Hodie est a.d. V Id. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 13 Hekatombion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- UK school Latin course overhauled to reflect diversity of Roman world | Languages | The Guardian
- Libyan antiquities at risk from political instability, conflict – Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East
- Falerii, nuove rivelazioni dall’ultima campagna di scavi – Corriere di Viterbo
- Tomb from Greco-Roman era discovered in Egypt
- La ricostruzione a colori dei Bronzi domani in un convegno a Roma – Calabria.Live
In Case You Missed It
- Archaeologists reveal oldest inscription in Jerusalem: A Canaanite curse – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
- Radiogiornale Latino 10.07.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- Ephemeris – MISSILIA UCRAINA
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Ivory Imperial Reliefs from Ephesus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Students without Teaching – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cities, Resources and Religion – Economic Implications of Religion in Graeco-Roman Urban Environments
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: I cataloghi storici digitalizzati dell’ICCU
- I hate Education: Let Me Compose a Poem About It – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Ancient colors revived at the Met
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Jerome Eisenberg of Royal Athena
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Narcissus
- Het voorhangsel in de tempel – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 196
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ge’ez Psalter taken from Ethiopia to Israel
- PaleoJudaica.com: Destro & Pesce (eds.), From Jesus to Christian Origins (Brepols)
- De L-vormige tempel van Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Characteristics of Peoples
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Coptic Dictionary Online
- Persius Addresses a Petulant Man-Baby – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online– Kyprianos Update
- Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
- Demetrius, Where Does Punctuation Come From? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alexander Triumphant In Babylon, By Giovanni Battista Pittoni (c. 1687-1767) | The Historian’s Hut
- In Ancient Greece, Children Wearing Drag Was a Religious Obligation! – Tales of Times Forgotten
- MoM | Archetype – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Unprovenanced Artefact from Illegal Artefact Hunting on Known Site is Centre of Controversy
- Autism and Classical Myth: Roehampton students on Classics and neurodiversity: Poppy and Lucy!
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dawson, The Message of the Jerusalem Council in the Acts of the Apostles (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Talmud know a lost book of Balaam?
- Arkadians: Polybios on an environmental theory of peoplehood (second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Spencer Alley: Andrea Appiani (1754-1817) – Idealized Imagery
- Libyans / Africans: Sallust (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Britons: Tacitus (late first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Judean perspectives: Philo on the superiority of Moses and Judean ancestral customs (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Britons: Julius Caesar (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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- A Field Guide to Greek Metre – Antigone
- Archaeologists reveal first known depictions of two biblical heroines
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- Ancient Electrum Coins – Strength and Unity of an Empire
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata, “Familia Romana”, chapter 9 (“Pastor et oves”). Ex LLPSI capitulum IX Latine recitatum. This is part of “Lectiones aestivae”, the summer series where I read passages of Latin texts from all ages.
In the final part of our Samnite Wars episodes, Tristan is once again joined by Dr Kathryn Lomas from Durham University to find out more about these conflicts and the effect they had on the rise of Rome as an ancient superpower. With three wars between the Roman Republic and the Samnite armies, beginning in 343 BC and ending with a Roman victory in 290 BC – what happened in those 53 years? In this episode, Tristan and Kathryn cover the second and third wars, and look at the impact these fabled events had on the socio-political make up of the Italian peninsula. With Rome successfully taking control of large swathes of central and southern Italy, and the arrival of Pyrrhus, one of history’s most infamous men – is this the beginning of Roman domination across the Mediterranean?
Tommy Wasserman discusses New Testament manuscripts and new printed Greek editions. He is Professor at Örebro School of Theology (Sweden) and Ansgar Teologiske Høgskole (Norway).
The influence of Italian literary theatre can be seen in later works, but if there is one form that infiltrated the general consciousness of theatrical comedy on the continent it is the Commedia Dell’arte.
Fresh Youtubery
- Evolution of the Indo-European Languages – Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Lingua Latina per Se Illustrata cap. 9, “Pastor et oves” || Lectiones aestivae – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Apollo Slew the Python (Improvisation for Ancient Greek Tortoise Shell Lyre) – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Serial Killers: The Human Monsters of the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Iliad 1.1-43. Ancient Greek with lyre. Iliad A Day, for 365 days or shorter! Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- Iliad in English, spoken. Iliad 1.1-43. Iliad A Day. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
Book Reviews
- AJA – The Archaeology of Late Bronze Age Interaction and Mobility at the Gates of Europe: People, Things, and Networks Around the Southern Adriatic Sea, by Francesco Iacono
- AJA – Poteri e strategie familiari di Volterra: Il caso di una comunità etrusca nel mondo romano, by Valentina Limina
- AJA – The Transition to Late Antiquity on the Lower Danube: Excavations and Survey at Dichin, a Late Roman to Early Byzantine Fort and a Roman Aqueduct, by Andrew Poulter, with contributions by Michael Boyd, Anastasia Cholakova, Ventzislav Dinchev, Eleanor Ghey, Pam Grinter, Peter Guest, A. Hammon, Tania Hristova, Barbara Hurman, Cluny Johnstone, W.H. Manning, Heike Neumann, Rachel Parks, Thomas Smith, Vivien Swan, Roger Tomlin, Ivan Tsurov, Pavlina Vladkova, and Susan Watts
- Atlas de la chôra proche de de Chersonèse Taurique II | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – Ralph Araque Gonzalez, Inter-cultural communications and iconography in the western Mediterranean during the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age. Freiburger archäologische Studien, Band 9. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2018.
- BMCR – Fabio Della Schiava, Blondus Flavius. Roma instaurata. Edizione nazionale delle opere di Biondo Flavio, 7. Roma: Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medioevo, 2020.
- BMCR – Catalina Balmaceda, “Libertas” and “res publica” in the Roman Republic: ideas of freedom and Roman politics. Impact of empire, 37. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
- Jul 23 | Lysistrata: The Naughty Ancient Greek Comedy | Peabody, MA Patch
- Photos: First Look at EURYDICE At The Weathervane Theatre
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
Alia
- History of drugs: Getting high with ancient Greeks and Romans – Big Think
- The Archaeological Mystery of Aristotle’s Tomb
- The Spartans: An Ancient War Machine
- Modern Sport Psychology Meets Ancient Philosophy | Psychology Today
- The Mystery of the Riace Bronzes, Ancient Greek Statues Found in Italy
- Face of Zeus on Mt Olympus: Ancient Carving or Optical Illusion
- The Oracle that Stopped Alexander the Great’s Invasion of India
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 hot weather, severe rain, and a shortage of grain.
… 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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