Hodie est a.d. V Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- ‘Pizza’ painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii | Reuters
- Spain police seize 1,900-year-old Roman bust amid trove of archaeological treasures | Reuters
- Baena: A treasure trove of 119 archaeological pieces was hidden in a storage room in Córdoba, Spain | International | EL PAÍS English
- Web of biblical cities depicts King David as major ruler, says Israeli archaeologist | The Times of Israel
- Iraq recovers 23,000 artifacts – Iraqi News
- Türkiye smuggling crackdown raids – Famagusta Gazette
- Il Portico – Nuove scoperte archeologiche nel Salernitano: rinvenute resti di tombe e case nell’antica Nuceria
- Tombs and remains of a rustic Roman villa emerge during excavations for the gas network in Campania – Stile Arte
- The game of a Roman girl from 2000 years ago? During a walk in the fields the singular discovery – Stile Arte
- Pompeii, found fresco with highly seasoned and garnished white pizza. It is the 2000-year-old ancestor of our dish – Stile Arte
- Pompeii, new excavations have led to the discovery of a fresco depicting an ancestor of Neapolitan pizza – Il Crivello
- ‘Pizza’ painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii | Reuters
- Pompeii fresco shows pizza precursor — but hold the cheese
- Israeli Archaeologists Find Enigmatic 2,500-year-old Burials in the Desert – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
In Case You Missed It
- Fury in Italy after tourist scrawls names into the wall of Rome’s ancient Colosseum | Daily Mail Online
- Stunning Greek Mosaics Uncovered in Syria
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review panel on Coogan, Eusebius the Evangelist
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der lateinische ›Alexanderroman‹ des Iulius Valerius: Sprache, Erzählung, Kontext
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SIRAR (Sylloge Inscriptionum Religionis Africae Romanae)
- Horatian Bohemianism – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Abuse of the Dead
- Fire, Fools, and Lesser Fates: A Heatwave Special – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 119 trafficked archaeological pieces found in Córdoba raid – The History Blog
- Vesuvius 1872 – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Professor of Luxury
- Changing the Nature of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- An Ancient Guide to the Good Life | The New Yorker
- Site of Julius Caesar’s Assassination Opened – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Mine-clearance divers discovered an ancient shipwreck dating from the 3rd century BC – Arkeonews
- Evidence of Roman marching camp found in Paderborn | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- A large stone monument depicting the goddess Ishtar has been unearthed in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud – Arkeonews
- Aeneid IV.296-396 – by publius vergilius maro
- June 27 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
- June 44 BCE: To Gaius Trebatius Testa (at Rome?) from Cicero (at Tusculum?)
- Stone head found in Lake Nemi may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Why Hasn’t the Pantheon’s Dome Collapsed?: How the Romans Engineered the Dome to Last 19 Centuries and Counting | Open Culture
- Still-life with pizza-like dish uncovered at Pompeii
Fresh Podcasts
In the second installment of our Cleopatra x King Herod arc, the slow-motion train wreck continues. Herod makes increasingly ill-advised decisions as schemes and intrigue simmer around him. Meanwhile, Cleopatra influences things from afar, empowering Herod’s enemies and relatives (who are frequently one and the same). Find out how it all went down when their feud reached the boiling point.
Heracles had lovers all over the ancient Greek world, and a whole collection of them were men. These are their stories and, let’s be honestly, brief mentions and anecotes.
Fresh Youtubery
- Moan Inc.
- Telemachus is a problem. #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #odysseus #homer – YouTube
- 5 LGBTQ+ Books Inspired By Greek Mythology You NEED TO READ! – YouTube
- Penelope is the real queen of this tale #odyssey #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #odysseus – YouTube
- Agamemnon & Achilles meet again! #greekmythology #ancientgreece #homer #shorts #underworld – YouTube
- Some fun context before reading The Aeneid #greekmythology #ancientrome #ancienthistory #shorts – YouTube
- The ancient gods can hold grudges for a REALLY long time … #mythology #ancientrome #shorts #aeneid – YouTube
- The Trojan horse!! #trojanwar #troy #mythology #shorts #ancienthistory #ancientrome – YouTube
- The drama NEVER let’s up!!! #mythology #shorts #aeneid #ancientrome – YouTube
- 4 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Day Julius Caesar Was Assassinated – YouTube
- Greek Tragedy in the Modern World with Paul O’Mahony and Professor Fiona Macintosh – YouTube | Classics for All
- How to Improve Your Odyssey 10 Marker – YouTube | Ancient Greece and Rome with runshawclassics
- Horace Ode 1.11 Carpe Diem! – YouTube | David Amster
- Orphic Hymn 5, to Aither, read in Ancient Greek (soft Ancient ASMR reading, ten minute loop) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
- Golden Maidens and Wheeled Chairs: Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece – YouTube | Chau Chak Wing Museum
- Pompei: emerge una natura morta dai nuovi scavi della Regio IX – YouTube | Pompeii
Book Reviews
- The work of Vitruvius relays the relationship between print and built
- BMCR ~ Benjamin Allgaier, Embedded inscriptions in Herodotus and Thucydides. Philippika. Contributions to the study of ancient world cultures, 157. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.
- BMCR ~ C. T. Hadavas, Medieval Latin Arthur: Books 8-11 of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae: An intermediate Latin commentary. C. T. Hadavas, 2022.
Exhibition Related Things
- An Archaeology of Disability at the Canellopoulos Museum
- Alexander the Great, between Asia and Europe, by Maya Jaggi (Le Monde diplomatique – English edition, July 2023)
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Symposium 2023
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Did Ancient Greeks Build their Temples Where Earthquakes Struck?
- Why Marcus Aurelius Really Wrote the Meditations | Psychology Today
- Prigozhin crosses his Rubicon in echo of Caesar’s march on Rome | Yevgeny Prigozhin | The Guardian
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 danger from the army for men in power.
… 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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