Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 17 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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Greek/Latin News

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• Online Open House | Herodotus, interpretation, and translation, with Emily Greenwood – The Kosmos Society
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Artefacts Project: An Encyclopaedia of Archaeological Small Finds
• Cicero at Magnesia – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Exploring ‘Dark Ages’: Archaeological Markers of Transition in the Near East from the Bronze Age to the Early Islamic Period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Artefacts, Encyclopédie en ligne des petits objets archéologiquescyclopédie en ligne des petits objets archéologiques.
• Mattia, Daughter of Mattios and Eutukhia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Easy Prey
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Cultural Sites of Ukraine
• Five stray canons of the Council of Hippo (393) – canons 4 and 5 – Roger Pearse
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• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Porta Maggiore underground basilica illuminated
• Collections: The Roman Dictatorship: How Did It Work? Did It Work? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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• The Good Fight
• Shakespeare’s Latin — ConsultTheClassics
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Power to Punish and Authority to Forgive: Imperial State and Imprisonment in 4th-Century Antioch | Society for Classical Studies
• An object within an object – how Mussolini used the stamp to appropriate Augustan art for his own nefarious means

Other Blog-like Publications

• With and Without Homer: Reframing Aegean Art – Smarthistory

Fresh Podcasts

• Myth Dynamite: Episode Five: Homeward Bound on Apple Podcasts

Ostensibly, this episode is about the Greek term nostos – a heroic return home – in celebration of our return to our metaphorical podcast home at MD (it’s cheesy but we’re sticking with it). In reality, you’ll be privy to Sarah and Abi catching up about their lives post-hiatus (don’t worry – we have in fact spoken in the interim…). When we do finally get around to talking about nostoi (the plural of nostos, for you grammar nerds), it starts obscure before we get to the typical mythological ‘returns’ … because we like to keep you on your toes. You’ll hear about Philoctetes’ smelly foot, Oedipus’ awkward family relations, Diomedes’ perfect nostos (of course Diomedes smashed it), and the Aeneid, the OG of ‘Home is where the heart is’.

• Life Of Caesar: High Praise on Apple Podcasts

This episode is brought to you by – legal weed! The Pisonian Conspiracy is over. Rewards are handed out to those who remained loyal. The Senate wants to make Nero a living god.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: A Most Sophoclean Prophecy, Women & Wordplay in Sophocles’ Trachiniae w/ Amy Pistone on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with returning guest Amy Pistone who specializing in Sophoclean tragedy. Amy shares some of the complexities hidden within the Trachiniae and they discuss Sophoclean prophecies (ie., the origin of Never Trust the Oracle).

Fresh Youtubery

• The Origins of the Antichrist – YouTube | Religion for Breakfast
• Dialoghi in Curia. “Giulio Cesare. Indagine sulle Idi di Marzo” di Marisa Ranieri Panetta – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• A Day at the Roman Colosseum (Teaser) #SHORTS – YouTube | Invicta
• Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
  • Talk: Transitions and Transformations: The Body and Disability in Ancient Egypt by Kyle Lewis Jordan – YouTube
  • Talk: Whose Egyptian Mummified Remains? Centering Egyptian communities by Heba Abd el Gawad – YouTube
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• The Lost Iron Age Capital Buried Under South Wales | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
• Aristotle’s Poetics – YouTube | Edith Hall

Book Reviews

• AJA – Societies in Transition in Early Greece: An Archaeological History By Alex R. Knodell. Berkeley: University of California Press 2021.
• AJA – Visualizing Votive Practice: Exploring Limestone and Terracotta Sculpture from Athienou-Malloura Through 3D Models By Derek B. Counts, Erin Walcek Averett, Kevin Garstki, and Michael K. Toumazou, with contributions by Clay M. Cofer and Katherine A. P. Iselin. Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota 2020.
• AJA – Athens, Etruria, and the Many Lives of Greek Figured Pottery By Sheramy D. Bundrick (Wisconsin Studies in Classics). Madison: University of Wisconsin Press 2019.
• BMCR – Georgios Vassiliades, La “res publica” et sa décadence: de Salluste à Tite-Live. Scripta antiqua, 142. Bordeaux: Ausonius éditions, 2021.
• Julian Bell · So Much for Caligula: Caesarishness · LRB 24 March 2022
• An overdue estimation of Decimus Burton, an architect of Classical class

