Hodie est Id. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 20 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient temple offerings on display for the first time
- Egyptian cult bell rings for the first time in 2,000 years
- UK heritage minister says government has no plans to amend law that prevents museums from ‘disposing’ of objects
- Scavano in ospedale, trovano una città romana – La Voce di Rovigo
In Case You Missed It
- Calls grow for British Museum to return Parthenon sculptures to Greece | CBC.ca
- Legendary Battle of Himera was triumph of Greek heroism, kind of – Harvard Gazette
- Roman cemetery unearthed in Nîmes | The Past
- Egyptian training program leads to discovery of Ptolemaic-era tomb – Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East
- A rare Roman-era mosaic has been discovered in Syria : NPR
Classicists and Classics in the News
- T. Leslie Shear Jr., classical archaeologist, ‘rigorous scholar’ and ‘inspiring teacher,’ dies at 84
- MSU faculty member’s book suggests new views on ancient Romans’ use of documents | Mississippi State University
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Weekend Reading: Out of the Fog – Classical Studies Support
- Judeans: Trogus on contributions of Joseph and Moses and on the exodus (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Indians: Herodotos on eastern peoples at the ends of the earth (mid-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Judeans, “Asiatics”, and Greeks: Cicero’s ethnic invective aimed at eastern witnesses against Flaccus (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Egyptian and Ethiopian diasporas: Diodoros on competing legends of migration and colonization (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Smashing the Fasces
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Inscriptiones Graecae XIV 2424
- No False Report of Myth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #66: Dealing with the Living Dead: The Vampire of Mytilene with Sandra Garvie-Lok and Hector Williams – Peopling the Past
- A symbolic representation of time? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Archaiologia
- The Wrong Monkey: Latin After the Classics
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Anchoring Innovation
- Driemaal de dronken vrouw van Myron – Mainzer Beobachter
- Aristoteles (9): Vier oorzaken – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Metal Detectorists Arrested Near Martlesham, Suffolk
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A few words for Foreign Archaeo-Looter
- Spencer Alley: Romantic Drawings at the Louvre by Théodore Géricault
- Aristoteles (10): De onbewogen beweger – Mainzer Beobachter
Other Blog-like Publications
- Michelangelo’s Signature Imperfection | by John Byron Kuhner | In Medias Res | Oct, 2022 | Medium
- Digging In: Tel Azekah – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Excavations uncover the treasures of the ancient inhabitants of the Taman Peninsula – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Monumental Roman structure identified using ground penetrating radar – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Virgil, Georgics 1.426-436
- @MichaelDPress on a pile of documents relating to the Siloam inscription
Fresh Podcasts
Liber I, Carmina Septima: Ovid writes a letter to his friends about his magnum opus, the Metamorphoses, and begs for understanding about the poem’s unfinished state.
Pōns Tauricus partim ruptus …
Fresh Youtubery
- The FIRST Jewish REVOLT against BABYLON – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Units of History – War Chariots of Britannia DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- WHY did the BABYLONIANS ENSLAVE the JEWS? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Medusa (Excerpt from Alliterative’s video “Monsters”) #spookyseason – YouTube | Alliterative
- The Tragic Tale of Orpheus and Eurydice – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Why was Cyrus the Great viewed as a LIBERATOR to the Babylonians? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- How the Jewish EXILE to Babylon UNIFIED the Jews. – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Sophia Papaioannou, Andreas Serafim, Comic invective in ancient Greek and Roman oratory. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 121. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Robert H. Jordan, Rosemary Morris, The life and death of Theodore of Stoudios. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 70. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021.
- BMCR – Soham Al-Suadi, Richard S. Ascough, Richard E. DeMaris, Ritual, emotion, and materiality in the early Christian World. Ritual in the ancient Mediterranean. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
- A glimpse into the Ancient Mediterranean at the Museum of Classical Antiquities – The Fulcrum
- What can be learned from ancient Roman frescoes? | The Economist
- Archaeologists prepare for unusual furniture show at ancient Roman city of Herculaneum | World | The Times
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
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 shortages as a result of a dry and burning wind affecting the crops.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends men being weakened to such and extent that they appear unrecognizable.
… 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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