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In the News
- Gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur found to have the same origin
- Findings from 2,000-year-old Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network — ScienceDaily
- A428 Dig: Evidence of Iron Age feast discovered – BBC News
- Researchers fear UK sale of artefacts could include items looted from Yemen | Middle East Eye
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- Beetle Jews: Late Bronze Age Scarab Found on School Trip in Central Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Gold tongues found in 2,000-year-old mummies in Egypt | Live Science
- Lost Temple Swallowed by Ocean Discovered Near Roman Empire’s ‘Las Vegas’
- US tourist who damaged Vatican busts risks trial – English – ANSA.it
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Ramsay MacMullen, distinguished Roman historian and Yale citizen | YaleNews
- Classics Day returns to Austin Peay after 2 years of COVID hiatus | ClarksvilleNow.com
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Barbarians and Greeks: Thucydides theorizes the shift from barbarian banditry to settled civilization (late fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Aitolians: Thucydides on barbarous Greeks (late fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Khirbet Midras pyramid etc.
- Why Pseudoarchaeology and Why Now? | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A 4th century fork, with a mule-head finial – Roger Pearse
- Hearing and Seeing Evils: Returning to Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Praise? What Praise? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PAThs: Tracking Papyrus and Parchment Paths. An Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature. Literary Texts in Their Original Context. Production, Copying, Usage, Dissemination and Storage
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Something’s Missing
- De vrijlating van Ptolemaios XIII – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “I have every confidence in the dealer”
- From Egypt to Bonn Vol. II: Analysis of Egyptian phytoliths at the KAAK – Entangled Africa
- Book Club | Winter–Summer 2023 – The Kosmos Society
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Jewish and Christian Women in the Ancient Mediterranean
- PaleoJudaica.com: Rituale und Magie in Ugarit (Mohr Siebeck)
- Advent Calendars and last-minute gifts | Greek Myth Comix
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Classics and Māori Culture in New Zealand: Sir Apirana Ngata – Antigone
- Findings from Uluburun shipwreck reveal complex trade network
- Gold from Troy, Poliochni and Ur all had same origin
- Gold from ancient Troy, Poliochni and Ur had the same origin – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Where Was Mary Magdalene From? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- December (?) 45 BCE: To Quintus Cornificius (in Syria) from Cicero (at Rome)
- Classicist’s Gift Guide 2022. For That Special Classicist in Your… | by Tori Lee | idle musings | Nov, 2022 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @abby_fecit on an inscription on a marble urn
- @DocCrom on Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica 4.450-461
- @MichaelPress on that Sponsian coin
Fresh Podcasts
Welcome to The Classics Podcast Does…Ancient History A Level, designed for students, teachers and anyone interested in learning more about the ancient world! Episode 4 features Professor Peter Liddel and James discussing the importance of Attic Inscriptions to our understanding of this period of ancient history.
A Mesopotamian metropolis that thrived for millennia, Uruk is even claimed by some to have been the first true city in history. Located in modern day Iraq, Uruk was certainly among the oldest urban settlements of the ancient world, and has been a treasure trove of archaeological finds. But was it really the first ever city? And what do we actually know about Uruk’s inhabitants? In this episode, Tristan is rejoined by Dr Paul Collins from the British Museum. Together, they explore Uruk’s monumental building programs, pioneering irrigation systems, and the recent archaeological findings to answer the question – was Uruk one of the first cities?
In this episode, Eric Adler discusses three books related to the humanities and classics. A more detailed list of these works is included in the episode notes.
This time we’re taking a little break from Greece to explore the broader history of democracy. Was democracy really a Greek invention? Historian David Stasavage, author of The Decline and Rise of Democracy, thinks it was not. And in today’s episode he explains why.
For over a thousand years, the ancient Egyptians sent their ships out to trade with a fabulous kingdom. They dragged their ships from the Nile to the coast of the Red Sea, and those ships returned groaning with luxuries beyond anyone’s wildest imaginings. The place they got it all from was the Land of Punt—known to the Egyptians as the Land of the Gods. The Egyptians described just about everything about it, except how to get there. Was Punt in Africa? Was it in Arabia? Was it an island in the far-flung Indian Ocean? Or did it ever exist at all? Today, we try to unravel the mystery.
Fresh Youtubery
- Agamemnon | Reading Greek Tragedy Online – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
- Fundraising stream for TANG’s Oz – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
- Bleda Düring CAARI lecture – YouTube | CAARI Syrpus
- 100 Opere tornano a casa – 20 novembre 2022 – YouTube | Eturschannel
- Advent/Diabetes Etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
- Gaming in the Roman Army? #shorts #history #rome – YouTube | Invicta
- Dangerous hospitality | Latin story based on Cicero – YouTube | Latinitium
- History Respawned Podcast: Kate Cook and Jane Draycott on Women in Classical Video Games – YouTube | History Respawned
- Were the Celts Bad Metalworkers? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Filippomaria Pontani , Stefan Weise , The Hellenizing muse: a European anthology of poetry in ancient Greek from the Renaissance to the present . Trends in Classics – Pathways of Reception, 6. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
- BMCR – Jean-François Pradeau, Héraclite. Qui es-tu?. Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 2022.
- BMCR – Martijn A. Wijnhoven, European mail armour: ringed battle shirts from the Iron Age, Roman Period and Early Middle Ages. Amsterdam archaeological studies. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021.
- Excursion archéologique des étudiants universitaires de Bucarest (1896) | Spartokos a lu
- Classical Dinosaur | History Today
- Papyrus by Irene Vallejo review: a mindboggling history of books
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Artificial Intelligence and Ancient Writing Cultures – ENCODE – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
- Tin from Uluburun shipwreck shows small-scale commodity exchange fueled continental tin supply across Late Bronze Age Eurasia | Science Advances
- Portable laser ablation sheds light on Early Bronze Age gold treasures in the old world: New insights from Troy, Poliochni, and related finds – ScienceDirect
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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 a healthy and agreeable year.
… 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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