Exhibition Related Things

• Exploring South Korea’s Greek Mythology Museum

Dramatic Receptions

• Review: HADESTOWN at Orpheum Theatre

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Conference, “Hermogenes and Hellenistic-Roman Temple Building in Greece and Asia Minor: Messon – Teos – Magnesia – Sardis” | Penn History of Art
• Webster Lecture: Who cooked Aristotle’s dinner? Women and the ancient (Greek) economy | Department of Classics
• 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

• Trent University LTA Ancient Greek and Roman Studies – The Classical Association of Canada

Alia

• Sanctions aren’t new, ask the Romans

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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:

[Saturday]  If it thunders today, it portends a dry and destructive summer.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, if portends humans behaving much better and enjoying prosperity at the same time.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 16 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• In Photos: Five ancient Egyptian tombs uncovered in Saqqara – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• An archaeological investigation analyses peas | EurekAlert!
• Siloam inscription shows the complexity of repatriation of antiquities – The Jerusalem Post

In Case You Missed It

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• Scientists are tantalizingly close to cracking any ancient texts wide open
• Huge artificial lake in Sicily is identified as an ancient sacred pool | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Dal Classics professor retells Star Wars saga as epic poem – Dal News – Elius-books
• St. Olaf professor unearths new solution to Pompeii mystery – St. Olaf College

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – NUNTIA AB UCRAINA

Public Facing Classics

• Lecturing on an empty stomach | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Professor Ray Laurence: Animation, History and University Research — Cognitive
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Comedy
• A Pause in the War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Gifts of Chicks and Shells: The Fragment of the Poet Hedyle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Five stray canons of the Council of Hippo (393) – canons 2 and 3 – Roger Pearse
• Laudator Temporis Acti: National Characters
• The Charaktêres site – Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions grecques et latines de la Syrie At Persée
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sociedada Braciliera de Estudios Clássicos: Publicações de 1984 a 1995
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine
• A Woman’s Party Invitation and a Girl’s Epitaph: Some Documentary Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Charaktêres: Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice Knowledge Hub
• The History Girls: Rutland Roman Villa – the story of a remarkable discovery. By Caroline K. Mackenzie.
• Een pseudocitaat van Seneca – Mainzer Beobachter
• Excavation unearths 1,500-year-old mystery at Roman site in rural Britain – The Archaeology News Network
• A Bilingual Edition of Peramás’s On the Guaraní Way of Life | CRSN

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Women Latinists Summer Course | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• A woman’s “Scent” in an Early Iron Age settlement outside Thessaloniki
• Catullus: Foul-mouthed Genius? – Antigone
• Five more ancient Egyptian tombs discovered in Saqqara.
• Rediscovering Rome’s Female Merchants – Atlas Obscura
• Archaeologists identify sacred pool aligned with the stars – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @AntiquityJ on that Phoenician pool at Motya
• @DocCrom on a coin of Commodus
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.14.1-12

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: When do ancient sources agree but you call foul? on Apple Podcasts

Murray is on his own this week and tackles this question sent in by Patron of the podcast Paul, ‘Name one event in Ancient Warfare where the majority of the sources are in agreement with an event happening, be it a battle or an event during a battle, etc. but you call foul – never happened – and vice versa.’

Fresh Youtubery

• Introducing Latin in Primary Schools – YouTube | Classics for All
• Talk: Transitions and Transformations: The Body and Disability in Ancient Egypt by Kyle Lewis Jordan – YouTube | Spurlock Museum of World Cultures
• ODYSSEY BOOK 16: Telemachus and Odysseus Reunite! – YouTube | Moan Inc.

