Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 14 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Valle dei Templi, finanziati scavi per il teatro greco – SICILIATV.ORG
- Magna Graecia: Corinthian Ship from 7th Century BC Found in Italy
- 1,600-year-old church unearthed in Priene ancient city in Aydın | Daily Sabah
- Swords, gold & shipwrecks: Israeli waters keep on revealing treasures – The Jerusalem Post
- Nuove scoperte archeologiche alle spalle della Basilica di Aquileia: mura, tombe e anche un mercato
- Turkey’s ‘City of Gladiators’ awaits visitors with its new unearthed artifacts
In Case You Missed It
- Skeleton of man fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption found in Herculaneum | Live Science
- Boudicca acquitted of atrocities in Supreme Court ‘trial’ | Eastern Daily Press
- Lukios woz ‘ere: Personalized seats found in Pergamon amphitheater in Turkey – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Tornos News | Geological report: Colossus of the Naxians on Delos marble source identified
Classicists and Classics in the News
- ‘Goat-song’ analysis examines origins of mythical satyrs in culture and drama | The University of Kansas
- Cranfield research reveals how gold ‘bling’ was rejected by ancient societies
- Professor Spotlight: Dr. Dugan Advocates for Disabled Students, Staff, Faculty
- Elon University Classics Club works to understand diversity in classics – Elon News Network
- Dame Mary Beard, 66, says she was ‘pleased’ when Edward Colson’s statue was pulled down | Daily Mail Online
- Hungarian High School Student Wins One of Oxford’s Most Prestigious Essay Competitions – Hungary Today
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Methods and Time for An Archaeology of the Contemporary World | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Argo Navis & the Abolished Constellations – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Talking With Homer in the Underworld – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Tawdry Tuesday: Raising the Dead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urban Religion in Late Antiquity
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die koptischen Autoren und ihre literarischen Werke im ersten Jahrtausen
- Boy And Muse, By Franz von Matsch (c. 1861 – 1942) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Bookish Lifestyle Of Pliny The Elder | The Historian’s Hut
- Charax, een stad van Alexander de Grote – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Few and the Many
- PaleoJudaica.com: Seven sites in Israel
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ben Gurion University has closed its Bible department
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Gottlieb, Targum Chronicles and its Place Among the Late Targums (Brill)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Yahoo “Antiquisleuths” use Yandex to Accuse Foreign Archaeologists
- History Mysteries of Caroline Lawrence: How We Wrote Amarantus by Caroline Lawrence
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online
- Hellenistisch Babylon – Mainzer Beobachter
Other Blog-like Publications
Fresh Podcasts
In part one of our Halloween special, Kara and Jordan delve into all things *spooky*. Did the ancient Egyptians believe in ghosts? How did the living and the dead interact? What happened to you when you died? Did they have a concept of the soul?
Jeff and Dave wade into the Olympic-sized pool that is Ovid’s masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. After untangling etymological tendrils of the word “vignette”, the guys dive right in. First up, “Apollo and Daphne”. Not happy with Apollo’s arch trash-talk, Cupid shows him who’s really the boss—his arrows unleash unstoppable passion and malodorous disdain between the titular two. This is not the chubby bowman on your Valentine’s card. Then it’s on to “Diana and Actaeon”. What’s the message here? Another defense of chastity? Haunting comment on the goddess’ sacredness? Is Ovid alluding to his own error or the recent Roman past? Maybe he’s whelping on the very conventions of epic? Come on in, the water’s fine, but be careful where you dogpaddle.
Where does religion come from? How did hunter-gatherers build early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey? What’s with the gigantic carved stone pillars and the defleshed human skulls anyway? What is religion, really? Why am I asking you? It’s an episode as profound as it is, well, mystifying.
Fresh Youtubery
- ILIAD BOOK 19: Achilles and Agamemnon Make Up | Moan Inc
- PtP 18: Athenian Democracy with Chandra Giroux | Peopling the Past
- Professor Judith Mossman – The colours on the wings of the Sphinx: imagery and metaphor in Plutarch | Hellenic Society
Book Reviews
- The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone – The New York Times
- Emily Wilson · Punishment by Radish: Aristophanes Remixed · LRB 21 October 2021
- Mithridate le Grand, « le dernier Hellène | «Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Lloyd P. Gerson, Platonism and naturalism: the possibility of philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Sandra Blakely, Billie Jean Collins, Religious convergence in the ancient Mediterranean. Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions, 2. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019.
- [BMCR] Cengiz Işık, Die Wandmalereien in der Grabkammer des Hekatomneions: Beobachtungen zu Figurentypen, zur Komposition, Ikonographie und zum Stil. Asia Minor Studien, 91. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2019.
Exhibition Related Things
- University of Reading museum event exploring beliefs about life after death
- 2021 Leventis Exhibition | The University of Edinburgh
- Crete Getting Ready to Welcome New Archaeological Museum in Chania | GTP Headlines
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS
- UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Lectures in Greek Archaeology Conclude Oct. 23 | archive , usa , arts & literature | The National Herald
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The Rise and Fall of the Liberty Cap – JSTOR Daily
- Mermaids: When And Why Did People Believe In Them? – HistoryExtra
- In Full Color – Archaeology Magazine
- Five Caryatids in Athens Still Waiting for Their Lonely Sister
- Villa Albani’s treasures of Roman and Greek art revealed in picture book | World | The Times
- The classic Cream song inspired by Homer’s ‘Odyssey’
- Lead Figurine of an African Warrior | English Heritage
‘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 reopening of old grievances and for many, extreme suffering as a result.
… 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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