Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 2 Maimakterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• La Tomba dei Vasi Dipinti a Tarquinia: un restauro che non ha precedenti nel mondo dell’archeologia
• Scoperto e denunciato dalla Polizia collezionista di beni archeologici | News – SardegnaLive

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient ‘hangover prevention’ ring found in Israel | Live Science
• 2,500-year-old Shipwreck Filled with Pottery Found Under Aegean Sea Suggests Ancient Trade
• Ancient Hellenistic houses discovered in Turkey’s Hierapolis | Daily Sabah
• Archaeologists uncover 1,800-year-old ‘social’ toilets that could be used by 13 actors at once | Daily Mail Online
• How a hobby archaeologist uncovered a Roman battle site – SWI swissinfo.ch

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] GRETAE CONQUESTIO 

Fresh Bloggery

• Kort Irakees (14): Ibn Firnas – Mainzer Beobachter
• Fantasy Poets League – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Temple and the Man – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Blog Post #39: From Academic Reviews to Inclusive Conversations: an Interview with the Founders of Rhea Classical Reviews – Peopling the Past
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Manger, boire, se parfumer pour l’éternité: Rituels alimentaires et odorants en Italie et en Gaule du IXe siècle avant au Ier siècle après J.-C.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’artisanat du textile à Pompéi au Ier siècle après J.-C.: Vestiges textiles et outillages
• Weekend Reading: Excuses, Excuses… – Classical Studies Support
• First Review of My Coin Book – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• De schade van ISIS – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Poet’s Right
• Thoughts After Issus | The Second Achilles
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Death the Healer

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Art and Theater Projects Reinvigorating Interest in the Study of Classics and its History | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Bethsaida and the Church of the Apostles – Biblical Archaeology Society

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on coins of Domitian associated with the Secular Games
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Fasti 1.529-536

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Nuntii Latini: diē quīntō mēnsis Novembris on Apple Podcasts

Dē Haitiā; Aethiopia; Kīshida Victor; Nāvis Britannica līberāta; Nova studia Hongkongēnsia; Speculātōrēs Russicī in Germāniā; Dē Kim Jong-un et cygnīs nigrīs.

• ‎The Layman’s Historian: Episode 46 – No Easy Way Out on Apple Podcasts

While the conflicts in Spain and Sicily raged, Hannibal still clung tenaciously to the gains he had made in Italy. In the years following Cannae, he would experience a dizzying array of successes and setbacks against the Romans ranging from failed alliances with Macedon to the capture and recapture of major Italian cities. Even so, as the years wore on, the scales of Fortune seemed ever more inclined towards Rome….

Fresh Youtubery

• Reconsidering mid-Republican Rome and Latium | British School at Rome
• CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | From Agamemnon to Furies | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Pompei – La Stanza degli Schiavi | Pompeii Sites
• Pompei – La Stanza degli Schiavi – MIC – YouTube | Pompeii Sites
• Pompeii’s forbidden erotica – BBC REEL

Book Reviews

• Callatis. Recherches archéologiques 1993-2018 | Spartokos a lu
• Living on the Edge of Empire: The Objects and People of Hadrian’s Wall (R.) Collins, (B.) Birley, (A.) Croom, (J.) Laskey, (F.) McIntosh, (T.) Padley, (A.) Parking, (E.) Price Pp. 168 Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2020.
• [BMCR] Joan Taylor, David M. Hay, Philo of Alexandria “On the contemplative life”: introduction, translation, and commentary. Philo of Alexandria commentary series, volume 7. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
• [BMCR] Helena Schmedt, Antonius Diogenes, “Die unglaublichen Dinge jenseits von Thule”: Edition, Übersetzung, Kommentar. Millennium studies, 78. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• [BMCR] Kai Trampedach, Alexander Meeus, The legitimation of conquest: monarchical representation and the art of government in the empire of Alexander the Great. Studies in ancient monarchies, 7.

Exhibition Related Things

• Rubens: Picturing Antiquity | Apollo Magazine

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Online Open House | The Aeschylean ‘’Odyssey’’: A Journey in Fragments, with Zoe A. Kalamara – The Kosmos Society
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Guardian view on Roman Britain: a constantly shifting picture | Editorial | The Guardian
• [Paywalled] Has Stoicism become a new religion?
• Five myths about stoicism
• How Alexander The Great Conquered The Persian Empire November 333BC
• Zeus, The King of All the Gods in Greek Mythology
• The Nymphs of Ancient Greece
• Mediterranean Underwater Cultural Heritage created – Tourism – ANSAMed.it
• The Bizarre Bio-Cultural History of Saliva – The Wire 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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends the ruin of grain by weevils.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends  diseases for both humans and animals in the West.

