Hodie est pr. Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 5 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Detailing a disastrous autumn day in ancient Italy
• Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand | WIRED
• Hundreds of ancient artifacts seized from home in northern Israel – The Jerusalem Post
• Carlisle’s Roman find could feature in national exhibition | News and Star
• Egyptians try new tactic in bid to reclaim Rosetta Stone from Britain
• Ancient Pompeii To Fight Climate Change With Ultra Modern Tech

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Digging in an Ancient Greek City Uncovered a Monumental 2,000-Year-Old Statue of Hercules | Artnet News
• New Charities Act may compel museums to return cultural artifacts | eKathimerini.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• R. Ross Holloway (1934-2022) | Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology | Brown University
• Joyce Reynolds obituary | Classics and ancient history | The Guardian

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Fresh Bloggery

• Gauls and Germans: Scenes from the Triumphal Arch of Orange (late first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Give Us Something Big, A Folk Song – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Teaching Thursday: NDQ Editor’s Note | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Fantastic Lies (about Helen) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Here We Go Again | Sphinx
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Materiality of Greek and Roman Curse Tablets: Technological Advances
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aramaic Daniel: A Textual Reconstruction of Chapters 1–7
• When Silenus does not mean Silanus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Klêros: A database of literary and epigraphic evidence for the drawing of lots in Archaic and Classical Greece
• PaleoJudaica.com: IAA raid seizes Medusa figurines & other artifacts
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Akitu festival
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on “Careers in Jewish-Christian Relations”
• Arabisch schrift – Mainzer Beobachter
• #ClassicsTober II: Return of the Prompt | Greek Myth Comix
• #ClassicsTober ‘22 – 0 – the prompts | Greek Myth Comix
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Unique Greek ritual wash-basin unearthed
• The 2022 survey at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-‘Aliya, Jordan – The Palestine Exploration Fund
• Khirbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project, Jericho, Palestine – The Palestine Exploration Fund
• A quick update
• Blogging ancient epigram: Agathias gets his Cycle rolling
• 8 Greek Myth Retellings on my “To Be Read” Pile!
• The Wonder of Aphrodisias | Turkish Archaeological News

Other Blog-like Publications

• ANE TODAY – 202209 – The Babylonian Akītu Festival and the Ritual Humiliation of the King – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• The War that Made the Roman Empire: An Interview with Barry Strauss – Antigone
• Return to Rome. Dawn Mitchell Revisits The Reginaldus… | by Dawn Mitchell | In Medias Res | Sep, 2022 | Medium
• Detailing a Disastrous Autumn Day in Ancient Italy
• Polish archaeologists discover ‘unusual’ 8,000-year-old building in Turkey
• Imponente altare romano portato alla luce sotto le radici degli alberi a Ostia antica – Stile Arte
• 4,000-year-old cylinder seal found in Blaundos excavations – Arkeonews
• The Bronze Age village buried by the Plinian eruption of Mount Vesuvius – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Archaeologists unearth ancient “fridge” in Roman legionary fortress – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Autumn 45 BCE: To Gaius Cluvius (in Cisalpine Gaul) from Cicero (at Rome)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Virgil, Aeneid 6.826-835

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Respect for the enemy on Apple Podcasts

Bryan sent us in this question,’what are some documented cases where the victorious/conquering forces held a deep respect for their defeated foe or for the manner in which their foe fought even though they were ultimately defeated?’

• Life Of Caesar: To the Deuce! on Apple Podcasts

It’s 67 CE. Before he sets out for his World Tour of Greece, Nero first needs to insult the Senate, then he needs to deal with a new conspiracy, this one involving Corbulo. While Greece, he becomes unhappy with Vespasian who apparently doesn’t clap loudly enough at Nero’s performances.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 59: From Allies to Enemies on Apple Podcasts

With the insult received at the hands of the Spartans during the helot revolt, the Athenians began setting a course to deal with the new geopolitical realities. They would first sever their connection to Sparta by dissolving their membership in the Hellenic league. This would then be followed by securing alliances with enemies of Sparta and cities that would secure Athen’s position from any attack coming from the Peloponnese….

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book II (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses (!!!), translated by Bookes More. In the first half of Book II, we hear the story of Phaethon’s tragic experience driving the chariot of the sun.

