Hodie est Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 26 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Tourists marvel at ancient Rome’s party town, now buried by the sea | Italy | The Guardian
- Another archaeological season begins at Hegmataneh – Tehran Times
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Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 31.10.2021 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- [Ephemeris] CONGREGATIO NATIONVM.
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Slow to Believe
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dieleman, Priests, Tongues, and Rites (Brill paperback)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Looted Gold Anatolian Ewer from London’s Victoria and Albert Museum Returned to Turkey
- A tour of Mycenaean Tiryns – It’s All Greek To Me
- How Do You Say Trick-Or-Treat in Latin and Greek? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Shocking Ancient Pagan Origins of Halloween Monsters – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Classics in Sarasota: Undersea Dionysus
- De Bergrede (10): Smaad – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Sword Is Mightier Than the Pen
- PaleoJudaica.com: Barclay & White (eds.), The New Testament in Comparison (T&T Clark)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Monstrous biblical translations
- Happy Halloween: Werewolves in Greek and Roman Culture – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Seal identifies high-ranking female administrator of Hittite Empire
- De Griekse kolonisatie – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Classics
- PaleoJudaica.com: Fragment of a Canaanite god relief in the Tel Motza temple?
- Book Club | November 2021: Suetonius Lives of the Caesars – The Kosmos Society
- Classics and Castlevania | Anchors Aweigh
- The appearance of the goddess Discord: Gustave Moreau and a mythical tradition | OUPblog
- SIAC NEWSLETTER – 200 (10/2021) | Tulliana News
- Dead man writing
- Surprising Plot Twists from Servius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Mere Child’s Play? Comparing Greek Myth with Fairy Tale – Antigone
- Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part 3: ‘Handed down to us by those who from the first were eyewitnesses…’ – The Gospels as Eyewitness Accounts Part B – Retrospect Journal
- Nestor – November 2021 issue available
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Manilius, Astronomica 1.79-89
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Amres 3.2.7-14
- @nadhirawho on Greek symposia
- @TheClassicalCo on the Theatre of Marcellus
- @DocCrom on Julia the Elder
- @diffendale visited the Museo Ninfeo
- @carolemadege on assorted Classical monsters
- @theo_nash on a ghost story from a papyrus
Fresh Podcasts
Greg Jenner is joined by comedian Rosie Jones and historian Dr Jane Draycott to discuss stories of disability from over a thousand years of history, including people with disabilities excelling on the battlefield and others with very well-dressed guide dogs.
Dē Haitiā; Ōtōniēl captus; Mākō nubit; Rēspūblica Sūdāniēnsis dēnuō ēversa; Reclāmātiōnēs Aequitōriānae; Gallī nāvem piscātōriam capiunt; Aliēnī in Americam admittuntur; Festa marītima celebrantur.
Was Ancient Rome truly as sexually liberated as we think? How did the Greeks feel about nude statues? And how did these ideas vary across the Ancient Mediterranean? In this episode, Alastair Blanshard is back on The Ancients to compare our misconceptions of ancient sexual fantasies with the truth. Having taught at the universities of Oxford and Reading, Alastair is currently Paul Eliadis Chair of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland, Australia.
This time around I take a look at the various castes and sub-castes within Spartan society. What we see in popular culture is but the tip of the iceberg, those mighty red cloaked warriors bestriding battlefields like giants from myth. Banned from any art other than that of war, the Spartiate ruler class was supported in their endeavours by a silent multitude of people, divided into several different classes and all denied the full rights of equal political enfranchisement. The Helot’s, or slave class, were a massive chunk of the population within Sparta’s empire of whom we here scant about. Stories of their poor treatment and the horror of their particular servitude circulate but as we’ll see do not necessarily tell the full story. The Perioikoi, or dwellers around, also form an extremely important element of society. They were the Spartans blacksmiths, artisans but when the drums of war sounded lined up as Hoplites as well. We’ll take a look at the dynamics between the different strata and finish with a look at some of the other, less well known sub-castes.
When Apuleius married his friend’s mother, little did he realise that it would lead to a charge of sorcery, with a raft of seemingly innocent actions from buying a mirror to writing bad poetry bought up in front of the courts to prove his wicked intentions. Unfortunately for his accusers, Apuleius was a skilled orator, educated in the art of philosophy and highly skilled at slandering his enemies. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
The last epic from Greco-Roman antiquity that survives in full, Nonnus’ fifth-century Dionysiaca tells of the wine god Dionysus’ journey eastward, to India.
Latin prepositions can be a real mess. In this short video lesson for beginners, I tackle the synonims of the preposition “prope”, in easy, slow paced spoken Latin. Enjoy!
Thanks to everyone who came out to our virtual live show! This is the edited audio of that event. We talk about the role of ritual in daily life, how our big round human brains have evolved the ability to think about abstract meaning and ritual significance, and the theory underpinning all of this. We also take a trip to two incredible archaeological sites to think about how the people living there might have thought about the unknown and unseen in their lives. Whoa.
Fresh Youtubery
- “Linea del Tempo” (Canale 10) sul Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (25 ottobre 2021) | Etruschannel
- Ghost Stories from the Ancient World | Ghost Stories in the Ancient World
- What’s New in the Ancient World? September 2021 | Digital Hammurabi
- Battle of Nola, 216 BC Hannibal (Part 15) Second Punic War | HistoryMarche
- Saving the Etymological Sea for #TeamSeas | Alliterative
- LATIN: Ex Sermoneta SUBTITLED | Musa Pedestris
- Catullus 41 in Latin & English with Vocabulary & Grammar notes: Ameana puella defututa | David Amster
- What is the Western Classical Tradition? | Exploring The History Cave, part 2 of 2 | The History Cave
- The Hunt For The Roman Temple Buried In A Field | Time Team | Odyssey
- D Midgley
- Terrifying Dos and Don’ts of Necromancy in the Ancient World | Classics in Color
- Ex Nympha – Ninfa | Musa Pedestris
- Avenging Varus – The Fate of Arminius and Germanicus (17 AD) | Invicta
- Halloween special in Latin: Anulus – the Ring | Learn Latin | | Latinitum
- “Prope” aliaeque praepositiones similes || Lingua Latina per se illustrata | Satura Lanx
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
Alia
- The Scholars who Deciphered the Ancient Greek Script Linear B
- Vampires in Greece: From Ancient Greek Creatures to the Vrykolakas
- THE PARTHENON REPORT: Ladies And Gentlemen, Welcome To The …Universal Museum
- Circe, the First Witch of Greek Mythology
- The Temple of Mithras stands near Hadrian’s Wall, Northumberland | The Northern Echo
- Horror fiction: the unexpectedly ancient origins of ghost stories
‘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 discord for the city.
… 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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