Hodie est pr. Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Can Iraq’s Antiquities Bolster National Unity? | Opinion
- Norfolk ‘nighthawking’ detectorists targeted Roman site | Eastern Daily Press
- Byzantine Time Travel: Ancient Bird Mosaic And Greek Sigma-Shaped Treasure Unearthed
- Japanese archaeologist unearths Hittite remains – Türkiye News
In Case You Missed It
- Colosseum vandalism: Identity revealed of tourist who carved names into Rome’s iconic monument | Daily Mail Online
- Tourist from England suspected to have carved name on Colosseum wall | Italy | The Guardian
- Italian police blame couple from England for Colosseum graffiti | Reuters
- Suffolk Roman hoard found on Euston estate goes on display – BBC News
Public Facing Classics
- Backstabbers | The Spectator Australia
- Adoreum: the newly discovered flatbread fresco of Pompeii – BBC Travel
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Minor Omission
- Naval Crowns, Rostral Crowns – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Timaeus or Diodorus? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Polemic as Praise – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Milking the He-Goat: The Only Proverb You Need for a Thursday – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Digital Classics Online
- “Obverse” on Aes Grave?! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Against the Edgelords: Epicureans Rule; Stoics Drool – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: An Antiquities Factoid Examined
- Het legioen met de leeuweriken: V Alaudae (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Het legioen met de leeuweriken: V Alaudae (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Caesarea’s bird mosaic
- PaleoJudaica.com: Dating the earliest known Mishnah manuscript
- PaleoJudaica.com: CFP: International conference on Yehezkel Kaufmann
- Laudator Temporis Acti: History
- PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Ps and Qs in Mesopotamia. A Panoply Interview with Dr Ludovico Portuese of the GALATEO Project.
- Mike Anderson’s Ancient History Blog: The Kings of Rome: What is real?
- Blogging ancient epigram: Two grieving mothers
- Medusa phalera found at Vindolanda – The History Blog
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Why Translate Seneca? – Antigone
- A Visit to the Ancient Agora of Athens and the Temple of Hephaestus | by B.R. Shenoy | Digital Global Traveler | Jun, 2023 | Medium
- Bronze Age metal hoard discovered in the Swiss Alps at Roman battle site – Arkeonews
- ANE Today – Who Knew? Uncovering Unexpected Histories in the Southern Levant
- Aeneid IV.633-705 – by publius vergilius maro
- June 30 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
- June 44 BCE: To Gaius Trebatius Testa (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
- ARCHEOLOGY / A refined Hellenistic altar appears in Segesta – Stories & Archaeostories
- When in the sea of Sicily you find orichalcum ingots, the solar alloy loved by the inhabitants of Atlantis – Stile Arte
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.5.1-12
- @DocCrom on Seneca, Agamemnon 12-25
- @DocCrom on Virgil, Georgics 1.259-272
Fresh Podcasts
On this week’s episode of the Norton Library Podcast, we welcome Emily Wilson, acclaimed translator of Homer’s Odyssey and Iliad, to discuss her recent translation of Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannos. Emily Wilson is Professor of Classical Studies and Graduate Chair of the Program in Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. She has been named a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome in Renaissance and Early Modern scholarship, a MacArthur Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. In addition to Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, she has also published translations of Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca.
Join Lucy Blue as she discusses the ancient Red Sea Port of Berenike in Egypt with Steve Sidebotham, site co-coordinator. Excavations at this trading hub have been conducted since the mid-90s, discovering evidence that it was connected to extensive areas of the world and was operating for around 800 years since the 3rd century BCE. According to Steve, greed drove the extensive trade here, but success required help from the gods, and recent work has unearthed Buddhas at the Temples of Isis and Serapis. Listen to learn why headless falcons have also been found and why more remains to be discovered under the sands of the amazing site.
Welcome back to Accessible Art history: The Podcast! In this week’s episode of Metropolitan Masterpieces, I’m exploring the Marble Column from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis.
