Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient jaws: 6,000-year-old copper fishhook, oldest in region, was likely for sharks | The Times of Israel
- Spanish council digs up Roman road
- The Metal Artist Bringing Ancient Greek Armors Back to Life
- Antiquities being repositioned at Thessaloniki metro station | eKathimerini.com
- Strange Ancient Burials Found in Southern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
In Case You Missed It
- Greece Welcomes Parthenon Fragments Returned by the Vatican | GTP Headlines
- Berlin’s Pergamon museum to close for 14 years in €1.6bn repair
Public Facing Classics
- The contrasting worlds of Aesop and Charlie Mackesy | The Spectator
- A.E. Stallings | Eleusinian Mysteries · LRB 29 March 2023
Fresh Bloggery
- Ethics and Aesthetics in the Anthropocene | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Helen’s Serving Girl Wrote the First Greek Sex Manual – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Six-Axe Man
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Word Frequencies
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Truth and Falsehood
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Great Replacement
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La poesia di Ovidio: letteratura e immagini
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Latin and Coptic. Languages, Literatures, Cultures in Contact
- 85 of 234: Norbanus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Die martiale Romeinse Republiek – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kiwi Hellenist: Chrest or Christ
- PaleoJudaica.com: Rabbinics resources
- PaleoJudaica.com: New national park at Hippos-Sussita
- Construction Delays in the Foundation of Wisdom – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Memorabilia Antonina: A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Autocracy
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Destroyed by Our Own Hands
- The World on its Head – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- Julius Caesar’s Propaganda: The First Roman Coins Featuring the Ruler’s Portrait | Short History
- March 30th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
- Gold “pizzini” and a “bottle” found in a Calabrian tomb of the 4th century BC Now we work with the microscope – Stile Arte
- Mother and child are walking in the woods. Under a trunk they find a treasure of 818 ancient silver coins – Stile Arte
- Classics in Pop Culture: Hadestown – CSMFHT Writes
Fresh Podcasts
Often thought of as an ancient, mythical idea, immortalised in the works of Homer, it’s hard to imagine Troy as real place. But when Heinrich Schliemann started excavations of the city in the late 19th Century, our understanding of the ancient world would change forever. Troy stood for over millennia, and in that period was destroyed and rebuilt time and time again. So what do we know about the real people who lived there, and what does the modern archaeology tell us? In today’s episode Tristan is joined by Professor C. Brian Rose, the James B. Pritchard Professor of Archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, to take us through this city’s magnificent past. Looking at the people who first occupied the settlement, through to the modern age beauty contests that still take place on the surrounding slopes, there’s a wide breadth of history to be covered. So what really happened during the Trojan War, if it actually happened at all?
In the space of just a few decades toward the end of the 8th century BC, Greek colonies sprang up across across southern Italy and Sicily. These new foundations would become the heart of the Greek world, just as Greek in every way as the better-known cities of Greece itself.
Fresh Youtubery
- The Tragedy of the House of Oedipus – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- The Most Anti-War War Book Ever: Why You’re Wrong About Homer’s Iliad (It’s Amazing) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Roman Forum Tour in LATIN! Domus Aurea LLPSI Cap.36 vv.264-295 – YouTube | ScorpioMartianus
- How the Romans braved blizzard conditions to surprise the Persians – YouTube | History Marche
- Is the New Testament Greek Poetry? – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
- Troy. Story of a City from Myth to Archaeology. Incontro con Rüstem Aslan – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
- Illegal Antiquities! — Morag Kersel Discusses her Follow the Pots Project | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube
- Feeding the Army of Roman Britain – YouTube | Tasting History
- The Jugurthine War – Rome’s Most Corrupt War (112 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- Parthenon pieces: Vatican sends three fragments back to Greece – YouTube
- Presentazione “Carcer Tullianum. Il Mamertino al Foro Romano” – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
- Greece welcomes back ancient art at Acropolis – YouTube
Book Reviews
Dramatic Receptions
- ‘Metamorphoses 2023’ gives Ovid the physical theatre treatment | NEXT Magazine
- Okonedo’s Medea Rekindles Eternal Questions | This Is Local London
- Alley Theatre cancels complete run of ‘The Odyssey’ due to ‘impossible’ completion | Datebook
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Annual Meeting of the Swedish Institute at Athens
- Enheduana, Nisaba, Gilgamesh, and the Lapislazuli Tablet Tickets, Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 1:00 PM | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Lecturer in Greek Art job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 334776
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics job with Kenyon College | 37434902
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- The Majestic Ancient Greek Theatres Of Turkey
- The Curious Woodcuts in Hartlieb’s Late-Medieval Adventures of Alexander the Great – The Good Men Project
- Vinfamous: The Sickly Sweet History of Poisoned Wine | Wine Enthusiast Magazine
- When Medusa Meets #MeToo – Public Books
- The People vs. Socrates: NHM Recreates the Most Famous Trial in History
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 a powerful, self-possessed man bringing good cheer to the kingdom.
… 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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