Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- People invited to take part in Carlisle Roman bath excavation – BBC News
- Ancient secrets unearthed in Cyprus – MSU Denver RED
- Sheep schlep to campus for commemoration of Roman festival – The Williams Record
- ‘Roman remains’ found at Southwick Court Fields homes site | Wiltshire Times
In Case You Missed It
- Ruins of wealthy ancient Roman suburb uncovered in Germany | Miami Herald
- 2,600-year-old stone busts of ‘lost’ ancient Tartessos people discovered in sealed pit in Spain | Live Science
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Canaanites / non-Judean peoples: The Judean author of Jubilees on the Dinah incident and intermarriage (mid-second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- The Death of Things, Part 1 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Cry of the Blood
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archäologie und Recht II. Wohin mit dem Bodendenkmal?
- Alexander in Sussex | The Second Achilles
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: One Off Journal Issues: L’Imaginaire de l’alimentation humaine en Grèce ancienne. International Food History Research (2013-2016)
- De vroege Stoa (1): Zenon versus Krates – Mainzer Beobachter
- First figural depictions of Tartessian culture found – The History Blog
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Archaeologists found a lost Roman fortlet in Scotland
- PaleoJudaica.com: SBL review panel on Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves, continued
- PaleoJudaica.com: Not Pontius Pilate’s ring after all?
- Best to Write Last? Seneca Breaks ChatGPT – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Other Blog-like Publications
- First human representations of Tartessian culture
- Dura Europos: The Unknown Pompeii of the Desert
- Roman Coin Found in Switzerland – Numismatic News
- 26 April 44 BCE: To Mark Antony (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
- 26 April 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
We spoke to Dr. Valerie Fridland about her new book, “Like, Literally, Dude!” and talked about the fascinating role that many ‘errors’ in English speech actually play in communication. We discuss the never-ending changes that English has gone through, the surprisingly sophisticated rules behind our use of ‘um’ and ‘uh’, and much more.
The discovery of an Iron Age pot in Jerusalem with an inscription in a South Arabian language has us flustered. We knew there was an ancient spice trade between the Levant and Yemen, but does this mean that Solomon and Sheba were real? It’s a spicy discussion with breathless notes of labdanum. Come for the world systems theory, stay for all the aunts in a cloud of Shalimar!
Eckart has just published a new history of Assyria. What sources can we draw on? How reliable are they? He talks about Assyria’s remarkable royal women and how they were remembered. What did the Assyrians achieve and what is their legacy?
Fresh Youtubery
- 57. Licinius – Battle of Tzirallum – YouTube | Classical Assocation Northern Ireland
- The Overlooked Heroes of the Trojan War – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- This is how the Roman army fell into an ambush at Lake Trasimene – YouTube | HistoryMarche
- 50 Tombs Dating to the 2nd Century CE Found in Paris | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube
Book Reviews
- Nazis ‘wrongly accused’ of destroying Caligula’s pleasure boats
- BMCR ~ Quentin J. Broughall, Gore Vidal and antiquity: sex, politics and religion. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Thomas E. Strunk, On the fall of the Roman republic: lessons for the American people. London; New York: Anthem Press, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
- Epic poem The Odyessy is reimagined in modern drama
- Photos: In Rehearsal For BAKKHAI at National Youth Theatre Repertory Company
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- How Aristotle equated human politics with the honeybee – Neos Kosmos
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- University Lecturer, Greek Language and Literature job with UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI | 337852
- Lecturer in Roman Culture job with KINGS COLLEGE LONDON | 337885
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Did the Ancient Greeks See Blue Like We Do? – GreekReporter.com
- Smyrna Dig Reveals Ancient Greek and Roman Past
- What Socrates’ ‘know nothing’ wisdom can teach a polarized America
- How Ugly Was Socrates? | Psychology Today United Kingdom
- Roman Empress Agrippina was a master strategist. She paid the price for it. | National Geographic
- Exploring the rise and fall of Greek Leagues in the Hellenistic Era, or how the Romans beat us – Neos Kosmos
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 great hopes of fruit but scarcity of harvest.
… 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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