Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- The world’s first horse riders found near the Black Sea
- Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests – Scientific American
- The jewellers digging up ancient treasures
- Israel Antiquities Authority: ‘Ancient’ Darius Inscription Deemed Inauthentic in Mix-up – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Unfounded: Ancient Darius inscription shard isn’t authentic – Antiquities Authority | The Times of Israel
- Ky. professor using AI technology to read ancient manuscript about life after Alexander the Great | WKMS
- Ancient structures remain standing in Hatay despite Türkiye quake | Daily Sabah
- Boris Johnson Has Finally Lost His Marbles
Greek/Latin News
- Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.03.2023 – Vatican News
- Akropolis World News ~ Λευκορωσία
- Ephemeris ~ DE BELLO ADVERSUS SCELERATOS Nova ab America Latina
Fresh Bloggery
- Fireside Friday, March 3, 2023 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Weekend Reading: Tea Good, Work Bad – Classical Studies Support
- Mediterranean peoples: Augustus on his own achievements, conquests and alliances with peoples (14 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros and Pliny on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- WWED? (What Would Epicurus Do?) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Darius ostracon was a modern showpiece?
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Love
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Administrative Hieratic from dynasties 19 and 20 : case studies on selected groups of ostraca with necropolis administration
- On the Road with Alexander – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
- Sappho’s Equal? Some Epigrams Assigned to the Poet Nossis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Convivial Gatherings
- Hedonisme (2): Aristippos’ idee van vrijheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Simple Explanation
- Two Reviews of the Two Plinys and Vesuvius « [quem dixere chaos]
- Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation
- The Age of Knowing Better – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Ancient Mesopotamian Tavern Discovered
- Minoan civilization may have used celestial navigation techniques – Arkeonews
Fresh Podcasts
- Ad Navseam: All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113) on Apple Podcasts
This week Jeff and Dave are back at the Aeneid, wading into some deep waters murky and redolent with the unfulfilled wishes of Jupiter. As full-scale war erupts on the Latian plain, Venus and Juno bring their high-pitched quarrel to the king of Olympus, whose own hands, it turns out, are tied by the Parcae. As the Fates roll around in their El Camino, cutting short the threads of numerous heroes Sarpedon-like, men are dying on the field of battle like a scene straight out of the Iliad. But it’s not just questions of fate, of popsicle sticks, glue, and Fort Ticonderoga that occupy our sally into divine destiny. Along the way there is also room for Vergil’s frowzy digression on Ascanius’ lustral locks. What is he, a trichologist? Perhaps our poet was himself glabrous, and that explains his odd obsession with the young Iulus’ quiffs and frisettes? We comb through the evidence, attempting to answer this, and more.
The “Argonautica”, written by the third century poet Apollonius of Rhodes, is the only surviving epic poem from the Hellenistic period. Recounting the travels of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts as they searched for the Golden Fleece, Apollonius managed to pay homage to the works of Homer while also reinventing the genre to better reflect the scholarship coming out of Alexandria.
Augustine’s seminal book was written in the context of the Roman Empire, but it remains ever-relevant. Read by Leighton Pugh.
Fresh Youtubery
- It’s a FAKE: The Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” is Not Authentic – YouTube
- On the Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” – YouTube
Book Reviews
- Le royaume du Bosphore et le monde barbare d’Europe centrale et orientale à la fin de l’ère romaine (milieu du IIe – milieu du IVe siècle après J.-C.). | Spartokos a lu
- River of the Gods by Candice Millard review – Readers are immersed in the crazy quest of two friends turned enemies | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
- Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind Fills in Mythological Silences | Tor.com
Dramatic Receptions
- UW drama’s adaptation of ‘The Oresteia’ explores questions behind justice and humanity | Events | dailyuw.com
- Caligula and the Sea – VAULT Festival, London – The Reviews Hub
- National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
- First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship | Science Advances
- Intense community dynamics in the pre-Roman frontier site of Fermo (ninth–fifth century BCE, Marche, central Italy) inferred from isotopic data | Scientific Reports
Alia
- What To Know About The Only Standing Roman Lighthouse In England (Which Is Now A Bell Tower)
- 11 Facts About Boudica, Warrior Queen of the Iceni
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 great prosperity.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a sunny spring and fruitful summer.
… 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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