Hodie est a.d. VI Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- UK returns smuggled ancient artifact to Iran – Tehran Times
- Straordinaria scoperta archeologica nelle acque del lago di Nemi – Corriere Nazionale
- Preserved 3rd Century Ship with Amphorae Found off Hvar – Total Croatia
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Desperate and Unnatural: Post-Canonized Storyworlds and the Epic Cycle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Tree of Life
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Gore and Grief
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Same Men Over and Over Again
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Texts Added to the TLG Since 1 January 2023
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Seleucid Coins Online (SCO)
- Herodianen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Useless
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Bubbles
- PaleoJudaica.com: Talattof (ed.), Routledge handbook of ancient, classical and late classical Persian literature
- Revisiting the Repatriation theme | Turkish Archaeological News
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ISAC Museum Demotic Ostraca Online
- Tyranny, Terror, and Mutilation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Scoundrels, Fools, and Failing States – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Against the Aeneid – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- PaleoJudaica.com: The oldest known codex?
- IJsonderzoek – Mainzer Beobachter
- Revisiting rest | Classically Inclined
- Truth and Happiness, An Inverse Relationship? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Different Effects
- Looting Matters: Bubon and North American Collections
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Conspicuous Consumption
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- Women in Theophrastus’ Characters – The Kosmos Society
- ClaReNet: Projektwoche im Archäologischen Museum Frankfurt – crossing borders – building contacts
- All the Constantines « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland
Other Blog-like Publications
- Largest repatriation of ancient coins to Greece in recent HSI history
- Egypt in the First Intermediate Period: The History and Chronology of its False Doors and Stelae
- The Ancestors of Democracy: Ancient Athens vs. Roman Republic
- Aeneid IV.90-194 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- Aeneid IV.195-295 – by publius vergilius maro
- Mine-clearance divers discovered an ancient shipwreck dating from the 3rd century BC – Arkeonews
- Demosthenes: 7 Key Speeches & Their Influence
- June 26 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
- Testa di marmo trovata dai sub sul fondo del lago di Nemi. Una protome romana autentica o uno scherzo? Il video – Stile Arte
- 26 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
- How Did the Romans Map Their Empire? | by George Dillard | Jun, 2023 | Medium
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Achilles is one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology. The son of Peleus, a Greek King, and Thetis, a divine sea nymph, Achilles was a demigod with extraordinary strength and courage. The perfect combination to make a great warrior, he is perhaps best known from Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, which details his adventures in the final year of the Trojan War. He’s also gone down in history for his passionate love for his companion, Patroclus, and given June is Pride month, we wanted to explore this relationship. Was it really erotic? What do the sources say? Does our definition of love differ to that of the Ancient Greeks? And how did it inspire one of the greatest military generals in history: Alexander of Macedon? To help explore these themes, host Tristan Hughes is joined by returning guest Professor Alastair Blanshard from University of Queensland.
Synopsis: Emerging triumphant from civil war, Shamshi-Adad V devotes his energies to humbling Babylonia. Upon his death, his wife Shammuramat acts as regent for their son, Adad-nirari III, and both campaign across the Euphrates to confront a resurgent Arpad. Under its vigorous king Menua, Urartu begins the military conquests that would end with its regional dominance. “When Suppiluliuma, king of Kummuh, caused Adad-nirari, king of Assyria and Shammuramat, queen, to cross the Euphrates river; I smashed Attar-shumki, son of Hadram, of the city Arpad, together with eight kings, who were with him at the city Paqarhubunu, their boundary and land…In that year they put up this boundary stone between Suppiluliuma, king of Kummuh, and Halpartuntiya, son of Larama, king of Gurgum.’” – the Pazarcik Stele
Fresh Youtubery
- Moan Inc.
- The iconic moment Eurycleia recognises Odysseus #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #homer – YouTube
- Where did the ox hoof even come from??? #greekmythology #ancientgreece #homer #shorts #odysseus – YouTube
- The test is upon us #greekmythology #ancientgreece #odysseus #theodyssey #shorts #homer – YouTube
- The Ancient Greek Magical Papyrus PGM VII – Overview, New Insights & Original Research – YouTube | The Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice
- 02. #VATICAN UNSEEN: A LIBRARY WITH MORE THAN 5 CENTURIES OF HISTORY – YouTube
- Latine loqui || Latin vocabulary: DISCRIMEN – YouTube | Satura Lanx
- What is the longest serving Roman Legion? – YouTube
- Retreats of the Rich: Delving into the Private Parks of Rome’s Aristocracy – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Lydian Infantry | Historical Warfare – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Michaël Girardin, L’offrande et le tribut: histoire politique de la fiscalité en Judée hellénistique et romaine (200 a.C.-135 p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 152. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Noah Hacham, Tal Ilan, Corpus papyrorum judaicarum, volume 5: the early-Roman period (30 BCE–117 CE). Berlin; Jerusalem: De Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- XXII Stage epigrafico ad Altino e dintorni – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
- Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Snakes, Apes and Ferrets: The Ancient Greek Love of Pets
- Is the Golden Age of Greek Mythology Mentioned in the Bible?
- Psychedelics and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece
- The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100
- Searching for the Lost Biblical City of Bethsaida
- Hellenistic Age: Lysimachus, Pergamon, the Attalids and Asia Minor after Alexander – Neos Kosmos
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 a winter harmful for 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)
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