Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Folktale becomes reality as Roman altar unearthed at Leicester Cathedral | Archaeology | The Guardian
• Shrine Believed To Be Dedicated To The Ancient Greek God Dionysus Discovered In Leicester
• Discovery of a Mauritanian tomb in Qsirissi, near Larache
• Vinum Hadrianum is Resurrecting Ancient Roman Wines and the Art and Architecture That Gives Them Context
• Pisa: resti di domus romane negli scavi di piazza Andrea Del Sarto – MediterraneoAntico
• Vatican Parthenon Marbles to return to Greece – DW – 03/07/2023
• Greece asks others to ‘imitate’ Vatican return of Parthenon pieces | Reuters
• Acropolis Museum presents ‘Venus in a gold bikini’ in celebration of IWD – Neos Kosmos
• ‘Americans wuz here!’ Two tourists leave their mark on Rome’s Colosseum: Jarvis DeBerry | Opinions and Editorials | nola.com
• Vandalism on a three thousand years old Assyrian wall sculptures | SBS Assyrian
• Un’antica città tra Palermo e Agrigento: tra i suoi resti c’è anche la “Tomba della Regina”
• Italian 18-Year-Old Fined Hefty €15,000 After Vandalising Ancient Ġgantija Temples
• Archaeologists uncover Iron Age cemetery and house during excavations in Oud-Turnhout | VRT NWS: news

In Case You Missed It

• Bronze Age well contents reveal the history of animal resources in Mycenae, Greece: Analysis of a refuse dump, including dog and livestock animal remains, provides clues to food availability and destruction over time — ScienceDaily
• Hidden Corridor is Revealed in Great Pyramid of Giza
• Newfound ancient Egyptian sphinx statue may depict Roman emperor Claudius, but not everyone agrees | Live Science
• Sphinx statue with a ‘smiley face and two dimples’ is unearthed in Egypt | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Bernard Barcio, Latin teacher known for his catapult contest, dies

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DE NUNTIO RUSSICO Adversarius in vinclis 

Public Facing Classics

• Indiana Jones and Excavating Antiquity

Fresh Bloggery

• Persians: Irenaeus on Marcus the Valentinian Magian (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Don’t Try to Philosophize with Everyone! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Sour and Embittered Character
• Alexander’s Earth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die verzierte Arretina aus Oberaden und Haltern
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die römischen Töpfereien von Haltern
• Odysseus’s Sister and Names for In-Laws – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Joseph und Aseneth
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: On the daimonion of Socrates: Human liberation, divine guidance and philosophy
• Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Beware the Ides of March
• Study Of Composition From Roman History, By Milan Thomka Mitrovský (c. 1875–1943) | The Historian’s Hut
• Kiwi Hellenist: Homer’s metre 3. Catalogue and glossary
• Pliny The Younger’s Speak-For-Itself Speech Advice | The Historian’s Hut
• Roman shrine found under Leicester Cathedral – The History Blog
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Roma Numismatics and Gaza Hoard Coins
• Hedonisme (4): De tuin van Epikouros – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Career retrospective: Sidnie White Crawford
• PaleoJudaica.com: Milan Fashion Week meets 3 Enoch
• Spencer Alley: Views of Ruins
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Flabby Average Greekness
• A List of Women Authors from Ancient Greece and Rome for #InternationalWomensDay – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Book By its Cover: festivalCHAT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Maria Tzannetaki (1925–2004) A Pillar of the Athens Department during the Emil Kunze years – People at the DAI Athens

Other Blog-like Publications

• Sphinx statue and Roman architectural remains found in Dendera
• Venus in a gold bikini
• Evidence of a Roman shrine dating back was discovered during dig at Leicester Cathedral – Arkeonews
• Excavations reveal Roman altar stone in shrine or cult room | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Nietzsche believed art could help you become stronger
• March 8th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Antoninus Pius and Pietas coinage
• @DocCrom on a Roman inscription from Wales

Fresh Podcasts

• The Authority File: Dr. Sarah Derbew on the Future of Classical Studies on Apple Podcasts

In the second episode of this two-part series, Dr. Sarah Derbew, assistant professor of Classics at Stanford University and author of Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, discusses the future of Classical Studies. She digs into the complications of “decolonizing” a subject like the Classics—one that centers Greek and Roman civilizations while sidelining those in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. As Sarah explains, applying the term to an entire discipline can lead to superficial results, with the assumption that implementing inclusive and equitable practices is a one-step solution or short-term process. She also unpacks her current research on the intersections between Greek and African antiquity, and shares her hopes for the evolution of the Classics, including an interdisciplinary lens and thoughtful, ethical considerations from young scholars that she has already begun to witness.

