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

• Prof. Levin-Richardson’s research on prostitution featured online | Department of Classics | University of Washington

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

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 069: The Second Punic War – Hannibal at the Gates on Apple 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.

• Satura Lanx: Lingua Latina || Quot filiae sunt in familia mea? on Apple Podcasts

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• The Ancients: The Rise and Fall of Brutus on Apple Podcasts

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.

• Spartan History Podcast: 032. Sparta : Embassies and Enemies on Apple Podcasts

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.

• Ancient History Fangirl: RE-RELEASE: Boudicca Part 1: The Seeds of Rebellion on Apple Podcasts

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

• 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 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)

Hodie est a.d. Iv Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Αρχαιολογία: Μια άγνωστη πόλη αποκαλύπτεται βόρεια των Γρεβενών  – CNN.gr
• M5 archaeological find takes Gloucestershire’s past into the unknown – Gloucestershire Live
• Roman villa uncovered on Priors Hall estate wins prestigious archaeology award | Northamptonshire Telegraph
• Oman discovers fort dating back to the 5th century | Oman – Gulf News

In Case You Missed It

• Missing Ancient Greek Inscriptions Solved by Artificial Intelligence
• “Once-in-a-lifetime” Roman mosaics found in South London – Big Think
• Underwater archaeologists excavate Byzantine shipwreck near Samos – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Pompeii moves with the times | eKathimerini.com
• Ankara agrees to return ancient Hebrew inscription to Israel – report | Ahval
• Roman mosaics in storage could be brought into public | Gazette

Classicists and Classics in the News

• The Bookseller – Rights – Walker goes into battle for historian Tom Holland’s retelling of Herodotus
• Wonder wall
• Obituaries: Stuart Mitchell, Classicist, musician and book lover ​​​​​​​ | The Scotsman

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – NOVUS IMPETUS

Public Facing Classics

• Demi Lovato’s Egyptian artifacts Instagram is a lose-lose

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Origin of the City
• Blog Post #52: Tine Rassalle and Archaeogaming – Peopling the Past
• How A Woman Should Dress (And Sacrifice) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Good Old Days
• De papyri van Herculaneum – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Birds and fruit mosaics found at villa near Verona
• Exploring Ancient Greek Music
• “Feminine Fame”: Homer on Why We Disbelieve Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Catullus’s Imaginary Woes — ConsultTheClassics

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Reflections on the First Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities Panel during the 2022 SCS Annual Meeting | Society for Classical Studies
• CAC Desmond Conacher Scholarship 2022 – The Classical Association of Canada
• CAC Mosaic Scholarship 2022 – The Classical Association of Canada

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @OptimoPrincipi on the Augusteum of Narona

Fresh Youtubery

• Modern Odysseys: A Panel Discussion – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Rodney Ast – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Heroes Of The Iliad Edition: Hot Or Not? (FEAT. COSI’S ODYSSEY) – YouTube | Moan Inck
• Drama as Cult, or the Mysteries of the Bacchae – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• Tragedy up Close: Chorus and Character in Euripides’ Bacchae. Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• Nature and the Divine in Euripides’ Bacchae – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• The Historical Context of Euripides’ Bacchae – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube
• Euripides’ Bacchae – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube
• Dionysus’ Face and Pentheus’ Dress – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2022 – YouTube
• The Noisy Roads of Ancient Rome! – YouTube | Archaeosoup
• Arminius and the Battle of Teutoborg Forest (“Genius of Love” by Tom Tom Club) – YouTube
• An Introduction to the Ancient Roman Religion and Mythology – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Gender in Ancient Mesopotamia, with Eli Tadmor! – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Sophie Aubert-Baillot, Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cicéron. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine, 12. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
• BMCR – Amy Russell, Monica Hellström, The social dynamics of Roman imperial imagery. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Gweltaz Guyomarc’h, Laurent Lavaud, Alexandre d’Aphrodise: Commentaire à la Métaphysique d’Aristote. Bibliothèque des textes philosophiques. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2021

Dramatic Receptions

• Modern take on Greek tragedy combines heartbreak and passion
• ‘Ariadne auf Naxos’ Presents Greek Myth of Betrayal and Love

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 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

• Teaching Fellow in Ancient History job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 285552
• Visiting Assistant Professor (or Instructor) of Classics – one semester – Loyola University Maryland

Alia

• League of Corinth: The First Time All Greek People United Together
• How the Gilded Age launched America’s architectural Renaissance – CSMonitor.com
• Pi day: a brief history of our fascination with this magical… | MENAFN.COM
• Julius Caesar in Modern and Contemporary Literature | Book Riot
• The Last Words of King Croesus

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 powerful man in politics or a general is endangered and on his behalf battles will be waged and wild beasts will attack humans.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends abundance, but wild beasts will perish, fish will increase, and reptiles will invade homes, but won’t be harmful.

