Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 15 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• 1800-year-old Roman Goddess Venus Statue in Zadar Discovered at Future Hotel Site
• Man discovers Roman gold in his wife’s flower bed – Cornwall Live
• Awe-struck detectorists unearth huge hoard of Roman coins and jewellery in Ribble Valley | Burnley Express
• Ancient Greek Mosaic Floor Found Near Syrian City Of Hama — Greek City Times

In Case You Missed It

• Slaves’ room found in Pompeii | The Past
• Mosaic In Greek Prepared By A Freed Slave To Thank God Found In Turkey’s Hatay — Greek City Times

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – IURISPERITA GRATIAE SINENSIUM IMPROBE MOVENDAE ACCUSATUR
• Ephemeris – DONALDI CONTIO
• Radiogiornale Latino 16.01.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• The Romans Used to Crucify Dogs

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Lozinskyy, The Feasts of the Calendar in the Book of Numbers (Mohr Siebeck)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Greenstein Festschrift (SBL)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archive of the Department of Antiquities of Mandatory Palestine (1919 – 1948)
• Renaissance Stagecoach Verse – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Neo-Assyrian Bibliography
• When This is All Over, It Will Happen Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Mr Beazley’s Floral Suppository
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Lost Archaeology: Is Hearsay The Best We Can Do?
• Het Onze Vader (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Edithorial: Boris Johnson, Tragedy and the Goat-Song
• Yes, English Does Have Grammatical Gender (Sort Of) – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Bestormde Hannibal La Mure? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Just a Lazy Sunday Morning Contemplating the Nature of Things – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Flynn, Children in the Bible and the Ancient World (Routledge)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ghormley, Scribes Writing Scripture (Brill)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cultural heritage in the realm of the commons: Conversations on the Case of Greece
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Virtual Heritage: A Guide
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Against Almsgiving
• “You’re Too Keen On Dead Stuff” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Artefacts: Encyclopédie collaborative en ligne des objets archéologiques
• gens FURIA – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Just Think Your Way Out of Sickness! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• RRC 407 – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• De tien invloedrijkste antieke teksten – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Peacock mosaic found in early Christian basilica
• PaleoJudaica.com: Galoppin & Bonnet (eds.), Divine Names on the Spot (Peeters, open access)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tu B’Shevat 2022
• The Sorrow of Times Like These – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Joys of Latin and Christmas Feasts: J.R.R. Tolkien’s Farmer Giles of Ham – Antigone
• Archaeologists uncover rare Roman wooden figure – Archaeology Wiki
• New discoveries in the “Siberian Valley of the Kings” – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The Department Chair. One of the things that fascinated me… | by Jen Ebbeler | Jan, 2022 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @OptimoPrincipi on some Roman treasures found during WWII

Fresh Podcasts

• Satura Lanx: Latine loqui || Particulae (-que, -ve, -ne?) on Apple Podcasts

How do you use those tricky Latin particles? A lesson in easy Latin for beginners about the use and meaning of -que, -ve, -ne.

• The Ancient World: Episode C9 – Horse to Horse, Army to Army on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: In the mid-11th century BC, the Hittite kingdoms of northern Syria are joined by others– in the Philistine pentapolis, the Amuq plain and the region of Classical Cilicia – with ties to the former Mycenaean Greeks.  The Phoenician cities of the Levantine coast begin to step from the shadow of post-Collapse Egypt.

• The Ancients: The Birth of the Roman Empire on Apple Podcasts

16 January 27 BC is a date sometimes associated with the beginning of the Roman Empire. It was on that day that Octavian received the name Augustus, effectively becoming the first emperor of Rome. Augustus ordered the gates of Janus to be closed, marking an end to the period of Civil War that had characterised Rome for decades before. Entering into a new era of peace, how did Augustus monopolise peace as a concept, and allow Rome to hold onto this new era and way of life across it’s Empire? This week Tristan is joined by Dr Hannah Cornwell, author of Pax and the Politics of Peace, to talk about this transitional period, it’s reflections in art and monumental architecture, and ultimately, how the Roman Empire came to be.

• The Dirt Podcast: The Queen of Sheba on Apple Podcasts

It’s another January Hiatus episode–this time a cleaned-up excerpt from Dirt After Dark. Amber drags Anna back to Arabia, where we discuss possibly its most famous inhabitant of all time: the Queen of Sheba. We look at the source material and the archaeology before really getting into it to discuss racism, misogyny, and–of course–camels.

• Classically Trained: Episode Thirteen: The Titan’s Curse on Apple Podcasts

In this episode we discuss Percy Jackson book 3: The Titan’s Curse. Featuring: both-sides-ism, a small amount of complaining about philosophy professors, and a pitch for casting Aphrodite. Also, we call Rick Riordan out for fridging. We continue to have mad nostalgic fun with these episodes.

Fresh Youtubery

• What was the Secret Weapon of the Carthaginian Empire? – YouTube | History Marche
• Kitten Anatomy in Latin – YouTube | ScorpioMartianus
• Latine loqui || Particulae (-que, -ve, -ne?) – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• ‘Ancient Greek Pronunciation’ Dr Eilidh Macleod – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• When Roman Soldiers Battled the Chinese: Whose military was superior? – YouTube | Classics in Color
• 12/01/2022- Recherches en cours- Textiles and Cooking Pots – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes

Book Reviews

• Le cimetière de Belbek I et le monticule du cimetière fraternel dans le sud-ouest de la Crimée : fouilles archéologiques de N.M. Pechenkine en 1903-1905 | Spartokos a lu
• Embattled: A Review – The Dartmouth Review
• BMCR – Lukas Lemcke, Bridging center and periphery: administrative communication from Constantine to Justinian. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2020.
• BMCR – Kyle Erickson, The early Seleukids, their gods and their coins. London; New York: Routledge, 2018.

Dramatic Receptions

• Sheer Shooting Passion: Greek Tragedy Comes to Beijing | the Beijinger
• Theater company brings ‘The Iliad’ alive – Essex News Daily

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Hippos – The Horse in Ancient Athens (1st lecture)
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Murder, mystery and a riotous romp through Ancient Rome
• Old Boris Johnson essay argues for return of the Parthenon Marbles – Cherwell
• Archaeology’s sexual revolution | Archaeology | The Guardian
• How the Roman Empire Provided the Founding Fathers a Blueprint for America’s Economy – Foundation for Economic Education
• How a small marble foot has put more pressure on the British Museum to return the Elgin marbles | The Independent
• The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria | 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:

If it thunders today, it portends non-life threatening diseases.

… 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)