Hodie est a.d. XIX kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 10 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
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- 30 Workers Trapped in Tunnel at Archaeological Site in Galilee – Hamodia.com
- Archaeologists discover Stargazer idol fragment in Turkey’s Muğla | Daily Sabah
In Case You Missed It
- New York Antiquities Collector Returns 180 Stolen Artifacts Worth $70 Million | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
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- Cyprus—Trade Emporium of the Ancient World – Biblical Archaeology Society
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Michael Eisenstadt Obituary – Austin American-Statesman
- Office Hours with … Erika Valdivieso | YaleNews
Greek/Latin News
- [Ephemeris] DE BATAVICI VICTORIA.
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Physician’s Notes on a Depressed Patient – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ägyptens schöne Gesichter: Die Mumienmasken der römischen Kaiserzeit und ihre Funktion im Totenritual
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Memorial video in honor of CDLI founder Robert K. Englund
- Cyril of Alexandria’s lost “Commentary on Hebrews” now available in English! – Roger Pearse
- Loyal Hounds for the Charcoal Man – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Pliny The Younger’s Odd Purchase Of A Corinthian Bronze Statue | The Historian’s Hut
- Penelope, By Thomas Seddon (1821-1856) | The Historian’s Hut
- De Fiscus Judaicus: een vergeten ostrakon – Mainzer Beobachter
- Autism and Classical Myth: More live-blogging “outstanding books” for autistic young people – Part 2: This is my life
- PaleoJudaica.com: Kiperwasser, Going West (Rabbinic Culture) (SBL Press)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Cirafesi, John within Judaism (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tenth of Tevet 2021
- Parallelomania, Bad Scholarship, and Fake History – Roger Pearse
- Spencer Alley: Seventeenth-Century German Paintings (Secular and Sacred)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Annual Research Grants 2022 – The Palestine Exploration Fund
- Blog: Call It What It Is: Racism and Ancient Enslavement | Society for Classical Studies
- CIMS-CIG Student Travel Bursary (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
- Homer and Dorothy Thompson Fellowship (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
- Frederick and Joan Winter Student Travel Bursary (Canadian Institute in Greece) – The Classical Association of Canada
- 17.11.21 Pompeii Revisited – Department of Classics – Trinity College Dublin
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Virgil, Georgics 1.505-514
- @DocCrom on an aureus of Claudius relating to the conquest of Britain
- @fadeaccompli is reading Richlin’s Garden of Priapus
Fresh Podcasts
When Athena burst from her father’s head she looked just like a hoplite warrior, with armor and a helmet. Dr. Kate Birney tells us about this fierce aspect of the goddess as well as the civilized attributes of the patron goddess of Athens. No wonder she’s Danae’s favorite goddess – and maybe yours too? Visit our pages on social media or search #livefrommountolympus to find images of Athena made by the residents of the city that bears her name with pride….
Medea was a source of fascination for ancient scholars as early as Hesiod’s Theogony, and yet the early classical sources make no mention of the intentional infanticide that Euripides made an infamous and essential part of the myth. Conversely, authors writing after Euripides bore his iconic tragedy and its infanticide in mind even as they focused on other aspects of the story and characterised Medea differently. In this episode, Shivaike Shah and Professor Jesse Weiner from Hamilton College explore the myths surrounding Medea, from the earliest Greek literature through Roman antiquity and beyond. They consider the many receptions of Medea in modernity: in particular, Joel Barlow’s Columbiad, an early American epic poem that drew upon Medea, Jason and the Argonauts to frame two key moments in the history of American colonisation and independence.
Fresh Youtubery
- HFF Annual Lecture 2021 | Honor Frost Foundation
- Pokémon in Latin: Gen 1 Pokédex entries 51-59 | Ancient Literature Dude
- The Ancient Lyre and Kithara with Michael Levy | World History Encyclopedia
- What are the newest discoveries at Pompeii? | American Institute for Roman Culture
- How do we measure the decline and fall of Ancient Rome in today’s context? | American Institute for Roman Culture
- “A Place of very great Antiquity” | British School at Athens
- Booknotes+ Podcast: Roosevelt Montás, “Rescuing Socrates” | C-SPAN
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Günther Pfund, Von Picus bis Licinius: historischer Kommentar zu den “Chronica urbis Romae” im Chronographen von 354. Roma Aeterna, 11. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
- [BMCR] Alberto Cafaro, Governare l’impero. La “praefectura fabrum” fra legami personali e azione politica (II sec. a.C. – III sec. d.C.). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Two-Year Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in Classics and Race job with College of the Holy Cross | 420651
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Find mosaics and mystery in an outpost of the Roman empire
- The Ancient Celtic Coinage of Britain
- Ground-Breaking Proposal for Return of Parthenon Marbles
- Rockport Collection of Ancients at Heritage Dec. 19 – Numismatic News
- What Was Wrong With Translating the Torah Into Greek? – Jewish History
‘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 both civil war and abundance.
… 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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