… 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. V Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 9 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Egyptian antiquities at risk in Ukraine – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
• Egyptian delegation, US authorities discuss in Washington ways to recover smuggled antiquities – EgyptToday
• Israel archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old handprints in ancient Roman cistern-Xinhua
• Federal Labor calls on the British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece – Greek Herald
• Pozzuoli, dai lavori spunta un tratto inedito della via Domitiana – Il Mattino.it
• Nuovi mosaici romani riemergono in provincia di Verona poco dopo la ripresa degli scavi – Stile Arte
• Israeli official: Turkey agrees to return ancient Hebrew inscription to Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
• Pompeii Moves With the Times – The New York Times

In Case You Missed It

• Demi Lovato’s Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Draw Suspicion – The Hollywood Reporter
• Artificial Intelligence Resurrects Ancient Greek Texts
• Ship graffiti reveals İzmir significant port city in history
• Incantation bowls covered with ‘magic’ spells recovered by police in Jerusalem | Live Science
• Unanimous approval for the relocation of antiquities | eKathimerini.com
• Saffron Crocus was First Domesticated in Ancient Greece | Sci-News.com
• Ancient Roman farms discovered on Swindon’s Southern Connector Road build | This Is Wiltshire

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Collinsville High’s Latin Club brings home record number of state awards
• OPINION: We must keep the classics alive – The Student Life

Public Facing Classics

• What Tacitus knew about tyrants | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Introspection and Perception: Ptolemais of Cyrene – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• New Book Day: Epoiesen 5 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Look Who’s Here! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The origins of Ash Wednesday – Roger Pearse
• Food and drink | Part 3: Disastrous dining – The Kosmos Society
• The First Hexameter Song and the Fragments of Boio – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Games
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeozoology of Southwest Asia and Adjacent Areas XIII: Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, June 7–10, 2017
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tacitus und Rom: Die urbs Roma als Raum der erzählten Welt in den Historien und Annalen
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ithaka: Restoring and attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks
• Oude inscripties, nieuwe technieken – Mainzer Beobachter
• Column of the Goths | Turkish Archaeological News
• Blogging ancient epigram: Three inscribed epigrams from Attica
• PaleoJudaica.com: Where, if anywhere, was Tarshish?
• Only You Rule Me: Melinno’s (Greek) Hymn to Roma – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Who killed Goliath?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Is Turkey returning the Siloam Inscription to Israel?

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Ithaca: Restoring and attributing Greek inscriptions using Artificial Intelligence | Society for Classical Studies
• International Women’s Day 2022 in Reading Classics | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• Pasts Imperfect (3.10.22)
• ANE TODAY – 202203 -Did Kings Meet Each Other Face-to-Face During the Late Bronze Age? – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Does the Ancient World Still Define How We Think About Women? | History Hit
• Military diploma dating back 2,000 years discovered in Turkey | The Past
• The Cyprian Plague – Biblical Archaeology Society

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on the Cirencester SATOR square
• @anniecburman on  digital collections of epigraphic squeezes
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Met. 8.195-206

Fresh Podcasts

• The Mariner’s Mirror Podcast: Great Sea Fights 9: The Egadi Islands 241 BC on Apple Podcasts

The battle of the Egadi Islands – or the Aegates – is one of the most significant naval battles of the ancient world. On 10 March 241 BC the mighty naval powers of Rome and Carthage met off the coast of Sicily. The Carthaginian fleet was ambushed by the Romans in a well-planned and brilliantly executed trap leading to a decisive Roman victory. This was the battle that ended the mighty First Punic War which had dominated both Roman and Carthaginian history for two generations; it marked a turning point in the histories of both empires; it was the moment that marked Rome as having the potential to be far more than a local power in the Mediterranean; and it is the ONLY naval battle that archaeologists have managed to identify. The finds raised from the seabed across this enormous battle site are unique and astonishing. To find out more Dr Sam Willis speaks with Peter Campbell, an archaeologist who has been involved in the project to survey and excavate the battle site for many years.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 48: Anatolia, Conflicts Continue on Apple Podcasts

The Ionian Greeks along with their allies from Athens and Eretria had entered and burn Sardis, though they failed to take the Acropolis. They withdrew back to the coast where the Persian would catch up to them and fight the battle of Ephesus. The Greeks would be defeated with the survivors making for their cities, the Athenians and Eritreans sailing home to take no more part in the revolt….

