Hodie est a.d. VIII ID Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archeologia, ‘Orfeo e le Sirene’ tornano a Taranto – Ministero della cultura
• Scoperta archeologica, trovano una tomba calabrese con all’interno un tesoro prezioso
• Jews could have kept kosher, Passover in ancient Roman army, per new paper – JNS.org
• The case for returning the Elgin Marbles
• Archaeologist elaborates on Iron Age burial chambers – Tehran Times
• In Libya, Assessing Heritage Sites Caught in the Crossfire
• ‘Roman numerals’ found on Stone of Destiny ahead of King’s coronation | The Independent
• Glasgow Midde students build Roman road with Roman tools | Education | theadvocate.com
• HSI Cultural Property, Art and Antiquities Program repatriates over 135 artifacts in 2nd quarter of fiscal year 2023 | ICE
• Mysterious mosaics depicting Medusa uncovered at 2nd-century Roman villa | Live Science
• Are the Parthenon marbles coming home to Greece? – The New European
• How the GOLD OF TROY became the USSR’s war booty – Russia Beyond

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists unearth exciting Exeter Roman discoveries – Devon Live
• Archaeologists discover 12 severed HANDS in an Egyptian palace | Daily Mail Online
• Can ML Unlock The Secrets of the Herculaneum Scrolls?

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Opinion | As Black educators, we endorse the classics – The Washington Post

Public Facing Classics

• John Wick Gives a Bone-Cracking Lesson in Greco-Roman Mythology
• Would Aristotle approve of the Guardian’s reparations?  | The Spectator
• Updating Homer for Sensitive Modern Readers: A Tongue-in-Cheek Proposal – Front Porch Republic

Fresh Bloggery

• Scheduling a Time to leave – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Unpacking the Greco-Roman Mythology in John Wick: Chapter 4 – History From Below
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Question
• Real Names Be Proof | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Book Presentation: Medieval and Early Modern Inscriptions of Schwäbisch Hall (D) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Alexander in Babylon – a Supplementary Post | The Second Achilles
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Human Diversity
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Immersion Method
• No Trouble from The Trees for Sleep – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nemea: A Guide to the Site and Museum
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Athenian Democracy in Transition: Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos
• 92 of 234: More Gratidianus Notes – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Aeneas And The Cumaean Sibyl In The Underworld, By Jan Brueghel the Elder (c. 1568–1625) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Married Affairs Of Julius Caesar | The Historian’s Hut
• Metal votive deposits found at Gallo-Roman sanctuary – The History Blog
• Antieke technologie in Frankfurt – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Ol’ Stoic Killjoy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Jewish fish sauce in a Roman-era jar?
• PaleoJudaica.com: AJR: Fraade on “Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism” (CUP)
• April 6th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Many-Headed Tyranny
• PaleoJudaica.com: Who founded the Christian Holy Land pilgrimage startup?
• Heracles’ twelfth labour: Kerberos | Greek Myth Comix
• Heracles’ twelfth Labour: Kerberos | Greek Myth Comix

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 215 (03/2023)  | Tulliana News

Other Blog-like Publications

• Mummies provide key to reconstruct the ancient Mediterranean climate
• Ancient mummy labels help to reconstruct climate of Roman Egypt | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• New discoveries from Roman site in North-Western France | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• A Vulci un’altra straordinaria scoperta: una tomba intatta risalente al VI secolo a.C.
• Wee Deities on Ancient Coins
• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus: The History of an Architectural Marvel
• Archaeologists deciphered the Sabaean inscription on a clay jar finds link between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba – Arkeonews
• Why Did Constantine the Great Choose Christianity?
• A Roman statue unearthed on the site of St Polyeuctus’ church, which once Constantinople’s largest church – Arkeonews
• ANE Today – The Meaning and Symbolism of Swimming-Girl Spoons from Egypt
• Pasts Imperfect (4.6.23)

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Rise of the Assyrians on Apple Podcasts

