Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 9 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- In Photos: Large Ptolemaic funerary structure unearthed in Fayoum – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- Fayum mummy portraits discovered in Fayoum – Egypt Independent
- Owl-shaped plaques may have been on Copper Age children’s wish list
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Neil Bernstein brings modern access to 2,000-year-old classic Latin poetry
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Fresh Bloggery
- Time and the Death of Pain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Variatio in Kunst und Handwerk: Modulare Arbeitsweisen in spätantiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit
- November 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men – Tales of Times Forgotten
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Debunking Bunker
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period
- Heraclitus | The Historian’s Hut
- Artabazos – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Friendship
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 201
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Borrowings
- Be Excellent, Just Don’t Try To Become A God – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Memorabilia Antonina: ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
- SIAC NEWSLETTER – 211 (11/2022) | Tulliana News
- Looting Matters: Returning Glories of the Past
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lecture on the Judean Babylonian cuneiform archive
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World
- Survey at Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos
- New finds from the Ptolemaic Philadelphia in Egypt’s Fayoum – Archaeology Wiki
- Large funerary building and Fayoum portraits from the Ptolemaic and Roman period discovered – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Pasts Imperfect (12.1.22)
- ANE TODAY – 202212 – Reforming (and Decolonising) Excavation and Survey in Iraq – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Coming Soon: Ovid’s Fastorum Libri Sex – by M. – Ovid Daily
- The Orbis — The Little-Known Roman Defensive Formation | Short History
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
In this episode of TCP Does Ancient History A Level, Professor Judith Mossman talks to James about the life and works of the biographer and historian Plutarch.
Murray got this question from Jonathan via email ‘I read about Caesar bridging of the Rhine, is that how armies bridged rivers after him, following his example, what about before him?’
Athens and Sparta were now in a position to turn their attention to matters within their own spheres of influence, with the truce that existed between them. Sparta would look at eliminating the threats that they had faced on the Peloponnese, seeing Argos now at peace with Sparta, and Tegea brought back into the Peloponnesian league. While negotiations would appear to be taking place with other cities on the Corinthian isthmus…
Liv reads part 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book IV, translated by Brookes More. The daughters of Minyas tell stories, including that of Pyramus and Thisbe. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content! This is not a standard narrative story episode, it’s a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don’t have “Liv Reads…” in the title!
Fresh Youtubery
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- Introduction to Live Chats 2022/23 – YouTube | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
- The WORST Greek Mythological Retellings I’ve Read (According To An Ancient Historian) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- True Size of a Legion of the Roman Republic (3D) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- Engineering the Via Appia: through the Pontine Marshes – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
- De schola condenda, cum Alexandro Feye (@scholanovabelgium1055) || “Rara avis” Podcast, S1EP5 – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- 2022-11-30, BB – O’Grady: Legitimizing the Past – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Winckelmann-Feier 2022
- Staging Emotions: Affect and emotional expressions in Euripides Tickets, Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite
- 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
Alia
- Precious and Rare “Lysippos of Fano Statue” in Getty Villa: The Efforts to Repatriate it – La Voce di New York
- Ancient Greek City of Chersonesus in Crimea Founded 2,500 Years Ago
- Nestor – December 2022 issue available
- The Ancient Greek Kingdoms of China
- Exploring empirically: Tracing Roman roots and rocks in modern-day Mainz | Stars and Stripes
- Romans Destroyed Their Republic in Partisan Warfare | Time
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 an abundance of fish and fruit.
… 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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