• History Hack: The Varangian Guard – https://historyhack.podbean.com/e/history-hack-the-varangian-guard/

James Holloway joins us to talk about the history, myth and reality behind this legendary Byzantine unit

Fresh Youtubery

• Dani Bostick, “What Can Ancient Literature Teach Us About Coping with Trauma?” Paideia Lectures 2022 – YouTube | Paideia Media
• ODYSSEY BOOK 14: Odysseus Tells The Longest Lie Of A Story That Has Ever Been Written Down – YouTube | Moan Inc.

Book Reviews

• Wonders and warnings from the ancient world | Daisy Dunn | The Critic Magazine
• RCR – Liv Albert, Greek Mythology: The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook (New York: Adams Media, 2021).
• Review: Roosevelt Montás’s “Rescuing Socrates” | Merion West

Dramatic Receptions

• Antigone to be performed outdoors in Saugerties, by Nathan Weiser – Red Hook Star-Revue
• Review: Bradley’s ‘Antigone’ production reflects on the question of right and wrong – The Bradley Scout

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 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

• Editorial Manager, Antiquity Journal job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 285436
• Visiting Part-Time Faculty Position in Classics job with College of the Holy Cross | 459244
• Lecturer in Classical Languages and Literature at The University of Edinburgh

Alia

• Is the Bible’s story of the Jewish exodus from Egypt accurate? – The Jerusalem Post
• Debunked: Bronze Age Britons did not use gold pieces as currency – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• What realists get wrong about Putin – New Statesman

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 rain and the appearance of locusts.

… 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. VI Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 8 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Thousands of priceless artefacts seized in police operation across 28 countries | Interpol | The Guardian
• AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers | Language | The Guardian
• Ancient Roman farms discovered on Swindon’s Southern Connector Road build | This Is Wiltshire
• Labor fights for return of Parthenon Marbles – Neos Kosmos
• 2,500-year-old ship graffiti sails back to Turkey’s Izmir history | Daily Sabah
• Egyptian antiquities at risk in Ukraine – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
• Roman cremation burial site uncovered in Broadstairs front garden – The Isle Of Thanet News

In Case You Missed It

• Haunting Images Show 1,500 Year Old Shipwreck From Ancient Byzantine Dynasty
• Roman boat that sank in Mediterranean 1,700 years ago gives up its treasures | Archaeology | The Guardian
• Biblical archeology: US tourist discovers ancient jug in Judean Desert – The Jerusalem Post
• Archaeologists Uncover Largest Trove of Mummification Materials in Egypt

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Ramadan B. Hussein has passed away.
• Walter Kaegi, noted scholar of Byzantine and Roman Empires, 1937-2022 | University of Chicago News

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – NEC NOSOCOMIO PARCITUR

Public Facing Classics

• Demi Lovato Called Out By Art Experts After Unboxing Supposed Egyptian Antiquities On Social Media | ETCanada.com
• Demi Lovato’s Ancient Egyptian Artifacts Draw Suspicion – The Hollywood Reporter

Fresh Bloggery

• Plato’s Sister and the Women Among His Students – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Time-Travelling Metal Detectorists Visit the PAS: How Reliable is the PAS Database?
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Another Milestone in Negligence
• Merrifield Meditations | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Vanity of Earthly Glory
• Tracking Inside the Self: Aesara the Pythagorean – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le papyrus dans tous ses États, de Cléopâtre à Clovis: Exposition virtuelle
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Invisible Manuscripts: Textual Scholarship and the Survival of 2 Baruch
• Pachomius, “Instruction concerning a spiteful monk” – now translated by Anthony Alcock – Roger Pearse
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Modishly Crude Translations
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Archaeological Establishment and the Real World
• De gedichten van Homeros – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Hybrid Conference: Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future
• PaleoJudaica.com: Zoom Event: Annette Yoshiko Reed, “Forgetting Second Temple Judaism”
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mroczek on Lied’s Invisible Manuscripts

