Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 7 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Erbil’s ancient irrigation system
- Ancient art and genetics combine to reveal origin of world’s most expensive spice
In Case You Missed It
- Large Roman Villa Site in England Surveyed – Archaeology Magazine
- American tourist stumbles upon intact Early Bronze Age pottery jug in Judean Desert | The Times of Israel
- Roman boat that sank in Mediterranean 1,700 years ago gives up its treasures | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Jordan: Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old hunting complex | News | DW | 23.02.2022
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Like a Grotesquely-Shaped Balloon
- Introductions and Conclusions in an Age of Revision | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Bearers of Business Letters in Roman Egypt
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative new framework temporary test site
- A Woman’s Prudence? Letting her Body Serve the Needs of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Report with assessment and recommendations concerning objects impounded at Martin Schøyen’s residence August 24, 2021
- Diodorus Siculus’ Explanation For Monsters In Ancient Stories | The Historian’s Hut
- The Satyr And The Peasants, By David Ryckaert III (c. 1612-1661) | The Historian’s Hut
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Antiquities Impounded at Martin Schøyen’s Residence in 2021: Report
- PaleoJudaica.com: “Feminine Power” at the British Museum
- PaleoJudaica.com: AJR on Lied, Invisible Manuscripts (of 2 Baruch)
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukrainians in race to save cultural heritage
- Classics at the Intersections: Translating and Retranslating
- A memorial for a tough woman – MAPPOLA
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Joy of a Humorless Stoic – Publius Rutilius Rufus – Antigone
- Ancient magical bowls uncovered in the home of a Jerusalem resident
- Fournoi 2021: results of the underwater archaeological research
- ‘Magic’ bowls among trove of ancient artefacts seized in raid – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
This week the guys welcome back to the studio esteemed friend and mentor Dr. Ken Bratt. You may remember him from such episodes as “From there We Travelled to Philippi” (AN46). An expert in material culture, Ken leads us on an historical and archaeological tour of the catacombs around Rome. We stop off at San Callisto, San Sebastian, and touch on a few of the lesser-known spots as we learn of pagan, Jewish, and Christian burial. Did Christians really worship in these catacombs with Judah Ben Hur, or is that simply more Hollywood folderol? What about the adaptation of pagan art forms for Christian burials, mastedons and mammoths, and the veracity of relics? Along the way we learn how St. Sebastian, though perforated like a pincushion, headed back to rebuke Diocletian (Die Hardest?). And your intestinal fortitude will be tested once again by one’s of Dave’s most egregious puns.
Fresh Youtubery
- The Chaotic Life of Catullus As Told By Daisy Dunn in CATULLUS’ BEDSPREAD – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Iowa Classics Colloquium: Kyle Harper [2.23.2022] – YouTube | UIowa Department of Classics
- Incantation to Eirene (Ancient Greek Goddess of Peace) – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Storytelling, Philosophy, & Reception Ep 11.Elton Barker.Swift-Footed Achilles.Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube | Bettina Joy de Guzman
- British School at Athens
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Justin A. Haynes, The medieval classic: twelfth-century Latin epic and the Virgilian commentary tradition. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Filip Doroszewski, Katarzyna Jażdżewska, Nonnus of Panopolis in context III: old questions and new perspectives. Mnemosyne supplements, 438. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
- BMCR – Valentina Prosperi, Federica Ciccolella, La fortuna di Omero nel Rinascimento tra Bisanzio e l’Occidente. Hellenica, 84. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
- Rome’s new museum dedicated to cooking – BBC Travel
- The Grimanis of Venice Share Their Treasures Again – The New York Times
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Society for Classical Studies
- Epigraphic Texts and Archaeological Contexts in the Graeco-Roman World
- Lecture Announcement: URBAN COMPLEXITY AND HUMAN-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTIONS IN BRONZE AGE TO HELLENISTIC ANATOLIA – DAİstanbul
- Home to an original and distinctive form of Hellenism
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Diversions
‘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 destruction of human beings and an outbreak of wild beasts.
… 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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