Hodie est a.d. Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 13 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Researcher helps discover Saudi archaeological sites, petroglyphs
- Julius Caesar assassination coin is worth a mint | News | The Times
- A New Era For The Restitution Of The Parthenon Sculptures
- Amphipolis: Kasta Tomb to Open to the Public Under Pilot Plan in 2022 | GTP Headlines
- A group unearths the forgotten history of women in archaeology : NPR
- Holy Sepulcher Church pavement restoration allows first-time excavation – The Jerusalem Post
- Con un drone subacqueo alla ricerca di antiche navi affondate nelle acque della Sicilia e di tesori sommersi – Stile Arte
- Archaeologists find 9,000-year-old shrine in Jordan desert (Update)
In Case You Missed It
- ARCHEOLOGIA / La villa romana di Negrar di Valpolicella (VR) svela altri splendidi mosaici – Storie & Archeostorie
- Greek statue shows its true colours at the ROM – The Globe and Mail
- How Pompeii plans to move with the times | The Independent
- Roman mosaic found in Colchester allocated £50k funding | Gazette
- Turkiye denies return of inscription to Israel found in Jerusalem
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom event on the Aramaic incantation bowls
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jews or Judeans in the Book of Esther?
- To the Nymphs of the River: Two Poems from Moero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding populism through big data
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Enemies to Mankind
- Spartan Women Once Said… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Radiocarbon Dating of the Cologne Mani Codex | Variant Readings
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A digital corpus for Greco-Arabic studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Demotic Palaeographical Database Project
- Vercingetorix Throws Down His Arms At The Feet Of Julius Caesar, By Émile Lévy (c. 1826-1890) | The Historian’s Hut
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Yours Not to Reason Why
- Een klassieke moord – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: JQR 111.1 (2022)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dugan on Lied’s Invisible Manuscripts
- PaleoJudaica.com: Turkey denies there is a deal to return the Siloam Inscription.
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman shipwreck cargo recovered off Mallorca
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Pompeii freedman was deliberately mummified
- Obligatory Ides of March Post: Caesar Wanted to Go Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The First Recorded Strike in History – Papyrus Stories
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Sing, Muse of Science. Bijan Omrani Tours the Exhibition… | by Bijan Omrani | In Medias Res | Mar, 2022 | Medium
- The War that Made the West: Barry Strauss on the Battle of Actium
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Julius Caesar’s coinage prior to his assassination
- @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 1.9.1-12
Fresh Podcasts
March 15th 44BC is perhaps the most notorious date in all of ancient history. On that fateful day, the Ides of March, 55-year-old Roman dictator Gaius Julius Caesar was assassinated by a group of disaffected senators. In this episode – the first of our special Ides of March miniseries this month – Tristan from The Ancients (with a little help from Dr Emma Southon and Dr Steele Brand) untangles fact from fiction, truth from myth, to take you back to that very afternoon in the heart of Rome’s doomed republic.
The most famous assassination in Roman history took place during the Ides of March. Julius Caesar, dictator of Rome, was stabbed to death in Pompey’s Senate House by a group of conspirators. What exactly were these men hoping to accomplish? Caesar had been taking up too much air-time and was changing the nature of the Republic into something suspiciously close to monarchy. Well, you can’t have that! What are the other elite Roman men supposed to do if one man rules all? Since 44 BCE, this assassination has inspired and perhaps plagued many political theorists, filmmakers, playwrights, artists, politicians, and historians. Dr G and Dr Rad sat down to talk about a twenty-first century example of the reverberations of Caesar’s final moments across the centuries. The murder of Jon Snow in the season five finale of Game of Thrones was clearly modelled on the death of the Roman dictator.
Fresh Youtubery
- Historical Warfare : The Assyrian Siege Engine – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- 2022-02-23 Panel – Removing Collector Names from Museum Legacy Collections (SF State Global Museum) – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
- The Role and Lives of Women in Ancient Egypt – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- 0. Julius Caesar – Beware the Ides of March #Shorts – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Georgios Xenis, Scholia vetera in Sophoclis “Antigonam”. Sammlung griechischer und lateinischer Grammatiker, 20. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Emma Vanderpool, Robert Patrick, Augury is for the birds: Mārcus dē avibus discit. Encounter Latin. Wauconda: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2020.
- BMCR – Nathan T. Arrington, Athens at the margins: pottery and people in the early Mediterranean world. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Classics Presents… Dr. Pierre Bonnechere: “Whirling Greece. A neglected aspect of Greek thought and life.” | Events Calendar
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Iranian Jews bought tomb of Queen Esther and Mordechai, Israel’s National Library reveals
- Meet the genius who first calculated pi | The Gazette
- Noah and Odysseus: Exposed! » Mosaic
- The Ancient Stone Bridge That Spartan Soldiers Crossed And Still Stands To This Day (VIDEO) — Greek City Times
- The rise and fall of the Great Library of Alexandria | Live Science
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 hot weather and drought and a proliferation of mice and fish.
… 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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