Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 4 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Unearthing the archaeological passing of time at Lagash, a site in southern Iraq
• Rumours of Parthenon Marbles’ return ‘overhyped’, experts say | Arts and Culture News | Al Jazeera
• Egypt archaeologists uncover ‘complete’ Roman city
• Remains of ancient Roman city unearthed in Luxor on eastern Nile bank
• Water spoils archaeological quest for ‘queen’ of Roman roads | Reuters
• Roman road dig yields centuries of treasures | World | The Times
• Long-lost spectacular Roman artifact depicting god Silvanus rediscovered in Batthyaneum collection – Stiri pe surse – Cele mai noi stiri
• Excavation, restoration unearth cultural assets in ancient Heraclea | Daily Sabah

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics Prof. Sergey Ivanov fled Russia, teaching at NU

Public Facing Classics

• The deserving poor and undeserving rich? | Blog post by Mary Beard
• Yes, the Chinese care about the Western classics | Princeton University Press
• ChatGPT: Chatbots can help us rediscover the rich history of dialogue

Fresh Bloggery

• Mediterranean peoples: Pomponius Mela on peoples of the known world (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• The Lyre of Achilles – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Justice and Happy Sons – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• 21 of 234 days: Fabatus and Cybele – Liv Mariah Yarrow
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• Cut marks on Aes Grave? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Felicem diem natalem, Hadriane! FOLLOWING HADRIAN
• Ardea 1940 (CHRR 20) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Via Tiberina (CHRR 81) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Scripta Antiquitatis Posterioris ad Ethicam Religionemque pertinentia
• RRC 16: Lion Left! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• De slag bij het Jodenkamp – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Wrong Monkey: A Product Listing on Amazon
• PaleoJudaica.com: Want to do archaeology this summer?
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the European “Geniza”
• The Time of Planning and Envy’s Crush – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Spencer Alley: Undertakings (and Targets) of Jupiter
• Review: THE SHADOW OF PERSEUS by Claire Heywood – Classical Studies Support

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Power of Reason: Benedict XVI and the Classics – Antigone
• ‘Golden’ mummified boy reveals its secrets
• New finds from Ancient Tenea, Chiliomodi, Corinthia
• Kinship formation in Neolithic Anatolia helped communities avoiding inbreeding
• Philosophy of Atomism: Did Ancient Greek Thinkers Discover Atoms?
• Remains of Roman city found in Luxor
• The unexpected popularity of Ancient Greek Language courses – Neos Kosmos

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 15.29-40
• @DocCrom on a Hispania coin of Hadrian

Fresh Podcasts

• History Extra podcast: Blood, sweat & marble: examining ancient bodies on Apple Podcasts

Imagine an ancient Greek or Roman body, and the first picture that pops into your head is probably made of marble or stone – perhaps an austere bust, or a gleaming, musclebound sculpture, polished, cold and pale. But what about the experience of living in a real body, in all its pleasure, pain and flaws, during antiquity? Speaking with Elinor Evans, Caroline Vout presents the flesh and blood realities of life – and death – in ancient Greece and Rome.

Fresh Youtubery

• Per Ercole! Storia di un semi / dio (?) dell’Italia Antica. – YouTube | Etruschannel
• How Were Ancient Women Discussed in 1975? Review of Sarah B. Pomeroy’s “GODDESSES, WIVES, & SLAVES” – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• 44. Tacitus – Benefitting from Interregnum – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Alison Whyte | Venus With Cupid: Discoveries in the Conservation Lab – YouTube | Oriental Institute
• Why Tyrian Purple Dye Is So Expensive | So Expensive | Insider Business – YouTube

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Richard P. Saller, Pliny’s Roman economy: natural history, innovation, and growth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Amy C. Smith, Virginia Woolf’s mythic method. Classical memories/modern identities. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Katharina Bracht, Jan Dirk Harke, Matthias Perkams, Meinolf Vielberg, Heteronome Texte: kommentierende und tradierende Literatur in Antike und Mittelalter. Transmissions, 6. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Celtic Conference in Classics, Coimbra 2023
• Ancient Tithronion
• 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

