Hodie est a.d. III Non. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Researcher uses AI to make texts that are thousands of years old readable
- Dagli scavi metro C emerge ‘Roma’, donna simbolo della città – Cultura – ANSAMed.it
- Swiss Court Orders Return Of 15 Ancient Objects To Greece
- U.S. Gives Artifact to Palestinians, Sparking Dispute With Israel’s Far-right Gov’t – Israel News – Haaretz.com
- Far-right minister probes legality of US returning looted artifact to Palestinians | The Times of Israel
In Case You Missed It
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- Ancient Nemea stadium in Greece reopens to visitors – Greek Herald
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- A thank you to copy editors | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- To Publish or Not to Publish? This is No Longer the Question – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Fresh Bloggery
- Indian wisdom: Plutarch on Alexander, the naked philosophers, and Kalanos (early second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Indians: Representations of conquest on coins with Alexander of Macedon and Demetrios of Baktria wearing elephant skins (fourth-second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: From a UK Reader
- Surveying the Byzantine Corinthia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Little Doggie in Heaven – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Plucking from the garden of history | Turkish Archaeological News
- January 2023 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Blog: The History of the Study of Antiquity through the Lens of Autobiography
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das Leben des Weisen: Philon v. Alexandria, De Abrahamo
- Euripides | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Von Jesus zur neutestamentlichen Theologie: Kleine Schriften II
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Muße und Rekursivität in der antiken Briefliteratur
- The Myth Of Lycurgus’ Brief Victory Over Dionysus | The Historian’s Hut
- “The Columbiad”–Ceasar Passing the Rubicon, by Robert Hartley Cromek (c. 1770 – 1812) after Robert Smirke (c. 1752 – 1845) | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Girls: HAMILTON’S TREASURES … by Susan Stokes-Chapman
- Long stretch of underground aqueduct found in Naples – The History Blog
- De Etna – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 203
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Their Own Fault
- Spencer Alley: Classical Culture and Literature as Later Visualized
- Language Log » Canaanite in the news again
- PaleoJudaica.com: Mummification secrets revealed!
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Fifteen ancient artefacts to be repatriated from Switzerland
- ANE Today – The Earliest Mention of the Placename Sinai: The Journeys of Khety
- SEXIST SEMONIDES AND HIS TEN TYPES OF WOMEN. (Andrew Tate take notes).
- 5,000-Year-Old public eating space with food still inside discovered in ancient Lagash – Arkeonews
- February 3rd | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
- The Iliad in Memes: Books 13-16 – CSMFHT Writes
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
We’re back with a special, in-person episode recorded at the annual SCS/AIA meeting in New Orleans, LA. Christie pitches us on looking at the second season of HBO’s The White Lotus through the lens of Hesiod and the idea of kalon kakon, the beautiful and the bad. We talk sex, relationships, betrayal, murder, tragedy, didactic poetry and the dangers women pose to your grain storage.
An interesting ‘what if’ quest from Jeff, who asks Murray for his thoughts on ‘what if the Roman Empire had never fallen and was still around today, what would the world look like? And what do you think a modern Roman Empire would be like?”
Part of the making of Octavian was the victories he had early in his career. He defeated his rivals, conquered territory, and united the senate behind him whether they liked it or not. One of those territories was Illyria, in which he conducted campaigns during the quiet years before his final battles against Egypt and Antony. It’s perhaps in Illyria that we see Octavian display his greatest acts of bravery, if not ability. Guest: Dr Christopher Gribbin (Adjunct Lecturer, La Trobe University)
Liv speaks with Stephen Hodkinson, expert in all things Sparta. They discuss Sparta throughout history including its use in politics from the founding of the USA to Nazi Germany to modern day misuses of Spartan culture and history.
In the second of two episodes on Roman Scotland the chat turns to the three main campaigns which Rome undertook there. What was Rome trying to achieve? What do we really know about them? How did they differ and what can they tell us in a wider context? We discuss this and much more (including answering some questions sent in).
Fresh Youtubery
- CSMFHT On Teaching Ancient History & Classics Meme Culture On Twitter – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Orpheus Tamed the Animals: Mythological Music for Ancient Greek Lyre – YouTube
- Legends of Vox Machina and the Fall of Troy (No Spoilers) – YouTube
- Was Caligula Really Ancient Rome’s Maddest Emperor? | Tony Robinson’s Romans | Odyssey – YouTube
- The Antiquities Trade in Late 19th Century Greece: Stories of People and Objects – YouTube | SocAntiquaries
- Museo diffuso alla Villa di Poppea – YouTube | Pompeii
Book Reviews
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Beyond the Northern Aegean: Architectural Interactions across Northern Greece, Macedonia, Thrace, and the Black Sea Regions in the Hellenistic Period | American School of Classical Studies at Athens
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- The Rise & Fall of Roman Civilization: Every Year Shown in a Timelapse Map Animation (753 BC -1479 AD) | Open Culture
- Of Bitcoin and Barbarians | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
- ‘New French restitution laws should benefit the market—and maybe force change in Britain too?’
- Goddess Aphrodite is the Everlasting Role Model for Greek Mothers
- How Aphrodite and Eros were depicted in Hellenistic Gold Jewellery – Neos Kosmos
- The Ancient Greek Settlements of South Asia
- When did Rome fall? | Live Science
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 civil unrest.
… 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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