Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
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- ‘Ancient’ vase repatriated from UK to Greece faces fresh forgery claim | Greece | The Guardian
- A ‘5th-Century’ Vase, One of the 351 Artifacts Recently Repatriated to Greece, Is a Known Fake, Says a Forensic Archaeologist
- Why Israel’s Archaeologists Want to Stop Digging – Haaretz Magazine – Haaretz.com
- Ancient Greek coin sells for record price at Swiss auction | eKathimerini.com
- Strada romana, tomba, sotterranei e una locanda di 2000 anni fa trovati nell’area della via Cassia che ospiterà distributore di benzina – Stile Arte
- FOTO / Mosaici e pavimenti di una domus trovati negli scavi di via Sant’Antonio – emmelle.it
- 2,000-year-old Romano-British jug unearthed near Peterborough – CambsNews
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- Two looted antiquities seized in New York will be returned to Iraq
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Classicists and Classics in the News
- Dr. Jaromir Malek (1943-2023) | Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
- Aldrete publishes new book on Roman movies – Inside UW-Green Bay News
- History of Art Professor Emeritus Robert Ousterhout dies at 73 | The Daily Pennsylvanian
- LMH Alumna Publishes Biography of Roman Empress | Lady Margaret Hall
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Stargazer | Sphinx
- A Greek Reader by Charles Anthon | Dickinson College Commentaries
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New from the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures: SAC 1. Where Kingship Descended from Heaven: Studies on Ancient Kish
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archival Texts of the Priests of Borsippa
- Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
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- Een inscriptie uit Tyrus – Mainzer Beobachter
- Thetis Brings Weapons To Achilles, Who Is Mourning Over The Corpse Of Patroclus, by C. W. Eckersberg (c. 1783 – 1853) | The Historian’s Hut
- Pliny The Younger’s Huge Wedding Gift To A Friend’s Daughter | The Historian’s Hut
- The Wrong Monkey: Neo-Latin Anthologies
- Monumental statue heads found at Carlisle Roman bathhouse – The History Blog
- De Romeinse machtsuitbreiding – Mainzer Beobachter
- On Slavic Pottery | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- PaleoJudaica.com: A second Baron Award for Emanuel Tov
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- 25 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Arpinum)
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- Pasts Imperfect (5.25.23)
- Two monumental sculpted Roman heads unearthed in Carlisle, northern England – Arkeonews
Fresh Podcasts
An ancient clay artefact that dates back to the 6th century BCE, the Cyrus Cylinder is often considered one of the most important documents in history. Covered in Akkadian inscriptions that provide invaluable insight into the reign of Cyrus the Great – it focuses on Cyrus’s conquering of Babylon and attempts of religious restoration. So where was this irreplaceable object found, and what else does it tell us about Cyrus the Great? In this bonus episode of our Babylon mini-series, Tristan welcomes Dr Irving Finkel from the British Museum, to help decode this incredible object. Looking at the religious messages, the description of Cyrus himself, and what it tells us about Babylon – what can we learn about the Achaemenid Empire and its political legacy?
This episode we return to the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’ with a classic sword and sandal epic, Quo Vadis (1951). This film is available through many streaming platforms and we highly recommend revisiting it. In Part One of two episodes on Quo Vadis, we examine the context for the film and the plot…
When Diane Rayor was in college, a professor recommended a work by a 2600-year-old poet that changed her life. Now, after years of studying and translating the works of Sappho, the greatest woman poet in Ancient Greece, she joins Jacke for a conversation about her book Sappho: A New Translation of the Complete Works.
When Julius Caesar arrived in Egypt, he walked into a civil war between the country’s new co-rulers: Ptolemy XIII and his sister Cleopatra. The romance between Caesar and Cleopatra is one of the most epic of ancient times. But we can’t tell you that story until you understand who Cleopatra was. And to understand Cleopatra, you have to understand the political element in which she swam. In this episode, we take you from the cutthroat intrigue of the Ptolemaic court to the volatile streets of Alexandria—and from Cleopatra’s early life to the events that led her to take an extreme gamble and team up with the man who’d just conquered Rome.
Iberia is the hinge between worlds: Europe and Africa, the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. That was never more true than at the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, when a new civilization – the Tartessians – arose in southern Iberia at the meeting point of these different worlds.
Fresh Youtubery
- Aerial Archaeology in Jordan – YouTube | ArchaeologyLeiden
- Achilles & Patroclus #shorts #greekmythology #achilles #patroclus #ancientgreece – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- The Giant Dark by Sarvat Hasin #shorts #greekmythology #orpheus #eurydice #ancientgreece – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Who Was Aeschylus? And Why Is He The “Father of Greek Tragedy”? – YouTube | Moan Inc.
Book Reviews
- Emily Wilson · I have gorgeous hair: Epictetus says relax · LRB 1 June 2023
- BMCR ~ Alan Alexander Milne, Peter Stork, Winnie-the-Pooh in ancient Greek. Leiden: Primavera Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Anthony Verity, Emily Baragwanath, Xenophon. Estate management and Symposium. Oxford world’s classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- ‘Cleopatra’s Daughter’ Review: Life in Mother’s Shadow – WSJ
- BMCR ~ “Said To Be From…”: Ethics and Hidden Provenance in Long-Established Museum Antiquities Collections
Exhibition Related Things
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- ‘Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece’ Review: Trades of Imperial Taste – WSJ
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- June: LANGUAGES OF THE ANCIENT MEDITERRANEAN AND NEAR EAST | Faculty of Arts | University of Bristol
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Lecturer in Digital Classics at University of Bristol
- Postdoctoral Research Associate in Archaeology job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 341071
- Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics (Ancient History) in Rochester, NY for University of Rochester
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
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- Cleopatra’s Daughter: Prisoner, Survivor, and Queen
- Carthage was Rome’s greatest rival. Go see its side of the story.
- Five Ancient Greek Mysteries that Remain Unsolved
- Immortal Beauty: Botticelli’s Venus Trilogy | by Kim Vertue | Signifier | Medium
- Dispatch: Socrates Found Not Guilty in the Trial of the Sesquibimillennium | Third Coast Review
- The Influence of Ancient Greece on Buddhism
- How John Keats Writes a Poem: A Line-by-Line Breakdown of “Ode on a Grecian Urn” | Open Culture
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 a long-awaited rest and slackening of evils.
… 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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