Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Bong Age? Israeli Archaeologists Find Opium in Bronze Age Ceramics – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Archaeologists unearth evidence of opium use in ancient Israel | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
- Opium trade and use during the Late Bronze Age: Organic residue analysis of ceramic vessels from the burials of Tel Yehud, Israel – Linares – Archaeometry – Wiley Online Library
- Pasargadae is more than meets the eye: archaeologist – Tehran Times
- “Extra archaeologists won’t help” Roman road causing delays to Wanborough route work | Swindon Advertiser
- Sarcophagus of King Ramses II’s head of treasury unearthed in Saqqara, Giza – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
In Case You Missed It
- US returns smuggled ancient artifacts to Libya
- 3,300-year-old cave ‘frozen in time’ from reign of Ramesses II uncovered in Israel | Live Science
- 5th century CE Roman writing tools unearthed in Istanbul
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Tributes to leading historian Joyce Reynolds, 103, paid by Cambridge colleague Mary Beard
- Joyce Reynolds obituary | Register | The Times
- Love Among the Ruins | UCLA
- The Soul Of The Acropolis Museum
- Interview | Teaching and learning Greek, with Suzanne Lye – The Kosmos Society
- New Book from Professor Emerita Judith Hallett | Department of Classics
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Deserters
- Beauty and Love, A Wedding Song – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Symbols of Cities and Leagues – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Orpheus, the poet, and his two sirens are going home ~ ARCAblog
- Doubled Ignorance: Plato on the Dunning-Kruger Effect and Lawmaking – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: El Sur de la Península Ibérica y el Mediterráneo Occidental: relaciones culturales en la segunda mitad del II milenio a.C.
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PapPal – The Paleography of the Papyri
- The Myth Of The Rebuilding Of Pelops | The Historian’s Hut
- Like People who Cannot Be Saved – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Het altaar van Machnaqa – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman sundial found in ancient Aizanoi
- A new (neon) gatehouse for Housesteads Roman Fort – It’s All Greek To Me
- Reviving Culture Crime News?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Berthelot, Jews and their Roman rivals
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on “The Samaritans”
- Lecture this Fall: Late Antiquity at Polis: Recent Research | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Spencer Alley: Allegories, Abductions, Amours (Unassigned Italian Drawings)
- Looting Matters: Robert Hecht and the Princeton painter
- Come, Be A Wise Guy Like Me – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: From Paul to John within Judaism
Other Blog-like Publications
- Sarcophagus of high-ranking official from reign of Rameses II found – Archaeology Wiki
- Ancient finds found in a burial cave from the time of Pharaoh Rameses II
- Mechanical digger accidently reveals “time-capsule” in cave – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Moving Money In Ancient Rome | History of Yesterday
- 9,300-year-old Gre Filla Mound in southeastern Turkey to be relocated – Arkeonews
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @MichaelDPress on the recent Byzantine mosaic find in Gaza
- @DocCrom on a coin of Nerva
- @DocCrom on Catullus 27
Fresh Podcasts
Ever heard of the time two twin child-giant sons of Poseidon tried to conquer Mount Olympus? Now you have!
Fresh Youtubery
- Historical Weapons : The Mainz Gladius – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Ancient Egyptian Chronology | What is Ancient Egyptian? – YouTube | polyMATHY
- templum in Nilo – YouTube | Magister Talley
- Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book I, lines 113-162, read in Latin (meditative reading) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
- Why the Romans LOVED Yellow Snow!? – YouTube | Archaeosoup
- Teaching and Learning Greek, with Suzanne Lye | Kosmos Society interview – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
Book Reviews
- AJA – Religion in the Art of Archaic and Classical Greece By Tyler Jo Smith. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press 2021.
- AJA – Olympia: A Cultural History By Judith M. Barringer. Princeton: Princeton University Press 2021.
- AJA – The Temple of Artemis at Sardis By Fikret K. Yegül. (Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Reports 7). 2 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press 2020.
- AJA – Rhetoric and Innovation in Hellenistic Art By Kristen Seaman. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2020.
- La Tauride occidentale dans l’histoire et la culture de la Méditerranée antique et médiévale | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR – Christopher Star, Apocalypse and golden age: the end of the world in Greek and Roman thought. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor, Greek Literature, Language, and Culture Yale University: Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Humanities: Classics
- Assistant Professor, Ancient Greek Language & Literature, Classics Cincinnati
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- So, where does the fascist ‘Sieg Heil’ salute come from anyway? – The Forward
- Plato’s “Republic” was a totalitarian nightmare, not a utopia – Big Think
- ‘Inject that Stoicism into my veins!’: 10 tools of ancient philosophy that improved my life | Philosophy books | The Guardian
- Ancient Babylon, the iconic Mesopotamian city that survived for 2,000 years | Live Science
- The hidden history of the Parthenon – Neos Kosmos
- There’s a Replica of the Parthenon in Nashville—and 4 More Surprising Facts About the Famous Sculptures | Artnet 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 the downfall of a famous man and war.
… 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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