Hodie est a.d. VI Id.Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
… catching up …
In the News
- Excavation of the Cortijo de Acebedo archaeological site in Mijas continues | Sur in English
- Two more Giants discovered at Mont’e Prama – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Iron-age boxer statues’ torsos discovered in Sardinian necropolis | Italy | The Guardian
- ‘I wept with joy’: young director made guardian of Italy’s temples of Paestum | Italy | The Guardian
- Ancient Hegmataneh: working group formed to surmount obstacles in path of UNESCO registration – Tehran Times
- Vandalism targets Jerash’s ancient column | Jordan Times
- Swiss canton has ‘legal’ claim to controversial artefacts – SWI swissinfo.ch
- UK ‘refuses’ Libya request to return ‘stolen’ artefacts
- Roman Coin Not “Small Change” – Numismatic News
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Roman Sculpture Likely Looted During WWII Turns Up at Texas Goodwill | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Ancient Cemetery for Infants Discovered on Greek Island
- Skeleton of Ancient Woman Lying on Her Bronze Bed Found in Greece
- Ancient Greek Necropolis in Croatia Dates Back to Fourth Century AD
- Rihanna Celebrates Being Honoured At Met Gala With Greek Goddess Statue
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Opening up the Classics to the digital world – Durham University
- UT College of Liberal Arts: UT Classics and the Mystery of the Marble Bust:
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 08.05.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- Akropolis World News – Φιλιππίναι
- Ephemeris – HODIERNA AB UCRAINA
- Ephemeris – DE UCRAINIS
Public Facing Classics
- Stones of Venice | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- What Angela Rayner could learn from Hera | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Favorites
- Seneca on Globalization – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Online Open House | Epic Narrative and Toxic Heroism, with Joel Christensen – The Kosmos Society
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: More Antiquities Bend Time and Space: Parallel Presence Artefacts
- Libanees dagboek: Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
- Zooglossia 9: Cats of Many Names but Few Sounds – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Rotsreliëfs aan de Indus – Mainzer Beobachter
- A Little Bit of Nanno in My Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Abominable and Detestable Time
- PaleoJudaica.com: The evil eye is not in the Bible
- PaleoJudaica.com: Xeravits memorial volume (De Gruyter)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing In It
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Better
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Pompeii Artistic Landscape Project (PALP)
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Tour Persian Persepolis
- Hadrianus’ houtvesters – Mainzer Beobachter
- Dulce et Decorum Est To Live to Drink Another Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Vanderkam, An Introduction to Early Judaism, 2nd ed. (Eerdmans)
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on unsung local archaeological laborers
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Acclamation
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Ghosts Who Deserve Their Sip of Blood
- Dedicating What To Your Stepmother? Mother’s Day With Some Ancient Greek – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Two more Nuragic giants found in Sardinia
- PaleoJudaica.com: Temple Mount Research Conference
- PaleoJudaica.com: Phoenician museum opens in Lebanon
- PaleoJudaica.com: Newman on Jonah and prayer
- Learning to spell in Linear B – It’s All Greek To Me
- Baby Plato and Buzzing Bees – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Caesarian Glass Paste Intaglio – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Some Exercise Advice for the Ancient Beach Body – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Mother to Son
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Earlier Latin Manuscripts: Tools for studying the scripts of the oldest Latin manuscripts
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: IOSPE: Ancient Inscriptions of the Northern Black Sea
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Klassische Philologie At Wikisource
- Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
- The Pin-Point Revenge Of Alcmene Against King Eurystheus | The Historian’s Hut
- PaleoJudaica.com: Himmelfarb receives Princeton Humanities award
- Select Only What You Like from The Ancients – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Spencer Alley: Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687-1767) – Venetian Elegance
- Cicero’s Life and Yours — ConsultTheClassics
- Spencer Alley: Carlo Maratti (1625-1713) – Distinction without Originality
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- How the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods
- The 11th AGON International Αrchaeological Film Festival
- Why Alexander The Great’s Body Rested In Egypt | by Erik Brown | May, 2022 | History of Yesterday
- A Roman Emperor’s Villa Is Now Producing Olive Oil – Gastro Obscura
Fresh Podcasts
Abortiō in dubium venit ”’
According to Greek myth, Pandora was the first human woman – moulded from the earth by Hephaestus on the instruction of Zeus himself. We’ve all heard of Pandora’s box, but in actual fact it was no such thing. Instead it was a jar containing all the evils of humanity, but even these contents of the jar are up for debate! So what is real story behind this often misunderstood, misinterpreted and maligned figure? In this episode Tristan is joined by esteemed author, broadcaster, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes to discover the truth about the first woman of Ancient Greek mythology.
