Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 7 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeological finds, a treasure appears. Surprise during a normal tax audit of the Finance – The Chronicle of Verona
• Art repatriation: Fighting traffickers in an illicit global trade – CBS News
• Roman silver fragment found in Diss baffles experts – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• The World’s Most Valuable Coin, Previously Sold With Falsified Provenance, Has Finally Been Returned to Greece
• Researchers Find 2,000 Rams’ Skulls Inside Ancient Egyptian King’s Temple
• Turkey Reclaims Looted Antiquities Linked to Met Museum Trustee  – ARTnews.com
• Ancient Egypt excavation uncovers 2,000 mummified ram heads at Abydos | Reuters
• Violence in Greece over efforts to preserve ancient heritage of Mykonos | Greece | The Guardian
• Greece Thanks Pope Francis for the Return of Parthenon Fragments

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Scholar Mary Beard to deliver lecture series on what we can learn from the classics | University of Chicago News

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ EMENDATIO IURIS INTERMISSA IN ISRAEL A suis quoque Nethanyau reprehensus est 

Public Facing Classics

• Roman-era trash dump containing naked Venus statue and other artifacts unearthed in France | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Autism and Classical Myth: Autism Acceptance Week – Monday: ACCLAIM Network update
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Destruction of Troy
• Returning to a Moment’s Hesitation: Sophocles’ Electra Online, LIVE Tonight at UIC – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 83 out of 234: Mirror Imagery – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cupra Marittima. Guida al parco archeologico
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Harbor of the Pharaohs to the Land of Punt II: Archaeological Investigations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis, Egypt, 2006-2011. PART III
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La collezione egiziana del Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli: Volume II. Trascrizione e note degli appunti del ‘Catalogo dei Monumenti Egiziani di Georg Zoëga
• Herodas – Mainzer Beobachter
• Autism and Classical Myth: I am not sure whether this is actually true: Autism Acceptance Week – Tuesday… From Richard Burton, to the autism test, to forcefields
• Herodas’ Bordeelbaas – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bauckham, “Son of Man”, vol. 1 (Eerdmans, forthcoming)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Caesarea receives archaeological and cultural award
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Demigods
• Spencer Alley: Anonymous Representations
• Augustus and the Power of Inscriptions
• Can Our New AI Overlords Write Chapter Abstracts? | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• On Seeing the Clown in the Mirror – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Roman gilded silver fragment uncovered in Norfolk baffles researchers – Arkeonews
• The fall of the Praetorian Guard | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• An ancient structure of unknown purpose discovered in northeastern Italy – Arkeonews
• Impressive. 2 Roman coins and mysterious hearths discovered on “Neverland” in the Baltic Sea – Stile Arte
• 2,000 ram heads uncovered at Temple of Rameses II in Abydos | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.8.1-14

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Turns Out They’re Just As Interesting As Men, Who Knew? Real Women of the Ancient Greek World on Apple Podcasts

Just a little taste of what the lives of women in the Ancient Greek World might have looked like.

Fresh Youtubery

• Reading Greek Tragedy Online | Electra, live at the University of Illinois, Chicago – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studie
• Spartacus as Symbol of Liberation – YouTube | Edith Hall
• Roman Gambling #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
• How Hannibal led from the front against Rome at Cannae – YouTube | History Marche
• 53. Galerius – A Gruesome Demise – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Christopher Diez, Christoph Schubert, Zwischen Skepsis und Staatskult: neue Perspektiven auf Ciceros De natura deorum. Palingenesia, 134. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022.
• Ancient Outtakes | History Today
• The Cimmerian Bosphorus and the Great Steppe | Spartakos read

Dramatic Receptions

• Mojada balances classic tragedy with a unique, modern spin
• Medea review: a stunning production that rains down on the patriarchy – New Statesman

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Aspects of the Cult of Isis in Roman Greece
• Catastrophes in Context: The Archaeology of Catastrophes from the 1st–8th centuries CE in the Mediterranean Region
• Helsinki 2023 | Connected Past
• 2023 Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• PhD Positions University of Basel
• Queens postdoc – The Classical Association of Canada
• Research Associate – Egyptian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Eros and Psyche: The Greatest Love Story in Greek Mythology
• Reason why Ancient Greek statues were purposely given unusually small penises
• What the controversial letters of Plato reveal about us | Aeon Essays

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 plenty of seafood.

… 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)