Fresh Youtubery

• Seduced By A Dead Girl: Rome’s Most Romantic Ghost Story – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Discover the Ancient Roman festival of Lupercalia – YouTube | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the OU
• CIRCE By Madeline Miller Is 1000% Worth The Hype (Historian Reviews) – YouTube | Moan Inc
• What was the REAL Name of Jesus? – YouTube | Religion for Breakfast
• Explore the Ancient Greek festival of Panathenaia – YouTube | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the OU
• Echoes of Ancient Greece – YouTube | Michael Levy
• Jorke Grotenhuis | Hieroglyphic Sign Lists: The Thoth Sign List, Towards a Unicode Expansion – YouTube | Oriental Institute
• The myth of Pegasus and the chimera – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube | TED-Ed
• Le grand historien Paul Veyne est mort – YouTube | Le Point
• Learning Latin in Heaven || Behind the scenes of CAELVM, Summer Latin Course – YouTube | Satura Lanx

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Shane Brennan, David Thomas, The Landmark Xenophon’s Anabasis. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2021.
• BMCR – Constantinos Macris, Tiziano Dorandi, Luc Brisson, Pythagoras redivivus: studies on the texts attributed to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans. Academia philosophical studies, 74. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2021.
• BMCR – Emily Katz Anhalt, Embattled: how ancient Greek myths empower us to resist tyranny. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2021.
• RCR – Rebecca M. Seifried and Deborah E. Brown Stewart, eds., Deserted Villages: Perspectives from the Eastern Mediterranean (Grand Forks: The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2021).

Exhibition Related Things

• New exhibit at the Carlos Museum explores history of gemstones in classical antiquity – WABE

Dramatic Receptions

• Last weekend to catch UOG Theatre’s ‘An Iliad” | Lifestyle | guampdn.com

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Job: Assistant Professor of Ancient History UT Austin – The Classical Association of Canada
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Putting colour back into antiquity – Palatinate
• Vapheio Gold Cups are Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art

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 the  affairs of state going from worse to better.

… 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 Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Social resistance of Bronze Age communities in response to emerging state societies in the Iberian Peninsula
• Human skeletons found in ancient port city
• 3,600-year-old sauna found in Nijmegen; Unique on mainland Europe | NL Times

In Case You Missed It

• Egypt retrieves smuggled Isis statue from Switzerland – Egypt Independent

Classicists and Classics in the News

• ‘PERFECT archaeology machine’: Researchers use iPad Pro to ‘revolutionize’ how they preserve Pompeii | Daily Mail Online

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – \”PLEBISCITA\” UCRAINA

Public Facing Classics

• Peta, Lysistrata and the comedy of a sex strike | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Greeks and other peoples: Paul’s Judean stereotypes about non-Judeans (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Afraid to Speak
• PaleoJudaica.com: Long, The Book of Enoch for Beginners
• PaleoJudaica.com: Exhibition on the myth of Alexander the Great
• PaleoJudaica.com: Another coin from Elymais
• Poets, Hanging out with Kings – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Short Greek Inscription
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le corps des souverains dans les mondes hellénistique et romain
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les disputes et la conversion religieuse de l’Antiquité au xviie siècle
• The Rise and Fall of Republican Rome as Stages in a Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Papers on Archaeology of the Leiden Museum of Antiquities (PALMA)
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Infant jar burial found in ancient Anemurium
• Zesmaal werelderfgoed: West-Turkije (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Zesmaal werelderfgoed: West-Turkije (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Monarchs, Courtiers and Technocrats – Q&A with Dr Martin Dearne | Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond
• The Ruins That Remain – Biblical Archaeology Society

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @ChasingAprhodit on the Art Loss Register
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.6.1-13

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The Real King Arthur: Ambrosius Aurelianus on Apple Podcasts

A friend of Merlin, the husband of Guinevere, and the inspiration for numerous Hollywood blockbusters – the story of King Arthur is known by many across the globe, but who is the man behind the myth? Ambrosius Aurelianus emerged from the chaos of 5th Century AD Britain in the aftermath of the Roman retreat and is believed to be the main inspiration for the Legend of King Arthur. In this episode Tristan welcome Dr Miles Russell back to the podcast to talk about who Ambrosius Aurelianus was, and the legacy that he left behind. A Celtic hero who fought valiantly against the Saxons and who was tied up in legends of his own, Ambroisus Aurelianus should be a name just as well known as the mythical King of Camelot.

