Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Turkish police recover thousands of artifacts in anti-trafficking raid-Xinhua
• Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals – The New York Times
• Abortion is ancient history and that matters today | CNN
• 3,680 antiquities seized by police at Tehran airport – Tehran Times
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• Cumbria’s ancient fort that’s the ‘best preserved in the Roman Empire’ – and where ‘archaeologist’ moles do what humans can’t – LancsLive
• Rich trove of burial items uncovered during excavations near Tekke | Cyprus Mail
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• Found in Pompeii high relief of an agatho-demon serpent. Indicates the presence of a lararium that will be brought to light – Stile Arte

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Fresh Podcasts

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The treacherous death of Gallienus saw the rise of a man of war. Claudius Gothicus definitely earned his title, but with a reign of only two years perhaps he made the right kind of impact without the time to leave a bad impression. For an emperor in the third century that was more than enough, and he left an example for all who followed after. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Queering the Classical World w/ Yentl Love (the Queer Classicist) on Apple Podcasts

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Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos. By Nota Kourou (Études d’Archéologie 18). Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2021.
• AJA ~ Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos. By Nota Kourou (Études d’Archéologie 18). Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2021.
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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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Diversions

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

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends abundance

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends wars and countless bad things.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• San Casciano bronzes go on show at Quirinale – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
• Rare find of 24 ancient bronzes in Tuscany goes on display in Rome | Italy | The Guardian
• Dealer of the ‘world’s most expensive coin’ which sold for $4.1M charged with grand larceny in NYC  | Daily Mail Online
• Greek Coin Smuggler, Dealer Of ‘World’s Most Expensive Coin’ Arrested For Grand Larceny In New York
• Maltese conservator discovers fragment of ‘oldest-known book in the world’
• Tetisheri – The last known pyramid for a queen in Ancient Egypt is back! – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Pontecagnano Faiano: from the excavations here is the tomb of the warrior

In Case You Missed It

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• Roman mosaic of Hercules illegally imported to California | The Sacramento Bee
• Purple from Holy Temple objects traced to snail guts at 3,000-year-old Haifa factory | The Times of Israel

Public Facing Classics

• Where did Julius Caesar die? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: IG X 3, 3 Inscriptiones Scythiae minores: Sectio 1: Callatis et ager Callatianus
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• The Oldest Codex? | Variant Readings
• Free Speech Freeze – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De geboorte van Caesarion – Mainzer Beobachter
• LAST DAY of Legit Threads x Greek Myth Comix | Greek Myth Comix
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther as a Source for Achaemenian History?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: I Hear the Twanging of the Bow
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• Fireside Friday, June 23, 2023 (On Historical Judgement) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• Developments in Ancient Language Pedagogy | Classics at Reading

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• Archaeologists use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Aeneid III.610-718 – by publius vergilius maro
• June 23 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• 23 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 1.34

Fresh Podcasts

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Curt asks Murray, ‘did Alexander The Great’s army introduce Pankration to India? If so could Pankration have contributed to the future expansion of martial arts from India to China & other Asian countries?’

• Ancient History Fangirl: PATREON BONUS: Cleopatra x King Herod: Wouldn’t Touch You With a Barge Pole (Part 2) on Apple 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.

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Book Reviews

• ‘King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great’ Book Review | National Review
• BMCR ~ Paul Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: a commentary, volume 2. Trans. Nickolaos Koutras. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
• BMCR ~ Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the evangelist: rewriting the fourfold gospel in late antiquity. Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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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 good times, a setting aside of differences, and an end to disease.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. X Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 4 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• An archaeological first: A poem by Virgil appears on the remnants of a Roman oil amphora
• Ancient Greek theater in Italy’s Syracuse gives new life to classics
• The Acropolis Museum: A Beacon of Art and Culture is Now 14 years old – The National Herald
• Federal agents, National Hellenic Museum conduct largest repatriation of ancient coins to Greece in recent HSI history | ICE
• Central District of California | Palmdale Man Found Guilty of Illegally Importing an Ancient Roman Mosaic from Syria Depicting Hercules | United States Department of Justice
• Palmdale man convicted of illegally importing ancient Roman mosaic from Syria – CBS Los Angeles
• San Casciano dei Bagni, presentate le placche poliviscerali trovate durante lo scavo nel tempio di cura etrusco-romano – Stile Arte
• How a Mix-up in Antiquity Involving Jesus Could Support Identification of ‘The Real Bethsaida’ – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Discover Secret to the Prosperity of the Biblical Kingdom of Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
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• Roman square where Julius Caesar was killed opens to tourist

