Hodie est a.d. XIX Ian. 2775 AUC ~ 21 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- In Photos: Gold & soapstone jewellery discovered in 18th Dynasty cemetery in Upper Egypt’s Minya – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- Why Are Egypt’s Treasures Housed Overseas? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
- Digitally rebuilding a lost city | YaleNews
- Surprise Maccabean-era arrowheads discovered while cleaning house at Tower of David | The Times of Israel
- Trove of Antiquities Found at Home of German Artist in Naxos, Greece
- Scoperti reperti etruschi in negozio a Poppi, 2 denunciati – Toscana – ANSA.it
In Case You Missed It
- Rutland Roman villa: how we found one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK
- Ancient coins unearthed in Israel cave could be evidence of Maccabean revolt
- 2,000-year-old mosaic floor found in ancient Italian villa | Miami Herald
- Were sausage dogs pitted against lions in the Colosseum? | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
Fresh Bloggery
- Naufragium: schipbreuk bij een paardenrace? – Mainzer Beobachter
- Fox Temper Meet Hunting Wolf – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Maximum Possible Pleasure
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Biasing the Record
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Lectus eburneus: Les lits funéraires en ivoire à Cumes et dans le monde romain
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Rule
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Collection du Centre Jean Bérard
- Automatic for the People | Sphinx
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In kaiserlichem Auftrag. Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann: Ethnographische, kirchenhistorische und archäologisch-historische Untersuchungen
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In kaiserlichem Auftrag. Die Deutsche Aksum-Expedition 1906 unter Enno Littmann: Altertumskundliche Untersuchungen der DAE in Tigray/Äthiopien
- A Night On Cheese Mountain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Amphora with Rome’s best wine found in German hinterlands
- Perzisch en Ptolemaïsch Judea – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kiwi Hellenist: Santa’s reindeer, Odin’s horse, and Siberian shamanism
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hauptman, Halakhic Anecdotes in the Babylonian Talmud (Gorgias)
- “Contingency was a necessary evil for me”: A Precarious Academic’s Story – Everyday Orientalism
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Don’t Look Back? Orpheus and Eurydice Today | by Mark Buchan | In Medias Res | Dec, 2022 | Medium
- Gold jewelry found in Tell el-Amarna
- Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaic of the living room of brutal Publius Vedius Pollio – Arkeonews
- Ornate collection of golden jewellery discovered in Egypt – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Rare half-shekel coin discovered from Great Revolt period – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
In this interview we speak to Coral Amiga, who portrayed Vorena the Elder, daughter of Vorenus. Across two seasons she gave viewers an excellent insight into the at times brutal life of a plebeian child in Rome. As you’d expect – spoiler warnings for the rest of season two. Enjoy!
An ivory lice comb found at Iron Age Lachish is actually from the Middle Bronze Age and contains the first complete Canaanite sentence. It talks about lice. Didn’t see that coming. So obviously we argue about hair care products and the connection between literacy and nearsightedness.
The guys wrap up their look at Book 7 this week but not before transgressing a few more liminal spaces. When Latinus throws up his hands at the storm gathering around him and his neighbors, it is up to Juno herself to descend and open the Gates of War. While this is the moment in the epic where the Iliadic violence of the second half is officially unleashed, these Gates also point to a Roman reality—the Temple of Janus and the Gates of War in the Roman Forum. A (worthy, we think) digression takes us into the history of these gates and this strange, two-faced deity. We end with a breakdown of Turnus’ puzzling fashion choices on the battlefield, and a glimpse at the extraordinary swift-footed, wheat-sprinting, water-skipping warrioress, Camilla. Keep an eye on this gal.
Murray answers this question from Pascal, ‘could you serve as a soldier, officer or even a consul despite some form of physical handicap during the roman republic?’
Fresh Youtubery
- Books Based On Greek Mythology & Ancient History YOU MUST READ! (According To A Classicist) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- 38. Silbannacus – Never Heard of Him – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- First evidence in the Judean Desert for the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Kingdom – YouTube | IAA
- Partridge in a Pear Tree Etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
- Author Interview: Natalie Haynes – YouTube | Reading Party
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Nicholas Horsfall, Fifty years at the Sibyl’s heels: selected papers on Virgil and Rome. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
- BMCR – Anne-Valérie Pont, La fin de la cité grecque: métamorphoses et disparition d’un modèle politique et institutionnel local en Asie Mineure, de Dèce à Constantin. Hautes études du monde gréco-romain, 57. Genève: Droz, 2020.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- The Roman Conquest of Cyprus Tickets, Mon 23/01/2023 at 1:00 pm | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics Haverford College
- Quarterly Adjunct Lecturer of Classics – HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
- The Naked Reader: Child Enslavement in the Villa of the Mysteries Fresco | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 127, No 1
- Domitian: An Innovative Emperor? | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 127, No 1
Alia
- The Ancient Greek Sex Manual of Philaenis
- ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ is more fiction than fact, say experts | Folio
- How Economic Sanctions in Ancient Greece Backfired, Prolonging War
- Tutankhamun tomb: How science solved the ‘hidden room’ mystery | BBC Science Focus Magazine
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 both civil war and abundance.
… 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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