Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• ‎This Week in the Ancient Near East: It’s the Very Nearly Live from ASOR 2021 Conference With Extra Special Guests Edition! Part 1-The Ballroom Tapes on Apple Podcasts

A conference you say? That’s right, we’re here in Chicago at the ASOR meeting with a host of guests, luminary scholars with names like Professor Eric Cline, Dr. Matthew Adams (the one with a J.), Dr. Yorke Rowan, and Professor Morag Kersel. The topic – conferences and conference experiences. There are some important lessons here.

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It wasn’t ALWAYS in decline, was it?

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Book Reviews

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• Ancient Greeks Used Dangerous Cosmetics in Eternal Search for Beauty
• Parthenon Sculptures: “A dozen saws for marble of various sizes” | ATHENS 9,84
• Dogs of Antiquity – Self Improvement Wednesday – ABC Radio
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a watch post catching enemy deception in action.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• 1,500-year-old bakery structure found in Turkey’s Perre  | Daily Sabah
• 11-year-old finds Holy Jerusalem silver coin likely minted in the Temple – The Jerusalem Post
• The graffiti of Pompeii: ‘Cruel Lalagus, why do you not love me?’ – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Greece to Protect its Archaeological Sites, Monuments from Impacts of Climate Change | GTP Headlines
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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In this episode of Accessible Art History: The Podcast, I discuss the life and works of sculptor Edmonia Lewis!

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Book Reviews

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Dramatic Receptions

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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

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• Expatriate protector of the Parthenon Marbles | eKathimerini.com
• Italian Master Builders – Archaeology Magazine

‘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 disease-bearing wing.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• 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

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Greek/Latin News

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• [Ephemeris]DE IMPETV HIEROSOLYMAE.

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• 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
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Procrastination
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• Is Velsen Flevum? – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Timna Valley excavation
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• Review: The Penelopiad, Margaret Atwood (2005) – Retrospect Journal
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Fresh Podcasts

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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.

• ‎The Ancients: Alexander the Great Mania? Caracalla’s Macedonian Phalanx on Apple Podcasts

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• ‎Two Nice Jewish Boys: #264 – Digging Out Israel’s Ancient Ruins (Emily Bischoff Bruintjes) on Apple Podcasts

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…

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Book Reviews

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• [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

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• 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
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Alia

• Pompeii Still Has Buried Secrets | The New Yorker
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• 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ τῆς πανδημίας κατάστασις 
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• Domitianus’ protegé: Velius Rufus – Mainzer Beobachter
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• ‎Satura Lanx: Grammatica Latina per se illustrata || Sententia infinitiva on Apple Podcasts |

Sententia infinitiva is that particular Latin sentence whose hallmark is accusative (of the noun) and infinitive (of the verb). Let’s learn it with this simple grammar lesson in spoken Latin!

• ‎Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Who Was This “Homer” Guy, Anyway? Homeric Theories w/ Joel Christensen on Apple Podcasts

There’s so, so much more to the concept of “Homer” than a blind poet from Archaic Greece. In fact, there probably was never any Homer, or any Hesiod for that matter. Plus… Toxic heroes being toxic.

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Book Reviews

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Alia

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• Are we about to lose ‘our’ Marbles?
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• When stone tools were considered lightning remnants – and weapons of the gods | | The Guardian
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• Twenty Years at Megiddo  – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The Problem with Unprovenanced Objects – Biblical Archaeology Society
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• The ancient origins of glass

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a brief period of famine.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends the death of mice and an abundance of grain, pasture fodder, and fish.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• a quiet day …

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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS: So What Are the Real Figures Anyway, and How Are They Calculated?
• Nothing To Write about: Cicero Gives Up – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Learning and Thriving with Dyslexia – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
• Referenda ad Senatum: November 19, 2021: Hidden String-Pullers, Falling Empires and Tactics Against Horse Archers! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Blogging ancient epigram: The Highgate Caroller
• The (Im)Possibility of Decolonizing Anthropology – Everyday Orientalism