At its pinnacle, the kingdom of Assyria stretched from the Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf, a feat few could compare with in 660BCE. With Assyria’s conquests documented by contemporary Greek historians, and even in the Hebrew Bible, nearly two millennia of studies have revealed a rich picture of the Assyrian world. With it’s size and power undisputed, is it fair to call it the first empire the world had ever seen? In this episode, Tristan is joined by Yale Professor Eckart Frahm to learn why he believes Assyria marked the first real empire of human history, and why this civilisation is essential to understanding the ancient world. With Assyria’s legacy enduring from the Babylonian and Persian empires to Rome and beyond, what can we learn about this remarkable civilisation?

• The Partial Historians: The Robe (1953) on Apple Podcasts

The Robe (1953) is a cinematic classic of Golden Age Hollywood. With its mix of ancient Rome and early Christianity, it was a winner with audiences around the globe. In this special episode, we tap into Dr Rad’s expertise in reception in film and come to grips with the power of The Robe!

• Ancient History Fangirl: RE-RELEASE: Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Atalanta on Apple Podcasts

Atalanta was an avatar of an older, wilder time, created in the image of an ancient Artemis—goddess of the fields and forests who had a strong association with bears. Perhaps Atalanta represents an older image of that goddess before Classical Athens got its hands on her. Join us as we take a deep dive into the story of Atalanta: a gender rebel and sexually liberated heroine who—maybe—peels back the curtain on what life was like for women on the margins, living pre-agrarian lifestyles outside of the traditional gender roles established by the scholars and writers of Classical Greece.

• Tides of History: Competition, Tyranny, and the Birth of Ancient Greece on Apple Podcasts

Archaic Greece went through some of the most explosive and rapid transformations of any ancient society, but why? What stands out the most is the intense strand of competition running through every aspect of society, from athletics to the economy to politics.

Fresh Youtubery

• Orfeo e le sirene | Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Taranto – YouTube } MiC Italia
• Do You Believe in Thoth? My Life With an Amiable Ancient Egyptian God – YouTube | ISAC
• Envy/View #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• How Rome conquered Southern Italy – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
• The Complete History Of The Roman Empire | Empire Without Limit (Full Series) | Odyssey – YouTube
• Vindolanda Excavation Round Up 2022 – YouTube
• Roman Egypt Was WILD – 5 Things I Learned From CLEOPATRA’S DAUGHTER by Jane Draycott (Book Review) – YouTube | Moan Inc.

Book Reviews

• Miranda Carter · Wasp-Waisted Minoans: Mary Renault’s Heroes · LRB 13 April 2023
• BMCR ~ Shulamit Almog, The origins of the law in Homer. Law and literature, 21. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• The world of the Roman gladiator is recalled in a new exhibition at Segedunum, Wallsend – Chronicle Live

Dramatic Receptions

• ETSU performing ‘Medea’ by Euripides later this month

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Visiting Assistant Professorof Classics – HigherEdJobs
• Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics – HigherEdJobs
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Acropolis Of Athens Vs. Sicily’s Valley Of Temples: Which Has The More Impressive Greek Temples?
• Discover The Ancient Walls Of Rome Still Standing Today
• Women In Religion: The College of Vestals.
• The Elite Special Forces of Ancient Greece
• The Origin Story Of Saffron Is Believed To Have Begun In Ancient Times
• Revenge on the Rhine: How Rome Got Even After the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 civil war.

… 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)

Hodie est Non. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• 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
• Ancient Jerusalem child’s amulet on show, 50 years after discovery | The Times of Israel
• 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

• Classicist: ‘Modern’ view of religion dates to 303 AD

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Φινλανδία

Public Facing Classics

• Fancy hats in Santiago de Compostela | Blog post by Mary Beard

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

• The Oriental Institute: Fragments for a History of an Institution: We have changed our name to: Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa (ISAC)

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

• @DocCrom on some coins of Caracalla depicting Julia Domna
• @CocCrom on Catullus 37

Fresh Podcasts

• The Endless Knot: The XYZ’s of Spelling on Apple 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!

