Hodie est a.d. III Id. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- The extraordinary life of John Wesley Gilbert, the first Black archaeologist | University of California
- Misappropriating the Classics // The Observer
Public Facing Classics
- The Trojan War comes to Haslemere | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- The ancient problem of unscrupulous ‘doctors’ | The Spectator
- What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire
Fresh Bloggery
- Cold-Hearted Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Anger is Better than Indifference (for Lovers) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- The Flight of Icarus [Le Vol d’Icare] (1974) – Animated Antiquity
- Domitianus (33): Via Domitiana – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hobbyist recovers lost secret of Tyrian purple?
- Honouring Love: Festivals of the Goddess in Ancient Greece and Rome |
- Spencer Alley: Giovanni Bellini and Titian – The Feast of the Gods
- Archaeometric study confirms ancient Greeks used gypsum in white Attic vases – The Archaeology News Network
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- Why Should We Save the Classical Tradition? – Antigone
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- On Dressing Down Myth – Public Books
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- New research identifies Roman jars used as chamber pots – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Fresh Podcasts
We regularly receive emails for Jasper and Murray with suggestions for Ancient Warfare Answers. Greg asked ‘what have been the biggest developments or changes in the past 15-20 years in our understanding of ancient warfare?’ It is too good of a question for just Murray and Jasper, so in this episode of the Ancient Warfare Magazine podcast Greg’s question is put to the team.
With the collapse of the Bronze Age the Hittite Empire which had dominated Anatolian lands would vanish from the world stage. Its presence and legacy would only be rediscovered in our modern times showing the influence it once held. With its destruction the region of Anatolia would fragment into many small kingdoms and principalities looking to exert control in their immediate areas. With the passage of time, recovery would take hold seeing conditions arise for the establishment of another empire to spread its influence into Anatolia. Though, internal problems would see that outside pressure would lead to the decline of the Neo-Assyrians, thanks to the Medes and Babylonians. But they would not be the next great empire to emerge. The Persians would rise up out of obscurity and incorporate the Medes into their newly created empire, before then expanding to include much of Asia Minor…
Fresh Youtubery
- Trained Historian Reviews POMPEII (2014) – YouTube | Bitesized Ancient History
- Pre-Roman cities and religion between Etruria and Iberia – YouTube | British School at Rome
Book Reviews
- RCR – Elina Pyy, Women and War in Roman Epic, The Language of Classical Literature 33 (Leiden: Brill, 2020).
- BMCR – Caillan Davenport, Christopher Mallan, Emperors and political culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Vincent Azoulay, Paulin Ismard, Athènes 403: une histoire chorale. Au fil de l’histoire. Paris: Flammarion, 2020.
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Alia
- The Furies Enacted Revenge in Ancient Greek Mythology
- Who were the Scythians? | Live Science
- How did ancient civilizations regulate free speech? – Big Think
- Il mare in una stanza: il Mosaico dei Pesci dall’Acropoli di Populonia. – MediterraneoAntico
- Forsaking the material legacy of our forebears – The Jerusalem Post
- Antikythera Mechanism Designed by Archimedes, Say Experts
- In Focus: The Hamilton Aphrodite, ‘the finest ancient sculpture ever to have resided in Scotland’, and how it smashed its £3 million auction estimate – Country Life
- Poetic License – Archaeology Magazine
- How Agatha Christie’s Love of Archaeology Influenced ‘Death on the Nile’ | History | Smithsonian Magazine
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends good deliveries of babies for women.
… 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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