Hodie est pr. Non. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Poprad prince will return to Slovakia – spectator.sme.sk
• Italy seeks Unesco World Heritage Status for Appian Way
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• WAFA: “Israeli authorities expropriate 22,000 dunums of land near Jericho” – – IMEMC News
• Digs shed light on Hittite, Assyrian history of Turkey’s Karkamış | Daily Sabah
• Goodwill Sold a Bust for $34.99. It’s an Ancient Roman Relic. – The New York Times
• Ancient treasure found in Dursley | Gazette Series

In Case You Missed It

• Gothic Warrior and His Weapons Found Buried in Greece’s Thessaloniki
• Canvey man helps find ancient Roman coins worth around £40k | Echo
• Roman “storage” vessels turn out to be portable toilets
• Huge archaeological discoveries in Gabal el-Haridi area of Sohag – EgyptToday
• Tombs with Death Certificates in Greek Discovered in Egypt
• Amateur Archaeologist Stumbles Onto Trove of Coins Dated to Constantine the Great’s Reign | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Sheffield school embarks on teaching Latin to pupils to understand language better | The Star

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Οὐκραίνα

Public Facing Classics

• In (partial) praise of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ | Blog post by Mary Beard

Fresh Bloggery

• Teaching Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A Husband Writes Home with a Packing List – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Quick Turnaround
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Gospel of Thomas Resource Center
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Journal of Conservation and Museum Studies Special Collections
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Keilschrifttexte aus Assur literarischen Inhalts
• “Instead of a Bed, a Tomb; Instead of a Bride, A Stone” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Found: sarcophagus of Protector of the Divine Flank
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Who’s Watching the UK Antiquities Market?
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine: “Russian Troops Destroying Ancient Tombs”
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Freedom of Speech
• Waren de Grieken en Romeinen kleurenblind? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine: Russian Invaders Reportedly Remove Scythian Gold [UPDATED]
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Mount Ebal amulet again
• PaleoJudaica.com: More discoveries in Sohag
• PaleoJudaica.com: Evans & Wright (eds.), Gods, Spirits, and Worship in the Greco-Roman World and Early Christianity (T&T Clark)
• Spencer Alley: Gian Paolo Panini (1691-1765) – Rococo Ruins

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• CAC Dept Head Meeting – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• Nemea to be awarded the European Cultural Heritage Label
• Pavlopetri in Laconia comes to life
• ANE TODAY – 202205 – What’s in a Name? Warriors and Warrior Burials in the Near East – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• A Roman Emperor’s Villa is Now Producing Olive Oil – Gastro Obscura

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Horace, Odes 1.4.9-20

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Why was the Greek phalanx so ineffective against the Romans? on Apple Podcasts

Patron of the podcast Lubos asks, ‘Why was the greek phalanx so ineffective against the Romans? Were they just obsolete or just that the Greek generals didn’t evolve their tactics and formations to counter roman maniples?’ Murray gives us his opinion.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 071: The Fourth Syrian War – A Tale of Two Kingdoms on Apple Podcasts

In 222 B.C., two of the world’s most powerful kingdoms saw the coronation of two young monarchs: Antiochus III of the Seleucid Empire, and Ptolemy IV Philopator of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. As Antiochus tries to keep his realm from falling apart in the face of rebellions and the assassination of his older brother, the laziness of Ptolemy allows the court of Alexandria to fall into a whirlwind of conspiracies and corruption among his advisors, serving as a dramatic prelude to the Fourth Syrian War.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 52: Birth of the Delian League on Apple Podcasts

Leagues in Greece were not a new concept, with many being in existence in one form or another. So, far the major leagues that we have followed have been the Peloponnesian league and the Hellenic league, with both of these still in operation by 477BC. These were primarily defensive in nature and were formed around city states that had shared interests or a common foe. Though, what would happen once interests were conflicted or a threat had been extinguished?…

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: The Hellenistic Period & It’s Middle Child Syndrome, w/ Eduardo García-Molina (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks 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)!

