Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Excavation of Carlisle Roman bath house uncovers fascinating finds | News and Star
- The origin and legacy of the Etruscans through a 2000-year archeogenomic time transect
- Ancient oil amphora found in Swiss riverbed – SWI swissinfo.ch
- Turkish archaeologists discover 1,600-year-old Byzantine-era fountain in Istanbul – China.org.cn
- Illegal antiquities seized on Kalymnos | eKathimerini.com
- Antiquities trade should prepare for more government oversight | The Art Newspaper
- 2,400-year-old homes unearthed in Turkey, focus on common folk | Daily Sabah
- Stone Hills introduced in Şanlıurfa
In Case You Missed It
- Roman cemetery and coins and Iron Age homes unearthed by A120 archaeologists
- Newly discovered graves in Turkey show burial rites of ancient civilisation
- Hoard of Roman coins discovered off Spanish coast by amateur divers | CNN Travel
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE POENIS BACTRIANIS
Public Facing Classics
- The ancients knew politicians were powerless | The Spectator
- ‘The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome’ Review: The Road From Ruin – WSJ
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: History of Italy
- Baudelaire Among the Greeks – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #33: The Lux Project with Melissa Funke – Peopling the Past
- Laudator Temporis Acti: To a Wine-Jar
- Anger, Eggs, and Some Semen: A Recipe for Apostasy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: More on the Etymology of Anthropos
- Weekend Reading: Old Friends and New – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Numismatic News: More than 2,000 coins of Hadrian from the British Museum added to OCRE
- The Sad Death of Hesiod and His Body’s Afterlife – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Het Ur der Chaldeeën – Mainzer Beobachter
- Are There More Surviving Ancient Writings in Greek or Latin? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Collectors do their own Ancient Artefact Provenance Research
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Reading Roman History While Autistic – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
- Why You Should Be Reading Vitruvius | by AnnMarie Patterson | In Medias Res | Sep, 2021 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Classical historian and baker-in-residence, Dr Owen Rees, walks Karen through the ancient past and present pleasures of breadmaking.
A ship graveyard, a sunken ship, and a fruit basket? Our contestants take a voyage to the bottom of the sea to discuss finds from the Nile Delta and ask the important questions like, what is the connection between fruit baskets and death, and how did Iron Age maritime insurers stay in business?
APHRODITE Put down anything sharp, move breakables out of harm’s way, and prepare yourself… WE’RE BACK….AGAIN *party hats and poppers galore* We’ve returned with Season Three of Myth Dynamite (you’re welcome), and we’re starting with a biggie! We bring you the goddess of love herself – it’s APHRODITE *cue Meryl Streep’s exclamation at the end of Mamma Mia*. In this, yes, double episode, we’ll be putting her back into her context and the long-standing Eastern tradition she came from. We’ll talk about how she even came to Greece and what she was really all about. Here, we’ll be focusing on Greek Aphrodite and saving Roman Venus for a later date. They’re just too juicy! Oh, and expect plenty of innuendo – some we’d like to apologise for in advance.
APHRODITE PART TWO: yes everyone, we’re bringing Season Three back with a double episode bang (pun intended) In Part Two, we revisit our little teaser snippet on MythsBaby, and take you on a deep dive of one of the most famous and quoted statues ever, even though she’s lost to the depths of history herself – the Aphrodite of Knidos! We take you through the statue and her legacy. Mainly, though, we talk about how she was modelled on a woman. A REAL WOMAN. With dates and everything. Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Phryne. YOU’RE WELCOME. The fun facts we drop here are some of our favourite, and they’ll soon be some of yours too. The androgyny of Aphrodite and the fluidity of sexuality that she represents are our favourite things about the goddess, and they’re both aspects of her that are now almost forgotten or, more accurately, specifically been pushed aside in favour of heteronormative sexuality. We leave you with the way in which the classical Greek world eventually managed to reconcile these two aspects of Aphrodite within their rapidly cementing structured misogynistic society, paving the way for the hyper-sexualisation of Aphrodite and her co-option as a symbol for heterosexual love. *shakes fist at thousands of years of repressed patriarchy of (supposedly) yesteryear*
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Fresh Youtubery
- Itinerari inclusivi nei luoghi d’arte – video racconto sull’Anfiteatro | Pompeii Sites
- Itinerari inclusivi nei luoghi d’arte – video racconto introduttivo al sito di Pompei | Pompeii Sites
- Villa San Marco (Stabia) raccontata in linguaggio LIS | Pompeii Sites
- My Bonnie lies over the ocean in LATIN With subtitles! Lyrics by Stefano Vittori (RVMAK ) | Musa Pedestris
- Mary Beard on Nero: the face of power | British Museum
- Roma – Napoli. La grande archeologia | Incontro dalla Sala Ottagona della Domus Aurea | Parco Colosseo
- Bucephalus – Warhorse of Alexander the Great DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Iowa Classics Colloquium: Alexander Jones [9.16.2021]
Book Reviews
- Sextus Empiricus: How to Keep an Open Mind. An Ancient Guide to Thinking Like a Skeptic (R.) Bett (ed., trans.) Pp. xlviii + 225. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021. £12.99, $16.95. ISBN:9780691206042 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- Rome is Burning: Nero and the Fire that Ended a Dynasty (A.A.) Barrett Pp. xiv + 347, ills,map. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Cased, £25, US$29.95. ISBN: 978-0-691-17231-6. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- The Werewolf in the Ancient World (D.) Ogden Pl. xviii + 261, colour pl. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Cased, £25, US$32.95. ISBN: 978-0-19-885431-9. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- [BMCR] David J. Breeze, William S. Hanson, The Antonine Wall: papers in honour of Professor Lawrence Keppie. Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 64. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2020.
- [BMCR] Emily P. Austin, Grief and the hero: the futility of longing in the Iliad. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Jessica M. Romney, Lyric poetry and social identity in archaic Greece. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
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
- Ancient Greek Medicine: Who Was Hippocrates And What Was The Hippocratic Oath? – HistoryExtra
- Star Wars Odyssey Book: Lucasfilm Movies Told as Epic Poem
- The Deadliest Femme Fatales in Ancient Greek Mythology
- THE PARTHENON REPORT: Let Us Now Praise Famous Men And Women
- Epic Tales of Love and Jealousy Between the Gods in Greek Mythology
- Battle Of Salamis: Ancient Greece Defeats Xerxes’ Persia At Sea – HistoryExtra
‘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 the rise of a tyrant out of civil unrest and he will be undone, but the powerful will be completely destroyed with heavy penalties.
… 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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