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Andrew R. Dyck, Alan Cottrell, Angelo Poliziano, Miscellanies. The I Tatti Renaissance library, 89-90. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Annette von Stockhausen, Hanns Christof Brennecke, Uta Heil, Christian Müller, Lieferung 5. Bis zum Vorabend der Synode von Konstantinopel (381). Athanasius Werke, Band III/Teil 1 Urkunden zur Geschichte des Arianischen Streites 318-328. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• X’ntigone review: Contemporary spin on Greek tragedy loses its way

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CFP: Seneca 2022 International Conference | Society for Classical Studies
• Upcoming Lecture on Bees in Ancient Literature | The Louisiana Classicist
• 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

• Assistant Professor LTA Latin Literature and Roman Culture at University of Toronto – The Classical Association of Canada

Alia

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• Why Christianity Was Different from Other Religions in Ancient Rome
• Corfu, Homer’s Odyssey and Odysseus’ Petrified Ship
• The Common Ancient Greek And Celtic Origins Of St. Patrick’s Day — Greek City Times

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 heavy rains and disease, an outbreak of locusts, and infertility.

… 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)

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

• University of Western Australia: Latin literature expert invited to Princeton – India Education | Latest Education News | Global Educational News | Recent Educational News

Greek/Latin News

• Akrolopolis World News – Οὐκραίνα

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

• In Memoriam: Herbert Benario | Society for Classical Studies

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

• @MichaelDPress on Jerusalem Archaeology
• @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 1.2.1-8

Fresh Podcasts

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: Tattoo Who? Or, From Egypt with Ink on Apple 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.

• The Ancients: Saint Patrick on Apple Podcasts

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.

• Ancient History Fangirl: The Sacred Band of Thebes (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

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

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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)

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 14 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Jerusalem Archaeology Modernizes but Runs into Ancient Problems – Scientific American
• Egyptian Mummy Reunited with Intricate Nesting Coffins – Scientific American

In Case You Missed It

• See Dazzling Photos of a Roman Mosaic Floor Unearthed in London | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Gold coin marking assassination of Julius Caesar is set to fetch £1.5m at auction | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard hopes new Classics bursaries will help share excitement of subject | The Independent

Public Facing Classics

• The terrible logic of imperialism: Might makes right – Neos Kosmos

Fresh Bloggery

• The Return of the Palatine Medea – Medea Palatina
• Cicero on the “Unforgettable Ides of March” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Ancient and Modern Argos | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women’s Classical Committee: Classical Blogs and Sites by Women
• The Problem with the Ides of March: Not Enough Cicero, Not Enough MURDER – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Skimalization
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women Biblical Scholars
• Cicero, Always Chirping about the Ides of March – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Alexander’s Confidence With His Physician Philip, By Benjamin West (c. 1738-1820) | The Historian’s Hut
• Kiwi Hellenist: Pre-Dorian geography in the Iliad’s Catalogue of Ships
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: New ANS Deputy Director
• Skiënde Finnen – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther scrolls in the Israel National Library
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Mordechai
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther in Hebrew and Greek

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• CAC Greek and Latin Sight Translation Competitions – The Classical Association of Canada
• 2.2.22 The Shape of Water – Department of Classics – Trinity College Dublin

Other Blog-like Publications

• It Starts with Homer: Writing a Classics Curriculum – Antigone
• Botticelli’s Celebration of “Divine” Nudity | by Christopher P Jones | Mar, 2022 | Medium
• Beware the Ides of March. (But Why?) – JSTOR Daily

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on the Ides of March denarius
• @DocCrom on an interesting inscription of Gnaeus Julius Verus

Fresh Podcasts

• The Endless Knot: Potatoes for St. Patrick on Apple Podcasts

Happy Saint Patrick’s Day! In this episode we talk about the saint’s history, then dig into the potato — its etymology, its history, and how it’s changed the world. With some tangents about batteries, famines, and travel in the Roman world.

• Ad Navseam: Dr. Amphibolus, I Presume?: Erasmus as Translator of the Classics (Ad Navseam, Episode 77) on Apple Podcasts

This week we’re going toe-to-toe with the “Prince of the Humanists” himself, Desiderius Erasmus of Rotterdam. With the guidance of scholar and novelist (and all-around Erasmus junkie) Erika Rummel, we wander along with the great man on his itinerant life and eavesdrop on his irascible contrariness. Gape in wonder as Erasmus applies his philological fury to a 1,000-year overdue update of Jerome! Gasp as Erasmus and Luther trade rap-battle, Marvel super-villain insults! Scratch your head as Dave offers opinions on levitating swimming pools! That may just be some folly worth praising.

