Hodie est pr. Non. Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Greek/Latin News

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• Ephemeris ~ ACCUSATIO RUSSICA Eugenii Prigozhin verba 
• Akropolis World News ~ Περοῦ

Public Facing Classics

• How to manage your drink | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
• Queen Cleopatra: experts save this poorly scripted Netflix docuseries

Fresh Bloggery

• Scythians: Lucian on Anacharsis and Solon’s dialogue about the superiority of Greek customs (mid-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Indian wisdom: Alexander Polyhistor and Clement of Alexandria (VII) on the Brahmans and naked sages (first century BCE / late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Clement of Alexandria: A guide for reading ethnographic passages | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Indians: Hierokles on visiting the Brahmans (fifth century CE or earlier) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Frischlin’s Cry
• Too Much Elegance! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Frederik Ludvig Norden and his Danish Predecessors as Travellers in Egypt
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les Dessins archéologiques et topographiques de l’Egypte ancienne faits par F.L. Norden 1737-1738 et conservés à l’Académie Royale des Sciences et des Lettres de Danemark
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Publications of the Carlsberg Expedition to Phoenicia
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• Homer, Philosopher – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Skepsis (3): Sextus Empiricus – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Coronation
• Blogging ancient epigram: Readers who get it
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• Two months in Paris | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• Coronation Verses: Vivat Carolus Rex – Antigone
• The Lachish Letters – Biblical Archaeology Society
• May 6 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily

Fresh Youtubery

• Following Hadrian | An Evening With Carole Raddato | Paideia Institute x CUNY Latin/Greek Institute – YouTube
• Pax Romana or the Roman Peace Explained – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• The Battle of Suthul – The African Teutoburg (110 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Affluent Suburbs or Disenfranchised Banlieue: The Urban Edge at Nippur, Iraq – YouTube | institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
• UN FRAMMENTO ALLA VOLTA. DIECI LEZIONI DALL’ARCHEOLOGIA – YouTube | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• JCT ~ Plautus: Mostellaria (G.F.) Franko Pp. xvi + 159. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• JCT ~ The Facility and Other Texts – Re-imagining Antigone (B.) Bleiman, (A.) McCallum, (L.) Webster (edd.) Pp. 160. ills. London: English & Media Centre, 2022.
• JCT ~ Pontius Pilate on Screen: Soldier, Sinner, Superstar (C.) McDonough Pp 296, ills. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2022.
• JCT ~ Pocket GCSE Latin Etymological Lexicon (C.K.) Mackenzie Pp xii + 147, illus. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• JCT ~ Unus, Duo, Tres. Latine loquamur per scaenas et imagines (C.) Rico Pp. xviii + 275, b/w & colour ills. Jerusalem: Polis Institute Press, 2022.
• JCT ~ Aristophanes: Peace (G.) Fraser Pp. 249, Independently published, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• London exhibit delves into luxury and power in Persia, Greece relations – Tehran Times

Dramatic Receptions

• MEDEA: RE-VERSED: a Rap Adaptation of Euripedes’ MEDEA to be Presented at Red Bull Theater

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

• Lecturer Pool, Classics, Fall 2023 – Spring 2024 – HigherEdJobs
• University of Glasgow – Schools – School of Law – Research – Themes – Legal History at Glasgow – Alan Rodger Endowment – Visiting Researcher
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Layout of ancient Greek papyri through lead-drawn ruling lines revealed by Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging | Scientific Reports

Alia

• The Strongest Greek That Ever Lived
• Did the Spartans Throw Their Babies Off the Cliff?

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 crops ripening too quickly and being ruined as a result