… 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 Non. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Tornos News | Survey of seabed to lay power cable unveils rare Classical-era shipwreck near Kythira
• New Home for Greek, Roman Antiquities Dedicated – Ole Miss News
• Antiquities think tank pushes UK to impose tougher regulations to fight trade in looted art
• Archaeologists OK building height limits near Acropolis | eKathimerini.com
• Sequestrato l’antico teatro greco di Eraclea Minoa | Guida Sicilia
• Tower of David: Exposing the Citadel’s secrets – The Jerusalem Post
• Remains of 2 houses from Hellenistic period unearthed in southwestern Turkey
• Rome reopens Arch of Janus after 28 years – Wanted in Rome

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Amethyst Ring Found in Israel May Have Been Worn to Ward Off Hangovers | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• Scoperta antica casa restaurata nel parco della Valle dei Templi – QdS
• Holding Cell for Gladiators, Doomed Prisoners Found at Roman Amphitheater in England | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
• Archaeologists uncover statues of Aphrodite and Dionysus in Turkey – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• 2,000-Year-Old Battle Site Uncovered in Switzerland – Archaeology Magazine
• An etrog, a lion and all the secrets of 1,300-year-old mosaic in Jericho – The Jerusalem Post

Greek/Latin News

• [AkropolisWorldNews] Ἡ ἐν τῇ Τιγρῇ κατάστασις 

Public Facing Classics

• A day in the Prado | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SELECT Self-Learning Atlas of Ancient European CulTures
• Rolzegel – Mainzer Beobachter
• Courtly Fruit Lobbing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Change of Fortune
• Three Things Thursday: Peer Review, Being Busy, and Fiction from the Archive | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: One Off Journal Issues: La grammaire grecque étendue
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The BM Did Not Bin This One.
• Lepage Center Roundtable: “White Supremacy and Classical Athens: A Turning Point?” – Pharos
• What type of axe?! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Loving Flesh, Fearing Violence – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Horror, The Horror | Sphinx
• Lucifer Is Not a Name for Satan! – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Caesar in Rome – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Gold coins of Carthage
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was David a nomad king?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Interview with Annette Yoshiko Reed
• Looting Matters: The Case of the St Louis Art Museum Mummy Mask
• Announcing Pnyx! An Ozymandias Project LLC publication!
• Spencer Alley: Nine More 17th-century Flemish Portrait Painters
• At the Edge of the Empire: The German Limes – Time Travel Rome
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Identification by Mother’s Name

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• The DAI istanbul Newsletter – DAİstanbul
• If Homer Had a Guitar – Research Blog
• OCA AGM – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• Roads and Bricks: Why study the Romans? – Antigone
• ANE TODAY – 202111 – The Shavei Zion Figurine Assemblage. A Cultic Site at Sea – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Frederic Raphael on Catullus – Why The Classics?

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Sweetbitter | the Untold History of Pirates (Season 1: a Sappho Podcast): Pirates 5: Teuta on Apple Podcasts

This episode, we discuss the ancient pirate, Teuta. Thank you to our guests this week, Laura Duncombe and Brandon Jones. Our Pirate Shanty this week is by Alyse Knorr with engineering by Joshua Nelson.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: Could Alexander have convinced his men to head further into India? on Apple Podcasts

Murray answers this question, sent in from Manvir. Could Alexander have convinced his men to head further into India? Was one reason for turning back the fear of facing elephants? Was this reflective of poor morale?’

• ‎Casting Through Ancient Greece: 40: Sicily, The First Sicilian War on Apple Podcasts

As the 6th century BC on Sicily was coming to a close expansion would continue to take place. Tyrannies were now becoming the common governing system in a lot of the Sicilian Greek cities, appearing to follow the lead of their Metropolises back in Greece. This time though expansion would see Greeks focus on exerting their influence over other Greek cities. This period would also see the rise of one of the most powerful Tyrants to yet emerge on Sicily, his name would be Gelon. His rise would be born out of a series of Tyrannies, to where his service to them would see him almost seamlessly take power thanks to the influence and reputation he had built up over the years. ..

