Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Israeli authorities charged with safeguarding cultural sites are now led by far-right settlers – Mondoweiss
- Mysterious gold Bronze Age ring donated to Norwich museum – BBC News
- University of Bradford’s Croatia project to map ancient lands – BBC News
In Case You Missed It
- Hits and myths: why has Hollywood abandoned ancient Greece? | Film | The Guardian
- George Osborne’s sordid Elgin plan – UnHerd
- Violence in Greece over efforts to preserve ancient heritage of Mykonos | Greece | The Guardian
Classicists and Classics in the News
- The NYC charter school using Greek to win big
- National classics conference coming to Monmouth College (copy) | Daily Democrat, Fort Madison, Iowa | mississippivalleypublishing.com
- In Paris, a university professor killed with a knife, her ex-husband indicted – Globe Echo
- Latin to be cut from curriculum at BFA-St. Albans; students, staff and alumni react | Schools | samessenger.com
- What the Cambridge dons drink | The Spectator
- The bronze Ephèbe from Agde is an orphan, the diver who discovered it in the Hérault river has died
Greek/Latin News
- Ephemeris ~ MUNIMENTUM AUSTROEUROPAEUM Scandinavorum foedus
- Akropolis World news ~ Γαλλία – Ἡνωμένον Βασίλειον
Fresh Bloggery
- Various peoples: Polybios on the mixed composition of Ptolemy IV’s and Antiochos III’s armies (second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Armenians / Parthians: Statue of the client king Tiridates I in the Louvre (66 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Egyptians, Ethiopians, Indians and others: Depictions of “pygmies” in Greek and Roman art (fifth century BCE-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Metal Detecting: North East Lincolnshire Council gets it!
- Beware of Spring Flowers! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Ilan, Tracates Pe’ah, Demai and Kil’ayim (Mohr Siebeck)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Insecurity
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A Coiney’s Claim About another Roma Numismatics Sale
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Discussion of a Recent Leu Coins Sale – Too-Shiny Tets.
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die römischen und frühmittelalterlichen Töpfereien von Mayen: Ein Produktionszentrum von europäischer Bedeutung
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ana šulmāni. Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honour of Simonetta Graziani
- The Names of Agamemnon’s Daughters and the Death of Iphigenia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Numismatists Confused. Dugup Coins “as a class do, in fact, stand apart”
- My Sirens, My Words: Two Poems by Erinna – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Het vroegste christendom als greedy institution – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Silence and Self-Deception in the Dodgy Ancient Coin Market
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Death
- A Breakdown and Many Pilgrimages | The Second Achilles
- Friendship and the Human Commonwealth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Dead Sea Scrolls in Ancient Media Culture (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Smith, Religion and Apuleius’ Golden Ass (Routledge)
- Heracles’ seventh Labour – the Cretan Bull | Greek Myth Comix
- Heracles’ seventh Labour: the Cretan Bull | Greek Myth Comix
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Git yer Own Affens Owl Tet ‘ere, Good Investment, First Come, First Served: “The Parliament Collection”
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egitto e Vicino Oriente antico tra passato e futuro. The Stream of Tradition: la genesi e il perpetuarsi delle tradizioni in Egitto e nel Vicino Oriente antico
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La Crimea in una prospettiva storica
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sculture romane da Cupra Marittima
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Network Science in Archaeology: Online Companion
- Helen’s Sisters Were Unfaithful, But it Was Their Father’s Fault – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Record-breaking EID MAR aureus looted from Greece, now repatriated – The History Blog
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Academics Represent Artefact Hunting as “Citizen Science” and Looting as “Citizen Participation”
- Ungeschehene Geschichte – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: MacGrath’s books on the Baptist
- PaleoJudaica.com: Geniza fragment of Christian Palestinian Aramaic palimpsest of Joshua
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A City Divided
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Degrees of Closeness and Remoteness
- Spencer Alley: Bernhardt
- Memento Mori All Day Long – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Thousands of mummified rams’ heads found at Abydos
- March 26th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
- Archaeologists uncovered a ‘golden tomb’ during excavations in Armenia – Arkeonews
- Were So Many Roman Emperors Crazy Due To Lead Poisoning? | by Erik Brown | Lessons from History | Mar, 2023 | Medium
- Study reveals more details about the Bronze Age city of Hala Sultan Tekke | The Past
- Marvelous. Mighty Roman camp discovered in Gaul. The appearance of Pegasus. The treasures of the legionaries – Style Art
- 2,000 ram heads uncovered at Temple of Rameses II in Abydos | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
The Romans were – and still are – infamous for the brutal gladiatorial contests they held in their ancient amphitheatres. But often what made their games so spectacular were the exotic animals they put on show. Viciously hunted on an industrial scale, elephants, lions, crocodiles and even rhinos were thrust onto the arena floor and slaughtered, all for the pleasure of the Roman crowds. In today’s episode of The Ancients, Tristan talks to Caroline Freeman-Cuerdan to explore these beast hunts and the massive industry that lay behind them. Together they discover how the animals acted as both ‘hunter and hunted’ and why Roman statesmen were so obsessed with beasts from far-away lands.
