Hodie est Id. Oct. 2774 AUC ~ 9 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Sicily bans solar park as archaeologists fight environmentalists | Reuters
• The appearance of the Roman wall solves the great archaeological mystery of Seville – BCFocus
• Mosaics restored in ancient Metropolis

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Is Classics’ empire in terminal decline? | Times Higher Education (THE)

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Φόνος ἐν τῇ Νορβεγίᾳ 

Fresh Bloggery

• Kort Irakees (3): Foto’s en hoeden – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Cause of All Great Wars – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Dividing Life into Two Parts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Thalassotopies: La mer vue de la terre, la terre vue de la mer dans l’antiquité égéenne /Thalassotopia: Land-Based Views of the Sea, Sea-Based Views of the Land in Aegean Antiquity
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Everybody Needs A Friend
• Cicero Says Something Nice to His Son – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oudheidkundige Medede(e)lingen uit het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden
• The Sacrifice Of Iphigenia, Painted By Vinzenz Fischer (c. 1729 – 1810) | The Historian’s Hut
• What Would Sargon of Akkad, the Ancient King, Think of the YouTuber? – Tales of Times Forgotten
• A Comic Scene for Parents and Small Children – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Hunebed van de dag: D12 (Eexteres) – Mainzer Beobachter
• #ClassicsTober Days 9-14! | Greek Myth Comix
• Announcing Pharos’ New Front Page and Land Acknowledgement – Pharos
• PaleoJudaica.com: Gods, Angels, and Demons in Deuteronomy?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: You Won’t Get Away With It
• PaleoJudaica.com: Evidence for Jewish priestesses in antiquity
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Calendars and Festivals in Mesopotamia in the Third and Second Millennia BC
• Blogging ancient epigram: My old Martial posts for the OUP World’s Classics reading group

Other Blog-like Publications

• Sertorius: The Greatest Roman Rebel – Antigone
• ANE TODAY – 202110 – Rethinking Slavery in the Ancient Near East – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Roman cookware discovered in the “Centurion House” – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 17.11-18

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ithaca Bound: Court Trials in Classical Athens w. Emeritus Professor Edward Harris on Apple Podcasts

Classical Athens had a principles-based legal system that echoes in many legal systems today. Emeritus Professor Edward Harris, University of Durham, makes a return appearance on the show to discuss what court trials were like in the Classical Athenian period.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Why didn’t the Persians react faster to the invasion of 336 BC? on Apple Podcasts

Murray is flying solo again this week. He tackles the question ‘why didn’t the Persians react faster to the invasion of 336 BC?’.

Fresh Youtubery

• Jordan Bayley on Herodotus in Britain in the long Nineteenth Century | Herodotus Helpline
• Andrea Branzi. Metropoli Latina Pompei – Casa del Triclinio all’Aperto | Pompeii Sites
• Quis est ille mons? Learning Latin with short videos! | Musa Pedestris
• Black Adam: Ancient Influences/Contemporary Anti-Hero | Stanford Carpenter, OI Video Podcast | Oriental Institute

Book Reviews

• Book review: Twelve Caesars, by Mary Beard | The ScotsmanBook review: Twelve Caesars, by Mary Beard | The Scotsman
• Lyric Poetry and Social Identity in Archaic Greece
• [BMCR] Ulrike Steinert, Systems of classification in premodern medical cultures: sickness, health and local epistemologies. Medicine and the body in antiquity . Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
• [BMCR] Jonathan Groß, Antike Mythen im schwäbischen Gewand: Gustav Schwabs Sagen des klassischen Altertums und ihre antiken Quellen. Rezeption der Antike, Band 6. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• : Assistant Professor of Classics (Archaeology) job with University of Cincinnati | 394291
• Unpicking Dido’s Weaving: Aeneas’ Carthaginian Cloak – The Canadian Institute for Mediterranean Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Preserving and Protecting Pavlopetri, the World’s Oldest Sunken City
• The Truth About The Man Who Discovered Troy
• Egyptian Official Claims Tomb Of Alexander The Great In Siwa
• The Bombing of Pompeii During World War II | Open Culture

‘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 shortage caused by a hot, dry wind affecting the crops.

… 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)