Fresh Youtubery

• Linear B Administrative Documents from Ayios Vasileios | British School at Athens
• Siege of Halicarnassus 334 BC – Alexander’s Conquests DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
• Giorgia Proietti on Herodotus’ Persian Wars and the Greeks’ intentional histories| Herodotus Helpine
• ILIAD BOOK 24: Priam Goes To Get Hector’s Body Back | Moan Inc
• White Supremacy and Classical Athens: A Turning Point? | Villanova University
• Forgotten Wars – The Nubian Invasion of Egypt (720 BC) | Invicta
• Sadly, a Looted Cave Sanctuary High Above Stymphalia, Arkadia | Canadian Institute in Greece

Book Reviews

• Worshippers of the Gods
• The Great God Pan is all things to all men | The Spectator
• [BMCR] Pantelis Michelakis, Classics and media theory. Classical presences. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Elizabeth Donnelly Carney, Eurydice and the birth of Macedonian power. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Carey Seal, Philosophy and community in Seneca’s prose. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Ancient tragedies, modern politics in ‘The Oresteia’ | Arts & Theater | bakersfield.com

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Gesture, Stance, and Movement Communicating Bodies in the Aegean Bronze Age
• #EOTalks: Classics beyond the Euro-American Gaze – Everyday Orientalism
• A. G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought College of Humanities: Classics and Ancient History
• Lecturer (Teaching and Scholarship) in Graeco-Roman Material Culture at The University of Manchester
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Digitally Reconstructing the Acts of Appian Papyrus | Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
• Engraved on a tombstone almost 2000 years ago, this is music’s oldest surviving… – Classic FM
• Ancient Roman City Baiae Underwater Archaeological Park | HYPEBEAST
• Can the U.S.-Iraq Deal Be a Model for Decolonizing Museums?

‘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 ‘storm’ for the state and disease breakouts for humans and animals alike.

… 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 pr. Non. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 29 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeologists find theater toilet in western Turkey’s Smyrna | Daily Sabah
• Perinthos finds to shed light on ancient cuisine

In Case You Missed It

• 2,000-Year-Old Battle Site Uncovered in Switzerland – Archaeology Magazine
• Trio of ‘Astounding’ Roman Statues Found Beneath Medieval Church in England | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE IMPETV BACTRIANO Caedes Bactriana 

Public Facing Classics

• The Globe, Plato and the corrupting force of art | The Spectator
• Would the ancient Greeks have agreed that children are born evil? | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Kort Irakees (13): Kufa’s Slangenpoort – Mainzer Beobachter
• A Bad Combination of Good Things – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ippocrate e gli altri
• Laudator Temporis Acti: In a Bad Place
• Visit to the Sacred Cave at Miletus | Turkish Archaeological News
• Winter AD 121/2 – Hadrian inspects the northern frontiers: part 1 Germania Superior (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
• A Humorous Surfeit of Monkeys – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Two Types of Suffering
• Aristotle | The Historian’s Hut
• PaleoJudaica.com: Forthcoming: Minets, The Slow Fall of Babel (CUP via AJR)

Other Blog-like Publications

• Pasts Imperfect (11.4.21) – by Sarah E. Bond, Colin McCaffrey, and Aimee Hinds Scott – Pasts Imperfect

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a tetradrachm from Alexandria Troas
• @DocCrom on Catullus 40

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎The Ancients: Glasgow’s Roman Remains & Hadrian’s Wall on Apple Podcasts

To align with the COP26 conference in Glasgow, this episode features legendary Roman Britain archaeologist Dr David Breeze talking about his many years excavating the Roman site of Bearsden near Glasgow. We also chat about his long, star studded career working on the wider Antonine Wall and the iconic landmark that is Hadrian’s Wall.

• ‎Ancient History Fangirl: Assassin’s Creed Odyssey (With Liv Albert from Myths Baby!) on Apple Podcasts

Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths Baby! has an obsession, and the name of that obsession is Assassin’s Creed Odyssey. This game immerses you immediately in Ancient Greece–and provides loads of historically accurate settings from the world we’ve been exploring this season: the symposia of Athens, the pleasures of Corinth, the Peloponnesian War and exactly who’s responsible, and the mysteries of Crete and other Greek islands. Come join us on a tour of Ancient Greece as Assassin’s Creed Odyssey sees it. You may even meet some old friends. Warning: Spoilers abound.

