Hodie est pr. Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Remains of Roman aristocrat unearthed in ‘extraordinary’ cemetery near Leeds | Roman Britain | The Guardian
- Archaeologists make ‘once in a lifetime’ find as they unearth Roman cemetery in Leeds – Leeds Live
- Skeletal remains of Roman aristocrat discovered in hidden lead coffin | CNN
- Excavations Around Leicester Cathedral in the U.K. Have Turned Up a Roman Shrine Archaeologists Call a ‘Cult Room’
- The Dealer Who Sold the World’s Most Expensive Coin Has Been Arrested for Falsifying the $4.2 Million Artifact’s Provenance
- UK PM Says No Plans to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece – ARTnews.com
- UK’s PM Rules Out Return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece
- 1,800-Year-Old Roman Bathhouse Found Near French Village – ARTnews.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Professor Amélie Kuhrt, FBA (23 September 1944– 2 January 2023) | History – UCL – University College London
- Sad news for Katie Demakopoulou, leading scholar of Mycenaean studies
- Using Ancient Texts to Foster Compassion and Empathy Today
- Department of Classics to be renamed Department of Greek and Roman Studies – Faculty of Humanities, McMaster University
- Rachel Sarvey wins CAMWS Peter Knox Excavation and Field School Award and Anne L. and S. Epes Robinson Honors Fellowship | Department of Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- The Eternal Rebirth of the Forgetful Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: To Govern Is To Lie
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Elimination of Beneficial Practices
- 69 out of 234 days: intaglio connections – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Network for Working-Class Classicists
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digital Atlas of the Jewish World in Antiquity 586 b.c. – 640 c.e.
- How A Woman Should Dress (And Sacrifice) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Latona And Peasants, By An Unknown 16th Century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
- Aeschylus | The Historian’s Hut
- “Feminine Fame”: Homer on Why We Disbelieve Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kiwi Hellenist: Lies, damned lies, and ChatGPT
- Unusual Roman cremation burial magically sealed with bent nails – The History Blog
- Looting Matters: UK Government and the Parthenon: Update
- MARGINALIA: Did the Greeks Found Rome?
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Complete Book of the Dead Discovered at Saqqara
- March 14th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
This week there’s more gore in store for shor as Aeneas gets his rage on and goes full Achilles. The carnage reaches such a fever pitch that it raises a number of sticky questions: Is Aeneas just a puppet of Fate? If so, can we hold him culpable for the horrible things he perpetrates on the battlefield? When does embossing your baldric with mythic scenes stop being a flex and start being a “bit much”? Keep your head down, dodge those flying body parts, and see if you can tell who’s who as Aeneas meets his possible doppelganger between spear chuckings. You know what they say—double your alter ego symbolic foreshadowing stand-ins, double your fun.
We’re (finally) finishing with Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae and all I can say is: I’m sorry.
Fresh Youtubery
- Runshaw Classics Academy The Work of the BSA – YouTube | Ancient Greece and Rome with runshawclassics
- Uncovering the History of Swimming! Let’s Dive In! – YouTube | The Tattooed Historian
- How 99% of Ancient Literature was Lost – YouTube | toldinstone
- Conférence du Louvre : « Mais pourquoi sommes-nous tous fascinés par l’Egypte des pharaons ? » – YouTube | Musée du Louvre
- Roman Training – How to form the Testudo? #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
Book Reviews
- That Time a Republic Really Ended
- BMCR ~ Johannes C. Bernhardt, Mirko Canevaro, From Homer to Solon: continuity and change in Archaic Greece. Mnemosyne supplements, 454. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Philip Waddell, Tacitean visual narrative. New York: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Dramatic Receptions
- Getting to Know You: BLACK ODYSSEY’s Tẹmídayọ Amay
- Mythology, fantasy, magic: Mason County Eastern presents ‘The Odyssey’ | News | shorelinemedia.net
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Egyptology in Austria, Switzerland, and Germany (SÄK)
- Workshop: Inscribing Funerary Space(s), 30 March-1 April 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Application for 2023 Two-Year Assistant Professor Without Review in Greek History and Language
- Cornell University, Department of Classics Research Associate – Cornell Tree-Ring Laboratory
- Visiting Assistant Professor – Classics job with University of Kansas | 37426458
- Classics – 2022-2023 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Pool job with University of Texas at Austin | 37427011
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
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 prosperity but also the death of men and the proliferation of wild beasts.
… 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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