Hodie est pr. Non. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 30 Boedromion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Greece: Marble statue traced to its likely origin | New Scientist
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• Vergogna a Pompei, rubato reperto in marmo: indagano i carabinieri
• Marble manhole cover stolen from Pompeii – English – ANSA.it
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• Roman-Era Statue of Venus, Goddess of Love, Discovered in England | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• Ancient discovery in Tyre revives Lebanon’s rich history – KAWA

Classicists and Classics in the News

• ASU honors students use ancient Greek plays to address contemporary issues | ASU News

Fresh Bloggery

• Hunebed van de dag: D8 (Anloo-Noord) – Mainzer Beobachter
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Development of the Justice in Ancient Egypt from the Old to the MiddleComfort in Literature in the Face of Disease and Death – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Diphilus, Fragment 4
• PaleoJudaica.com: Israel or YHWH?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bodor, The Theological Profile of the Peshitta of Isaiah (Brill)
• Biological Warfare in Ancient Greece – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Scholarly Fantasies
• Antigone the Opera – Antigone
• Put the Living in Your Head and STFU About the Dead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online
• The Abduction Of The Sabines, Painted By Girolamo del Pacchia (c. 1477 – 1533) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Retirement Lifestyle And Awkward Pre-Bath Ritual Of The Roman Statesman Spurinna | The Historian’s Hut
• No, Thales of Miletos Was Not “the First Scientist” – Tales of Times Forgotten
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bronze Age village found in Corsica
• Een leeuwenjacht uit Uruk – Mainzer Beobachter
• ClassicsTober Day 6: Wings | Greek Myth Comix
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 187
• PaleoJudaica.com: First-Temple-era toilet excavated in Jerusalem
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digital Editions of Historical Fragmentary Texts
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• Spencer Alley: Jan de Bray (Haarlem Narratives)

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Unsilencing the Archives: The Labourers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations – The Palestine Exploration Fund

Other Blog-like Publications

• Michelangelo, Studies for the Libyan Sibyl (recto); Studies for the Libyan Sibyl and a small Sketch for a Seated Figure (verso) – Smarthistory

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 10.17.24
• @DocCrom on some Nero Pax Romana coins

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Khameleon Classics: Why Diversify Classics? with Arum Park on Apple Podcasts

A Google search for ‘diversity and Classics’ reveals the field’s growing dedication to diversity in recent years, particularly in North America and the United Kingdom. But what do we mean when we say ‘diversity’, and—more importantly—to what end do we seek greater diversity in Classics? Shivaike Shah speaks with Arum Park, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Arizona, to explore these questions and to discuss steps that have been and can still be taken to diversify Classics.

• ‎Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 27 – Clash of the Titans (1981), with Christie Vogler on Apple Podcasts

We’re back with our first episode of season 2. Joined by threepeat guest and avowed servant of Rita Repulsa, the always amazing Dr. Vogler, we dig into Ray Harryhausen’s 1981 Clash of the Titans. Naturally, we spend the first 5 minutes talking about our speaking habits and fancy vocab words before getting to the actual movie, but his film is fascinating to us both as a work of classical reception and as an artifact of modern cinema. It’s a fairly down the middle adaptation of a myth and perhaps the last example of a Hollywood tradition of movie-making embodied in the effects of Ray Harryhausen. Listen to our takes on the gods, heroes, monsters, behind-the-scenes drama, whales and more.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Zooarchaeology of Ancient Greece | Flint Dibble

Book Reviews

• Book of the week: Madeline Miller continues her career in classics adaptations with ‘Circe’ – The Quinnipiac Chronicle
• [BMCR] Clara Shaw Hardy, Robert B. Hardy, Athens 415: the city in crisis. Key dates in the ancient world. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
• Dionysus after Nietzsche

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music | Mahindra Humanities Center
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Learn how the Romans kept fit and healthy! New Roman Gym area opens at the Roman Baths | Chew Valley Gazette
• An olive pit, a lyre, a fig – Honi Soit

‘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 mere appearance of future abundance, but the harvest won’t be as plentiful and there will be virtually no fruit in the autumn.

… 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)