Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 29 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Research sheds new light on foodways in the first cities in Mesopotamia
• Rosetta Stone: a new museum is reviving calls to return the artefact to Egypt
• Petition to return Rosetta Stone to Egypt seeks a million signatures
• Who was the world’s first author? | Live Science
• Fire in Oropos revealed the base of an ancient statue – Archaeologist rushes to the spot | Nation

In Case You Missed It

• With Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists
• Archaeologists Discover Temple-like Foundations at Kleidi Samikou Greece | GTP Headlines
• UK’s Former Culture Secretary Supports Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece

Public Facing Classics

• 18th- and 19th-century Americans of all races, classes and genders looked to the ancient Mediterranean for inspiration

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of Philokynegos the Gladiator
• Capitoline Temple Again – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• WHOA! Christie’s halted the Shen T. rex sale!
• Laudator Temporis Acti: I Wish It Were True
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ›Amicus Lucretius‹: Gassendi, il ›De rerum natura‹ e l’edonismo cristiano
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lesepraktiken im antiken Judentum: Rezeptionsakte, Materialität und Schriftgebrauch – Reading Practices in Ancient Judaism. Acts of reception, materiality and use of writing
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Heeresdienst von Christen in der römischen Kaiserzeit: Studien zu Tertullian, Clemens und Origenes – Christians in the Roman Army: The Attitudes of Tertullian, Origen and Clement of Alexandria
• A Pindaric Hierarchy of Needs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Kiwi Hellenist: The library of Alexandria and its reputation
• Een gerestaureerde Horus – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Paean to Health
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Meetings
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Humility
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Sievers (ed.), The Pharisees
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Newsom, The Spirit within Me
• #PhDone: Thank-yous and What’s Next

Other Blog-like Publications

• What Does the Mesha Stele Say? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a Constatius Chlorus  medallion
• @DocCrom on Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 961-977

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #27 War – Just like an honest, wool-working woman on Apple Podcasts

Inspired by a line in Book 12 of Homer’s Iliad, Susanna Phillippo’s story about grief and storytelling was commended in the Open Category and it was vividly brought to life in this narration by Professor James Robson. Susanna is herself a Senior Lecturer in Classics at Newcastle University and you can read her profile here.

• The Sustainable Past ~ Professor Laurence Totelin: Botany and Pharmacology

This week, we hear from Professor Laurence Totelin, who is a specialist in ancient pharmacology and botany at the University of Cardiff, Wales. She is an historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology, and Medicine and has published wildly on of ancient pharmacology, gynecology, botany and sensory studies. She is currently working on the history of pharmacological retail; the history of plant grafting; and the history of ancient cosmetics and sexual aids, such as aphrodisiacs. With Dr. Patty Baker and Professor Helen King, she helped create a MOOC Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Sometimes Laws Are Meant to Be Broken, Sophocles’ Antigone (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

Continuing with Sophocles’ Antigone… Antigone is caught burying Polyneices, and both she and Ismene are going to be blamed by Kreon. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content!

Fresh Youtubery

• Explore Roman art! Opus sectile marble decoration Ostia Antica. At Alto Medioevo museum in EUR. – YouTube | Darius Arya Digs
• Amarna Drama in Ancient Egypt! – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
• Orphic Hymn to Hekate, read in Ancient Greek with English translation (for meditation/prayer) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
• Migrating CELTS were not ETHNICALLY Celts #ancienthistory #celts #ancientcelts – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Who are the Nine Muses of Greek Mythology? – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Why did Sparta have two Kings? #ancienthistory #sparta #spartan – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• How the CELTS took over IBERIA #ancienthistory #celts #iberia – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Geralda Jurriaans-Helle, Composition in Athenian black-figure vase-painting: the ‘Chariot in profile’ type scene. Babesch Supplement, 41. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Ancient Egyptian mummification was never intended to preserve bodies, new exhibit reveals | Live Science

Dramatic Receptions

• A Captivating ORFEO ED EURIDICE by Gluck at San Francisco Opera. Category: Arts & Events from The Berkeley Daily Planet

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

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 year of good health.

… 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)