• Peopling the Past: Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina: Roman Girlhood with Lauren Caldwell on Apple Podcasts

Ah, youth! We are all familiar with that mysterious and formative period of life between childhood and adulthood, but how did the ancient Romans describe this time of transition? In this episode, social historian Dr. Lauren Caldwell joins Chelsea and Melissa to talk about aspects of Roman “girlhood” and the difficult transition to “womanhood”. Listen in, as we dive into ancient Latin medical and legal texts to learn how the ancient Romans grappled with puberty and the various changes that took place in the female body that differentiated girls (puellae) from the women (feminae) they would become.

• Dive & Dig: Under the Mediterranean II – Women leading the way in deep water archaeology on Apple Podcasts

To celebrate International Women’s Day we are excited to share this interview on Deep Water Archaeology with Barbara Davidde and Franca Cibecchini, using advanced technology they are exploring ever greater depths and discovering ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: BONUS: Answering Those Lingering Spartan Questions on Apple Podcasts

In a brief finale to the series on Sparta and the Spartan mirage, Liv answers lingering listener questions about that ancient city-state and its mythology.

Fresh Youtubery

• 50. Diocletian – Cabbages! – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• The Curse of the House of Atreus – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Fragments of the Parthenon that the Vatican sent to Greece will arrive on March 24 – YouTube | Rome Reports

Book Reviews

• Dissecting Socrates, Orunmila’s lives in Prof Sophie Oluwole’s book – Tribune Online
• BMCR ~ Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Jake Ransohoff, The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe. Extravagantes. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Hanna M. Roisman, Tragic heroines in ancient Greek drama. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii – Featured Exhibition | San Antonio Museum of Art

Dramatic Receptions

• Greek tragedy reimagined with poetry by former Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani – Neos Kosmos
• Christopher Walker reviews Medea at The Soho Place Theatre – South London News
• Review: Caligula and the Sea, VAULT Festival – Everything Theatre

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• AHCLC1202 Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Ancient History and Curatorial Advisor (Numismatics) – Jobs at the University of Leeds
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Top 10 Ancient Greek Goddesses

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, it portends rain.

… 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)

Hodie est Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Sphinx-like statue and shrine discovered in southern Egypt | Egypt | The Guardian
• In Photos: Egyptian archaeological mission uncovers smiling sphinx in Qena – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Egypt archaeology: Dig unearths smiling mini-sphinx which may represent Claudius – BBC News
• Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue from 2,000 years ago | The Times of Israel
• College Students Find Ancient Stone Lioness During Field Trip in Northern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Calls to protect Libyan heritage site spoilt by vandals | Africanews
• New cold water pools found at ancient Roman bath house in Toledo – La Prensa Latina Media
• Fragments Of Parthenon Sculptures Are To Be Returned From The Vatican In The Next Few Days
• ‘Modern Elgin’ Arrested Trying to Steal Pieces of Acropolis
• 1,800 year-old evidence of Roman worship found in Leicester Cathedral dig | News | University of Leicester
• Roman shrine discovered near Leicester cathedral graveyard – BBC News
• A Roman public building with precious marbles discovered during construction works in the Marche – Stile Arte

In Case You Missed It

• Israel Antiquities Authority: Artifact bearing name of Ahasuerus’ father is not authentic | ערוץ 7
• Britain hosted GLADIATOR fights 1,800 years ago, ancient vase reveals | Daily Mail Online
• 2,000-Year-Old Laundrette Amongst First Finds From Ambitious New Pompeii Dig
• Israel Antiquities Authority must rein in enthusiasm before next find – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary for Robert Rivers Harris | Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes
• Charles H. Kahn (1928-2023) | Daily Nous

