Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Apr. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- Rare Roman hoard stays in Yorkshire | Gazette & Herald
- Research team sheds light on Roman financial crisis
- Animating A Eureka Moment in History | Animation World Network
- Egypt removes items from uncovered genizah, US senator wants answer – The Jerusalem Post
- Suspect arrested east of Baghdad over antiquities trafficking
- April 6th, the good day in the ancient kingdom of Palmyra – Syrian Arab News Agency
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Dr Rebecca Flemming, first A. G. Leventis Chair in Ancient Greek Scientific and Technological Thought
- Faculty Distinguished Lecture Focuses on Alchemy and Religion in Roman Egypt – Meredith College
- David Booth Beers, devoted lawyer, professor | Cape Gazette
- Cambridge teacher calls for classes to use Taylor Swift lyrics to replace ‘sexist’ syllabus | Daily Mail Online
- Lessons from modern languages – and a little | EurekAlert!
- Teachers encouraged to use Taylor Swift lyrics to make Latin accessible | Classics and ancient history | The Guardian
- Vale, Caecilius: Cambridge Latin textbook rewritten because Roman banker had a slave
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Here and There?
- Propertius: A Slave to Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Byzantine Sea Walls of Thessalonica – Roger Pearse
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Spot goes to Pompeii: Why a robot dog is patrolling ancient ruins
- Ambitions to be met | Turkish Archaeological News
- Winter AD 121/2 – Hadrian inspects the northern frontiers: part 3 Noricum (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: MastaBase: a research tool for the study of ‘daily life’ scenes in Old Kingdom elite tombs
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access (Mostly) Monograph Series: Bibliotheca Mesopotamica
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Cahiers de la Villa Kérylos
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Peshdar Plain Project Publications
- The Epidemic’s Over, We’re Fine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Family and Friends
- Les Oeuvres complètes de Saint Augustin : évêque d’hippone – a 19th century translation – Roger Pearse
- De Archaïsche Periode – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: How many Arks of the Covenant were there?
- PaleoJudaica.com: The new Cairo Geniza: Holding Egyptian authorities accountable
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ilan, Queen Berenice (Brill)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Lecture Announcement and Book Launch – Pergamon Micro-Region
- Book Presentation: Konstantinopel – Samos – Berlin. Verpfändung, Fundteilung und heimliche Ausfuhr von Antiken am Vorabend des Ersten Weltkrieges – DAİstanbul
Other Blog-like Publications
- How did visitors experience the domestic space in Pompeii?
- Research team sheds light on Roman financial crisis
- Μ. Cosmopoulos talks about the excavation at Iklaina
- In 1980, an Earthquake Destroyed an Italian Town—and Revealed Another – Atlas Obscura
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 2.1.29-38
- @profyarrow on a coin of a legate of Antony
- @chapps on his latest restoration of a classical sculpture (Augustus as Jupiter)
- @opietasanimi on portrayals of Andromeda
Fresh Podcasts
6 years after calling Caligula to Capri, Tiberius dies in ambiguous circumstances. Caligula triumphantly enters Rome a few weeks later to the delight of the Roman people. Caligula’s first few months back in Rome are blissful, but perfection cannot last forever…
Roman connections with Britain stretch back to (at least) the mid 1st century BC. But what has archaeology revealed about the Late Iron Age British societies they interacted with? Do we have any concrete evidence for the druids? Was human sacrifice a thing? Sit back and enjoy in this very special Ancients episode, as experts provide a detailed run down of life and death in Late Iron Age Britain. The episode covers several topics: urbanisation, ritual and religion, trade, slavery and warfare. Featuring Durham University’s Professor Tom Moore, alongside Colchester and Ipswich Museums’ Dr Frank Hargrave and Dr Carolina Lima.
In the first part of our Gender Rebels series, we talked about queer history—queer women, Intersex people, transgender people, and eunuchs. Now, we’re going to begin another series that takes that lens to Greek mythology. There are plenty of queer myths that break the binary as the ancient Greeks saw it—and heroes and gods who were gender rebels. Sometimes those gender rebels aren’t who you’d expect—and who they’re usually portrayed to be. That’s what this episode is all about. Join us as we explore the mythology of a genderqueer Achilles and the man who loved him.
The role of the Military Tribune with Consular Power (tribuni militum consulari potestate) is very particular. It seems to have been created out of the need for a new way forward from the role of the consuls. In our previous episode we encountered them for the first time as part of a patrician plan to placate plebeian discontent in 445 BCE, but our ability to understand this period is complicated by a number of issues…
Fresh Youtubery
- Athens – City of Wisdom – YouTube | British School at Athens
- Storytelling,Philosophy & Reception Ep13. Peter Miller. Iliad: War & Mortality.Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- Object 3: Museum Unboxing New Acquisition – YouTube | Museum of Classical Archaeology, Cambridge
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Anastasia Drandaki, Late antique metalware. The production of copper alloy vessels between the 4th to 8th centuries: the Benaki Museum collection and related material. Bibliothèque de l’Antiquité Tardive, 37. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
- BMCR – David Sider, Simonides: epigrams and elegies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Karin Metzler, Prokop von Gaza. Der Exoduskommentar. Die griechischen christlichen Schriftsteller der ersten Jahrhunderte, Neue Folge, Band 27-28. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
- African Gods Meet Greek Mythology in Harmonia Rosales’s ‘Entwined’ – The Santa Barbara Independent
- Identities of mystery Corbridge Roman excavators sought – BBC News
Dramatic Receptions
- Interview: Writers Peter Kellogg and Stephen Weiner Explore The Odyssey Through Penelope’s Eyes | TheaterMania
- THE TROJAN WOMEN: A NATIVE AMERICAN ADAPTATION to be Presented at Theatre for the New City
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
- Position in Ancient Greek
- Lecturer in Roman History at Royal Holloway, University of London
- Early Career Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics job with University of Texas at Austin | 471726
- Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- 7 Sports of Ancient Greece – HISTORY
- Ancient Greek Masterpieces Were Painted in Dazzling Colors
- The Stoics’ View of Suicide | Psychology Today
- Schools must return to a classical education | The Spectator Australia
- Ancient Greeks Left Their Mark in Egypt in 591 BC – in Graffiti
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 good things and a prosperous season.
… 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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