• Queens Podcast: Messalina on Apple Podcasts

Messalina aka Messy Messalina is the Roman empress with the nastiest reputation. But does she deserve it? TL;DR: we actually don’t know, but probably not. But we can’t wait to hear what you think. If you enjoyed this episode and want more trashy ancient Roman marriages, check out our Agrippina the Younger series. Here’s part 1.

Fresh Youtubery

• DAUGHTER OF SPARTA Is A Greek Mythological Mess – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Latin learning challenge (18-19-20-21 May 2022) – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• How Did Byzantine Fire Ships Work? #Shorts #History #Documentary – YouTube | Invicta
• Catullus and Pop Music Ep.2: Sour – YouTube | mytholotea
• Sex in the Ancient City | Dr. Dylan K. Rogers – YouTube | Archaeology Now
• The gladiatorial graffiti of the Roman amphitheatre: long-lived memorials of imperial munera – YouTube | British School at Rome

Book Reviews

• Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy (Pegasus Books), by Philip Freeman – Shepherd Express
• BMCR – Amministrare e comunicare nell’Egitto tolemaico: La funzione delle copie (antigrapha) nella documentazione papirologica
• BMCR – Peter Thonemann, Lucian: Alexander or the false prophet. Clarendon ancient history series. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• Laura Beatty: Looking for Theophrastus – adventures in psychobiography

Dramatic Receptions

• Review: ‘The Trojan Women’ is a Native American Greek tragedy – Washington Square News
• Medea – Shock Therapy Productions Put Their Touch On A Greek Tragedy
• On European Stages, Myths and Memories Merge – The New York Times
• Masque and Gown performs modern rendition of Greek comedy – The Bowdoin Orient

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• ROMARCH: Rome: City and Country; U. Reading Symposium, 11 May « [quem dixere chaos]
• 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

• The Strongest Greek That Ever Lived

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 that crops will ripen too quickly and be ruined.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. III Non. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Turks Use The Temple Of Athena As A Gateway For A Nightclub — Greek City Times
• [see also] Nightclub opening door to Side temple ends up in court – Turkey News
• Checkpoint, remains of archaeological temple from the Ptolemaic era discovered in Sohag – Egypt Independent
• Texas Woman Buys Priceless Roman Bust for $35 at Goodwill Store
• So the $35 sculpture you got at an Austin Goodwill was looted from a museum during WWII. Now what? | TPR
• Smithsonian announces plans to return looted and unethically procured items
• Hoard of 161 Roman coins found beneath campsite in Wiltshire

In Case You Missed It

• Antiquities thieves in Turkey caught trying to sell ancient marble batht – The Jerusalem Post
• Ancient smells are wafting out of artifacts and old texts | Science News
• Amateur Archaeologist Stumbles Onto Trove of Coins Dated to Constantine the Great’s Reign | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• The Ebal Amulet – the oldest Israelite text ever found – The Jerusalem Post
• Second century funerary altar of teenage girl discovered in Rome – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Abdulamir Al-Hamdani, the revered archaeologist and former Iraqi culture minister, has died, aged 55
• Teachers use Taylor Swift to make Latin more accessible – The Mancunion

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – CONTUMELIAE RUSSICAE 

Public Facing Classics

• What Angela Rayner could learn from Hera | The Spectator Australia

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Why?
• Semi-Final Draft of Mildly Anarchist Teaching Encounter | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Useful Phrases
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Lessons
• The May Poems in the Chronography of 354 – Roger Pearse
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » 1st ancient solid marble bathtub found in Turkey confiscated from smugglers
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Drusus Germanicus Bust in Texas
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Britain “the safest place” for World Cultural Heritage?
• De Griekse kolonisatie – Mainzer Beobachter
• We All Stand Together | Sphinx
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cotton, Collected Papers (De Gruyter)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Early references to the Aleppo Codex in the Cairo Geniza
• PaleoJudaica.com: What happened to the rest of Paul’s letters?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: War

