Hodie est a.d VI Id. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 11 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Scarborough Roman villa reburied in preservation plan – BBC News
• Is British Museum’s stance shifting on Parthenon marbles return? | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
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• Extinct Pathogens Ushered The Fall of Ancient Civilizations, Scientists Say
• No, the human brain did not shrink 3,000 years ago — ScienceDaily
• Greece wants its marbles back from the British Museum — and this digital archeologist has a solution | CBC Radio
• Gate to Temple of Zeus Unearthed in Magnesia, Asia Minor
• Britain: Sunday Times Readers Say ‘Yes’ To The Return Of The Parthenon Sculptures – Greek City Times
• Archaeological excavations in Cártama near completion after 15 years of studies | Sur in English
• Final sentence established for German trafficer of Dacian treasures ⋆ Universul.net
• Romen-era marble blocks found in Turkey’s Prusias ad Hypium | Daily Sabah
• Tomb from Greco-Roman era discovered in Egypt

In Case You Missed It

• First Roman military amphitheater discovered in Israel’s Armageddon > News > USC Dornsife
• Discoveries in Pompeii reveal lives of lower and middle classes | Italy | The Guardian

Classicists and Classics in the News

• University of Cincinnati archaeology students dig up ancient secrets
• History professor digs beyond her discipline – University of Lynchburg
• Down and Dirty in Ancient Rome | Brandeis Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 07.08.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Ephemeris – DE ZAPORIZHZHIA

Public Facing Classics

• What to do with the detritus of an (academic) lifetime | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Homer’s Lyre and the Lyric Muse – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Unseemly Behavior
• PaleoJudaica.com: Barmash & Hamilton (eds.), In the shadow of empire (SBL)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tisha B’Av 2022
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on that late-antique convent at Horbat Hani
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Karkemish, II, The Inner West Gate in Area N
• Stop Talking Like a Professor – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Greek Compound Noun
• To His Own Drunk Self, a Song – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Nimrud Material in Museums
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Siatoutanda
• De Hemelschijf van Nebra in Assen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Declaring War on the Morning Birds – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Edelman Festschrift
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the ghost amphitheater at Megiddo
• Drink Your Vergil! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Old Drunks On the Dance Floor – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Put Those Cares to Sleep! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Actaeon devoured by his dogs found in Roman theater
• Archetype en ‘initiële tekst’ – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Ganzel, Ezekiel’s Visionary Temple in Babylonian Context
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bratislava Conference on early reception of Paul
• PaleoJudaica.com: Coptic magical stories and Aramaic incantation bowls
• Spencer Alley: Giovanni Bilivert (1585-1644) – Late Mannerism in Florence
• Manuscripten in Nijmegen – Mainzer Beobachter

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• 2023 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting: Call for Cast and Crew, CAMP Play  | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• From the Nile to the Tigris
• Emily Wilson as guest speaker in Thalia Potamianos Lecture Series
• Could the Kerkenes Settlement be Gordion the Second? – Arkeonews
• The magic sphere of Helios-Apollo – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• News – Zominthos 2002: Week 4 – Archaeological Institute of America Interactive Digs
• A marble block depicting the mythological story of Actaeon, who was killed by his dogs, was found in the ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium – Arkeonews
• An extraordinary votive treasure was unearthed in the ancient Roman bath sanctuary of San Casciano Dei Bagni in Italy – Arkeonews
• DEMONIC, TRANSGENDER FLIES, A DIVINE STRIPTEASE AND THOSE PESKY POMEGRANATES

Fresh Podcasts

• The History Of European Theatre: Commedia Dell’arte: A Selection of Scenarios on Apple Podcasts

The characters of Commedia Dell’arte may have been used in every play over and over again until they became completely familiar, but the plays themselves were more varied that you might imagine….

