Hodie est a.d. III Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 23 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Roman bricks and coins lead to bigger discovery in Switzerland. See the photos
• Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections
• Stunning Mosaic of Trojan Hero Aeneas Unearthed in Turkey
• Mosul Museum reveals new look after IS destruction – BBC News
• Greek PM seeks ‘innovative’ solution to decades-old Parthenon Sculpture dispute with British Museum | AP News
• We want win-win solution on Elgin Marbles, says Greek PM
• Walk in a field and find a gold coin of the cruciform lightning, dating from 60-20 BC – Stile Arte
• Scholars expound on Mount Ebal curse tablet with oldest Hebrew text – JNS.org
• Tarquinia: the Roman city to discover | Newtuscia Italy
• Iranian farmers grew rice some 3,000 years ago, archaeologists find – Tehran Times
• Archaeologists discover ‘exceptionally rare find’ on Cockermouth site | Times and Star
• Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules statue struck by lightning – ABC News
• Vatican experts uncovering gilded glory of Hercules statue struck by lightning | eKathimerini.com

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Greek healing temple in Trikala to be restored – Greek Herald
• Iron Age and Ancient Roman Pottery Found by Metal Detectorist in Wales – ARTnews.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary: George Pepe, expert on Roman history and political theory, 83 – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis
• Ludwig Koenen Obituary
• Remembering Prof. Em. Jane F. Gardner (1934-2023) | Classics at Reading

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 13.05.2023 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• My favourite view in the world | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
• Mary Beard on the Search for Cleopatra’s Daughter – The Atlantic

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Selfishness
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Bene Mutoniatus
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Honoring the Unworthy
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Oaths
• PaleoJudaica.com: A peer-review article on the Mount Ebal tablet
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’or des descendants d’Hercule. Les peuples de la région du Kouban du VIe s. av. n. è. IIIe de n. è
• Janzur – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Chatting in Aramaic at the Coronation
• PaleoJudaica.com: 10 artifacts in the Bible Lands Museum
• Collections: Who Were ‘the Celts’ and How Did They (Some of Them) Fight? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Ausonius: A detail in the manuscript transmission of Sidonius
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Epicureans and Christians
• Dude, Stop Thinking About Tomorrow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: When My Life Is Over
• The Stargazer: Archaeology, Classics and Contemporaneity – Everyday Orientalism

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Overview of Thucydides’ Peloponnesian War Book 1 – The Kosmos Society
• CAC Survey on Annual Conference Format/Sondage de la SCEC sur le format de la conférence annuelle sans titre – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• In response to scandals and stolen art seizures, the Met plans to scour its own collections for looted artifacts – ICIJ
• The mythical hero of Troy and Rome Aeneas’s peerless mosaic discovered in Türkiye – Arkeonews
• May 13 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• Late Roman watchtower discovered on Swiss border | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• 2,000-Year-Old Iron Age and Roman Treasures Found in Wales Could Point to an Unknown Roman Settlement – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists analyse remains of Roman purse found in Merida | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Columned building containing large amounts of flour found at ancient Metsamor | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Sulla: The Story of Rome’s Lucky Dictator

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.311-324
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.433-446
• @DocCrom on coin depictions of the Temple of Mars Ultor

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: Here Comes the Rage Again: Aeneid XII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 120) on Apple Podcasts

Well ladies and gentlemen, this podcast within a podcast has finally come to an end: Jeff and Dave, at long last (denique, tandem, demum) have reached the final episode on the Aeneid. We start out by looking at how the end of the Iliad and the end of the Aeneid compare, verge off into some Shakespearean and Miltonian digressions, recite some beautiful Latin poetry, talk about Annie Lennox, and round it all off with a look at interpretive possibilities from a wide range of 20th century scholars. These include: Bowra, Elllingham, Brooks, Lewis, Parry, Putnam, and Commager. Who is correct in their interpretation of the Aeneid? When the ancients said that Vergil’s twin purposes were to “rival Homer” and “praise Augustus all the way back to his ancestors”, were they correct? Or is the man from Mantua up to something quite different and more subtle? Should we go with the revisionist interpretation – adopting Jeff’s maxim “the Romans were wrong”– or side with the traditional school? Pull up your can of Campbell’s Soup, make your way to your own Fortress of Solitude, and settle in for a rip-roaring interpretive ride.