• Peopling the Past: These Boots were Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec on Apple Podcasts

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.

• Accessible Art History: Cycladic Female Figure on Apple Podcasts

In this episode of Metropolitan Masterpieces, I’m discussing a fascinating, Cycladic figure from Ancient Greece!

• Myths and Legends: 314-Greek Myth: Baby Steps on Apple Podcasts

The story from Greek mythology of how Hermes became an Olympian by killing a turtle and eating some barbecue.

• History Extra podcast: Boudica’s rebellion: a blood-soaked blow to the Roman empire on Apple Podcasts

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

• Get a 1st Look at National Theatre’s Epic The Odyssey, Journeying Across England | Playbill

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

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

Alia

• Four Ancient Greek Mysteries Which Spark Controversy To This Day

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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)

Hodie est pr. Non. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Inscription on Sherd From Solomon-era Jerusalem Found to Be Ancient Arabian Script – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Archaeologists finds link between Israel, Kingdom of Sheba – study – The Jerusalem Post
• Newly deciphered inscription gives clue to biblical Queen of Sheba’s Jerusalem visit | The Times of Israel

Classicists and Classics in the News

• In Memoriam Hugh Mason – The Classical Association of Canada
• Professor Michael Cosmopoulos joining ‘Immortals’ in Academy of Athens – UMSL Daily | UMSL Daily
• From ancient Rome to modern times: Union in a garden state of mind | Union College
• Greek invasion: how ancient myths are having a pop culture moment in 2023 | Evening Standard

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE FINNIA + Nova a Scandinavia 

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Jamless World?
• Angry Poet and Killer Songs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Last Moments
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Glossa [a Latin Dictionary]
• Ancient Jewish Fish Sauce? | Variant Readings
• De tempel van Taffeh – Mainzer Beobachter
• New Book: ‘El Expolio de Bienes Culturales’
• PaleoJudaica.com: How many Egyptian words in Hebrew and where did they come from?
• MARGINALIA: “Division is Destruction”
• PaleoJudaica.com: Is the Jerusalem “(proto-)Canaanite” inscription actually Old South Arabian?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Our Place in Space and Time
• On the Impossibility of Crushing a Soul – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Une tête inscrite au nom de Sappho | L’Antiquité à la BnF

Other Blog-like Publications

• Sabaean inscription on a large clay jar deciphered
• Severed hands from Avaris medically documented confirming origins
• Archaeologists deciphered the Sabaean inscription on a clay jar finds link between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba – Arkeonews
• Clay jar points to connection between Israel under the Reign of King Solomon and the Kingdom of Sheba | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• April 4th | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
• The ‘Barbarians’ Who Saved & Destroyed the Late Roman Empire
• The Epic Story of the March of the Ten Thousand Greek Hoplites
• Blame it on Aristotle: how science got into bed with sexism | Aeon Essays

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 13

Fresh Podcasts

• Peopling the Past: These Boots were Made for Walking: Women’s Mobility and Migration in the Roman Empire with Marie-Adeline Le Guennec on Apple Podcasts

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. We guarantee: this episode will really move you!

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Beware the Wrath of the Furies, Screaming for Blood, Euripides’ Orestes (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

This play takes place after the end of the Trojan War and after the death of Agamemnon. While there’s a recap in the episode, you can listen to the full story in this Spotify playlist.

Fresh Youtubery

• Scott Samuelson | What Thinking Looks Like | Paideia Institute Online Lecture – YouTube
• King’s College
  • 2022 King’s Greek Play, The Plague at Thebes #1 – YouTube
  • 2022 King’s Greek Play, The Plague at Thebes #2 – YouTube
  • 2022 King’s Greek Play, The Plague at Thebes #3 – YouTube
  • 2022 King’s Greek Play, The Plague at Thebes #4 – YouTube
• MIllennial Classicist
  • Ovid 1: Narcissus Shuns Eco (OCR Set Text 2023-24) – YouTube
  • Ovid 2: Narcissus Falls in Love (OCR Set Text 2023-24) – YouTube
  • Ovid 3: Narcissus Transforms (OCR Latin Set Text 2023-24) – YouTube
• Sei un mito! La leggenda di Enea tra adattamenti e varianti – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• The Macedonian Silver Shields #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
• New Music for Lyre – Inspired by Themes from Ancient Greek Philosophy – YouTube | Michael Levy
• The Hanging Gardens of Babylon – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Part 2 – YouTube | Dig it With Raven