• Why Lebanon’s Roman Ruins Make It Worth Visiting
• The ‘Lost’ Emperor? | History Today

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 unrest among the enslaved people.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 3 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Pompeii fresco among 60 artifacts returned from US – English – ANSA.it
• Italy recovers 60 of its archaeological artworks from abroad – Culture – ANSAMed.it
• Herculaneum fresco among looted relics returned to Italy from US | Italy | The Guardian
• $20 Million Worth of Looted Art Returns to Italy From the U.S. – The New York Times
• Rome’s looted treasures returned from US collectors | World | The Times
• Seized artifacts worth $20 million are shown off on return to Italy – CNN Style
• Deal on Parthenon Sculptures ‘difficult, but not impossible,’ says Culture Minister | eKathimerini.com
• Parthenon Marbles May be Housed in British Annex at Acropolis Museum – The National Herald
• Chamshir Dam: archaeologist calls for further excavations – Tehran Times
• Digital scan unwraps secrets of mummy from 2,300 years ago | Egyptology | The Guardian
• Portato alla luce misterioso quartiere romano di Sens Senigalia. Latrine, vasche, monete false – Stile Arte
• How the myth of whiteness in classical sculpture was created – DW – 01/24/2023
• Arena of Verona damaged by falling Xmas decorations – English – ANSA.it

In Case You Missed It

• Pompeii’s House of the Vettii reopens: A reminder that Roman sexuality was far more complex than simply gay or straight
• 3,600-year-old hoards may contain the earliest silver currency in Israel and Gaza | Live Science
• Gallant pledges to safeguard archaeological site at Mount Ebal from Palestinian damage – JNS.org
• British museums to stop using ‘mummy’ over negative associations | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition

Public Facing Classics

• Britain treasures the Parthenon marbles, but consider this: returned to Greece, could they be more valuable? | Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Podcast on Babatha
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the cherubim
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Pity
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Success and Disaster
• The Importance of Luck and Good Timing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 20 of 234 days: 5th Bull/Prow Praeneste find (?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Crime
• Winter AD 122/3 – Hadrian stays in Tarraco and rebuilds the Temple of Augustus (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Die babylonisch-assyrische Medizin in Texten und Untersuchungen
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Digital Biblical Studies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Mitteilungen des Septuaginta-Unternehmens Volumes Online
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Archaeologists of the World Unite! Why We Need to Pay Attention to Pseudoarchaeology Today”
• Roman wood writing tablet with ink found in Sens – The History Blog
• De stèle van Yehawmilk – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Waller, with Molin, The Bible in the Bowls (open access)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Profile of Michael Langlois
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Kotzé, Images and Ideas of Debated Readings in the Book of Lamentations
• Knights on White Horses
• Spencer Alley: Adventures (and Associates) of Venus
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Equal to Our Fathers
• Apollo on my mind | Turkish Archaeological News
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Armory

Other Blog-like Publications

• Archaeologists found a 2,000-year-old Roman road in Cluj-Napoca in northwest Romania – Arkeonews
• Finding an Archaeological Dig – Biblical Archaeology Society
• “On the Nature of Things”: Lucretius’ Secrets of the Universe
• In the Shadow of Heracles: Alexander the Great’s Hero
• January 24th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
• 5000-year-old stoneware workshop found in Iran – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Fasti 2.337-350

Fresh Podcasts

• Jewish History Unpacked: Babatha: The Jewish Mom of Ancient Times on Apple Podcasts

We’ve talked this season about some biggggg characters. Josephus, Napoleon, Shabbetai Zvi. And this week, meet…Babatha. A wholly unremarkable woman, except for the world she opened up for us through the documents found in her abandoned handbag…2,000 years ago. This week, Schwab and Yael explore gender and rights, Roman bureaucracy and the many legal systems in 2nd century Judea, and the value of a good handbag.