• ‎Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 31 – The Last Legion (2007), with Ayelet Haimson Lushkov & Pramit Chaudhuri on Apple Podcasts

Sometimes we review movies we’re very passionate about and sometimes we review The Last Legion. Fortunately we have special guests Ayelet Haimson Lushkov and Pramit Chaudhuri, hosts of Calcutta Arthouse Podcast, to save Rome(?) with us. Where to even begin with this one. It’s a movie where every scene and line of dialogue competes to be the most absurd, confusing or just ridiculously hammy thing every put to screen. There’s something to be unpacked about the way this movie wholeheartedly embraces a lot of misconceptions about the “decline and fall” of the Roman Empire, including: Rome was an inherently good and freedom-loving absolute monarchy, it came to an end in a single violent invasion of *waves hand* barbarians, the Caesars were this magical bloodline of conqueror-kings, that Tiberius was a nice guy. The list goes on. Perhaps the best way to watch this movie is on an Aeroflot from 1980.

• ‎The Partial Historians: Special Episode – Women and Money with Professor Karen Carr on Apple Podcasts

We sat down recently to have a conversation with Professor Karen Carr who is Emerita at Portland State University. She holds a doctorate in Classical Art and Archaeology and we were thrilled to discuss the ideas for her latest work. We explore Carr’s research on the connections between women, money, and the economy in the ancient world.

Fresh Youtubery

• Pompei – Eros e Mito – Trailer Italiano ufficiale | Pompeii Sites
• Iowa Classics Colloquium: Melissa Mueller [10.21.2021] | UIowa Department of Classics
• From a live Smarthistory webinar: Forum and Column of Trajan with Dr. Jeffrey Becker | Smarthistory
• Boshell Foundation Virtual Lecture: Color in Ancient Mediterranean Sculpture | Art Institute of Chicago
• Iliad 1.206-214. “Athena & Achilles.” Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard. Bettina Joy de Guzman
• The Iliad, Scroll 1 – Reading Greek Tragedy Online | Center for Hellenic Studies
• The Art of the Bodge – Explorations in Athens | British School at Athens

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Chris Murray, China from the ruins of Athens and Rome: classics, sinology, and Romanticism, 1793-1938. Classical presences. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Philip Kiernan, Roman cult images: the lives and worship of idols, from the Iron Age to late antiquity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] John Briscoe, Simon Hornblower, Livy. Ab urbe condita, book XXII. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• CFP: Companion to Publicly Engaged Humanities Scholarship | Society for Classical Studies
• Conference: Crete/Patras Ancient Emotions IV | Society for Classical Studies
• Conference: (Re)Ordering the Gods. The Mythographic Web through Times | Society for Classical Studies
• NEH Public Scholars Grant | Society for Classical Studies
• Heraklion 2022 | Connected Past
• Assistant Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology Bryn Mawr
• Genealogy and Prosopography as Sources for Historical Chronology
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Ancient Greek Weightlifter and the 316 Pound Rock

‘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, it portends an improvement for grain.

… 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. III Non. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 28 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient ‘hangover cure’ gold ring found at Yavne winery excavation | The Times of Israel
• How British Museum’s maintenance woes have kept Parthenon Marbles off view for a full year
• Roman altars reimagined in vivid colour | News Post Leader
• Ancient town of Metropolis yields new treasures
• Assyrian discoveries in northern Iraq unearth new challenges – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
• Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia excavate forgotten kingdoms | Reuters
• Romano-British settlement possibly found by A12 | East Anglian Daily Times
• How did people live (and die) in biblical Azekah? 4 skeletons shed light – The Jerusalem Post

In Case You Missed It

• Bronze Age Swords Unearthed in Greece – Archaeology Magazine
• Authorities Reveal the Restored Hisham’s Palace of Ancient Jericho

