Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Iron Age and Roman buildings and relics discovered in Bedfordshire village during road upgrade – Bedfordshire Live
- New research puts spotlight on ancient artefacts looted by the Nazis from Greece – Greek Herald
- Phoenician Plaque Unearthed in Cyprus Archaeological Excavation
- PICTURES: Fresh plans revealed for York’s ‘Roman Quarter’ | York Press
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Naked Philosophers and A Dog Too – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Avoiding Viruses and Playing Games in Rome – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Chronicles and the Priestly Literature of the Hebrew Bible
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reading History in the Roman Empire
- Fitzwilliam non-Roman Aes Grave – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Gems imitating Coins – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The Death Of Decius Mus In A Battle Against The Latins, By Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1577 – 1640) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Bizarre Alternate Myth Of A Human Golden Fleece | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Papyri Herkulaneums im Digitalen Zeitalter: Neue Texte durch neue Techniken – eine Kurzeinführung
- Bovine and Fish(y)bones – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Greek hypogeum under Naples to open
- PaleoJudaica.com: Phoenician inscriptions excavated in Cyprus
- PaleoJudaica.com: An inscribed amulet from the Mount Ebal altar excavation
Other Blog-like Publications
- Upgrading the site of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Aulis
- Lebanese museum returns art works from Palmyra
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @chapps on his reconstruction of the Germanicus bust recently acquired by the Getty
- @bodleianlibs on some manuscripts of early translations of Pliny the Elder
- @DocCrom on Seneca, Medea 26-36
- @AntiquityJ on images of hybrid camels on a temple in Iraq
- @turarchaeonews on the Inandik vase
Fresh Podcasts
Tens of thousands of clay tablets containing texts written in the ancient Cuneiform script of the Assyrian Empire have been discovered, giving us invaluable insights into the inner workings of the Mesopotamian kingdom on the eve of its collapse in the 1st millennium BC. In this fascinating episode, Tristan chats with Professor Eleanor Robson of UCL to help shed light on the incredible history of scholarship in the ancient Near East.
We are thrilled to bring you an exploration of the relationship between the ancient world and metal music. We’re joined by Dr Jeremy J. Swist an expert in the subject. Dr Swist is a lecturer in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University. He holds a PhD in Classics looking at the Reception of the seven kings of Rome in imperial historiography from Tiberius to Theodosius. His research covers everything from historiography to the classical reception in metal music.
She’s the Tenth Muse, Western literature’s first lyric poet, and a woman who openly, unabashedly loved women and wrote about it–in an extremely patriarchal society where queer women’s experiences were almost universally erased. But what has come down to us about the life and times of Sappho? Like her poetry, our picture of Sappho’s life is very fragmentary. This week, we team up with Leesa Charlotte from Sweetbitter to try piecing the puzzle together.
Fresh Youtubery
- Caesar’s Biggest Scandal – Ancient History #shorts – YouTube | Kings and General
- The Exotic Voyages of Herodotus – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Joseph Lindon Smith: The Persepolis Paintings | A Special Exhibition at the OI Museum – YouTube | Oriental Institute
- The Maids in Homer’s Odyssey (Eurykleia and Melantho) – YouTube | Millennial Classicist
- CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Zoe Kalamara – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Christian Cole Society
- THE OLYMPIAN WORKOUT: A Full Beginner’s Exercise Schedule Based on the Ancient Greek Tetras Routine – YouTube | AMO Pankration
- Thomas Harrison on Agariste of Sicyon and the contest for Greece – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
- Restoring the cat sanctuary at Largo Argentina in the heart of Ancient Rome – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
- In ricordo di Alessandro Della Seta. Giorno della Memoria 2022 – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Marek Jan Olbrycht, Jeffrey D. Lerner, Michal Podrazik, Macedones, Persia et Ultima Orientis: Alexander’s anabasis from the Danube to the Syr Darya. Anabasis, studia classica et orientalia, 9. Rzeszów: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Rzeszowskiego, 2018.
- BMCR – Emanuele Riccardo D’Amanti, Massimiano: Elegie. Mondadori: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla, 2020.
- BMCR – Jean Straus, L’esclave dans l’Égypte romaine: choix de documents traduits et commentés. Cahiers du CEDOPAL, 8. Liège: Presses Universitaires de Liège, 2020.
- Le trésor de didrachmes du Bosphore du village de Fontalovskaya (IGCH 1143) : salaire des mercenaires de l’époque des guerres mithridatiques | Spartokos a lu
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- British School at Athens: Annual Open Meeting in Athens
- University Assistant (post doc) at the Institute of Egyptology
- Department of Classics – Archaeology of “Race” in the Roman Empire | Queen’s Alumni
- Assistant Professor of Classics (Two 1-year positions) job with Grinnell College | 437632
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Top 10 novels inspired by Greek myths | Fiction | The Guardian
- Imagine Scythia’s fierce warrior women, the real Amazons | Aeon Essays
‘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 the outbreak of harmless 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)
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