Hodie est Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Headless skeletons in a settlement trench: A 7,000-year-old mass grave?
- Nuovi reperti archeologici a Porto Cesareo: iniziati gli scavi
- 2,000-year-old sarcophagus found in Istanbul – Türkiye News
- Around 10,500 new artifacts added to Turkish museums in 2022 | Daily Sabah
- Scheletri sepolti in anfore giganti scoperti in un’antica necropoli » Scienze Notizie
- Revealed: PA’s plan to build neighborhood on Joshua’s Altar | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
- Irish Columnist Makes Moral Case for The Parthenon Marbles Return – The National Herald
- Tornos News | Minister: Greece will continue to demand the return of the Parthenon Marbles
In Case You Missed It
- An ancient spoon stirs American mischief against Israel – JNS.org
- 8 ostrich eggs over 4,000 years old found near excavated firepit in south | The Times of Israel
- Pompeii residence filled with erotic frescoes reopens after 20 years – CNN Style
- Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon Identified in Samikon – ARTnews.com
- How Ancient Greek letters were carved on a rock in Central Asia – Greek Herald
- Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- UnDisciplined: The 2000-year-old modern scholar | UPR Utah Public Radio
- Reunions can be nostalgic and painful as well as happy – as the ancient Greek heroes Achilles and Odysseus show us
Fresh Bloggery
- Chatting with ‘The Ancients’ Podcast – The Partial Historians
- Three Teaching Things Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Crying Everyone’s Tears – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Is Diversity Always a Strength?
- Laudator Temporis Acti: New Testament Greek
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Decay and the Millennia
- Whatever became of the World-Wide Web? – Roger Pearse
- Highways of Words and Rough Sailing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 10 of 234 days: UPenn Nemi connection – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Democracy in the Peloponnese, c.550–146 BCE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Staging Kingship: A Performance-Oriented Approach to the Hittite ‘Theatre of State’
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Exploring Pain in Ancient Egypt
- Keizer Augustus in Hamburg – Mainzer Beobachter
- Some Aes Grave Bibliography – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The History Girls: Wonders and Warnings – by Ruth Downie
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Look on my Face, ye Mighty, and despair!
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Another Euphronios Krater?
- Ammon, een Libische god voor de export – Mainzer Beobachter
- Blogging ancient epigram: From the statue of a Hellenistic cavalry captain
- January 13th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- 4,000-year-old ostrich eggs uncovered in the Negev dunes
- House of the Vettii in Pompeii re-opened
- Three people arrested for trying to steal Ramesses II statue
- ANE Today – The Salt Traders of Seleucid Babylonia
- Roman ‘ritual center’ discovered in England – Arkeonews
- Ancient Burial Practices from Greece
- Ornate collection of mosaics uncovered near Jericho
- Ancient campsite where people cooked ostrich eggs
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Mason sent in a question a few weeks ago, and here he is again with another for Murray.’If Romans were fighting and happened to get surrounded, did they have a formation for that? Did the back line and sides turn around and form a square?’
Liv is joined by Maria Pretzler, a professor of Classics who specializes in mythology and the writings of Pausanias. They talk about the culture of the Peloponnese, what we learn from the late travel writer Pausanias, the mythology of ancient Sparta.
Fresh Youtubery
- 2023-01-12 Raising Children in Ancient Israel (Kristine Garroway) – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
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- The Function of Prophecy in Greek Mythology – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Dyeus: The Indo-European Sky Father – YouTube | ReligionForBreakfast
- Andrew Tate and Ancient Ideas About Women – YouTube | Lady of the Library
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Jacob L. Mackey, Belief and cult: rethinking Roman religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022
- BMCR – Sonya Nevin, The idea of Marathon: battle and culture. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- BMCR – That tyrant, persuasion: how rhetoric shaped the Roman world
- BMCR – R.J. Hankinson, Matyáš Havrda, Galen’s epistemology: experience, reason, and method in ancient medicine. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- The Tragedy of Ukraine – CounterPunch.org
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Teaching Assistant (TA 90) in the History of Science and Technology Program and Department of Classics – Part-time | University of King’s College
- Thomas F. Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics – HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Ten Stunning Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art – GreekReporter.com
- Antiquities: A Crooked Market – Australian Institute of International Affairs – Australian Institute of International Affairs
- Priapism Was Named After The God Of Gardens With An Unfortunate Ailment | IFLScience
- Playing God: Wisdom from the Greeks or Monsters of Artificial Intelligence? – CounterPunch.org
- 7 famous ghosts from the ancient world | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
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 diseases.
… 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)