Hodie est Kal. Nov. 2775 AUC ~ 8 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- King Tut Died Long Ago, but the Debate About His Tomb Rages On – The New York Times
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Obituary: Lois Vivian Hinckley – CentralMaine.com
- Robert Laurence Miller Obituary – Columbia Daily Tribune
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- Visiting Classics Professor to Discuss UM Exhibition – Ole Miss News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Judean diasporas: Josephos’ take on tensions with Greeks in Syria, the Decapolis, and Alexandria ca. 59-66 CE (late first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Happy Halloween: Werewolves in Greek and Roman Culture – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Destructible
- #ClassicsTober day 31: SARCOPHAGUS (the last prompt!) | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Quintus Caelius and Camidia Aphrodisia
- Scaurus in Tyre – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- How Do You Say Trick-Or-Treat in Latin and Greek? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The (Mostly) Lost Myth Of Cínyras And The Temple Of His Daughters | The Historian’s Hut
- Photogravure Of The Last Day Of Herculaneum, Based On A Painting By Louis-Hector Leroux (c. 1829-1900) | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » 2,000-year-old luxury Roman villa found in Bavaria
- The Shocking Ancient Pagan Origin of the Legend of Stingy Jack – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Het euhemerisme van Filon van Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
- Book Club | November 2022: Vitruvius On Architecture – The Kosmos Society
- October 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- Spring 2023 Course on Natural Language Processing and the Human Record » Perseus Digital Library Updates
- Spencer Alley: Nicolas Vleughels (1668-1737) – Studies and Paintings
- The Working-Classicists Christmas List
Other Blog-like Publications
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Philostratus, Life of Apollonius of Tyana 4.25.2
- @officialnhaynes on the story of Lycaon
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.232.239
Fresh Podcasts
“Let him kill me, so long as he reigns” These are reportedly the words spoken by Agrippina when an astrologer told her that her son, Nero, would become the Roman emperor but he would also murder Agrippina. When making a list of the wickedest rulers, Nero is usually near the top. A bloody Roman emperor who burned Christians during parties. His mother Agrippina has often been blamed for the monstrous reign of her son. Her name has become synonymous with incest, murder, greed, and manipulation. In reality, very little is known about the woman behind the myth. As historian Emma Southon writes in her biography on Agrippina, “As a woman, Agrippina exists only when her actions impact on the lives or actions of men in the political or military sphere because in the ancient world, as a woman, she exists only through her relationship with men.” Agrippina was born into a world of wealth, privilege, and confines. There was no guarantee that she would be remembered by history, she just as easily could have become one of the many faceless and nameless women from Antiquity. However, Agrippina fought for her memory to live on. She was a woman who was trained in the confines and expectations of Roman womanhood and blatantly decided to disregard them. This fact secured her a place in the history books but often not a favorable one. To later historians, her assertiveness, ambition, ruthlessness, and political intelligence made her unnatural, more man than woman.
1/4. On the West Bank of the Nile in Luxor lie the burial chambers of some of Ancient Egypt’s greatest pharaohs – Rameses II, Seti I and Tutankhamun. From Luxor, Dan delves into the history of the Valley of the Kings with Alia Ismail whose current project is 3D mapping the tombs. He ventures deep into the earth inside the most magnificent of all the valley tombs- Seti I – as he and celebrated Egyptologist Salima Ikram tell the story of Giovanni Belzoni and the many explorers and archaeologists who set the stage for Howard Carter’s discovery of the century.
Polybius’ theory of anacyclosis is the most sophisticated theory of political (r)evolution to have emerged from ancient Greek and Roman political thought.
Happy Halloween! In this Halloween Special Liv talks to past guest Dr. Ellie Mackin Roberts about all things Underworld: Persephone, Hades, and everyone in between. F
Fresh Youtubery
- Halloween (excerpt from Alliterative’s video “Jack o’Lantern”) – YouTube | Alliterative
- How Latin became Italian Pronunciation, Morphology – YouTube | polyMATHY
- Classics, Indigeneity, and Modern Scientific Race (Rebecca Kennedy) – YouTube | Peter Miller
- Oogie Boogie’s Song, in LATIN! Nightmare Before Christmas (lyrics: Stefano Vittori) Songs in Latin – YouTube | ScorpioMartianus
- Law and Order in Ancient Rome – How did it work? FULL DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- An Introduction to Ancient Greek Magic and Sorceresses – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Homeric Hymn to Pan in Ancient Greek: Halloween Special – YouTube | Ancient Literature
- 32. Philip the Arab – The First Christian Emperor – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
Book Reviews
- Connecting the Ancient West and East Studies Presented to Prof. Gocha R. Tsetskhladze | Spartokos a lu
- Platos Philosophers offers a new reading of Greek philosophers dialogues | IBNA
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
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- Ancient Greek Female Artists: The Feminine Aesthetic in Antiquity
- Egyptian Shipwreck Proves Ancient Greek Historian Herodotus Right
- Sappho’s homoerotic poetry was beloved in ancient Greece – and burned centuries later | Aeon Videos
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:
If it thunders today, it portends discord in the city.
… 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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