Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 17 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Historical Roman fort dig returns to Alderney – BBC News
• Tomb of ancient Egyptian dignitary who read top secret documents discovered | Live Science
• On This Day In 1902, The Antikythera Mechanism Was Discovered
• Briton, German deny smuggling antiquities in Iraq court
• 7,500-year-old burial in Eilat contains earliest Asherah – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
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Classicists and Classics in the News

• Emma Treadway’s senior thesis embraces the classics to inform policymaking for public education
• Ancient grains: Grant will help U-M researchers rethink Roman diets | Global Michigan

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE CAEDE AMERICANA

Fresh Bloggery

• How Fast A Rotten Foundation Falls – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Fasti-dious: Gnaeus Flavius and the Power of the Calendar – History From Below
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archaeology of Iran from the Palaeolithic to the Achaemenid Empire
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hymn to Rome
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Empires and Communities in the Post-Roman and Islamic World, C. 400-1000 CE
• Changing Your Mind is the Point of Research – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Multilingual Parallel Bible Corpus
• Back at Last! | Ancient History Ramblings
• Byblos in het Neolithicum – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Neo-Assyrian Aramean gods relief
• PaleoJudaica.com: Supreme Court approves Jerusalem cable car plan
• PaleoJudaica.com: Green, A Guide to the Zohar (De Gruyter)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Eyewitness
• Classics at the Intersections: What is an Identity?
• Mike Anderson’s Ancient History Blog: Guest Post: Summary of a Recently Published Book about the Fall of the Roman Empire.

Other Blog-like Publications

• Archaeology Tools from Trowels to Tech – Biblical Archaeology Society

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 84

Fresh Podcasts

• Live from Mount Olympus: Persephone 5: Lean Into the Darkness! on Apple Podcasts

Persephone is terrified when an enormous being appears from the depths of the rushing river.  But could the River Styx have just the wit and wisdom Persephone needs to hear?

• Ancient History Fangirl: Abortion Rights Takeover: Bathroom Business (With Kate the Exploress) on Apple Podcasts

This episode is part of our abortion rights takeover. We’ll be back to our regularly scheduled series on gender rebels on June 2. In this re-release, Kate from the Exploress podcast joined us to discuss the intimate lives of sex workers in ancient Greece and Rome–including methods of contraception and abortion. Pliny the Elder interviewed sex workers to get the lowdown on how they dealt with unwanted pregnancies (but we suspect the ladies were having him on).

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: CLXVII: Daughter of Gods Meets Phoenician Hero, the Story of Cadmus & Harmonia (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

Revisiting Liv’s favourite myth in much more detail… What happens when a hero marries a goddess? The story of Cadmus and Harmonia, the mysterious and yet deeply important couple and the origins of their family’s curse.

Fresh Youtubery

• 5 Most Psychotic Women In the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
• “The One Where Dr. Josh Isn’t Allowed to Talk About Slavery” – YouTube | BittyBuddha
• Historical Warfare : The Immortals – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Catullus 53 in Latin & English: Risi nescio quem modo e corona – YouTube | David Amster
• The History of Astronomy in the Ancient World – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Stefan Knoch , Die lateinische Deklamation. Hildesheim: Georg Olms Verlag, 2021.
• Page duBois on the Chaotic Glory of Greek Comedy | The Chicago Blog

Exhibition Related Things

• “Copper and Lignite” at the Aiani Archaeological Museum
• Classical Greece and Mies Architecture at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum

Dramatic Receptions

• The Plague at Thebes, Oedipus & Antigone, King’s Greek Play 2022 | King’s College London eStore

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• International Conference Sapiens Ubique Civis IX – Szeged 2022 | Society for Classical Studies
• Epigraphic workshop: “Documenti, supporti, layout. Giornata fiorentina fra epigrafia e papirologia” (May 27, 2022) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Women Collectives in Classical Antiquity (and Beyond)
• Theogonies and Theomachies in Egypt, Greece and Elsewhere
• Making Lists in the Ancient World: Memory, Status, Identity
• The Impact of the Persians Wars on Greek Coinage
• After “Lights Out”: Studying Classics in a World War II Internment Camp
• 19th meeting of Postgraduate Cypriot Archaeology (PoCA)
• Women and diplomacy in the Late Bronze Age (Egypt and Ancient Near East)
• The Hunt Frieze of the “Tomb of Philip II” at Aegae
• 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

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Ancient city’s theater unique in Turkey

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 rain.

… 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)