Public Facing Classics

• I dug for evidence of the Rosetta Stone’s ancient Egyptian rebellion – here’s what I found
• Hinged phallus of 2,000-year-old fertility figurine was ‘clearly intended to dangle’ | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 2] on humiliated captives kneeling or on the ground (first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 3] on kneeling in supplication or adoration (first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Persians: Vitruvius theorizes about Greek depictions of enemies in architectural contexts (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Neith-hotep of Naqada – Queen Consort or First Female Pharaoh? | Garstang Museum of Archaeology
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Folly
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Such Is My Life
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Freedom
• Achilles’ (Missing) Sister – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Linguistic Slough of Despond?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Karten von Attika in the Era of Digital Humanities
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Typenatlas der römischen Reichsprägung von Augustus bis Aemilianus
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Griechischen Götter: Ein Überblick über Namen, Bilder und Deutungen
• A Physician’s Notes on the Lives and Deaths of Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Kiwi Hellenist: Homer’s metre 2. Hermann’s Bridge
• Roman-era sphinx found at Dendera – The History Blog
• Troje is nooit veroverd! – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lioness carving found in the Golan
• Nog even over de expositie over Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Updates from Pyla-Vigla on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Don’t Try to Philosophize with Everyone! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Does the artificial watercourse in the Hessian Ried have a Roman past? – Archaeology Wiki
• The Darius Ostracon: From Real to Fake
• Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Roman-era cabin and royal sphinx statue – Arkeonews
• SAN MICHELE AT THE CUTTING (VE). An ancient Roman villa on the beach of Bibione. – Archeology online – Archeomedia
• Roman era sphinx uncovered at Dendera Temple Complex | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• What Makes the Most Expensive Ancient Coins So Valuable
• Why Is the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius so (In)famous?
• March 7th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 85

Fresh Podcasts

• My Life In Books with Red Szell: Natalie Haynes on Apple Podcasts

For this episode, Red is joined by Champion of the Classics, Natalie Haynes. Through her best-selling novels, her sell-out stand-up comedy performances, and eight series of her hit radio show, Natalie has brought the myths of Ancient Greece and Rome to legions of new fans. Her novels The Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships retold the Greek myths of Oedipus and Antigone, and the Trojan War respectively, reshaping the stories by placing women at their hearts. And her latest novel, Stone Blind, reveals a new side to the seemingly familiar myth of Perseus and The Gorgon, Medusa. Not only does it put male power under the spotlight but it explores how we create monsters out of our fear of the unknown. And best of all for fans of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, she narrates the audiobook version of Stone Blind herself!

• Peopling the Past: Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina: Roman Girlhood with Lauren Caldwell on Apple Podcasts

Ah, youth! We are all familiar with that mysterious and formative period of life between childhood and adulthood, but how did the ancient Romans describe this time of transition? In this episode, social historian Dr. Lauren Caldwell joins Chelsea and Melissa to talk about aspects of Roman “girlhood” and the difficult transition to “womanhood”. Listen in, as we dive into ancient Latin medical and legal texts to learn how the ancient Romans grappled with puberty and the various changes that took place in the female body that differentiated girls (puellae) from the women (feminae) they would become.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Egregious Euripides Slander, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

(Fictional) Euripides and Mnesilochus work to infiltrate the Thesmophoria festival and things get very, very weird.

Fresh Youtubery

• Rita Dove in conversation with Helene Foley – YouTube | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
• Tramine vehi latine (Pars 1)!  Going by train in Latin: vocab & grammar @RVMAK​ – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Why BCE/CE is Better than BC/AD (Even for Christians) – YouTube | XKV8R
• Techniques of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture – YouTube | British School at Rome
• Textile Conservation at The Met – YouTube
• Did Blue Exist in the Ancient World? – YouTube | Dig it With Raven

Book Reviews

• Ingesting Mercury and the Noble Lie: On Anthony Barbieri-Low’s “The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China” and Shadi Bartsch’s “Plato Goes to China”
• Book Spotlight: Circe by Madeline Miller – The Cowl
• BMCR ~ Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle, Lemaire, Panckoucke, Nisard: trois collections d’auteurs latins sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet. Scripta receptoria, 21. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Christopher Chinn, Visualizing the poetry of Statius: an intertextual approach. Mnemosyne supplements, 449. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre Erindale’s Alcestis: Merging styles of the past and present – The Medium

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Housman Lectures | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Acropolis As We Know It Today Never Existed | Art & Object

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 a major wind which will affect the business of the powerful.

