Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 1 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• 12 suspects involved in illicit trafficking in antiquities arrested in Iraq – Iraqi News
• Wakefield: Remains of Roman villa and kilns found in ex-pit village – BBC News
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Public Facing Classics

• The year of the three prime ministers | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• Da Stabiae riemergono elementi dell’antico sistema idrico – Pompeii Sites

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• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Living Amongst the Dead, the Underworld & its Infernal Chthonic Cuties on Apple Podcasts

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• Oracles of Ancient Greece – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
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• Egyptology at the Turn of the Century | The Oxford Comment | Ep 77 – YouTube | Oxford Academic

Book Reviews

• Review: “Homer: The Very Idea” by James I. Porter  | Merion West
• BMCR – Hélène Aurigny, Cécile Durvye, Artémis près d’Apollon: culte et représentation d’Artémis à Délos, Delphes, Claros et Didymes. Kernos, supplément 37. Liège: Centre international d’étude de la religion grecque antique, Presses universitaires de Liège, 2021.
• BMCR – Katharina Wesselmann, Homers Ilias: Gesamtkommentar (Basler Kommentar). Band XII: 7. Gesang. Faszikel 2, Kommentar. Sammlung wissenschaftlicher Commentare, 12.2. De Gruyter: Berlin; Boston, 2020.

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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 major misery as the result of assorted misfortunate events.

… 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)

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

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• Intelligence Agency: 12 suspects arrested in antiquities trade » Iraqi News Agency
• Daniel Andrews Asks For The Return Of The Parthenon Sculptures From The UK
• “Gli scheletri di 2900 anni fa sono i più antichi di Vulci e di tutta l’Etruria…” – Tusciaweb.eu
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• Sangitha Aiyer | We need to redefine our idea of classics | The Daily Pennsylvanian

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• 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
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• #ClassicsTober day 22: MOTHER | Greek Myth Comix
• Dabbling in the Occult: Odysseus, Necromancer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• 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
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• Gallery | Many Faces of Medea – The Kosmos Society
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hoards
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Arab Archaeologists in Israel
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• Spencer Alley: Neoclassical Drawings by Jacques-Louis David
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• Roman-era chambers and clay offering vessels found in Antiocheia Ancient City, in southern Turkey – Arkeonews

Fresh Podcasts

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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.

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• Il restauro del Tempio di Venere e Roma | Parco archeologico del Colosseo – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
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• 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

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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

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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)

Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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Truss dētrūsa …

• 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.

• Life Of Caesar: Horny Dolphins on Apple Podcasts

The year is 67 CE. Nero is still on his 14 month tour of Greece. He dropped into the Temple of Apollo at Delphi and tickled the Omphalos.

• Satura Lanx – Latin language and literature for beginners: How to roll your R’s for Latin speakers || Exercitia ad sonum “R” emittendum on Apple Podcasts

In Latin we have and hard “R” sound, and if you’re not Italian or Spanish, chances are you don’t know how to make it perfect. Here’s an useful exercise to start rolling your “R”s like an Italian!

Fresh Youtubery

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• How did the PERSIANS besiege TYRE? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• How CARTHAGE became an EMPIRE – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Lesson in Latin | How was Catiline defeated? | Part I – YouTube | Latinitium
• Socrate. Io so di non sapere 一 Olof Gigon & Gabriele Giannantoni – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• WHO WOULD WIN? Roman Hastati vs Iphicrates Peltasts – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Benedetta Sciaramenti, Paesaggi del dramma: nelle Metamorfosi di Ovidio e nella pittura romana coeva. Archaeologica, 181. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2019.
• BMCR – Christophe Burgeon, La uirtus, la fides et la pietas dans les Punica de Silius Italicus. Giornale Italiano di Filologia – Bibliotheca, 23. Turnhout: Brepols, 2020.
• Trésors de la banlieue sud de Chersonèse Taurique | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘Hadestown’ invigorates ancient Greek myths in exhilarating blend of old and new
• Review: Cambridge Greek Play 2022: The Persians and The Cyclops – University of Cambridge

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Goddesses, Vampyres, and Archaeologists | Penn Today
• 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

• Our Treasures: Busting a mystery sculpture at the Whangārei Museum – NZ Herald
• What the Gospel of Judas says about the betrayal of Jesus | Aeon Essays
• ‘Lascivious’ Titian masterpiece set to fetch up to £12m at auction | Titian | The Guardian
• Doping in Ancient Greece
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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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends bad weather and blemishing diseases for the people

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends happiness for the people.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 26 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Excavations from Tell Zira’a indicate presence of elite class — scholar | Jordan Times
• Great archaeological discovery in Ladochori Igoumenitsa – EPIRUS Online [google translated]
• Serres: The citadel of ancient Amphipolis continues to bring to light new “treasures” | Empisteutiko.gr [google translated]
• Remains of Pictish period cross with bird carvings uncovered in Scottish kirkyard | The Scotsman
• Vendono online le antiche anfore trovate in mare | Attualità LUCCA
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In Case You Missed It