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mediterranean archaeology offerings help students ‘rehumanize the past’ | University of Arizona News

Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• Peoples of Arachosia and Ariana: Pliny the Elder on peoples between Baktria and India (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Gladiators of Ancient Rome |
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Los Angeles Man Convicted of Illegally Importing Ancient Roman Mosaic depicting Promethius from Syria
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• Three Things Thursday: Another Big Book, A Mistake, and Bazball | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The woman born with Rome – The History Blog
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Who Is Balaam Son of Beor?
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• June 22 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• The Babylonian Princess Who Founded the World’s First Museum
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Book Reviews

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• BMCR ~ Stuart McKie, Living and cursing in the Roman west: curse tablets and society. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts: cosmic monotheism and terrestrial polytheism in the primordial history. Copenhagen international seminar. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.

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• L’Amato di Iside: alla Domus Aurea di Roma arriva la mostra dedicata alla Dea dai mille volti

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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• Brock Sessionals 23-24 – The Classical Association of Canada
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Alia

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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 damaging hot weather.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XI Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 3 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Tunisia’s Carthage Museum Gives Preview Of Expanded Renovation | Barron’s
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• Rare Roman Mausoleum Unearthed in London | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• 1st-century coins from Jewish revolt against the Romans discovered near the Black Sea | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ MISSIO SUBMARINA De navicula deperdita 

Public Facing Classics

• Who’s the professor of Classics around here? | Blog post by Mary Beard

Fresh Bloggery

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• Europeans, Africans, and Asians: Pliny the Elder on the framework for his ethnographic survey and on the superiority of Europeans (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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• Hyperboreans: Herodotos, Hekataios, Diodoros, and others on a legendary northern people (four century BCE to third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Celts / Gauls: Pliny the Elder on three main sub-divisions from a Roman imperial perspective (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Sarmatians and others in northwestern Asia: Pliny the Elder on peoples of northwestern Asia (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Philo of Alexandria
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Mètis. Anthropologie des mondes grecs anciens
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• The Broken Hopes of a Once Prosperous Life – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• My Exciting Adventure in Greece, Part 2 (June 20th, 2023) – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Aristotle On The Vulnerabilities Of Democracies That Allow Their Constitutions To Be Changed | The Historian’s Hut
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• Spencer Alley: Drawings of Antique Figures and Ruins
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 087: Ptolemaic Egypt – The Great Revolt on Apple Podcasts

The “Golden Age” of the Ptolemaic dynasty comes to an end as Ptolemy IV dies unexpectedly in 204. Greedy ministers looking to control the boy-king Ptolemy V leave Alexandria in a mess of schemes, murder, and rioting. Meanwhile, decades of economic turmoil and cultural tension results the outbreak of the “Great Revolt”, a twenty year-long (206-186) rebellion of disaffected native Egyptians, who ripped away control of Upper Egypt and installed a rival pharaoh named Haronnophoris, leaving the once mighty Ptolemaic kingdom on the verge of collapse.

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: The Dismembered Hands of Avaris, or How Do You Say “The Sound of One Hand Clapping” in Egyptian? on Apple Podcasts

Pits with dismembered hands at the Hyksos site of Tell el Dab’a/Avaris have us asking, what is it with ancient Egypt and dismemberment? Sure the king wants to permanently defeat his enemies – really, who doesn’t want that – but isn’t all this hand chopping business just, well, performance art? It’s our most hands on episode yet!

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 |Book Reviews

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a shortage of wine but an abundance of other crops and fish.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XII Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 2 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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After the disaster at Actium, Marc Antony’s entire army–100,000 strong–surrendered to Octavian. Marc Antony and Cleopatra fled to Alexandria to negotiate the terms of their defeat. Those were dark, foreboding days. Friends and allies fled the palace. Marc Antony fell into a deep depression, while Cleopatra searched desperately for a way out–one that would keep her kingdom intact and her children alive. But the reckoning was coming.

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Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

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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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

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Alia

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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 discord for the community.

… 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)