… 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)

Hodie est pr. Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The Darius Artifact: How Did We Get From Discovery of the Decade to Disgrace? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Israel Antiquities Authority must rein in enthusiasm before next find – The Jerusalem Post

In Case You Missed It

• Gladiator fights were staged in Roman Britain, evidence suggests – BBC News
• Ancient Roman vase is 1st evidence of gladiator battles on English soil | The Times of Israel
• Accidental destruction of Roman sarcophagus represents significant cultural loss ⋆ Universul.net

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἰνδία
• Ephemeris ~ NOVUM PYROBOLUM Nuntium Ucrainum 

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: List of C-14 dated manuscripts
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of The Lexham Old Testament Apocrypha
• “What Kinds of Things Are Roses”: More Poems from Nossis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Life
• Review: SAVAGE BEASTS by Rani Selvarajah – Classical Studies Support
• Have Been Accepted to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)’s Summer Session for 2023! – Tales of Times Forgotten
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Position of Roman Slaves: Social Realities and Legal Differences
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji: Zum Design urbaner Atmosphären
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Libyan Epigraphy Research Network
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’auctoritas à Rome: Une notion constitutive de la culture politique
• Colchester Vase was gladiator sports memorabilia – The History Blog
• Jezus’ vrouwelijke leerlingen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Garbled Greek
• One month after the quake – cultural properties damage assessment | Turkish Archaeological News
• Buying Erudition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Photos of the Book of the Dead scroll from Saqqara
• Perictione and the Harmonious Woman – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of Central Asia during the 1st millennium BC, from the Beginning of the Iron age to the Hellenistic period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epigraphische Forschungen in Termessos und seinem Territorium IV
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Griechische Epigraphik in Lykien: Eine Zwischenbilanz. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums München, 24.–26. Februar 2005
• A Funerary Inscription for a Twelve-Year Old Girl – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Poor Charles Vanderpoop
• Hedonisme (3): De Cyreense School – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the fake Darius inscription
• MARGINALIA: Remains from the Temple of Vespasian
• Time and the Ancient World – The Classical Astronomer
• Limits of totality; fragmentary fragilities   – o pietas animi
• Wherever You Go, You’re Still You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The results of the CREWS project: new CORDIS article

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• New article explores Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon Micro-Region – Pergamon Micro-Region
• HeroesX: 10th anniversary – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Ancient Boundaries of Classics – Antigone
• Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta – Antigone
• The world’s first horse riders
• What’s a life worth living? For the ancients, it depends | Psyche Ideas
• Pasts Imperfect (2.23.23)
• March 5th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• March 6th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Ancient Egyptian discovery rewrites history of Sudanese kingdom | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The Darius Ostracon: From Real to Fake
• PaleoJudaica.com: Purim 2023

Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

• Literature and History: Episode 102: An Old Man’s Book (Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2) on Apple Podcasts

Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2. The second half of the City of God contains some of Late Antiquity’s most influential writings – most notably Augustine’s take on Original Sin.

• History of the World podcast: Unscripted (50) ( Retrospective special ) on Apple Podcasts

Something completely new for the History of the World podcast.  While we wait for the new episode, we revive some of the great stories that we have already told in years gone by.  Plus the result of the first semi-final of the History of the World podcast Ancient World Cup.

Fresh Youtubery

• Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2023 – YouTube
• SUUS et EIUS in Latin, what’s the difference? || LLPSI – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• How Could an Ethiopian Princess Be Born White? The Intriguing Tale of Aethiopika – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Unlocking the Secrets of Mesopotamian Magic with Dr. Irving Finkel – YouTube | Archaeology Now
• Plutarch’s Parallel Lives | Ancient Classics – YouTube
• TGR Lazio – Il rhython assiro di Veio – YouTube | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Joanna Kenty, Cicero’s political personae. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• BMCR ~ Giovanni Ligabue, Falerii Veteres. Il sepolcreto di Montarano: scavi, materiali e contesti. Monumenti antichi, 83. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean review – art of extraordinary intimacy | Museums | The Guardian

Dramatic Receptions

• Homer’s Odyssey takes center stage in EPIC – The Georgetown Voice
• Former detainee and advocate Behrouz Boochani brings new life to an ancient play – ABC News
• ‘Tragic tale of forbidden love has been told down the ages’ – EasternEye

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Women’s Life in Ancient Greece: Grooming and Care of the Body – The National Herald

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 the same as yesterday portended and even more.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The world’s first horse riders found near the Black Sea
• Humans Started Riding Horses 5,000 Years Ago, New Evidence Suggests – Scientific American
• The jewellers digging up ancient treasures
• Israel Antiquities Authority: ‘Ancient’ Darius Inscription Deemed Inauthentic in Mix-up – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Unfounded: Ancient Darius inscription shard isn’t authentic – Antiquities Authority | The Times of Israel
• Ky. professor using AI technology to read ancient manuscript about life after Alexander the Great | WKMS
• Ancient structures remain standing in Hatay despite Türkiye quake | Daily Sabah
• Boris Johnson Has Finally Lost His Marbles

