Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Last-ditch attempt to save wall that could date back to Bronze age
- “Magna Grecia” investigation: at Palazzo Ducale the delivery to the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon of two ceramics recovered by the Carabinieri of the Cultural Heritage Protection Unit | Municipality of Venice – Live – Today’s news and city services
- Hidden contents of 6 ancient Egyptian coffins, sealed for thousands of years, revealed | Live Science
- Rome, the statue of Hercules resurfaced on the Appian Way is revealed to the public – GALLERY – Photo 1 of 7 – Il Giornale d’Italia
- Naples : découverte d’une chambre funéraire de l’époque hellénistique dans le quartier Sanità – Geo.fr
- Texas princess evicted from Roman villa searches for new home in Italy
- Widowed Texas Playboy model-turned-Italian princess is EVICTED from $533m Roman villa | Daily Mail Online
- 2,000-year-old hoard of Roman coins may have been hidden by a soldier during a bloody civil war in Italy | Live Science
- Zeugma Mosaic Museum reopens after earthquakes – english
In Case You Missed It
- Antiques trafficking network dismantled in Greece
- Millennial surprise as Gallo-Roman graveyard unearthed in Paris
- 2,000-year-old graves found in ancient necropolis below busy Paris train station – CBS News
- Stunning Roman Mosaic Found Beneath UK Shopping Mall
- Cache of Ancient Severed Hands May Have Been Part of a Ritual | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Hundreds of antiquities to be displayed in Rome’s forum
Classicists and Classics in the News
Fresh Bloggery
- Persians: Emperor Diocletian on strange and monstrous Manicheans (ca. 300 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Hatred of Philology
- PaleoJudaica.com: SBL review panel on Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on that submerged Nabatean temple
- Cringe Takes on Philosophy and Power – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Action
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Un lieu de culte antique immergé
- Remembering To Forget – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open access articles in Levant
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ISAW Dissertations
- Het Ishango-beentje (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Crete: Search for weapons yields antiquities
- Roman gateway reconstructed at Richborough – The History Blog
- Het Ishango-beentje (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Het Ishango-beentje (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Looting Matters: Fragments from a cup attributed to Makron
- Mithriaca: 2010-2022 | Szabó Csaba
- Gap Week: April 20, 2023 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two splendid chaps
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- ANE Today – The Myth of the Twelve Tribes of Israel
- Advanced imaging techniques reveal secrets of sealed ancient Egyptian animal coffins – Arkeonews
- Bust depicting Greek god of wine making found in Cockermouth, England | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- April 21st | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
- 21 April 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
Fresh Podcasts
Murray talks with Roel Konijnendijk about his recent work on 19th-century German language scholars and how they laid the foundations of much of the 20th century’s understanding of Classical Greek warfare. Giants like Moltke, Delbrück, Kochly and Rustow’s foundations were, however, based on 19th-century understandings of how war worked, and their views (rightfully) have been challenged. This only began in earnest in the late 20th century, and overcoming the dominance of these 19th-century thinkers is still a mountain to climb.
Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book VI, translated by Brookes More. Minerva battles weaving with Arachne, Procne and Philomela face the horrors of Tereus, and more.
Fresh Youtubery
- Roman Forum artefacts on show after decades in the dark – YouTube | Sunday Times
- How did Alexander the Great master the False Gap at age 18 – YouTube | History Marche
- ETRU per il Natale di Roma 2023 – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- Book review: The Eagle and the Bear: A New History of Roman Scotland, by John H Reid | The Scotsman
- New book reveals the rulers of Rome tended to meet exceedingly sticky ends | Daily Mail Online
- BMCR ~ Maggie L. Popkin, Diana Y. Ng, Future thinking in Roman culture: new approaches to history, memory, and cognition. Routledge monographs in Classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
- BMCR ~Aske Damtoft Poulsen, Arne Jönsson, Usages of the past in Roman historiography. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 9. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Jerome Mairat, Andrew Wilson, Chris Howgego, Coin hoards and hoarding in the Roman world. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
- Museum exhibit illuminates Pliny’s study of art, nature | Cornell Chronicle
- The Gods and Heroes of Greek Mythology in Beijing – The National Herald
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- Clueless Classical Ed Critics Accidentally Make A Killer Case For It
- How (and why) Trimble created the world’s most detailed record EVER of an ancient Roman landmark
- Locusta of Gaul: The World’s First Serial Killer Might Have Been a Woman
- 11 Famous Gladiators Who Ruled the Roman Colosseum – Next Luxury
- Why the Ancient Romans Had Better Teeth Than Modern Europeans | Open Culture
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 plentiful crops but war for the stte.
… 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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