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In the News
- Archaeologists discover Seleucid tumulus, find no traces of missing deceased – Tehran Times
- A Top Swiss Collector Believes He’s Been Fooled by the Antiquities Smuggling Ring That Ensnared the Louvre’s Director: ‘It’s Frightening’ | Artnet News
- Roman gate closed after bits of ancient stone fall off
- Cambridge dons balk at giving ‘mutual respect’ | News | The Times
- There is a ‘deal to be done’ with Greece over Parthenon Marbles, says British Museum chairman George Osborne
- Surprised by Archaeological Proof for Bible Earthquake – Israel Today
- Italy creates new museum for trafficked ancient artifacts | The Independent
- Pioneering drone technology leads to new discoveries at Girsu, Iraq
- Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 yea | EurekAlert!
- Nemea archaeological site wins European Cultural Heritage Award – Ειδήσεις – νέα – Το Βήμα Online
- Archaeologist solves 100-year-old mystery of anonymous god – The First News
In Case You Missed It
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- Don’t be stoic: Roman Stoicism’s origins show its perniciousness | Psyche Ideas
- How the Romans dealt with mutineers | The Spectator Australia
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Numberless Barbarian Hordes
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Philetos
- No Wit in the Latin Poets – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Swiss Coffin Project
- Pretty as a Pictor: Painters in the Roman Mediterranean – History From Below
- This Unforgetting Stone (Another Epitaph) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Gods Don’t Hate Those Who Suffer… – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alexander The Great On His Sickbed, By Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (c. 1783 – 1853) | The Historian’s Hut
- Displaying Returned Antiquities
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Classical Education
- PaleoJudaica.com: What’s with that Nazirite hair?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Who was Palmyra’s anonymous god?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Deyrul Zafaran Monastery in Turkey
- Perzisch Armenië – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Telesistratos
- Panathenaic amphorae from Toronto, Canada back to their birthplace
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Know-It-All
- Only Bad Dudes Want Statues in the First Place – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The June Poems in the Chronography of 354 – Roger Pearse
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Spear and Bow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavating Archives: Narratives form 20th Centiuy Palmyra
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: CAWM Map Tiles: Consortium of Ancient World Mappers
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Monde des Barbares de Tauride et de Chersonèse, Rome, Byzance
- Our Debts to Self and Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Journal of Epigraphic Studies, 5 (2022), just published – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- No, You Can’t Buy One Square Foot of Land in Scotland and Become a “Scottish Lord” – Tales of Times Forgotten
- De tyran – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Upcoming ToI archaeology event in Jerusalem
- PaleoJudaica.com: This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast
- PaleoJudaica.com: Is the new Oxford Mishnah “accessible?”
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Orcs
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Withdrawing to the Vanishing Point
- Persian wisdom: Aristoxenos of Tarentum on Pythagoras and Zoroaster (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Persian wisdom: Theopompos of Chios and Plutarch on Magians (fourth century BCE and later) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Persian wisdom: Eudemos of Rhodes on Magians (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Indians: Nearchos, Megasthenes, and Arrian (fourth century BCE-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenician wisdom: Damascius on Eudemos of Rhodes and Mochos of Sidon (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenician, Egyptian and Persian wisdom: Iamblichos of Chalkis on Pythagoras (fourth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenician, Egyptian and Babylonian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre on Pythagoras (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenician wisdom: Strabo and Poseidonios on Mochos of Sidon (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenician wisdom: Ampelius on Mochos of Sidon (early-third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- SIAC NEWSLETTER – 206 (04-05/2022)  | Tulliana News
- PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Constructing the African: A Panoply Interview with Najee Olya.
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Turkish-European Archaeology Days – DAİstanbul
- Musings of an Admissions Tutor and Outreach Officer and the reawakening after the pandemic | Classics at Reading
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Fate of Aristotle’s Library – Antigone
- The reconstructed appearance of a woman buried four thousand years ago
- Bible Translations: A Classicist Weighs In | Nadya Williams
- Taş Tepeler’s male sculptures and figurines may be an indication of a culture that symbolized the importance of fertility and population – Arkeonews
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
What does it mean to be a “free woman” in the ancient Mediterranean world? Listen in as our guest, Dr. Stephanie Budin, joins Chelsea and Melissa to discuss women who lived outside of the traditional confines of the patriarchy and who were not under the direct control of a man. Dr. Budin, a historian and expert in ancient religion and sexuality, tells us about “harimatu” in ancient Mesopotamia and refutes the idea that these free women were prostitutes. This episode has it all: sex, gender-bending legal documents, and the dismantling of patriarchal assumptions about women’s freedom and the origins of prostitution.
The central Mediterranean is home to a bounty of creatures – fish, dolphins, and… mermaids? In today’s episode Dr Amelia Brown returns to the podcast to talk marine mammals and Merpeople. From iconic characters such as Thetis, mother to one of the most famous heroes in the ancient world (anyone heard of a man called Achilles?) to the role Nereids played throughout Greek Mythology – just what can we learn from these mythical creatures and do we really want to be part of their world?