Classicists and Classics in the News

• History offers insight into today’s complex problems, researchers say

Fresh Bloggery

• Hunebedden van de dag: D23 en D24 en D25 (Bronneger) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Our Own Worst Enemy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Sing the Rage! Returning to the Iliad with Reading Greek Tragedy Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Undena Publications Online Titles
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Lost Collector Seeks Help
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ARABIANTICA
• I Hope this Finds You With Nothing to Write About – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome – Antigone
• Procris Pierced By Cephalus’ Javelin, Painted By Bernardino Luini (c. 1480 – 1532) | The Historian’s Hut
• Pliny The Elder’s Criticism Against Pronunciation Critics | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Gladiator cell, painted plaster, pet cat found in Kent amphitheater
• PaleoJudaica.com: Shaul Shaked (1933-2021)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Amethyst ring excavated at Yavneh
• Ancient Ruins in mid-19th century – The 21st Century Archaeology
• Biblical Studies Carnival 188 for October 2021 – Reading Acts
• Spencer Alley: Five Obscure 17th-century Flemish Portrait Painters
• Divine Gifts – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Trapeza: grave offerings and bronze swords have come to light
• Genes and Morality in Ancient Rome – Antigone
• Spectacular ancient gold ring unearthed in an excavation in Yavne
• The Other Black Girl, Ovid, and the beloved Shirley Temple. – by Ayelet Haimson Lushkov – Classics. Lit.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a dedicatory inscription to Serapis from York
• @AshmoleanMuseum on assorted rhyta
• @Pompeii_sites on the house of M Fabius Ululitremulus

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Ad Navseam: Sedimental Journeys: Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 61) on Apple Podcasts

It’s tufa one in the Vomitorium today! Two petrifying tales from the Metamorphoses, that is. First, Perseus gets hopelessly lost and takes it for granite that big-boned Atlas will offer him directions and a snack. But a dread prophecy leads Atlas to slam the door instead and Perseus to say “No More Mr. Gneiss Guy”. He whips out his secret weapon from his Gorgon’s head-sized holster with predictable results. Next it’s on to Niobe whose Latona-directed trash talk knows no bounds. Even when Apollo and Diana begin to take bloody revenge, Niobe’s hubris gets bigger and boulder. Her own transformation is sure with all that evidence mountain against her. Starting to get the schist of it? Shale we go on? Ore maybe not? Either way, you’ll lava it!

• ‎Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! A Greek & Roman Mythology Podcast: CXLIII: Adapting Greek Myth, the World of Lore Olympus w/ Rachel Smythe on Apple Podcasts

Hades and Persephone are some of the most beloved characters of Greek myth and Rachel Smythe is retelling their story (and so many others) in the incredible Webtoon (and now, book!) Lore Olympus. Rachel and Liv chat mythology and adapting myth, characters and sourcing, and so much more. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

• ‎This Week in the Ancient Near East: So You Need a Stone Floor For Your Hittite Temple? I Know a Guy. on Apple Podcasts

Making a floor isn’t rocket science, but style and execution count for a lot. The terrazzo floor at the 15th century Hittite sanctuary at Uşaklı Höyük might be the earliest mosaic floor, or does that honor belongs to the Minoans?  What is the relationship between power and taste? Why are the triangles blue and what does the god Teshub really think about ‘oatmeal’ as a color?

• ‎Experts on History: Early Christianity with Rebecca Denova on Apple Podcasts

Did you know that Christianity broke off from Judaism to stop the Romans from persecuting them? In this interview, Prof. Rebecca Denova delves into Christianity as a syncretic religion, God in the Old and New Testament, and the adoption of dominant Greco-Roman ideas of gender and women’s roles. Professor Rebecca Denova is a full-time Senior Lecturer of Early Christianity in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to ancient Christianity, she teaches courses on the religions of ancient Greece and Rome and the religions of ancient Egypt.

Fresh Youtubery

• ILIAD BOOK 23: Funeral Games for Patroclus *Sigh* | Moan Inc
• Cicero, Pro Sexto Roscio, Latin Reading | Musa Pedestris

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Kom el-Khawaled, a Tell in the North
• Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Early Christianity job with Penn State | 402069
• Assistant Teaching Professor in Roman History job with Georgetown University | 2240025
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Ancient Diolkos Stone Road Allowed Ships to go From Ionian to Aegean
• History Painting: An Art Genre or the Manipulation of Truth? | Art & Object
• Philosophy and sex work: how courtesans in Ancient Greece crossed the mind/body divide
• The Age of Too Much Museum Storage Must End

‘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 conditions where the lower classes will oppress their superiors.

