Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 15 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Monumental structure in Sicily isn’t a Phoenician harbor – it’s a huge sacred pool of Baal – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Russian Invasion Imperils Ukrainian Heritage | Discover Magazine
- Searching for treasures | Turkish-backed factions continue excavating archaeological hills in Afrin • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
In Case You Missed It
- Excavation unearths a 1,500-year-old mystery at a Roman site in rural Britain
- The Ancient Stone Bridge That Spartan Soldiers Crossed And Still Stands To This Day (VIDEO) — Greek City Times
- Amphipolis tomb to open to the public under pilot plan | eKathimerini.com
- A New A.I. Can Help Historians Decipher Damaged Ancient Greek Texts | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- In Pictures: A Remarkable Spanish Shipwreck Is Yielding New Insights Into How the Ancient Romans Lived | Artnet News
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- How does an ancient Greek cup challenge anti-Black racism? | Aeon Essays
- How John Bercow could have learned to control his temper | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- The Archaeology of Burning Man | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Second Fatherland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Against Leniency in the Treatment of Slaves
- The Life of St Piran – now online in English – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A free online lecture series called “Sacred Ink: Body Marking Through the Ages” is coming to HJS in April and May 2022
- And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Mediocre Course Evaluations… | Sphinx
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Deep learning-based OCR for Greek paleographic manuscripts
- Korinna’s Song: A Poetic Competition Between Mountains – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Loss of a Son and a Daughter – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Immodest quotation – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Recent Looting in Ukraine
- The Meta Sudans from the Arch of Titus – Roger Pearse
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Mausoleum, industrial silver mystery site found in Kent
- Het ontstaan van de Griekse cultuur – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Xerxes I and Ahasuerus
- PaleoJudaica.com: The (traditional) Tomb of Esther and Mordechai was bought by Iranian Jews in 1971.
- The Charioteer of Delphi in the Clutches of WW II | From the Archivist’s Notebook
- Israeli authorities recover ancient magical bowls and other artefacts from home of a Jerusalem resident – The Archaeology News Network
- 2021 investigations at the site of Agios Ioannis/Vretsia-Roudias completed – The Archaeology News Network
- Domitian: Misery of Absolutism and Splendor of Rome – Time Travel Rome
- The Sentence that Cost $3 Million | by Jen Ebbeler | Mar, 2022 | Medium
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Ancient Greek Coins of Paeonia
- First Ancient Theatre of Larissa – Larisa, Greece – Atlas Obscura
- A woman’s “Scent” in an Early Iron Age settlement outside Thessaloniki
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
The discovery of tattoos on an upper class woman from ancient Egypt has us asking, are these magical, medical, or a right of passage? But what about the tattooed criminals in ancient Greece? Maybe this tattoo thing goes different ways. The main thing is that people in the past looked more like modern Brooklynites than we realized.
Man, myth or legend… who was the real Saint Patrick? Did he really banish all the snakes from Ireland? Where does the shamrock tradition come from? And was he even Irish? In this episode, Tristan is joined by Professor Lisa Bitel of USC Dornsife to find out more about the true identity of the mysterious figure who became Patron Saint of Ireland and gave his hallowed name to St Paddy’s Day.
In our last episode, we told you the story of how the Spartans took over the city of Thebes and how an intrepid and very queer group of Theban rebels, led by a firebrand named Pelopidas, took it back while dressed as women. The Thebans had their city back. Now they had to figure out how to hold it against the Spartans, because the Spartans would strike back. Their solution was to form an elite 300-man fighting force to counter the dreaded Spartan hippeis—held together by the bonds of love.
Fresh Youtubery
- Hymn to Eos (Ancient Greek Goddess of the Dawn) – YouTube | Michael Levy
- The Hunt For King Herod’s Lost Tomb | Unearthed | Odyssey – YouTube
- Elizabeth Vandiver on the controversies and pitfalls of translating Herodotus – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Martin McNamara, Caoimnín Breatnach, John Carey, Joseph Flahive, Charles D. Wright, Apocrypha Hiberniae II, Apocalyptica 2. Corpus Christianorum. Series Apocryphorum, 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2019.
- BMCR – M. Dulaey, Augustin d’Hippone. Contre Fauste le manichéen, livres XIII-XXI. Bibliothèque augustinienne. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
- Review: It’s good to be king. It’s better to be Caesar. | America Magazine
- Julian Bell · So Much for Caligula: Caesarishness · LRB 24 March 2022
- The Greek myths are always with us | The Spectator
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Greek Naming in Egypt Conference to be held on the 29th – 30th of March
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- Did Women Fight as Gladiators in Ancient Rome? – HISTORY
- What Did The Ancient Greeks Think About Alien Life And The Universe’s Beginning? — Greek City Times
- Ancient Israel: History of the kingdoms and dynasties formed by ancient Jewish people – Verve times
- Word Search: Want to play an ancient board game from Mesopotamia? It’s possible! | Play – Gulf News
- Persian King Xerxes thought to be Biblical Ahasuerus – The Jerusalem Post
- COVID-19 and the Future of Archaeology – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Ancient Rome: From city to empire in 600 years | 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 something unexpected happening to the people, with disaster after disaster for both humans and quadrupeds..
… 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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