In around 443 BCE Rome is navigating its relationships with its neighbours. Last time we caught up with Rome they became involved in the affairs of the nearby city of Ardea. The conflict seems to have centred around a very attractive plebeian woman whose name has not been recorded in the annals of history. It’s this meddling in Ardea which sets the scene for 442 BCE…
At the urging of mom (Venus) Aeneas finally decides to bolt from Troy, but not before encountering a cowering Helen lurking in the shadows. His instinct is for bloody vengeance, but once again Fate has other ideas and dust brooms our hero out the gates. Aeneas is able to save his dad and son (and meet other haggard Trojans by the ol’ cypress tree) but discovers his wife as a ghost. Creusa tells him her heart will go on and then gives him the “Hesperia” prophecy (for about the zillionth time). Then its on to Book 3! Aeneas now has a vague kind of destiny but where will it lead? Hey, Thrace! Let’s offramp here! NO. Delos? UH-UH. Oh Crete, then, right? TRY AGAIN. And is this Book killer or filler (like that 4th track on every Bon Jovi album)? As the Trojans slowly shed their past, brace yourself for the creepiest gardening you’ve ever encountered, stanky bird-women, and the culinary oddity of “eating one’s tables”. What is that, some kind of ancient bread bowl? Dardanian Flatizza?
- Ancient History Fangirl: Dionysus: Patron God of Gender Rebels (With Cait Corrain) on Apple Podcasts
Who’s the queerest of the gods? It’s hard to say…but there’s a strong case to be made that it’s Dionysus. The god of wine and revolutionaries who rebelled ferociously against the gender binary, Dionysus breaks the mold in so many ways–and he does it with a sense of joy that’s irresistible.
- History Extra podcast: The end of Roman Britain | 2. life in the late imperial age on Apple Podcasts
In the second episode of our podcast series on the end of Roman Britain, David Musgrove investigates what life was like for people living in the later Roman era, in the third and fourth centuries. He speaks to Professor Will Bowden to explore the inequalities that existed between the haves and have-nots, and how far the stresses and strains that were at play in the wider empire impacted on everyday life in Britain.
Fresh Youtubery
- 13. Trajan – If Only I Were Younger – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- Crewing the Ship: ‘By Jove Theatre Company’ Port Ancient Highlight – YouTube | Save Ancient Studies Alliance
- The Reality of Pompeii & Its Ancient Roman World As Told By Daisy Dunn in IN THE SHADOW OF VESUVIUS – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- What Was Roman Army Boot Camp Like? #shorts #history #rome – YouTube | Invicta
- La Casa di Cerere e lo scheletro del cavallo di Maiuri ritornano al pubblico al termine del restauro – YouTube | Pompeii
- Self-sufficiency in Aristotle and others: what’s so good about Autarkeia? – YouTube | British School at Athens
- Janric van Rookhuijzen on Herodotus’ account of the Persian siege of the Acropolis and its reception – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
- Ecole française d’Athènes
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Mapping Ancient Athens – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Mapping Cultural Heritage – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Deepening the Digital Landscape – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- The Interactive Nolli Map of Rome 2.0 – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Strolling in a Lost Landscape – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Historical Maps on the Internet – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Corinth to Rome: Digital Mapping from Field and Lab – YouTube
- 08/04/2022- Dipylon Seminar- Mapping Ancient Rome – YouTube
- The Sorcery of Circe (Improvisation for ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre) – YouTube | Michael Levy
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Marina Marren, Plato and Aristophanes: comedy, politics, and the pursuit of a just life. Rereading ancient philosophy. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, Glass, lamps, and Jerash bowls. Final publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project III. Jerash Papers, 8. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
- Le Monde des Barbares de Tauride et de Chersonèse, Rome, Byzance | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – Christopher Whitton, The arts of imitation in Latin prose: Pliny’s “Epistles”/Quintilian in brief. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- BMCR – Mark Fullerton, Art and archaeology of the Roman world. London: Thames & Hudson, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
- New discoveries in Iraq upend story of Mesopotamia
- I colori di Pompei al Museo Archeologico di Bologna – MediterraneoAntico
- City Life Org – Groundbreaking Exhibition at The Met Explores Use of Color in Ancient Greek and Roman Sculpture
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Workshop on the zodiac and astral imagery in the ancient world
- Michael Ventris at 100 | Institute of Classical Studies
- 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
- Phd Position – Ancient Greek Archaeology Job in Melbourne – SEEK
- Summer Teacher Needed | The Louisiana Classicist
- Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Aegae: The Cradle of Ancient Macedonia
- On the Ancient Mysteries of Linen ‹ Literary Hub
- Daily Life in Ancient Greece: What it Was Like to Live in Athens and Sparta
- Plato’s Best (and Worst) Ideas Will Surprise You
- The Nine Muses of Greek Mythology and Their Powers
- The Archaeology of Wine Production in Roman and Pre-Roman Italy | July 2022 (126.3) | American Journal of Archaeology
- Kerameikos: From Potters’ Quarter to Greece’s Largest Necropolis
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 a shortage of the necessities of life and the outbreak of war, while a prominent many will disappear from public life.
… 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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