Hodie est pr. Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- The unsolvable mystery of Hannibal’s soldier | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
- A Roman “industrial laundry” and a house with an oven emerge from the new excavations in Pompeii – Stile Arte
- Myths and Dreamings: the link between Ancient Greece and Aboriginal Australians – Neos Kosmos
- Pompeii diggers dream of treasure in untouched zone | World | The Times
- Treasure-filled tomb from 3,200 years ago found in Armenia | Miami Herald
In Case You Missed It
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- Salona in Croatia to be world archeological sensation after new discoveries | Croatia Week
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- It’s You. You’re the problem. It’s You. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Flowers and Dogs
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Agents Provocateurs
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing Will Be Lacking
- Bodies on Beaches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)
- Kiwi Hellenist: Dactylic hexameter 1. Structure
- Cato de Jongere in actie – Mainzer Beobachter
- Gold, carnelian necklaces found in Bronze Age double grave – The History Blog
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tombs excavated at Oxyrhynchus
- How Work is Like a Girlfriend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Making Misogyny Timeless on the Incel Wiki – Pharos
- Milton, ‘On Shakespeare’ (Latin First Asclepiads) | Permessus
- MARGINALIA: ad nauseam
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- A Girl Ηovers over Kerameikos
- Surface sruvey at Hala Sultan Tekke
- Brain Surgery at Canaanite Megiddo – Biblical Archaeology Society
- POMPEII, NEW EXCAVATIONS STARTED IN THE CENTRAL AREA OF THE SITE – Pompeii Sites
- What Was the Society of the Celts Like?
- New discoveries at Roman Pompeii
- February 28th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
- Introduction | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
- The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum | Aeon Videos
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
It’s time for a bit of comedic relief (and Euripidean slander)… We’re diving in to Aristophanes’ play the Thesmophoriazae/the Women at the Thesmophoria. It’s got women (kind of!)! It’s got a women’s only festival! It’s got Euripides! This one has it all. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content!
Fresh Youtubery
- UIC Art History Colloquium: Erin Thompson on Vimeo
- Hitpoints and History conference, March 4th-5th!! – YouTube
- Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons: Ancient Pompeii’s hidden messages, preserved in graffiti | TED Talk
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the imperial past: narrative patterns and historical interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 15. Boston: Leiden: Brill, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Ryosuke Takahashi, The ties that bind: the economic relationships of twelve Tebtunis families in Roman Egypt. London: University of London Press, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Vladmir D. Kuznetsov, Mikhail G. Abramzon, The beginning of coinage in the Cimmerian Bosporus (a hoard from Phanagoria). Colloquia antiqua, 34. Leuven: Peeters, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Cristophe Cusset, Pierre Belanfont, Claire-Emmanouelle Nardone, Féminités hellénistiques: voix, genre, représentations. Hellenistica Groningana, 25. Leuven: Peeters, 2020.
- Archaeological map of Abkhazia | Spartakos read
- The West by Naoíse Mac Sweeney review: Is it time to give up on ‘Western Civilisation’?
- Book Review: ‘Empress of the Nile,’ by Lynne Olson – The New York Times
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- ENCODE/Epigraphy.info VII Workshop in Leuven, April 24-26 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- Roman Comedy | Wake Forest University
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
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- Pyrrhus of Epirus, the Ancient Greek King who Fought the Romans
- The downsides of Stoicism – Big Think
- A new future for the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine
- 9 things classical philosophy can teach us about office politics | Times2 | The Times
- NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 28 February 2023: Moon and the Temple of Poseidon | Tech News
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 abundance, but a disease-bearing wind will also blow.
… 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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