Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 21 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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Classicists and Classics in the News
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Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Five books on Kabbalah
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- Three Things Thursday: Data, Books, Teaching | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Against Our Enemies
- Rock-Covered Dreams and Divine Vengeance – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Geometric Period Plithos Burial Ground at Chora of Naxos Island, Greece: Anthropology Report
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bridging the Gap: Disciplines, Times, and Spaces in Dialogue – Volume 3: Sessions 4 and 6 from the Conference Broadening Horizons 6 Held at the Freie Universität Berlin, 24–28 June 2019
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Dignified Passage through the Gates of Hades: The Burial Custom of Cremation and the Warrior Order of Ancient Eleutherna
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Hills and Woods
- The History Girls: ‘Veni, Vidi, Vocab’: the story behind my Pocket GCSE Latin Etymological Lexicon by Caroline K. Mackenzie
- The Tale Of The Ancient Roman Leaping Lovers At Lake Como | The Historian’s Hut
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: While Focus is on Repatriation, Real Issue Ignored
- Politiek correct gekwaak – Mainzer Beobachter
- Blogging ancient epigram: Birds and Beasts, by a Beast
- The Ciceros of Civilization
- PaleoJudaica.com: Those Hanging Gardens of Babylon again
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Cartagena Festival 2022
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Delusion
- Caging the She-Wolf: Power, Place, and Digital Humanities in Ancient Rome – History From Below
Other Blog-like Publications
- Stop Talking: An Epigram of Palladas – Antigone
- ANE TODAY – 202209 – Camels in the Biblical World of the Ancient Near East – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Ancient Coins: War and Peace – The Sikyon Stater
- Byzantine solar eclipse records illuminate obscure history of Earth’s rotation – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Autumn 45 BCE: To Quintus Valerius Orca (in Etruria) from Cicero (at Rome)
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Andrew emailed us this question for Murray to answer, why did generals write back to the senate about what they had done? Was that account trustworthy – and how can we tell?
Events during the 460’s would see the political sands in Athens begin to shift, with opposition to Cimon’s influence increasing in the sources. This would first come through charges of corruption at the conclusion of the Thasos campaign. While a more successful attempt would take place with Sparta’s rejection of Athenian assistance during the helot revolt, assistance Cimon had supported sending. This would see the emergence on the pages of Athenian history, two new influential political figures. Ephialtes and Pericles would mount a similar opposition to Cimon’s policies as Themistocles some ten years earlier. Ephialtes would appear to head this opposition while Pericles, the son of Xanthippus would be his junior….
Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses (!!!), translated by Bookes More. In the second half of Book I, we get the stories of Apollo and Daphne, Jupiter (Zeus) and Io, and an introduction to Phaethon.
Fresh Youtubery
- Greek Mythology Took A Dark Turn In This Mafia Romance Book … – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Review of History Channel’s COLOSSEUM: COMMODUS (Ep 7) | Tower of Bible Podcast – YouTube | Robert R Cargill
- How Archaeologists Date Artifacts – YouTube | World of Antiquity
- Addict/Dictionary etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
- Egyptian Origins of Israelite Monotheism? – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
- What if Julius Caesar Was Not Assassinated? #shorts #history #rome – YouTube | Invicta
- Brexit, the Roman Empire, and Shakespeare’s Cymbeline – YouTube | Edith Hall
- #officine etru – Il restauro del tempio di Alatri- Dodicesimo appuntamento – YouTube | Etruschannel
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Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Tutankhamun and Carter
- Topography around the Olbia Pontica in Old Polish archives (16th c.) | Spartokos a lu
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- 2 Post-Doc researchers in Bronze Age Aegean and Cypriot architecture
- Assistant Lecturer in Ancient Languages (Teaching Specialist) Job at University of Melbourne in Parkville, United States | The Conversation Job Board
- Provosts Distinguished Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of Classics – HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- The Extinct Herb Ancient Romans Put On Everything
- The Mediterranean Exchange of Archaeological Tourism – Culture – ANSAMed.it
- How ancient Stoic philosophy can help with modern anxiety
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, plants will put out many shoots but they won’t produce fruiit.
… 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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