[Sunday]  If it thunders today it portends an abundance of birds and 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. III Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Cyprus police participates in European art trafficking bust that recovered over 11,000 artefacts (PHOTOS) | in-cyprus.com
• 60 arrests made in international art trafficking crackdown – The Jerusalem Post
• King Charles’ Greek Ties Chance for Return of the Stolen Parthenon Marbles – The National Herald
• Bloomberg: The Parthenon Sculptures are not Britain’s to keep | eKathimerini.com
• Will King Charles III advocate for the return of Parthenon Sculptures? – Neos Kosmos
• Roman Artifacts Uncovered in Ismailia’s Tell El-Maskhouta | Sada Elbalad
• The Egyptian Goddess and Her Graffiti | About us
• Antiquities Ministry detects 2 Egyptian artifacts on auction in London – Egypt Independent
• Archaeologists examine Dumyat hillfort near Stirling – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• 1st-century burial holds Roman doctor buried with medical tools, including ‘top-quality’ scalpels | Live Science
• Pompeii Chariot Stars in Rome Exhibit Probing Ancient Roots (Photos) – The National Herald
• Parisian Archaeologists Have Located a Long-Lost Ancient Roman Site Buried Underneath a Train Station
• Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum In Talks To Send Back Parthenon Marble Pieces To Greece | MENAFN.COM

Classicists and Classics in the News

• FSU classicist elected National Humanities Center Fellow  – Florida State University News
• Classics Society marks ‘Floralia’ in ancient Roman style – The Saint Anselm Crier
• Thomas ROBINSON Obituary (1936 – 2023) – Toronto, ON – The Globe and Mail
• Augustana sophomore from Beardstown wins diversity award

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Words to Live By
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Where is the Cuneiform?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La bibliothèque du musée d’Anapa
• Trojan ancestry in Republican art – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Skepsis (2): Niet oordelen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Caesar in Tarsos – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bay, Biblical Heroes and Classical Culture in Christian Late Antiquity (CUP)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Children Can Choose Their Parents
• How Do I Feel About the Liberal Arts? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Lead Ruling on Herculaneum Papyri
• PaleoJudaica.com: Llewellyn-Jones, Ancient Persia and the Book of Esther (Bloomsbury)
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• KulturGutRetter (KGR): technical characteristics of a cultural heritage response unit – Kulturgutretter
• Double the Knowledge: TransPergMicro Announces Two New Publications – Pergamon Micro-Region

Other Blog-like Publications

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• May 5 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• A Little Backstory on Aphrodite and the Trojan War | by Ed Newman | May, 2023 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.29-42

Fresh Podcasts

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‘Is there today or has there been anyone trying to conduct larger-scale experimental archaeology to try and answer some of the common questions about certain infantry tactics/tropes such as the othismos and open vs closed order legions?’ Murray tells us about experimental archaeology.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 69: Pressure Builds on Apple Podcasts

Athens had now taken the decision to send aide to Corcyra after having swayed from one side of the argument to the other. However, the assistance would be limited, with it being defensive in nature. Athens would send a small force of 10 triremes to Corcyra to lend their support with the commanders being instructed they were to only engage the Corinthians if Corcyrean territory was directly threatened. This decision taken by Athens did not deter the Corinthians however, they would still set in motion the fleet that had been assembled. This would end up seeing the Corcyrean and Corinthian fleets meeting in a naval engagement known as the battle of Sybota in the waters between Corcyra and the mainland. Athens with its 10 triremes would also line up within the Corcyrean battle line where they would face the Corinthian contingent….

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Atalanta the Argonaut, Reimagining Ancient Greece’s Heroine w/ Jennifer Saint on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks to bestselling author (and now four time guest!) Jennifer Saint about the heroine Atalanta and her new novel by the same name. Follow Jennifer on Instagram and find Atalanta wherever you get your books.

Fresh Youtubery

• Oplontis di Alessandro D’alatri – YouTube | Pompeii
• WCC AGM 2023 Financial Report – YouTube | WCC UK
• ETRU a Cultura Cavallo – 1 maggio 2023 – YouTube | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• La bibliothèque du musée d’Anapa | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Francesco Verde, Peripatetic philosophy in context: knowledge, time, and soul from Theophrastus to Cratippus. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 403. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Jack J. Lennon, Dirt and denigration: stigma and marginalisation in ancient Rome. Approaches to ancient history, 1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Ugly feelings and unabated longing in ‘Electra : Haimara’ | Varsity
• Bakkhai – National Youth Theatre, London – The Reviews Hub

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

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

Alia

• Iris, the Greek Goddess of the Rainbow
• How To Teach the Classics With Graphic Novels
• “Mad Honey” Once Poisoned An Entire Roman Military Column, With Deadly Consequences | IFLScience
• Greek Lighthouses of Knowledge – CounterPunch.org

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, political hardships will be exchanged. Wheat will be more plentiful than barley, but vegetables will be ruined..

