Hodie est pr. Id. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 24 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ecbatana prepares to surmount obstacles in path of UNESCO registration – Tehran Times
- ‘In awe’: Artefacts from 2,000-year-old shipwreck and wall frescoes recovered
- Antiquities Authority calls on Israeli public to return stolen items – Israel News – The Jerusalem Post
In Case You Missed It
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Public Facing Classics
- Elgin, Byron, and those marbles revisited – Neos Kosmos
- Things I Learned in Intermediate Greek Class – Front Porch Republic
- The Greek tragedy of Boris Johnson | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
Fresh Bloggery
- Eastern and northern peoples: Bardaisan of Edessa’s Book of the Laws of Countries and the Pseudo-Clementines on astrology and peoples (second-third centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Persians and Egyptians: Pseudo-Clementines on the origins and nature of Magian skill (second-fourth centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Incrimination and Punishment – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on the “Pilate ring”
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Conjectural Emendation
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Appearance and Reality
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitising the Saqqara Sacred Animal Necropolis object cards
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Project MERCURY: Computational Modelling in Roman Studies
- Punish The Insurrectionists – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Dynamite Doug Podcast in Context
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Dynamite Doug Podcast Seen from the “Art” World
- De genezing van een blinde (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Return of “Scythian Gold” to Ukraine a Step Closer
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Good and Evil
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Implications of UK Detectorists Being Urged, in Private, NOT to Report their Finds
- How Things Stand – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: Smith & Landau, The Secret Gospel of Mark (Yale)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Poirier (ed.), The Pearl Hymn from the Acts of Thomas (Brepols)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Object of Worship
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: « Les ouvriers de la Tombe »: Deir el-Médineh à l’époque ramesside
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nabataean: Corpus of Nabataean Inscriptions
- Hellenistisch Babylonië – Mainzer Beobachter
- Your Own Personal Jesus | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Chester Beatty Biblical Papyri at Ninety (De Gruyter, open access)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hutzli, The Origins of P (Mohr Siebeck)
- “Enough About Plato”: Dionysius on Prose Style – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Snacks
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Joy and Grief
Other Blog-like Publications
- Victualling a Trireme: A Taste of Experimental Archaeology – Antigone
- Team discovers 12,000-year-old flutes made from bird bones
- The Early Christian Martyrs: Persecutions in the Roman Empire
- Aeneid II.199-297 – by publius vergilius maro
- Aeneid II.298-401 – by publius vergilius maro
- The Parthenon Marbles: What they are and why Britain MUST return them
- June 11 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
- 11 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Astura?)
- 12 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Astura?)
- New research, prove that Romans were breeding small bulldogs – Arkeonews
- Gladiator Helmets: 6 Types and their Characteristics
- Archaeologists use AI to identify new archaeological sites in Mesopotamia | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
Synopsis: During Neo-Assyria’s absence from the region, King Hazael of Aram-Damascus forges an Aramean Empire that extends to the borders of Egypt.
A mysterious death on the Nile, an unconventional love affair, a Roman-Greek hero turned God – the story of Hadrian and Antinous is full of intrigue. Join Tom and Dominic as they delve into the world of Roman romance, where gender binaries and modern moral arguments do not feature, and look into the possible theories of how Antinous’ body ended up in the Nile…
The empress Messalina, third wife of the Roman emperor Claudius, was a ruthless, sexually insatiable schemer – or was she? But while the stories about her are wild (nightly visits to a brothel, a 24-hour sex competition), the real story is much more complex. In this episode, Jacke talks to historian Honor Cargill-Martin about her new book Messalina: Empress, Adulteress, Libertine: The Story of the Most Notorious Woman of the Roman World. PLUS Jacke talks to author Robert Chandler (translator of Alexander Pushkin) about his choice for the last book he will ever read.
Fresh Youtubery
- Deciphering the Secrets of Mesopotamian Divination | Dr. Irving Finkel – YouTube | Archaeology Now
- Latine loqui || Latin vocabulary: ATTINGERE – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- Moan Inc.
- Are languages necessary to study #ancienthistory ? #shorts #historicalhan #cosisodyssey – YouTube
- My real issue with Catullus … 🫣 #ancienthistory #ancientrome #romanhistory #poetry #shorts – YouTube
- The Judgement of Paris, ladies and gentlemen. #greekmythology #shorts #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Achilles crying to his mum is the general mood of the Iliad #shorts #trojanwar #greekmythology – YouTube
- The Thersites episode is looked over WAY TOO MUCH! #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts – YouTube
- Obsessed with the Covenant series by Jennifer L. Armentrout? ME?!?! #greekmythology #shorts – YouTube
- Lore by Alexandra Bracken review with Kelly Macquire ✨ #shorts #greekmythology #bookreview – YouTube
- Helen has had it up to HERE. #greekmythology #shirts #trojanwar #troy #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Agamemnon makes A LOT of bold choices in this book … #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #troy – YouTube
- Diomedes is my favourite #greekmythology #shorts #troy #trojanwar #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Paris is not painted well in this book #greekmythology #shorts #troy #trojanwar #ancientgreece – YouTube
- Eudoxus: The Forgotten Explorer of Ancient Africa – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Mount Vesuvius Eruption (79 AD): The First 24 hrs – Survival and Rescue DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
- Thespian Hoplites | Historical Warfare – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- Praktiken der Aneignung: Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr. | Spartokos a lu
- Michael Dirda reviews Peter Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind” – The Washington Post
- BMCR ~ Jackie Elliott, Early Latin poetry. Brill research perspectives in classical poetry. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- A Postdoc Research Fellow position for Qubbet el-Hawa Research Project
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Alexander the Great’s Encounters with Sea Monsters
- The Beauty Secrets of Cleopatra Unveiled
- The City in Spain Founded by a Greek Hero of the Trojan War
- 2400-Year-Old Greek Ship is the Oldest Wreck Yet Discovered
- Was the Golden Fleece Mentioned in Greek Mythology Real?
- The First Ancient Greek Beauty Pageant
- Alexander the Great’s Elite Companion Cavalry
- Caves, Happiness, and Liberal Learning ~ The Imaginative Conservative
- Eight of the most important discoveries in Greek archaeology | eKathimerini.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:
If it thunders today, it portends the same thing as yesterday.
… 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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