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.03.2023 – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News ~ Λευκορωσία
• Ephemeris ~ DE BELLO ADVERSUS SCELERATOS Nova ab America Latina 

Fresh Bloggery

• Fireside Friday, March 3, 2023 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Weekend Reading: Tea Good, Work Bad – Classical Studies Support
• Mediterranean peoples: Augustus on his own achievements, conquests and alliances with peoples (14 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros and Pliny on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• WWED? (What Would Epicurus Do?) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Darius ostracon was a modern showpiece?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Love
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Administrative Hieratic from dynasties 19 and 20 : case studies on selected groups of ostraca with necropolis administration
• On the Road with Alexander – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
• Sappho’s Equal? Some Epigrams Assigned to the Poet Nossis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Convivial Gatherings
• Hedonisme (2): Aristippos’ idee van vrijheid – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Simple Explanation
• Two Reviews of the Two Plinys and Vesuvius « [quem dixere chaos]
• Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation
• The Age of Knowing Better – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Ancient Mesopotamian Tavern Discovered
• Minoan civilization may have used celestial navigation techniques – Arkeonews

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113) on Apple Podcasts

This week Jeff and Dave are back at the Aeneid, wading into some deep waters murky and redolent with the unfulfilled wishes of Jupiter. As full-scale war erupts on the Latian plain, Venus and Juno bring their high-pitched quarrel to the king of Olympus, whose own hands, it turns out, are tied by the Parcae. As the Fates roll around in their El Camino, cutting short the threads of numerous heroes Sarpedon-like, men are dying on the field of battle like a scene straight out of the Iliad. But it’s not just questions of fate, of popsicle sticks, glue, and Fort Ticonderoga that occupy our sally into divine destiny. Along the way there is also room for Vergil’s frowzy digression on Ascanius’ lustral locks. What is he, a trichologist? Perhaps our poet was himself glabrous, and that explains his odd obsession with the young Iulus’ quiffs and frisettes? We comb through the evidence, attempting to answer this, and more.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 083: Hellenistic Literature – Apollonius of Rhodes and the “Argonautica” on Apple Podcasts

The “Argonautica”, written by the third century poet Apollonius of Rhodes, is the only surviving epic poem from the Hellenistic period. Recounting the travels of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts as they searched for the Golden Fleece, Apollonius managed to pay homage to the works of Homer while also reinventing the genre to better reflect the scholarship coming out of Alexandria.

• EI Weekly Listen: EI Weekly Listen — The City of God: on Augustine’s vision of Empire by Gillian Clark on Apple Podcasts

Augustine’s seminal book was written in the context of the Roman Empire, but it remains ever-relevant. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Fresh Youtubery

• It’s a FAKE: The Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” is Not Authentic – YouTube
• On the Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Le royaume du Bosphore et le monde barbare d’Europe centrale et orientale à la fin de l’ère romaine (milieu du IIe – milieu du IVe siècle après J.-C.). | Spartokos a lu
• River of the Gods by Candice Millard review – Readers are immersed in the crazy quest of two friends turned enemies | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
• Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind Fills in Mythological Silences | Tor.com

Dramatic Receptions

• UW drama’s adaptation of ‘The Oresteia’ explores questions behind justice and humanity | Events | dailyuw.com
• Caligula and the Sea – VAULT Festival, London – The Reviews Hub
• National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship | Science Advances
• Intense community dynamics in the pre-Roman frontier site of Fermo (ninth–fifth century BCE, Marche, central Italy) inferred from isotopic data  | Scientific Reports

Alia

• What To Know About The Only Standing Roman Lighthouse In England (Which Is Now A Bell Tower)
• 11 Facts About Boudica, Warrior Queen of the Iceni

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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends great prosperity.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a sunny spring and fruitful summer.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. V Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 11 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Egypt: Hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza seen for first time – BBC News
• ‘What’s behind these stones?’ Egypt unveils newly discovered Great Pyramid chamber | The Times of Israel
• PHOTOS: Tiny Ancient Statue With Enormous Penis Found in England
• 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Fertility Figurine of Mercury to Be Auctioned – ARTnews.com
• Turkey: The Ancient Greek City Of Anazarbos Survived The Major Earthquakes
• Greek mythology’s forgotten women are getting their own stories | Broadview Magazine
• Is it time to hand back the Elgin Marbles? | Shropshire Star
• Another ‘phallic symbol’ found near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland by archaeologists – Chronicle Live
• 2,000-year-old tunnels found under Spanish church | Raleigh News & Observer
• 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus accidentally destroyed in Romanian cemetery | Romania Insider
• Ministry takes measures to protect artifacts from quakes – Türkiye News
• York’s Roman Quarter development is up for sale – as owners ‘try and secure delivery’ of the project | YorkMix

