Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Genetic Tests of Israeli Desert Olive Tree Reveal Roots of Ancient Agriculture – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Eighty ancient Cypriot artifacts repatriated from US | Cyprus Mail
- Czech-led archaeological team discovers “mini-Stonehenge” in Oman | Radio Prague International
- Bulgaria: Archeologists from Varna discovered an Ancient Object with an analogue only in the Louvre – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
- How WW1 Diggers ‘stole’ the Shellal Mosaic… and now the ‘real’ owners want it back | Daily Mail Online
- Crete Showcases Rich Ancient History in Three New Museums
- Plan for new homes near Hinckley uncovers Roman burial site – Leicestershire Live
In Case You Missed It
- Hidden relics: Lisbon’s 2,000-year-old Roman tunnels harbor history | Daily Sabah
- Lost’ 2nd-century Roman fort discovered in Scotland | Live Science
- Roman Mosaic Revealed at Shopping Mall in England | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- High-tech Peers Inside Sealed Ancient Egyptian Coffins, Finds Lizards – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Egyptians: The Judean tale of Joseph and Aseneth on rejecting Egyptian gods and on intermarriage (ca. first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Mixing Up Virtues and Vices
- Poor, Enduring Odysseus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Origins of P: Literary Profiles and Strata of the Priestly Texts in Genesis 1 – Exodus 40
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of Mind in the Hebrew Bible / Archäologie alttestamentlichen Denkens
- The Haters of Odysseus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: One Off Journal Issues: Sacrifices, marché de la viande et pratiques alimentaires dans les cités du monde romain. Meat : Sacrifice, Commerce and Food Preparations in the Roman Empire
- Odysseus’ Wanderings As Allegory – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Measure of a Man: A Priapic Odysseus (NSFW) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Cosmic particles find ancient burial chamber under Naples – The History Blog
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Schadenfreude
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Greek Does Not Blush
- Not Fearing to Die with a Little Help from Your Friends – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Cicero’s Reputation
- PaleoJudaica.com: Should Australia return a late-antique mosiac to Israel?
- PaleoJudaica.com: The archaeology of trees in the Negev
- PaleoJudaica.com: Sasson on the Priestly Benediction
Other Blog-like Publications
- 3,200 year old tomb discovered in Saqqara
- The mummies and objects of the Bab el-Gasus Cache go online
- 2,000-year-old graves found in ancient necropolis beneath Paris Train Station – Arkeonews
- Pontius Pilate’s Ring Reexamined – Biblical Archaeology Society
- 2,500-Year-Old Mummified Lizards Found in Ancient Egyptian Coffins
- Remains of Submerged Nabatean Temple Uncovered in Italy
- April 25th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
- Dura Europos: The Unknown Pompeii of the Desert
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Nigel Holmes discusses pharus ‘lighthouse’ and the TLL’s changing policy towards proper nouns.
Atalanta dares her bear cub siblings to leave the shelter of the forest. As they gorge on grapes in a vineyard, they overhear gossipy birds who know much more about Atalanta’s life than she does, until Mama Bear suddenly warns them of danger.
The most famous woman ever turned into a tree: Daphne and her horrible encounters with Apollo.
Fresh Youtubery
- Anne Carson’s Euripides & the Combustion of Thought – YouTube | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
- 2021 10 14 Adams How Beer Made Kings in Early Egypt – YouTube | Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
- Dispatching the dole: the seaborne transport of staples between Tunisia and Italy – YouTube | British School at Rome
- How Does a Greek Hoplite Prepare for War? #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
- Treasure trove of unseen artefacts from Ancient Rome opens to public – YouTube | AP Archive
- Death in Ancient Greece: Exploring the Myth of the Underworld – YouTube | Lady of the Library
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Eleni Pappa, Kommentare zu Aristoteles, De partibus animalium: Redaktionen zu Michael von Ephesos. Kritische Edition und Einleitung. Commentaria in Aristotelem Graeca et Byzantina – Series academica, 4. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Byron Waldron, Dynastic politics in the age of Diocletian, AD 284-311. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- The Athenian Family of Herodes Atticus and the Spartan Contest of Endurance Tickets, Tue 2 May 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
- The Ayia Triada Necropolis in EMIII-MMI Tickets, Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 7:30 PM | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- QueensU Term Adjunct 3 – The Classical Association of Canada
- QueensU Term Adjunct 2 – The Classical Association of Canada
- QueensU Term Adjunct 1 – The Classical Association of Canada
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Ancient Greek Lion from Piraeus Now Adorns Venice’s Arsenal
- Why was the Ancient Greek City of Hadrianopolis Abandoned?
- Rome Spectacularly Celebrates its 2,776th Birthday
- The Promethean Antikythera Computer of Greek Civilization – CounterPunch.org
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 year of peace.
… 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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