Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Lots of shoes from 2,000 years ago and an ancient Roman shoe workshop discovered near a canal. It was a supply chain – Stile Arte
- A 2,000-Year-Old Gold Greek Stater Just Fetched $6 Million at Auction, Making It the Most Expensive Ancient Coin Ever Sold
- Alderney dig uncovers potential Bronze Age skeleton – BBC News
- Romans, lend me your shears: empire brought hair removal to Britain, says English Heritage | Roman Britain | The Guardian
- They came, they saw, they tweezed: ‘manscaping’ traced back to Romans
- Carlisle Cricket Club yields yet more incredible Roman history | News and Star
- ‘Finds of a lifetime’ – Two Roman carved heads unearthed at archaeological dig in Carlisle | ITV News Border
- Socrates Found Not Guilty in NHM Mock Trial
- Art cops uncover archaeological-relic-trafficking ring – English – ANSA.it
- L’Aquila, 95 ancient coins seized by the TPC unit of the Carabinieri: one person under house arrest – The capital
- Russians loot museum reserve “Tauric Chersonesos”
In Case You Missed It
- Bar Kochba Era Sarcophagi Uncovered in Vandalized Galilee Cave | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 3 Sivan 5783 – May 23, 2023 | JewishPress.com
- Israel Police save unique Bar Kochba revolt coffins from grave robbers – The Jerusalem Post
- The Heartbreak of Herpes in Mesopotamia: Was It Caused by the Emergence of Kissing? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Egypt denies sending sarcophagus lids to Israel for examination – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
- 2,000-year-old stone receipt discovered in Jerusalem | Live Science
- Greece Will Recover 351 Looted Antiquities From Art Dealer Robin Symes – ARTnews.com
- Vatican Restorers Are Working to Bring a Colossal Roman Sculpture of Hercules Back to Its Golden Glory
- New Insights on What Ancient Greek Sounded Like
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- The picture problem | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- What Greek mythology teaches us about women’s resistance and rebellion
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Consigning Aristophanes to Oblivion
- Laudator Temporis Acti: One Mule Scratches Another
- Such Unexpected Pain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Amphitheater Map and Data Browser
- De Donau – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: An Unanswered Prayer
- Distracting Puzzles and Life’s One Trick – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Cyril and Methodius Day: the earliest known Cyrillic text?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Roman-era burial cave destroyed by house-building
Other Blog-like Publications
- Repatriation of 36 Cypriot antiquities from Australia
- Ancient hot-water bottles at the National Archaeological Museum
- Shipwrecked cargo containing Roman-era marble artefacts discovered in Israel | The Past
- 5 Mystery Religions of Ancient Greece
- US returns over 80 antiquities to Cyprus – The Archaeology News Network
- May 24 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
- 24 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Arpinum)
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
A new report on Iron Age temples in Jordan has us puzzled. How different are the cults to national gods and their shrines on both sides of the Jordan River, you know, really? And if a Moabite walked into a Judean bar, would you know? Watch us go from a very small building to huge questions about world religions!
This week Jeff and Dave take a look at the 5 canons of classical rhetoric, and how it is that great orators like Aeschines, Demosthenes, and Cicero gave their speeches to such successful effect. Was it nature? Were these men endowed with towering genius and preternatural giftedness? Yes, of course. Or was it nurture? Did they write speeches according to a fixed and carefully honed set of formulae? Yes, of course. This wide-ranging discussion has plenty of the nitty-gritty of the exordium, collocatio, etc., but we also look at some of the broader issues of what makes human communication effective – or not. You won’t want to miss this one, especially if you are a teacher or practitioner of rhetoric. And as Aristotle explains, that’s all of us.
Fresh Youtubery
- 61. Crispus – Unexpected Executions – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
- About the Philosopher Plato: Interview with Robin Waterfield – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
- Topography and social change: the late antique Campus Martius and its environs by Carlos Machado – YouTube | British School at Rome
- THIS… IS… SPARTA’S… AFTERMATH!!! #short – YouTube | Extra History
- A truly classics problem. #homer #poetry #greekmythology #ancientgreece #ancienthistory #shorts – YouTube | Moan Inc.
Book Reviews
xxx
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Ancient Medicine Conferences – Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine Conference- Organised by the University of Exeter
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- What is the function of these mysterious ancient Roman dodecahedrons? | Boing Boing
- GRAMMAR DOG: Are Latin phrases still in use? | News | tahlequahdailypress.com
- Cleopatra’s Daughter: Prisoner, Survivor, and Queen
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 evils of such greatness that people will die when they hear about them.
… 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)
rogueclassicism 