Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 5 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ephesos: More than 1,400-year-old area of the city discovered under a burnt layer
- 2,000-year-old Roman road discovered in England, archaeologists believe – The Jerusalem Post
- Ancient Seymareh: archaeologists carving new trenches on the outskirts – Tehran Times
- Farndon archaeological dig finds Roman remains | The Leader
- International symposium on ancient Greek drama coming to Nicosia | Cyprus Mail
- Who invented the classical temple? | University of Notre Dame
- Coffin rest with roman inscription being used in Antalya – Türkiye News
- Vladimir Putin’s martial law decree has given Russian forces ‘legal’ cover to loot art in Ukraine
In Case You Missed It
- 2100-Year-Old Medallion of Goddess Aphrodite Unearthed in Russia
- Late Roman-Era Rooms, Clay Vessels Uncovered in Antioch – ARTnews.com
- 2,700-Year-Old Carvings Discovered Restoring the Mashki Gate
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- Nero’s mum | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- One of America’s Most Sinister Modern Sins Can Begin to Be Fixed
Fresh Bloggery
- The Gates 4: On the Precaritization of Academia – #EOTalks Panel – Everyday Orientalism
- Ritual Sacrifice and Lycanthropy: Pausanias for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Blog Post #68: Controlling the Restless Dead in Mesopotamia with JoAnn Scurlock – Peopling the Past
- Weekend Reading: Working on Class – Classical Studies Support
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Rebel
- Galba Die Link, Aureus to Denarius – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Richly Annotated Egyptian Corpus Blog
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Bomford Cup
- A Costume to Scare the Cicero Right Out of You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: News from Das wissenschaftliche Bibellexikon im Internet (WiBiLex)
- A Statue on the Capitoline – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- A Gift For Polydektes: XRF through a slab?
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Byzantine shopping, dining district found in Ephesus
- De Omari-moskee in Beiroet – Mainzer Beobachter
- FREE Hekate paper lamp PDF | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Saying Attributed to Thales
- Opportunities to work with VIEWS – The VIEWS project
- 29 October 45 BCE: From Manius Curius (at Patrae) to Cicero (at Rome)
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Sensational find in Ephesus: more than 1,400-year-old district discovered – Arkeonews
- Researchers uncover an early Byzantine business and gastronomy district at ancient Ephesos – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Carmina Nona: Ovid writes to one of his few remaining friends.
Congressus Sīnēnsium…
Welcome to Episode 3 of our Ancient World series, in this episode Bettany heads to the Bay of Naples, where in the middle of a volcanic landscape a Roman city now lies underwater. The Roman city at Baia is now submerged due to volcanic movement, the site has become a vast archaeological marine park, with statues, villas and mosaics visible underwater. Often referred to as the Las Vegas of the Roman world, it was the playground of the Roman elite. Bettany heads to Baia to see the site and Lucy finds out more about how it has become an archaeological park, allowing visitors to explore the remains by diving or snorkelling in the clear waters of the bay.
One of the questions I get asked most frequently is “How can I speak Latin fluently?”. The full answer is in the (Y)PLC course (opening soon!), and here’s a little preview. Si plura consilia huius generis audire vis, scito cursum meum provectioribus discipulis destinatum mox iterum propositum iri! Si certior de hoc fieri vis, nomen da in pagina infra posita!
The night before battle, a nervous young officer consults a witch, who promises to raise the dead to prophesy for him… Adapted from Lucan, Civil War, 6.413-830, followed by a discussion of Roman witches, zombies, and a lengthy digression on horse rearing!
We spoke with Tim Brooks of the Endangered Alphabets project about the cultural importance of scripts, the pressures on marginalized and isolated scripts, his beautiful wood carvings, and the various initiatives he and his group have been working on to support script revitalization and creation around the world.
Fresh Youtubery
- Investigating Ancient Arrowheads – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
- Battle of Tifernum, 297 BC Struggle for the mastery of Italy Third Samnite War (Part 1) – YouTube | HistoryMarche
- Hybrid Monsters (excerpt from Alliterative’s video “Monster”) #spooky season – YouTube
- Claude Lévi-Strauss 一 Ethnologie et linguistique (1951) – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
- My favourite epitaph, Phrasikleia, who died before marriage. Clock app stitch with @Tom Ayling – YouTube | Ellie Mackin Roberts
- The Rise of The Medes – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- The Founding of the Persian Empire – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
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 a year of serious disease.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends not only prosperity, but fewer enemies and good cheer for the state.
… 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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