Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 29 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Inescapable Fact
- Music Monday: Getting Back to Work | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Don’t Hope Without Despair! – Seneca, Robot – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Imperishable Fame
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Standards for Networking Ancient Prosopographies (SNAP:DRGN)
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- Unpacking Archaeology – Archaeogaming
- The Wrong Monkey: Ancient Greek and Latin Novels
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An All-Embracing Collective
- The Wedding of Alexander and Roxana, attributed to Gerard de Lairesse (c. 1641 – 1711) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Bitter-Sweet Myth Of Glaucos’ Death And Resurrection | The Historian’s Hut
- Byblos, Porte de la mer – Mainzer Beobachter
- A tour of Mycenae – It’s All Greek To Me
- PaleoJudaica.com: McGrath in the footsteps of John the Baptist
- PaleoJudaica.com: Open-access Pentateuchal Sources
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Blog: Teaching in a Time of Anti-Asian Violence: Reflections on Asian & Asian American Experiences in Classical Studies, Part 1 | Society for Classical Studies
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Fresh Podcasts
Cleopatra VII was part of a dynasty of Macedonian rulers founded by Ptolemy, who served as general under Alexander the Great during his conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C. Cleopatra served as the dominant ruler in all three of her co-regencies and was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. Stacy Schiff is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra: A Life. Stacy joins Dan on the podcast to reconstruct Cleopatra’s life. From ascension to the throne, her relationships with Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony, to her eventual death, Stacy and Dan chart the life of a ruler who controlled the largest territory of any woman.
The discovery of oysters and crabs at Nabatean and Roman caravan sites in the Negev has us thinking, what’s going on here? What do we learn about trade and traders from food remains? Have we been too focused on the exports and not enough on the imports? One thing is for sure, you gotta eat.
Never before has the Earth faced a challenge like this. Half the year with no harvest means half the year without food. Together, Persephone and Demeter must find a way to save humanity, and maybe learn a bit more about each other along the way.
Countless faces of real people survive in ancient portraiture, but how often do we know their names, or anything about their lives? In this episode, Dr. Judith Swaddling joins Melissa and Chelsea to talk about Seianti Hanunia Tlesnasa, an Etruscan woman who lived over 2000 years ago in Italy. Seianti is an incredible person to get to know, since we have a full-sized portrait of her lying atop her sarcophagus, as well as the physical remains of her skeleton. Listen in as Dr. Swaddling reveals the layers of Seianti’s past and discusses the limits to how much we can actually know about any one person from the ancient Mediterranean world.
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Christopher A. Faraone, Hexametrical genres from Homer to Theocritus. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Ursula Kästner, Stefan Schmidt, Inszenierung von Identitäten: unteritalische Vasenmalerei zwischen Griechen und Indigenen. Beihefte zum Corpus vasorum antiquorum, 8. München: Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2018.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- International Conference | A.g.a.t.h.o.c.l.e.s.
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- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Departmental Lecturer in Ancient History Faculty of Classics, Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles, Oriel College and Jesus College, Oxford
- Details : Allan J Myers Lecturer in Classics (Latin Language and Literature) : The University of Melbourne
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Alia
- Beer Was Brewed in Bronze Age Greece
- The Jewish Catacombs Of Rome | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Saul Jay Singer | 24 Sivan 5782 – June 22, 2022 | JewishPress.com
- Five Caryatids in Athens Still Waiting for Their Lonely Sister
- A Galilean Fortress and the Power of the Hasmonean Dynasty
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 good harvest.
… 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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