Thelxinoe ~ Classics News for June 28th, 2023

Hodie est a.d. IV Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 10 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Israeli Archaeologists Find Enigmatic 2,500-year-old Burials in the Desert – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Why the Palestinian authority hates archaeologists | ערוץ 7
• Ancient Marble Slab Revealing Roman Emperor’s ‘Secret’ Journeys Discovered
• Illegal diggers, smugglers responsible for historical properties’ destruction – Tehran Times
• Scoperto un “tesoro” di 80 oggetti risalenti all’età del bronzo
• ‘Exceptional’ Bronze Age artefacts unearthed in Switzerland – SWI swissinfo.ch
• Ancient Roman ruins buried in Germany’s coal mining region – DW – 06/27/2023
• Archaeologists to redraw boundaries for Sassanid, Il-Khalid sites in southwest Iran – Tehran Times
• Broken pottery turns out to be wine jars forgotten by Romans over 2,000 years ago
• Restauro della Amazzonomachia del Museo Correale – Positanonews

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists discover a painting depicting ‘an ancestor of PIZZA’ in an ancient house in Pompeii | Daily Mail Online
• Pompeii archaeologists discover ‘pizza’ painting – BBC News
• Pompeii fresco depicts what might be the precursor of pizza – video | World news | The Guardian
• Pompeii fresco find possibly depicts 2,000-year-old form of pizza | Italy | The Guardian
• A Proto-Pizza Emerges from a Fresco on a Pompeii Wall – The New York Times
• ‘Pizza’ painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii | Reuters
• Ancient Pompeii fresco shows a possible pizza precursor | The Times of Israel
• World’s oldest ‘pizza’ found in pompeii painting
• That’s not pizza, say experts about fresco similar to famous dish at Pompeii dig – The Irish News
• That’s no pizza: A wall painting found in Pompeii doesn’t depict Italy’s iconic : NPR
• ‘Ancestor of pizza’ found in still life at Pompeii – English – ANSA.it
• Have Pompeii archaeologists stumbled upon depiction of ancient pizza? – www.israelhayom.com
• Baena: A treasure trove of 119 archaeological pieces was hidden in a storage room in Córdoba, Spain | International | EL PAÍS English
• Silver medal featuring winged Medusa discovered at Roman fort near Hadrian’s Wall | Live Science

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: The Nabatean king Aretas IV
• OPP | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Fear of Death
• Lhotka Prize – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Autism and Classical Myth: Going the distance: a Herculean journey with Harry Rao via Disney and Michael Bolton
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Official Archive of Akoris
• Livy and Ennius on the Founding of Rome – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Flavian Responses to Nero’s Rome
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pontica Varia: Poleis e città, culti e rappresentazioni religiose, thiasoi orfici, organizzazione del commercio, «giustizia privata» nella periferia nord-orientale del mondo greco (secoli VII-IV a.c.)
• What good is a patrician? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Het Nieuwe Rijk van Egypte – Mainzer Beobachter
• Against the Aeneid II: Revenge of ‘Against the Aeneid’ – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Still life with pizza found at Pompeii – The History Blog
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hostelry of the Muses
• PaleoJudaica.com: 100 years of Daf Yomi and 500 years of printed Talmud
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mystery all(?)-women tomb in the Negev
• PaleoJudaica.com: Nongbri on that “oldest book”
• Week 1 – Overview « The Tel Burna Excavation Project

Other Blog-like Publications

• Specialization in sheep farming in early Neolithic communities
• Still-life with pizza-like dish uncovered at Pompeii
• Stone head found in Lake Nemi may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Completion of the 2023 excavations at the Dromolaxia-Vyzakia (Hala Sultan Tekke) site – The Archaeology News Network
• Poem by Virgil engraved on a Roman amphora found in Spain – The Archaeology News Network
• Fresco depicting a still life uncovered in Pompeii | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• A still life fresco discovered in new excavations of Pompeii Regio IX – Arkeonews
• Aeneid IV.397-503 – by publius vergilius maro
• 28 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)

Fresh Podcasts

• OSCVLVM: Panciera | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis

Matt Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus College) discusses osculum ‘kiss’ in the TLL and in Latin pedagogy.

• The Rest Is History: 345. Raiders of the Lost Ark on Apple Podcasts

The most important object in the universe, but also a somewhat invisible presence in the Bible, the Ark of the Covenant has fuelled stories for millennia, whether as a weapon of mass destruction, an elaborate filling cabinet for sacred laws, or as the very location where God and man meet. Join Tom and Dominic as they delve into the mysteries surrounding the Ark of the Covenant, its creation, its importance and its eventual disappearance…

Fresh Youtubery

• 66. Decentius – Decisive Distractions – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• AIMS 2021 / The Impact of Cinematic Antiquity on Heavy Metal Music – YouTube | Antiquity in Media Studies
• Influential Imperial Women of the Julio-Claudian Dynasty – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Moan Inc.
  • I know Dido’s story is tragic but you gotta laugh a little at this …  #shorts #mythology #rome – YouTube
  • Juno is so chaotic #mythology #shorts #theaeneid #ancientrome – YouTube
  • Will the mortals of mythology ever learn??? #shirts #ancientrome #aeneid – YouTube

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Sally Teague, New Testament Greek: a reading course, level 1. Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Alexa Piqueux, The comic body in ancient Greek theatre and art, 440-320 BCE. Oxford studies in ancient culture and representation. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Michela Stefani, L’area archeologica del Sepolcro degli Scipioni a Roma: analisi delle strutture di eta imperiale e tardo antica. BAR international series, 3079. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Photos: First Look at New York Euripides Summer Festival’s BACCHAE

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• UTMLTA2324 – Assistant Professor – Contractually Limited Term Appointment, Classics – The Classical Association of Canada
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Continuous evolvement of constant diet in the 3rd−1st millennium BCE southern Levant: Macro-botanical proxies from Tell eṣ-Ṣâfī/Gath – ScienceDirect

Alia

• Was the Kraken a Sea Monster From Greek Mythology?
• The Naxos Quartet: The Greek Gods in the Modern World
• The Colossus of Rhodes: Six Facts About the Wonder of Ancient World
• Sage advice: A Stoical view of generative AI
• Mercenaries Were Everywhere in the Ancient Greek World
• What real archaeologists think of Indiana Jones | Culture | EL PAÍS English
• Real-life Indiana Jones says archaeology isn’t what it used to be – Wales Online
• A Real Archaeologist Explains What Indiana Jones Gets Right
• Who is Buried in the Amphipolis Tomb of Ancient Greece?
• The History of the Roman Baths | ArchDaily

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 good harvest.

… 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)