#Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for May 14, 2022

Hodie est pr. Id.Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 14 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Rare 2,300-year-old tomb in Istanbul holds partially cremated body | Live Science
• Domus dei mosaici marini, scoperte nuove aree archeologiche – sardiniapost
• Bronze Age and Roman artefacts found at Ledbury Viaduct could stay in county, says Bloor Homes | Ledbury Reporter
• SDF arrests antiquities smugglers in Tripoli | The Libya Observer
• The Samaritan connection to Mount Gerizim restoration, conservation – The Jerusalem Post
• Clydesdale’s wild bunch gave Romans a hard time | GlasgowWorld
• Restoration work for ancient Arch de Triumph in Palmyra begins – Syrian Arab News Agency

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Amanda Claridge, archaeologist acclaimed for her definitive Oxford guide to ancient Rome – obituary
• News – Member Spotlight: Nancy de Grummond – Archaeological Institute of America Societies
• Bruce Cresson Obituary (1930 – 2022) – Waco, TX – Waco Tribune-Herald

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – PHOTOGRAPHEMA SIDEREUM 

Fresh Bloggery

• The Punic Wars Part III | “Delenda Cartago est” – The Kosmos Society‘
• A Hero For Our Times – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Quintessentially English
• The Anti-Scholar – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Archéo.doct
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Entre espace public et espace privé : les élites en représentation
• Egadi Coins… – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Inflation
• Spencer Alley: Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione, il Grechetto (1609-1664)
• Have You Tried Stabbing the Coronavirus? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Ukrainian soldiers find ancient amphorae whilst digging defences – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Restoration work reveals original colour and patterns in Ancient Egyptian temple – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The Formidable Alexander the Great and the Fascinating Siege of Impregnable Tyre | History of Yesterday
• An Ancient Roman Cult’s Rituals Included Feasting, Fire, and Floor Cleaning – Atlas Obscura

Fresh Podcasts

• Life Of Caesar: A Reckless Spirit on Apple Podcasts

Nero launches a series of attacks that result in the demise of certain members of the Roman elite. But why these particular people? And why now? We tease apart Tacitus to try to work out what’s really going on.

• Nuntii Latini: diē tertiō decimō mēnsis Māiī on Apple Podcasts

Britannī quīntam partem pūblicōrum dīmittunt

• Ancient Greece Declassified: R7.5 The Forms, the Matrix, and AI w/ John Vervaeke on Apple Podcasts

Philosophers today often dismiss Plato’s Theory of Forms as an outdated and failed attempt by a pre-modern thinker to explain knowledge. However, cognitive scientist John Vervaeke offers a radically different take on Plato’s theory and how it ties in with recent debates about the nature of intelligence. John Vervaeke is a professor at the University of Toronto and the creator of the popular YouTube series Awakening from the Meaning Crisis.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Hellenistic Kings’ Mythic Callbacks & Cosplaying Heroes, The Hellenistic Period w/ Eduardo García-Molina (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

Part two of Liv’s conversation with Eduardo García-Molina who studies the Hellenistic Period and the Seleukids specificially, they talk Hellenistic kings and empires, the cultures and people of the east, and so much more (including video games)! 

Fresh Youtubery

• Earthquakes and the Structuring of Greco-Roman Society by Amanda Gaggioli – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
• The Candid Latin Language with Jackson Crawford | What is Latin Like? – YouTube | polyMATHY
• Epic Narrative & Toxic Heroism – Kosmos Society Open House with Joel Christensen – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Dr Sarah Bond, Manchester CA & MCPHH – YouTube | Mancester Classics Association
• Wealthy Mycenaean Tombs: A Personal Reflection on Excavating the Griffin Warrior Tomb at Pylos – YouTube | Flint Dibble
• Cynthia Shafer-Elliott — Food & Household Archaeology | Tower of Bible Podcast | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube

Exhibition Related Things

• Feminine Power: the British Museum’s celebration of the divine female | Luxx | The Times

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

• Full-time lecturer in Classics | Society for Classical Studies
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Where Are the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Biblical Archaeology Society
• Rare gold Eid Mar aureus offered in Numismatica Ars Classica sale
• Pompeii Skeleton Proves Greek Culture Was Thriving in Ancient Rome
• What Did Cleopatra Smell Like?
• The Lost Plant Ancient Greeks Used for Food, Perfume, and Contraception
• The photos and archive of Carter and the Tomb of Tutankhamun – Museum Crush
• The lost voices of women in Greek theatre – Reader’s Digest

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 war in the east and many shortages.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends abundance.

… 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)