Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 17 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Pompeii site installs ‘invisible’ solar panels that look like Roman terracotta tiles
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- Raiders of the Lost Art – Brown Political Review
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In Case You Missed It
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- Statue of a slain Roman emperor dressed as Hercules found near a sewer in Rome | Live Science
- Linguists shed new light on Gilgamesh epic using AI tool – Tehran Times
Greek/Latin News
- Ephemeris ~ TURCIA SYRIAQUE CONCUSSAE SUNT
Public Facing Classics
- Brown: ‘Te Amo,’ Catullus and sentiments of love from Roman Antiquity – Mainline Media News
- 3 reasons not to be a Stoic (but try Nietzsche instead)
- Archaeologists have discovered a mummy wrapped in gold – here’s what it tells us about ancient Egyptian beliefs
Fresh Bloggery
- Babylonian perspectives: Bel-re’ushu / Berossos on the origins of civilization (late fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Caesar en Kleopatra in Alexandrië – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ramat Rahel and the Iron Age administrative system
- Absentmindedness is…uh, What? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Law of Nature
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Home Protection
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Diorisis Ancient Greek Corpus
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Open Access Journal: Manuscript and Text Cultures
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OF RABID DOGS, HUNCHBACKED OXEN, AND INFERTILE GOATS IN ANCIENT BABYLONIA: STUDIES PRESENTED TO WU YUHONG ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY
- Folk Etymologies: Useless and Uneducated in Homer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Lectio Difficilior
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Issue of London Thames ‘Mudlarking’ Permits Suspended to “Protect the Integrity and the Archaeology of the Foreshore”
- Diana and Endymion, By Johann Michael Rottmayr (c. 1654-1730) | The Historian’s Hut
- Nimrod – Mainzer Beobachter
- Gold glass “Rome” found in subway construction – The History Blog
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Gittin Book of Remedies
- PaleoJudaica.com: Sinai – from Exodus to the Rabbis
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- From Dust to Data
- Deadly 7.7 quakes hit Turkey destroys historical Gaziantep Castle – Arkeonews
- Roman parade mask discovered in Romania
- New AI Tool ‘Fragmentarium’ Brings Ancient Babylonian Texts Together – Arkeonews
- Sanctuary dedicated to Mithras found at the Villa del Mitra
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
The bar, it is so low.
Fresh Youtubery
- What was The CAPITAL of the ROMAN EMPIRE? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Garum Masterclass v1 3 – YouTube | A taste of the ancient world
- Hygeia, Asclepius, and the Ancient Greek Deities of Healing – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Artemis Karnava CAARI lecture – YouTube | CAARI Cyprus
- La Sapienza University. Lecture: Ancient Music Performance. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Angela Cinalli. – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ James Diggle, Theophrastus: Characters. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Smaro Nikolaidou-Arampatzi, Euripides’ Ino: commentary, reconstruction, text, and translation. Hellenic studies, 90. Washington, D.C: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Louis Godart, Les scribes de Pylos. Biblioteca di Pasiphae, 13. Pisa: Fabrizio Serra Editore, 2021.
- BMCR ~ M. David Litwa, Carpocrates, Marcellina, and Epiphanes: three early Christian teachers of Alexandria and Rome. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
- Athens Productions to Present HOMER’S ODYSSEY and THE WORLD’S BEST SONGS at the Adelaide Fringe
- ‘EPIC: The Musical’ sets to be the next big music experience – Pipe Dream
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- XX ARYS International Conference. Religious mobility in the Ancient World
- Registration Now Open: ARCE 2023 Annual Meeting
- New data from core formed glass from Greece and beyond
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- UNIQ+ graduate summer research internships at Oxford
- UVIC Sessional – The Classical Association of Canada
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Metal heads: the thriving detectorist scene digging up Britain’s past | Archaeology | The Guardian
- How Alexander the Great became Iskandar Zulkarnain, the legendary ancestor of Malay kings
- The Spirit of Jewish Classical Education » Mosaic
- Why is everyone on Twitter talking about the ancient Greek myth of Sisyphus?
- Watch Conservationists Moving & Restoring an Exquisite Ancient Greek Mosaic | Open Culture
- Famous travelers to Türkiye: Heinrich Schliemann, ‘Iliad’-inspired archaeologist | Daily Sabah
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 brief period of destruction for 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)
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