Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 29 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Archaeologists find ancient artifacts in southern Türkiye | Daily Sabah
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• Daniel Andrews Asks For The Return Of The Parthenon Sculptures From The UK
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Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 23.10.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
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Public Facing Classics

• Sangitha Aiyer | We need to redefine our idea of classics | The Daily Pennsylvanian

Fresh Bloggery

• Saracens: Pseudo-Nilus on barbarian bandits in the Sinai desert (early fifth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Judeans, Greeks, and Egyptians: Philo on conflicts at Alexandria and on “rebellious” Egyptians (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Babylonians and Assyrians: Herodotos on legendary queens and outstanding customs (mid-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Iberians, Albanians and others of the Caucasus area: Strabo (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• #ClassicsTober day 22: MOTHER | Greek Myth Comix
• Dabbling in the Occult: Odysseus, Necromancer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Revel
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Arrows
• Krokotta: A Beast Worthy of October – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OINE 11. Beads from Excavations at Qustul, Adindan, Serra East, Dorginarti, Ballana, and Kalabsha: A-Group, Post-A-Group, C-Group, N-Type, P-Type, Pan Grave, Kerma, Middle Kingdom, and New Kingdom
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Thin End of the Wedge: Exploring life in the ancient Middle East Transcripts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Harlan J. Berk, Ltd. Numismatic Catalogs Online
• Talking With Homer in the Underworld – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Paulus, Gallio en Sostenes – Mainzer Beobachter
• You Should Hear How She Talks About You | Sphinx
• When Plato Met Jesus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Husband and Wife
• Halloween is Next Week: Werewolf Week Returns – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Our Doctrines
• PaleoJudaica.com: PROVERBS, QOHELETH, AND SONG OF SONGS ACCORDING TO THE SYRIAC PESHITTA VERSION WITH ENGLISH TRANSLATION (Gorgias)
• Tyrrell and Purser’s Editions of Cicero’s Letters | Variant Readings
• Snow on the Beach, Maybe Beautiful – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Phrygians v. Thracians
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Where Are They Now?
• Gallery | Many Faces of Medea – The Kosmos Society
• The Kind of Monster Story We Need: Cyrene the Lion-Slayer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• #ClassicsTober day 23: PATHOS | Greek Myth Comix
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hoards
• The Decline of Cursive Isn’t Historically as Big of a Deal as Most People Think – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Comparativisme & etnografische parallellen – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Arab Archaeologists in Israel
• PaleoJudaica.com: Symposium in memory of Shaul Shaked
• Spencer Alley: Neoclassical Drawings by Jacques-Louis David
• Fortunatus’s De virginitate incoherently disparages men’s sexuality – purple motes
• The Ancient Greeks Were The First To Commit Insurance Fraud | by Erik Brown | Lessons from History | Oct, 2022 | Medium
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Bruriah Episode: Talmudic apocrypha? Rashi apocrypha?

Other Blog-like Publications

• When Erasmus Killed Latin: Revisiting the New Testament – Antigone
• O Tempora: Classics Exams from Times Past – Antigone
• Eating Rome: Apicius’ Alexandrian Pumpkins
• Under Threat? Archaeology in Britain Today – Retrospect Journal
• Roman-era chambers and clay offering vessels found in Antiocheia Ancient City, in southern Turkey – Arkeonews

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The First Black Archaeologist on Apple Podcasts

Born to slaves in 1863, John Wesley Gilbert was the first student of the Paine Institute, a graduate of Brown University, and the first black archaeologist. While at Brown, he was awarded a scholarship to study abroad at the American School of Classical studies in Athens, Greece. Here, he helped to shape modern archaeology as we know it today. Working tirelessly, and meticulously on excavations where he helped uncover the ancient city of Eretria, Gilbert also travelled across the country to beautiful ancient sites, and even attended the funeral of Heinrich Schliemann – the man who discovered Troy. In this episode, Tristan is joined by Professor John W.I Lee from UC Santa Barbara to talk about Gilbert’s incredible life, and the legacy that he left behind.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: Interview: Globalization in the Ancient Mediterranean and Indian Ocean with Dr. Serena Autiero on Apple Podcasts

The period from the first century B.C. through the third century A.D. saw a time of unprecedented economic contact between the Mediterranean world (under the dominion of the Roman Empire) and the political entities bordering along the Western Indian Ocean. This fostered the exchange of goods and ideas, leading some scholars to identify it as the first period of globalization. Joining the show is Dr. Serena Autiero, who helps elaborate on how we can apply modern concepts like globalization in an ancient context by using material and written evidence to demonstrate the complex interactions that occurred in the flourishing Indo-Roman trade.

Fresh Youtubery

• How to roll your R’s for Latin speakers || Exercitia ad sonum “R” emittendum – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• Du propre au commun dans la critique aristotélicienne de la “République” de Platon – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• Il restauro del Tempio di Venere e Roma | Parco archeologico del Colosseo – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• Reprinting Piranesi | APP “Il PArCo di Piranesi” – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• Chiron’s Dating Advice – YouTube | Classics in Color
• What is worth dying for? Jacques-Louis David’s The Death of Socrates – YouTube | Smarthistory
• Why Did Disney’s Hercules Get Rid of the Evil Stepmother? #videoessay – YouTube
• Il dio Dioniso. La tragedia e l’irrazionale 一 Salvatore Natoli – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• How did the Celts expand out of Switzerland? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet, Married life in Greco-Roman antiquity. Routledge monographs in Classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
• BMCR – Bassir Amiri, Migrations et mobilité religieuse: espaces, contacts, dynamiques et interférences. Institut des sciences et techniques de l’Antiquité, 1505. Besançon: Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2020.
• BMCR – Balbina Bäbler, Heinz-Günther Nesselrath, Delphi: Apollons Orakel in der Welt der Antike. Civitatum Orbis Mediterranei Studia. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre Review – Petronius’ Satyricon, adapted for stage by Martin Foreman – Retrospect Journal

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The Alexandrian Necropolis Project in Athens, Greece
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The History of Horses in Ancient Greece
• The Other Battle of Thermopylae: When Celts Invaded Ancient Greece
• Where did the idea of the ‘wicked stepmother’ come from? | Live Science
• Bronze bust: conclusion for anniversary: ​​monument for archaeologists Schliemann News
• The Five Rivers of the Greek Underworld

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 common people becoming oppressive due to the discord among the powerful.

… 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)