Andy has been listening to rival podcasts as points out that ‘the term assassin does not turn up until after the crusades. My understanding is there were plenty of assassinations before this. What term did the Romans use? Where these people specially trained?’
Wait a minute…this STILL sounds like rock and/or roll, or at least the synthy stuff wants to. Join Johnny Pop Winkle and Ye Olde Curmudgeon for a look at seven songs inspired by the Classics. From Abba, to Clientele, Utopia, Perfect Circle and more, you’ll get to hear Jeff’s perfect aesthetic judgment tear like a buzz saw through Dave’s carefully curated, gross ignorance of most “music” from 70s through to today. What rhymes with Lysistrata? And why not a song about Thesmophoriozusae? Should be catchy. Hey, it can’t be all discussion of translating endusted Latin tomes, grave and staid epics, the dignity of man, and so forth. Kick back, tune in, and remember, at AdNavseam, you’ve got friends in low places.
We have now reached the outbreak of the Peloponnesian war, where we saw the hostilities between Thebes and Plataea marking a point where the war would begin. Both of these city states were allied to Sparta, in Thebes case and Athens on the Plataean side. Even though preparations for war were underway already, this action would see that both Sparta and Athens would be ready for conflict since this was a blatant breach of the 30 years peace. However, before moving forward with developments, we are going to take a step back to see if we can get a better understanding of why this war would come to develop. We will first look at what Thucydides our main source says about the causes and his opinions. Remember, here it was his aim in presenting his work to make sure that all those that read it would have an understanding of the events and motivations behind this greatest of Greek conflicts….
Liv speaks with lecturer Dan Stewart about the world of Greece (Particularly Crete!) during the Roman Period.
Fresh Youtubery
- Moan Inc.
- Oh Turnus … #mythology #allecto #shorts #ancientrome #aeneid – YouTube
- Aeneas has a lot to learn … #aeneid #shorts #atlas #mythology #ancientrome – YouTube
- Enter Apollo: the god of archery #mythology #aeneid #shorts #ancientrome – YouTube
- This Transgender Achilles Was Doomed To Flop (WRATH GODDESS SING Book Review) – YouTube
- We’re at book 10 … and Venus does THIS?! 🫠 #mythology #shorts #aeneid – YouTube
- I’m team Turnus but he fumbled this one #mythology #aeneid #shorts #ancientrome – YouTube
- The Antikythera Mechanism: An Astonishing Invention from Ancient Greece | The 1st Analogue Computer – YouTube | Dig It With Raven
- Mythical Toilet Guardian! – YouTube | Extra History
- ACTAEON – music video – Clair Le Couteur (Lunatraktors) & Greek Myth Comix – YouTube
- Roman Society
- Hellenic Society
- Paul Cartledge: Professor Sir John Boardman: Uncle John – the Yannis Pinakanthropos I have known – YouTube
- Ruth Padel: Cast a Cold Eye: Poetry and Scholarship in Memories of E R Dodds – YouTube
- Daisy Dunn: Bowra, Murray, Dodds: Writing Great Lives – YouTube
- Stephen Halliwell: Autobiographical truth and a scholar’s values: Kenneth Dover’s Marginal Comment – YouTube
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Helle Hochscheid, Ben Russell, The value of making: theory and practice in ancient craft production. Studies in Classical archaeology, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Simone Fiori, Citazioni di Aristofane nel lessico dell’Antiatticista. Studia comica. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Margaret Graver, Seneca: the literary philosopher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Six “Must Visit” Archaeological Sites Near Athens
- The Most Important Ancient Greek Colonies in History
- Bronze Age Minoan Ingots Are Evidence of Ancient Trade Links
- Indiana Jones: What do (real) archaeologists think of his legacy? | Live Science
- The Mystery of the Oldest Throne in Europe at the Palace of Knossos
- The Greek Monkey Mystery, an Important Clue to Bronze Age World
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 many deaths in a short period of time.
… 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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