• Raising Standards: 2.06: Philippi on Apple Podcasts

The triumvirate is formed, Vorenus and Pullo get their hands very dirty, Cicero pays the ultimate price for his rhetoric, and Brutus and Cassius make the final stand of the Roman republic with an actual battle scene.

• Greeced Lightning: O Brother Where Art Thou: The Odyssey on Apple Podcasts

Welcome back for Episode 2! Dr. Sara, Luke, and Sam dive into Homer’s Odyssey to discuss tricksy heroes, visits to the Underworld, murderous rampages, and how loose of an adaptation we think O Brother Where Art Thou is.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Mythology vs. Myth Making, From the Heracleidae to Thermopylae, Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part Three) on Apple Podcasts

That’s right it’s time for actually, run of the mill mythology! Okay, it’s Spartan so actually it’s still pretty weird, and confusing… Because you know, Greek mythology. We’re talking Children of Heracles and all the famous Spartans of the Homeric world. Plus, the myth-making that gave us 300.

Fresh Youtubery

• WikiEducation and the Classics Classroom – YouTube  | New Directions in Classics
• Il progetto MONALISA a Linea Verde life 21/01/2023 – YouTube | Etruschannel
• Carmina Burana No.153 – Tempus Transit Gelidum (in the style of Ensemble für Frühe Musik Augsburg) – YouTube
• Italy shows off $20 million in stolen antiquities – YouTube
• Delphic Paean by Athenaios (35 measures). Ancient Greek lyrics with lyre. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Pompeyo Trogo, Justino y Mitrídates. Comentario al « Epítome de las Historias Filípicas  | «Spartokos a lu
• Port Baglar. Archaeological surveys in the water area of Cape Hristos and the hinterland between the capes of Kolokita and Agalina near Sozopol | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Matthew J.J. Hoskin, The manuscripts of Leo the Great’s letters: the transmission and reception of papal documents in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. Instrumenta patristica et mediaevalia, 83. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Mike Roberts, Alexander the Great’s legacy: the decline of Macedonian Europe in the wake of the Wars of the Successors. Yorkshire; Philadelphia: Pen and Sword Military, 2022.
• BMCR ~ John Godwin, Juvenal. Satires book III. Aris and Phillips classical texts. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Ten of the Acropolis Museum’s Most Beautiful Exhibits

Dramatic Receptions

• Latest News: When Jason Met Medea | Muhlenberg College

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Gazetteering Pausanias: Athens and Beyond
• Drawing Trouble: Fakes, Forgeries, and the Complications of Connoisseurship
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• PhD Position at Universidad Pablo de Olavide se Sevilla
• Associate Professorship (or Professorship) of Ancient History (Greek and/or Roman) Oriel College, Jesus College, and the Faculty of Classics
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Plato’s Magic Ring Allegory and the Lord of the Rings
• Robots Are Carving Replicas of the Elgin Marbles: Could They Help the Real Ancient Sculptures Return to Greece? | Open Culture

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 disease following a period of shortages.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 2 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Roman headless remains found in Wintringham by archaeologists – BBC News
• Llandeilo pub to let sits in UK’s only Roman gold mine site | cambrian-news.co.uk
• Ex-museum director sentenced to prison for counterfeiting anti…
• Elgin Marbles to return this year, says Greek official | News | The Times
• ‘They are coming home’, Greeks say of Elgin Marbles – LBC
• Parthenon Marbles To Return This Year, Says Greek Official
• Boris Johnson and the Parthenon Marbles | eKathimerini.com
• South Korea Helping Restore Sebastia Antiquities Site… as a ‘Palestinian’ Heritage Site | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | Jewish Press News Desk | 29 Tevet 5783 – January 22, 2023 | JewishPress.com
• Tehran to host intl. symposium on archaeology – Tehran Times
• Armageddon Time: How Discoveries at Megiddo Retell the Story of Ancient Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• 2,000-year-old Roman road, discovered in the center of Cluj-Napoca – The Romania Journal

