Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 23 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- Porto Cesareo, emergono dal mare frammenti di anfore, necropoli e relitti – Foto 1 di 6 – La Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno
- A Palermo rinvenuta sepoltura del III secolo a.C. (FOTO)Siciliafan
- Iraq arrests six in countrywide antiquity smuggling bust
- Louvre investigation continues – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
In Case You Missed It
- Antikythera wreck yields more exciting discoveries | eKathimerini.com
- Marble head of Hercules pulled up from Roman shipwreck site in Greece | Greece | The Guardian
- Volunteer archaeologists discover ancient Roman temple in Netherlands | Reuters
- Protesters Urge British Museum to Return the Parthenon Marbles
- Woman who bought stolen 2,000-year-old Roman bust from thrift shop speaks out: “The backstory of this head is nuts” – CBS News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- News – Member Spotlight: Robert F. Sutton – Archaeological Institute of America Societies
- Amplifying Antiquity through heavy metal music with Jeremy Swist | BrandeisNOW
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: For Virile Power
- Antigone, Dragging – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Truth About My Cat and Odysseus’ Dog | by Mark Buchan | In Medias Res | Jun, 2022 | Medium
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Numismatic News: The Egypt Centre at Swansea University joins OCRE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Archaeology and Economy in the Ancient World – Proceedings of the 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn 2018
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » 1st c. Roman sanctuary found in Netherlands
- Dromedarissen en kamelen – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Another 7th-century mosque excavated in Rahat
- PaleoJudaica.com: VR reconstructs the ancient synagogue of the Aleppo Codex
- PaleoJudaica.com: Mokhtarian, Medicine in the Talmud (UC Press)
- Judeans: Poseidonios (?) of Apameia and Strabo of Amaseia (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- The Latin Names in Harry Potter — ConsultTheClassics
- Barbarian wisdom: Various authors and Clement of Alexandria (second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Memorabilia Antonina: Online course introducing Greek and Roman mythology
- Physiognomy and ethnicity: Pseudo-Aristotle (third century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
Other Blog-like Publications
- Castaway: Souls, Survival and Sand-grains in Horace Odes 1.28 – Antigone
- Impressive new finds from the Antikythera shipwreck
- Statements by Chairman of the British Museum on the Parthenon sculptures
- The Acropolis Museum celebrated its 13th birthday
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on some inscriptions on sling bullets
- @DocCrom on Tibullus Elegies 1.5.
- @DocCrom on a tombstone for a Roman standard bearer
Fresh Podcasts
Melite was an ancient Roman settlement on the site of M’Dina in modern Malta. A small island in the middle of the mediterranean, Malta was in the path of wars and trade routes throughout the classical period, and we’re only just beginning to learn what it mean to live in Roman Malta. Guest: Robert Brown (PHD candidate in archaeology, Australian National University, and managing director of the Melite Civitas Romana Project).
Fresh Youtubery
- AENEID BOOK 1: Juno Gets Mad And Wrecks The Ships Of Aeneas On The Coast Of Africa – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Hermes e l’invenzione della lira. La festa della Musica all’ETRU – YouTube | Etruschannel
- Classics for All in Whitefriars School: Harrow, London – YouTube | Classics for All
- An Enigmatic Eros in Flight: A Masterpiece of Greek Vase Painting – YouTube | The Met
- African Subjects in Greek Pottery: A Call for Comprehensive Interpretation – YouTube | All About the Ancient World
- Conférence du Louvre : « Taharqa, découvreur des deux Nils, fondateur de Philæ » – YouTube | Musée du Louvre
Book Reviews
- Simon Preece, Horace’s “Odes” and “Carmen Saeculare”. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021.
- Amedeo Visconti, Massimiliano Lanzillo, Studi sull’Irpinia antica. Napoli: Tiotinx Edizioni, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
- At Museum for Rescued Art, Italy Displays Stolen Artifacts It Has Recovered | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Acropolis Museum. The year that passed. | WebWire
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
- Research Assistant, Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- An Aristotelian Defense of Ownership in the Age of the Sharing Economy – Public Discourse
- How Roman gladiators got ready to rumble | National Geographic
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 very devastating hot weather.
… 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 