Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- The Lead Tablets Of The Dodona Oracle Added To UNESCO “Memory Of The World” Register
- Germany returns artefacts—including a Venetian jewellery box stolen in 2006—to Italy
- Unique cultural heritage sites destroyed by Kakhovka flooding
- Kurgan stela discovered 3 years ago to be displayed in Türkiye’s Erzurum Museum | Daily Sabah
- Roman artefacts found at Alston Moor to be analysed – Cumberland and Westmorland Herald
In Case You Missed It
- An Israeli Anti-Theft Squad Inadvertently Stumbled on a 1,850-Year-Old Burial Cave at a Construction Site
- New Excavations at Egypt’s Saqqara Necropolis Have Unearthed Mummification Workshops, Including One for Pets
- Archaeologists Discover Greek Full-colour Portraits Of Egyptian Mummies In Ancient Philadelphia
- Excavations at an Ancient Roman Fort in Spain Have Turned Up a 2,000-Year-Old Rock Carved With a Human Face and Phallus
- Sealed 2,000-year-old vial of Roman perfume opened by researchers | Evening Standard
- A ‘Good Percentage’ of Ancient Artifacts Recently Repatriated to Italy Are Fakes, According to an Antiquities Expert
- Egypt bans Dutch curators accused of ‘falsifying history’ over portrayal of black celebrities | Daily Mail Online
- What Did the Ancient Romans Smell Like? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Germany Returns 14 Artifacts To Italy, Some Items Stolen from Museums – ARTnews.com
Public Facing Classics
- Where do paintings end up? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- Sportsmen in ancient Greece and Rome were celebrities who won grand prizes, toured and even unionised
- The dangerous hero: the disturbing parallels between ancient Greek myth and current US politics – Neos Kosmos
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Cantaber
- What Hephaestus Really Wanted from Thetis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ›satura‹ – Monströses Schreiben in Antike und Aufklärung: Lucilius, Varro, Horaz, Petron, Martianus Capella, Hamann, Jean Paul
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Damascius’ Philosophy of Time
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Theorie und Systematik materialer Textkulturen: Abschlussband des SFB 933
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Bravado
- June AD 123 – Hadrian returns to the East and inspects the frontiers of northern Syria and Cappadocia (#Hadrian1900) FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Pons van Tripoli – Mainzer Beobachter
- Review: THE CASSANDRA COMPLEX by Holly Smale – Classical Studies Support
- PaleoJudaica.com: New witnesses to Origen’s text of the Psalms
- PaleoJudaica.com: What did the Talmudic rabbis actually say about the Bible?
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Negative Research
- Martial on His Summer Sleep Schedule – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- 3D scans shed new light on mysterious Roman burial practice
- 4,300-year-old copper ingots discovered in Oman
- 3D Scans reveal details of ‘unusual’ Roman burial ritual – Arkeonews
- Rare textiles and dwellings discovered in the submerged Neolithic settlement near Rome – Arkeonews
- Rare textiles, basketry and cordage discovered at submerged Neolithic settlement | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Aeneid I.613-722 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- June 7 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
Fresh Podcasts
The discovery of grapes pips at Late Antique Avdat in the northern Negev has us asking questions, like who makes wine in the desert anyway, and how do you get the wine from the desert to the people? Is this a story of wine fancying monks or Breaking Bad style middlemen? Pour a glass and settle in with our contestants!
This week we sit down for a fascinating, lively discussion with author Margalit Fox about her 2013 book, The Riddle of the Labyrinth: the Quest to Crack an Ancient Code. The story centers around the race to decipher the mysterious “Linear B” script. The first large supply of this script was uncovered on clay tablets on Crete by archaeologist Sir Arthur Evans in 1900, but remained a puzzle for years after Evans failed to crack it. Young genius (and amateur scholar) Michael Ventris has long been famous for finally getting the job done in 1952, but is that all there is to the story? Ms. Fox introduces us to classicist Alice Kober of Brooklyn College as the woman who dedicated her life to solving the mystery and is truly the unsung heroine in the narrative. Tune in and hear how Kober’s painstaking, deliberative work paired with Ventris’ own extraordinary skills finally solved one of the great archaeological mysteries of our time.
Fresh Youtubery
- Res Difficile Conference
- Res Diff 4: Lylaah Bhalerao, “Black Carthage” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4 Keynote: Jackie Murray, “Race, Slavery, and Tyranny in Plato’s Republic” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Javal Coleman, “Comparative Slaveries in Ancient and Modern Contexts” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Farnoosh Shamsian and Gregory Crane, “Re-reading Plato In Persian” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Jermaine Bryant, “Beyond Reception” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Ashley Lance, “Rez Diff: Indigenous Philosophies and Ancient Thought” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Tara Wells, “The Dangers of Reception” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Tori Lee, “Networking in the Margins: Towards a Future for Affinity Groups in Classics.” – YouTube
- Res Diff 4: Suzanne Lye, “Can We Please Get Back to Research?: Creating Space Through Service” – YouTube
- Legend of Zelda IN ANCIENT GREEK – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
- Rome’s newest excavations and archaeological discoveries! – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
- Marshland of Cities: Lagash and its Neighbors ca. 2500 BCE – YouTube | Penn Museum
- TROY by Stephen Fry review #shorts #greekmythology #trojanwar #ancienthistory #ancientgreece – YouTube | Moan Inc
- Why did Susan Stokes-Chapman call the magpie in PANDORA Hermes? #shorts # #greekmythology #greekgod – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Spotlight Lecture: Deir el Medina community and the elite Theban Necropolis during the 18th dynasty – YouTube | Egypt Exploration Society
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Lauren Curtis, Naomi Weiss, Music and memory in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Nicole Belayche, Anne-Valérie Pont, Participations civiques des juifs et des chrétiens dans l’Orient romain (Ier-IVe siècles). Hautes Etudes du monde gréco-romain, 62. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- The Fascinating 3,000-Year-Old Story of Greece’s Presence in Britain
- Cleopatra’s Ancient Pools: The Thermal Springs Built for the Queen
- How Do We Know Where Troy Really Was?
- Meet the Anemoi, the Greek Gods of Weather
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 an outbreak of disease, but not many will perish from it. Meanwhile, grains will be plentiful but soft fruits will dry up.
… 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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