Hodie est a.d. pr. Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 12 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Israel archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old handprints in ancient Roman cistern-Xinhua
- Ecco le nuove scoperte al Parco Archeologico di Marsala. E torna la statua di Venere
- Unexpected archaeological discoveries in Halkidiki | eKathimerini.com
- Ancient Greek Town Unearthed Near Grevena, Northern Greece
- Archaeologists carve special drainage to shield royal bas-relief in Persepolis – Tehran Times
- Security forces in eastern Libya arrest antiquities smugglers | The Libya Observer
- New look for central Athens with museum makeover | eKathimerini.com
- Turkey denies return of inscription to Israel after Herzog visit | Daily Sabah
- I segreti di Falerii Novi possono tornare alla luce con una campagna di scavo
- Roman mosaic found in Colchester allocated £50k funding | Gazette
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 13.03.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- Akropolis World News – Οὐκραίνα
- Ephemeris – DE RETIS LEGIBUS MUTATIS
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Tabernacle, the priesthood, and the cloud problem
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tübingen University’s ancient Jewish coins online
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Professor of Profligacy
- The Tomb of Hygeia, Untouched by Marriage and Offspring – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ArchaeoSitarProject
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Digital Coin Cabinet of the Institute of Classical Archaeology
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A 2015 Cut and Paste on the Leutwitz Apollo
- Does the Bible Really Say You Should Beat Your Children? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- De Bergrede (18): De gulden regel – Mainzer Beobachter
- “If it is a girl…”: A Letter about Child Exposure – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Fischer-Bovet & von Reden, Comparing the Ptolemaic and Seleucid empires
- PaleoJudaica.com: Leviathan in the Bible and the ANE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Vom Himmel Hoch
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Decorative Principles in Late Republican and Early Imperial Italy
- “Greetings to My Sister”: A Letter Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A Gift For Polydektes: Digital Numismatics roundtable next week at FLAME conference
- The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- De veldslagenatlas van Johannes Kromayer – Mainzer Beobachter
- Classics at the Intersections: Note on the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair
- Communicating Antiquity or How to Design Some Ancient Stuff for Elden Ring Lore | Anchors Aweigh
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Large Amphora Production Site Discovered in the Vicinity of Pergamon – Pergamon Micro-Region
- 49th Annual PPA North American Meeting- hybrid – Human Bioarchaeology
- Travelling Scholarship by the Ernst-Kirsten-Gesellschaft – DAİstanbul
Other Blog-like Publications
- Cultural Landmark for sale: the Classical Treasures of Rome’s Casino dell’Aurora – Antigone
- Archaeology Nation, and Race, Confronting the Past, Decolonizing
- Ancient Egypt in its African Context Economic Networks
- The Achaemenid Rulers: Dogmatic or Pragmatic? – Retrospect Journal
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @SarahEBond on a Greek panel painting from near Sicyon
- @OptimoPrincipi on a denarious of Marcus Sergius Silus
Fresh Podcasts
After the losses at Trebia and Trasimene, the strategies of Fabius Maximus Cuncutator (“the Delayer”) manages to give the Republic some valuable breathing room. Despite Fabius’ best efforts, Hannibal manages to deliver Rome its most devastating defeat on the plains of Cannae in 216. Meanwhile, Marcus Claudius Marcellus leads a campaign in Sicily against the once-loyal city of Syracuse, contending with war machines devised by the likes of Archimedes in one of the great sieges of antiquity.
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Marcus Junius Brutus is best known as one of the conspirators against Julius Caesar, but there’s so much more to his complex story. In today’s episode, we continue our mini-series, all about the events of March 15th 44BC. Tristan is joined by Dr. Steele Brand to talk through the rise and downfall of Caesar’s most notorious assassin; Marcus Brutus.
By the middle of the 6th century, Sparta was, through her alliances, the most powerful military force Hellas had yet seen. There was just one thorn in their side, one pressing issue that hadn’t been sufficiently resolved, Argos. This time around I’ll take an expansive look at the Argive history and break down the enmity between the two cities. Predictably, and it should come as no surprise, it will take war to settle the disputes. Such power and prestige as they could now muster, the Spartans were being noticed on the world stage. King Croesus of Lydia to the west is desperate for aid against the encroaching Persians. He turns to Sparta, as the most powerful of the Greeks. We’ll pick apart the story of Croesus and how it relates to Sparta. Lastly the focus will be turned to the little known Spartan invasion of Samos in 525 BCE to oust the tyrant Polycrates. Using modern historical analysis, and the ancient source material, I hope to portray the implications of such an undertaking and the possibility of long standing Xenia relationships between Spartan and Samian families.
Fresh Youtubery
- Why were Ancient Roman & Chinese Empires so Successful? – YouTube | Epimetheus
- Lingua Latina || Quot filiae sunt in familia mea? – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Naval Gladiator Battles – What Were they Like? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- The Ancient Roman Treasures Buried In Brancaster | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
- Invocation to Elpis (Ancient Greek Goddess of Hope) – YouTube | Michael Levy
- How Alexander Became the Pharaoh – Ancient History DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Fossils in the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
Book Reviews
- V.V. Ruban. Le destin de l’archéologue | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – David Braund, Vladimir Stolba, Ulrike Peter, Environment and habitation around the ancient Black Sea. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Daniel Jolowicz, Latin poetry in the ancient Greek novels. Oxford classical monographs. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- Luca Arcari, Vedere Dio: le apocalissi giudaiche e protocristiane (IV sec. a.C.-II sec. d.C.). Frecce, 291. Roma: Carocci Editore, 2020.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Art Break: Getting to Know the Makers of an Ancient Greek Drinking Cup | Getty360 Calendar
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Modern-day wisdom from the Ancient World | NBR
- Losing Touch With Thucydides – The American Conservative
- The ancient Greek tragedy that inspired Hole’s name
- The Atlantis of Egypt: Meet The Lost City of Heracleion
- The Greek Roots of the Names of Cities in Ukraine
- Ancient Antiquarians – Archaeology Magazine
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 prosperity, but death for humans and the birth 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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