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Athanasios Despotis, Hermut Löhr, Religious and philosophical conversion in the ancient Mediterranean traditions. Ancient philosophy and religion, 5. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Rita Lizzi Testa, Christian emperors and Roman elites in Late Antiquity. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Ancient treasure uncovered in Roman-era tomb dazzles Jerusalem
• Begone evil eye: Ancient Jerusalem child’s amulet on show, 50 years after discovery | The Times of Israel

Dramatic Receptions

• YSU delivers thoughtful, imaginative ‘Antigone’ | News, Sports, Jobs – Tribune Chronicle

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CFP CEH La Plata – The Classical Association of Canada
• [Classics Colloquium] From Astral Mythology to Astrological History: Stars and Planets at the Light of the Religions of the Iranian World and their Theological Controversies
• Call for Papers: ‘Developments in Ancient Language Pedagogy’ workshop (University of Reading) – The Classical Association
• Monetary Economies of the Hellenistic World
• Texts and Contexts Seminar: October 27, 2023: The Fortuna of Ovid | Department of Classics
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Part-Time Lecturer in the Classics Department UCSB | Society for Classical Studies
• Lecturer in Greek Art at King’s College London
• Lecturer specialising in Greek art history.
• Visiting Assistant Professor Classics | Agnes Scott College
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Hidden chamber discovery in the underground Hellenistic necropolis of Neapolis by muography | Scientific Reports

Alia

• Nestor – April 2023 issue available
• Antikythera Mechanism: The Ancient Greek Computer That Leaves Scientists Stunned
• Pliny the Elder’s Ancient But Refreshing Take on Opium
• OTD: Alexander The Great Crosses The Hellespont And Begins His Campaign In The East
• Ancient Greek Philosophers Brought to Life by AI
• Aphrodite: from ancient goddess to pop icon | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
• Stealing Hellenism: The Erasure Of Greeks By NeoPagans
• All rivers lead to Rome | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
• Virtual reality helps visualise life in ancient Roman camp at Bratislava’s UNESCO site – spectator.sme.sk

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 the threat of anger from the powerful against the just.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. III Non. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Culture Minister Lina Mendoni Talks to TNH, Discusses Greek Antiquities – The National Herald
• A Roman dagger, lead bullets and remains of a 15 BC battle found with metal detector – Stile Arte
• Spectacular Gold Jewels Worn Against Evil Eye in Roman Jerusalem Go on Exhibit, Finally – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Israeli archaeologists present 1,800-year-old gold protective jewelry – The Jerusalem Post
• The True History of Early Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Archaeologists find 12 severed hands from ancient Egypt – The Jerusalem Post
• 1,900-year-old statue discovered in Istanbul – Türkiye News
• More Letters from Mesopotamia – Universität Hamburg

In Case You Missed It

• Roman remains uncovered beneath UK’s Exeter Cathedral – The Jerusalem Post

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ TEMPESTAS BOREOAMERICANA Nuntium ab America
• Akropolis World News ~ ΗΑΠ

Public Facing Classics

• Odysseus Saved from the Sea | Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books