… 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. IV Non. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 27 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Mycenaean Bronze Swords Uncovered in Greek Tomb
• New archaeological season begins at Douzlakh Salt Mine – Tehran Times
• Amateur archaeologist uncovers Roman battle site – SWI swissinfo.ch
• Archaeologists uncover rare evidence of migrant buildings in former Roman villa – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

In Case You Missed It

• Antiquities’ repositioning in metro station under fire | eKathimerini.com
• Roman Statues Unearthed in England – Archaeology Magazine
• Archaeologist May Have Found Tomb of Alexander the Great’s Mother
• Statue heads of ancient Greek deities dating back 5,000 years found in Turkey | Daily Mail Online
• Possible Gladiator’s Cell Uncovered at Richborough Amphitheater – Archaeology Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Anne Carson’s Obsession with Herakles | The New Yorker
• A response to two members of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles… | by Elizabeth Marlowe | Oct, 2021 | Medium

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] NOVVS PRAESES
• Radiogiornale Latino 01.11.2021 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Nuntii Latini mensis Octobris 2021 – Bremen Zwei

Fresh Bloggery

• Autism and Classical Myth: Gods are strange…
• Kort Irakees (12): Mosul – Mainzer Beobachter
• Introducing PilgrimCHAT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Prevalence of Evil
• October 2021 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: VILLA ROMAINE D’AIANO-TORRACCIA DI CHIUSI: Une villa de l’Antiquité tardive au coeur de la Toscane
• Poison Proofs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Friday Retrospect: Scheme Interactions: PAS on Social Media [Updated]
• The Generosity Of Scipio, by Carlo Carlone (c. 1686 – 1775) | The Historian’s Hut
• PaleoJudaica.com: Stromberg & Hibbard (eds.), The History of Isaiah (Mohr Siebeck)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Rest
• PaleoJudaica.com: Price et al. (eds.), Rome: An Empire of Many Nations (CUP)
• A Gift For Polydektes: Ancient coin NFTs
• Add These Myth Retellings to your To-Be-Read List – Medea Palatina

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Stepping up: differences between UG and MA – OurWarwick
• Blog: Persephone’s Pomegranate Seed and My 5-Year Visa | Society for Classical Studies
• Studying Latin in antiquity | classicsforall.org.uk

Other Blog-like Publications

• When Ghostbusting Amounts to Cruelty | by Dani Bostick | In Medias Res | Nov, 2021 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on coins relating to dynastic marriages
• @DocCrom on Manilius, Astronomica 1.113-121
• @OptimoPrincipi on a statue of Livia

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Khameleon Classics: Medea’s Performance History, with Fiona Macintosh on Apple Podcasts

Shivaike Shah talks to Professor Fiona Macintosh from the University of Oxford, director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, an online research project that has digitised and made accessible thousands of sources relating to classical drama and performance. Shivaike and Fiona talk about the APGRD’s work, and in particular, the interactive e-book Medea: A Performance History, which was published in 2016. They then discuss how our understanding of Medea has changed over time, and in particular, how specific translations and performances of the play have been used time and again to illustrate contemporary political debates.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Writing Process | Kara Cooney
• Anche le statue parlano al Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia (TGR Lazio, 1/11/2021) | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• La correspondance grecque privée sur plomb et sur tesson. | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• THE SUPPLIANT WOMEN Will Be Performed at Gulbenkian Arts Centre
• Getty’s Villa Theater Lab Returns; LIZASTRATA ONLINE! Now Streaming

Online Talks and Professional Matters

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

Alia

• Greeks Win First North American Debate on Parthenon Marbles, Defeating British Point of View at Boston Athenaeum – The Armenian Mirror-Spectator
• Monumental Statue of Athena Parthenos Once Graced Acropolis
• Ancient City of Magdala Unearthed Near Tiberias, Israel
• Intact Ancient Mosaic Will Be on View in Basement of Luxury Turkish Hotel
• Boris Johnson’s Claims That Immigration Caused the Fall of Rome Are a Reactionary Fantasy
• Exploring Ancient Olympia, One Of The World’s Most Well-known Historical Sites
• From Washing Machines to Computers: How the Ancients Invented the Modern World
• Emperor Boris, the Net Zero Nero – The Conservative Woman

‘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 prosperity.

… 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)#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for November 1, 2021