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• Brenda Heywood obituary | Register | The Times

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ ΗΑΠ
• Akropolis World News ~ Οὐκραίνα
• Akropolis World News ~  Γαλλία

Public Facing Classics

• Don’t Blame the Egyptians for This Ancient Greek Kink

Fresh Bloggery

• Classics at the Intersections: Table of Contents
• Persians: Suda dictionary on expertise in Magian practice, in wailing incantations, and in potions (tenth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Two Takes on Fortune – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Another Bar Kokhba-era coin recovered in a cave
• PaleoJudaica.com: Crash Course in Greek Palaeography at Ghent University
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: More CPAC Malarkey in US
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Natur und Kunst bei Claudian: Poetische ›concordia discors‹
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Deskription und Metapoetik in der spätantiken lateinischen Dichtung: Untersuchungen zur literarischen Beschreibung bei Claudian, Prudenz und Ausonius
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ›Grosse Statuetten‹ in Medma (Kalabrien): Zur Produktion und sakralen Verwendung von Terrakotten aus dem ›Calderazzo-Depot‹ (basierend auf den Vorarbeiten von Peter Noelke)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Deuteronomy and Treaty Texts: A Critical Reexamination of Deuteronomy 13, 17, 27, and 28
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Newly Discovered Work by James Ussher?
• Bijbel met bijdragen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Haters’ Tongues and the Victory of Truth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of The Language of Colour in the Bible
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Caldwell, The Fifth Gospel
• Laudator Temporis Acti: System of Lookouts
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Sylloge epigraphica Barcinonensis
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• I had my students play games for my class to interesting results – Archaeogaming
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Jordan: Former Archaeological Museum Director Sentenced for Counterfeiting Coins
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• Duck Tales: “Home Sweet Homer” (1987) – Animated Antiquity
• Winged Victory of Brescia returns to Capitoline Temple – The History Blog
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Archaeological Treasures Hidden Beneath the Colosseum
• Roman Archaeology Blog: The History of Rome With Mary Beard
• Spencer Alley: Favorites (and Victims) of Apollo
• January 23rd | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
• Drama Queens: Hollie McNish’s ‘Antigone’ & Anne Carson’s ‘Norma Jeane Baker of Troy’

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• Buried in the 4th century in large amphorae which were used to import wine, olives and sauces – Art Style
• “All I Know Is That I Know Nothing”: What Did Socrates Mean?
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Fresh Podcasts

• The History Network: 3303 Epaminondas of Thebes – Part 1 on Apple Podcasts

Epaminondas of Thebes is one of the greatest and most revolutionary commanders in military history, destroying the might of Sparta in a single day at the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC. At that battle, Epaminondas led the outnumbered Theban phalanx to an overwhelming victory over an army of feared Spartan hoplites. Theban victory that day forever changed the political map of Greece. Dur: 20mins File: .mp3

Fresh Youtubery

• Who’s on the Parthenon? (Pt.2) #greekmythology #greekgods #shorts #ancientgreece – YouTube | Moan Inc.
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• Ancient Dogs: The Original Ghost Busters – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Temple of Apollo at Bassai 🥹 #greekmythology #greekgods #ancientgreece #shorts – YouTube | Moan Inc
• Octavian Attacks Pompey – Mylae 36 BC – Post-Caesar Civil Wars DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• The Rise And Fall Of Ancient Sparta | The Spartans: Complete Series | Timeline – YouTube
• What’s the weather like? – Roman Weather – Latin – YouTube | Magister Craft