In Case You Missed It

• 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Dry Cleaner Unearthed at Pompeii – ARTnews.com
• Archaeologists Discover Wooden Spikes Described by Julius Caesar | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Archaeologist Anna Leone: Fight against illicit trafficking of Libyan antiquities is top priority | The Libya Observer
• Boston College Professor Hosts Furry Event in Class – The Torch | Boston College’s Catholic Newspaper

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DISCIPULAE VENENATAE Scelus in scholis Persicis 

Public Facing Classics

• At the Crick | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Teaching and ChatGPT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egypt and the Mediterranean World from the Late Fourth through the Third Millennium BCE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Oberstadt von Ḫattuša: Die Bauwerke. III, Die Bebauung im südlichen Vorfeld von Büyükkale. Nişantepe – Südburg – Ostplateau (Grabungen 1988–1993)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Praktiken der Aneignung: Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.
• Festivals for Women and Different Marriage Customs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Libyan Epigraphy Research Network – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS Going for Remote Artefact Recording from Photos to Boost Database Numbers?
• Tacitus on Germanic Standards for Women and Child-Rearing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Een Fenicisch scheppingsverhaal – Mainzer Beobachter
• Autism and Classical Myth: Why this blog is like my garden
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Sassoon family and their collections
• PaleoJudaica.com: When did copying a Torah scroll became a sacred process?
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Bar’am Synagogue
• MARGINALIA: Venus Pays a Visit to Jupiter
• Art and Antiquities an Attractive Market for Money Laundering, FATF Argues
• Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Online Open House | Euclid Saves Us from Ignorance, with Graeme Bird – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Unknown room discovered in the Great Pyramid
• A rare inscription bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great
• Iron Age comb found made from human skull in UK – Arkeonews
• Why Was the Battle of Ipsus so Important?
• 5 Pieces of Propaganda from the Ancient World
• Scans reveal hidden tunnel in Great Pyramid of Giza
• Minoan civilisation may have used celestial “star path” navigation techniques
• March 3rd | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Discovered frescoed Roman baths, near a waterfall. Wonders emerge from the ground – Stile Arte
• A Gift from the Gods
• The Renaissance of Heracles: a 15th century plaquette inspired by a Greek coin | Antiquity at the BnF

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: How were enemy casualty figures calculated? on Apple Podcasts

Murray ponders why Macedonian casualty figures were low and how enemy casualty figures might have been calculated. Did someone go around counting all the dead Persian bodies, or did Macedonian soldiers get to estimate how many Persians they had killed?

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCV – Cleopatra Selene on Apple Podcasts

Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, and was destined for greatness. Following the death of her parents she became a prisoner of Rome, survived into adulthood, and became a queen of the ancient world. Dr Draycott is the author of ‘’Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen’. Guest: Dr Jane Draycott (Classics, University of Glascow)

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: They Make Rome Fun, Rome’s First Kings w/ the Partial Historians on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with the Partial Historians, Dr Rad and Dr G, who share the stories of the seven kings of Rome!

Fresh Youtubery

• Meet The Women Of World Mythology: A Peek Into AncientHistoryFangirl’s New Book! – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Jeremy Swist: Metalizing the History & Literature Classroom – YouTube |  Jeremy Swist

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Hans-Markus von Kaenel, Vom Wort zum Bild: I. N. Svoronos und E. S. G. Robinson und ihr neues Konzept zur Edition griechischer Münzen aus der Antike. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 2022.1. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• From Byzantium to the modern world handmade ceramics of Chios
• ANE Today – Achieving Divinity: “Golden Mummies of Egypt” at Manchester Museum

Dramatic Receptions

• Award-winning ‘Hadestown’ visits Capital Region – Saratogian

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The ceramic landscapes of Corinth and Sikyon
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Lessons from the Melian Dialogue: A Case Against Providing Military Support for Ukraine | The National Interest
• Exploring Israel: A Visit to a 1,600–year–old Synagogue – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

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 discord for the state after a period of famine.

… 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)