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Public Facing Classics

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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @profyarrow on some interesting ‘countermarks’

Fresh Podcasts

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced – Moana (2016) and the Aeneid (19 BCE), with Ayelet Haimson Lushkov on Apple Podcasts

Dig into the firstest episode of our new special segment, Extremely Strained and Incredibly Force, where we seek out and/or create connections between ancient and modern popular media. Debuting this new project is super special three-peat guest, Ayelet Haimson Lushkov, and her question: “Is Moana the Aeneid?” Sailing into unknown horizons, we chart a new course looking at these two works – one a 1st c. BCE Latin poem, the other a 2016 animated Disney film base don Polynesian myth – and their sea-sailing, destiny-guided heroes. Join us as we consider the nature of reception and its limits (is Hamilton the Aeneid?), tales of displacement and homecoming, the figure of the hero and, of course, the coconut (the roots and the leaves!)

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW222 – The volatile life of King Phillip II on Apple Podcasts

‘Philip II of Macedonia inherited a fragile kingdom under pressure. He absorbed the lessons from his childhood and turned it into a military powerhouse.’ The team discuss the latest issue of the magazine XV.6 Macedonia Rising: The volatile life of King Phillip II.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Dragons! Witches! Werewolves! The Ancient Supernatural w/ Daniel Ogden on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with professor and author Daniel Ogden about all things Spooky! Find his books on werewolves, dragons, and more wherever you get your books!

Fresh Youtubery

• Did Anyone Survive The Siege Of Ancient Carthage? | Lost Warriors | Timeline – YouTube
• Roman House – The House of the Mosaic Atrium – English – DOWNLOAD IN DESCRIPTION – YouTube | Divus Magister Craft
• Roman House – The House of the Mosaic Atrium – Latin – DOWNLOAD IN DESCRIPTION – YouTube
• Ancient rock carvings discovered in Iraq – BBC News – YouTube
• Ancient Coins: The Denarius – YouTube | Classical Numismatics
• Experts work on rare manuscripts in Greek monastery – YouTube | AP
• The Aeneid On A Modern Stage: Theatre Review of DIDO’S BAR – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Barbarians FINALE – How is the Latin? Is it any good? Latin Pronunciation (Netflix Barbarians ep4-6) – YouTube | polyMATHY

Book Reviews

• BMCR `- Marcus Recchia, Pindari et Bacchylidis hyporchematum fragmenta. Edizioni dell’Ateneo: Edizioni dell’Ateneo, 2022.
• BMCR – Lisa Nevett, James Whitley, An age of experiment: Classical archaeology transformed (1976-2014). McDonald Institute monographs. Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, 2018.

Exhibition Related Things

• Pure Color | James Romm | The New York Review of Books
• New exhibition to explore mythology of Alexander the Great | British Library | The Guardian
• Greek Mythology as an Allegory for Gay Dating

Dramatic Receptions

• Photos: First look at Curtain Players’ ELEEMOSYNARY
• Critical Conversations: The Bacchae
• Ancient Greek Tragedy Ages like a Fine Wine: NUTS’ Bakkhai | Woroni
• Review: Cambridge Greek Play 2022: The Persians and The Cyclops – University of Cambridge

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Sparta: how odd? is the title of the lecture by Prof. Paul Cartledge
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Human Bioarchaeology and Biomolecular Archaeology job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 312879
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The worst ideas of 5 great philosophers – Big Think
• Phryne: The Ancient Greek Courtesan Who Disrobed For Her Freedom
• Ancient Greek Quotes Inscribed on Global Landmarks
• The Bronze Age Origins of Greek Civilization – CounterPunch.org
• Phaistos: The Palatial Mountain Fortress of Crete

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 outbreak of a coughing sickness and oppression of the heart.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Culture Ministry buys two rare Roman gold coins, gives them to the Romanian History Museum | Romania Insider
• World’s oldest star map that was lost for 2,000 years is FOUND hiding in an ancient manuscript | Daily Mail Online
• Jar with skull inside found in Kochkor – AKIpress News Agency
• Ancient carvings discovered at iconic Iraqi monument – World – DAWN.COM
• Mashki Gate: Stunning ancient rock carvings found in Iraq – BBC News
• Will The Parthenon Project seize the Elgin Marbles? | The Spectator Australia
• Masterful touch to 2,000-year-old artifacts in ancient city of Pergamon | Daily Sabah
• Tunisians call for reopening of Bardo Museum, world-class site of history and culture | Khaled Hedoui | AW
• Clay tablet in Turkey points to ‘enemy’ influence on Hittite Empire | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

In Case You Missed It

• Egypt’s Zahi Hawass mobilises for return of artefacts from British Museum, Louvre – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Archaeologists Find Grave of Aphrodite Priestess in Ancient Black Sea City – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• News – Member Spotlight: Margaret L. Laird – Archaeological Institute of America Societies

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Σίνα
• Ephemeris – DILECTUS RUSSICUS

Public Facing Classics

• Liz Truss and the art of rhetoric | The Spectator
• I ‘Marie Kondo’d’ my teaching during the pandemic. Now, I’m sticking with it | Cognoscenti