• Byzantium & Friends: 77. How did most people in the Roman empire get by? with Kim Bowes on Apple Podcasts

A conversation with Kim Bowes (University of Pennsylvania) about production and consumption in the Roman world, especially by the 90% of the population who are less represented in our literary sources. How did they get by from day to day? What alternatives does the evidence suggest to the “subsistence” model that many ancient historians have used? The conversation is based on a paper on “Household Economics in the Roman Empire and Early Christianity,” forthcoming in the Oxford Handbook of Biblical Households, and earlier publications, including The Roman Peasant Project 2009-2014: Excavating the Roman Rural Poor (Penn Museum/University of Pennsylvania Press, 2021); “Tracking Liquid Savings at Pompeii: The Coin Hoard Data,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 35 (2022) 1-27; and “Tracking Consumption at Pompeii: The Graffiti Lists,” Journal of Roman Archaeology 34 (2021) 552-584.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Kithara of Ancient Greece – YouTube | Michael Levy
• Nuove scoperte a Pompei – L’armadio ligneo – YouTube | Pompeii
• Storytelling Ep 16. Peter Campbell. Underwater Archaeology: Shipwrecks! Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• 5 Shocking Times The Olympians Were Injured – YouTube | Classics in Color
• The Battle Of Marathon: Ancient Athens’ Finest Hour | For Athens | Timeline – YouTube
• Romans in the Heart of Africa – The Expedition to find the Source of the Nile (60AD) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta

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

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Uses and Misuses of Socrates | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
• Socrates & Xanthippe | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
• ‘Cacator cave malum’: what collective latrines teach us about ancient Rome | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• Nearly-Intact Pompeii Chariot Among the Greatest Archaeological Finds
• Entire Ancient Greek City of Ephesus is UNESCO Heritage Site
• Plato’s Myths | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
• The Pandemos | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
• Aristotle’s Guide To Living Well | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now
• Of Clouds & Shadows | Issue 151 | Philosophy Now

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 harmless disease for four-footed animals.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d VIII Id. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 9 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Is British Museum’s stance shifting on Parthenon marbles return? | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
• Middle-class home comes to light in Pompeii – Lifestyle – ANSA.it

In Case You Missed It

• Why early Romans used lopsided dice

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Ancient Greeks: Classics students on war, heroes, sport and arts in today’s world – NZ Herald

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – NOVA AB ORIENTE

Fresh Bloggery

• More readings from Ovid’s Metamorphoses
• The Ancients Say Talk Less – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Great Wealth
• The Fox and the Raven [A Róka És A Holló] (2003) – Animated Antiquity
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Speech Styles of the Rich and Famous
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Death of Hypatia
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Grabbauten in den nördlichen Grenzprovinzen des Römischen Reiches zwischen Britannien und dem Schwarzen Meer, 1.-3. Jahrhundert n. Chr.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gardening time: Monuments and landscape from Sardinia, Scotland and Central Europe in the very long Iron Age
• The Travails of an Untimely Tongue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Dream of Love that Lingers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• We Deserve More Praise For Our Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De hemelschijf van Nebra (3): de Plejaden – Mainzer Beobachter
• De hemelschijf van Nebra (4): Aanpassingen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Scythians: Greek depictions of Scythian archers on Attic pottery (sixth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Spencer Alley: Giuseppe Bezzuoli (1784-1855) – Tuscan Romanticism

Other Blog-like Publications

• A Roman Moon Goddess in Syria-Palaestina –
• Bronze Age treasures found in burial site – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 6
• @DocCrom on a coin associated with the Augustan Altar of Fortuna Redux

Fresh Podcasts

• Death of the Roman Republic: HBO’s ”Rome” S1E4 ”Stealing from Saturn”- Review on Apple Podcasts

DOTRR’s review of HBO’s Rome’s third episode, “Stealing from Saturn.”  Friends and I summarize the episode, speculate about the show, and take a quiz on historical accuracy!

