Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 4 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Hadrian’s Wall art installation hope for 1,900th anniversary – BBC News
- Structures reveal 5,000-year-old settlements in Turkey’s Panaztepe | Daily Sabah
In Case You Missed It
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 07.11.2021 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- [Ephemeris] DE SEDITIONE AFRICA
Fresh Bloggery
- Uncle Menelaos and his Glorious Hair – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Shavei Zion Phoenician figurines
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East (HMANE) Virtual Tour
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Wasserman, Apocalypse as Holy War
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Offerings to Maat. Essays in Honour of Emily Teeter
- The Importance of Orphic Hymns – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Saxon/Roman/Bronze Age” Site to be Commercially Looted by UK Treasure Hunters on Sunday
- No Politics and Religion at Dinner? Try Love Instead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “Like the Full Moon…” Some Greek Proverbs on Gratitude – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- #ClassicsTober days 24 – 31 | Greek Myth Comix
- De Bergrede (11): Overspel en echtscheiding – Mainzer Beobachter
- Object-Centred Learning in Museums: Perspectives and Lessons from COVID – ACE Classics
- I Made Your Poems Worse: You’re Welcome! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Pilgrim’s Road reopened in Jerusalem
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Texts Added to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG®) since June 29, 2020
- How A Camel is Superior to Oedipus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Leaving Life From an Inn, Not a Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Ganymedes: The Adolescent Boy Zeus Abducted and Raped – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: X-Marks-the-Spot is NOT any kind of “Context”. Archaeology is About Context, not “Things”
- De Bagdadbatterij – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Barbiero et al. (eds.), The Formation of the Hebrew Psalter (Mohr Siebeck)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Forum on the Ascension of Isaiah
- Aspar Cistern | Turkish Archaeological News
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: 2021 Review: The Third Year of the Coptic Magical Papyri Project
- Classics at the Intersections: Aspasia of Miletus
- Achilles’ Other Son, a Dream – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Sophists and the Mistrust of Authority – Antigone
- Pompeii: The room of the slaves
- Antikythera shipwreck: the new results of the underwater survey
- Percy Jackson and the Future of Neurodiversity in Classics – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
- Remembrance in Fifth-Century Athens – Retrospect Journal
- The Dark Earth: Hittite Influences on Sapphic poetry – Retrospect Journal
- Review: What is History, Now? How the past and present speak to each other (2021) – Retrospect Journal
Fresh Podcasts
In AD132 began the bloody struggle over who would rule a nation. The clash of two ancient cultures was fought between two strong-willed leaders, Hadrian, the cosmopolitan ruler of the vast Roman Empire, and Shim’on, a Jewish military leader who some believed to be the ‘King Messiah’. During the ‘Second Jewish War’ – the highly motivated Jewish militia sorely tested the highly trained professional Roman army. The rebels withstood the Roman onslaught for three-and-a-half years (AD132–136) and established an independent nation, headed by Shim’on as its president. The outcome of that David and Goliath contest was of great consequence, both for the people of Judaea and for Judaism itself. Having journeyed across three continents to establish the facts, historical detective Lindsay Powell draws on archaeology, art, coins, inscriptions, militaria, as well as secular and religious documents, to detail the people and events at a crucial time in world history. Author of Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome, Lindsay joins Dan to discuss who Shim’on (known today as ‘Bar Kokhba’) was, how Hadrian, the Roman emperor who built the famous Wall in northern Britain, responded to the challenge and how, in later ages, ‘Bar Kokhba’ became a hero for the Jews in the Diaspora.
Fresh Youtubery
- Statue heads of Greek deities uncovered in Turkey | TRT World
- A lecture delivered at St Andrews University on 3rd November 2021 | Edith Hall
- Seneca (pars III) || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 42 | Satura Lanx
- How to Cast Magic Spells & Curses in Ancient Rome DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Ancient Masturbation: They Failed No Nut November | Classics in Color
- Ancient Coins: Zooming In | Classical Numismatics
- After 7 aulos lessons with Callum Armstrong | Bettina Joy de Guzman
- Virtual Tour of the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology (recorded for AMPAL2020-2021) | ClassicsUnivRdg
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Fabio Tanga, La virtù delle donne (Mulierum virtutes). Brill’s Plutarch studies, 3. Leiden: Brill, 2019.
- [BMCR] Konstantinos Kapparis, Women in the law courts of classical Athens. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Thomas Kjeller Johansen, Productive knowledge in ancient philosophy: the concept of technê. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
- Feature: CLEOPATRA, AN UNPARALLELED LIFE at Crystal Theatre
- Boston world premiere for Shorter and Spalding’s jazz opera Iphigenia
- The empowerment of voices in If We Were Birds – The Medium
- Theatre review: Monstrous Woman | ArtsHub Australia
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
- Narcissus: The Greek Myth Re-Envisioned
- THE PARTHENON REPORT: One Argument – Many Excuses
- The Anniversary of the Discovery of Philip of Macedon’s Tomb
- In Russia’s South, the Remains of a Greek City Hint at Cosmopolitan Past – The Moscow Times
- Alexander the Great: Facts, Biography & Accomplishments | 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 menacing diseases leading to gluttony.
… 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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