Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- The Edithorial: Remembering Who I am in Padua
- Halloween is Next Week: Werewolf Week Returns – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SEPTUAGINTA LXX: Septuagint, Aquila, Symmachus, & Theodotion
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Gallic diatretic glass vase reveals a waxy, fragrant secret
- Domitianus en de christenen – Mainzer Beobachter
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- PaleoJudaica.com: On Lot and his daughters
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- Werewolf Week In Rome: Don’t Look a Wolf in the Eyes! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Hatra – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jewish magic exhibition at the Israel Museum
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- Spencer Alley: Crispijn de Passe the Elder (Wandering Printmaker)
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- Kouklia-Marchello: Research of an important monumental wall
- Researchers discover exclusive kitchenware set in Roman officer’s villa
- Dido’s Lament: A Study of Dido’s Final Words – Retrospect Journal
- Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part Two: ‘Handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses…’ – Retrospect Journal
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Assorted Twitter Threads
- @GettyMuseum on Isis
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- @MichaelDPress on the Jerusalem Papyrus
Fresh Podcasts
To fight against the Roman empire and then make an alliance with them took a certain courage and tenacity. In this episode we are introduced to Mavia, the warrior queen of the semi-nomadic Tanukhids, who did just that. Dr. Emran El-Badawi, associate professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Houston, takes us through the things we know and the things that are speculated about Mavia. Emran also places her within the context of the 4th and 5th centuries CE, and discusses her legacy and connections to Moses.
Fresh Youtubery
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- Why Science Miiight Be As Valid As the Humanities: Science vs. Philosophy in Ancient Greece & Beyond | Classics in Color
- Bet Hucks: Race, Archaeology and 3D Modelling | London Classicists of Colour
- 13/10/21- SemGRAnt- Hellenistic Delos as a Key for the Ancient Economy? | Ecole française d’Athènes
Book Reviews
- Les monnaies provinciales rares des villes pontiques occidentales | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Alicia J. Batten, Kelly Olson, Dress in Mediterranean antiquity: Greeks, Romans, Jews, Christians. London; New York: T&T Clark, 2021.
- [BMCR] Fiachra Mac Góráin, Dionysus and Rome: religion and literature. Trends in classics, supplementary volumes, volume 93. Berlin; Boston: Walter De Gruyter, 2020.
- [BMCR] Mark Anspach, William Tyrrell, The Oedipus casebook: reading Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 2020.
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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
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- Six archaeological sites on Israeli army-controlled land (and one in a prison) – Israel News – Haaretz.com
- THE PARTHENON REPORT: Of Fish And Floodgates
- Jewish Revolts · The BAS Library
- Pregnant mother-to-be was brushing her hair when she was engulfed by lava in Pompeii, historian says | Daily Mail Online
- Black Romans, the first Africans in Lancashire | Blog Preston
- The Most Prolific Couples in Ancient Greek Mythology
- When did Constantinople become Istanbul? | Live Science
‘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 misery as a result of misfortunes.
… 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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