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- Best physical evidence of Roman crucifixion found in Cambridgeshire | Archaeology | The Guardian
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- Impressive Gold Aureus Headlines New York International Auction
- Looted ancient Gilgamesh tablet returns to Iraq after three decades
- ! Murcia Today – Restoration Of Historic Roman Baths Resumes In Calpe
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- OSTIA SEGRETA – Villa Fralana, un tesoro da riscoprire – Ostia NewsGo
- Antiquities robbers damage ancient Roman amphitheater in Samaria – www.israelhayom.com
- Pompeii turns to tech to protect ancient site against climate change damage
- 3 Arabs Arrested for Theft of Ancient Archaeological Artifacts | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | TPS / Tazpit News Agency | 4 Tevet 5782 – December 8, 2021 | JewishPress.com
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- Billionaire collector Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 stolen artefacts worth $70m
- Gold ‘lotus flower’ pendant from Queen Nefertiti’s time discovered in Cyprus | Live Science
- Physics – Search for Sculptor’s Stone Reveals New Marble Outcrops
Fresh Bloggery
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- Sleep, Pregnancy, and Head Wounds: Some Hippocratic Aphorisms – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archive of Mesopotamian Archaeological Reports (AMAR) has a new point of entry
- The Green Monster (Apollo Riding The Serpent Python), Painted By Odilon Redon (c. 1840-1916) | The Historian’s Hut
- While We Live, Sing a Song for Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Small Parts Make A Whole: Writing Advice from Demetrius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Tawdry Tuesday: Zeus, Ganymede, and a Cock – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Caesar en Pompeius aan de Apsos – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Getty acquires 1st century bust of Germanicus
- PaleoJudaica.com: Gilgamesh Dream Tablet on display in Iraq
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classical Archaeology in the Digital Age – The AIAC Presidential Panel
- Looting Matters: Reflecting on the Michael Steinhardt collection
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- Looting Matters: Returning Athenian pottery from the Steinhardt collection
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- The Song of Seikilos: a Musically Notated Ancient Greek Poem – Antigone
- Michael Steinhardt surrenders 180 stolen antiquities valued at $70 million
- 2,700-year-old armor proves technology transfer happened in Antiquity
- Roman-Era mythical creature statue found in Emirate of Sharjah
- 10 Disturbing Practices That Were Considered Normal in Ancient Greece | by Sal Writes | Lessons from History | Dec, 2021 | Medium
- Leather scale armour proves technology transfer occurred in antiquity – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Fresh Podcasts
In this sample episode from their forthcoming Close Readings series, starting next year, Emily Wilson talks to Thomas Jones about the comedies of Aristophanes, in particular Clouds and Lysistrata. Close Readings Plus: Among the Ancients is a new subscription podcast series looking at some of the greatest works of Ancient Greek and Roman literature over the course of a year, starting in January 2022 with the Iliad.
We can look at how people thought and how they acted, but Hannah Platts joins us to talk about what it felt like to be a Roman.
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- Vindolanda Excavation Update 2021 | Vindolanda Trust
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Sophia Papaioannou, Agis Marinis, Elements of tragedy in Flavian epic. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 103. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- [BMCR] Magali Année, Alcméon de Crotone. Fragments: traité scientifique en prose ou poème médical?. Bibliothèque des textes philosophiques. Paris: Librairie Philosophique J. Vrin, 2019.
- [BMCR] Paul A. Zoch, Ancient Rome: an introductory history. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2020.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- CFP: Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Secret Knowledge in the Ancient World | Society for Classical Studies
- The Battle for Aphrodite – Chau Chak Wing Museum
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
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- A History of Wine in Ancient Greece
- Donna Tartt’s “The Secret History” as Revenge Fantasy
‘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 virulent disease, out of which will come an abundance of crops but a plague on the flocks.
… 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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