Fresh Bloggery

• Romans: Dionysios on legends of Greek and Pelasgian migrations to Italy (late first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Bacchante
• Adrift in Exile: Returning to Euripides’ “Heracleidae” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: This is Greece
• #ClassicsTober Day 19: WARRIOR | Greek Myth Comix
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Three-dimensional model of Khirbat al-Jariya
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der fließende Gott: Bilder von Flüssen und ihren Göttern in der römischen Kaiserzeit
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antike Konzepte neu denken bei Augustinus: Transformationen klassischer Texte in De civitate Dei und weiteren Werken
• Bij de dood van John P. Meier – Mainzer Beobachter
• Hector’s Farewell To Andromache, Attributed To Anton Kern (c. 1710-1747) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Myth Of Athena’s Owl, Nyctimene | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Long, “damned” Roman inscription goes on display
• Aristoteles’ erfenis – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Plural of an Adverb
• PaleoJudaica.com: Job: History of Ancient Mediterranean World at North Carolina State
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of the BL Alexander the Great Exhibition
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Robinson, A Kabbalist in Montreal
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Genealogy
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Athletes
• Spooky Special: The Werewolf of Greek Myth

Other Blog-like Publications

• Living Descendants of Mark Antony – Antigone
• Mandra of Despotiko 2022: excavation and restoration works
• Heroes and Villains on Circulating Coins and Banknotes
• Original burial place of St Nicholas located by archaeologists – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 3.2.27-38

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Virgil on Apple Podcasts

One of Antiquity’s greatest poets, Virgil’s legacy is seen across history. Following in the footsteps of his predecessor’s Homer and Hesiod – Virgil’s work inspires people even today. With inspiration for his poems coming from the political turmoil and change around him, Virgil’s work offers insight into the tumultuous time he was living in. But who was Virgil, and why are his work’s still so revered? In this episode, Tristan is joined by Dr Anne Rogerson from the University of Sydney to help shed some light on this mysterious figure. Looking at Virgil’s three most famous works, The Georgics, The Eclogues, and of course The Aeneid – why has Virgil’s legacy and name persevered throughout history?

• In Our Time: Plato’s Atlantis on Apple Podcasts

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Plato’s account of the once great island of Atlantis out to the west, beyond the world known to his fellow Athenians, and why it disappeared many thousands of years before his time. There are no sources for this story other than Plato, and he tells it across two of his works, the Timaeus and the Critias, tantalizing his readers with evidence that it is true and clues that it is a fantasy. Atlantis, for Plato, is a way to explore what an ideal republic really is, and whether Athens could be (or ever was) one; to European travellers in the Renaissance, though, his story reflected their own encounters with distant lands, previously unknown to them, spurring generations of explorers to scour the oceans and in the hope of finding a lost world.

• Ancient History Fangirl: Witches of Ancient Greece and Rome (with Daniel Ogden) on Apple Podcasts

Who were the witches and sorceresses of ancient Greece and Rome–and how did they wield their power? In this episode, ancient occult expert Daniel Ogden introduces us to the world of Greco-Roman witchcraft–including necromancy, love spells, curse tablets, and real-life magical manuals written thousands of years ago by Alexandrian sorcerers. Join us as we explore both mythology and history to uncover a forgotten world of clandestine magic, primarily wielded by women.

Fresh Youtubery

• Reading Greek Tragedy Online – Children of Herakles – YouTube | Centr for Hellenic Studies
• Everything You Need to Know About Natalie Haynes – YouTube | Pan Macmillan
• Disease in Ancient Faces – YouTube | Atudy of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Liverpool Greek Academy – YouTube | Classics for All
• Oboe/Ambush Etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
• Origins of gender-neutral They – YouTube | Alliterative
• Ancient Greeks in the Arctic – The Voyage of Pytheas DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• 2022-10-12 BB – E. Kansa, Sharing and Caring with Archaeological Information – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
• How did Democracy work in Ancient Greek Armies? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Iconic Colosseum to reopen ‘pleb tier’ – YouTube

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Elizabeth A. Clark, Melania the Younger: from Rome to Jerusalem. Women in antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Celia Sánchez Natalias, Sylloge of defixiones from the Roman west: a comprehensive collection of curse tablets from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE. BAR international series, 3077. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2022.
• Crassus by Peter Stothard review — the rise and lurid fall of Rome’s richest man | Times2 | The Times

Exhibition Related Things

• Alexander the Great review – cultural treasures reduced to the status of comics | Art and design | The Guardian
• Egypt’s new £889 million museum is fit for a pharaoh | National Geographic
• Authentic artifacts and 3-D representations bring Pompeii to life at Liberty Science Center – nj.com

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 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

• This Line of Roman Fortifications Was 4 Times Longer Than Hadrian’s Wall
• Unmasking Howard Carter – the man who found Tutankhamun | National Geographic
• What Caused the Untimely Death of Alexander the Great?

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 a festering wound and for the common folk, extreme suffering due to the disagreements.

… 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)