Hodie est Non. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- The OI Gets Rebranded, Drops ‘Oriental’ From Name | Chicago News | WTTW
- Mummies provide the key to reconstruct the climate of the ancient Mediterranean
- If not oil, then antiquities; US looting of Syrian wealth continues | Al Mayadeen English
- US occupation forces, allied SDF militants intensify theft of Syrian antiquities: Report
- What Matters Now to archaeologist Prof. Yonatan Adler: The origins of Judaism | The Times of Israel
- Archaeologist elaborates on Iron Age burial chambers – Tehran Times
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient ‘evil eye’ jewelry used to protect young girl unveiled in Jerusalem
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- The Met Museum Returns More Looted Art to Greece and Turkey, Including 15 Antiquities Seized From Disgraced Dealer Subhash Kapoor
- Antiquities trafficking investigator appointed president of Harvard Law Review—a position once held by Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Barack Obama
- What’s Going on With the Met’s “Blood Antiquities?” – SURFACE
- Palace pits with severed hands studied in ancient Egyptian site
Classicists and Classics in the News
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Fresh Bloggery
- Ethiopians: Palladios and others on Abba Moses the former bandit with darker skin (fourth-fifth centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Ethiopians, Libyans, and Egyptians: Christian authors picturing darker-skinned peoples as “demons” (second century CE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Cementing ancient truths, not a questionable future | Turkish Archaeological News
- Abstracting My Book | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Numishare to Google Earth – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Fortune
- Heracles’ eleventh Labour – the Apples of the Hesperides | Greek Myth Comix
- Heracles’ eleventh Labour: the Apples of the Hesperides | Greek Myth Comix
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspects of Ancient Greek Cult II. Sacred Architecture, Sacred Space, Sacred Objects: An International Colloquium in Honor of Erik Hansen
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Segni, sogni, materie e scrittura dall’Egitto tardoantico all’Europa carolingia
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pleiades Datasets 3.0
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Ten Verses of Sophocles
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis
- De Eufraat – Mainzer Beobachter
- propagandist fighter Maxim Fomin and the supply of metal detectors by artefact hunters for mine clearing by Russia’s forces in Ukraine | conflict antiquities
- Spencer Alley: A Superior Character, or an Habitual Politeness
- PaleoJudaica.com: Passover 2023
- PaleoJudaica.com: Could Jewish soldiers eat kosher in the Roman army?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Adler on the origins of Judaism and Passover
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Unusual artefact from Vindolanda re-investigated | The Past
- Found during a walk in the fields a Roman brooch representing a lion – Art Style
- Extraordinary. Now open in Vulci female Etruscan tomb of the sixth century. intact. Kits and brazier for the spit – Stile Arte
- April 5th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
- 5 Times Classical Memes LIED To You – CSMFHT Writes
- Sanctuary of Mars, thermal baths and necropolis discovered. Recovered 755 items between jewels and weapons. And a pair of shoes – Stile Arte
- New discoveries from Roman site in North-Western France | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
It’s Part 2 of our mega-episode on spelling! This time, we get into some of the notorious mismatches between English spelling and modern English pronunciation. Explaining them takes us all the way back to Phoenician — several times — but maybe, just maybe, some bits of this odd language will make more sense to you when we’re done!
Travel, displacement, religious pilgrimage – these are just some of the motivations for ancient migration, but how and why did people move from one place to another in antiquity? This week, Chelsea and Melissa are joined by Dr. Marie-Adeline Le Guennec, a historian of Roman mobility and migration. Listen in as Dr. Le Guennec talks about the ways in which women moved around the Roman Empire, the few sources that document this movement, and how modern scholars examine issues of mobility in the Roman world.
In this episode of Metropolitan Masterpieces, I’m discussing a fascinating, Cycladic figure from Ancient Greece!
The story from Greek mythology of how Hermes became an Olympian by killing a turtle and eating some barbecue.
Rome’s conquest of Britain in the first century AD was a brutal affair, as was the revolt against it led by Boudica. Duncan Mackay guides David Musgrove through the course of the rebellion, sharing the location of the final bloody battle, considering what we know about Boudica herself, and exploring why she continues to be a resonant figure today.
Fresh Youtubery
- Reading Greek Tragedy Online | Oedipus Tyrannos, live at the Center for Hellenic Studies – YouTube
- Do You Believe in Thoth? My Life With an Amiable Ancient Egyptian God – YouTube | ISAC
- Exposing The Greek And Roman Body: CAROLINE VOUT On Ancient Views Of The Human Form – YouTube | Moan Inc
- The Great Warrior of the Trojan War – Achilles – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- 54. Severus II – A Low Opinion Borne Out – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- The OI has changed its name to ISAC – YouTube | ISAC
- NEW EPISODE | Greece | Hidden City: Part 1 (Vlochos) TIME TEAM EXPEDITION CREW – YouTube
Book Reviews
- AJA ~ Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos, by Nota Kourou Xenia Charalambidou
- AJA ~ Il Mediterraneo occidentale dalla fase fenicia all’egemonia cartaginese: Dinamiche insediative, forme rituali e cultura materiale nel V secolo a.C., edited by Andrea Roppa, Massimo Botto, and Peter van Dommelen
- AJA ~ Obsidian Across the Americas: Compositional Studies Conducted in the Elemental Analysis Facility at the Field Museum of Natural History, edited by Gary M. Feinman and Danielle J. Riebe
- BMCR ~ Sandra Rodríguez Piedrabuena, Caracterización y cortesía en Eurípides. Zaragoza: Libros Pórtico, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor (Greek, Latin, Greek and Latin, Classical Studies, and Classical Archaeology) Hunter College
- VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR IN BIBLICAL STUDIES REQUISITION # 74785 UIova
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
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‘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 an early hot summer but a generally healthy year.
… 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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