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
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
Fresh 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?’
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.
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….
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
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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
‘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)
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