• Ad Navseam: It’s Not You, It’s Me: Aeneid Book IV Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 92) on Apple Podcasts

Ad Navseam: It’s Not You, It’s Me: Aeneid Book IV Part 3 (Ad Navseam, Episode 92) on Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-not-you-its-me-aeneid-book-iv-part-3-ad-navseam-episode-92/id1530092524?i=1000575173011

Fresh Youtubery

• IN CORSO IL CANTIERE DI RESTAURO dell’INSULA DEI CASTI AMANTI – YouTube | Pompeii
• Cultural Heritage Crime Conference 2022 – YouTube

Book Reviews

• JCT – Early Rome to 290BC: the Beginnings of the City and the Rise of the Republic (G.) Bradley. Pp. 320. Edinburgh: The Edinburgh History of Ancient Rome, Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Angela Maria Andrisano, Vinicio Tammaro, Benedetto Marzullo: il grecista che fondò il Dams. Storie e linguaggi, 30. Padova: Libreria Universitaria, 2019.
• BMCR – Matteo Pellegrino, Introduzione all’oratoria greca: autori e testi di età classica. Studi superiori. Civiltà classiche, 1282. Rome: Carocci editore, 2021.
• BMCR – Rossella Saetta Cottone, Penser les dieux avec les présocratiques. Etudes de littérature ancienne, 28. Paris: Rue d’Ulm, 2021.

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

• Part-time Lecturer – Department of Classics | Mount Allison
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• When I Celebrated the Summer Solstice With Ancient Roman Gods and Goddesses | Travel| Smithsonian Magazine
• This 3,500-year-old tomb held the treasures of Greece’s ‘Griffin Warrior’ | National Geographic
• ‘Cacator cave malum’: what collective latrines teach us about ancient Rome | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• VIP Seats in Pergamon Arena Set Apart for Rich, Famous
• What Role Did Women Play in Ancient Rome? – HISTORY
• Like Us, the Ancient Greeks Loved Their Dogs – GreekReporter.com
• Masada 2.0… A new look at history – The South Brooklyn Network

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends  an abundance of honey, but a shortage of water and other necessities

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends both harsh winds and the outbreak of diseases.

… 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)

Hodie est Non. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 8 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Citing stolen antiquities scandal, Michael Steinhardt resigns from NYU board – Jewish Telegraphic Agency
• Saudi-French archaeology team unearth new rare discoveries in Farasan Islands | Al Arabiya English
• The Louvre Abu Dhabi Is Rocked by Antiquities Trafficking Scandal
• First Roman military amphitheater discovered in Israel’s Armageddon > News > USC Dornsife
• Connecting ancient Asclepieia | eKathimerini.com
• German national sentenced for looting ancient Dacian gold artefacts ⋆ Universul.net
• Roman remains set to be found at Duchy of Cornwall site in Faversham
• Is British Museum’s stance shifting on Parthenon marbles return? | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian

In Case You Missed It

• Floors of 1,700-year-old Greek villa decorated with recycled glass – EgyptToday
• New archaeological findings at Ancient Shiloh | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Latin teacher relishes humanity in ancient text | News | thefoothillsfocus.com

Public Facing Classics

• Literary festivals and Latin poetry | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• A Failure of Education: Commodus’ Cruelty – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De hemelschijf van Nebra (1): de Únětice-cultuur – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Unidentified Quotations?
• Dio Chrysostom on Preferring Even Unpleasant Lies to the Truth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Cost of Real Estate
• In Praise of Old Heads – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bronze uterus, mint coins found at sacred baths
• De hemelschijf van Nebra (2): de ontdekking – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tishah B’Av, the Arch of Titus, and a 1926 postcard
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Catawiki Seller Changes his Tune: The Seven Points of Licit Antiquities and Responsible Collecting
• Persians: God Mithras as a Roman representation of a Persian (second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Amazons: Strabo on their customs and northern location (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Amazons: Statues and reliefs of a female warrior people (fourth century BCE to second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Parthians, Celts and Iberians or Germans: Scenes on the breastplate of the “Augustus of Prima Porta” (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two epitaphs for men
• August, Die She Must – Medea Palatina
• PaleoJudaica.com: An app to unpack rabbinic literature
• PaleoJudaica.com: A mislabled (cheater’s?) die from the Temple Mount
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Faith in Tradition