• The Partial Historians: Seneca’s Medea with MythTake on Apple Podcasts

Medea is one of the most memorable characters in Greek mythology. She is powerful, has associations with magic, and capable of taking drastic action. Most people are familiar with the version of Medea crafted by the Athenian playwright Euripides, but today we turn to a lesser known interpretation.

• Ancient History Fangirl: Last Refuge of the Minoans on Apple Podcasts

High in the mountains of eastern Crete, there’s a secret that has been kept since the 1200s BC. It’s the secret of the strange and still-unexplained 80+ ancient villages hidden in the Cretan mountains that may have been the last refuges of the Minoan people. The ancient Minoans were master seafarers. But sometime between the 1200s and the 1000s BC, they abandoned their coastal villages, their palaces, their fertile farmlands, their trade routes—and simply withdrew from the world. Today, we’re going to look at where they went—and why.

Fresh Youtubery

• Hieroglyphic Sign Lists: The Thot Sign List, Toward a Unicode Expansion – YouTube | The Oriental Institute

Exhibition Related Things

• Tornos News | Ancient cemetery findings showcased at Archaeological Museum of Piraeus
• De verbo putandi! 🥔 pars I feat @RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Bargain/borrow etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
• Jan Haywood on Human and Divine Action in Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• Khirbet Salameh Virtual Tour – YouTube | ACOR Jordan

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands | Open Culture
• The Ancient Greek Origins of Wreaths
• Aristophanes’ The Birds Available in Interactive App, Tops Charts on Apple – The National Herald
• The Ancient Greek Origins Of The Word ‘Casserole’
• How Stoicism Can Make You a Better Leader – The Good Men Project
• Rosetta Stone: Deciphering mysterious Egyptian hieroglyphs | Culture | Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 29.09.2022

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 severe drought.

… 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. IV Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 3 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Mysterious stone spheres could be from an ancient Aegean board game | New Scientist
• Egypt Recovers Ancient Statue from Switzerland – Sada El balad
• Egypt repatriates ancient artefact from Switzerland: Foreign ministry – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online

In Case You Missed It

• What Is the Rosetta Stone? | How Was the Rosetta Stone Deciphered? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
• A New U.K. Law Gives Museums Unprecedented Power to Deaccession Art and Repatriate Objects in Their Collections | Artnet News
• New UK Law Allows Museums to Return Objects For “Moral” Reasons
• Sarcophagus of Ramses II’s Chief Treasurer Discovered at Saqqara | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Google Doodle marks 1st female Turkish archaeologist
• Ancient Roman Mosaic in Danger of Falling Into the Sea
• Ancient ‘miracle plant,’ believed extinct, said rediscovered in Turkey | The Times of Israel

Classicists and Classics in the News

• iPad Pro is revolutionizing how archaeologists preserve the history of Pompeii – Apple
• Mercerians compete with the vigor of the ancient Greeks in the Great Books Games – The Mercer Cluster

Fresh Bloggery

• Barbarian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre’s Neoplatonic perspective (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Judeans, Syrians, Indians, and others: Porphyry of Tyre on abstinence from meat (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Phoenicians: Gospel of Mark on Jesus and a Syro-Phoenician woman (late first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Judeans, Syrians, Indians, and others: Porphyry of Tyre on abstinence from meat (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Egyptians and Canaanites: Wisdom of Solomon on worship of animals and images (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of a Boxer
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Zelus Domus Tuae Comedit Me
• Souls Burning for Censure: Sallust Advises Caesar – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Whence We Come, and Whither We Go
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Economy of Death: New Research on Collective Burial Spaces in Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Roman Time
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR) [recent volumes]
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Giza Mastabas Series Online
• New Video Premiere! – Roman Florence: A Short Walking Tour |
• Is There a Doctor in the House? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Of Songs and Sigma Stigma – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: American Numismatic Society Outreach to Europe
• Brand in Alexandrië – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Mosaic found in caliph’s palace
• Morphosis: Myth and Science Fiction
• Solon’s First Concern — ConsultTheClassics
• Spencer Alley: Louvre – Unassigned French Figure Studies – 17th Century

Other Blog-like Publications

• Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact – Antigone
• A wash-basin decorated with 2500-year-old mythological creatures and car races was discovered in Izmir, Turkey – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on the ‘Pilate Inscription’
• @DocCrom on Ovid Amores 1.8.57-68
• @lostsupper on making garum/liquamen

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: Use Your Allusion I: Classics in Pop Music (Ad Navseam, Episode 98) on Apple Podcasts