Fresh Youtubery

• CHS Kosmos Society Online Open House | Kyriaki Ioannidou – YouTube
• ETRU a Cultura Cavallo 8 maggio 2023 – YouTube
• (Full Episode) Who Were the Greeks| Episode 1 | BBC Select – YouTube
• Chaste/Castle #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• What a perfect ambush looks like Hannibal’s masterclass at Trebia against the Roman army – YouTube | History Marche
• Giusto Traina on Media and Armenia in Herodotus’ list of satrapies – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• A Detailed Summary of The LIBATION BEARERS (The Choephoroi) by Aeschylus – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Graphic Novel in LATIN (live in Italian!) w/ ORIGINES PICTAE | polýMATHY pódCAST #20 – YouTube
• Lemuria 2/3 – A Haunted House based on the Mostellaria by Plautus – Latin – YouTube | Magister Craft
• Daily Life of a Roman Scout – How to Plan a Recon Mission? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Marriage in the Ancient Roman Empire – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• BREAKING NEWS: Mt. Ebal Curse Tablet UPDATE (w/ Scott Stripling) – YouTube | Dr. Sean McDowell
• The Lost Texts of Ancient Greece – YouTube | Lady of the Library
• The AP Interview: Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis seeks ‘innovative’ deal for Marbles – YouTube
• Ancient Hebrew Curse Reveals True Name of God! – Archaeologist Scott Stripling finds Curse Tablet – YouTube
• Bettina Joy de Guzman. Ancient Greek Music (part 1). CCA South Spring Conference at CSU Long Beach. – YouTube
• Armand D’Angour. Ancient Greek Music. CCA South Spring Conference, at CSU Long Beach – YouTube

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Karl Baughman, Brook Poston, Parallel lives: Romans and the American founders. London; New York: Routledge, 2022.
• L’or des descendants d’Hercule. Les peuples de la région du Kouban du VIe s. av. n. è. IIIe de n. è | Spartokos a lu
• Atalanta by Jennifer Saint review – the mesmerising story of the only female argonaut | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT

Exhibition Related Things

• Luxury and power: Persia to Greece exhibition review, British Museum | The Week UK

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• DAI Athen: Sommerfest 2023 (hybrid) – Groundcheck
• Seminar/webinar (26 May): Greek Coinage Online. An Introduction to the ARCH Portal | L’Antiquité à la BnF
• Curating Freud’s Antiquity: Object, Idea, Desire – Freud Museum London
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Contractually Limited 9.5 month Term Appointment, Assistant Professor in Classics Acadia University
• Full-Time Lecturer in Latin/Classics – Department of Classics | Academic Careers | Case Western Reserve University
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• “You are Cursed by the God YHW:” an early Hebrew inscription from Mt. Ebal | Heritage Science | Full Text

Alia

• The Greatness of Alexander | James Hankins | First Things
• Sparta: The Only Ancient Greek City with No Defensive Walls
• Abortion in the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman World – TheTorah.com
• The Diet of Ancient Greek Olympian Athletes
• Why Is Venus De Milo Missing Her Arms? » Science ABC

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  a rise in river waters and diseases for humans.

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a war in the East and major shortages.

… 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. IV Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

[in catchup mode … more tomorrow]

In the News

• Declassified documents on Parthenon Marbles reveal rift between UK government and British Museum
• Ancient Roman coin found with metal detector in Poland | Miami Herald
• Copper artifacts reveal changing connections in prehistoric Europe
• Spell It: How ancient Egyptians were masters of iron, long before it was even discovered | Play – Gulf News
• Piazza della Repubblica, the Roman Tergeste re-emerges. The surprising discovery – TRIESTE.news

In Case You Missed It

• Roman fortlet rediscovered on Scotland’s Antonine Wall | The Past
• An International Effort to Tackle Antiquities Trafficking Seized More Than 11,000 Stolen Artifacts Across Europe Last Year
• Metropolitan Museum sets plan to probe collections for looted art | eKathimerini.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Pompeii Conservationist Stefania Giudice on Resurrecting the Past – ARTnews.com
• Investigating Iberian roman cities – The Portugal News
• Obituary: George Pepe, expert on Roman history and political theory, 83 – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DE DIURNARIIS Praeconum obitus 
• Akropolis World News ~ Ἡνωμένον Βασίλειον
• Ephemeris ~ NOVA PETITIO AB ISRAEL Bellum aërium inter Israelianos et Palaestinos