Other Blog-like Publications

• ANE TODAY – 202208 – Ancient Egyptian Food Prohibitions – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• The magic sphere of Helios-Apollo – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Nobody’s Business but the Gauls? – Total War, the Iron Age and Popular Media
• A Special structure Contemporary to Göbeklitepe found at Gre Fılla Höyük in Eastern Turkey – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Metamorphoses 5.552-563

Fresh Podcasts

• The Rest Is History: 217. Plague and the decline of the Roman Empire on Apple Podcasts

Tom and Dominic are joined by friend of the show Kyle Harper to discuss how pandemics and disease played a far greater role in the decline of the Roman Empire than previously understood. On the show Kyle, Dominic, and Tom discuss life expectancy, how the Roman Empire was ‘bad for people’s health’, the Antonine Plague, and more.

• Well That Aged Well: Episode 88: Latin 101. With Eleanor Dickey on Apple Podcasts

This week we take a look at the Latin Language. From where it came from to how to study the language and it`s history and it`s role in the modern world. Find out this week on “Well That Aged Well”. With “Erlend Hedegart”

• The Bittersweet Life: Episode 439 [Summer in Rome]: Princess Rita and the Fight over Villa Aurora on Apple Podcasts

In this EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW with Princess Rita Boncompagni Ludovisi, the elusive American princess opens up about her relationship with the late Prince Nicolò, the unpleasant inheritance fight she’s currently embroiled in with her stepsons, how she feels about the prospect of being forced from her home, and—perhaps most intriguingly—what it’s like to live at Villa Aurora, a five-hundred-year-old home decorated with paintings by Guercino, Pomerancio, and even Caravaggio, with its gardens full of ancient statuary.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Who is your favourite ancient military author? on Apple Podcasts

It is a big thanks to Gerrard for emailing Murray this question. Murray tells us about who is his favourite military author, and why.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 55: Policies Evolve on Apple Podcasts

With the victory over the Persian invasions in 479 BC, the Greeks had continued operations in the Aegean against Persian controlled areas. Though, objectives and priorities of many of the city states had shifted with this common threat ejected from Greek lands. This would see yet another league formed, that of the Delian league, who would continue campaigning throughout the Aegean. While these campaigns continued on for the next 10 years, political developments within the Greek mainland would evolve with the new reality. The Persian threat had united the many Greek city states, putting their suspicions and interests in the background. Now though, what had united them had been defeated and these interests and suspicions would once again come to the forefront. Both Athens and Sparta would now attempt to establish a policy that would suit their cities in the post war period. Though, both polies would have a number of paths open to them with different factions within their political systems competing for their preferred path. As events unfolded over the next decade both city states would eventually settle on a policy. This period would see the hero of Salamis, Themistocles ostracised, freeing the way for his opponents in Athens. While Sparta would be contending with regions on the Peloponnese growing in influence with the rise of democratic factions within them. This forcing them to bring their focus back closer back to their home region. Though, these developments would be seen to be connected as the various factions manoeuvred for political advantage.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: RE-AIR: Liv Reads Ovid, the Heroides of Paris & Helen on Apple Podcasts

A re-airing of Liv’s reading of Ovid’s Heroides, Paris to Helen and Helen to Paris. Ovid’s Heroides are fictional letters between mythological figures… These two are particularly incredible (and in the case of Paris, hilarious). Ovid’s Heroides, translated by Grant Showerman. This is not a standard narrative story episode, it’s simply a bonus reading of Homer. For regular episodes look for any that don’t have “Liv Reads…” in the title!