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• TIGR Call for Proposals | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• 85 Ancient Egyptian Tombs, Isis Temple and Tower House
• Three Artworks that Tell of Venus’ Triumph Over Mars | by Christopher P Jones | Thinksheet | May, 2022 | Medium
• The Iseum Savariense – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 9.11-20

Fresh Podcasts

• Creepy Classics: The Story of Brutus’ Spirit, from Plutarch on Apple Podcasts

Brutus and Cassius lead a conspiracy to murder Julius Caesar to save Rome from a tyrannical king, but Brutus finds himself confronted by a mysterious spirit that may or may not represent his Fate… This story is adapted from Plutarch, Life of Brutus 36 and 48, and Life of Caesar 69. It’s followed by a discussion of the death of Julius Caesar and his relationship with Brutus, the ways in which Shakespeare adapted Plutarch’s biography for his play Julius Caesar, and exactly what kind of “spirit” it was that Plutarch claims Brutus saw.

• The Ancients: The World of Stonehenge on Apple Podcasts

Described as the “most important piece of prehistoric art to be found in Britain in the last 100 years”, an elaborately decorated 5000 year-old chalk cylinder, discovered buried with 3 child skeletons in Yorkshire and as old as the first phase of Stonehenge, is going on display at the British Museum for the first time ever. To find out what the drum is, how it was found and what it tells us about Britain at the time Stonehenge was constructed, Tristan got special access to the World of Stonehenge exhibition. He spoke to Project Archaeologist Alice Beasley and Project Curator Dr Jennifer Wexler, who make up part of the team responsible for the drum’s discovery, investigation and display.

• Ancient History Fangirl: Elektra, Clytemnestra, Cassandra, and the Curse of Atreus (With Jennifer Saint) on Apple Podcasts

This week, we’re taking a break from the story of Achilles to discuss the Illiad from an angle that’s not as often covered: the story of the women of the House of Atreus, the family of Agamemnon. In this episode, bestselling author Jennifer Saint introduces us to Clytemnestra and Elektra–Agamemnon’s wife and daughter–as well as the priestess and prophetess Cassandra, and the murderous curse that casts a shadow over their fates.

• The Partial Historians: Episode 125 – Big Trouble in Little Ardea on Apple Podcasts

Do you get excited by a trip to the office supply store? Is The Home Edit your favourite show on Netflix? Then this is the episode for you! The Romans are in an organisation frenzy. Grab your red tape, post-its, a sword, and we’re off to 443 BCE. Expect some bureaucracy and civil war in Ardea.

• Actually Interesting History: S3E8: Caligula Part 5, Live as a god, Die a Man on Apple Podcasts

During the conclusion of our coverage of Caligula, we reach the series of events for which he is best known.  Did he really try to make his horse a consul? What’s all of this talk about his sister?? Seashells??? The truth, if you can ever really know the truth, may surprise you! Tune in to hear the conclusion of Caligula’s tale and my final thoughts.  Thanks for listening!!

• Foreword: Finding a Homosexual Subculture in Ancient Athens on Apple Podcasts

Today’s featured guest is Shakeel Ahmed, an MA student in the Department of Classics and Archaeology. Shakeel shares with us his research on homosexual culture in Ancient Athens, the importance of queer history, and how the study of the ancient world continues to be relevant to modern issues.

Fresh Youtubery

• Digital Humanities. Dipylon Org. Mapping Ancient Greece in todays streets. – YouTube | Bettina Joy de Guzman
• Brian Egede-Pedersen – “‘Templars, Fight or Fall!’: Remembering the Knights Templar in Power Metal” – YouTube | Jeremy Swist
• Lucia Visonà on Plutarch’s view of Herodotus on Greek unity – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• TOP Archaeogaming: Ancient Alexandria (Discovery Tour) – YouTube | Ozymandias Project

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Matthew M. Gorey, Atomism in the Aeneid: physics, politics, and cosmological disorder. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – David Neal Greenwood, Julian and Christianity: revisiting the Constantinian revolution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Rafał Matuszewski, Being alone in antiquity: Greco-Roman ideas and experiences of misanthropy, isolation and solitude. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
• Gilbert Murray: the Oxford don who made Greek chic – New Statesman

