Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 13 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Greco-Roman rock-cut tomb discovered west of Aswan – Greco-Roman – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- Archaeologists discover ancient highways in Arabia
- Amateur Archaeologists find ‘extraordinary’ Roman artefact dubbed ‘paranormal paracetamol’ near Havant | The News
- Is archaeology being used to make HS2 look good? | The Independent
- Hoard of Roman coins found in Derbyshire field – Derbyshire Live
- Mosaic with slave thanking God for his freedom unearthed in southern Turkiye
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Sophomore Sophistry – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tadmor – Palmyra. A Caravan City between East and West
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Empire: A collection of articles curated by the Editorial Board of Anatolian Studies
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Some Fictional Libraries
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rejection of Gods, Fatherland, and Kin
- On Not Cutting Off Your Penis, or Beard – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Hey Tough Guy! Get Comfortable With Masks – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Lod Mosaic: A Spectacular Late Third Century C.E. Mosaic Floor from Lod, Israel
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Rare Roman wood figurine found in railway dig
- Thalatta, thalatta – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Power of the Cold – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Domitianus (20): De Albaanse Berg – Mainzer Beobachter
- Back to Blogging. I last wrote a blog post in early… | by Jen Ebbeler | Jan, 2022 | Medium
- Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part I: Words – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Remembering Jim Adams: a personal perspective
Other Blog-like Publications
- Archaeologists uncover Roman wooden figure – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- The vastness of Rome – Ancient World Magazine
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
A podcast with Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South (ReTAGS) is a project led by Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe. In this episode, Mark and Mandla discuss the project’s aims, reimagining the concept of tragedy from a perspective in Africa that is directed at the complex challenges of our global postcolonial present and towards our possible futures both inside and outside of the discipline.
Liv speaks with researcher Flint Dibble all about the archaeology of the Mediterranean, what we know about Plato’s Atlantis, and more importantly: what we know about Athens from the Bronze Age and earlier! Twitter threads mentioned in the episode: Atlantis in current pop culture, the dangers of Atlantis “lore”, erotic vases. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Fresh Youtubery
- Was Caesar Assassinated for Cuckolding the Wrong People? #shorts – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Does the verb have to come at the end in Latin? – YouTube | Polymathy
- Watching Wishbone for the First Time in 20 Years | Homer Sweet Homer | Wishbone Watch #1 – YouTube | The Ancient Geeko-Roman
- Origin and History of the Ancient Olympic Games – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- The Ancient Pictish Caves Hidden In Fife | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Sylvie Dumont, Vrysaki: a neighborhood lost in search of the Athenian agora. Princeton: ASCSA, 2020.
- BMCR – Dawn LaValle Norman, The aesthetics of hope in late Greek imperial literature: Methodius of Olympus’ Symposium and the crisis of the third century. Greek culture in the Roman world. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- BMCR – Yann Berthelet, Françoise Van Haeperen, Dieux de Rome et du monde romain en réseaux. Scripta antiqua, 141. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021.
- Review: ‘The Latinist,’ by Mark Prins – StarTribune.com
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Visiting Lecturer in Classics | Mount Holyoke College
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Comprehending Comprehensible Input (CI): Some Observations | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- What Is Garum? And How to Use It for Cooking – Eater
- Take a Tour Through Ancient Rome with Stunning 3D Reconstruction – Nerdist
- Ancient Greek Figurines of Demeter Found in Black Sea Town
- 60 years on: What do we know about the Derveni Papyrus, Europe’s oldest literary text? | Euronews
- Keeping time: The origin of B.C. and A.D. | Live Science
‘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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a revolt of enslaved persons, their punishment, and an abundance of crops.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends the oppression of the people by the king.
… 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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