Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 11 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• U. S. Embassy announces the return of an ancient helmet along with a new program to protect Bulgarian antiquities – U.S. Embassy in Bulgaria
• Ancient burial place uncovered at Gaza construction site – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
• Is there new evidence of Jewish Temple treasures in the Vatican? – The Jerusalem Post
• The amazing 100-year-old travelogue of first ‘modern’ woman to walk Hadrian’s Wall – Chronicle Live
• A Ostia Antica scoperto rilievo Mitra in stucco – Lazio – ANSA.it
• The Times view on replicting the Elgin Marbles: Greek Gifts | Comment | The Times
• Robot ‘with human touch’ could carve replica Elgin Marbles | News | The Times
• The Greek Gods Are Coming Home – https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/02/14/the-greek-gods-are-coming-home/
• Illegal metal detecting at protected Roman fort – BBC News
• Illegal excavation | Turkish-backed factions continue to bulldoze archaeological sites and hills in Afrin • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
• Archaeology proves Jews are indigenous to the Land of Israel | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Virgil’s Aeneid grips teenage pupils with gods and monsters of mythology | News | The Times

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 13.02.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Ephemeris – BELLUMNE UCRAINUM ERIT?

Public Facing Classics

• One of Pompeii’s Greatest Mysteries May Have Been Solved

Fresh Bloggery

• Love Keeps the World Together: Get Philosophical About Valentine’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: PhD diss on Ancient Synagogue Coins
• PaleoJudaica.com: AJR reviews Schniedewind, The Finger of the Scribe
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Cedon
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Klimatisierung von drei Baukomplexen in Rom und Umgebung – Fakten und Thesen
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Götteramulette der Sammlung des Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, San Jose, Kalifornien, USA
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Sneaky Peekers in Secretive “Fen Diggers”
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: How to Participate and Observe in a Closed Access Metal Detecting Group
• Some ‘Platonic’ Epigrams for Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Egypt antiquities trafficking case resumes proceedings
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman mosaic found under street in Hvar
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Commercial Company Using Archaeological Records as a Quarry of Site Locations for Artefact Hunting
• Birkat haMinim – Mainzer Beobachter
• Domitianus (34): Het verre oosten – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lehmhaus (ed.), Defining Jewish Medicine (Harrassowitz, open access)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ran Zadok Festschrift (De Gruyter)
• New at DCC: Homer, Odyssey 9-12 | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Aristotle’s Defense for Going to That Superbowl Party – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Numbers: A new translation with commentary
• Life and the Great Game: Some Ancient Passages on Spectacles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ACADEMIC GENEALOGIES OF NEAR EASTERN SCHOLARS (AGNES) PROJECT
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: CREWS
• Poetry Now! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• F**k the SuperBowl – Aristotle vs. Socrates is the Match to Witness! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Venereal Disease? Try Venereal Death! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Mithras: mysterie en mythe – Mainzer Beobachter
• Autism and Classical Myth: Why Classical Myths can Chime with Autistic Experiences – public lecture this week
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lindstedt et al. (eds.), Religious Identities in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Brill)
• Carmen 22: We Are All Flawed — ConsultTheClassics

Other Blog-like Publications

• Ancient Cybersecurity III: From Greek Fire-signalling to WWI Code-crafting – Antigone
• Identifying the portable toilets of the ancient Roman world
• Archaeometric study of execution techniques of white Attic vases
• Helmet likely belonging to Philip of Macedon Returned to Bulgaria
• Yanartaş – The Fires of Mount Chimaera – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The Truth About Saint Valentine on Apple Podcasts

St. Valentine of Rome, patron saint of beekeepers and epilepsy, among many other things. But who exactly is the real St Valentine, and how has the story been kept alive? In this episode, Tristan is joined by historian and licensed tour guide Agnes Crawford as we piece together the complicated background of Saint Valentine. From the potential origins of Valentine’s day, its ancient association with love, and Agnes’ work in Rome, we explore the mysteries of St Valentine’s life.

• Spartan History Podcast: 031. A League of their own on Apple Podcasts

Likely by around 550 BCE, Sparta had the most powerful military in ancient Greece. They used that to their favour and created a coalition of Peloponnesian cities all bound to Sparta through unequal treaties of relative, mutual alliance. Called the, Lakedaimonians and their allies by ancient authors we know this union as the, Peloponnesian League. In the episode I get right into the nuts and bolts of how the early league formed and introduce a little of the background information for the individual polis as we go along.  Sparta used the 6th century to, whether by plan or providence, develop the Peloponnese into a fortress…

• The Ancient World: Episode C11 – The House of David on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: In the latter half of the 11th century BC, southern Syria witnessed the increasing prominence of semi-nomadic Semitic peoples – including the Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites and Israelites….

Fresh Youtubery

• Grammatica Latina per se illustrata || Adiectiva comparativa – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• Culina Latina: Coquamus Latine! Cum Heiner! – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Lupercalia – ANCIENT ROMAN VALENTINE’S DAY | Dig it With Raven – YouTube
• The WORST Kinks in Ancient History – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Siege of Tyre 332 BC – Alexander the Great DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• The Birth of Artemis and Apollo | Greek Mythology – YouTube | Mythology with Mike
• When Rome Left England – YouTube | Wondrium
• My Valentine ETRU. 14 febbraio 2022 – YouTube | Etruschannel
• Dialoghi in Curia | Tutelare per conoscere: questioni di metodo – YouTube | Parco Colosseo

Book Reviews

• Le monument d’Adamclissi – Tropaeum Traiani | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Gabriele Cifani, The origins of the Roman economy: from the Iron Age to the early Republic in a Mediterranean perspective. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Thomas Lappi, Hellenistische Wanddekorationen Syntax, Semantik und Chronologie des Ersten Stils im westlichen Mittelmeerraum. Archäologische Forschungen, 40. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• NMSU Theatre Department present MOJADA: A Medea in Los Angeles

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Highway to Science! Scientific Archeology in Turkey – DAİstanbul
• Archaeological Institute of America Spring 2022 Series Featuring Rebecca Ammerman | History
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Egypt’s Atlantis: the City of Heracleion | Egyptian Streets
• Discover a “Ship Graveyard” in the Black Sea With 2,500 Years of Vessels

‘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 a loss of children and an abundance of venomous reptiles.

… 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)