Fresh Youtubery

• Kiki Karoglou, “Narratives of Madness in Classical Art”, Paideia Institute Public Lectures 2022 – YouTube
• Women Of The Trojan War Edition: Hot Or Not (FEAT COSI’S ODYSSEY) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• EVENTS SERIES 2022 | Democracy, Liberty, and Expertise in ancient Greece – YouTube | CHS Greece
• CRASH COURSE: Greek and Roman Science and Technology – YouTube | Colby College
• Storytelling, Philosophy, & Reception Ep15. Rebecca Futo Kennedy. Iliad! Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• #OfficineETRU – Il restauro del Tempio di Alatri – Sesto appuntamento – YouTube | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Przemyslaw Siekierka, Krystyna Stebnicka, Aleksander Wolicki, Women and the polis: public honorific inscriptions for women in the Greek cities from the late Classical to the Roman period. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR – Luis Arturo Guichard, Quinientos epigramas griegos. Edición bilingüe. Letras Universales, 571. Madrid: Cátedra, 2021.
• BMCR – Jesús Luque Moreno, C. Valerius. Catullus: praelectiones granatenses. Granada: Editorial Universidad de Granada, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Turkiye’s Izmir Archeology Museum’s August theme: Nike – Anadolu Agency
• Ancient goddess Nike artifacts return to Izmir museum | Daily Sabah
• In Pictures: See Jeff Koons’s Luxurious Offerings to Apollo, God of the Sun, on the Greek Island of Hydra | Artnet News

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘Oresteia’ Off Broadway Review: A Famous Greek Family Has Way Too Many Problems
• Theatre review: Medea: Out of The Mouths of Babes | ArtsHub Australia

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Migrations in Iron Age Western Anatolia
• Kairos in ancient arts and techniques
• 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

• Gerald Averay Wainwright Post-doctoral Research Fellowship
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

‘Classical’ Opinion Pieces

• After 200 years, it’s time to seek a solution to the Elgin Marbles that works for all
• Cicero said what now? – The Varsity

Alia

• Watch Neil Gaiman Answers Mythology Questions From Twitter | Tech Support | WIRED
• Ancient Greeks were Gourmands with a Preference for Fish
• Was Greek Philosopher Diogenes the Cynic the First Anarchist?
• ‘My Uncle Told Me, ‘Go on the Trip of Your Life, Go Dig in Israel.’ So I Did’ – Holylandings – Haaretz.com
• When Lord Elgin Removed the First Sculptures from the Parthenon
• VIP Seats in Pergamon Arena Set Apart for Rich, Famous
• A deep learning approach to fight illicit trafficking of antiquities using artefact instance classification | Scientific Reports

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 signifies that the women are the more sagacious.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. Non. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 7 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Jordan archaeology conference sheds light on fragments from antiquity | Jordan Times
• New archaeological findings at Ancient Shiloh | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
• Sacred treasure found in San Casciano Roman baths – English – ANSA.it

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeology Wars – The PA Takes Control of Hasmonean-era Fortress – Israel Today

Classicists and Classics in the News

• University of Cincinnati archaeology students dig up ancient secrets
• Shipwrecks And Roman Pots: History Uncovered Through Egypt’s Maritime Archaeology Center – Scoop Empire
• History professor digs beyond her discipline – University of Lynchburg

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE FORMOSA

Public Facing Classics

• From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies

Fresh Bloggery

• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Enterprising Worley Loves his Job Profiting from the Trashing of the Past
• A New Article on the Date of Codex Sinaiticus | Variant Readings
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Tolkien the Anarchist
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Russian or Latin?
• Scholarly Severance Package – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Plato Says It’s Like We’re Drunk All The Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• All the Simons You’ll Ever Need – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Are You Down with O.P.P. (Other Peoples’ Pimples)? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Camera Palaestina: Photography and Displaced Histories of Palestine
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Who Saved the Parthenon? A New History of the Acropolis Before, During and After the Greek Revolution
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: International Voices in Biblical Studies
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bejeweled Bronze Age grave found in Hungary
• PaleoJudaica.com: The slaying of Zechariah and the destruction of the Temple?
• PaleoJudaica.com: The palace of the High Priest Annas?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Embodying textual criticism
• Libyans: Herodotos (fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Various peoples: Herodotos on the mixed composition of the Persian army under Xerxes (fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Kretans: Ephoros on Kretan civic organization and customs (mid-fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Pelasgians and Arkadians: Ephoros on their relationship (mid-fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Boiotians: Ephoros on the superiority of Boiotia and on a Phoenician connection (mid-fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Find and Finder of the Month: Danielle Pinto of Florida found Another Cheater’s Game Die – The Temple Mount Sifting Project

