Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Genome research: Origin and evolution of vine — ScienceDaily
- News | Discovery of a monumental site from the 2nd-3rd c… | Inrap
- The Elgin Marbles should stay in London – George Osborne’s plan is fundamentally flawed
- ‘Green museum’ to be built on ancient Plato’s Academy site | Architecture & Design
- Colchester Roman mosaic revealed under Lion Walk shopping centre | Gazette
- Iron Age shield found with Yorkshire chariot burial and called ‘the most important British Celtic object of the millennium’ to go on display at Malton Museum | Yorkshire Post
- Iraq’s looted artefacts: Thousands of antiquities still on black market – Focus
- Egypt recovers four rare artifacts from Italy – Egypt Independent
- Only 11% of Brits believe that Greece would return the Elgin Marbles after loan, new… – LBC
In Case You Missed It
- Deep dive: Archaeologists uncover oldest Gulf pearling town in UAE | The Times of Israel
- The Met Accused of Holding Antiquities Linked to Art Traffickers | Observer
- More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures – ICIJ
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Big Fish, Small Pond – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Siblings
- 76 out of 234 days: Open Access Attalids – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Anthropological research using ChatGPT: Charity in the ancient world (Warning: Long Post)Roman Times:
- Blog Post #78: Interview with Kyle Jordan Lewis of Curating for Change – Peopling the Past
- PaleoJudaica.com: VanderKam, R.H. Charles: A Biography (OUP)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Pindaric Calendar
- Richard Talbert’s World and Hour in Roman Minds Now Published | Ancient World Mapping Center
- Revised Atlas of Classical History Now Published March 2023 | Ancient World Mapping Center
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Pharaonic Palace 3D project (Walk in the footsteps of a great pharaoh!)
- Memnon’s Speaking Stone: Two Poems by Julia Balbilla – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Aeneas Rescues Anchises From Burning Troy, Attributed To Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (c. 1609 – 1683) | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Funerary Artifacts from Roman Ashkelon and the Rockefeller Collections
- An Immortal Soul and a Pious Poet: Another Poem by Julia Balbilla – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Babylonische astronomie – Mainzer Beobachter
- Unwrapping the Past – Pompeian Connections
- PaleoJudaica.com: Roman-era mosaic (re-)uncovered in Shoham
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lessons from the fake Darius ostracon
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Two virtual visits to ancient Egyptian sites invite us to explore the palace
- The Secret of Roman Concrete – Biblical Archaeology Society
- New rooms and mosaics discovered in Pompeii in via dell’Abbondanza under the ancient baths and shops – Stile Arte
- A Roman settlement discovered in Friuli Venezia Giulia during excavations for the methane network – Stile Arte
- 21(?) March 44 BCE: To Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus (at Rome) from Decimus Junius Brutus (at Rome)
- New discoveries at the Matriya Sun Temple | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Byzantine mosaic excavated in Israel | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- 1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers
Fresh Podcasts
This week’s guest is James Romm, author of Demetrius: Sacker of Cities. James is an Ancient Historian and an expert in the period after the death of Alexander, when 5 families fought for control of his empire. Demetrius was one of them, and was a hugely attractive figure. Oliver and James chat about whether Alexander was murdered, Pyrrhus of Epirus and what would the ancient world would have looked like had Alexander had survived. We’d all be speaking Greek, no doubt.
Remember way back when the Trojans were “eating their tables”? Well, in Book 11 their tables seem to be turning. Seems like just yesterday Aeneas was raging as Rambo and Turnus was carrying himself with Hector-like respectability. Sed ecce!—Aeneas is handing out truces like sticks of Big Red and actually validating hurt Latin feelings, while Turnus’ allies are turning against him and blaming him for the whole mess. Even old Diomedes is once bitten, twice shy, telling the Latins there is no way he’s tangling with Venus or her son ever again. So that’s it? It’s over? Not quite—Turnus has a couple of aces up his sleeve, including a spear-swift, water-walking, grain-skipping warrior maiden who is juuuuuust over the horizon.
In today’s episode, Dr. Anna Bonnell Freidin joins Melissa and Chelsea to talk about risk, pregnancy, and childbirth in the ancient Roman empire. Listen in as we discuss the definitions of risk in various contexts, how women’s lives were affected by risks associated with pregnancy, childbearing, and delivery, and how the concept of communities of care might link us to people who lived long ago. This episode discusses infant and maternal death, so might not be appropriate for our youngest listeners.
She may have been mother to one of the most famous heroes, but Thetis did and meant so much more.
Fresh Youtubery
- Jeremy Swist_Julian & Roman Identity (Liverpool ACE Works in Progress Seminar, 8 March 2023) – YouTube | Jeremy Swist
- XXIX Colloquio AISCOM – Venerdì Mattina – YouTube | Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica
- RePAIR, Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage – YouTube | Pompeii
- What happened to the surrounded Roman army at Tifernum? – YouTube | History Marche
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Emilia Oddo, Konstantinos Chalikias, South by southeast: the history and archaeology of southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Sitta von Reden, Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: local, regional, and imperial economies. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- 2023 Summer School: “Seafarers in Ancient Greece
- Book 10 of Pliny the Younger’s Epistles: An Edited Account of Governance Tickets, Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- 7 Early Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence – HISTORY
- The Ancient Indian Buddhist Monk Buried in Athens
- The impressive portable, ancient sundial in Philippi Museum
- 5 ways the Persian Empire made the modern world – Big Think
- Meet the woman who helped save Egypt’s temples from certain doom | National Geographic
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 after wars and destructive hot weather.
… 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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