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• News – From Maya Murals to Shipwrecks, ArchaeoCon 2022 was a Resounding Success – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Paper Anniversary: Antigone’s First Year – Antigone
• The Roman Museum With a Taste for Historical Cookbooks – Gastro Obscura
• Bronze Age Britons did not use European weights to count their gold – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 1.1.1-10
• @GettyMuseum on assorted depictions of Eros
• @chapps on his latest digital restoration of the Hamilton Aphrodite

Fresh Podcasts

• Actually Interesting History: S3E5: Caligula Part 2, Tragedy and 4D Chess on Apple Podcasts

We pick up our story after the death of Germanicus.  The family comes back to Rome and is soon swept up in the turmoil, plotting, and ruthless aggression of men jockeying for position in the power vacuum created by Tiberius’ unclear direction and ultimate retreat from Rome.  Tragedy is unfortunately far from over.

• The Ancients: Helen of Troy on Apple Podcasts

Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships – but is there more to her than a beautiful face? To mark Women’s History Month, Tristan is joined by author and broadcaster Natalie Haynes to discuss Helen’s place in mythology and history. Often viewed through the male gaze, Natalie helps set the record straight about who Helen really was. With discussions of her conception, abductions, and grief after the Trojan War – we learn about why she was so noteworthy in mythology.

• The Partial Historians: Episode 123 – The Turning Point on Apple Podcasts

Rome seems to be an impasse. Facing war on all fronts and with escalating crisis between the patricians and the plebeians the place of Rome in the Italian world is at the brink. It’s 445 BCE and the republic is still young enough to fail. How will Rome face the chaos coming at them from outside while weakened from their own internal conflict? Tune in to find out!

• Ancient History Fangirl: The Sacred Band of Thebes (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

In more modern times, being gay in the military has often historically been grounds for discharge and punishment. But in a different time, in a different place, it was seen as a superpower. The time was the 300s BC. The place was Thebes. And in this place, in this time, there was an elite military force—the best of the best special ops shock troops—made up of 150 male lovers. Their love for each other was the key to their strength. It made them better fighters. More effective. It made them strong enough to break the iron-fisted control of oppressive regimes. This is their incredible story.

Fresh Youtubery

• The AI historian: A new tool to decipher ancient texts – YouTube | nature video
• How Accurate is GLADIATOR (2000)?! – YouTube | Bitesized Ancient History
• Units of History – Byzantine Flamethrowers and Grenadiers DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Fairytale in Homer’s Odyssey – YouTube | Millennial Classicist
• Marek Węcowski on Herodotus, the Persian Wars, and Greek political patronage – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline

Book Reviews

• Yu.S. Grebennikov – plus d’un demi-siècle en archéologie | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Marina De Franceschini, Giuseppe Veneziano, Pantheon. Architettura e Luce. Studi de archeoastronomia, 1. Castagnola (Ticino), Switzerland: Rirella Editrice, 2021.
• BMCR – Julien Devinant, Les troubles psychiques selon Galien: étude d’un système de pensée. Collection d’études anciennes. Série grecque, 159. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2020.
• BMCR – Sylvain Delcomminette, Raphaël Van Daele, La méthode de division de Platon à Érigène. Annales de l’Institut de philosophie de l’Université de Bruxelles. Paris: Librairie philosophique J. Vrin, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• At NYU’s “Pompeii in Color” Exhibit, See Frescoes Rarely Displayed Outside of Italy – Untapped New York
• Hellenic Museum is about Hellenism, not just about Greece: An interview with Sarah Craig – Greek Herald

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘Nighttown’ Preview: Molly Bloom Takes the Stage in an Operatic Reimagining of ‘Ulysses’ | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
• A mythical musical: QU’s theater department’s new show ‘Thebes’ is full of fun songs and stellar performances – The Quinnipiac Chronicle

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Ancient Greek City of Chersonesus in Crimea Founded 2,500 Years Ago
• Seven Of Ancient Greece’s Most Influential Women — Greek City Times
• A brief history of prostitution in ancient Greece and Rome – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• The Library of Celsus: Profound structure in ancient Ephesus | Daily Sabah

Diversions

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends destruction of four-footed 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)

Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 7 Elaphebolion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
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‘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 the destruction of human beings and an outbreak 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)