… 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 Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Ancient relics discovered on construction site in northern Iran – Tehran Times
• Brown University project is digitizing 10,000 ancient Israel inscriptions – JNS.org
• Traces of ancient life come to surface in Mobolla
• A Way for King Charles to Honor His Greek Father – Bloomberg
• Ancient Greek Healing Temple of Trikala to Be Restored
• Opinion | Why Conservatives Can’t Stop Talking About Aristotle – The New York Times

In Case You Missed It

• US hands Cyprus ancient artifacts, some 4,000 years old | eKathimerini.com
• How archaeologists reconstructed a Roman gateway to tell the story of Britain’s invasion
• Roman ruins in London get listed status | Evening Standard
• Kunsthistorisches Museum and Greece Eyeing Return of Parthenon Marbles – ARTnews.com
• Vienna’s Kunsthistorisches Museum in talks to send back Parthenon marble pieces to Greece
• Austria Will Return Two Small Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Officials Hope the Move Will Encourage Britain to Follow Suit
• Austrian museum returns Parthenon fragments to Greece, reigniting hope for repatriation of stolen Parthenon Marbles held in British Museum – Neos Kosmos
• Pompeii chariot stars in Rome exhibit probing ancient roots | AP News
• Ancient Roman-era Buddha statue discovered in Egypt – Middle East Monitor
• Ancient Roman camps from secret military mission spotted using Google Earth | Live Science
• What Queen Cleopatra really looked like – according to history
• What Did Queen Cleopatra Look Like?
• Buddha statue uncovered in Egypt’s Red Sea reveals ancient trade route – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ PETITIO RUSSICA Nova Europaea

Public Facing Classics

• Why Baroness Benjamin deserves her coronation role | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Indians: Bardaisan of Edessa on Indian ambassadors’ tales and the Brahmans (early third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Serians (Chinese), Ottorokorians and others: Pliny the Elder on the savage silk people (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• A Fake Research Proposal: An Archaeological Study of Wear Patterns and Distribution of Dog Toys in a Suburban Environment | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Recent update on the archaeology of Didyma | Turkish Archaeological News
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Confidence Gives Capacity
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Early Egyptian Travel Accounts from Late Antiquity to Napoleon
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Travels in the 19th-Century Ottoman Empire
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La peur chez les Grecs: Usages et représentations de l’Antiquité à l’ère chrétienne
• Skepsis (1): Wat is waar? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Pompeii ceremonial chariot reconstructed – The History Blog
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Fellow Greeks
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Fats
• PaleoJudaica.com: Power, The Significance of Linguistic Diversity in the Hebrew Bible (Mohr Siebeck)
• PaleoJudaica.com: SBL review panel on Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves; Carlson responds
• PaleoJudaica.com: An Akkadian translation algorithm
• Outlaw Wealth? Maybe Not – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Behind the Autistic Barricade – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
• Looting Matters: Sourcing Makron
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: The Original Language of the New Testament

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• Pasts Imperfect (5.4.23)
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• Long live the King… of Kings! Accession ritual in ancient Persia | British Museum
• The 6,000-year-old settlement found in island of Corsica – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.29-42

Fresh Podcasts

• Freakonomics Radio: 541. The Case of the $4 Million Gold Coffin on Apple Podcasts

How did a freshly looted Egyptian antiquity end up in the Metropolitan Museum of Art? Why did it take Kim Kardashian to crack the case? And how much of what you see in any museum is stolen? (Part 1 of “Stealing Art Is Easy. Giving It Back Is Hard.”)

• The Ancients: King Midas on Apple Podcasts

As Shirley Bassey once said, “He’s the man. The man with the Midas touch.” But who was the man that’s inspired stories from Greek myths to Bond bangers? In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by archaeologist and classicist Professor Brian Rose to discuss the real King Midas, ruler of the Phrygian Kingdom in West Central Turkey between 740 and 700 BCE. They delve into the two sides of Midas: the historical and the mythical, explaining the origins of the both the Golden Touch myth, and why Midas is sometimes depicted with donkey’s ears, and what we know about the real man and his kingdom based on Rose’s excavations at the site of Gordian.