The Dionysiaca, Part 2 of 2. The last surviving Greek epic of antiquity draws to a close with Dionysus fighting wars far to the east, in India.
We all know it’s there. But why? And what did it look like? How did it interact with the local community? Andrew Tibb’s tackles these and many other questions around this Roman outpost in Britain.
Demeter is furious at Zeus and done with Olympus. So she disguises herself as an old woman to live among mortals. She finds a family that needs her help and tries to fit in – but it’s hard to keep her power under wraps.
A Latin lesson …
A re-airing of Liv’s 2019 episodes covering Euripides’ Bacchae, one of his most gruesome and brilliant plays… Don’t anger a god like Dionysus, even if he’s your cousin. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.
Fresh Youtubery
- I’ll be catching up with this section tomorrow
Book Reviews
- Jennifer Saint’s Latest Compelling Novel, Elektra – The National Herald
- RCL – Konstantinos Sarantidis. Milesian Islands: The Fortified Installations in the Insular Environment of Miletus in the Aegean in Context. Thiasos Monographie 15 (Rome: Edizioni Quasar, 2020).
- Céramique de construction et terre cuite architecturale d’Apollonia du Pont (VIe s. av. J.-C.–IIIe s. av. J.-C.) | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – Mohamed Gaber el-Maghrabi, Cornelia Römer, More texts from the Archive of Socrates: papyri from house 17, level B, and other locations in Karanis (P. Cair. Mich. III). Archiv für Papyrusforschung und verwandte Gebiete. Beiheft, 45. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Barbara Crostini, Reinhart Ceulemans, Receptions of the Bible in Byzantium: texts, manuscripts, and their readers. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
- Ancient Iran and the Classical World at the Getty Villa Museum
- Archaeologist, adventurer and spinner of tales: the life of Heinrich Schliemann is reassessed in Berlin show
- Pompeii Bares All In New Exhibition Of Erotic Art
Dramatic Receptions
- Age of Rage: this timeless, blood-and-thunder tragedy is a marvel to watch
- Age of Rage review – ancient Greek tragedy explodes into our times | Theatre | The Guardian
- An Ancient Greek Tale Gets a Thoroughly Modern Shake-Up – Inspired by Young Activists Like Malala, Greta Thunberg and Grace Tame
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- 84th Earle Memorial Lecture, Hunter College, Classics: Ralph Rosen | Society for Classical Studies
- SAXA LOQVVNTVR Epigraphic Summerschool August 2022 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- 2022 SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture: Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society: the longue durée of human-geological environment relationships in Helike, Greece | Society for Classical Studies
- Architecture and Innovation in the Graeco-Roman world
- The Body in Ancient Political Discourse
- 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
Alia
- The Romans drew penises all over Hadrian’s Wall
- Ancient Greek Shields Struck Fear Into Enemy
- Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and its Connection with the Present
- “AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM” By Michael Zavros, An Archibald Prize Finalist
- Pausanias, Cultural Geographer of Ancient Greece
- Mother’s Day in Ancient Greece
- Eleusian Mysteries & Guide to the Ancient Eleusis – Time Travel Rome
- Before The Ruins. See What Ancient Knossos Palace Looked Like In Its Glory Days
- Manhood in ancient Greece: Battle, blood and not being a ‘bottom’ – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
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 storms, heavy rains, major flooding of rivers, and the arrival of many lizards and reptiles.
… 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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