Hodie est a.d. III Non. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Graves With 1,500-Year-Old Human Remains Found Below City Streets
- 3D scans shed new light on mysterious Roman burial practice – News and events, University of York
- Details of ‘unusual’ Roman burial ritual revealed by 3D scans – BBC News
In Case You Missed It
- 2,300-year-old Egyptian mummification workshops found at Saqqara | Live Science
- Hidden Rooms Of 1,500-year-old Church In Istanbul Unearthed By Archaeologists
- Historic Bronze Statues Found In Ancient Bath Will Be Shown In Rome – ARTnews.com
- A kiss to detect wine on her breath: The violent policing of women drinking in Ancient Rome | Stuff.co.nz
- New York, a hub for illicit art trafficking – Raw Story – Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
- Iron Age Residents of Jerusalem Suffered From Dysentery | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Newly Discovered Iron Age House In Athens Transforms Our Understanding Of Ancient Greece
Greek/Latin News
- Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 03.06.2023 – Vatican News
- Nuntii Latini mensis Maii 2023 – Bremen Two
- Ephemeris ~ AFRICUM EFFUGIUM De Sudanensium fuga
Public Facing Classics
- Stolen goods | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- Messalina: Sex, Scandal & Slander Of Wife Of Roman Emperor Claudius | HistoryExtra
Fresh Bloggery
- Judean wisdom: Josephos on Solomon as the ultimate wise man and healer (late-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- People on an idyllic island in the Atlantic off Libya: Diodoros on their natural resources and on Carthaginian colonization plans (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Judean wisdom: Josephos’ self-presentation as the optimum wise Judean (late-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Pretending We Know the Good – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Suffering in Babylon: Ludlul bēl nēmeqi and the Scholars, Ancient and Modern
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Educational Resources for the Ancient Near East Laws of Hammurabi
- The Cutting Edge: epigraphy seminars (London) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Life and the Afterlife : Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection
- Distracted from Justice by Profit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: No Bed of Roses
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Stolen Head Returned to Torlonia Collection
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Looted Symes Objects Returned to Greece
- Heloten – Mainzer Beobachter
- Bronzes from sacred baths to go on display – The History Blog
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Mendoza’s Maxim
- Collections: Roman Roads – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Manufacturing Egyptian Scribal Palettes
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Eva-Maria Czakó (1918–2012) – the first and only female photographer at the DAI Athens – People at the DAI Athens
- Postgraduate Colloquium 2023 | Classics at Reading
Other Blog-like Publications
- Did Biblical Kings Have Dysentery? – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Statue depicting Pan found in Istanbul | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Archaeologists study fortress in southern Georgia to understand community resilience | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- 1700-year-old Roman shoes and craft district found in France – Arkeonews
- Aeneid I.210-304 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- June 3 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
- 3 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
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.
A conversation with Jeremy Swist (Brandeis University) on why some heavy metal bands write music about Roman and Byzantine history. Expect “good” and “bad” emperors to be reversed here! Jeremy has published much on this, including ‘Satan’s Empire: Ancient Rome’s Anti-Christian Appeal in Extreme Metal,’ Metal Music Studies 5 (2019) 35-51; ‘Headbanging to Byzantium: The Reception of the Byzantine Empire in Metal Music,’ in “What Byzantinism is this in Istanbul!” Byzantium in Popular Culture (Istanbul 2021) 200-231; and online, ‘Enjoy My Flames’ (Lapham’s Quarterly) and ‘Dawn of a Dark Age: Constantine the Great in Heavy Metal Music.’
Fresh Youtubery
- Moan Inc.:
- Ariadne is one of the best retellings ever written #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts – YouTube
- Jennifer Saint = mythology retelling royalty #shorts #elektra #greekmythology #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Stone Blind by Natalie Haynes is PHENOMENAL. #greekmythology #shorts #medusa #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Neon Gods or A Touch of Darkness? #greekmythology #romancebooks #hades #persephone #shorts – YouTube
- Trove of ancient treasures unearthed in Italy – YouTube | Reuters
Book Reviews
- Book Review: ‘Messalina,’ by Honor Cargill-Martin – The New York Times
- JCT ~ Plautus: Menaechmi (V.S.) Klein Pp. x + 179. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- JCT ~ Memento Mori: A Crime Novel of the Roman Empire (R.) Downie Pp. 473, Grampus Press, 2018.
- JCT ~ Exposed: the Greek and Roman Body (C.) Vout Pp. 423, b/w & colour ills. London: Profile Books, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Bactria: The Ancient Greek State in Afghanistan
- The Strangest Deaths in Ancient Greek History
- The Ancient Greeks from Crete Who Founded a City in South Asia
- Queen Berenice: A Woman of Contrasts – TheTorah.com
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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a hot and dry wind which will dry and shrivel up both grains and soft fruit.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends cloudy and rainy weather leading to a mouldy dampness that causes the fruit to rot.
… 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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