Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 7 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
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- The Wrong Monkey: The Commentary on Vergil of Servius Grammaticus… and Donatus
- Distracted from Justice by Profit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- What Hephaestus Really Wanted from Thetis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Armenië in Assen – Mainzer Beobachter
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- Scholars and their Silly Questions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Leadership
- PaleoJudaica.com: Raja, … A History of Palmyra (OUP)
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Digging Up and Dispersing Another Decontextualised Hoard
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pompeian Peristyle Gardens
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- How Many Angels on the Head of a Pin? How Many Oarsmen on Achilles’ Ships? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Music Monday: Grachan Moncur III | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- De slag bij Dyrrhachion – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: More Complicity and Wobbly Logic in UK Debate on Artefact Collecting
- The Key to Unlocking Classical Architecture: The De Architectura of Vitruvius
- Spencer Alley: Middle-Period Titian – Opinions by S.J. Freedberg (II)
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- Experimental archaeology: Marching an elephant over the Alps – Big Think
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Despite the defeat at Raphia, Antiochus III was not discouraged from further conquests. After dealing with his final rival Achaeus in 213, the Seleucid king would lead a massive expeditionary force into Asia, an anabasis, intending to assert his authority over the wayward satrapies and kingdoms that splintered away during the troubled reigns of his predecessors. Marching from Armenia to India between 212-205, Antiochus and his army would battle the likes of Arsaces II of Parthia and Euthydemus I of Greco-Bactria as they restored the borders of the empire, allowing Antiochus to claim the epithet Megas (the Great) as a testament to his power.
In 1919, excavators working near Edinburgh in Scotland unearthed the largest hoard of Roman hacksilver ever found. The trove, containing mostly silver vessels but also some personal items and coins, was probably buried in the early 5th century AD – just as the legions were finally pulling out of Britannia. The treasures – found at the ancient hillfort site of Traprain Law – shine a fascinating light on the connections between the Iron Age peoples of what is now Scotland and the rest of the Roman Empire. In this episode Tristan is joined by archaeologist Dr Fraser Hunter, Principal Curator at the National Museum of Scotland, who shares his passionate insights into the Traprain Law Treasure and what it tells us about late Roman Britain.
Despite the defeat at Raphia, Antiochus III was not discouraged from further conquests. After dealing with his final rival Achaeus in 213, the Seleucid king would lead a massive expeditionary force into Asia, an anabasis, intending to assert his authority over the wayward satrapies and kingdoms that splintered away during the troubled reigns of his predecessors. Marching from Armenia to India between 212-205, Antiochus and his army would battle the likes of Arsaces II of Parthia and Euthydemus I of Greco-Bactria as they restored the borders of the empire, allowing Antiochus to claim the epithet Megas (the Great) as a testament to his power.
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- Roman Religion Before the Greeks – Ancient History DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Craziest Ancient Roman “Facts” About Seals – YouTube | Classics in Color
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- Conférence annuelle de l’Ecole française d’Athènes 2022 – 1ere partie_FR – YouTube
Book Reviews
- Is God circumcised? How people in ancient times viewed the Heavenly Body | The Times of Israel
- BMCR – Caroline Macé, Jost Gippert, The multilingual Physiologus: studies in the oldest Greek recension and its translations. Instrumenta Patristica et Mediaevalia, 84. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends that some pest will destroy crops just as they are maturing.
… 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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