• Ancient History Fangirl: The Chaotic Olympians (With Bea Fitzgerald from Chaos on Olympus) on Apple Podcasts

Help keep our podcast going by contributing to our Patreon! We’re joined today by YA romance author and Tiktok star Bea Fitzgerald, who brings Greek mythology to life on her Tiktok channel Chaos on Olympus. In this conversation, we talk about the female goddesses, monsters and heroines of Greek mythology: what makes them tick, which ones are the most fun to skewer in bite-sized video format, and the surprising queer romance hiding in monster mythology.

• Tides of History: Forgotten Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean: Interview with Professor Peter van Dommelen on Apple Podcasts

When we think of the ancient Mediterranean, our minds first turn to familiar names, such as the Greeks and Romans. Yet the ancient world was full of peoples, all of them living in sophisticated societies that were no less interesting than those we we know well. Professor Peter van Dommelen is an expert in these less traveled places of the ancient world, especially Sardinia, and how they fit into the broader world beyond.

Fresh Youtubery

• King/Genealogy #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• Intro to Ancient Greek Art – YouTube | Flint Dibble
• How did the Huns break the Roman army’s shield wall?  – YouTube | History Marche
• Who Were The Ancient Persians? LLOYD LLEWELLYN-JONES On The Age Of Great Kings – YouTube | Moan Inc.

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Hannah M. Cotton, Ofer Pogorelsky, Roman rule and Jewish life: collected papers. Studia Judaica, 89. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Michael Philip Penn, Scott Fitzgerald Johnson, Christine Shepardson, Charles M. Stang, Invitation to Syriac Christianity: an anthology. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Italy displays Pompeii chariot in Rome exhibition – Wanted in Rome
• Rome: Great Works Of Greek Museums Will Travel To The Eternal City For An Exhibition

Dramatic Receptions

• LAB explores the Greek myth of Prometheus • St Pete Catalyst
• First Look: NYT’s Bakkhai – Theatre Weekly

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Hypatia: The Female Greek Philosopher Killed for Her Beliefs
• Rabbis in the Roman public bathhouse | Princeton University Press
• Colchester’s historic events could be witnessed in VR | Gazette

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 mild weather ad plentiful crops.

… 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. V Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Austria says talks underway on returning Parthenon marbles to Greece | Reuters
• Talks under way for Austria to lend Parthenon marbles to Greece
• Emirates News Agency – Ras Al Khaimah archaeologists, U.S. university team partner to study biological effects of climate change in Bronze Age Arabia
• Ancient Israel and the Origin of Roman Glass – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• How Did Fake Antiquities End Up at a Presidential Library?
• City of London Roman wall recognised as national monument – BBC News
• Three sections of Roman wall in City of London given protected status | Roman Britain | The Guardian
• Remains of a 2,000-year-old Roman wall built to ‘seal London off from the Thames’ discovered | Daily Mail Online
• Importantissima scoperta, trovata una nuova tomba di epoca romana: a chi apparteneva
• Rare Roman phallus ring to go on display in Littlehampton – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• Excavations at an Ancient Greek Temple Have Turned Up a Wealth of Terracotta Figurines, Including a Fun One of a Love God Riding a Dolphin
• Buddha Statue Uncovered in Ancient Egyptian Port City – ARTnews.com
• 1st-century Buddha statue from ancient Egypt indicates Buddhists lived there in Roman times | Live Science
• Archaeologists discover three Roman camps in Maan using satellite imagery | Jordan Times
• CYPRUS: US Returns 80 Ancient Artifacts, Including Coins And 4,000-year-old Limestone Sculptures

