Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 14 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Ramsay MacMullen Obituary (2022) – New Haven, CT – New Haven Register
- Dr. Jordan Pickett’s research on Roman baths featured on Hyperallergic | Department of Classics | The University of Georgia
Fresh Bloggery
- Kretans and Cilicians: Athenians, Rhodians, and Romans pair “banditry” with imperial control (fifth-second centuries BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Finnish Institute at Athens presentation – ‘You are the bandit!’: Criminalizing Conquered Peoples, and Some Retorts | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- New Work on Early Christian Attica | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Measure of a Man | Sphinx
- Don’t Gossip About the Gods! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Inventa ergo… or maybe not. Recensio, part 2. – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Corpus Medicorum Graecorum – Supplementum Orientale
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transfer, Adaption und Neukonfiguration von Schrift- und Sprachwissen im Alten Orient
- Philo Can’t Trust His Mind: On Senses and Self – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- How to lose the first letter of a word in transmission – Roger Pearse
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Desert Networks
- Farewell Of Hector And Andromache, By An Unidentified Artist | The Historian’s Hut
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A Decontextualised Spearhead “Saved from Rot”?
- Cynisme (1): Niets weten met Antisthenes – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Conference volume on Arrian’s Alexander
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Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
News of Galba’s betrayal makes its way to Nero who is shocked into action. He sends troops to stop Galba – but they switch sides and join the conspiracy. Nero goes into hiding with the intent of running away to Alexandria and Greece, but even that plan is betrayed. Finally, he comes to the end of his story. And so do we! This is our last episode ever.
The Society for American Archaeology sent an open letter to Netflix with a list of complaints and requests in reaction to its hit show “Ancient Apocalypse”. I give my analysis and reaction.
Fresh Youtubery
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Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Pedar W. Foss, Pliny and the eruption of Vesuvius. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Judith M. Barringer, François Lissarrague, Images at the crossroads: media and meaning in Greek art. Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Ilsetraut Hadot, Simplicius the Neoplatonist in light of contemporary research: a critical review. Academia Philosophical Studies, 67. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2020.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Four positions in Late Antique Studies at Tuebingen, Germany
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- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
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- Why the Gonzo ‘Rome Isn’t Real’ Conspiracy Keeps Going Viral
- The Dark Side Of Ancient Egypt: An Era Of Inequality & Brutality | HistoryExtra
- The day Caligula absurdly challenged the mighty god Poseidon
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 the same for everyone.
… 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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