Hodie est Kal. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 2 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- Convert’s ‘Bloody’ Curse Against Robbers Found in Ancient Galilee Grave – Haaretz.com
- Egyptian antiquities connected to international trafficking ring seized from Metropolitan Museum in New York
- The Queen’s gambit: The battle to return the ancient Libyan ruins in Windsor’s Great Park | Middle East Eye
- First Roman military amphitheater in Southern Levant – The Jerusalem Post
- Industrial manufacturing of wool and wool tex | EurekAlert!
- Haydarpaşa Station offers big surprises
In Case You Missed It
- Unique cremation site of the Late Bronze Age was left to the elements
- Penis graffiti and explicit insult carved into ancient stone ‘raises eyebrows’ at Roman fort | Live Science
- Turkey’s largest antiquities theft operation raids sites in 38 provinces – The Jerusalem Post
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Revised Edition Introduces a Typographical Error
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Ancient Ways of Speech and Ancient Modes of Thought
- Aegean scripts in the digital age 2: practising Linear B – It’s All Greek To Me
- Praising Plato, by the Poet Aristotle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Akkadian Drinking Song
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Museum Head in a Fix
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: 2022 North American Patristics Society Annual Meeting Materials
- Kickstarter 300% backed! Time for a stretch goal! | Greek Myth Comix
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nécropole de la ville antique de Gorgippia : complexe de tombes au tournant des IIe-IIIe siècles de n. è
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New in ANEM: Biblical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of P. Kyle McCarter Jr.
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Metal Detectorist’s Flaccid or not Flaccid, Roman or Not-Roman Penis Pendant Discussed by UK Court
- Teaching the Mahabharata in a Time of War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Apollo And Daphne, By Felice Giani (c. 1758–1823) | The Historian’s Hut
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Documenting destruction: The race to map Ukraine’s historic buildings
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: What Have you Done?
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Who Writes this stuff and Why?
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Deep Roman well found in Germany
- Three Things Wednesday: Study Season | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- 2100-Year-Old Agricultural Farmstead uncovered next to Nahal Arbel
- The Inscriptions of the Jewish Catacomb at Vigna Randanini | Variant Readings
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient Roman amphitheatre near Megiddo
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hakola et al. (eds.) Scriptures in the Making (Peeters)
- PaleoJudaica.com: A proselyte’s “hex” tombstone at Beit She’arim
- May 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Syntactic Peculiarity
- Wealth and Greed — ConsultTheClassics
- Email Me: Notes on Removing Myself from Twitter
- Book Club | June 2022: Bring Your Own Book – The Kosmos Society
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Pierre Bergé Needed to be More Careful Being Associated with Antiquities Sales
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- A 3400-year-old city emerges from the Tigris River. The Mittani Empire-era
- Industrial manufacturing of wool and wool textiles in the Bronze Age Italy
- The Disgusting Roman Toilet Brush for a Butt Caused Spread of Diseases | Short History
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Maths teacher, broadcaster and writer Bobby Seagull joins Jasmine to kick off the series as they discuss how ancient theories have stood the test of time and why Pythagoras is not the only classical Mathematician you should know about.
- Real Dictators: Julius Caesar Part 1: The Roman Dictator on Apple Podcasts
- Real Dictators: Julius Caesar Part 2: Rendezvous With Cleopatra on Apple Podcasts
- Real Dictators: Julius Caesar Part 3: Murder in the Senate on Apple Podcasts
Politician, writer, warrior, lover… Julius Caesar was the dictator-for-life who became the absolute ruler of Rome and its domains. His life was a series of extraordinary and gruesome adventures. The young student kidnapped by pirates. The general who butchered the people of Gaul and led the Roman legions into Britain. The lothario famously entranced by Cleopatra. But how much truth do the legends contain? …
Welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of Peopling the Past! Join our featured expert, Dr. Natalie Swain, and hosts Drs. Chelsea Gardner and Melissa Funke, for the premiere of our season on Women in the Ancient Mediterranean. Dr. Swain is an expert on the reception of Classics in modern comics and during this episode we discuss how ancient women, both real and mythological, figure into comics of the 20th and 21st centuries. You will hear about well-known favourites like Wonder Woman, but you’ll also have a chance to learn about newer comics, like Lore Olympus, Nubia, and Three. Together, we chat about how some awesome new re-tellings of ancient stories by more diverse authors are changing the landscape of traditional comics.
Thirty three scholars, philosophers, and archaeologists answer the question: If you could time travel to the ancient world, who would you want to meet
Fresh Youtubery
- Historian Reviews Pompeii Life In THE HOUSE WITH THE GOLDEN DOOR (The Wolf Den Trilogy Book 2) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- 11. Domitian – A Court Conspiracy – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- Reptiles: Surprisingly Connected Etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
- The Secrets Of How The Ancient World Communicated | Footprints of Civilization | Odyssey – YouTube
- Mr Richard Abdy: Why was Hadrian such a big spender? – YouTube | Roman Society
Book Reviews
- Nécropole de la ville antique de Gorgippia : complexe de tombes au tournant des IIe-IIIe siècles de n. è | Spartokos a lu
- How History Came to Matter | Higher Ed Gamma
- The American Scholar: More Than a ‘Mere Echo’ – Lauren Elkin
Exhibition Related Things
- Sudanese pharaohs at the Louvre – Culture – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
- A mess: British Museum’s Feminine Power – the Divine to the Demonic reviewed | The Spectator
- From Julius Caesar to Boadicea: a century of Icenian coins | The Past
Dramatic Receptions
- Hancock’s ‘Antony and Cleopatra’ set for debut • Current Publishing
- The Opera “Iliad” Presented at the Municipal Theater of Piraeus – The National Herald
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
Alia
- What does the name AJAX stand for? Spray and wipe brand’s heritage revealed | Daily Mail Online
- Odrysian Kingdom: a rough diamond in the ancient world – Neos Kosmos
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 an abundance of crops, except for barley, and there will be an outbreak of dangerous diseases.
… 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)
rogueclassicism 