Hodie est a.d. III Non. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 26 Metageitnion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Ephesus of Çukurova’ being unearthed
• Byzantine church dedicated to unknown martyr unearthed in Israel | Live Science
• Gwynedd Archaeological Trust resumes excavating at Gwynedd hillfort | North Wales Chronicle
• Spagna, scoperto un teatro romano vicino a Cordova
• Robots help piece together the fresco puzzles of Pompeii – La Prensa Latina Media
• Rossett Roman villa archaeological dig gets under way – BBC News
• Excavations begin in Trabzon to bring to light traces of four empires

In Case You Missed It

• Turkish Archaeologists Unearth Headless Statue of Greek Health Goddess | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• Town dating back to Greek and Roman eras unearthed in Alexandria – Egypt Independent

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Professor Ernst–Ludwig Schwandner has died
• ‘Whiteness’ and the Humanities
• Archaeologist Nikolaos Kaltsas new Scientific Director of the Museum of Cycladic Art | ATHENS 9,84

Fresh Bloggery

• Searching For the Land of Truth Inside Oneself – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Romanland, Ethnicity, and Science Fiction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• News (1) | The Second Achilles
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Safe Course
• J.R.R. Tolkien | The Second Achilles
• How Does Learning Accents Help Your Soul? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Euripides | The Historian’s Hut
• Prince Meleager Refuses To Fight The Country’s Enemies, By F. F. Sedmigradsky (c. 1783- 1855) | The Historian’s Hut
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Barāqish/Yathill (Yemen) 1986-2007
• Sisak – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Church of the Glorious Martyr
• PaleoJudaica.com: A fraudulent weight from First-Temple Jerusalem?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Rejuvenation
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Useful Advice in a Fleabag Hotel
• A Cow by Any Other Name – Papyrus Stories
• Oddity or odyssey: Why I teach and research classics in South Africa
• Blog: Updates to the SCS Blog guidelines | Society for Classical Studies
• Spencer Alley: Hendrik Frans and Jacob van Lint in Rome
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Norwegian Collector Loses Unpapered Artefacts
• The Cretan Diaries of Colonel Émile-Honoré Destelle (1897-1898) | From the Archivist’s Notebook
• Norway’s economic crime unit, Ministry of Culture, Cultural History Museum, National Library and University of Oslo are assisting Iraq in the pursuit of looted and illegally-exported antiquities | conflict antiquities
• A Bitter Pill – Pompeian Connections

Blog-like Publications

• Epigraphomania in Ottoman Lands: Richard Chandler and the Epigraphic Obsession – Antigone
• Two bronze warship rams discovered at the Battle of the Aegates site
• Weapons on Ancient Coins
• Ancient warship rams discovered at the site of the Battle of the Egadi Islands – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @aimee_hinds on assorted ‘ancient’ Barbies

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Coffee and Circuses: Rosemary Sutcliff: History is People on Apple Podcasts

In this essay, ‘History is People’ acclaimed historical novelist Rosemary discussed her responsibilities as a children’s author and her belief that human nature remains essentially consistent and relatable throughout history, using a range of texts from the Homeric Age to the English Civil War to illustrate her points. The essay was originally distributed at a conference for the Children’s Literature in Education journal in Exeter in 1971, and was later reprinted in the 1973 anthology Children and Literature: Views and Reviews, edited by Virginia Haviland, which is where this reading is taken from.

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Linear B w. Dr. Dimitri Nakassis on Apple Podcasts

Linear B is the writing system that was used by the civilization(s) known as the Mycenaeans. Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Colorado Boulder, Dr. Dimitri Nakassis, joins the show to discuss this Late Bronze Age writing system.

Fresh Youtubery

• LCOC x Sportula Europe: Sportula’s 1 Year Anniversary Panel Event
• Antonia Aluko: Intersectional theory and Latin literature, primarily in the Poenulus of Plautus | London Classicists of Colour
• Zara Khan: Modern playwrights and the place of Antigone in European thought | London Classicists of Colour
• The Name “Palestine” (and Why Scholars Use It) | XKV8R
• ROSIE HEWLETT Talks Feminism in Greek Mythology and her Debut Novel “MEDUSA” | Moan Inc.
• RePAIR Project | Pompeii Sites
• Campania by Night 2021 – STABIAE LIBERATA: 3, 4, 10 e 11 settembre | Pompeii Sites
• Hattusa – 3D Tour of the Hittite Capital – Bronze Age DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals

Book Reviews

• A story of women and weaving – a new retelling of the Greek myths | The Spectator Australia

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: “Paideia and Performance” | Society for Classical Studies
• What Has Antiquity Ever Done for Us?
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

‘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 heavy rains and war.

… 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)