Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 13 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Manhattan antiques dealer is sentenced to five years probation for fake artifacts factory | Daily Mail Online
- French bring back teaching of Latin and ancient Greek to schools | World | The Times
- Roman and medieval coins found in Craven | Craven Herald
- Centuries-old mosaic found in western Turkey
- Looking for a Stolen Idol? Visit the Museum of the Manhattan D.A. – The New York Times
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- Roman-Era Shops, Statues of Greek Deities Found in Ancient City in Turkey | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Metal detectorist finds 2,000-year-old dagger wielded by Roman soldier in battle with Rhaetians | Live Science
- Archeological Discovery Of Byzantine Church In Israel Reveals Existence Of Clergywomen
- Turkish-backed Syrian militiamen destroying archaeological hill in Afrin: SOHR
- ‘Church of the Apostles’ in Bethsaida mysteriously buried, archaeologists discover – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- GEPHYRA 22, 2021 published – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS’s First Million
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Its Own Reward
- Tawdry Tuesday: Failing to Rise to the Occasion – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Leaving Home
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature (SEAL) updated
- Was Thucydides Biased? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Three demotic papyri in the Brooklyn Museum : a contribution to the study of contracts and their instruments in Ptolemaic Egypt
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Unfinished Roman aqueduct found in Armenia
- “Bar Kokhba: The Jew Who Defied Hadrian and Challenged the Might of Rome” by Lindsay Powell FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Mythologia: The Reluctant Hero – Retelling the Story of Bellerophon and the Chimera |
- The issue of the return of the Parthenon Sculptures raised by K. Mitsotakis
- PaleoJudaica.com: A Hellenistic fort and a Hasmonean victory?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Justinian’s plague at Ashdod’s basilica of the deaconesses?
- Let’s Talk About Sweat, Baby – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Artemis, pourer of arrows – The Kosmos Society
Other Blog-like Publications
- Oedipus on his Life’s Path – Antigone
- Temple provides a snapshot of how Ancient Egyptian art was made – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
What’s the best way to learn, retain, and teach Latin? The old school, passive “grammar and rote memorization” route or the hip, (relatively) new active, “spoken and living language” approach? You don’t need to be versed in COBOL or FORTRAN or know your way around those punch-cards that used to operate refrigerator-sized computers back in the ‘70s to answer that question (though it might help). Dave and Jeff are here to share the stories of their own journeys through various Latin curricula on both sides of the desk. Hear what led Dave to embrace the “active spoken” method—the highs and lows, the practicalities and the hilarities. And if it gets too heavy, fear not — Arugula Man is waiting in the wings.
In this week’s podcast, Alice and Nicolas talk with Dr Thomas Biggs, a lecturer in Latin at the School of Classics at St Andrews, about Roman representations of war, from the beginnings of Latin literature in the third century BCE to the imperial period and beyond. They particularly discuss the impact of Rome’s Punic Wars on Roman storytelling habits. Tom is the leading expert on the reception of the First Punic War in antiquity and how it influenced the ways in which the Romans thought about and visualised war more generally. His book Poetics of the First Punic War was published in 2020.
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.
Fresh Youtubery
- Ancient Coins: Dictators and Tyrants | Classical Numismatics
- Review of Poetry By Nikita Gill in GREAT GODDESSES | Moan Inc
- Experiencing the Parthenon | British School at Athens
- An Assemblage of Linear B Administrative Documents from Ayios Vasileios, Laconia.| British School at Athens
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Michael Eisenberg, Rabei Khamisy, The art of siege warfare and military architecture from the classical world to the middle ages. Oxford; Havertown: Oxbow, 2021.
- [BMCR] Monika Woźniak, Maria Wyke, The novel of Neronian Rome and its multimedial transformations: Sienkiewicz’s “Quo vadis”. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Camilla Horster, Marianne Pade, Cultural encounter and identity in the Neo-Latin world. Analecta romana instituti danici. Supplementa, 54. Roma: Edizioni Quasar, 2020.
- [BMCR] Cynthia Jordan Bannon, A casebook on Roman water law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Peter Keegan, Livy’s women: crisis, resolution, and the female in Rome’s foundation history. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021. /
- [BMCR] Benoît Chazal, La Rhétorique du blâme dans l’Histoire Auguste. POLEN: Pouvoirs, lettres, normes, 20. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- 11th International CoMuseum Conference
- Lecturer in Greek History job with Dartmouth College | 409355
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Is the Old Testament Historically Accurate? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
- Why Did Ancient Greek Actors Wear Theater Masks?
- Epics past and future: how has the genre sustained its popularity? – Palatinate
- Talking Point: Should London return the Elgin Marbles to Greece? | Evening Standard
- Where do the Elgin marbles belong: Britain or Greece? – New Statesman
- Parthenon Sculptures: The Background of the Mitsotaki-Johnson Debate and the British Press | ATHENS 9,84
- The Ancient Greek Sanctuaries and Temples of Olympia
‘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 plenty of food for the flocks.
… 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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