Hodie est a.d. XIII kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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Fresh Bloggery
- Pyrrho on Homer and the Eating Pig – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hailu, JEWISH CULTURAL ELEMENTS IN THE ETHIOPIAN ORTHODOX TÄWAḤƏDO CHURCH (Gorgias)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Larsson (ed.), The Legacy, Life and Work of Geo Widengren … (Brill)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Egypt Deports Ambassador for Smuggling Antiques
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Not Required Reading
- Somebody to Drink With: Anacreon’s Epitaph and Some Poems – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Litwa, The Evil Creator (OUP)
- Domitianus, de verborgen expositie (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ben-Dov & Rojas (eds.), Afterlives of Ancient Rock-cut Monuments in the Near East (Brill)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient World Mapping Center Annual Reports
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Not My Fault
- Domitianus, de verborgen expositie (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Autism and Classical Myth: “Outstanding books” about autism Part 3: Funny – you don’t look autistic
- Io Saturnalia 2021! | Greek Myth Comix
- PaleoJudaica.com: Top 10 “ancient Greek archaeological discoveries” 2021
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- New Book! “Crime and Art: Sociological and Criminological Perspectives of Crimes in the Art World”
- The Saturnalia – Ancient Blogger
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Fresh Podcasts
Synopsis: Even as Anatolia, Syria and Egypt confronted the Bronze Age Collapse, the eastern kingdoms of Assyria, Babylonia and Elam continued their ancient cycle of dynastic conflict.
Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the most infamous figures from the whole of history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. To talk about King Herod, with a particular focus on the material and meaning of his monumental tomb at Herodium, Tristan was re-joined by Holy Land archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness. A wonderful speaker, Jodi has previously been on the podcast to talk all about the Siege of Masada and Jewish burial at the time of Jesus.
628 – 718 – The emergence of the Arabs and the Bulgars on the fringes of Byzantine lands had a profound effect on the legacy of the Heraclian dynasty of Byzantine rulers. The empire dramatically decreased in size and had to become familiar with a new style of existence.
Fresh Youtubery
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- Spoken Latin Vlog || Aliquae res mirae (ac molestae) quas in novo cursu parando experta sum | Satura Lanx
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- The Roman Burial Site Under The River Tees | Time Team | Odyssey
- The Death of Emperor Galba | Dr Raoul McLaughlin
- The Death of Emperor Otho | Dr Raoul McLaughlin
- Catullus 44 in Latin & English with Vocabulary Notes: O funde noster seu Sabine seu Tiburs | David Amster
- Post-Caesar Civil Wars – Battle of Mutina – Roman History DOCUMENTARY | Kings and Generals
- Adult Toys in Ancient Greece | Classics in Color
- Update and Forthcoming Projects | Ancient Geeko-Roman
- Ecole française d’Athènes
- 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Cooking pots for ritual activity?
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- 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – A Closed Deposit of 4th Century B.C pottery from Ancient Methone, Pieria
- 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Οresteion: Views on the pottery of an Arcadian polis
- 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Framing the Ceramic Identity of Maroneia
- 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Exploitation of vegetal resources in Malia
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- 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – In search of a lost city
- 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Coastal landscape changes at Palaikastro
- 16/11/2021- Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – From dirt to pots
- 16/11/2021-Society & Environment in Bronze Age Crete – Synergy between natural and built environment
- Mid-season Update | Kara Cooney
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] John Walsh, Elizabeth Baynham, Alexander the Great and propaganda. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021
- . [BMCR] Erlend D. MacGillivray, Epictetus and laypeople: a stoic stance toward non-stoics. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
- [BMCR] Sara Lindheim, Latin elegy and the space of empire. Oxford studies in classical literature and gender theory. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- [BMCR] Rosa Maria Piccione, Greeks, books and libraries in Renaissance Venice. Transmissions: studies on conditions, processes and dynamics of textual transmission, volume 1. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
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Online Talks and Professional Matters
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Alia
- Why This Ancient Civilization Fell Out of Love With Gold for 700 Years | Science | Smithsonian Magazine
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- Boris Johnson’s zeal to return Parthenon marbles revealed in 1986 article | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
- A is for … ox? How the Latin alphabet is descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs | CBC News
- 15 Heroes of the Trojan War | History Hit
- Volunteer on a dig for the thrill of digging up the past (you’ll also learn to hate buckets)
‘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 shortage of necessities.
… 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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