Public Facing Classics

• Happy ancient Roman Mother’s Day | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne
• King Charles and the implications of oaths | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Kolchians, Heniochians, Drillians, and others: Arrian on his journey along the Black Sea coast near the Caucasus mountains (ca. 131-132 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Dionysios of Alexandria’s poetic Guide to the Inhabited World (117-138 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Circumnavigation authors: A guide to voyage literature on this site | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Iberians and others: Avienus on a journey along the southern coast of Spain (mid-fourth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• PaleoJudaica.com: Shootings near the Djerba synagogue in Tunisia
• PaleoJudaica.com: Funding approved for development of Samaria/Sebastia
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Greek Particles
• Military honors? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New from the Institute for the Study of Ancien Cultures: ISACS 14. Seen Not Heard: Composition, Iconicity, and the Classifier Systems of Logosyllabic Scripts
• Praising Plato, by the Poet Aristotle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reciprocity, Truth, & Gender in Pindar and Aeschylus
• Trampling Snakes – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Een muntschat uit de Vlaamse Ardennen – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Horatii Entering Rome, By Adrian van Stalbemt (c. 1580-1662) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Many Mates Of Zeus | The Historian’s Hut
• De slag bij Telamon (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• De slag bij Telamon (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Cotton, Roman rule and Jewish life
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Evils
• Every Age a Clodius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De slag bij Telamon (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Moral Character of the Swine
• Casualizing Academic Research | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: AES AETERNUM: Die Restaurierungsgeschichte der Bronzen aus Berlins Antikensammlung
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Travailler à l’ombre du temple: Activités de production et lieux de culte dans le monde antique
• The History Girls: Just how Depraved was Ancient Rome? By L.J. Trafford
• Hoard of Roman Republic denarii on display – The History Blog
• Jordan Peterson Does Not Understand Ancient Languages – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Marketingtaal – Mainzer Beobachter
• Murder on the Nile – Papyrus Stories
• Happiness Can’t Make You Happy! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Recreating Ancient Spectacle – Thoughts on Les Grands Jeux Romains

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• „disiecta membra“: Ein neues Langzeitforschungsvorhaben zur römischen Steinarchitektur in Deutschland – crossing borders – building contacts
• The View Through the Camera. Photography in Archaeology – DAİstanbul

Other Blog-like Publications

• A new app brings the Acropolis to life
• The Battle of Plataea: A Decisive Victory that Changed History
• Does the Mesha Stele Really Reference the Dynasty of King David of the Bible? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Late Roman watchtower discovered on Swiss border | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Neoplatonism: How Does it Relate to Plato?
• Staging of religion on rock paintings that are thousands of years old in southern Egypt desert – Arkeonews
• May 12 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• May 11 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• Plato Solved Social Media’s Problem With Meanness 2,000 Years Ago
• 11 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
• 11th May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Lanuvium) from Cicero (at dinner with Vestorius)
• ANE Today – The Maritime Transport of Sculptures in the Ancient Mediterranean
• Rome and the Coinages of the Mediterranean Conference: Part II
• The mythical hero of Troy and Rome Aeneas’s peerless mosaic discovered in Türkiye – Arkeonews

Fresh Podcasts

• Freakonomics Radio: 542. Is a Museum Just a Trophy Case? on Apple Podcasts

The world’s great museums are full of art and artifacts that were plundered during an era when plunder was the norm. Now there’s a push to return these works to their rightful owners. Sounds simple, right? It’s not. (Part 2 of “Stealing Art Is Easy. Giving It Back Is Hard.”)

• The Ancients: Messalina: Empress of Rome on Apple Podcasts

In this episode of The Ancients, host Tristan Hughes speaks with historian Honor Cargill-Martin about the notorious Empress Messalina, third wife of Emperor Claudius. A lot has been said about Messalina over two millennia: that she was a nymphomaniac who organised orgies and engaged in prostitution, even going so far as to work as a prostitute in the streets of Rome, or had sex with 25 men in 24 hours, are just a few examples. Cargill-Martin sheds light on the political and social climate of ancient Rome during Messalina’s reign and how she was a complex figure who deserves a more nuanced understanding.

• The Partial Historians: The Tenacious Tempanius on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to 423 BCE and your introduction to the one and only Sextus Tempanius! You may not know his name just yet, but we’re pretty sure you’ll be as impressed with him as we are. Suffice it to say, 423 BCE is one of the more interesting and dramatic years of the decade….