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Νοτία Ἀφρική

Public Facing Classics

• Roman coronations? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
• How archaeologists reconstructed a Roman gateway to tell the story of Britain’s invasion
• Cosmic rays reveal 2,500-year-old subterranean burial in ancient Greek necropolis | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Archaic Language in Translations
• 119?! of 234: Neniae, chiasmus and other non-coin things – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• It’s Not the Hand You’re Dealt – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Survey Archaeology and Modern Greece | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The Pearl of Myth | Greek Myth Comix
• The Pearl of Myth – comic and video | Greek Myth Comix
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reconstructing the use and conception of pharaonic domestic space in Nubia: geoarchaeological investigations at Amara West (~1300–1070BC)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Sign of the Times: Administration, Agency of officials and Monumental architecture in Eighteenth Dynasty Egypt
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Post-Colonial View of Thrace: Thracian-Greek Interactions From the Early Iron Age to the Early Hellenistic Period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Shaping Houses: integrating the physical and socio-cultural in the domestic architecture of Ancient Sicily
• The Tale Of An Ancient Roman Man’s Suspicious Death And The Efforts Of His Mother To Have His Accused Murderers Prosecuted | The Historian’s Hut
• Walls of Bronze – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• De Punische Oorlogen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Retirement and Its Labors – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Togas? I’m Forum! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Intaglio gemstones lost down drain found in Roman bathhouse – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: The New Cambridge Companion to Biblical Interpretation
• PaleoJudaica.com: SBL review panel on Carlson, Unfamiliar Selves, part 4
• PaleoJudaica.com: Exhibition: the late-antique glass factory at Jalame
• Going into Exile to Save the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 216 (04/2023)  | Tulliana News

Other Blog-like Publications

• Roman military camps identified in Arabian desert
• Repatriation of over 80 antiquities to Cyprus
• Translating Akkadian to English with neural machine translation
• Ancient coins surface with Lake Iznik’s withdrawal in Türkiye – Arkeonews
• Did the Etruscans Have An Anatolian Origin?
• May 3 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• 3 May 44 BCE: To Dolabella (at Rome) from Cicero (in Pompeii)
• 3 May 44 BCE: To Cassius (at Lanuvium) from Cicero (at Pompeii)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 2.717-730
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatori 3.1-10

Fresh Podcasts

• Myths and Legends: Greek Mythology: Sad Lad on Apple Podcasts

Hephaestus has his day Who is the smith god of Olympus? Why is he married to Aphrodite, and why can’t he catch a break? This week, it’s all about Hephaestus and his journey of self discovery where he (hopefully) doesn’t fall off a mountain. Again. The creature is the Sea Hare. It’s a hare that lives in the sea and also is relentlessly vicious.

Fresh Youtubery

• Jan Haywood on Reading Herodotus – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• Maurizio Giangiulio: From Herodotus’ sources to oral tradition and social memory – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• LatinPerDiem Latin Lessons: Theodore Beza, Icones, Hus 1 – YouTube
• Poetic Allusions in Eunapius’ ‘Lives of Philosophers and Sophists’ – YouTube | SchAdvStudy
• Palatine – An Alternative History of the Caesars with Peter Stothard – YouTube } World History Encyclopedia
• What the Grecians urn: Irreverence in palimpsestic reception – YouTube | SchAdvStudy

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Beate Klein, Der bunte Roman: Der Farbgebrauch im antiken und christlichen Roman unter besonderer Berücksichtigung von Petrons Satyrica, den Metamorphosen des Apuleius und den pseudoklementinischen Rekognitionen. Altertumswissenschaftliches Kolloquium, 28. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• VITA DULCIS. Fear and desire in the roman empire | Palazzo delle Esposizioni
• Luxury and Power review: boozed-up Persians and Greeks on a 500-year bender | Art and design | The Guardian
• Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece at the British Museum review – our world looks too shabby for this stuff | Evening Standard
• Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece review — a haul of beautiful booty from the two empires
• Ancient Greek masterpieces showcased in Rome | eKathimerini.com

Dramatic Receptions

• A bold and daring adaptation of the ‘Oresteia’ | Varsity

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Did Ancient Greeks Enjoy Swimming and Going to the Beach?
• The mummy’s curse might be real — but it’s caused by a fungus – Big Think
• Roman Soldiers Found Buried In Their Own Tunnel May Have Been Killed By Chemical Warfare | IFLScience
• 25 Best Greek Mythology Books and Retellings to Read in 2023

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 abundance of imports.

