMCR] M. D. Usher, Plato’s pigs and other ruminations: ancient guides to living with nature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Martina Savio, Screditare per valorizzare: Giovanni Tzetze, le sue fonti, i committenti e la concorrenza. Pleiadi, 24. Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura, 2020.
- [BMCR] Stephen T. Newmyer , Plutarch’s three treatises on animals: a translation with introductions and commentary. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Fellowship: 2022/23 Getty Fellowship | Society for Classical Studies
- Professor, Latin Literature and Culture (open-rank) (JPF06670) – UCLA Academic RECRUIT
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- A misty history of Roman Portugal – Part 5 : The Social Order – The Portugal News
- The Yorkshire Queen – South Leeds Life
- Ancient Greek synagogue resurrected in Crete – The Jerusalem Post
- The Antikythera Shipwreck – Smarthistory
- Nike (Winged Victory) of Samothrace – Smarthistory
- Latin Is Dead, but Not Extinct | Discover Magazine
- Santorini volcano (Greece): frescoes from the Bronze-Age town at Akrotiri / VolcanoDiscovery
‘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:
It it thunders today, it portends an abundance of cattle feed and acorns, but at the first season’s ripening, things will change for the worse.
… 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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