Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Dec. 2774 AUC ~ 3 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- First Century Roman ‘Germanicus’ Bust Joins Getty Villa Collection – Artwire Press Release from ArtfixDaily.com
- Stolen bas-relief discovered in southern Iran – Tehran Times
- Billionaire Steinhardt surrenders $70 mln of antiquities, accepts collecting ban -Manhattan DA | Reuters
- La Valle dei Templi si conferma uno scrigno di meraviglie: scoperte fornaci per ceramica
- Boscoreale – Scoperti tunnel scavati per trafugare reperti archeologici | StabiaChannel.it – Libera Informazione
- Antiquities for auction could be illicitly sourced, archaeologist claims | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Fishbourne Roman Palace offers chance to adopt piece of mosaic as unique Christmas gift | Chichester Observer
- Ancient flute reveals interest in music
- UNGA unanimously adopts Greek resolution on return of cultural property | eKathimerini.com
- Anfore millenarie trovate in mare e vendute online | Cronaca VIAREGGIO
In Case You Missed It
- Remains of a man and woman buried with GOLDEN tongues 2,500 years ago are found in Egypt | Daily Mail Online
- A Sculpture of Laocoön Was Vandalized at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, Leaving Two of Its Figures Headless
Classicists and Classics in the News
- LMU Jesuit archaeologist remembered as a beloved mentor, brilliant scholar | Angelus News
- IO Saturnalia! Latin students announce the ancient Roman festival of peace and harmony – Mainline Media News – Pennsylvania News Today
- How we got to ‘Omicron,’ a previously obscure, D-list letter – The Boston Globe
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE OBITV REBELLIS Nuntia Austroamericana
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Geld, cultuur en welzijn (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Geld, cultuur en welzijn (4) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Topsy-Turvy
- Five stray canons of the Council of Hippo (393) – canon 1 – Roger Pearse
- Ulysses Discovers Achilles hidden Among The Daughters Of King Lycomedes, Painted By Angelica Kauffmann (c. 1741-1807) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Cautious Roman Dictatorships At the End OF The 330s BCE | The Historian’s Hut
- Robert de Fries en Sint-Nikolaas – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Mummies with gold tongues found in Oxyrhynchus
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Way to Go: Another Antiquities Collector Loses His Stuff
- PaleoJudaica.com: R.I.P. Father William J. Fulco, S.J.
- PaleoJudaica.com: Online lecture on Jewish-Latin Texts from pre-rabbinic times (in German)
- PaleoJudaica.com: More golden tongues, but still no Cleopatra’s tomb
- Laudator Temporis Acti: I’ll Take My Stand
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La présence militaire dans les campagnes aux époques hellénistique et romaine: chance ou fatalité pour les communautés rurales?
- The end of the beginning as they say… – The Classical Astronomer
- Spencer Alley: Storytelling by Dutch Painters (before 1700)
- Looting Matters: Michael Steinhardt and the return of antiquities valued at $70 million
- Looting Matters: Michael Steinhardt and the J. Paul Getty Museum
- Looting Matters: Sources for the returned Michael Steinhardt antiquities
- Looting Matters: The Minoan Larnax at Emory University
- Looting Matters: Ex Symes material on offer in London
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Classic Parenting: “Greeking Out” With Greek Mythology | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Dec, 2021 | Medium
- Manual of Roman Everyday Writing. Vol. 1: Scripts and Texts
- Film on ancient Morrylos in international competition
- More coins from the Półwieś treasure hoard discovered in Poland – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Romans had the reality of witches, those who made the brews and prepared the curses, but also the witches of fiction. In their poems and stories, a witch took on a horrific persona, one that skews much more closely to the modern idea of a witch. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Head of Department of Languages and Linguistics, La Trobe University)
John J. Miller is joined by Barry Strauss of Cornell University to discuss Josephus’s ‘The Jewish War.’
John J. Miller is joined by Kyle Harper of the University of Oklahoma to discuss Petronius’s ‘The Satyricon.’
Fresh Youtubery
- S2 013- CRASH COURSE: A Leader’s Power and Trickle Down Economics | Kara Cooney
- Professor Mary Beard: in conversation | Jesus College
- Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Rome: An Empire’s Story with Greg Woolf | World History Encyclopedia
- Nel cuore del restauro. Il mosaico romano del Ninfeo. – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- Cultural Identity within the Northern Black Sea Region in Antiquity | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Daniel Ogden, The werewolf in the ancient world. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Mark J. Edwards, Aristotle and early Christian thought. Studies in philosophy and theology in late antiquity. London: Routledge, 2019.
- [BMCR] Robert Wiśniewski, Christian divination in late antiquity. Social worlds of late antiquity and the early middle ages. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- The 3rd International Symposium on Animals in Ancient Egypt
- Classics in Africa: The Ways Forward
- A Place of very great Antiquity
- Lecturer – Department of Classics OSU
- Assistant Professorship in Classics – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
- ICS Seminar Series Proposals | CRSN
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- British Museum Gives False Hope For Return of Parthenon Marbles
- Italy Will Loan Greece Parthenon Marble Piece – With Collateral – Breaking & Latest News, Greece, Cyprus, Hellenic Diaspora News
- Kids playing with human bones reveal ancient cultures of Crimea – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Archaeologists Gather Online to Celebrate the History of The Mediterranean Diet – Olive Oil Times
‘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 the same thing for everyone [not sure if that refers to visions of the gods from yesterday or not]
… 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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