Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 21 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Eight antiquity robbers in Israel search for gold, get caught in pit – The Jerusalem Post
- Ancient gold ewer returned to Turkey after V&A expert links it to illicit antiquities trade
- Kyiv hails Dutch court decision to return Crimean archaeological treasure to Ukraine | Euronews
In Case You Missed It
- Assyrian Wine Production Site Found in Iraq – Archaeology Magazine
- Tornos News | Ancient shipwreck lying in sea off Peloponnese carried a load of amphorae
Fresh Bloggery
- Hatra & The Exorcist – Mainzer Beobachter
- Werewolf Week, JAMA Edition: Diagnosis and Therapy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Neugebauer Microform Index of the Exact Sciences
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Study of the Composition of Nebuchadnezzar II’s Royal Inscriptions
- PaleoJudaica.com: Barclay & Crabbe (eds.), The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians (T&T Clark)
- Fragment of a Greek Tragedy, in English and Greek – Antigone
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Arrival of the Conqueror
- Pegasus And The Muses, By Josef Mehoffer (c. 1869 – 1946) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Self-Incriminating Documentation Of Governor Caecilius Classicus | The Historian’s Hut
- You’re never alone at Starbucks with the Smaller Classical Dictionary – Ancient Rome Refocused
- Archeologie anno nu, dat is oudheden scannen in 3D – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: IAA catches gold hunters in a pit
- PaleoJudaica.com: The bizzarre Ark hunters of 1909
- Joods Irak – Mainzer Beobachter
- Mythologia: A Song for the Underworld – Researching the Story of Orpheus and Eurydice |
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Athens Western Hills
- Spencer Alley: Willem de Poorter (Painted Narratives in Haarlem)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Lecture Programme 2021/ 2022 – DAİstanbul
- LCA Fall Meeting Registration + Membership Form 2021 | The Louisiana Classicist
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @BuffyAntiqua visited a number of sites in Rome:
- @chapps shared his polychrome restoration of a Roman cinerary urn
Fresh Podcasts
- Ad Navseam: “Just Ghosts To Show Ya” – Halloween Special (Ad Navseam, Episode 60) on Apple Podcasts
Do you encourage your children to stay in their beds at night by telling them that, if they get up, a vampiric meany will sneak in through a window and slurp their haematids? No? Well, the ancient Greeks would like to have a talk with you about your parenting skills. Keep your favorite apotropaic talisman handy as we mull the blood-thirsty Mormo, disengawk the seductive Lamia, and evade the, um, dung-footed Empousa (!) in this spooky season special. If you make it through that gory gauntlet, then wander along with the guys into Athens’ most-haunted house while keeping an eye out for spectral arrivals of dead relatives. Also, home-buying pro-tip: always have the inspector check for basement mold and shackled skeletons beneath the lawn before dropping your deposit.
What do you think of when you hear the phrase “public art?” What is it? Who is it for? What is its purpose, anyway? In this episode we explore these questions, and more, through the lens of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture with archaeologist and educator Laura Aitken-Burt.
Joined by super extra awesome guest Donna Zuckerberg, we dig not down but up and out of hell with the 2020 rogue-like (or rogue-lite) dungeon crawler Hades by Supergiant Games. Yes we’ve switched gears to video games, which are like movies, but ones you play. Pretty early on we reveal we’re all BIG fans of this game and we really relish getting to dive into the all the many creative, engaging and inclusive ways it merges mythology, storytelling and game-play into one fantastic package.
They’ve seen wars, the bottom of the ocean and even – bizarrely – been part of a boxing match. The story of how the Parthenon Marbles actually ended up in London’s British Museum is a wild tale featuring bribes, court cases and some extremely dodgy deals. There’s been a centuries-long campaign to get them back to their homeland. Now, a team of Greek-Australians have decided that the time for diplomacy is over and a new tactic is required.
Fresh Youtubery
- Teaser: 50th Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii | Pompeii Sites
- ILIAD BOOK 21: The Gods Fight Each Other, Achilles Fights A Literal River | Moan Inc
- Vatican launches research project about early Christianity | Rome Reports
- CHS Visiting Artist Presentation: Allyson Vieira | Center for Hellenic Studies
- 50° Pink Floyd live at Pompeii: un docufilm per 50° anniversario dello storico film-concerto del ’71 | Pompeii Sites
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Caroline T. Schroeder, Children and family in late antique Egyptian monasticism. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Caecilia-Désirée Hein, Cicero als philosophischer Schriftsteller: Kommentar zu ausgewählten Briefen aus den Jahren 45-44. Wissenschaftliche Kommentare zu griechischen und lateinischen Schriftstellern. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2019.
- [BMCR] Birte Poulsen, Poul Pedersen, John Lund, Karia and the Dodekanese: cultural interrelations in the southeast Aegean. I: late Classical to early Hellenistic. Karia and the Dodecanese, 1. and 2 Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2021.
- [BMCR] Niklas Holzberg, Leben und Fabeln Äsops: Griechisch – deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- [BMCR] Catherine E. Pratt, Oil, wine, and the cultural economy of ancient Greece: from the Bronze Age to the Archaic era. Cambridge: New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Damien Agut-Labordère, Bérangère Redon, Les vaisseaux du désert et des steppes: les camélidés dans l’Antiquité (Camelus dromedarius et Camelus bactrianus). Archéologie(s), 2. Lyon: MOM Éditions, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- The Archaeological History of the Mycenaean Palace
- Ritual synergy & intimacy in non-dramatic and dramatic choral lyric
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- The latest technology in art restoration? Bacteria – CNN Style
- The Bizarre Cultural History of Saliva | The MIT Press Reader
- Strange ruin in northern Israel could be a lost Roman temple – Israel News – Haaretz.com
- This AI Resurrects Ancient Board Games—and Lets You Play Them | WIRED
- The Oracle that Stopped Alexander the Great’s Invasion of India
‘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 same thing [as yesterday? or more thunder?]
… 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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