Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for December 12, 2022

Hodie est pr. Id. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 19 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• News | Excavation of a wealthy Roman house from the 2nd-3rd… | Inrap
• Actualité | Le sanctuaire gaulois de Saint-Just-en-Chaussée … | Inrap
• Emerge mosaico a Posillipo, nel salotto del feroce Pollione
• Gaza authorities discover over 60 Roman era graves | AP News
• Archaeologists excavate hill adjacent to ancient mine previously yielded salt mummies – Tehran Times
• Archaeological artefacts discovered in Musandam Governorate | Times of Oman – Times of Oman

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Κατάρ

Fresh Bloggery

• The Lifespan of Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeology and Biblical ceramics
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Madrider Forschungen
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Madrider Beiträge
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: 75 Jahre Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Kairo 1907–1982
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Animals in ritual and funerary contexts: Proceedings of the 2nd Meeting of the Zooarchaeology of the Roman Period Working Group, Basel, 1st-4th February, 2018
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Be Happy
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Forger’s tale: an insider’s account of corrupting the corpus of Cycladic figures
• De niet-canonieke evangeliën – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Metal Detectorists’ Expectations, PAS Scramble to Play Along
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Breaking: New Official Estimate of Scale of Collection-Driven Exploitation of Archaeological Record
• Two Sources for Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Metal Detectorist: Artefact Recovery Easier After Bulldozing
• PaleoJudaica.com: Hasselman, Konstruktion sozialer Identität (Brill)
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Midlife Hobbyist’s “Handful of History” Trashes Everyone’s Past
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Detectorist Accuses “Thieving Archaeologists”
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Law and Maritime Commerce
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Contemporary Encounters with Ancient Metaphysics
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cicero’s Law: Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Lost Ancient Wine Glass
• Cuijk: de weg is weg (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Cuijk: de weg is weg (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: “Ancient Yemen” at the Smithsonian
• PaleoJudaica.com: Fialová & Kitzler (eds.), Hellenism, Early Judaism, and Early Christianity (De Gruyter)
• Everyone’s Heard of Peleus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Looting Matters: The Forger’s Tale

Other Blog-like Publications

• Objects of Worship: A Japanese Journey in Ancient Religion and Modern Experience – Antigone
• Socrates Redux: The 7th Antigone Competition – Antigone
• December 45 BCE: To Publius Cornelius Dolabella (at Baiae) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
• Imagining Disability: Julius caesar in Rome and Fallout: New Vegas

Fresh Podcasts

• Literature and History: Episode 99: The Boy Who Stole Pears (Augustine’s Confessions, Books 1-7) on Apple Podcasts

Augustine’s Confessions, Part 1 of 2. The first half of Augustine’s Confessions tells of his wayward early years, his intellectual journey, and his spiritual awakening.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 081: Hellenistic Literature – Theocritus and Bucolic Poetry on Apple Podcasts

Rather than writing tales of gods and heroes or flattering court panegyrics, the poet Theocritus of Syracuse (early second century B.C.) chose to focus on the simple life. As the founder of “Bucolic” or pastoral poetry, Theocritus cast the humble shepherd as the main subject, using idyllic scenes from the ancient countryside to illuminate his poems in a fashion that would be emulated by later artists such as Virgil.

• The Ancients: Hera: Queen of the Gods on Apple Podcasts

Hera, the wife and sister of Zeus, goddess of marriage, royalty and women, is the Queen of the Gods in Greek mythology. Despite her seat of power, she is an often maligned figure, typically characterised as the jealous and vengeful wife of Zeus due to his extramarital affairs and illegitimate children. Though archaeological evidence shows that Hera was a pre-Greek deity, pre-eminent to Zeus, and nearly every temple dedicated to Zeus, was a temple first originally dedicated to Hera. In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by Ancient Greek historian Dr Ellie Mackin Roberts of Kings College London to uncover the truth about Hera, find out where she came from, how she was worshipped and continued to be worshipped in her afterlives, and as a bonus why peacocks were sacred to her.

• The Ancient World: Episode C17 – The House of Omri on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: Political intrigues in Iron Age Israel end with the rise of King Omri. The kingdoms of Hamath and Aram-Damascus leverage military power and regional diplomacy to prepare for the coming of Shalmaneser.

Fresh Youtubery

• Virgin Births in the Ancient World with Dr. Bart Ehrman – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
• Roman Border Patrol #shorts #history #rome – YouTube  | Invicta
• What Life Was Like In Ancient Pompeii Before Its Destruction | Pompeii: Life After Death | Timeline – YouTube
• The Invisible World of Language: What You Don’t Know That You Know – YouTube | Classics in Color
• The Strange Pseudo-Mythology of Tumblr – YouTube | Jean’s Thoughts
• Ancient Greek Pottery Advent: Day 11 – YouTube | Ellie Mackin Roberts
• Giulia Muti CAARI Lecture – YouTube | CAARI Cyrus

 Book Reviews

• BMCR- Tommaso Gazzarri, The stylus and the scalpel: theory and practice of metaphors in Seneca’s prose. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 91. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• In ancient Yemen, a booming economy sparked cultures rivaling the Greeks and Romans | The Times of Israel

Dramatic Receptions

• Greek mythology comes to the Hostess City

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• International Conference: The Greek World and India History
• 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

Alia

• Eos, the Ancient Greek Goddess of the Dawn
• Seize the day? Here’s what people get wrong about “carpe diem” – Big Think
• The Ending Of Troy Explained
• How democracy got its strange and turbulent start in ancient Athens – Big Think

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 an outbreak of dysentery

… 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)