Hodie est pr. Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 26 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- In first, Sanhedrin-era building found in Yavne, where sages fled Temple’s ruin | The Times of Israel
- Ancient Anatolian sheep shed light on history of domestication | Daily Sabah
- Beinecke Library digitally reconstructs ancient papyrus – Yale Daily News
- 6 ancient findings in the footsteps of the Maccabees – www.israelhayom.com
- Digging for Roman riches on trans-Pennine route – GOV.UK
- 2,000-year-old oil lamp comes to light in City of David – www.israelhayom.com
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- IDF Civil Administration unveils ancient ammunition bearing name of Seleucid ruler – www.israelhayom.com
- Huge Roman Mosaic Depicting Scenes From the ‘Iliad’ Found Beneath U.K. Field | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Roman-Era Iron Mask Found in Ancient City of Hadrianopouli
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE NVLCEARI POTESTATE
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Fresh Bloggery
- League of Legends, Arcane and Latin | Latin Language Blog
- Wealth, A Guide for Wickedness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Kelsey coin in the blogosphere: “Lessons from a Fake” – The Social Lives of Coins
- New Things in the Saturnalia / Lenaia / Christmas Shop! | Greek Myth Comix
- Salii and their Shields? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The Dog and His Treasure: A Fable about Priorities – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La nature des dieux, Cicéron
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: siddham – The South Asia Inscriptions Database
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Athanasius Kircher at Stanford: Correspondence
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Classical Language Toolkit
- Pan And Syrinx, Painted By An Anonymous Artist Between 1605 And 1610 | The Historian’s Hut
- The Slaughterous Funeral Of Marcus Aquilius Regulus’ Son | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman necropolis found under Arras supermarket
- De niet zo grote volksverhuizingen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kiwi Hellenist: Unique words in Odyssey 24
- PaleoJudaica.com: Oesterreich, Kognitionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf biblische Visionserzählungen (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: The rediscovery of lost works of Philo and Eusebius in Armenian
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom event on Fraade’s new Oxford Commentary on the Damascus Document
- DAY SIX: I Sing of Arms and the Woman: Gendered Violence in Modern Mythic Reinterpretations – 16 Days Blogathon
- Looting Matters: A Sardinian boat-shaped lamp from an “old Austrian collection”
- Autism and Classical Myth: Autism and classical myth: now on video…
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Contingent Faculty Mentoring at Annual Meeting | Society for Classical Studies
- Blog: Whose Aeneid? Imperialism, Fascism, and the Politics of Reception | Society for Classical Studies
Other Blog-like Publications
- Hellenistic sanctuary came to light in Kato Polydendri
- Hellenistic sanctuary mentions city from Homer’s Iliad – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Fragment of the Parthenon frieze has been returned from Italy
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
It’s time to welcome LJ Trafford back onto the podcast and talk about her new book, Sex and Sexuality in Ancient Rome. We discuss a number of topics, from homosexuality through to what the sexual expectations were of the time. What did the Romans view as acceptable to get up to and what was considered shameful? Obviously the content here is adult so please bear that it mind.
How might the field of Classics address the unique concerns and questions posed by its students from diverse backgrounds? One valuable way to answer this question is to privilege approaches to the ancient world traditionally eclipsed by literary studies: that is, studying the legacy of ancient works, ideas and associations in other contexts, especially via the study of material culture and classical reception. A complementary approach to the above question is to turn to the classical literary canon itself and consider the potential limits of the texts that are traditionally offered to students as the best of what the ancient world has to offer. It is often by moving outside of these boundaries that students can encounter voices that corroborate their own findings in ancient texts: voices that reject many of the traditional hierarchies still upheld in Classics today and that suggest a classical antiquity already pushing back against its self-valorisation. In this episode, Shivaike Shah speaks to Dr Kathleen Cruz from the University of California at Davis about these very issues.
Fresh Youtubery
- S2.012- Demystifying Academia: Part III | Kara Cooney
- City of Rome colloquium (Claire Holleran – Working in Rome; Ian Haynes – Rome Transformed) | Roman Society
- Mario reads the opening lines of the Iliad in ANCIENT GREEK | Ancient Literature Due
- Why Rome Failed to Conquer Germania? DOCUMENTARY | Invicta
- Olympias: Mother to Alexander the Great and Second Wife of Phillip II of Macedon | World History Encyclopedia
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
- Israeli Archaeological Treasures Align with Hebrew Bible Accounts | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
- Ancient healthcare fit for a king – British Museum Blog
- Why are the many layers of history hidden beneath modern Rome causing a problem? | ITV News
‘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 god-like conditions for mortals to live in; of course, evils will come eventually.
… 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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