Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 18 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Spanish police recover ancient roman altar in British collection stolen in 1962 – Euro Weekly News
• The answer to the Parthenon marbles dispute: George Osborne and a 3D printer | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
• Museum of Rescued Art showcases stolen relics that have returned to Italy | Italy | The Guardian
• Yemen urges European countries to ban agencies auctioning Yemeni antiquities
• Archeologia: scoperte a Cerveteri 4 lastre etrusche dipinte – Lazio – ANSA.it
• A 2000 year-old treasure with about 300 Roman coins discovered in Mures county by a treasure hunter
• Southern Connector Road in Swindon delayed by discovery of Roman remains | Swindon Advertiser
• The Taliban Arrests Six People for Allegedly Excavating Historical Sites Illegally – The Khaama Press News Agency

In Case You Missed It

• Remains of a 2,100-year-old Gallo-Roman worship complex found in France – EgyptToday

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Amanda Claridge obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian

Public Facing Classics

• Roehampton Staff Are Fighting for the Future of Education
• Without a Rosetta Stone, can linguists decipher Minoan script? | Aeon Essays

Fresh Bloggery

• Ancient Greek Mythical Creatures Book Launch – 10 days left! | Greek Myth Comix
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph for a Roman Freedwoman
• Three Things Thursday: Late Antique Corinth, Travel, and End Games | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• What’s the Odyssey About? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lost Heritage Atlas: Stories from the lost places of our past
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Traffici commerciali e approdi portuali nella Sardegna meridionale: Analisi dei contenitori da trasporto e dei contesti subacquei (III-VII secolo)
• The Haters of Odysseus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le détroit de Gibraltar (Antiquité – Moyen Âge). II: Espaces et figures de pouvoir
• Stealing from Homer – A Difficult Task! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Shitting on Pope’s Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Up close with the Ryedale Hoard
• Byblos’ Grande Résidence – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: About that camel and that needle
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Sassanian coinage
• PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Jewish Kingdom of Himyar succumb to drought?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Changes in the Meaning of Words
• Guest blog: Strangers in a strange city – MAPPOLA
• Philo of Alexandria on Germans (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Other Blog-like Publications

• Biblical Intertextuality: The Virgin Mary as the Ark of the Covenant – Antigone
• Olive trees were first domesticated 7,000 years ago
• Unveiling of Thracian burial mound at Sveshtari
• ANE TODAY – 202206 – Rapid Change of Climate Did Not Cause the Fall of the Akkadian Empire – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• The Greek Philosopher Who Laid The Foundation For Christianity And Stoicism | by Erik Brown | Jun, 2022 | History of Yesterday

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Tristia 3.8.1-12
• @DocCrom on coins of post-Antigonid Macedonia

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: National Weapons – were nations named after weapons or vice versa? on Apple Podcasts

Scot emailed us this question for Murray to answer; ‘Certain tribal confederations, like the Franks & Saxons, typically bear “namesake” weapons (e.g. the Francisca and the Sax). Is the name of the weapon thought to be derived from the name of the confederation, or is the name of the confederation derived from the weapon?’

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: Interview: Coinage and Numismatics in Greek Central Asia with Dr. Frank Lee Holt on Apple Podcasts

Coins are the most enduring symbols of the Greco-Bactrian and the Indo-Greek kingdoms, considered to be invaluable tools in reconstructing their chronologies in absence of a written history. Joining our series is numismatist Dr. Frank Lee Holt, author of books such as “Thundering Zeus: The Making of Hellenistic Bactria” and “Lost World of the Golden King: In Search of Ancient Afghanistan”, who discusses how coins can be used (or misused) to tell the story of Hellenistic Bactria, and their vital role in preserving the threatened cultural heritage of Central Asia.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Just Keep Swimming, Hero, Leander & the World of Ancient Swimming w/ Professor Karen Carr on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with Professor Karen Carr about stories of Hero and Leander, and ancient swimming practices across the world. Stories that speak to how different cultures through history saw the act of swimming and what it meant. Follow Karen Carr on Twitter for more, and pick up a copy of her new book Shifting Currents: A World History of Swimming, available now!

• The Rest Is History: 197. Antony & Cleopatra on Apple Podcasts

After centuries of Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s relationship being told and fictionalised by Plutarch and Shakespeare alike, Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook uncover what history tells us about this power couple. They reveal how the rise of Octavian as a threat caused Mark Antony to turn to Cleopatra for support. It was a relationship that had less to do with romance and love, and more to do with monetary and territory gains.

Fresh Youtubery

• Religious Freedom For Me, Not For Thee! (Twit Tweets 38, ft. Megal Lewis of @Digital Hammurabi ) – YouTube | Watering hole
• The Oldest Monument in Rome – YouTube | Smarthistory
• Professor Paul Cartledge: The Battle of Platea: What if the Greeks had lost? – YouTube | Roman Society
• The Greek Mythology Of The Amazons, As Told In QUEENS OF THEMISCYRA – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Dialoghi in Curia | “Arte romana” di Massimiliano Papini – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• Annual Open Meeting 2022 Invited Lecture by Chelsea A. M. Gardner – YouTube | Canadian Institute in Greece
• Annual Open Meeting 2022 Director’s Report – YouTube | Canadian Institute in Greece
• Conférence : « Le souvenir de Méroé… La Nubie antique dans les savoirs géographiques du Moyen Âge » – YouTube | Musée du Louvre

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Kristina M. Neumann, Antioch in Syria: a history from coins (300 BCE-450 CE). Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021
• BMCR – Benedikt Eckhardt, Romanisierung und Verbrüderung. Das Vereinswesen im römischen Reich. KLIO / Beihefte. Neue Folge 34. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR – Oliver Bräckel, Flucht auswärtiger Eliten ins Römische Reich Asyl und Exil. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• The Athens and Epidaurus Festival Keeps Ancient Greek Theater Alive
• Rousuck’s Review: Euripides’ “Bakkhai” updated at Center Stage | WYPR

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• GOLDEN YEARS – 200 years of Egyptology – Archaeology Wiki
• 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

• What is the Meaning of Centauro Title?
• Archestratus: The Ancient Greek Gourmand on the Secrets of Gastronomy
• Alexander The Great: History & Facial Reconstructions Revealed

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 days of searing heat and destruction of crops by mice, moles, and locusts. Even so, there will be abundance, but also murders of people.

… 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)