Hodie est pr. Id Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- “Spectacular find” in Trier – place of worship for the Roman god of light discovered
- New Excavations at Rome’s Colosseum | Art & Object
- 31 ancient temples from around the world, from Göbekli Tepe to the Parthenon | Live Science
- Call for more archaeological inspections on Mykonos | eKathimerini.com
- Hoard of Roman silver coins bought by council – BBC News
- ‘A missing link in ancient Scottish history’: on the trail of the Picts | Scotland holidays | The Guardian
In Case You Missed It
- Divers reveal new treasures in Roman ‘harbour of vice’
- Eruption of Mount Vesuvius turned its victims’ brains to GLASS | Daily Mail Online
- Ancient Vesuvius Victims Were Vaporized, Had Brains Turned to Glass
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- Breathing on the glass in the Museum | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- Commentary: How will you celebrate Rome’s 2776th birthday? – Mainline Media News
Fresh Bloggery
- Libyans and Asourianians: Synesios on years of incursions by “barbarians” in Cyrenaica (early fifth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- 98 of 234: Money issues in the early 80s BCE, preliminaries – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Coriolanus
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Men of Letters
- Arrian | The Historian’s Hut
- The Funeral Gladiator Games For Maximus Of Verona’s Wife | The Historian’s Hut
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Theocritus’s Urban Mimes: Mobility, Gender, and Patronage
- The Epidemic’s Over, We’re Fine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Virgil’s Epic Technique
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Money, Expense, and Naval Power in Thucydides’ History 1-5.24
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Myth, Meaning, and Memory on Roman Sarcophagi
- The verb “probare” – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Caesar aan het werk – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jerusalem’s ghost Gennath Gate?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Who lived at Hazor? And where is their archive?
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Dispersal of the Leominster Hoard Coins
- Roman Archaeology Blog: The ‘Barbarians’ Who Saved & Destroyed the Late Roman Empire
- Xenophon’s kinder Socrates | OUPblog
- Looting Matters: Developments at Princeton
- The Proverbs of Solomon in Sahidic Coptic | Consulting Philologist
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Bigger They Are the Harder They Fall
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Secret of the Shipwrecks at Theodosius Harbor: 1,600 Years Old Women’s Sandals and Comb – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists identify a submerged temple of the Nabataeans in Pozzuoli | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Mosaic discovered in ruins of submerged Roman town | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- April 12th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
- Treasures under trees and meadows. Recovered the temple of Giunone in Falerii of Civita Castellana – Stile Arte
- 12 April 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Fundi)
- Haunting dispatches from the edge of the Roman Empire, just before its collapse | Aeon Videos
- Archaeologists identify a sunken Nabataean temple dedicated to the God Dusares at Pozzuoli – Arkeonews
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
A 52 foot long Book of the Dead sounds like a super deluxe edition, but if you’re traveling from death to judgment and into the afterlife you can’t be too careful. But did anyone in ancient Egypt actually believe this stuff? What about the non-believers? Where did they fit in? Our contestants slide effortlessly into Spinoza mode, but still worry a little about Ammit, devoureress of the dead.
Fresh Youtubery
- 55. Constantine I – A Heavenly Sign – YouTube | Classical Associaiton Northern Ireland
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Eleri H. Cousins, Dynamic epigraphy: new approaches to inscriptions. Oxford; Havertown: Oxbow, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Hadrien Bru, Adrian G. Dumitru, Nicholas Sekunda, Colonial geopolitics and local cultures in the hellenistic and Roman East (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD). Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing, 2021.
- BMCR ~ John Sellars, Marcus Aurelius. Philosophy in the Roman world. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2020.
- Book review: Clytemnestra finally gets her own voice
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Department of Classics presents Haines-Morris Lecture “Reception ex nihilo: Doubling, improvisation, metatheater in Plautine comedy and Seinfeld” by T.H.M. Gellar-Goad – University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Virgil Society AGM day: reading and lectures (Saturday 13 May 2023, hybrid) Tickets, Sat 13 May 2023 at 11:00 | Eventbrite
- “Our Muses Are Our Ancestors”: Contemporary Indigenous Writers of North America and Greco-Roman Antiquity. | Princeton Classics
- SIGN IN – Association of Ancient Historians Annual Program
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- University Lecturer (UD) in Greek Papyrology – Universiteit Leiden
- Teaching & Research Fellow in Greek Art and Archaeology at The University of Edinburgh
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Historical Italian Cooking: How to Make Ancient Roman & Medieval Italian Dishes | Open Culture
- The Most Powerful Artifacts in Greek Mythology
- Does Homer’s Odyssey Mention Ancient LSD and its Antidote?
- 11 Mythology Inspired Book Releases To Look Forward To In 2023 | The Nerd Daily
- When math met literature in 1960s Paris – Big Think
- Julius Caesar Commemorative Leads Auction – Numismatic News
- Don Winslow on ‘City of Dreams’ and Ancient Mythology Influences
- The World’s First Named Author Was a Woman | Discover Magazine
- Ancient Greek Hats: Headwear in Antiquity
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 rain, prosperity, and the demise of fish.
… 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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