Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 5 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- British Museum Offers Only to Loan Parthenon Marbles to Greece – The National Herald
- British Museum proposes new ‘Parthenon partnership’ with Greece in bid to end deadlock over Marbles
- Great jugs! 5 Talmudic-era storage vessels unearthed in Shiloh – www.israelhayom.com
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- Cicero Says August Is the Start of a Whole New Year! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Priamel
- Book Club | August 2022: Hymns of Callimachus – The Kosmos Society
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Only Country With No Monsters
- Wannabe Politicians and Lords of Lies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Alcestis and Admetus, by Gerard Hoet I (c. 1648 – 1733) | The Historian’s Hut
- The Tale Of Roman Nobleman Who Was Doomed By A Careless Herald | The Historian’s Hut
- Atlas of Classical History Revised Edition To Be Published in December | Ancient World Mapping Center
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Euphrosyne: Journal for Classical Philology
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Managing the Economy of Roman and Late Antique Egypt
- Filth vs. Philosophy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Epische schilden – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Catawiki Still Being Used for Laundering Ukrainian Artefacts
- Laudator Temporis Acti: I Live Alone
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Think Mortal Thoughts
- artefact-hunting in drug plantations and by cannabis-cultivators in Ukraine (around 2014) | conflict antiquities
- Celts, Persians, and Amazons: Smaller statues of fighting and dying “barbarians” associated with Attalos of Pergamon (third-second century BCE / second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Memorabilia Antonina: Notes on Doctor Who and History: ‘The Keys of Marinus’
- Looting Matters: Parthenon Partnership Proposed
- Dacians: “Trajan’s Column” at Rome celebrating subjugation (early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 197
- PaleoJudaica.com: Anniversary of the Battle of Cannae
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Underneath the ARCHES: Damaging “Participation” Better Than No Damage At All?
- Leaders, Corrupting the State for their Own Profit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Fresh Podcasts
It’s the end of Season 7! We can’t believe we made it…something like 42 episodes later? It’s been a wonderful, weird, challenging, and heartbreaking season, for many different reasons. Find out what went on behind the scenes, and what we’ve got planned for the future. We’ll be back September 22. Have a great summer!
This is a teaser of the bonus episode, Return of the Heracleidae found over on Patreon. The return of the Heracleidae would be a story the Dorian Spartans told themselves pointing to their legitimate rule over the lands they occupied. It would form the basis of their founding myth, connecting their existence back to the hero Heracles. The children of Heracles would be exiled from the Peloponnese after the heroes death. Though, the following generations would attempt to regain control of lands they saw as being rightfully theirs, as it had been Zeus’ intention that Heracles was to have become a great king there, before being tricked by his wife Hera.
Things aren’t looking good for Helen in Egypt, but then Menelaus rolls in and… makes things more difficult.
Adrienne Mayor is renowned for exploring the borders of history, science, archaeology, anthropology, and popular knowledge to find historical realities and scientific insights–glimmering, long-buried nuggets of truth–embedded in myth, legends, and folklore. Combing through ancient texts and obscure sources, she has spent decades prospecting for intriguing wonders and marvels, historical mysteries, diverting anecdotes, and hidden gems from ancient, medieval, and modern times. Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws: And Other Classical Myths, Historical Oddities, and Scientific Curiosities (Princeton UP, 2022) is a treasury of fifty of her most amazing and amusing discoveries. The book explores such subjects as how mirages inspired legends of cities in the sky; the true identity of winged serpents in ancient Egypt; how ghost ships led to the discovery of the Gulf Stream; and the beauty secrets of ancient Amazons. Other pieces examine Arthur Conan Doyle’s sea serpent and Geronimo’s dragon; Flaubert’s obsession with ancient Carthage; ancient tattooing practices; and the strange relationship between wine goblets and women’s breasts since the times of Helen of Troy and Marie Antoinette. And there’s much, much more. Showcasing Mayor’s trademark passion not to demythologize myths, but to uncover the fascinating truths buried beneath them, Flying Snakes and Griffin Claws is a wonder cabinet of delightful curiosities. More Episodes New Books Network
Fresh Youtubery
- History of the Roman Republic – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Rome: Strategy of Empire with James Lacey – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- 20. Didius Julianus – The Man Who Bought the Empire at Auction – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
Book Reviews
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- Classics Department – Williams College -HigherEdJobs
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Alia
- The Sea Goddesses of Greek Mythology
- Magical Roman ruins that inspired Tolkien’s Middle Earth 90 minutes from Birmingham – Birmingham Live
- What led to the downfall of the Roman empire? | Culture | Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 01.08.2022
- The Antikythera Mechanism: The ‘computer’ from Ancient Greece | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
- Euripides’ Medea and Her Terrible Revenge Against the Patriarchy
- Asia under the Seleucids, a Hellenic Empire – Neos Kosmos
- The forgotten voyagers of ancient Greece, China and Scandinavia
- Reunification of Parthenon Marbles is ‘an International Demand’
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 both an outbreak of disease and a shortage of the necessities of 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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