Hodie est pr. Non. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- French Court Upholds Charges Against Former Louvre Director – ARTnews.com
- Fascinating Roman road uncovered underneath Plymouth’s Sherford town – Plymouth Live
In Case You Missed It
- 15 Greek Antiquities Repatriated from Switzerland
- Authorities in New York return 14 looted artefacts valued at $2.5m to Italy, including a black-figure hydria by the renowned Priam Painter
- Far-right minister probes legality of US returning looted artifact to Palestinians | The Times of Israel
- Roman sewer works reveal statue of emperor posing as Hercules | Reuters
- Archaeologists Find 2,000-Year-Old Gemstones in Drain Beneath a Roman Bathhouse | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Ancient Nemea stadium in Greece reopens to visitors – Greek Herald
- ARCHEONEWS / Scavi Metro C, su un raffinato vetro dorato riemerge il volto della Dea Roma, simbolo della città – Storie & Archeostorie
Classicists and Classics in the News
- The Recorder – Colleagues recall beloved professor who died after being struck in Greenfield crosswalk
- The Smell of Magic – The New York Times
- Anthropologist weighs in on ancient Greek history – UGA Today
- February: Colin Gill | News and features | University of Bristol
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Blog Post #74: Interview with Flora Kirk of Flaroh Art – Peopling the Past
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The New Puritans
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Time Travelling or Time Trashing? What does UK’s PAS Say?
- 31 of 234 days: Quartuncia(?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Law and Order – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Seneca Goes Stir-crazy On the Weekend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Bible and Music
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In Praise of Asclepius: Aelius Aristides, Selected Prose Hymns
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Boast of Glaukos
- Hercules emperor mini-update – The History Blog
- De Friese vrijheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- The World of Sincerity is a Goddess – Part VIII – The Theatre of Pompey |
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Consolation of Philosophy
- Soul. Cold. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- A previously unknown subterranean tract of an Augustan-era aqueduct has been rediscovered in Naples – Arkeonews
- 5,000-Year-Old public eating space with food still inside discovered in ancient Lagash – Arkeonews
- Lost Canaanite language decoded on ancient clay tablets
- The Iliad in Memes: Books 17-20 – CSMFHT Writes
Assorted Twitter Threads
- a pair of threads by @artcrimeprof on the met’s kouous’ possible provenance
Fresh Podcasts
In this episode we talk to the authors of two new books on Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the Latin epic poem he wrote in 8 CE. Stephanie McCarter has published a new translation of the poem, and Gareth Williams has written a short interpretive introductory work on the epic to go with the Columbia Core Curriculum. We talked with both of them about the way Ovid fits into contemporary society, what considerations there are when teaching this epic, and the joys and difficulties of engaging with Ovid’s poetic brilliance.
Presented with apologies to the United States of America.
Fresh Youtubery
- When Time Team Found Their First Ever Ancient Roman Mosaic | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
- Capua: Where the Gladiator Spartacus Fought and Revolted | Ancient Rome Live – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
- The Greek Myth of Theseus, Ariadne and the Minotaur – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
Book Reviews
- JCT ~The Young Alexander. The Making of Alexander the Great (A.) Rowson Pp. xviii + 494, ills, maps, colour pls. London: William Collins, 2022.
- JCT ~ Olympia: A Cultural History (J.) Barringer, Pp.xviii + 281, ills, maps, colour pls. Princeton NJ: Princeton University Press, 2021.
- JCT ~ The Hera of Zeus. Intimate Enemy, Ultimate Spouse (V.) Pirenne-Delforge, (G.) Pironti Pp. xxii + 381, b/w & colour ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- The vexing problem of ancient Greek mathematics | The Spectator
Exhibition Related Things
- A race against destruction: In search of Afghanistan’s lost civilizations | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
- Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth & Reality | Apollo Magazine
- Return of the Gods set to captivate visitors at World Museum this April – The Guide Liverpool
Dramatic Receptions
- Alexander the Great stage show comes to the British Library
- The Wesleyan Argus | “Antigonick” Reimagines Greek Tragedy in a Modern Light
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Production Editor, Antiquity job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 326856
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- How The Parthenon Marbles Ended Up In The British Museum | Open Culture
- Poem of the Day: ‘Alcaics’
- Ancient Egyptians Made Wine And Olive Oil Thanks To The Torsion Method
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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends humans not only looking worried, but actually being worried
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a major harvest and destruction for humans.
… 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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