Fresh Bloggery

• Book Club | April 2023: Theophrastus Characters – The Kosmos Society
• What Was There Before I Was Born? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Is the Angel of the Lord an interpolation?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Machiela, A Handbook of the Aramaic Scrolls from the Qumran Caves (Brill)
• Heracles’ tenth Labour – the Cattle of Geryon | Greek Myth Comix
• Heracles’ tenth Labour: the Cattle of Geryon | Greek Myth Comix
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Strife and Contention
• Autism and Classical Myth: Autism Acceptance Week – Saturday… Where I look back to my time studying at a haven for neurodivergent people
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Ludovisi Sarcophagus
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal Backlist: Journal of Roman Pottery Studies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New in ISAW Papers: The Logic of Planetary Combination in Vettius Valens
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Internet Auction Site Fails to Receive an Unsolicited Package with Looted Relief worth “£20m to £30m-plus” [Updated]
• Rowing the Same Ship, Twice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Libertarians Are Not Really Free – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Source Hunting
• Autism and Classical Myth: Autism Acceptance Day – Sunday: where I look back and ahead, say more about ACCLAIM and possibly make up a new word to convey where I’m heading next
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mohrmann, Deuteronomion: A Commentary … (Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Miglio, The Gilgamesh Epic in Genesis 1-11 (Routledge)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Prayer to Athena
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Mid-Republican House from Gabii
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Late Sophocles: The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Anatomizing Civil War: Studies in Lucan’s Epic Technique
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire
• From Jerusalem to Babylon: Two Triumphant Entrances | The Second Achilles
• When This is All Over, It Will Happen Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Annals of the Few and the Fortunate
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Social and Cultural Aspects” of Artefact Collecting Seen from Aarhus
• Samaritanen in Frankfurt – Mainzer Beobachter
• Severed right hands reveal trophy-taking ceremony – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 205
• PaleoJudaica.com: IAA exhibits ancient gold jewelry forgotten in a drawer
• PaleoJudaica.com: April 1st, belatedly
• Biblical Studies Carnival 205 for March 2023 – Reading Acts
• Anxiety and the Burden – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• The Curious Case of Vetranio: Regional Usurpation, Sisterly Power Grab or Loyalist Plot? « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
• CANI Newsletter April 2023 « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Other Blog-like Publications

• Recording 2,000 years of ancient graffiti in Egypt
• 19th Century Plaster Casts from Pompeii Tell the Story of Tragedy
• April 2nd | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
• The Ancient Roman Origins of Pizza – Retrospect Journal
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• La valle dei Templi di Agrigento vista in volo da un drone. Spettacolare. Il filmato di 2 minuti – Stile Arte

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Alexandria: The Sunken City on Apple Podcasts

The Egyptian city of Alexandria was one of the greatest cities of the ancient Mediterranean world. Founded by Alexander the Great himself in 323BC, the metropolis was nurtured by his successors in Egypt, the Ptolemies, and flourished throughout the Late Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods. Its famed lighthouse was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and the lost tombs of Alexander and even Cleopatra are believed to be there. The legacy endures to this day, but a significant portion of the ancient city is now underwater, lying beneath the eastern harbour of modern Alexandria. In this episode, Tristan is joined by leading expert on the sunken city of Alexandria, Franck Goddio to discuss this dramatic period of history. As an underwater archaeologist who has excavated the submerged city for many years, Franck shares his immense knowledge of the site. Revealing what some of his team’s incredible finds have shown about this underwater metropolis, and trying to separate fact from fiction, just what do we know about this sunken city?

• Latinitas Animi Causa: Ep. 20: De Dolis Aprilibus on Apple Podcasts

Andreas, Clara, et Ilsa adsumus Kalendis Aprilibus et dolos ferentes! Nos enim alio quodam more ac solito loquimur atque de dolis aut quos in alios adhibuimus aut quibus ipsi decepti sumus disserimus. Vosne umquam aliquem dolo decepistis? An, quod peius sit, decepti estis? Scribite ad nos! Volumus responsa vestra omnia audire!