Exhibition Related Things

• Sculpture Shoppe launches with ancient Greek song performance | Department of Classics

Dramatic Receptions

• Photos: THE TROJAN WOMEN: A Native American Adaptation Opens At Theatre For The New City
• Oddfellows Youth Playhouse staging epic tragedies by Euripides in Middletown
• On European Stages, Myths and Memories Merge – The New York Times

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Department of Classics and Ancient History : Seminars : Greek Gods and the Rise of Rome: Religion and Empire :
• Department of Classics and Ancient History : Seminars : Reading the Classics in Medieval English Monasteries :
• 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

• Egyptian deities – Smarthistory
• Tales from the Past: The Hawara Pyramid and Egypt’s Long Lost Labyrinth | Egyptian Streets
• Anfushi Tombs, one of the most important Greco-Roman monuments in Alexandria – EgyptToday
• Medusa, the Most Fearsome Figure of Greek Mythology
• The Bohemian Druid whose bust became face of Celtic art | Radio Prague International
• The secret chapel inside Rome’s Colosseum

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 an exchange of disputes in politics and wheat being more plentiful than barley. Vegetables, however, will be ruined.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Three metal detectorist friends who stumbled upon a hoard of more than 150 Roman coins | Daily Mail Online
• how the black rat colonised Europe in the Roman and Medieval periods – News and events, University of York
• Roma. Trovata un’ara funeraria dedicata a Valeria, adolescente vissuta nel II secolo d.C.
• Second century funerary altar of teenage girl discovered in Rome – The Jerusalem Post
• Stephen Fry’s Ground-Breaking Proposal for the Parthenon Marbles
• Workers in Rome dig up second-century child’s luxury tomb | World | The Times
• Russian troops are destroying ancient nomadic tombs | News | The Times
• Logistics network established for aid supplies to protect Ukrainian cultural heritage – Kulturgutretter

Classicists and Classics in the News

• When in Rome – the Blackpool pupils lapping up Latin lessons | Blackpool Gazette

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News – Εὐρώπη

Public Facing Classics

• Me and Jane Harrison, twenty-five years on | Blog post by Mary Beard
• Why We Turn to Myths to Untangle Old Problems ‹ Literary Hub

Fresh Bloggery

• The Late Byzantine Landscape | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Inner Barbarian
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Unwise
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ceramic Technology, Production and Use in an Urban Settlement on the Middle Nile : The Pottery ­Assemblage from Late Meroitic Hamadab, Sudan (2nd to 4th Century A.D.)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Keilschrift / Anfänger(in)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Idées grecques et romaines sur le langage: Travaux d’histoire et d’épistémologie
• Laudator Temporis Acti: So-Called Phonemic Translation
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Georgian journals of Archaeology
• Oedipus And Antigone, by Camille Félix Bellanger (c. 1853 – 1923) | The Historian’s Hut
• Book Club | May 2022: Pliny Natural Histories “The Nature of Flowers and Garlands” – The Kosmos Society
• Kiwi Hellenist: Who designed the Julian calendar?
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Funerary altar of 13-year-old girl found in Rome
• Op reis in Griekenland – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the archaeology of the Battle of Aegates
• PaleoJudaica.com: Phoenician necropolis excavated in Spain
• PaleoJudaica.com: VanderKam elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on an interesting oinochoe from the Berthouville Hoard
• @DocCrom on a centurion’s funerary inscription

Fresh Podcasts

• The Endless Knot: Dionysus, Translation, & Queering Greek Drama, with Emma Pauly on Apple Podcasts

This episode we have a fascinating conversation with classicist, dramatug, and translator Emma Pauly about all things Dionysian, Greek tragedy, and their translation of Euripides’ Bacchae. We explore how Emma brings their experience with acting and directing to translating and analyzing Greek literature, and how our understanding of the past changes as we develop our understanding of gender and sexuality.

