Hodie est pr. Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 29 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Next to Efrat, Arabs Destroy 2 Kilometers of Second Temple Era Aqueduct | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency | 29 Shevat 5782 – January 30, 2022 | JewishPress.com
- Pieces of cult statues removed from Claros
- ‘There is nothing more magical’: resurrected theatre brings ancient Greece to life | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Polish diplomat uncovers ruins of ancient Byzantine city in Turkey
- An incredible time machine: Canaanite citadel transports us to 12th century B.C.E. – Israel News – Haaretz.com
In Case You Missed It
- New threat facing Hadrian’s Wall as it marks 1,900 years | News and Star
- Rare Roman carving found in Buckinghamshire | The Past
Greek/Latin News
- Ephemeris – NOVUS (?) PRAESES
- Radiogiornale Latino 30.01.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- Ephemeris – DE AEROPLANO MERSO
Fresh Bloggery
- The (Ancient) Science of Snow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Cold in the Bones and Odyssean Plans – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Arnold Meijer Archives of Egyptian Art
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Objects for Eternity – Ancient Egyptian Art
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: CICERO: Studies on Roman Thought and Its Reception
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Keeping Away the Fever” in a Field
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Let’s Stop Whining
- Brokerless kingdom – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Interesting…. and Disturbing
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Romano Egyptian scarab
- What Did the Ancient Romans Use Latin For? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Hydreion and Memmius Monument in Ephesus | Turkish Archaeological News
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK’s PAS Archaeological Outreach
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The UK’s Public Lie Again and Again
- Domitianus (27): Germanië en Dacië – Mainzer Beobachter
- How To Recognize a Grouch – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Writing
- PaleoJudaica.com: Leipziger, Lesepraktiken im antiken Judentum (De Gruyter, open access)
- Demons! Corruption! Games! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Theriac not a cure for plague after all
- Der steinerne Schlüssel – Mainzer Beobachter
- Ancient Roman Serial Killers: Part I | Latin Language Blog
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ganzel, Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context (De Gruyter)
- Fish-Eaters, Meat-Eaters and Bread: Dehumanizing Structures in the Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Latin of Lawyers — ConsultTheClassics
Other Blog-like Publications
- Socrates on the Blessing of Being Refuted – Antigone
- Considerations on two recent down-datings of ancient Greek statues
- First results of a two-year excavation in ancient Messene
- €2,100,000 made available for works by the MOCAS in Kastoria
- Pompeii: Digging the details with Jasmine Khelil – Retrospect Journal
- Nestor – February 2022 issue available
- The Mysterious Lapis Niger Sanctuary Beneath Ancient Rome – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
If you’re searching for spoken Latin resources, you need to listen to some of these spoken Latin podcasts. This is a brief guide (in Latin) so you can choose where to start.
It’s here! Today is the publication date of Tristan’s first book, Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years. Focussing in on 323 – 320 BC, the book tells the story of the tumultuous events that seized Alexander the Great’s empire immediately after this titanic figure breathed his last in June 323 BC. Today, we’re giving you a taster of what you can expect. Sit back and relax as Tristan reads out an abridged chapter from the book (including a swift introduction). He tells the story of a Spartan mercenary captain called Thibron, who set forth from Crete with c.6,000 battle hardened mercenaries intend on forging his own Greco-Libyan empire in North Africa. Filled with several twists and turns the story is a symbol for the many fascinating events, and the larger than life cast, that dominate the immediate aftermath of Alexander’s death.
Synopsis: The fracturing and diminishment of Egyptian power in the early Iron Age is captured in “The Report of Wenamun.”
Fresh Youtubery
- Spoken Latin resources || A Latin guide to… spoken Latin podcasts! – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Une statue tombée du ciel Petits contes grecs – YouTube | Musée du Louvre
- ‘Where are the Names of the Persecutors?’ Dr Rebecca Usherwood – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- The Mystery of the Griffin: Did ancient people misidentify fossils? – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Why Latin doesn’t have a word for “THE” • Evolution of Grammatical Articles in Languages – YouTube | polyMATHY
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Philip Egetenmeier, Zwischen zwei Welten: Die Königsfreunde im Dialog zwischen Städten und Monarchen vom Jahr der Könige bis zum Frieden von Apameia (306-188 v. Chr.). Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 13. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.
- BMCR – Andrew Ramage, Nancy H. Ramage, R. Gül Gürtekin-Demir, Ordinary Lydians at home: the Lydian trenches of the House of Bronzes and Pactolus Cliff at Sardis. Archaeological exploration of Sardis report, 8. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Greg Fisher, Rome, Persia, and Arabia: shaping the Middle East from Pompey to Muhammad. London; New York: Routledge, 2019.
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Ancient Graffiti, Digital Humanities, and Collaborative Undergraduate Research, with Dr. Kyle Helms | Department of Classics
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
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‘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:
[there’s no January 31 in the calendar yet …]
… 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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