Wait a minute…this sounds like rock and/or roll! Indeed, after some digging through attic boxes stuffed with 45s, 8-tracks, and cassettes, the guys sit down to puzzle over a number of classical allusions in pop songs from the ‘60s to the present day. The references are all over the place—from prog rock to new wave to folk to jazz-fusion to regrettable dabblings by Bob Dylan in cheese-ball ‘80s production. What purposes do these allusions serve? Is it just to make the singer look smart (looking at you, Sting)? To comment wryly on an ankle injury (sorry to hear about that, Mr. Plant)? To apply core themes of Plato’s Euthyphro to social commentary (Jay-Z and Kanye, really?)? So clean that wax out of your ears, strap yourself to that mast, and tune in as Jeff attempts to defend his title as “Johnny Pop” and Dave wrestles with jazz aversions and the over-cutesiness of folk.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 079: The Indo-Greeks – Homer on the Indus on Apple Podcasts

Following the death of Menander I Soter, the Indo-Greeks would decline in power over the next 150 years as the newly arrived Indo-Scythians/Indo-Saka seized the Punjab, and with the last king disappearing by 10 A.D, Greek rule in Central Asia and India was brought to a definitive end. In their wake, later powers like the Kushan Empire established control over Bactria and Gandhara, and trade with the Roman Empire would flourish along the sailing routes of the Indian Ocean. Despite the disappearance of the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, evidence points to a survival of Hellenistic culture nearly five centuries after Alexander’s death.

• The Dirt Podcast: The Dirt Gets Theatrical on Apple Podcasts

Theater as public entertainment has taken many forms throughout time and among different cultural groups. We’ll hop through various times and places to look at the places where performances were held, the types of pieces performed, and the role of theater as an emotional pocket dimension.

Fresh Youtubery

• Behind the Scenes at Wessex Archaeology: The Finds Room – YouTube
• Behind the Scenes at Wessex Archaeology: Excavation – YouTube
• Crustulificium Pars 2, making cookies in Latin, cum @RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Penelope Being Bitter For 198 Pages Was NOT For Me. – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• The Atlantic Festival Are The Classics Overrated? Debate Night ft. Freestyle Love Supreme’s FLS+ – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Did Ancient Greeks and Romans Really Believe in the Gods? – Public Discourse
• BMCR – Valeria Selke, Ein Hortfund spätantiker Bronzemünzen aus Meckel, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. 7486 Prägungen vom 3. Jahrhundert bis zur tetrarchisch-konstantinischen Zeit, verborgen 312/13 n. Chr. Trierer Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021.
• BMCR – Jan R. Stenger, Education in late antiquity: challenges, dynamism, and reinterpretation, 300-550 CE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• BMCR – Ellen C. Schwartz, The Oxford handbook of Byzantine art and architecture. Oxford handbooks. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Phalēróthen: Between two worlds

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• *Register for Parma* Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals | Early Modern Exchanges – UCL – University College London
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Part-time Lecturer at Tufts January 2023 – The Classical Association of Canada
• Assistant Professor of Ancient History – The University of Texas at Austin
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• The rolling stones of Bronze Age Aegean: Applying machine learning to explore the use of lithic spheres from Akrotiri, Thera – ScienceDirect

Alia

• Mercury Markers, History and Theory
• Stop Weaponizing History
• Every Art Collector Needs This Database. But Is it Being Manipulated by Thieves? | Observer
• The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands | Open Culture

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 signs revealing great things. Beware that it doesn’t rain on your parade.

… 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. V Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 2 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Exact replica of early Roman armour created – The University of Auckland
• The neighbors of the caliph: Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaics on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Archeologia in Calabria, nuova scoperta: dagli scavi emerge “fabbrica”
• Human skeletons found in ancient port city
• Rosetta Stone’s significance still echoes after 200 years

In Case You Missed It

• Intact Burial from the Reign of Ramesses II
• Anchor discovered during offshore wind farm work could date from ROMAN times, archaeologist claims | Daily Mail Online
• Hercules Statue Unearthed in Greek Excavation – ARTnews.com
• The Discovery of an Ancient Horn’s Mouthpiece Gives Insight Into What War Sounded Like in Roman Days | Artnet News
• ‘Miracle plant’ used by ancient Greeks is rediscovered after it was thought to have gone extinct | Daily Mail Online
• Copper industry 3,000 years ago irreparably damaged natural ecosystems in the Timna Valley, Israel
• Canterbury Archaeological Trust documents Folkestone Roman villa mosaic at risk from coastal erosion

