Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Traces of large Roman army camp discovered in Velsen | NL Times
- Rome rebuilds Basilica Ulpia in Trajan’s Forum – Wanted in Rome
- L’anfiteatro ritrovato riparando una fogna – la Repubblica
- Teen metal detectorist from Suffolk finds Bronze Age axe hoard on her just third dig | Daily Mail Online
- Since 2012, experts have discovered 750 archaeological sites in Erbil: Ministry
In Case You Missed It
- Iranian, German archaeologists in search of clues about Achaemenid, Sassanid miners – Tehran Times
- Destroying Syria’s history | Turkish-backed factions continue excavating archaeological sites in Aleppo countryside • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Rescued from obscurity: UK archaeologist who restored Sicily’s glories | Heritage | The Guardian
- Students uncover tomb, conduct fieldwork in Pompeii – Daily Trojan
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 21.11.2021 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- [Ephemeris]DE IMPETV HIEROSOLYMAE.
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ARCE Conservation Archives
- Collective Madness and False Beliefs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ecbatana excavation
- Verzoening, vergelding en ressentiment – Mainzer Beobachter
- Some Advice for Dinner Companions: Philosophize Appropriately – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tomb 26 on Sai Island: A New Kingdom elite tomb and its relevance for Sai and beyond
- PaleoJudaica.com: Gallagher, Translation of the Seventy (Abilene Christian University Press)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: When Someone Says Something Stupid
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Powell, Bar Kokhba
- Ignoring the Cause, Assailing the Symptoms – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Grumblers
- New Book on the Faddan More Psalter | Variant Readings
- The Burning Of Troy With The Flight Of Aeneas And Anchises, By François Nomé (c. 1593-1620) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Peculiar Trial Of Norbanus Licinianus | The Historian’s Hut
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Procrastination
- The Only Dinner Invitation Poem You Will Ever Need – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Is Velsen Flevum? – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: On the Timna Valley excavation
- PaleoJudaica.com: Khirbet Qeiyafa and the 10th century BCE
- A Dinner Conversation Prompt: Why Are We Hungrier in the Fall? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Illuminating the Vindolanda Tablets
- Spencer Alley: Seventeenth-Century Dutch Paintings of Classical Myths
- Spencer Alley: Seventeenth-Century Flemish Paintings of Classical Myths
- Referenda ad Senatum: November 19, 2021: Hidden String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
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Other Blog-like Publications
- Everything Flows, or Does It? Heraclitus on Everything. – Antigone
- Justinianic plague was nothing like flu
- Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part Six: “They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths…” – The ‘extracanonical Gospels’ – Retrospect Journal
- Review: The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (2005) – Retrospect Journal
- Antigone Unbound | Part I: Horror & Attic Black-Figures | by Vanessa Stovall | Corona Borealis | Nov, 2021 | Medium
Fresh Podcasts
There’s no more contentious issue in modern Greek history than that of the Parthenon Marbles. Stripped from the Parthenon atop Athens’ Acropolis under dubious circumstances by Lord Elgin while Greece was under occupation, the Marbles were irreversibly damaged by Elgin’s team, before being shipped to the UK where they were eventually sold to The British Museum – the place where they now reside. Greeks, non-Greeks, and Philhellenes the world-over want them to be returned to Athens where they can be reunited with the rest of the works from the monument in the Acropolis Museum. Tom and Nick are joined by Founder and Chair of the International Committee – Australia – for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles Inc, Emmanuel John Comino AM, and committee member, lawyer and cultural heritage expert, Theodora Gianniotis to discuss the campaign to bring the Marbles home.
Alexander the Great and Caracalla. One often considered among the most successful military commanders of all time, the other, one of the worst emperors of Ancient Rome. So is it possible that the latter modelled himself and his army on the former. In this second episode with Dr Alex Imrie, we return to the story of Caracalla to explore the evidence for his Macedonian Phalanx, a formation of men purportedly used in his invasion of the Parthian Empire. Dr Alex Imrie, from the University of Edinburgh, is an expert on the Severan Dynasty and the author of The Antonine Constitution: An Edict for the Caracallan Empire.
