Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Stolen Art Returned to Iraq — FBI
- Anger in Yemen after ‘2,000-year-old’ mummy found in trash
- Bronze nude figure with hinged phallus sells at auction for £2,200 – The Irish News
- Turkey Waited Too Long to Repatriate Marble Idol, Court Rules
- 1,800-year-old Roman pool complex reopening in Spain: Photos | The State
- Ancient artefact re-discovered in Kent Museum and Library of Freemasonry in Canterbury
- How Türkiye is taking care of its cultural heritage in quake-hit regions
- 50 years of the Vindolanda Tablets, the archaeological treasure found in Northumberland – Chronicle Live
In Case You Missed It
- The Vatican donates three fragments of the Parthenon to Greece
- Ancient Roman shrine discovered under Anglican cathedral
- Remains of ancient temple with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Sudan | Live Science
- Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it | Live Science
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Mary Beard short films with the University of Cambridge aim to inspire the study of classics
- How the FAB started construction: A time capsule and ancient Greek offerings? – The Boar
- Discipline-specific Honours units endangered by new proposal – Honi Soit
Public Facing Classics
- Was Mithras worshipped in ancient Leicester? | Blog post by Mary Beard
- The secret dildos from history – and why researchers are desperate to get our hands on them
- Gladiators fought in Roman Britain, action-packed cremation urn carvings reveal | Live Science
Fresh Bloggery
- Mediterranean peoples: Pausanias, ethnographic interests, and local traditions (mid-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Mediterranean peoples: Ovid on identifying personified peoples in art to impress a girl (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on Nasamonians, Marmaridians, and Libyan Amazons (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Atlantians: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on supposed Atlantian stories about the earliest kings / gods (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on competing claims about the god Dionysos (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Pssst, Friend. Don’t Listen to the Sirens’ Song! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Pliny’s Panegyric of Trajan
- 65 of 234 days: What now? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Lost to Childbirth at 18 and 20: Two Funerary Inscriptions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SEDRA: The Syriac Electronic Data Research Archive
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Private and Public Life
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS)
- The Pythagorean Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Two Men, One Lituus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Hedonisme (5): Epikouros en daarna – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: A Persian-era city in Nahariya?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Does Hebrew have a “reduced alphabet?”
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two literary epitaphs by Antipater of Sidon
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- CAC Diss Prize – The Classical Association of Canada
- CAC prize of merit – The Classical Association of Canada
Other Blog-like Publications
- Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child? – Antigone
- ANE Today – The Emergence of Edom: Recent Debate
- A huge and elegant Roman panoramic room has now been discovered under the vegetation at the Terme di Baia – Stile Arte
- Paul and Thecla: Feminist Fantasy?
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
When did the phalanx become the fully-developed formation we imagine? In this issue of Ancient Warfare, we explore the various changes and developments in the seventh through fifth centuries BC that eventually led to the emergence of the ‘Classical’ Greek hoplite. The Ancient Warfare team discuss issue XVI.2 of the magazine, The coming of the Hoplite: Shields, spears and shining bronze.
Servilia takes out a final curse on Atia, Timon struggles between faith and family, and Pullo’s love life becomes significantly more complicated.
Liv speaks with returning guest Julie Levy about all things Thesmophoriazusae. What made Aristophanes tick and why is Euripides perfect and amazing, actually? We answer all your questions.
Fresh Youtubery
- 2023-03-09 Connecting Tattooed Bodies & Figurines at Deir el-Medina, Egypt (A Austin) – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
- How A New Translation Changes The Way We Understand Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES (w/ Stephanie McCarter) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Colloquial Latin II – confabulationes tironum cum RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
- The Forgotten Punic Wars – Greece vs Carthage (481-306 BC) FULL DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- The Hephaisteion: Its Date, Interior and Purpose – YouTube | ASCSAthens
Book Reviews
- AJA ~ Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building, edited by Charlotte R. Potts
- AJA ~ Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen – Zucht – Haltung und Verwendung, by Heidelinde Autengruber-Thüry
- AJA ~ Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome, by Maggie Popkin
- BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos. Mnemosyne supplements, 458. Boston: Brill, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Andrea Jördens, Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III). Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 47. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Malte Helfberend, Ciceros Rede pro L. Cornelio Balbo: Einleitung und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference – Save the Date & Call for Presenters ~ ARCAblog
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Il ritrovamento dell’Ara Pacis, l’altare di Augusto
- The Aeolian Islands and Their Ancient Greek Heritage
- What Was Traded On the Silk Road? | Discover Magazine
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 destruction of four-footed animals
… 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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