Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- How to make a mummy: Ancient Egyptian workshop has new clues
- Sebastia archaeological site in West Bank divides Israelis, Palestinians
- A race against destruction: In search of Afghanistan’s lost civilizations | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
- Mudlarker discovers cup in Thames that may be rare Roman find – BBC News
- Tornos News | National Archaeological Museum will host 125,000 ancient treasures in Athens
In Case You Missed It
- Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old tavern — including food remains — in Iraq – CNN Style
- 5,000-Year-Old Tavern With Food Still Inside Discovered in Iraq | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Canadian Students Feast on Ancient Greek and Roman Food
- Roman aqueducts found under Italian hill by researchers | The State
- The self-repairing concrete that keeps the Colosseum standing | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
- Life-Size Hercules Statue Unearthed From Roman Sewer
- Stockpile of 2,000-year-old gemstones found in Roman bathhouse drain | Live Science
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- Butchered to make a Roman holiday: cruelty to animals in and out of the Colosseum | The Spectator
- What the Tories can learn from Cato the Elder | The Spectator
Fresh Bloggery
- Persians: Heresy-hunters on Simon Magus and other Magians (second-third centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Fragility
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Unexpected
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Friendship
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Statistics
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Interpreting and Living God’s Law at Qumran: Miqṣat Ma῾aśe Ha-Torah, Some of the Works of the Torah (4QMMT)
- De Galaten – Mainzer Beobachter
- Spencer Alley: Roman Emperors and Military as Later Visualized
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Be Fruitful! The Etrog …
- PaleoJudaica.com: Miriam in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Book Club | February 2023: Longus Daphnis and Chloe – The Kosmos Society
- 2022 : retour sur une année de prêts « Champollion » | L’Antiquité à la BnF
- SIAC NEWSLETTER – 213 (01/2023) | Tulliana News
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Last Night of Troy: The Helen Episode in Aeneid 2 – Antigone
- Place of sacrifice from 2,500 years ago years found near Chełmno
- The chemistry of mummification – Traces of a global network
- Archeologists discovered a treasure trove at the bottom of an ancient Roman bathhouse drain near Hadrian’s Wall – Arkeonews
- The Iliad in Memes: Books 9-12 – CSMFHT Writes
- February 2nd | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
- Secrets of Ancient Egyptian mummification materials revealed
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
- Ancient History Fangirl: Drawing the Women of Myth (With Illustrator Sara Richard) on Apple Podcasts
We’re joined today by Sara Richard—our Eisner and Ringo Award–nominated illustrator for the Women of Myth series. Sara worked with us to create the amazing illustrations for Women of Myth. Join us as we take you behind the scenes to discuss what it was like illustrating these incredible characters; which women of myth Sara felt the strongest connection to; Sara and Jenny’s shared love of SKULLS and historic graveyards; and what’s in Sara’s Cabinet of Curiosities.
The Iron Age Mediterranean’s new density of connections between people and places was about more than the economy and trade; it also remade the culture of the whole region, bringing new ideas and practices – such as wine-drinking and the alphabet – across its entire expanse. Professor Tamar Hodos is one of the world’s leading experts on the Iron Age Mediterranean, and she joins me to talk about archaeology, globalization, and the tools we can use to understand the past.
After nearly four centuries of Roman rule, the Roman Empire decides to abandon Britain in circa 410AD, initiating the near century long chaos of “Sub-Roman Britain.” Sub-Roman Britain is known best for the vacuum of power it created, as well as the rise of the Anglo-Saxsons in Britain. We also meet a most singular figure, the notoriously charismatic Alaric I: The Scourge of Rome, that would go on to sacking the city of Rome itself!
Fresh Youtubery
- Felipe Rojas Silva | Cuneiform and Cross: Early Armenian Reuse of Urartian Inscriptions – YouTube | Oriental Institute
- Album/Auburn #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
- 2023 AIA Awards Ceremony Recording – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
- Amelia Brown on Thetis and the Nereids as patrons of sailors in Herodotus – YouTube| Herodotus Helpine
- The crime capital of Ancient Rome #shorts – YouTube | Timeline
- Archaeology Abridged with Kara Cooney – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
- 24/01/2023- Présentation d’ouvrage- À l’ombre du Lycabette – YouTube | Ecole française d’Athènes
Book Reviews
- The vexing problem of ancient Greek mathematics | The Spectator Australia
- BMCR ~ Joanna Porucznik, Cultural identity within the northern Black Sea region in antiquity: (de)constructing past identities. Colloquia antiqua, 31. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Peter Meineck, Aristophanes. Frogs. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- Google didn’t break your brain: a history of distraction | Aeon Essays
- How to Learn the Socratic Method – The Good Men Project
- Beer In Greece Dates Back To Bronze Age
- Description of Alexandria’s Lighthouse found in Ancient Chinese Writings
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 a decline in wheat, an increase in barley, and an increase in livestock, but humans will be hungry.
… 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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