Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Sept. 2774 AUC ~ 2 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- In Lebanon, Part of an Ancient Sundial Returns to View – The New York Times
- Sacrificio umano a Mozia, immolata una ragazzina nel 400 avanti Cristo
- Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis to get shelter ahead of opening to the public | eKathimerini.com
- Funding secured to help celebrate special anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall | News Post Leader
- FORMIA: RECUPERATE LE DUE BITTE D’ORMEGGIO DI EPOCA ROMANA – Latina TU
- Laser-cleaning utilized as pilot project by Iranian archaeologists – Tehran Times
- Rossett: Roman coin unearthed as part of archaeological dig at site of Roman villa | The Leader
- Ritrovati alla necropoli di Ornavasso i resti di un’antica strada romana – Ossolanews.it
- Alla scoperta dell’Antica Siponto: iniziata la campagna scavo
- Pescara, riemerge un mosaico del 200 dopo Cristo Operazioni ancora in corso sulla golena del fiume. Il monumento verrà traslato presso il Museo delle Genti d’Abruzzo
- Roman dig at Carlisle Cricket Club uncovers more tiles with ‘rare’ stamp | News and Star
- Emirates News Agency – New insights on date palm evolution using 2,100-year old leaf found in ancient Egyptian temple: NYUAD
Classicists and Classics in the News
- ‘I don’t care’: text shows modern poetry began much earlier than believed | Classics | The Guardian
- Speaking Latin brings an unmediated thrill to the Classics | Psyche Ideas
- Stop being so fixated with Oxbridge, says Mary Beard | News | The Times
- Dame Mary Beard: People need to stop being ‘fixated’ with Oxbridge
- This country is too ‘snobbish’ about what education is for says Professor Mary Beard
- The Times Diary: Caesars? Let’s have a dozen | News | The Times
- Elizabeth A. Clark – Elizabeth A. Clark Center for Late Ancient Studies
- Milestones: George F. Bass (1932–2021) – Biblical Archaeology Society
Fresh Bloggery
- Pliny Looks Up From His Desk to the Horizon…. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Atlantis, Expertise, and Utopia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dérivation nominale et innovations dans les langues indo‑européennes anciennes
- Guest Post: IPCAA Student James Prosser – The Social Lives of Coins
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Vocabularies for Classicists (from the Digital Classicists wiki)
- Diverting Strength to Arms: The Man-killing Women of the Sauromatae – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Caesar dictator – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Akhmim exhibition
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Ezana Stone
- Beauty in Homeric Iliad and Odyssey – The Kosmos Society
- Blog: Latin Novellas and the New Pedagogy | Society for Classical Studies
Blog-like Publications
- Ovid and Romanness in War and Metre – Antigone
- METAL PLACES: Culture crossroads in eastern Mediterranean
- Αrchitectural studies for the Kasta Mound approved
- Ancient Electrum Coins: The Case for Manufactured Alloys
- Bulletin – Council of University Classical Departments
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a dedicatory statue group of Dionysus and friends
- @DocCrom on a funerary inscription in the Cambridge Museum
Fresh Podcasts
This week Dave and Jeff make their way through the heart of the matter with a close look at Books 2-4 of Lucretius’ Epicurean masterpiece. The guys serve up dreams, gossamer atoms, Stonecutters, Steve Gutenberg, and a whole lot of Dave’s irascibility. Along the way, you’ll learn not only how E. got his physics from the pre-Socratic atomists Leucippus and Democritus, but also how the late Kurt Cobain may just rip apart this long-term, literary friendship. Jeff reprises his brief but brilliant John Lennon impression for all you Beatleites, and by the end, philosophy has helped restore a little of our host’s equanimity. Finally, can the Epicurean view of death and the afterlife bring comfort? Tune in to find out.
The Old Kingdom was not only a period that’s known for its pyramids, but also its pantheon of deities. Professor Emerita Fayza Haikal, The American University in Cairo, joins the show to share what religion was like in the Old Kingdom of Egypt.
We talk about what ‘Classics’ really means and its place in the 21st century; we discuss Greek vases, ‘Irish modesty’, provincial art, the Sogdians; and we highlight the particular barriers that Northern Irish students may face, and how to overcome them! Also, we discover which literature (both modern and ancient) Sarah recommends, how many ancient languages Jenyth is studying, and whether Peter thinks Classics needs to be made more appealing!
Fresh Youtubery
- ILIAD BOOK 11: More Fighting, but the Trojans Come Out On Top … Again | Moan Inc
- Egyptian Hieroglyphs as God’s Language in the Kingdom of Kush | Digital Hammurabi
- The Woman Who Humiliated Rome | Boudicca | Odyssey
- Hero’s Journey: The History Of The Monomyth | Myths and Monsters | Timeline
- The Epic of Gilgamesh, Tablets 5 8 | Christian Lehmann
- “Historical Fiction: An End-Product of Archaeology?” by Steven Saylor | Archaeology TV
Book Reviews
Exhibition Related Things
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
- Explained: why Rome is sinking | The Week UK
- History: The fall of Rome and the state of the American nation – World Tribune Life
- Who Looks Like a Professor? | JSTOR Daily
- A misty history of Roman Portugal – Part 8 : Ye Gods and little fishes – The Portugal News
- Andrea Constand Writes of Cosby Trial, #MeToo in New Memoir
- Ancient Greece: Akrotiri a Bronze Age city preserved in volcanic ash – News-Herald
- The Trojan War: History or Myth?
- Cicero: A Republic—If You Can Keep It | The Heritage Foundation
- The Flowering of Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.
- “Be Vewy Quiet. I’m Hunting Atlantis.” – Archaeology Review
‘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 that the very powerful will be pondering shady schemes in government, but they will not have success.
… 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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