Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Half–bull, half-truth… How English archaeologist claimed credit for discovering home of the minotaur | Greece | The Guardian
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- Face of 2,000-year-old Nabataean woman reconstructed in world-first | Lifestyle | Independent TV
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- Herculaneum, the beach of the ancient city is reborn. A unique case in the world – CorrieredelMezzogiorno.it
- Ancient road found beneath new town in Devon – BBC News
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Fresh Bloggery
- Egyptian wisdom: Cicero, Diodoros and Valerius Maximus on Pythagoras’ and Plato’s supposed journeys to Egypt (first centuries BCE and CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi
- Gambling With Roman Emperors – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tanit at Ibiza
- PaleoJudaica.com: Brand & Scheerlinck (eds.), Religious Identifications in Late Antique Papyri (Routledge – open access)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Digital Library: Classica Digitalia
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Collegia: Le phénomène associatif dans l’Occident romain
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gegen falsche Götter und falsche Bildung: Tatian, Rede an die Griechen
- What Was the “Epic Cycle” Really? – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Het teken van Jona (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Het teken van Jona (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman domus found in Nîmes workshop district – The History Blog
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Friends or Enemies?
- Silly Mortals, Lifetimes Are Plenty Long! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Nasoraia, The Mandaean Rivers Scroll (Diwan Nahrawatha) (Routledge)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tu B’Shevat 2023
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Backsliders
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sapientia Salomonis (Weisheit Salomos)
- The Weakness of Bodies and the Strength to Be Better – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- De slag aan de Nijl (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Ancient cave sanctuary to be stabilized for visitors – The History Blog
- The Paris Court of Appeal has ruled not to drop the antiquities trafficking indictment against former Louvre director Jean-Luc Martinez and curator Jean-François Charnier ~ ARCAblog
- Art Crime Research Opportunities 6 February 2023
- PaleoJudaica.com: Brodersen, The Beginning of the Biblical Canon and Ben Sira (Mohr Siebeck)
- Classics Memes Deep Dive: Cicero | Anchors Aweigh
- OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Craig Evans on the DSS-Like Fragments
- De slag aan de Nijl (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
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- D.A. Bragg returns 14 stolen antiquities to Italy
- The Iliad in Memes: Book 21-24 – CSMFHT Writes
- The History of CSMFHT – Part 2 – CSMFHT Writes
- February 5th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
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- Funerary structure and Fayum portraits unearthed | The Past
- 5 Myths About Emperor Nero You Need to Stop Believing
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Fresh Podcasts
This is an audio recording of a free, Zoom lecture.
Augustine’s City of God, Part 1 of 2. The first half of the City of God is a broadside against paganism – its culture, religion, and history, subjects about which Augustine had much to say.
This episode contains graphic references. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology. Her origin story is one of the more colourful ones, being born from the foam of Uranus’s castrated genitals. Her life is no less dramatic, and one where love and war are intimately connected. She is unhappily married to the son of Zeus and Hera, Hephaestus, yet carries on her affair with Ares, God of War, and her competitive relationship with Hera and Athena results in the beginning of the Trojan War. In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by host of the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast, Liv Albert. Together they discuss Aphrodite’s origin in both myth and what she shares with warrior goddesses from other ancient cultures, as well as her most famous myths, and how she’s become one of the most iconic deities history has ever known.
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Epaminondas’ victory at Leuctra created the Theban Hegemony, a brief period where Thebes dominated Greek politics. There has always been criticism that when Thebes defeated Sparta at the battle of Leuctra they had no real plan to replace the Spartan domination of Greece with one of their own. Hence the Theban hegemony of Greece was short-lived. One consideration to keep in mine is that Thebes only sought to end Spartan domination, not replace it. By achieving that feat at Leuctra, they actually created a power vacuum (which would eventually be filled by Macedon under Philip II, achieving domination of Greece in 338).
A primer on the famous story of Atlantis and the debate it has inspired. What do we actually know? What do the experts think?
Fresh Youtubery
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- I’m back! Aliqua de rebus FUTURIS et DE MORTE PLINII (starting Feb. 9th)! – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- “Togas” Was Slang For What?! – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Reflections: Margaret Mead (1975) – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
Book Reviews
- JCT ~ Virgil: The Aeneid. (D.) Ferry (trans.) Pp. xxxiv + 427, ill, map. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2017, 2022.
- JCT ~ Pandora (S.) Stokes-Chapman Pp. 408. London: Harvill Secker, 2022.
- JCT ~ Queer Euripides. Re-readings in Greek Tragedy (S.) Olsen, (M.) Telo (edd.) Pp. viii+276. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- Amphores des VIIe-Ier siècles av. J.-C. de la collection du musée de Krasnodar | Spartokos a lu
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Workshops and artisans in the ancient Aegean
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics – Bowdoin College ~ HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- The Ancient Underwater City Of Epidaurus (VIDEO)
- When there’s an “I” in history | Cornell Chronicle
- travel – Pompey’s Pillar in Alexandria: A majestic monument in the Egyptian city founded by Alexander the Great – Telegraph India
- Why Did The Romans Steal Other Peoples’ Gods? » Science ABC
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 destruction of grain in storage, especially of barley.
… 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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