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Tulane Professor Allison Emmerson Receives AIA Recognition | The Louisiana Classicist
• Dr. Marc-Antoine De Lavis-Trafford (1880-1960)
• Bring in the Artists | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• A.E. Housman and Miss A.M.B. Meakin: A Star Pupil in Victorian London – Antigone
• Archaeologists reveal Hellenistic fortress destroyed by the Hasmoneans
• Pasts Imperfect (11.18.21) – by Sarah E. Bond, Colin McCaffrey, Joel Christensen, and Nandini Pandey – Pasts Imperfect
• ANE TODAY – 202111 – A Half a Century of Studying Biblical Coins – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on some coins associated with the River Strymon
• @DocCrom on Lucretius, De Rerum Natura 1.29-37

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Batavian Revolt on Apple Podcasts

Untaxed, but burdened by Rome’s demands for ever more infantry and cavalry from their small tribe, the Batavians use the chaos of AD 69 to revolt. It would take the combined effort of nine legions to quell.

• ‎Casting Through Ancient Greece: 41: The Greek Periphery, Thrace on Apple Podcasts

North East of Greece would be a land seen as wild and untamed stretching from the modern-day nation of Hungary to the Ukraine, and then to the Black Sea and Aegean. The Greeks would view the people that inhabited these lands as barbarians, much the same way they did to other cultures that differed from theirs. Though these people that they would call the Thracians, seemed that much more uncivilised compared to the other barbarians they had encountered…

• ‎Queens Podcast: Hypatia of Alexandria on Apple Podcasts

Hypatia of Alexandria wears many hats. Philosopher, astronomer, and mathematician. And for a woman in the 4th and 5th century… well that’s a big deal. Hypatia helped shaped the minds of an entire generation of leaders, but not everyone was a fan. Join us here as we discuss her life.

Fresh Youtubery

• CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | Heroes, Heroines, and Gods | Center for Hellenic Studies
• The Cave of Hermes | Michael Levy
• What was lost when the Library of Alexandria burned? – DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
• THE FURIES: Who Were These Ancient Goddesses of Vengeance? | Moan Inc.
• 10/11/21- SemGRAnt- The Spartan Krypteia Revisited | Ecole française d’Athènes Ecole française d’Athènes

Book Reviews

• The Amphorae of the Kerameikos Cemetery at Athens from the Submycenaean to the Protogeometric Period
• [BMCR] Eleni Manakidou, Amalia Avramidou, Η κεραμική της κλασικής εποχής στο βόρειο Αιγαίο και την περιφέρειά του (480-323/300 π.χ.)/Classical pottery of the northern Aegean and its periphery (480-323-/300 B.C.). Thessaloniki: University Studio Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Alexander Sens, Hellenistic epigrams: a selection. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Stefan Ardeleanu, Numidia Romana? die Auswirkungen der römischen Präsenz in Numidien (2. Jh. v. Chr. – 1. Jh. n. Chr.). Archäologische Forschungen, 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021.
• [BMCR] Robin Waterfield, The making of a king: Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Ancient Greeks: Science and Wisdom review – a show from the dark ages | Exhibitions | The Guardian

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics job with University of Miami | 2273392
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Elgin marbles: stealing beauty
• The ‘stolen’ treasures that are wanted back
• The Parthenon Sculptures Should be Repatriated Immediately
• The long battle of the Greeks for the sculptures of the Acropolis
• The History of the Ancient Greek City of Thebes
• Griffins: The Noble Protectors of Ancient Greece
• How Do You Protect an Ancient Mosaic?
• How the Alphabet Came to Be | Discover Magazine
• The Ancient Greek Sanctuaries and Temples of Olympia
• Roman-Era Millstone and Mixer Makers Knew Their Rocks – Eos

‘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 good health for women

… 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)