Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- UNESCO sounds alarm over quake damage to Turkey, Syria heritage
- UNESCO: Several World Heritage sites damaged or destroyed in quakes | The Times of Israel
- Turkey and Syria earthquakes take toll on historic sites, antiquities damaged
- Concern for Seleucid era monuments | eKathimerini.com
- Fears for ancient sites after earthquake destroys parts of Gaziantep Castle | Turkey | The Guardian
- Quake damages ancient citadel in Syria’s Aleppo
- AI is deciphering a 2,000-year-old ‘lost book’ describing life after Alexander the Great | Live Science
- 1,800-Year-Old Sanctuary to Mithras Found by Archaeologists in Spain – ARTnews.com
- Rare 1,600-year-old gold bead found by teenager in Jerusalem’s City of David | The Times of Israel
Classicists and Classics in the News
- UM Today | Lessons on love from ancient Greeks and Taylor Swift
- Diving into the world of the dead | eKathimerini.com
Public Facing Classics
- Clean energy with the Romans | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- How do chatbots dream of electric Greek heroes? – Neos Kosmos
Fresh Bloggery
- Mediterranean peoples: Pliny the Elder on inventors around the world (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phrygians: Alexander Polyhistor, Hermogenes, and others on Phrygian Matters (first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- How To Be a Real Toady: Cleisophos and Philip – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 35 of 234 days: Bronze cont. – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Laudator Temporis Acti: New and Old, Fresh and Stale
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamzigrad-Studien I: Ergebnisse der deutsch-serbischen Forschungen im Umfeld des Palastes Romuliana
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Les Mélanges de l’École française de Rome – Antiquité (MEFRA)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les pratiques funéraires de l’âge du Fer en Grèce du Nord : étude d’histoires régionales
- The Evidence from Madness: Aristotle on the Mind-Body Problem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Horizons: The Pan-Grave ceramic tradition in context
- De odyssee van een amfoor – Mainzer Beobachter
- Roman iron cavalry mask found in Romania – The History Blog
- Roman Archaeology Blog: What Was Justinian’s “Reconquest”?
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Crop Protection
Other Blog-like Publications
- Gold glass ‘Roma’ unearthed in the excavations of the Rome subway – Arkeonews
- Watch Conservationists Moving & Restoring an Exquisite Ancient Greek Mosaic | Open Culture
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
What better way to understand the real lives of everyday folk in the ancient Mediterranean than to look at the bones of the people themselves? On this episode, Chelsea and Melissa welcome Dr. Efthymia Nikita, a bioarchaeologist who studies the surviving skeletal remains of ancient humans. Dr. Nikita shares her research and explains how bones can provide crucial information for understanding how people in the past lived, not just how they died. Join us as Dr. Nikita explores the way in which skeletal remains of ancient women can shed light on their mobility, sickness, diet, societal roles, and more!
Fresh Youtubery
- Hellenistic Epigraph (3rd-1st BC) & Invocation. Poeti Vaganti. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Angela Cinalli – YouTube
- Was Alexander the Great Really This Perfect? Book Review of Fire From Heaven (Feat. @jenniferbrooks) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- 46. Probus – Martial Fickleness – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- Gladiator 2 Reveal! – Everything we know (Cast, Sets, Plot, Leaks) – YouTube | Invicta
- Redécouvrir les stèles puniques de Carthage – musée du Louvre – YouTube | Musée du Louvre
Book Reviews
- AJA ~ Athens and Attica in Prehistory: Proceedings of the International Conference, Athens, 27–31 May 2015, edited by Nikolas, James C. Wright, Sylvian Fachard, Naya Polychronakou-Sgouritsa, and Eleni Andrikou
- AJA ~ Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other, by Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver
- AJA ~ The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia, edited by Maureen Carroll
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Sessional Instructors, Faculty of Arts, Department of Classics and Religion, Spring 2023
Careers at the University of Calgary - Associate Professorship | Christ Church, Oxford University
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
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 threat to the state from the 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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