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἰταλία
• Ephemeris ~ COMITIA ITALICA

Public Facing Classics

• A book to die for | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Britons, Armenians, Bessians, and others: Reliefs of subjugated peoples at Aphrodisias (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Scythians and barbarians: Colossians and others on ritual recitations (late first or early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Parthians, Libyans, Egyptians and others: Acts of the Apostles on legends of Judean migration (early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Kretans: Stereotypes in Titus (early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Worship of Artemis
• Custom, Violence, and Law – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Blog Post #63: Graduate Student Feature with Neal Payne – Peopling the Past
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The MORTEXVAR database
• Trees and wood | Part 3: Mythological trees – The Kosmos Society
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Institut des Sources Chrétiennes: Auteurs anciens
• Kleptophilosopher! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Funding for Faculty – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The Ancient Advice For Masters Of Their Craft To Keep Taking Lessons Even After Achieving Greatness | The Historian’s Hut
• The Combat of the Horatii and the Curiatii, by Jean-François Janinet (c. 1752 – 1814) after Jean-Jacques-François Le Barbier I (1738 – 1826) | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman anchor retrieved from North Sea
• Het heiligdom van Yanouh – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Gaza mosaic
• PaleoJudaica.com: Temple Mount sifters find stone vessel fragments

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• From Egypt to Bonn: Our experiences as guest researchers at the KAAK – Entangled Africa

Other Blog-like Publications

• Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaics on the shore of the Sea of Galilee
• Roman-era marble sundial found for the first time in Turkey’s second Ephesus – Arkeonews
• 2000-year-old anchor discovered at the bottom of the North Sea – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists uncover mosaics on the shore of the Sea of Galilee – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a Julius Caesar coin
• @DocCrom on Lucan, Pharsalia 1.229-311

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: For the God of Bloodlust He’s Kind of a Softy, Stories of Ares on Apple Podcasts

It’s finally time to look closely at the god of war and gore, Ares, and all the ways he was actually kind of cool. Listen to past episodes on Aphrodite (Apple or Spotify) and Hephaestus (Apple or Spotify) for more on Ares’ relationship with the goddess of love. Become a Patron of LTAMB here.

Fresh Youtubery

• History of the Roman Empire – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Local and Global Dynamics in a Roman Frontier Settlement (Elizabeth Greene) – YouTube | New Directions in Classics
• Crustulificium! @RVMAK panem brevem (Shortbread) parat!  – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Abortion in the Ancient World – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Jale Inan | Celebrating Jale İnan – YouTube | Doodle Catalog
• 28. Gordian I – The Reluctant Octogenarian Augustus – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Trailer lungo del documentario L’anello di Grace – YouTube | Etruschannel
• CASTROCIELO: Open Day Aquinum del 24-09-2022 – YouTube | Teleuniversotv

Book Reviews

• Antiquités scythes de Crimée, 2e édition | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Peter E. Pormann, Hippocratic commentaries in the Greek, Latin, Syriac and Arabic traditions: Selected papers from the XVth Colloque Hippocratique, Manchester. Studies in ancient medicine, 56. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
• BMCR – Jitse Dijkstra, Jacques van der Vliet, The Coptic life of Aaron: critical edition, translation and commentary. Vigiliae christianae, supplements, 155. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.
• BMCR – Thomas Graumann, The Acts of Early Church Councils: production and character. Oxford early Christian studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• How did Alexander become ‘the Great’? A new exhibition explores the making of a myth
• Ancient Greek Cemetery Findings From Faliron Exhibited for the First Time
• Who Were the Painters of Pompeii? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Upcoming talk considers ancient, modern war memorials – The Brock News
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Clark University Job Posting: Assistant Professor of Art History
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Tomb-raiding in ancient Egypt | Apollo Magazine
• Jean-François Champollion Deciphers the Rosetta Stone – JSTOR Daily
• Does “pagan” mean what you think it does?
• The Enduring Appeal of Cleopatra that Gal Gadot Hopes New Movie will Tap into – CelebMix
• The amazing Athenian tetradrachm | Coin Update

Diversions

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

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends powerful men stirring up hatred amongst themselves and taking sides against each other.

… 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. VI Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 1 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the gods striking down a corrupt ruler.

… 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)