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Why Javelins? on Apple Podcasts

Robert asks, ‘Why javelins? It seems that a bow would be a much better weapon for a skirmish in the ancient world, but it seems that javeLin armed light troops may have been the most common type in Europe. Additionally, if using javelins, why not an atlatl to throw them with? This would make a difference in hitting a target, but one has to believe that range would be an important factor while skirmishing.’

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCIX – A Diminished Rome on Apple Podcasts

While much of the Roman Empire was lost during the rule of Gallienus, We don’t really know how much of that is his fault, or really get a sense of his reign. Was he responsible for the loss of territory, or was he just a victim of the time? Part IV of ‘Gallienus’ Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).

• Tides of History: The Birth of Rome on Apple Podcasts

Rome eventually became the heart of one of the largest and most powerful empires the world has ever known, but in the beginning, it was just a collection of villages on the Tiber River. How those villages merged and became a city, then a state, is one of the crucial stories in human history.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book VII on Apple Podcasts

Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 7, translated by Brookes More. It’s time for none other than MEDEA and Jason… and some other happenings including a hint of Theseus and the little Myrmidon ants.

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Milinda Hoo, Eurasian localisms: towards a translocal approach to Hellenism and inbetweenness in central Eurasia, third to first centuries BCE. Oriens et Occidens, 41. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Anna Magdalena Blomley, A landscape of conflict? Rural fortifications in the Argolid (400–146 BC). Abingdon: Archaeopress, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Dickinson Summer Latin Workshop 2023: Navigatio Brendani | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Dickinson Digital Latin Workshop July 12-15, 2023 | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Conventiculum Dickinsoniense 2023 | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Dickinson Summer Greek Workshop 2023: Plutarch, Bravery of Women | Dickinson College Commentaries

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Academic employee (f/m/d) in Classical Philology: Greek Literature
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Ancient Egyptian tablet is an “attendance sheet” listing excuses for missing work | Boing Boing
• Queen Cleopatra: 8 Reasons Why She Was Such a Powerful Ruler
• The Story of Oedipus: The Most Tragic of All Greek Myths
• The Mystery of the Ancient Greek Statues Found in Italy

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 destruction 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)

Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 20 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Female Figurines Sheltered by Boar Tusks Discovered in Ukraine Cave – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Address book owned by Howard Carter naming Tutankhamun backer Earl of Carnarvon | Daily Mail Online
• UK hands back 6,000 antiquities borrowed from Iraq 100 years ago
• After Seizures, the Met Sets a Plan to Scour Collections for Looted Art – The New York Times
• Remembering Champollion – Culture – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• Italy begins to reckon with Fascist-era colonial collections | AP News
• Alla scoperta del passato dell’antica Akragas – QdS
• Great moment for Italian archaeology, says culture minister – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
• Immaculate 2,000-year-old carvings of ‘true beauty’ found buried in Wales – Wales Online
• Is the curse of the mummy REAL? Archaeologist suffers mystery illness after opening Egyptian tomb | Daily Mail Online
• Çanakkale: Where ancient Troy sits beside the modern city | CNN
• Declassified documents on Parthenon Marbles reveal rift between UK government and British Museum

In Case You Missed It

• A California Man Repatriated 30 Ancient Artifacts He Found in His Father’s Cupboard After Reading a Viral Article About Repatriation
• Egypt recovers 4 historic artifacts from Italy
• Buddha in the land of the pharaohs: 2,000-year-old statue of Siddhartha Gautama discovered in Egypt | Culture | EL PAÍS English

Classicists and Classics in the News

• News – AIA Member Dr. Thomas Palaima Elected to Academy of Arts and Sciences – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News
• Professor Emerita Jenifer Neils awarded the Hovorka Prize for contributions to classical studies The Daily

Public Facing Classics

• Roman temple thought to be dedicated to Mars could actually have been used to worship many gods – expert explains
• Cleopatra’s skin colour didn’t matter in ancient Egypt – her strategic role in world history did
• One Of Rome’s Most Devastating Military Defeats Was Masterminded From Within

Fresh Bloggery

• Sad About Other People’s Riches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Zeugma Belkis Bullae – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Lemuria, Lemures, Lemur | Greek Myth Comix
• Lemuria, Lemures, Lemur | Greek Myth Comix
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Community and Identity in the Roman Seventh Legion
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PERAIA project: Landscapes, Networks, and Society along the ancient Libyan sea
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bone Rules Catalogue
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cyprus_Settlements: Cyprus Settlement Database v1.0.0
• Thorvaldsen’s Coins? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Escape Politics and Have Lunch on Your Own Time – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 7,000-year-old road found under Adriatic – The History Blog
• Militaire termen in het Gallisch – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Quasi-Riddles in Plautus
• Feeding the Stomach, Feeding the Mind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Insistence on Accuracy

