Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Ian. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Italian handover of Elgin Marbles fragment puts pressure on UK to follow suit
- Unique Byzantine Inscription Found on Gerasun Island off Black Sea Coast
- Roman bust recovered after Michelle Obama visit | World | The Times
- The archaeologist who discovered Troy: Heinrich Schliemann | Culture | Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 06.01.2022
In Case You Missed It
- Sicily returning fragment of Parthenon to Greece – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Rome unearths ancient dog statue and tombs under street
- First Human Skeleton From Bronze Age Tsunami Discovered in Turkey | Smart News | Smithsonian Magazine
- Hellenistic-Era Grave Discovered in Chieti, Italy
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- Rewatching Ways of Seeing | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- In ancient Rome, the truth could be stranger than fiction | The Spectator
- Will the real Julius Caesar please stand up? | National Geographic
Fresh Bloggery
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Portable Antiquities Collectors Won’t Look Up
- Don’t Let Questions Ruin Your Conference – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plant Food Processing Tools at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe
- Book Club | January 2022: Pausanias Description of Greece, Book I – The Kosmos Society
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Eye of Zeus
- The Archaeology of Oil Production: Part 1 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Conference Got You Down? Even Plato Switched Careers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Socrates | The Historian’s Hut
- PaleoJudaica.com: Online seminar: “Traditions in the Land”
- PaleoJudaica.com: Harper, Paul and Philo on the Politics of the Land, Jerusalem, and Temple (Mohr Siebeck)
- Domitianus (13): Keizer tegen wil en dank – Mainzer Beobachter
- Looting Matters: Barbarano Romano: the Attic fragments
- Spencer Alley: Imagining the Classical World in Nineteenth-Century France
- In 2018, “a chartered Tupolev-154 jetliner” reportedly flew from Kazakhstan to Switzerland, “loaded up” with “antiques, jewelry, works of art and other cargo”. | conflict antiquities
- At Home with the Schliemanns: The “Iliou Melathron” as a Social Landmark | From the Archivist’s Notebook
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- How to Read Paintings: Apollo Pursuing Daphne by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo | by Christopher P Jones | Thinksheet | Medium
- Bronze-Age Shipwreck Reveals the Luxurious Lifestyles of the Ancient Elite | by Prateek Dasgupta, MS | Teatime History | Dec, 2021 | Medium
- The Tomb of the Kings in Jerusalem – Biblical Archaeology Society
- ROMA. Anfiteatro Castrense. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
- Top reads of 2021 – Ancient World Magazine
- Lebanon’s archaeological crisis & status on antiquities – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
Neo-Assyrian leather armor? In a Western Chinese tomb? It’s a classic, what’s up with that situation. Is it really Neo-Assyrian? How do we know? If so, how did it get there? What can we make of a sample of one? Why are we talking about Ricardo Montalban? It’s an episode so filled with questions that we’re literally bubbling over.
We’re talking about the Pisonian Conspiracy of 65. Who started it and why? Theories involve an angry poet and an angry gay man seeking revenge.
Boudica, also known as Boadicea, was a member of Iron Age aristocracy in Roman occupied England and her husband was the ruler of the Iceni people. When he died in around 60AD, Boudica, driven by Roman brutality, led a rebellion against the Roman army and marched on London. It was a ferocious attack that nearly drove the Romans out of Britain before Boudica was finally defeated. Today, she is an iconic and sometimes controversial figure. To explore Boudica, Bridget Kendall is joined by professors Richard Hingley and Miranda Aldhouse-Green and Dr. Jane Webster.
Inspired by Istanbul Research Institute’s exhibition at Pera Museum titled “What Byzantinism Is This in Istanbul!”: Byzantium in Popular Culture, we invited artists, authors and musicians to converse with researchers of Byzantine history on how they have engaged with Byzantine history in their works. We explore the unearthly ways of appropriating Byzantine culture in unlikely mediums and genres, showing novel ways of engagement with Byzantine heritage in popular culture. On Rotting Christ: Sakis Tolis, Jeremy J. Swist and Nikos Tragakis converse on the legendary band’s engagement with history
In this episode, we talk to Jenny Saint, bestselling author of Ariadne, to discuss myth, storytelling, the lives of women in Minoan Crete–and the process of recreating mysterious, ancient religious rites based on the clues left in mythology.
In Summer 2021, we interviewed current students, staff members and alumni for the Regional Classics podcast, which captures the experiences and perspectives of Oxford Classicists, past and present, from regional areas that have traditionally been underrepresented within the Faculty: namely, the North and South-West of England, the Midlands, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.
Fresh Youtubery
- A Moot Trial of Boudica: Terrorist or Freedom Fighter? – YouTube
- What’s ancient Rome like in today’s world? – YouTube | Darius Arya Digs
- Spartan Mirage – Ancient History #shorts – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Women in Homer’s Odyssey – YouTube | Millennial Classicist
- Heinrich Schliemann e la scoperta di Troia: il viaggio di Enea a Trapani – YouTube | Etruschannel
- Ann Patty, “Learning Latin in Retirement”, Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2021 – YouTube
Book Reviews
Exhibition Related Things
- HORSE: The Horse in Ancient Athens – Art and Science Exhibition
- Valour, art, and Greek achievement – Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes – Neos Kosmos
- Unearthed: The new virtual exhibition at the City of David Museum – The Jerusalem Post
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Spring 2022 Visiting Lecturer in Classics | Department of Classics – Dartmouth
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Why the first Buddhas in art wore finely folded Greek tunics | Psyche Ideas
- Should Jews Read Homer? » Mosaic
- The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Public Conference [June 2021]
- Ostia Antica: il sito archeologico più grande del mondo (insieme a Pompei) è un capolavoro della storia di Roma – Turismo Italia News
- Let’s Respond Like Romans to the Jan. 6 Attack on the Capitol | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
- The Dispilio Tablet: The Oldest Known Written Text Discovered In Greece — Greek City 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 an outbreak of coughing illnes but also an abundance of fish and fruit.
… 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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