Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 12 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia
In the News
- Archaeologists discover monumental evidence of prehistoric hunting across Arabian desert
- Turkish museum displays Nature God ‘Dionysus’ for the first time in 92 years – AZERTAC
- A community in Spain works to recover ancient Roman mosaic that ended up in New York | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
- Back on display: Gold trove on show in Germany after robbery attempt | ABS-CBN News
- A rare glimpse of life in Cyprus more than 2,400 years ago – Famagusta Gazette
- Ancient Hebrew letter from First Temple period returned to Israel – The Jerusalem Post
- Stone bathtub, 1st example of water birth, found in Türkiye’s Ani | Daily Sabah
- Louvre Museum in Paris to display Saudi Arabia’s ancient AlUla statue
In Case You Missed It
- The FBI Found a Mosaic Believed to Have Been Missing for a Century in an L.A. Storage Unit—and Returned It Home to Italy | Artnet News
- Iron Age ivory plaques unearthed in ancient Jerusalem mansion
- Did the Romans eat expensive food at funerals? – study – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Brown: William Sanders Scarborough, son of a slave who became a Greek scholar – Mainline Media News
- Prestigious medal awarded to Emeritus Professor for contribution to classical studies and ancient history | Mirage News
Public Facing Classics
- Books in Albania | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- The story of Cincinnatus | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeology, history, and the Book of Daniel
- Like the Rose-Toed Moon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Whitewashing Pseudoarchaeology | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Maës, de antieke Marco Polo (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Divine Impossibilities: The 6th Antigone Competition – Antigone
- A Response to AP Latin: A Student Perspective – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Uno sguardo su Pisa ellenistica da piazza del Duomo: Lo scavo del saggio D 1985-1988
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Invisible Archaeologies: Hidden Aspects of Daily Life in Ancient Egypt and Nubia
- Maës, de antieke Marco Polo (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Good Soldier
- Penelope and Odysseus [Penelopa și Ulise] (1976-1981) – Animated Antiquity
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Fable
- Maës, de antieke Marco Polo (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- No, Athena Didn’t Turn Medusa into a Monster to Protect Her – Tales of Times Forgotten
- PaleoJudaica.com: Maurais, Characterizing Old Greek Deuteronomy as an Ancient Translation (Brill)
- Psychology with Caesar — ConsultTheClassics
- Celts and Germans: Plutarch’s ethnographic digressions in the Lives (early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Looting Matters: Galerie Antike Kunst Palladion and the Met
- Looting Matters: Becchina and the Louvre
- PaleoJudaica.com: A new First-Temple-era Hebrew scroll fragment?
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Story of the Highest-Paid Athlete in History | History of Yesterday
- An 8,200-year-old temple structure found in Çatalhöyük – Arkeonews
- A stone bathtub, which is considered to be the first example of ‘water birth’, was found in Ani Ruins – Arkeonews
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Salona was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia and sits along the coast of the Adriatic on the banks of the river Jadro. It is strongly associated with early Christianity, and is now the largest archaeological site in Croatia. Guest: Dr Christopher Gribbin (Adjunct Lecturer, Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University).
New research shows that certain Late Bronze Age pots from Cyprus really did contain opium, which isn’t too surprising since they’re shaped like opium poppies. What’s going on? What was all this opium for? Was everyone in the past on drugs? Sure looks that way.
Remember when you were a kid and eagerly waiting for that next episode of Family Ties, so you could pick up the continuing action of the Keaton family from the week before? But then they hit you with some weak-sauce clip show where nothing happens except Michael J. Fox getting some time off to film Teen Wolf VI? Well, many have suspected that Vergil is up to something similar in Book 5. We seem to go from the high drama and pathos of Book 4 to competitive paddling and “everybody gets a trophy” day. What happened to the “epic”? But maybe this isn’t just time-killing filler. Maybe Vergil is letting us catch our breath and setting up the next dark turn in these exiles’ fate. Hang on to that rudder, keep an eye on those rocks, and be prepared to nudge your pilot into the brine if need be.
Louise introduces us to the fascinating world of Babylonian textiles. How do we know about textiles when almost none survive? What were they made of and what did they look like? Who made them, and who washed them? What would someone’s clothing say about them?
Fresh Youtubery
- Archaeological Representation in Simulation Video Games – YouTube | Council for British Archaeology
- AENEID BOOK 11: Camilla Finally Gets Her Battle Debut … Only To Then Die 400 Lines Later – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- LIVE: New York returns antiquities to Italy – YouTube | Reuters
- Undeciphered Ancient Scripts – YouTube | World of Antiquity
Book Reviews
- AJA – Olympia: A Cultural History, by Judith M. Barringer Stephan Lehmann
- AJA – Destinations in Mind: Portraying Places on the Roman Empire’s Souvenirs, by Kimberly Cassibry Sinclair W. Bell
Exhibition Related Things
- Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI | The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago
- New exhibition to display Hadrian’s Wall’s oldest souvenirs | The Independent
- Commemorative tea towel? Not for Roman souvenir hunters | Heritage | The Guardian
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- AMPRAW 2022: Schedule and Registration | Society for Classical Studies
- The emergence of Roman monumental piazzas
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Classicism and Christianity: An Irrepressible Conflict? ~ The Imaginative Conservative
- Mystery of the tomb of Alexander the Great – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
- Why Do We Ignore the Ancient Treasures Atop Greek Mountains?
- Sex Work in Ancient Athens
- The Emergence of War in Plato’s Republic | RealClearDefense
- Bridlington: Huge Trojan Horse built entirely of cardboard – BBC 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 an outbreak of disease and disaster for the servile class.
… 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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