Other Blog-like Publications

• Late Pharaonic and Early Christian finds located in Meir
• Battle of Thermopylae: History, Facts, and Location
• The Stone Bodies Of Pompeii Aren’t What You Think | IFLScience
• Cosmic Rays Reveal Mystery Chamber From Ancient Greece | Discover Magazine

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.83-94

Fresh Podcasts

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: The Little Tavern at Lagash, or, The Real Craft [and Beer] Revolution? on Apple Podcasts

The discovery of a tavern at Early Dynastic Lagash has us asking questions. Who drank there, who ran the joint, and how did you pay come to mind, along with the obvious problems of drunks and pickled eggs. With a special shoutout to wise bartenders everywhere from Siduri to Sam Malone!

Fresh Youtubery

• Ancient Roman Society and Social Order – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• #WCCWiki Report 2023 Victoria Leonard WCC AGM 2023 – YouTube | WCC UK
• Ancient Conspiracies: The Hunt For Cleopatra’s Truth | The Last Mystery Of Cleopatra | Timeline – YouTube
• The Sacred Band of Thebes  #ancientgreece #greekmythology #ancienthistory #shorts #queerhistory – YouTube
• CLEOPATRA (FULL DOCUMENTARY) – YouTube | Curtis Ryan Woodside

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Andrew Shortland, Patrick Degryse, When art isn’t real: the world’s most controversial objects under investigation. Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ James McNamara, Victoria Emma Pagán, Tacitus’ wonders: empire and paradox in ancient Rome. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Life in Ancient Nubia: Bioarchaeological Perspectives
• Seventh Sir Jeremy Morse Lecture – Prof. Katherine Harloe Tickets, Thu 11 May 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
• Madeline Miller at the Department of Greek and Latin, UCL Tickets, Thu 11 May 2023 at 17:00 | Eventbrite
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Research Associate, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Department of Egyptian Art
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Pericles’ Funeral Oration: The Greatest Speech in History
• Aristotle on Leisure | Psychology Today
• How Hannibal Crossed the Alps (With Elephants)
• Scientists Create AI to Translate Ancient Akkadian Cuneiform
• Calypso, from myth to music – The New European

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 storms, heavy rain, flooding of rivers, and a flourishing of lizards and reptiles.

… 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. VII Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Police find ex-MPs illegal collection of antique swords, armour, and other artifacts worth millions
• Restoration at Muğla’s ancient ‘city of gladiators’ continues | Daily Sabah
• US man returns antiquities to Italy after reading Guardian report on looted relics | Heritage | The Guardian
• 7,000-year-old tomb in Oman holds dozens of prehistoric skeletons | Live Science
• Ukrainian nationalists battle archaeologists over burial mound excavations
• Arrests Made in Greece Amid Crackdown on Illegal Building on Islands – ARTnews.com
• Tree Rings Hint at the Fall of the Hittite Empire – Eos
• Byzantine And Late Period Relics Uncovered In Meir Necropolis In Assiut
• Mummified Dogs in Ancient Egypt: Were They Pets, Sacrifices or Wolves? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Israel to turn biblical Sebastia into archaeological park – JNS.org

In Case You Missed It

• Museum Workers Have Stumbled on 2,000 Missing Fragments of a Roman Wall Painting While Restoring an Ancient Theater
• In pic: Egypt handed over four rare Egyptian artifacts from Italy – EgyptToday
• Oxford archaeologists find Roman military camps in northern Arabia using Google Earth – Cherwell
• Archaeologists in Britain Have Uncovered New Sections of a Roman Barricade That Guarded London 2,000 Years Ago

Public Facing Classics

• The coronation high spot for the bookish | Blog post by Mary Beard
• Mothers’ lives in ancient Greece were not easy – but celebrations of their love have survived across the centuries

Fresh Bloggery

• Gods Save the Kings! | The Second Achilles
• Leaving, Forgetting Troy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Praying Postures – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Roma’s Triple Crested Helmet – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Swaddling – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitale Altertumswissenschaften: Thesen und Debatten zu Methoden und Anwendungen
• Seated Roma (again) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Revisiting Italic and Roman Portraiture – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Country East of the Asterisk
• Museum acquired Roman bronze vessel hoard – The History Blog
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Standing Up
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lag B’Omer 2023
• PaleoJudaica.com: Introduction to Carbon-14 dating
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Divine Laughter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Warning to Charlatans

