Hodie est pr. Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Incredibile in Campania: reperti antichi nascosti in un’officina – IL VIDEO – il Fatto Vesuviano
- How the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network Might Curtail Antiquity Theft
- Bust From the Met Museum, Said to Be Looted, Is Returned to Libya – The New York Times
- Skeleton of Roman mercenary and medieval remains found buried in Wales – Wales Online
- Qatari sheikh loses legal fight against Swiss antique dealer after paying £4M for ‘fake’ statues | Daily Mail Online
- Cremation urn found during excavation work at site of ancient Roman town | St Albans City and District Council
- New excavation robot shapes future of archaeology – Leiden University
- Area confiscata consegnata al Parco Archeologico di Pompei – Campania – ANSA.it
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- Israel to move prison sitting atop earliest mosaic dedicated to Jesus – The Jerusalem Post
- 6th century BCE Jerusalemite oenophiles had a taste for exotic vanilla-spice wine | The Times of Israel
- Fascinating details discovered about Ancient Roman artefacts found in Stoke Mandeville | Bucks Herald
- Bedfordshire A428 dig: Evidence of Roman beer production found – BBC News
Classicists and Classics in the News
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Public Facing Classics
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- Could today’s Hollywood stars have made it in ancient Greece? | The Spectator Australia
Fresh Bloggery
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- Something To Make This Place a Home: Reading Greek Tragedy Online, LIVE – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #55: Let’s “Play”: The Reception of Greek Drama in Caesar III [1998] and Zeus: Master of Olympus [2000] with Joshua A Streeter – Peopling the Past
- Bakken Babylon: Stegner, Barger, and Junger | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Histria, guide illustré
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Colin Flogging off Roman Coins by the Bucketload
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Athens University Review of Archaeology (AURA) Supplements
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- Sulpicia’s Song, At Last – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alexander Encounters Thalestris, Queen of the Amazons, By An Unknown 17th Century Artist From Flanders | The Historian’s Hut
- Tacitus | The Historian’s Hut
- De verstaanbaarheid van het oudste Grieks – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: McKnight on the Pharisees and Evangelical Preaching
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- Spencer Alley: Dosso Dossi and Prospero Fontana
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- The terracotta army: the clay army with the Greek signature
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- @DocCrom on Pliny, Panegyricus 2.1-4
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Fresh Podcasts
Man’s best friend has been at our side for thousands of years. Ancient Greece was no exception, and although some of the types of dog that were popular back then might seem unfamiliar to us today, tales of their loyalty, dependability and downright cuteness certainly are not. From dog names, to their function in Greek religion, to their usefulness–including their possible deployment on the battlefield–what do we know about dogs in Ancient Greece? In this episode Tristan is joined by Dr Owen Rees of Manchester Metropolitan University to find out just that.
In the year 66, Nero gets taken on a wild goose chase, performs some lovely poetry and harp concerts… oh yeah, and he kicks his wife to death.
Fresh Youtubery
- Spring Seminar Series 2022: Dr Ioannis Mitsios (University of Athens) Boreads and Oreithyia or not? – YouTube | ClassicsUnivRdg
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Daniela Dueck, Illiterate geography in classical Athens and Rome. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon: Routledge, 2020.
- BMCR – J. L. Lightfoot, Pseudo-Manetho. “Apotelesmatica”, books two, three, and six. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Michael Zerjadtke, Der ethnographische Topos in der Alten Geschichte: Annäherungen an ein omnipräsentes Phänomen. Hamburger Studien zu Gesellschaften und Kulturen der Vormoderne, 10. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
- Up From Actium: Here’s the Book for Biden, Putin, and Zelensky To Read — And What a Story
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- The Penn Public Lectures on Classical Antiquity and the Contemporary World | Society for Classical Studies
- CFP: Annual Meeting for Postgraduates in the Reception of the Ancient World (AMPRAW) | Society for Classical Studies
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Alia
- The Greeks were right about wine: it is the definition of civilisation – New Statesman
- The cat’s whiskers: an important sculpture from Ancient Egypt | Christie’s
- The Ancient Greeks And Breast Cancer — Greek City Times
- Hermes of Praxiteles Statue Remains a Timeless Symbol of Hellenism
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[no entry for today]
… 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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