… 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 Mai. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Romans Dropped Their Bling Down the Drain, Too – The New York Times
• Highway Construction in Crete Reveals Ancient Pipelines
• Austria says talks underway on returning Parthenon marbles to Greece | Reuters

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Unearth Buddha Statue in Ancient Egyptian Port City | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Searcher finds 1,700-year-old treasure trove in Romania | Bradenton Herald
• Gosbecks Archaeological Park Colchester targeted for theft | Gazette

Public Facing Classics

• Go Woke or Go Broke: A Critical Look at Netflix’s Cleopatra through the Eyes of a ‘WOG – Neos Kosmos
• The children (and men) of the Piraeus | eKathimerini.com

Fresh Bloggery

• Herodotos of Halikarnassos: A reading guide for ethnographic passages | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Agatharchides of Knidos: A reading guide for ethnographic passages | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Why Odysseus would not get tenure – The Philological Crocodile
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hittite Toponyms (HiTop)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dio Chrysostom: a Philosopher in Civic Space
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hyper-Democracy: The Politics of Aristophanes
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Religion and Rhetoric at the Courts of the Theodosians, c. 379-404 A.D.
• De “komst van de Grieken” – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 206
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Muricidus
• Biblical Studies Carnival 206 for April 2023 – Reading Acts
• Christina Rossetti, ‘When I am dead, my dearest’ (Latin elegiacs) | Permessus
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Moroccan “genizas”
• PaleoJudaica.com: Olariu, Theodotion’s Greek Text of Daniel (Brill)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Intestinal Upset

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Book Club | May 2023: Ovid Metamorphoses – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Hidden Hellenistic underground chamber detected in Naples
• Like new: a 2,300-year-old pair of scissors surprises researchers
• May 1 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• May 2 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
• 1 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
• 2 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
• Lost Roman Army Camps Discovered in Jordan – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The 6,000-year-old settlement found in island of Corsica – Arkeonews
• Roman mosaic uncovered in Buckinghamshire | The Past
• From the Cynics’ self-sufficiency to an ecology of wanking | Aeon Essays

Fresh Podcasts

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Horrible Histories: The Movie – Rotten Romans (2019), with Emma Coffey on Apple Podcasts

It’s British edu-tainment at its finest? Opinions, like empires, are divided over this movie, a raunchy comedy adapted from of a popular TV/Youtube series adapted from a popular book series. Joined by a new wonderful guest, Emma Coffey, we get into Boudica’s revolt, representation of historical women in film and Britain’s representation of its own colonial history as mediated through its ancient past. And poop jokes. All in all pretty standard fair. Is this a clever and effective way to teach history or Youtube sketch that overstayed its welcome?

• Live from Mount Olympus: Atalanta 3: “A place to escape from princely concerns?” on Apple Podcasts

Young Meleager enjoys the quiet of the forest, until his father, King Oeneus, shouts through the trees to wish him happy birthday.  They return to the palace for the festival of the first fruits, and everyone celebrates!  But they have made a terrible mistake – which places their kingdom in dire peril. 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: Slow But Steady Wins the Race, Ancient Aesop & His Fables on Apple Podcasts

Definitely not for children…

Fresh Youtubery

• Archaeology PhD students talk about their research! HAPS interviews 2023 #6 – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
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• Historical Warfare : Iphikrates Peltast – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Who were the Numidian Cavalry? #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
• WCC mentoring updates 2023 – YouTube | WCC UK
• A Detailed Summary Of The AGAMEMNON By Aeschylus – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• The Temple of Zeus at Olympia -The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Part 3 – YouTube | Dig it With Raven
• 58. Maximin Daia – Divine Justice – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Basilica Iulia I. Gli Scavi di Laura Fabbrini (1960 – 1964) – YouTube | Parco Colosseo

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Michael Feige, Landwirtschaftliche Produktionsanlagen römischer Villen im republikanischen und kaiserzeitlichen Italien. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• The Black Classicists of Central Texas | Texas Standard
• Eskenazi Museum of Art to showcase ‘Life and Legend: Storytelling and Greek Pottery’ – Indiana Daily Student

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Virtues, Happiness, and Stoicism | Psychology Today
• The Stories of Ancient Greek Heroines | The Nerd Daily
• Even The Most Recognized Ancient Greco-Roman Sculptures Once Looked Completely Different
• The Oracle of Delphi, Priestess Pythia, Who Spoke Truth to Power

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 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)