Other Blog-like Publications

• Hoard of Roman bronze vessels from Wilcot
• Three antiquities repatriated to Yemen
• Translating Cuneiform with AI – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Underwater Archaeologists Discover a 7,000-Year-Old Road in Croatia – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists discover submerged road from the Neolithic period | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• May 9 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• 9 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Pompeii)
• Ancient Egyptian figurines depicting Osiris found in Poland | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.61-72

Fresh Podcasts

• Raising Standards: 2.08: A Necessary Fiction on Apple Podcasts

Octavian pushes back against promiscuity and the tenuous alliance with Mark Antony finally unravels, over both women and money. Both Vorenus and Pullo lose everything they hold dear, and the stage is finally set for a showdown in Alexandria.

• Live from Mount Olympus: Atalanta 4: “I love that you call these human girls ‘little bears!” on Apple Podcasts

Artemis and Athena think Atalanta is ready to meet the Arktoi – the young followers Artemis calls “little bears.” Atalanta teaches the girls to hunt and fish and the ways of the wild, and is surprised by how much she starts to enjoy their company. When the Arktoi return home to their families, Atalanta realizes she needs to learn more about the human world, and strikes out on her own. But danger lurks in the forest. Combining the artistry of foremost contemporary theater-makers with the timeless stories of Greek myth and the imaginative power of audio, Live from Mount Olympus is an adventure for tweens and their grownups.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Just a Nice Young Man From a Nice Family, Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannos (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

Freud didn’t know sh*t.

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a plague outbreak, but not a life-threatening one

… 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. VIII Id. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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Welcome to Satura Lanx, upper beginner / intermediate podcast told in beginner-friendly, easy spoken Latin. Every other Saturday I chat about everything concerning Latin (literature, language, culture), my own life and reflections and the questions you’ll ask me.

• Ad Navseam: Duel Unto Others: Aeneid XII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 119) on Apple Podcasts

This week, Jeff and Dave get back to the Aeneid after a brief, Tarzanian hiatus. As the epic nears its end, we witness the intense and interesting interplay between Turnus and the titular hero. Aeneas seems quite secure in his fate, but still he begins the move from representing civilization to savagery. Turnus, on the other hand, ricochets between the poles of Hector and Achilles: sometimes cruel and bloodthirsty, other times sympathetic and winsome. What does Vergil really want us to think about these hulking war machines? Why does Lavinia blush? What’s gotten into Amata? And most importantly, why won’t Jeff mow his lawn? These questions and more we will seek to answer over the course of 70 tedious, grueling minutes. Still, you might just find this episode the bees’ knees.

• The Ancients: Alexander The Great’s Sex Life on Apple Podcasts

This episode contains references and words of a sexual nature. Did Alexander the Great and the Queen of the Amazons really have sex for 13 days solid? What do we know about his male lovers? And how did his sex life stand up to that of his dad’s? Today, the guest is our very own Tristan Hughes, interviewed by Kate Lister, host of the History Hit podcast Betwixt The Sheets.

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: Knossos on Apple Podcasts

The legend of the Minotaur and its labyrinth has captivated us for centuries, but is there any evidence of it really existing? In this episode, Tristan visits the Ashmolean museum in Oxford to interview Dr. Andrew Shapland, the curator of a new exhibition exploring the Bronze Age settlement of Knossos in Crete – the home of the mythical King Minos, the Minotaur and the labyrinth. Together they explore ancient artefacts that hint at human sacrifices being carried out, and find out through archaeological evidence if there is any truth behind the myths.

• History of the World podcast: Unscripted (51) ( Retrospective special ) on Apple Podcasts

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• History of the World podcast: Vol 2 Ep 28 – Indo-European languages on Apple Podcasts

7000 BCE onwards – Proto-Indo-Europeans are believed to have spoken a language ancestral to over four hundred languages of the modern world.  Why do we believe this when there is no firm evidence of a Proto-Indo-European language though?

Fresh Youtubery

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• Bodies in motion: Experiencing the sacred in ancient Greece, the case of Ancient Karthaia, Kea – YouTube | British School at Athens
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Book Reviews

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Dramatic Receptions

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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

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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 bad things for the common 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)