|  | Book Reviews

• Military Book Review The Roman Empire in Crisis, 248–260: When the Gods Abandoned Rome
• BMCR ~ Corinna Rossi, Egypt, Greece, and Rome: a history of space and places. Routledge focus on classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Richard D. McKirahan, A vocabulary of the ancient commentators on Aristotle: combining the Greek-English indexes from the eponymous series spanning works from the 2nd century CE to late antiquity. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Lucien van Beek, The reflexes of syllabic liquids in ancient Greek: linguistic prehistory of the Greek dialects and Homeric Kunstsprache. Leiden studies in Indo-European, 22. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Yemen & Ethiopia: archaeology & movement across the Red Sea
• Ashdod-Yam Excavation Project on the southern coast of Israel
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Lamia, the Man-devouring Goddess of Greek Mythology
• Karaftu Caves, The Mysterious Lair of Hercules in Western Iran
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• The Mystery Structure on Top of Athens’ Temple of Olympian Zeus
• Rare Photo Taken on 1895 Athens Roof Terrace Brought to Light

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 peace for the city.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 30 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• I’m sorry, dear Greeks, but the Elgin Marbles simply must stay here | Evening Standard
• Egypt court reduces sentences against businessman, former MP for antiquity trafficking – Courts & Law – Egypt – Ahram Online
• Digital information kiosk to introduce Aristotle to tourists | eKathimerini.com
• Neapolitan archaeologists-speleologists find a long stretch – 647 meters – of the Roman aqueduct of Augustus – Stile Arte

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Monmouth College Study-Abroad Group Discovers History, Hospitality, and “Heaven” in Greece | River Cities’ Reader

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 21.01.2023 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• At the Whitechapel | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• Lydians, Maionians, Arimians, and Solymians: Strabo on a variety of peoples in Lydia, Phrygia and Pisidia (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Scythians: Lucian on Toxaris’ and Anacharsis’ differing encounters with Greeks (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: More Uses for Books, Other Than Reading
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Translating Horace
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• 17 out of 234 days: Alba Fucens – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Online Exhibition: Hippos: The Horse in Ancient Athens
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: En quête de Ninive: Des savants français à la découverte de la Mésopotamie (1842‑1975)
• After the Body, The Mind Fades Away – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Satricum – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (6) – Mainzer Beobachter
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Life and Death
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• ‘The Archaeology of Roman York’ Review: Commercial book sales and reception | Adam Parker
• Experiences in Athens – The Canadian Institute in Greece
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Body Double

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Other Blog-like Publications

• Digging In: El-Araj – Biblical Archaeology Society
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• New discoveries at “lost city” of Tenea

Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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Numerus Sīnēnsium decrescit …

• Dive & Dig: Under the Mediterranean II – A Sea of Many Sicilian Voices – conference special on Apple Podcasts

In this episode we head to the Mediterranean and discover more about Inclusive Maritime Heritage in Southeast Sicily. We explore the ancient fishing traditions of the Marzamemi, discuss shipwrecks, connectivity, and the innovative, reflexive ways the team are working with local communities to tell the story of their maritime past.

Fresh Youtubery

• Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford
  • Nikhil Krishnan: How Socratic is the Oxford tutorial? – YouTube
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  • Suzanne Marchand: Herodotus vs Higher Criticism: George Rawlinson, Anglican Historian & Translator – YouTube
• Who’s on The Parthenon? (Pt. 1) #greekmythology #ancientgreece #parthenon #greekgods #shorts – YouTube | MoanInc

Dramatic Receptions

• The Underworld Comes To Kansas City With the North American Tour of “Hadestown” – KC STUDIO

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CALL FOR PAPERS: AIGSC Conference 2023 Order and Chaos – Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies
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• 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

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• Pompeii’s House of the Vettii reopens: a reminder that Roman sexuality was far more complex than simply gay or straight
• The Tragedy of Ukraine | The Nation

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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends that a king hated by many will be the subject of a final plot

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends abundance, but also an abundance of mice and deer.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

if it thunders today, it portends an abundance of imports but a coughing illness will affect the people.

… 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)