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: Teaser: Contact in the East (Patreon) on Apple Podcasts

This is a teaser of the bonus episode, Contact n the East, found over on Patreon. We are now moving on with our bonus episode out of the early development of Athens and Sparta. This will now see us focuing on the theme of the Greek and Persian War. We had covered this period over quite a number of episodes in the series previously, though from a narrative perspective. This time around I want to go back and put certain topics in the spot light, allowing us to explore them a little deeper. For our first episode around the Greco-Persian War theme I want to look at where the Greeks and Persians first made contact. This will take us back some 50 years before the Ionian Revolt where the Anatolian Greeks would first encounter the Persian Empire. We will look at this period before then looking at the first reported contacts with the Persians by the Spartans and Athenians.

Fresh Youtubery

• Catullus 69 in Latin & English: Noli admirari, quare tibi femina nulla, Rufe – YouTube | David Amster
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• SAA2023. Talk in honor of my dad, Harold Dibble. – YouTube | Flint Dibble
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• Bloody Histories: Uncovering Menstrual Practices in the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color

Book Reviews

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Dramatic Receptions

• Medea- A Greek Tragedy- Megan Norquoy TLA | This Is Local London
• Theatre review: Medea (Soho Place) and Phaedra (National Theatre)

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Early Career Fellowships & Visiting Fellowships at the BSA
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Remembering Pliny the Elder and the first encyclopedia
• Archaeology students found dad jokes from Ancient Rome : NPR
• The Majestic Ancient Greek Theatres Of Turkey
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• Quote Origin: Death Plucks My Ear and Says “Live, for I Am Coming” – Quote Investigator®

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 good profits from grain purchased abroad.

… 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)

Hodie est Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 11 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• The Romans in Arenzano: an exceptional archaeological discovery – Cronache Ponentine
• The Headless Statue of a ‘Roman Emperor’ Is Seized from the Met – The New York Times
• Qasr Bshir: Conserving a special Roman fort…
• Who ruled ancient Egypt after King Tut died? | Live Science

In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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• Nuntii Latini mensis Martii 2023 – Bremen Two
• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Public Facing Classics

• Pens, pets and palace protocols | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Weekend Reading: The Autism In Our Midst – Classical Studies Support
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Live by the Good Old Standards
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Adverbs in -ως in Documents of Graeco-Roman Egypt
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Collectors Beware: Unpapered Ukrainian Cultural Property Could be Subject to Confiscation
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• March 2023 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Scholarships in Classical Studies for UK Schoolteachers | Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Ancient People of Tel Hazor – Biblical Archaeology Society
• April 1st | Fastorum Liber Quartus: Aprilis – by M.
• Study shows osteological evidence of severed hands in Ancient Egypt | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Study records 2,000 years of ancient graffiti in Egypt | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Metamorphoses 8.155-168

Fresh Podcasts

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Extremely Strained and Incredibly Forced: Altered Carbon (2018), with Jeremy Swist on Apple Podcasts

Upload your stacks and get ready to get spun back up because we’re taking on the labors of Netflix’s cyberpunk action noir Altered Carbon. Super special guest Methuselah and Metal Classicist Jeremy Swist pitches to the Reception Police™ his idea on future super-soldier Takeshi Kovacs being a reception of the mighty Heracles. We get into this show’s genre roots, the motivations of (anti-)heroes, the archaeology of spinning the dead back up and – in true Platonic fashion – the nature of the soul. It’s Plotinus meets Philip K Dick. Verdict: you cannot disembody the embodied body.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA246 – Can AI help translate ancient manuscripts? on Apple Podcasts

Mark, one of our patrons, wonders if Murray sees a place for AI in helping to translate ancient manuscripts. Could AI step up to help with this and help sort and categorise through keywords, names, etc.

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• Palatine: An Alternative History of the Caesars by Peter Stothard review — how to get ahead in ancient Rome

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Instructional Professor (open rank) in Latin and Greek and Language Program Coordinator The University of Chicago: Humanities Division: Department of Classics
• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies Position ID: MIT-Program in Ancient and Medieval Studies-LECTURER [
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Was Nefertiti Egypt’s Leading Lady Before King Tut? | Discover Magazine

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends civil discord and the crumbling of fortunes.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends justice bringing prosperity to good people and little to evil people.

… 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)