Hodie est pr. Id. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 11 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Using archaeological archives to rediscover Iran’s ‘Treasure Valley’
• Egypt antiquities trafficking case resumes proceedings | Foreign Brief
• U. S. Embassy announces the return of an ancient helmet along with a new program to protect Bulgarian antiquities – U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria
• Roman fort damaged by suspected illegal metal detecting
• Oxford University buys back first Euclid translation – 300 years after it was sold when librarians made a spare copy
• Archeologia, straordinaria scoperta: nella campagna dell’Oglio Po un cimitero del 500 d.C. – Foto 1 di 3 – La Provincia
• Turkey’s Troy Museum to be introduced in digital environment  | Daily Sabah

In Case You Missed It

• 1,500-year-old Roman ‘flower pot’ was actually a port-o-potty | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

• The fascinating ancient artefacts that show Wales’ LGBT+ history dates back thousands of years – Wales Online

Greek/Latin News

• Acropolis World News – Οὐκραίνα
• Ephemeris – MULIEBRE PRAEMIUM

Public Facing Classics

• What the mythical Cupid can teach us about the meaning of love and desire | BrandeisNOW

Fresh Bloggery

• Blog Post #48: Treading grapes and crushing olives: the production of wine and oil in the ancient Mediterranean with Dr. Emlyn Dodd – Peopling the Past
• One Love, Two Bodies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Philo Can’t Feel His Face (When He’s With You): On Sense and Minds – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Association for Metal Detecting Sport (AMDS)
• Sappho ❤️ Paulus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: There May Be Lego Ahead – Classical Studies Support
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ancient City and Nature’s Economy in Magna Graecia and Sicily
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transporttechniken im Alten Ägypten
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum “Collection Online” has Lost Some of its Functionality
• Het meisje van Vulci – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Cretan Idyll of Harriet Boyd and Charles Henry Hawes | From the Archivist’s Notebook
• Collections: Rome: Decline and Fall? Part III: Things – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Other Blog-like Publications

• Africans in Bronze Age Crete? – The “Captain of the Blacks” fresco from Knossos – Ancient World Magazine

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a coin of Lucius Clodius Macer

Fresh Podcasts

• Raising Standards: 2.01: Passover on Apple Podcasts

Caesar is dead and gets cremated, Niobe is dead and gets cremated, and the political machinations of Rome continue… Raising Standards, an occasional rewatch podcast of HBO’s Rome, hosted by Rhiannon Evans and Matt Smith of the Emperors of Rome podcast.

Fresh Youtubery

• Cleopatra, race, and the Civil War in the U.S. (warning: this video discusses racist views) – YouTube | Smarthistory
• Greek & Roman Knowledge of Ancient Africa – Lecture Dr Raoul McLaughlin – YouTube
• ODYSSEY BOOK 8: Demodocus Tells Us About Ares & Aphrodite’s Raging Affair – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• The Roman Relics Under The Firing Range | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube

Exhibition Related Things

• Ancient Greek Art | The Art Institute of Chicago

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• How Antinous Became a Gay Code Word in the Victorian Era | Mental Floss

‘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 many deaths and unseasonable winds.

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends abundance, but also political unrest.

… 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)