• Ad Navseam: Whaddya Noah?: Deucalion, Pyrrha, and the Flood in Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Ad Navseam, Episode 82) on Apple Podcasts

Many civilizations around the world have traditions in which the gods get upset with mankind and water the world back to square one. The Greeks and Romans were no exceptions. This week the guys wade into Ovid’s take on all this with a look at the Greco-Roman “Noah figures” Deucalion and Pyrrha. After humanity Teen Wolfs its way into Zeus’ disfavor, the couple find themselves on a skiff headed for a sea-swamped Parnassus. And even when they hit dry land they have to solve a riddle to repopulate the earth. Why?  Well, Themis the breaks, I’m afraid. So how do Deucalion’s and Pyrrha’s titanic parentage foreshadow the action? What does this story have to say about Roman views of human nature? Why so much rock chucking? And also stay tuned for Ad Navseam’s new coming attraction: “Gvrgle”!

• When in Rome: Augustus of Prima Porta on Apple Podcasts

Augustus of Prima Porta is a colossal statue of Augustus, and shows the Emperor dressed in military garb and addressing his troops. It was found in the Villa of Livia, and is one of the most impressive imperial statues you can see today. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University).

Fresh Youtubery

• ODYSSEY BOOK 24: Odysseus Reunites With His Dad – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• CHS Visiting Artist Presentation | Matteo Tarasco – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• CHS Visiting Artist Presentation | Ellen McLaughlin – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Orpheus Tamed the Animals – Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre – YouTube | Michael Levy

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Andreas N. Michalopoulos, Andreas Serafim, Flaminia Beneventano della Corte, Alessandro Vatri, The rhetoric of unity and division in ancient literature. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 108. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR – Vincenzo Sanguineti, Donatella Marazziti, Clash of cultures: a psychodynamic analysis of Homer and the Iliad. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Phallus of Pompeii: Italian art exhibition reveals ancient sexuality
• Pulses race at new erotic Pompeii exhibition
• Pompeii in Color: The Life of Roman Painting – The Brooklyn Rail

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• ASCSA Annual Open Meeting 2022
• 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

• The ghosts of Babylonia – Conversations – ABC Radio
• Jason Kassel’s Fiction | Substack [Madness of Hercules]
• The Last Morning in Pompeii & The Night Pompeii Died: A New Video Series Explores the End of the Doomed Roman City | Open Culture
• 7 People Who Used Virgil’s Poetry to Predict the Future
• From Rome to Drôme: How antiquity laid foundations for gastronomy in the Northern Rhone | Euronews
• How Does Odysseus’ Bow Fare Against Modern Weapons?
• Spells, Charms, Erotic Dolls: Love Magic in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Jason And The Argonauts – The Epic Quest For The Golden Fleece (VIDEO) — Greek City Times
• Not Everything Is a Charging Boar » Mosaic
• The Scythians Had A Horrifying Tradition With Their Prisoners Of War

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 mild weather and plentiful crops.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. V Non. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 3 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Researchers home in on Thera volcano eruption date
• In a burial ground full of Stone Age men, one grave holds a ‘warrior’ woman | Live Science
• Ukraine Says Russia Looted Ancient Gold Artifacts From a Museum – The New York Times
• Greece Condemns Russian Looting Of Melitopol Museum — Greek City Times

In Case You Missed It

• Priceless Ancient Greek Artifacts in Ukraine “Looted by Russia”
• Ancient Samaritan oil lamp discovered during work on Mount Gerizim – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary-Professor Emeritus Konrad Kinzl – The Classical Association of Canada