• New Books in History: Carolina López-Ruiz, “Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean” (Harvard UP, 2021) on Apple Podcasts

Long before Herodotus told the story of the Greeks, the ancient Mediterranean teemed with what the Greeks themselves would recognize as hallmarks of civilization: trade and commerce, cities and colonies, luxury goods and craftsmanship, cults and votives, inscriptions and their prerequisite, written language. Behind this vast network, stretching as it did across hundreds of miles and years, were a group of canny Levantine urbanites, the Phoenicians. But, due to a dearth of surviving literature and, more directly, western investment in the charmed “miracle” of Greek civilization, this is a story few of us know. In an incisive study that ranges over as many miles and centuries as the Phoenicians themselves, Carolina López-Ruiz corrects the record. The Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean (Harvard University Press, 2021) puts the Phoenicians back into the spotlight where they belong. We see them as merchants and artisans who shaped—and were shaped by—the interconnected world of the Iron Age Mediterranean. It is an index of this study’s strength that López-Ruiz manages both to assert their agency in stitching together this Levantine “koine” and capture the unique contours of this hybridity everywhere it appeared—from Iberia to Sicily, Etruria to Assyria. The Phoenicians is thus not merely the history of a particularly industrious group of seafarers. It is also a glimpse into colonization and coexistence, indigenous response and adaptation, cultural innovation, and the foundations of a shared past…

• Raising Standards: Lorcan Cranitch interview on Apple Podcasts

In this interview we speak to Lorcan Cranitch, who portrayed crime boss of the Aventine Erastes Fulmen. Lorcan has had a long acting career both on and off the screen, he had a long run on The Bill and more recently the BBC series Bloodlands, There’s a slight spoiler warning for season 2 episode 2 of Rome, but otherwise enjoy.

Fresh Youtubery

• How to say YES & NO in Latin – YouTube | polyMATHY
• ODYSSEY BOOK 15: Eumaeus Tells Us His Entire Life Story – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• The Greeks – A Global History – YouTube | British School at Athens
• “Sounds Like Being Autistic” Why Classical Myth can Chime with Autistic Experience – YouTube | Manchester Classics Association
• Pre-Dorian geography in the Iliad’s Catalogue of Ships – YouTube | Kiwi Hellenist

Book Reviews

• Borysthenika II | Spartokos a lu

Exhibition Related Things

• Egypt’s Academy of Arts in Rome to host ‘Cleopatra between Egypt & Italy’ exhibition – EgyptToday

Dramatic Receptions

• Dreams and classics come alive in ‘Nighttown’ – Harvard Gazette

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CAAS 2022: CFP Deadline Extended! | Society for Classical Studies
• (Im)Migrants and Democracies: Ancient and Modern
• Classics and Archaeology research seminar – Fifth-century Athens – The University of Nottingham
• 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

• Position open at Southeastern | The Louisiana Classicist

Alia

• 200 years of understanding ancient Egypt —­­ II – Opinion – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• The Library Of Alexandria: Alexander The Great’s Gift To Mankind — Greek City Times
• The Pantheon: still the world’s largest reinforced concrete dome | E&T Magazine
• Nashville Parthenon: Why a Greek temple replica is in TN
• The Fascinating History Behind Pi Day — Greek City Times
• Look To Ancient Greece To Fix Our Future, Says Eric Weiner

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 a healthy year but with a shortage of necessities.

… 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)

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

• History’s grasp on women’s bodies | Critical Conversations | dailyuw.com

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – BELLI CONSEQUENTIA

Public Facing Classics

• The museum online | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

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

• Blog: Sampling Epic in Kendrick Lamar’s “Mortal Man” | Society for Classical Studies

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

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: The Assassination of Julius Caesar: Explained on Apple 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 Partial Historians: Mini Episode – Beware the Ides of Jon Snow… on Apple Podcasts

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

• Ancient statue from 4th century BCE on display for first time – The Jerusalem Post

Dramatic Receptions

• The Legacy of Aeschylus – The Badger

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

• The British School at Athens proposes to appoint two Non-Stipendiary

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

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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)