Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal.Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- How Will the Greek Election Affect the Parthenon Marbles? – The New York Times
- D.A. Bragg Returns Two Ancient Stone Figures To Iraq – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
- ‘Everything we know is wrong’: The archaeologist who’s rewriting ancient Egyptian history
- Ministry Of Culture Announces Repatriation Of 351 Antiquities And Ceramic Wares To Greece
- Hundreds of Looted Antiquities Returning to Greece
- Looted antiquities to return Greece after 17-year legal battle | eKathimerini.com
- A Roman votive head discovered during excavations in Friuli Venezia Giulia – Stile Arte
- Mosaics re-emerge towards the cryptoporticus of the Roman villa of the Monacato of Villa Eucheria in Lazio – Stile Arte
- Could Iron Age site at Sewerby have had links to Roman slave trade? | York Press
In Case You Missed It
- Evidence of bird sacrifices to the goddess Isis in ancient Roman Empire
- These Two Ancient Pompeii Victims Died in an Earthquake—Not a Volcanic Eruption | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
Classicists and Classics in the News
- National Endowment for the Humanities fellow studies ‘city of dead’ in Jordan | University Of Cincinnati
- Department of Classics hosts first in-person Homerathon in several years | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
- Media Articles – Roman temple thought to be dedicated to Mars could actually have been used to worship many gods – University of Winchester
Greek/Latin News
- Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 20.05.2023 – Vatican News
- Ephemeris ~ RUSSICORUM EFFUGIUM Ad Finniam confugere student
Fresh Bloggery
- Blog Post #81: Undergraduate Student Feature with Ellen Schlick – Peopling the Past
- Libyans, Assyrians and Arabians: Kleodemos and Josephos on Abraham and Keturah’s descendants and their many colonies (second or first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Legit Threads x Greek Myth Comix | Greek Myth Comix
- Judean wisdom: Aristoboulos on Moses and the Judean god as source for Plato and Pythagoras (mid-second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Day of Grand Intellectual Feasting
- PaleoJudaica.com: Codex Sassoon sold for $38.1M, is going to Israel
- Warhol’s Alexander | The Second Achilles
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: AELAW: Ancient European Languages And Writings
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Picturing Royal Charisma: Kings and Rulers in the Near East from 3000 BCE to 1700 CE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Liberty and Freedom of Speech
- III Gallica (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- III Gallica (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Day Nine: Masada, Arad, Mamshit, and the Dead Sea – Reading Acts
- Day Ten: En-Gedi, Qumran, and Qasr al Yahud, Jaffa – Reading Acts
- I’m Not Sorry for Taking So Long to Respond – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- An Early Israelite Curse Inscription from Mt. Ebal? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- What Does the Bible Say About Dogs? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Archaeologists find rock carved face at Benidorm’s Roman fort | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock-carved face at Spain’s Tossal de La Cala castle – Arkeonews
- May 20 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
How does an empire fall, from within or without, and would it make a good movie? Those are just some of the many questions we dig into with special guests and hosts of the Partial Historians podcast, Dr. Fiona Radford and Dr. Peta Greenfield (@p_historians), as we take on Anthony Mann’s historical epic drama Fall of the Roman Empire. We dive into the history and reception of Marcus Aurelius and Commodus, this movie’s place in the pantheon of Hollywood sword-and-sandal epics and the tension between historicity and ideology in films such as these. We also make our Gladiator 2 predictions. They should call it GLADIATOR$!
Was Rome a slave society? Did Caesar really take a million Gauls captive? And what is the real story of Spartacus? Listen as William and Anita are joined by Mary Beard to discuss slavery in Ancient Rome.
The Attalid dynasty that ruled over the city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) is the first Greek monarchy to arise outside of the Successor Kingdoms. Founded by a eunuch named Philetaerus in western Asia Minor, the Attalids went from small regional power to major player in under a generation, in part thanks to their alliance with the Roman Republic. Their smart fiscal policies and unusually stable family life allowed them to become extremely wealthy, sponsoring buildings and works of art that celebrated their role as the defenders of Greek civilization against barbarians like the Galatians.
Fresh Youtubery
- Workshop “Questioni di Bottega” – 18.05.2023 – Prima parte – YouTube | Pompeii
- Workshop “Questioni di Bottega” – 18.05.2023 – Seconda Parte – YouTube
- See For Yourself: Analyzing the Ebal “Inscription” | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube | Robert Cargill
- 19 maggio 1916 – 19 maggio 2023. 107 anni dalla scoperta dell’Apollo di Veio. – YouTube | Etruschannel
- AI vs. Classics teacher ChatGPT speaks Ancient Greek! Koine & Attic – YouTube | Polymathy
Book Reviews
- ‘The Origins of Judaism’: Finding how far back rabbinic tradition goes – The Jerusalem Post
- Cimetière Pashkovsky, n ° 1 | Spartokos a lu
- JCT ~ The Song of Achilles (M.) Miller Pp. 352. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 (first published in paperback 2017).
- JCT ~ Virgil, Aeneid XII. A Selection (J.) Burbidge (ed.) Pp. viii + 176. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Dramatic Receptions
- Skipton amphitheatre setting for reading of Homer’s Odyssey | Craven Herald
- Agamemnon has the gods on its side | Varsity
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- What Is The History Of Druids And Who Were They Really? | IFLScience
- As US-China tensions rise, the Punic wars offer a cautionary tale | South China Morning Post
- How imaging technology is recovering damaged texts and rewriting history | WBUR
- Celebrating Marriage in Ancient Israel and the Origins of Sheva Berakhot – TheTorah.com
- Was Pheidippides Just Really Unfit? | by Brunhilda Gloom | May, 2023 | Medium
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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends prosperity for those in the East, but not those in the West
[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends the need for expiation because of terrible news.
… 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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