Other Blog-like Publications

• Who Was Ezra? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The reunification of the Parthenon marbles is a universal request

Fresh Podcasts

• Quintilian: The Latin Teacher Podcast: 18. A.E. Stallings on Apple Podcasts

A.E. (Alicia) Stallings is a highly acclaimed poet and translator. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, she has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a fellowship from the Guggenheim Foundation, and, in 2011, a prestigious “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation, which recognized her for “mining the classical world and traditional poetic techniques to craft imaginative explorations of contemporary life that evoke startling insights about antiquity’s relevance for today.” Her most recent verse translation is called “The Battle Between the Frogs and Mice: A Tiny Homeric Epic,” and her collection of poems “This Afterlife” will be published later in 2022.

• The Ancients: Hannibal vs Rome: Hannibal’s Greatest Victory on Apple Podcasts

One of the most studied military victories in history, and arguably one of the worst Roman defeats – what went wrong for the Romans at Cannae? In our final episode in the Hannibal mini-series, Dr Louis Rawlings explains just what happened at Cannae in 216BCE, and why that battle is still so important today. With 50,000 Romans dead, 20,000 captured, and only 10,000 managing to escape – Cannae is truly Hannibal’s greatest victory. Using tactics that are still studied and used in modern military academies and in the field, Cannae demonstrates the importance of knowing your terrain, dividing forces – and never underestimating an enemy that’s smaller than you.

• Ancient History Fangirl: ALL IN ONE PLACE: The Cult of Aphrodite, Mythology of Aphrodite, Transgender Aphrodite on Apple Podcasts

We’re on hiatus until September 22. Until then, enjoy this long, binge-able episode on all things Aphrodite. Some of you may be here because you saw our presentation on Transgender Aphrodite at Intelligent Speech. If so, welcome! We thought we’d put together our first long file all about the goddess so you can learn more about Aphrodite–how she was worshipped in the ancient world, the. main mythology about her, and our original deep dive into transgender Aphrodite.

Fresh Youtubery

• Ep 1: Introduction to Epic Poetry from Ancient Greece (Go Hard or Go Homer Livestream) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Lament of the Kithara – YouTube | Michael Levy
• How Rare Were Roman Cataphracts? #shorts #history #rome – YouTube } Invicta
• Tiziana Rocco – Invito a Pompei, Palazzo Madama Torino – YouTube | Pompeii
• Iliad 1.247-284. Nestor Recalls Real Heroes! Ancient Greek. Iliad A Day, 9. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• EES Tuesday Spotlight: Which Rosetta? – YouTube | Egypt Exploration Society

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Marina Coray, Martha Krieter-Spiro, Edzard Visser, Benjamin W. Millis, Sara Strack, Homer’s Iliad: the Basel commentary, book IV. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2020.
• BMCR – Dustin W. Dixon, John S. Garrison, Performing gods in classical antiquity and the age of Shakespeare. Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception. London, UK: New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Chroma: Ancient sculpture reconstructed in colour at The Met – Neos Kosmos

Dramatic Receptions

• Ajax concludes the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama | Cyprus Mail

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

• Managing editor of Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• What Happened to Achilles After the Iliad?
• Cuneiform: How AI is revealing the secrets within the world’s oldest texts | New Scientist
• The Parthenon – 3D Reconstruction (VIDEO) – Greek City Times
• The World’s First Humanists | Psychology Today

