Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 22 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Tornos News | A stable home for Hellenic antiquities and more at Winchester College Treasury
- Europe’s Museums, Collectors Are Returning Artifacts To Countries Of Origin Amid Fresh Scrutiny
- Greek-Australians fight to return the Parthenon marbles to Athens – 2GB
- ‘Rare find’: amphitheatre dig in Kent paints picture of Roman town | Roman Britain | The Guardian
- Largest Byzantine mosaic structure found in central Turkey | Daily Sabah
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Greek/Latin News
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Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Ninny
- A Ghost Story from Petronius for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Costume to Scare the Cicero Right Out of You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Defining the American Experience | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Let the Bedstead Creak
- Sophocles | The Historian’s Hut
- Orpheus Among The Animals, By Oskar Laske (c. 1874 – 1951) | The Historian’s Hut
- Lemuria: Spooky Roman Festival | Latin Language Blog
- Muiterij tegen Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter
- Short Iraqi (10): Tourist in Babylon – Mainzer Beobachter
- Spencer Alley: Francesco de Rosa (called Pacecco de Rosa) – Naples
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @lostsupper with a nice documentation of their creation of garum/liquamen
- @BuffyAntiqua continued visiting places in Rome:
- @DocCrom on Manilius, Astonomica, 1.11-19
Fresh Podcasts
It’s Halloween, and the monsters are out! In this episode we tackle Monster Theory (as formulated by J.J. Cohen) , examine the linguistic and cultural origins of a range of Classical and classic movie monsters, look at how they connect to the history of currency and money, and explore the intersections of monsters and the New Woman. We also sample a beautiful cocktail from the upcoming cocktail book Nectar of the Gods by Liv Albert from “Let’s Talk about Myths, Baby”. Thank you, Liv!
Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.
Following two assassinations and two executions, the title of Roman Emperor fell to Alexander Severus. He was one of the youngest to ever hold this title, and he was to be the final emperor of the Severan Dynasty. But who was making the decisions? In this episode we hear about the thirteen year reign of this young emperor, and examine the intriguing figure of his mother and advisor, Julia Mamaea. Matilda Brown, PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, is back on the Ancients to take us through the final years of the Severan dynasty, busting myths along the way.
The werewolf myth as we know it today generally involves getting bitten by a werewolf, transforming during the full moon, and being very susceptible to silver bullets. But werewolves in ancient Greece and Rome were a little different. Join us for a spooky-season deep dive into ancient werewolf mythology from thousands of years ago. We’ll take a look at the pre-Christian origins of the werewolf myth and its connections to death, starvation, cannibalism, and transformation.
Dr. Young Richard Kim, a Classics and History professor at UIC, joins Lexie to talk about the dignity of work, the intersection of personal religion and the academic study of ancient religion, being Asian in Classics, and drops some hot takes on how to change the way we teach US/ancient world history in high schools. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey!
Fresh Youtubery
- IN VINEIS Vineyard tour in easy Latin! SUBTITLES! | Musa Pedestirs
- Elizabeth Irwin on the wife of Intaphernes and Sophocles’ Antigone | Herodotus Helpline
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Aline Estèves, Poétique de l’horreur dans l’épopée et l’historiographie latines. Scripta antiqua, 127. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2020.
- [BMCR] Beatriz Bossi, Thomas Robinson, Plato’s “Theaetetus” revisited. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, volume 110. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
- [BMCR] William Altman, Ascent to the beautiful: Plato the teacher and the pre-“Republic” dialogues from “Protagoras” to “Symposium”. New York: Rowman and Littlefield, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Job Opportunities: Department of Classics – Northwestern University
- Prof. Rankine & Black Classicism: Moving Forward speaker series Tickets, Wed, Dec 1, 2021 at 5:30 PM | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- New Treasury rules to bring transparency to art and antiquities markets – Axios
- The Roman Empire: Rulers, expansion and fall | Live Science
- Nikopolis: An Extraordinary Time Capsule of Roman-Era Greece
‘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 of necessites.
** n.b. yesterday’s entry was actually the one for November 27 …thunder yesterday actually portended heavy rain.
… 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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