Hodie est pr. Id. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 17 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
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- Arabians: Diodoros on Nabateans and other Arabian peoples (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: Innovation
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Drucker, Inventing the Alphabet
- PaleoJudaica.com: Burns & Goff (eds.), The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Codices (Brill)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: No Better Off
- No Better(er) A Man: Mimnermus’ Memory of War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Change and Innovation in Middle Kingdom Art: Proceedings of the MeKeTRE Study Day held at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (3rd May 2013)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Art-facts and Artefacts. Visualing the Material World in Middle Kingdom Egypt
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Labour organisation in Middle Kingdom Egypt
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dossiers of Ancient Egyptian Women: The Middle Kingdom and Second Intermediate Period
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Manuscripts of Chariton’s Callirhoe
- Wie gaat er mee naar Libanon? – Mainzer Beobachter
- The Edithorial: Five New North-Eastern Classics Initiatives
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Dedication of a Helmet
- The Sun’s Endless Labor and Magic Bed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: XVII Congress of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (SBL)
- Victory and the Bull – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rejuvenation
- Why Bother with Work? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), Vol. II
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- Disease, Prolonged Treatments, and Death – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- Welke oude taal was het grootst? – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: A word that proves the Exodus?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Interview with Joe Uziel on the Ishmael papyrus
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Fresh Podcasts
This episode explores the essay written by Dr. Casey Due Hackney where she discusses the “mother bird” simile in relation to Achilles and the book Achilles in Vietnam by Dr. Jonathan Shay. The relationship between Achilles and Patroclus (Patrokles) is also discussed.
An discussion of Dr. Casey Due Hackney’s essay on mothering similes in the Iliad and how modern day warriors reflect the same emotions as the depicted in Homer’s work. The heart-breaking 2010 documentary, Restrepo, about the Afghanistan war is also referenced.
Could a Roman woman lead an army? What was it like to give birth in the ancient world? And how could women gain financial independence in the Roman empire? In our latest ‘Everything you wanted to know’ episode, Professor Kate Cooper answers your questions on the experiences of women in the Roman world.
Fresh Youtubery
- What Armor Did Roman Cataphracts Use? #shorts #history #rome – YouTube | Invicta
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- You Will Not Surely Die – The fall of man in Latin [Classical] – YouTube | Found in Antiquity
- Ecco il parco archeologico di Tarquinia tra tombe dipinte e reperti di inestimabile valore – YouTube | Corriere della Sera
- Invisible Ink & Love Letters in Ancient Rome – YouTube | Classics in Color
- VIGILIAE VERGILIANAE…-2! – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Achilles: Mother and Commander, Part 2 of 2 – YouTube | Janell Rhiannon
- Interview: 2,600-Year-Old Ornate Ivories Discovered in Jerusalem – YouTube
- Ouvrage de l’EFA : Un âge d’or du marbre – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes
Book Reviews
- Exposed by Caroline Vout — blame the Greeks and Romans for body-shaming | Culture | The Sunday Times
- BMCR – Valeria Andò, Euripide, Ifigenia in Aulide: Introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Lexis supplementi 4. Venezia: Edizioni Ca’ Foscari, 2021.
- BMCR – Vincent Gabrielsen, Mario C.D. Paganini, Private associations in the ancient Greek world: regulations and the creation of group identity. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja, The archaeology of seasonality. Studies in Classical Archaeology, 11. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
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Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends rain during harvest time and famine.
… 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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