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 shortage of food for both humans and animals.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. III Non. Sex. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Metageitnion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• PA Declares Hasmonean-Era Fortress in Samaria a National Archaeological Park | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency | 6 Av 5782 – August 3, 2022 | JewishPress.com
• Early Roman settlement near Bicester could be taken over by housing development | Bicester Advertiser
• Israeli Replica of 2,400-year-old Ship Solves Ancient Mediterranean Mystery – Science & Health – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient ‘ritual bath’ and elite villa unearthed by Jerusalem’s Western Wall | Live Science
• Reunification of Parthenon Sculptures an ‘international demand’ | eKathimerini.com
• Great jugs! 5 Talmudic-era storage vessels unearthed in Shiloh

Public Facing Classics

• How to teach ancient history with a pizza | Blog post by Mary Beard

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: The IDF restores late-antique convent ruins at Horbat Hani
• Stacks of Cash from the Lecture Circuit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Ivory Tower vs. Iron Fist – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les villes grecques de l’ouest de la mer Noire : Les inscriptions votives
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nomisma Updates: New partner and interlinked data
• Plague In Rome, Painted By Jules Elie Delaunay (c. 1828-1891) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Downward Rush – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Het graf van Ahirom van Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Creaming off the Best Bits: Sites Trashed, Undocumented Export from Region of Ongoing Conflict.
• PaleoJudaica.com: Talmudic-era storage jugs excavated at Shiloh
• PaleoJudaica.com: McGrath in the footsteps of John the Baptist (5)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Religious Procession
• The Greatest Waste of Time — ConsultTheClassics
• Judeans, Armenians, Dacians, Egyptians, and other peoples: Defeat, capture, and subjugation on Roman imperial coinage (first-fourth centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Kimbrians / Germans: Poseidonios refutes stories about the tides (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Spencer Alley: Gianlorenzo Bernini (1598-1680) – Faces in Three Dimensions
• Mediterranean peoples: Pseudo-Skymnos’ Voyage Around the Earth for Nikomedes, full work (mid-second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Aitolians: Ephoros on their origins and invincibility (mid-fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• PaleoJudaica.com: Paul’s sea voyage to Rome: maritime mystery solved?

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Evolving as a Student in the Workforce — A Memorable Internship Experience at The Canadian Institute in Greece | The Canadian Institute in Greece

Other Blog-like Publications

• Octavia Minor, a Wonder of a Woman – American Numismatic Society
• British Museum: A “partnership” regarding the Parthenon marbles
• Persian-era plaster walls were discovered during excavations at Zeyve Höyük in central Turkey – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists find in Lio Piccolo a “refrigerator” tank with oysters from the Roman era. The video – Art Style
• Bronze Age treasures found in burial site – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a 2nd century Roman funerary monument inscription

Fresh Podcasts

• The Dirt Podcast: The Past Smells on Apple Podcasts

We’ve asked this on the show before, but..what did the past smell like? In this episode, we talk about some of the ways that researchers are finding and recreating some ancient aromas. We also get speculative about smellscapes and honk the Clown Horn of Orientalism at some perfumes. Get your sniffers ready, this one’s fun!

• Thin End of the Wedge: 46. Laerke Recht: The agency of animals on Apple Podcasts

Laerke talks about animals in a new way, taking us beyond thinking about animals as sources of products. What was their agency? And how did they influence human behaviour?

Fresh Youtubery

• AENEID BOOK 6: Aeneas Goes Into The Underworld To Meet The Race Of Future Romans – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• In Conversation with … Chloe Duckworth – YouTube | Council for British Archaeology

Book Reviews

• Les villes grecques de l’ouest de la mer Noire : Les inscriptions votives | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• University of Sydney Research Seminar Series
• 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

• Post-Doc resident Fellowship for 2023/24 at University of Hamburg
• King’s College, London: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Queens of Ptolemaic Alexandria — II – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• How Stoicism Could Help You Build Resilience | Psychology Today
• What the Animal Kingdom Meant to Ancient Societies | Discover Magazine
• The Deadliest Femme Fatales in Ancient Greek Mythology
• The Stunning, Greek-inspired Architecture of the Ancient City of Petra
• The Ancient Greek Goddess Chimera Embodied Fear of Females
• Legends About What Lies Under Hagia Sophia

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 threats to public trials and debates among the people.

… 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)