Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 8 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- What were Israel’s archaeological advances during COVID? – The Jerusalem Post
- Dispute halts report into historic mass grave in Buckingham | Bucks Herald
- Scavi archeologici: a Leontinoi emerge un tempio greco
- Titus Tunnel: Tourists flock to Hatay’s ancient engineering marvel | Daily Sabah
- Archaeologists to reveal Hittite temple in central Anatolia | Daily Sabah
- Donnas, scoperta una tomba: risale a cinquemila anni fa – La Sentinella del Canavese Ivrea
- L’antica Himera prende forma, scoperti un nuovo edificio e un grande vano – Giornale di Sicilia
- Archeologia, nuovi scavi in insediamento rurale di Hyccara – QdS
- Cairo Court rejects Ratib’s appeal in antiquities trafficking case – Egypt Independent
- Oldest and Best Preserved Shipwreck in Adriatic Discovered Near Ilovik
- Rare artifacts under protection at Şanlıurfa Museum
- Urns found in Çavuştepe Castle under examination
- 2,000-year-old Roman sewage system unearthed in southwestern Turkey
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE EVROPAEIS INCENDIIS
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Free online course on Zoroastrianism
- PaleoJudaica.com: Not as fraudulent as they thought
- When You Can, Live as You Should – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Souls Burning for Censure: Sallust Advises Caesar – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Basil Goes Into Deep Guilt Over Late Correspondence – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Poem to a Jug of Wine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Forthcoming book on the Septuagint
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ben Sira, the High Priest, and the Yom Kippur liturgy
- Classics at the Intersections: Work, Not Work — It’s All the Same
- A Drinking Game for Classics-Themed Film – Medea Palatina
- Decolonising Classics as an undergraduate: A South Asian perspective – Sportula Europe
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- NEH Grants for Classically Themed Projects (August, 2021) | Society for Classical Studies
- Aquädukt, Botschaft, Museum – DAI Blogs
Other Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on a Flavian Amphitheatre coin of Titus
- @DocCrom on Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 5.329-340
Fresh Podcasts
Why in the world would anyone study coffins? What can you learn from coffins? That’s our first podcast episode, insight into a new little book I wrote called COFFIN COMMERCE…
In the 17th century, the people commonly known as the Hittites created a kingdom called Hattusa. Dr Mark Weeden, Associate Professor of Ancient Middle Eastern Languages, University College London, returns to the show to speak about the Kingdom of Hattusa in the 17th and 16th centuries BCE.
Today I speak with Earl Fontainelle of the Secret History of Western Esotericism podcast (SHWEP). I don’t understand Plato. Partly this is because he never writes in his own voice and partly it’s because I can’t even always tell when Socrates is joking or even what he’s talking about. The divided line? The Myth of Er? The tyrant being exactly 729 times less happy than the philosopher? These are all weird things in the Republic that are still mysterious to me. Earl suggests that perhaps the reason Plato is so difficult to understand is because he was writing esoterically. Perhaps the dialogues contain secret messages directed to an initiated few and the weird passages I complain about actually contain wisdom of a higher order. Perhaps. In this long and wide-ranging conversation, we talk about why so many readers of Plato believed he wrote esoterically, the secret meanings he may have been hiding, and a lot of the mysterious Plato math that I complained about in the Republic series.
Fresh Youtubery
- Morgan Freeman reads the opening lines of the Aeneid in Latin (impression)
- Repair Project – Intervista al prof. Fuchs | Pompeii Sites
- Vlog in Latin || Dies nuptiarum | Satura Lanx
- Exposition « EFA 175 » | Ecole française d’Athènes
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Patrick Finglass, Lyndsay Coo, The female characters in fragmentary Greek tragedy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Jaime Curbera, Inscriptiones Graecae Voluminis 2 et 3 editio tertia. Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Pars 4: Dedicationes et tituli sacri; Fasciculus 3: Tituli sacri. Tituli theatri Bacchi. Indices. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Peter Riedlberger, Prolegomena zu den spätantiken Konstitutionen. Nebst einer Analyse der erbrechtlichen und verwandten Sanktionen gegen Heterodoxe. Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Vine-growing and winemaking in the Roman world Tickets, Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite
- 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 9 – The spread of Christian Judaism – The Portugal News
- The Greek Archaeologist Who Discovered Alexander’s City of Bactria
- A New Order for the Ages | The Heritage Foundation
‘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 diseases.
… 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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