Hodie est a.d. III Non. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- 4,500-year-old jar from the Bronze Age discovered in southern Turkey – The Jerusalem Post
- New Roman Temple Discovered in Ancient Phoenician City – ARTnews.com
- Finders keepers: Turkey’s quest to reclaim lost cultural heritage
- Turkish Archaeologists Discover 400 Tombs From Ancient Greek City Of Blaundus
- Royal flush: Rare First Temple-era private toilet unearthed in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
- Excavations explore history of religions in Turkey’s Dülük | Daily Sabah
- Unique Roman 10-year-dig starts in Zottegem | VRT NWS: news
- VD: scoperto un cimitero dell’età del Bronzo finale a Denges – TVS tvsvizzera.it
- Ancient Greece: Marble statue traced to its likely origin | New Scientist
In Case You Missed It
- British Museum should review its position on the Parthenon Marbles, Unesco body says
- Reserved Seating Identified in Pergamon’s Amphitheater – Archaeology Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- A Dose Of Epicurus: Ancient Philosopher Cures Italy’s COVID Souls – Worldcrunch
- In Memoriam: Remembering Don Cameron | U-M LSA Department of Classical Studies
- An olive pit, a lyre, a fig – Honi Soit
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE PRAEMIO SVIONVM
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Achilleus and the Tortoise (in Ghent) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Prosperity Gospel
- The Best People Sickness Can Make – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Post-Colonial View of Thrace: Thracian-Greek Interactions From the Early Iron Age to the Early Hellenistic Period
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: It’s a kind of magic: exploring the role of the living in effecting food and drink offerings in private mortuary cults of late Old Kingdom Egypt
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ceramic traditions and ceramic landscapes of the Indus Civilisation: investigating the technologies and socio-economic complexity of rural pottery production in Bronze Age northwest India.
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Intestinal parasites in the Roman Empire, their regional distribution and ecosocial determinants
- Laudator Temporis Acti: No Complaining
- Two Years and then Some More: A Plague’s Retreat and Return – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Take Heed and Sow Your Seed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Helen’s Consent: A Scholion on the Difference between the Iliad and the Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: What’s cooking in the Indus Civilisation? Investigating Indus food through ceramic lipid residue analysis
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heads, shoulders, knees and toes: Exploring bodies, body parts and personhood in late Neolithic Malta through funerary taphonomy
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Body size, skeletal biomechanics and habitual behaviour: a bioarchaeological approach to social and economic change in the Neolithic and Copper Age central Mediterranean
- Heracles—The Bane Of Poseidon’s Sons | The Historian’s Hut
- Mercury Killing Argus, Painted By Girolamo Troppa (c. 1630?-1710+) | The Historian’s Hut
- Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
- #ClassicsTober Day 5: Pietas | Greek Myth Comix
- Spencer Alley: Jan de Bray (Family and Group Portraits in Haarlem)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Blog: Contingent Faculty Series: A Conversation with Dr. Stephanie Kimmey | Society for Classical Studies
- North African Research Archive (NARA) – DAI Blogs
Other Blog-like Publications
- Paul and Stoic Athletics | Bible Interp
- The Man Who Died To Leave A Tomb. The Curious Ozymandian Pyramid of Gaius… | by In Medias Res | In Medias Res | Oct, 2021 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 7.7-14
- @DocCrom on coins illustrating the reforms of Aurelian
- @profyarrow on some Diva Faustina coins and peacocks
Fresh Podcasts
Bronze Age Palaikastro on the Island of Crete remarkably persisted for over two millennia, and peculiarly, may never have had a palatial building. Carl Knappett, a professor and department chair at the University of Toronto, joins the show to share what’s known about this ancient Minoan urban centre.
Fresh Youtubery
- Knowledge and Curiosity at the Court of Nero – a Roman Society conference
- S2 004- Demystifying Academia: Part II | Kara Cooney
- How to identify a Roman Road by Mike Haken | Roman Roads Research Association
- Language and Cultural Contact in the Third Millennium BCE: The Case of Elba | Oriental Institute
- Ancient Medicine, Healing and Physicians in Antiquity | World History Encyclopedia
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] James Uden, Spectres of antiquity: classical literature and the Gothic, 1740-1830. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] David Conan Wolfsdorf, Early Greek ethics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- American School of Classical Studies at Athens Application Manager – Wiener Laboratory Fellowships Application
- A Moot Trial of Boudica: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? | classicsforall.org.uk
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Before 3D Prints There Were Plaster Copies
- Christies – Collecting guide – ancient Greek helmets | Christie’s
- Pheidippides’ Real Marathon Was a Punishing 300 Miles
- ‘Love Is a Crime’ Podcast: The Rise and Fall of Walter Wanger’s ‘Cleopatra’ | Vanity Fair
‘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 a surplus of all necessities except grain.
… 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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