Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 23 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
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- Such Unexpected Pain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- “A Republic, If You Can Keep (Reading) It” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Intratext Digital Library: Lingua latina
- Printing out medieval manuscripts in preparation for editing – Roger Pearse
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- Finding and downloading medieval manuscripts online that you can print – Roger Pearse
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Archaeological Methodology, Preservation by Documentation and a Strapend
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Como Treasure: 1,000 gold coins in a cooking pot
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- Jezus en Mozes – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ialysos Ring Returned to Greece
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Inside the multimillion-dollar illegal trade in artefacts from the Middle East
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Best Things
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- Gold Mycenaean ring returned to Greece
- Monumental tomb complex discovered in Berenice Troglodytica – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
Only a few short years after his coronation, Antiochus III would invade the kingdom of Ptolemy IV in 219 B.C., intent on reclaiming the lands of Coele Syria as part of his birthright. To stem the tide, the Ptolemaic government tries to rejuvenate the now-rusty Egyptian army by ordering a massive recruitment drive and issuing reforms, and the two kings would come to blows at Raphia, where over 140,000 men would take part in one of the largest battles of the ancient world.
The residents of Britain during the Iron Age are often collectively called ‘Celts’. However, both before and during the Roman occupation, this term is a huge generalisation. In this episode we explore the real characteristics and variations of the lifestyle and communities of present day Wales in the 1st millennium BC. The people of Southern Britain were written about in part by both Ptolemy, who gives us the geographical location of different groups, and Tacitus who gives a slightly more colourful account of the people the Romans encountered. But with ongoing excavations and discoveries registered with the Portable Antiquities Scheme, more and more of the realities of their lives are revealed. Tristan speaks to Dr Oliver Davis from Cardiff University to find out more about what this evidence tells us about the people of Iron Age Wales. In particular, they discuss Caerau hill-fort, which once was home to between one and two hundred people, and is an incredible example of hill-forts from this area and period.
Lindsey Buster joins us to talk all about the Iron Age in Britain.
Fresh Youtubery
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- Hunting For Heroes’ Bones in The Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Blackness in Greek Antiquity – YouTube | Cambridge University Press
- The Mystery Of This Roman Treasure Hoard Found in Britain – YouTube | History Hit
- in Delo (live with rough audio) – YouTube | Magister Talley
- Servizio di Donatella Ansovini sul restauro della Latona (Tgr Lazio 19/05/2022) – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- Evidence of tourism in the ancient world book review | Mary Beard
- La population de Phanagoria au IIIe siècle av. n. è. – Ve s. ap. n. è. (basée sur des matériaux paléoanthropologiques de la nécropole orientale) | Spartokos a lu
Exhibition Related Things
- Parthian coffins on show at Susa Museum – Tehran Times
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- Columnist draws from Socratic teachings for humanity’s path forward
- 10 Greek Myths With Surprising Epilogues In Hades
- Next Time In Rome, See This Once-Opulent Roman Emperor’s Villa
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a good and fertile 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)
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