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE MARIUPOL

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Τζετζικαὶ ἔρευναι
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Collection «Eikasmós Online»
• Gold imitating a Paestum Bronze – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Obsessed with Literature: Humanizing and Enlightening the Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Socrates | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Unique Neolithic, Bronze Age burials, structures found in France
• Het Akropolismuseum – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 194
• Research finally answers what Bronze Age daggers were used for – The Archaeology News Network
• Phoenician necropolis discovered in southern Spain – The Archaeology News Network
• Graeco-Roman pottery workshop found in Alexandria – The Archaeology News Network
• Outrage as 2,200-year-old shipwreck looted off French Riviera – The Archaeology News Network
• Researchers home in on Thera volcano eruption date – The Archaeology News Network
• Barbarian Voices and Ventriloquisms
• PaleoJudaica.com: Agastya and the Golem
• PaleoJudaica.com: Berlejung et al. (eds.), Writing and Re-Writing History by Destruction (Mohr Siebeck)

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• International Intern at UofGuelph – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Next Generation of Classics Publishing | by Tom Hendrickson | In Medias Res | May, 2022 | Medium
• Researchers home in on Thera volcano eruption date
• Temple of Zeus Uncovered in Egyptian Sinai – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Unearthing Ancient Sudan’s Powerful, Complex Past – Atlas Obscura
• Let’s go on a pub crawl – round Pompeii!     | The Past
• “Give the Child a Book and Order Them to Read” – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 46

Fresh Podcasts

• Live from Mount Olympus: Are You Kidnapping Me? on Apple Podcasts

Wrenched out of the sunlit meadow, Persephone confronts Hades, ruler of the underworld, and his three-headed dog, the terrifying yet strangely affectionate Cerberus.  Persephone runs away from Hades’ gloomy palace, but learns there is no way home….

• The Dirt Podcast: The Neo-Assyrians on Apple Podcasts

Settle in for a HEFTY episode, folks! This week, Amber and Anna examine the world of the Neo-Assyrian empire. This means some substantial time spent context-setting, thanks to the complex nature of early Mesopotamian politics, religion, warfare, and state propaganda. Then we look further at that carefully crafted state propaganda and its influence on Assyriology. THEN we get into a bit of archaeology, and finally, discuss the Neo-Assyrian legacy and descendant communities. What a ride!

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: CLXVI: Day 42, Still Planning to K*ll Agamemnon, A Conversation with Ariadne & Elektra Author, Jennifer Saint on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with author and past guest, Jennifer Saint, about her new novel ELEKTRA, following the stories of Elektra, Clytemnestra, and Cassandra, and the curse on the house of Atreus… ELEKTRA is out now in North America and the UK, find it wherever you get your books. Follow Jennifer on Instagram and Twitter.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Forgotten Female Authors of Ancient Medicine – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Historical Weapons : The Falarica – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• The Metamorphoses, by Ovid, Book I, lines 1-51, read in Latin (Ancient ASMR) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
• Hymn to Hathor:Spell 186. Book of the Dead, Ani Papyrus. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Ancient Egyptian. – YouTube
• 7. Otho – A Good Death – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland

Book Reviews

• Georgian journals of Archaeology | Spartokos a lu

Exhibition Related Things

• Pharaoh of the two lands at the Louvre
• In the Classical World, Persia’s Powers Rivaled Greece and Rome | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Disability from Nagada to the Middle Kingdom
• 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

• Ancient Greek instructor-UWaterloo – The Classical Association of Canada
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Millennia-Old Teeth Challenge Military History of Ancient Greece
• Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago
• The Greatest Speech In History? Alexander The Great & The Opis Mutiny — Greek City Times
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends abundance imported from abroad.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. VI Non. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 2 Thargelion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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The rise of Christianity in the first few centuries AD is one of the most significant stories in world history. But it’s also an incredibly turbulent one. It’s a story filled with (in)famous episodes of conflict with the Roman state. It’s a story of co-existence, but also one of intolerance and of violence. From martyrdom to monasticism; from Celsus to Hypatia; from the Emperor Constantine hedging his divine bets to early Christians burning down one of the greatest architectural wonders of the ancient Mediterranean World. In today’s episode Tristan chats to author and journalist Catherine Nixey about the rise of Christianity and the sometimes-violent interactions that early Christians had with the Classical World.

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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 shortages.

… 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)