Hodie est Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Stone spheres could be from Ancient Greek board game
- Carlisle’s Roman find could feature in national exhibition | News and Star
- Columns of Selinunte’s largest temple to be rebuilt – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Bronze age workshop settlement excavated in Erimi | Cyprus Mail
- Archaeological settlements dating back 3000 years discovered in Oman | Times of Oman – Times of Oman
In Case You Missed It
Public Facing Classics
- The wonders of Leeds | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- What’s a laureate? A classicist explains the word’s roots in Ancient Greek victors winning crowns of laurel leaves
Fresh Bloggery
- Medicine and Pain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #64: Graduate Student Feature with Jermaine Bryant – Peopling the Past
- Paris, Primal Destroyer of Troy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Expulsion of Foreigners from Rome
- Weekend Reading: Welcome, New Readers! – Classical Studies Support
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La India y las Indias desde los griegos hasta Colón
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of an Ostler
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le roi Hérode: De la légende à l’Histoire
- Driemaal werelderfgoed: Centraal Turkije – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober ‘22 – 1: COIN | Greek Myth Comix
- Book Club | October 2022: Bacchylides – The Kosmos Society
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Don’t Try This at Home
- Hadrianus’ bosbeheer – Mainzer Beobachter
- Persians and Medes: Thucydides on “Medizing” (late-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Farewell CREWS (and hello VIEWS)
- Penn Museum Blog | Experimental Archaeology in Action: Recreating an Ancient Roman Recipe
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Changing Nile and How the Pyramids were Built
- 1,500-year-old mosaic found near the Caliph’s palace at Khirbat al-Minya on the Sea of Galilee – Arkeonews
- An ancient “fridge” have uncovered at the Roman legionary fortress of Novae, Bulgaria – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists give new insights into mysterious stone spheres – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- The bronze age village Afragola buried by the Plinian eruption of mount Vesuvius 4,000 Years Ago – Arkeonews
- New Hadrian’s Wall turret discovered in Newcastle | The Past
- September 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Liber I, Carmina Quinta: Ovid writes a letter to one of his few remaining friends, and compares himself to a fellow reluctant adventurer: Odysseus.
Nordstream dīruptī ;;;
Plato argued that the inevitable next step in political evolution after democracy is tyranny. Many political thinkers throughout history agreed with him. Were they right?
“…For filled with that good gift suffering mankind forgets its grief; from it comes sleep; with it the oblivion of the troubles of the day. There is no other medicine for misery.” Wine. More than medicine. More than nourishment. A gift from the Gods……
In todays episode we end the Greek Mythology season (for now) with Dionysus: The God of Wine, Fertility, Parties and Theater. James will tell us about how Dionysus was born and how he took his life trauma and turned it into something bigger than himself.
Fresh Youtubery
- Echoes of Ancient Greece – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Making Sense of Marbles: Roman Sculpture at the OI | A Special Exhibition – YouTube | The Oriental Institute
- SEPULCRUM ET MUMIAE – YouTube | Magister Talley
- Introduction to the Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- The Mystery Of The Roman Masterpieces Burried Beneath Someone’s Garden | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
- Achilles versus Elemental Forces: Iliad Book 21 – YouTube | Edith Hall
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Rocco Maseglia, Voir et entendre dans le théâtre d’Euripide: communication et pragmatique. Paris: Éditions de Boccard, 2022.
- BMCR – Michel Tarpin, Colonies, territoires et statuts: nouvelles approches. Dialogues d’Histoire Ancienne supplément 23. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021.
- BMCR – Sebastian Bauer, Philipp Brockkötter, Exemplarität und Exzeptionalität in der griechisch-römischen Antike. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022.
- BMCR – Daniel Walker Moore, Polybius: experience and the lessons of history. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020
- Le Pont-Euxin antique. Histoire, épigraphie, archéologie | Spartokos a lu
- ‘Papyrus’ Review: Raucous Reading in the Library of Alexandria – WSJ
- Crassus – the very modern tycoon of ancient Rome who met a sticky end
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- San Diego State University, Classics & Humanities Assistant Professor of 21st Century Classical Studies
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- The Guardian view on the Rosetta Stone: a monument to code-breaking | Editorial | The Guardian
- Football’s Real Home Was in Ancient Greece, Ancient Artifact Reveals
- Howard Carter and Tutankhamun: a different view | OUPblog
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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a corrupt tyrant in control of the state
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends prosperity but mice will overrun the land.
… 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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