Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Egypt unveils ancient ‘secret keeper’ tomb, golden mummy
- 4,300-year-old gilded mummy discovered in Cairo’s Saqqara necropolis
- Archaeologist hails possibly oldest mummy yet found in Egypt | Egypt | The Guardian
- Discovery in Carthage of remains of a thermal building
- 4,700-year-old ‘tavern’, still fully stocked, found in Iraq | Tri-City Herald
- Man who discovered Shropshire Roman coin hoard wants them to stay in county | Shropshire Star
- Ancient 18-foot Hercules mosaic may appear in LA court – Daily News
- Umbria. Il mistero dei 47 bambini del V secolo che dormono per sempre nelle anfore. Scavi e simboli stregoneschi – Stile Arte
- ‘Where the swords met bone’: Archaeological evidence found of Ancient Egyptian rebellion mentioned on the Rosetta Stone
In Case You Missed It
- Looted archaeological artefacts worth more than $20m returned to Italy
- Italy Celebrates Return of Looted Artifacts Worth $20 Million | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Mysterious 12-sided Roman object found in Belgium may have been used for magical rituals | Live Science
- Life Size Marble Statue Of Hercules Unearthed During Excavations In Rome – See The Photos!
- Fact Check-The British Museum has not banned the word ‘mummy’ | Reuters
- Appian Way’s Beginning Will Remain a Mystery for Now – The New York Times
- Rome archaeologists search for start of Appian Way
- A Geneva Court Has Found Antiquities Dealer Ali Aboutaam Guilty of Illegally Importing Artifacts | Artnet News
- Antiquities dealer Ali Aboutaam given 18-month suspended sentence by Geneva court
- Ancient Roman residences with ‘pigeon towers’ discovered in Luxor, Egypt | Live Science
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- The Road to Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Overcoming Dichotomies: Parables, Fables, and Similes in the Graeco-Roman World
- Writing Your Way Out of Misery – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der apokryphe Briefwechsel zwischen Seneca und Paulus
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Of One Blood?
- Het Pre-Grieks – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Cross, The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novella (PhD thesis)
- PaleoJudaica.com: What is a word and when did we decide that?
- Alexander’s Jeopardy! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Spencer Alley: Water Divinities
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two rooted epitaphs
- January 27th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Do Not Disturb
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Conjectural Criticism
- Plato, the Liberal Arts, and Your Education — ConsultTheClassics
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- BADA | Theater Program – The Kosmos Society
- Preserving papyrus: caring for 4000-year-old documents | British Museum
Other Blog-like Publications
- Never-ending Crisis: The History of the Socratic Problem – Antigone
- New important finds from Saqqara
- ANE Today – Oil, Wine, and People: A Mediterranean Triad
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Tony sent this in for Murray to think about, ‘can you tell us anything about the difference in style of combat when comparing late medieval pike vs ancient Sarissa?’
The various dynasties that rose from the ashes of Alexander’s empire proved to be a lucrative source of income for aspiring poets. Ptolemaic Alexandria hosted some of the influential artists of the day, such as Callimachus of Cyrene and Theocritus of Syracuse. Euphorion of Chalcis would move to Seleucid Antioch, and Aratus of Soli would compose his famous Phaenomena under the auspices of Antigonus II Gonatas. These figures would re-define the art of poetry for the next several centuries, and set the standards for literary culture for the entire Hellenistic period.
Fresh Youtubery
- The Parthenon sculptures that may be moved to Greece | Reuters Video
- Live Lyre Performance at the British Museum! – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Dialoghi in Curia Le Navi degli Eroi – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
- In Search of Greek Theatre #1 Audio Described: Antigone (2012) at the National Theatre – YouTube
- Theseus & The Minotaur As Historical Fiction? Book Review of Mary Renault’s THE KING MUST DIE – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Ancient Music Performance & Reception. La Sapienza University. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Angela Cinalli – YouTube
- Invocation with Epigraphs. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Angela Cinalli – YouTube
- 4,300 year old sealed tombs discovered in Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis – YouTube
- Runshaw Classics Academy: The Parthenon and the Panathenaia 26.1.23 – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Ota Gál, Plotinus on beauty: beauty as illuminated unity in multiplicity. Studies in Platonism, Neoplatonism, and the Platonic tradition, 29. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Monica S. Cyrino, Screening love and war in Troy: fall of a city. Imagines: classical receptions in the visual and performing arts. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Exhibition Related Things
- A Passion for Collecting Manuscripts
- Podcast: At the Israel Museum, touring 7 new wonders of the ancient world | The Times of Israel
Dramatic Receptions
- ‘Oedipus at Colonus: #aftersophocles’ to premiere at the Baxter Flipside | UCT News
- ‘Hadestown’ comes to Madtown
- Ancient Greek play echoes fight to protect Amazon – DW – 01/27/2023
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Schools’ Classics Conference 2023 « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- The Last Great General of Ancient Greece
- The messages hidden in folk tales – BBC Future
- Comic creator releases two books about Romans in Scotland | Greenock Telegraph
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 outbreak of harmless 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)
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