Dr. Steven Fine, director of the Center for Israel Studies at Yeshiva University and an expert in the history of Judaism, discusses the history of the Samaritan people. “The Samaritans: A Biblical People” exhibit leaves Museum of the Bible on April 16, 2023.
A special preview of the Ancient World Cup Final between the Ancient Egyptians and The Romans
Fresh Youtubery
- Home tour seu lustratio verbalis || Spoken Latin podcast (4) – YouTube| Satura Lanx
- V. Stovall: Cosm(eti)c Designs: Divine (Out)fits and Influence(r)s Posthumous Trilogy of Euripides – YouTube
- V. Stovall: Cosm(eti)c Designs: Divine (Out)fits and Influence(r)s Posthumous Trilogy of Euripides – YouTube
Book Reviews
- Socrates and Xi Jinping Go Into a Bar – The Dispatch
- The Golden staters of Pantikapaion – IV Century BC | Spartokos a lu
- UVM Classics
- Abi Mason: The Child of Earth and Starry Sky: Divine Heritage as Passage to the Underworld – YouTube
- Alex Seiler This Here God: Divinity and Deixis in Euripides’ Bacchae – YouTube
- Roman Alvarez de Silva: Ownership in Plato’s Symposium – YouTube
- V. Stovall: Cosm(eti)c Designs: Divine (Out)fits and Influence(r)s Posthumous Trilogy of Euripides – YouTube
- Ana Maria Ribeiro: Scholia on Ptolemy’s Harmonics – YouTube
- Madeline McIntire: A Greek and Latin Reader on the Heliocentric Universe – YouTube
- Why Translating Ancient Texts Is Impossible; Why We Do It Anyway – YouTube | Classics in Color
Dramatic Receptions
- Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ to get a Caribbean makeover in Alley production | Datebook
- A new stage ‘Odyssey’ brings Homer to Houston
- Local theatre retells The Odyssey as a story of hope in inhumane warehouses – Shef News
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Following Hadrian in the US (April 2023): Rutgers hosts first of three lectures by archaeological traveler & photographer Carole Raddato |
- Lecture Announcement: Holy Water in Late Antique Sacred Spaces in Asia Minor – DAİstanbul
- Rhetoric & Historiography: New Perspectives | Department of Classics
- University of Exeter Classics & Ancient History seminar: Sean Coughlin on “The Common Technical Vocabulary of Perfumery, Dyeing and Alchemy” [hosted by the Centre for Knowledge in Culture in Antiquity and Beyond] – The Classical Association
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics/Ancient History/Classical Studies at University of Bristol
- Two-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship in Latin Language, Literature, and Culture | Society for Classical Studies
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- A Journey through Classical Reception in Modern Music – The National Herald
- Ancient Greek Helmets: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
- The real reason Socrates was given the death sentence – Big Think
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 from imports.
… 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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