Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- Italy, new digs begin in archaeological park of Ostia antica – General news – ANSAMed.it
- Mount Nemrut hosts Commagene Biennial | Daily Sabah
- Ecbatana: photo exhibit, workshop to spotlight 22 seasons of excavation – Tehran Times
- Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate
- Archaeologists in search of 6,000-year-old ruins in Sialk hills – Tehran Times
- Claros serves as prophecy center after Christinaity, new finds reveal | Daily Sabah
- Larnaca locals shouldn’t pay for unearthed antiquities | Cyprus Mail
- Roman Caistor: Dig reveals ‘what the Iceni did next’ – BBC News
- A Hidden Landscape We Can No Longer See May Explain The Mystery of The Pyramids : ScienceAlert
In Case You Missed It
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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- Associate Professor Hérica Valladares to take American Academy in Rome Residency in Fall 2022 | Department of Classics
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- What I Found in the Earth | The Cornell Daily Sun
- Brown: Callimachus and ‘short and sweet’ TED talks: tricks of the trade of skills-based personalized learning – Mainline Media News
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Usha in the Galilee
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: How Do You Put Up With It?
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- A Dream to Remember, Repeat – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Enheduana
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Getty returns unique Greek terracotta sculptural group
- Plato (4): Geld, tyrannie en milities – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Arbel synagogue
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- Plato (5): Politieke evolutie – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Finds-poor field Becomes Amazingly ‘Productive’ Overnight
- Spencer Alley: Unassigned Italian Figure Drawings at the Louvre – III
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Blog: Harassment in Classics is endemic and persistent, COGSIP survey says | Society for Classical Studies
- New Book: The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia – The Classical Association of Canada
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Other Blog-like Publications
- What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Archeologists Discover Huge Stone Penis in Ancient Roman Ruins – VICE
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @sauterne on a Panathenaic Amphora at the Louvre with a questionable history
- @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 2.15.29-40
Fresh Podcasts
Nero’s first attempt at building a single property that covered his estates on the Palatine Hill and the Esquiline Hill was The Domus Transitoria, the House of Passage. It burned down in the Great Fire. He replaced it with the Domus Aurea (Golden House), designed by expert engineers Severus and Celer, and it was so revolutionary that it appears to be the stuff of genius.
What on Gaia’s earth is the Orphic tradition? Liv attempts to break down this mysterious tradition that may or may not have been more of an ancient religion. And it all revolves around that famous Thracian singer, Orpheus.
Fresh Youtubery
- Alexanders Balkan Campaign – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Women in Ancient Egypt – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
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Book Reviews
Exhibition Related Things
- L’impératrice Messaline dans les collections de la BnF : les métamorphoses d’une femme de pouvoir | L’Antiquité à la BnF
- British exhibition reveals impact of ancient Egyptian arts on creativity in Europe – EgyptToday
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
- Job: UNB Classics – The Classical Association of Canada
- Assistant Professor (Ancient Mediterranean History) :: Human Resources ::.USNA..
- Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- The Origin of the 30,000-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf | Discover Magazine
- Ancient Greek History Video Games Now Part of College Curricula
- Roman Empire: Love in Pompeii – the confident baker’s wife and her handsome husband News
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 disease in the city where the thunder rumbled.
… 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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