When you think about the history of the Land of Israel, you probably think about King David, The Romans, Bar Kochva or the Ottoman Empire. But the fact of the matter is, that all of those powerful rulers and leaders roamed this land pretty recently. After all, what is 1000, 2000 or even 3000 thousand years in the history of mankind? In recent centuries archeologists have been working hard to reveal the many secrets buried in layers upon layers of earth, here in Israel. All of us have heard about the various findings regarding Jewish ancient history. But long before any records of Monotheism, ancient men lived here. Israel’s strategic location, right on the border between Asia and Africa, made it an important crossroads for humanity – for tens of thousands of years. Nowadays, it is the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) who’s responsible for digging up and revealing the secrets of ancient times. Today we’re thrilled to be joined by Archeologist Emily Bischoff Bruintjes, who works and digs for the IAA…
Fresh Youtubery
- Grammatica Latina per se illustrata || Sententia infinitiva
- Jeremy Swist Mahindra Lecture: Fascist Receptions of Antiquity in Metal Music (October 19, 2021) | Harvard Classics
- The Healing of Asclepius | Michael Levy
- Erasmus Latin reading: Colloquia, Coniugium Relationship tutorial! | Musa Pedestris
- The Shame of Virginity in the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Flying high, the young van Dyck as Icarus | Smarthistory
- Restored Ancient Roman fountain offers eco-friendly glimpse into the past | Rome Reports
- Pokémon and Archaeology: An Initial Survey | Eduardo García-Molina Eduardo García-Molina
- New exhibition celebrates scientific influence of Ancient Greece | AP Archive
- Ancient Coins: Egypt part 1 | Classical Numismatics
- Roman Emperor Caligula’s coffee table – CBS News
- Searching for the truth in Emperor Caligula’s gardens in Rome – 60 Minutes – CBS News
- The Knossos Research Centre | British School at Athens
- Harbours and working boats of the ancient mediterranean | British School at Rome
Book Reviews
- Le périple de la mer Noire de l’Anonyme | Spartokos a lu
- Late Roman and Early Christian Necropolises from Extra Muros Area at Histria. | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Nikolas Papadimitriou, James C. Wright, Sylvian Fachard, Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, Eleni Andrikou, Athens and Attica in prehistory: proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27-31 May 2015. Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020.
- [BMCR] Brad Inwood, James Warren, Body and soul in Hellenistic philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- [BMCR] Silvia Montiglio, Musaeus’ ‘Hero and Leander’: introduction, Greek text, translation and commentary. Routledge classical translations. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
- At the Met, the new opera ‘Eurydice’ retells the Orpheus myth without looking back – The Washington Post
- ODC Theater: Ars Minerva presents MESSALINA – Mission Local
- Ancient Greek tragedy ‘Medea’ on stage
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Re(dis)covering Chora: The Byzantine name of the Rose
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets | The New Yorker
- A New History of the Decoding of the Rosetta Stone, Reviewed | The New Yorker
- The Daily Telegraph: British Public Opinion in Favor of Parthenon Marbles’ Return to Greece – Breaking & Latest News, Greece, Cyprus, Hellenic Diaspora News
- Boris under pressure over Elgin Marbles as Greek PM insists he promised not to stand in way of talks | Daily Mail Online
- GREEK PM KYRIAKOS MITSOTAKIS: Boris has a unique opportunity to return Parthenon Sculptures | Daily Mail Online
- How the Ancient Greeks Invented the Anchors for Boats
- Diogenes: Likely First Person to Give Someone the Finger
- Pythagoras’ revenge: humans didn’t invent mathematics, it’s what the world is made of
- Can royal architecture prove biblical Judah was a kingdom? – The Jerusalem Post
‘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 healthy year ahead.
… 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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