Hodie est Kal. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 24 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeology: Bronze Age hillfort filled with treasure unearthed in France may be ‘lost capital city’ | Daily Mail Online
- Urartian grave excites archaeologists
- The first farmers of Europe
- Donor shares ‘incredible’ collection of artefacts with new museum of Roman invasion of Scotland | The Scotsman
- Great Wall of Grogan: excavations give clues to life in northern Iran – Tehran Times
- ARCHEOLOGIA / Scoperta una necropoli romana a Castel di Tora (RI) [FOTO] – Storie & ArcheoStorie
- Pella: 54-year-old Man Arrested For Possession Of Ancient Objects — Greek City Times
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Robert Ritner, noted Egyptologist at the University of Chicago, has died – Chicago Tribune
- Notice regarding Julian Ward Jones Jr. | William & Mary
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Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Latin Howler
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Separation versus Coalition
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Contest Between Intelligence and Stupidity
- It Wasn’t Me | Sphinx
- Roman Times: Pompeii Walk – the 2nd 30 minutes: On the way to The Lupanar (The Brothel)
- Tawdry Tuesday: A Poem to a Rear-End and Some Etymologies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Mercury, Argus, And Io, Painted By Carel Fabritius (c. 1622-1654) | The Historian’s Hut
- De Siciliaanse Expeditie (5) – Mainzer Beobachter
- August 2021 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- No, Alexander the Great Didn’t See Flying Saucers – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Septuagint in the news
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 186
- PaleoJudaica.com: More relics of the Carthaginian defeat at the Aegates
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Satyr
- Book Club | September 2021: Strabo Geography – The Kosmos Society
- Spencer Alley: Willem van Herp (Antwerp Narratives)
- Dionysius of Halicarnassus, ‘On the Reclamation of History’ | Sphinx
Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a votive inscription set up for Septimius Severus
- @OptimoPrincipi on a bust identified as Mark Antony
- @DocCrom on VAlerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 1.22-30
- @DocCrom on coins depicting Caligula’s sisters
- @profyarrow on some Roman coins depicting boars and elephants
Fresh Podcasts
Our dive into Lucretius continues this week and after a quick review of Epicureanism we get to the particulars. First up, Memmius, Lucretius’ patron to whom he dedicated his work. Why him? From the few shenanigans we know about Memmy he seems like a very un-Epicurean sort. Was Lucretius trying convert him? Then the thesis of the work—freeing oneself from superstition and the fear of death. If religion forces you to sacrifice you own daughter, what good is it? Can Venus and Mars stay in détente long enough to chill things out? Maybe as likely as Dave and Jeff agreeing on Roy Orbison’s catalogue and who actually gets to be a Travelling Wilbury. You don’t want to miss this one!
Odysseus confronts the suitors, and our long journey comes to its end.
Fresh Youtubery
- Assassination of Julius Caesar: Why and How DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- A Modern Retelling of Orpheus & Eurydice: Sarvat Hasin’s “THE GIANT DARK” Review | Moan Inc.
- Philo of Alexandria on the Riot of 38 A.D. | Godward Podcast
- The Secrets Of The Ancient Roman Banquet | Let’s Cook History | Odyssey
- Making and Remaking History – Dr. Moudhy Al-Rashid | Digital Hammurabi
- Forgotten Wars – The Roman Invasion of Nubia (24 BC) DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Drinks Through Time: Sargon’s Sour | Oriental Institute
Book Reviews
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Six-month postdoctoral research fellowship
- Digital Italy Seminar
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Ancient Fortress at Aigosthena in West Attica Now Fully Restored
- Inscriptions in Persepolis palace hold clues about evolution of Persian script – Tehran Times
- From Thermopylae to Kabul: why the West is now the Persian Empire reborn | TheArticle
- Why We Need the Humanities in Today’s Career-Focused World | Higher Ed Gamma
- Losing the Knack for Disaster: Thucydides and Our Time – Hellenic News of America
- First Translation of the Bible, the Septuagint, was in Greek
- Ancient Library of Alexandria One of Greatest Treasures of Mankind
- Lockdown with Aristotle – and a teenager | The Spectator Australia
‘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 both a good harvest and good times.
… 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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