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- Ancient quake traces unveiled at 3,000-yr-old historic Türkiye site | Daily Sabah
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Fresh Bloggery
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- A Routine for Managing Old Age from Cicero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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- PaleoJudaica.com: Interview: Aren Maier on Indiana Jones and everything else
- PaleoJudaica.com: The case for a Davidic bureaucratic state?
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Invention de l’autobiographie d’Hésiode à saint Augustin
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Contextualizing the Procession Fresco from Knossos: An Iconographic and Phenomenological Study
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: THE NATURAL WORLD IN BRONZE AGE CRETAN GLYPTIC: LANDSCAPE ELEMENTS AND THEIR SOCIOPOLITICAL SIGNIFICANCE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Physical and metaphysical zones of transition : comparative themes in Hittite and Greek Karst landscapes in the Late Bronze and Early Iron ages
- Don’t Stop Thinking about…Tomorrow? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Aging Body, A Failing Ship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Against the Aeneid III: Son of ‘Against the Aeneid’ – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Paris’ Weakness and the Glory of Education – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Early Iron Age cremation burial found at Hallstatt – The History Blog
- Kajafas – Mainzer Beobachter
- Tough Call: Vergil or God? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Repetition of Relative Antecedent
- PaleoJudaica.com: War in Yemen and (maybe) the Queen of Sheba’s capital
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Little to Fault in His Metrical Technique
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rotting Ships and Bloodied Water: Destructive Liquids and Thucydides’ Skepticism of Naval Imperialism
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: New Voices In Classical Reception Studies Conference Proceedings
- Scatological Studies for a Sensitive Tweetsperience – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Political World | Sphinx
- Sexual Violence in Ancient Myth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Kybele in de Grieks-Romeinse wereld – Mainzer Beobachter
- Kybele in Anatolië – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Early to Rise
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News
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- 9 July 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
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- Early Iron Age cremation burial containing bronze jewelry and rare textile fragments found in Austria – Arkeonews
- The Nightmare of the Roman Soldiers “Carnyx” – Arkeonews
- Battle of Mycale: The Last Battle of the Greco-Persian War
- Evidence of the 9th cohort of Batavians among new finds at Roman Vindolanda | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Penelope to Odysseus | Heroides I.1-58 – by M. – Ovid Daily
- Tombs rich in artefacts discovered by Swedish expedition in Cyprus – The Archaeology News Network
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Fresh Podcasts
Evolving from an obscure ancient ruler to a contemporary national icon, Chandragupta Maurya’s story is finally being told. However, despite tales of leading empires and defeating the successors of Alexander the Great, there is no official record of his events- only moments taken from Greek authors here and there remain. So, how can we decipher fact from fiction, and how have recent reappraisals helped shape Chandragupta’s story, and more importantly – a national Indian identity? In this episode, Tristan welcomes Dr Sushma Jansari, author of ‘Chandragupta Maurya,’ to the podcast to delve into the art, sources, and stories surrounding Chandragupta’s life. Together they examine the role Greek diplomats played in crossing the Indus, the creation of a mighty empire, and his fall into obscurity followed by a subsequent return to fame in the 20th century. So who is Chandragupta, and how has he helped define Indian identity in the 21st century?
Synopsis: A siege by Adad-nirari’s subordinate, Nergal-Eresh, finally breaks the Damascene hold over southern Syria and Canaan. The Urartian kings Menua and Argishti press Assyria’s frontiers, even as they conquer and secure new territories in the Araxes River valley. In the reigns of Adad-nirari’s sons, the Empire is beset by plague, rebellions, and disturbing omens. “Through the god Haldi’s power, Argishti, son of Menua, speaks: a city for my power I erected, and gave it the name of Argishtihinli. The land around was never inhabited, nothing was established here, therefore I have led four canals from the Manu river, I had vineyards and orchards established, I have done good things here. I am Argishti, son of Menua, powerful king, the great king, the king of the Land Biai, the Lord of the city of Tushpa.” – Inscription of Argishti of Urartu
In this episode, we’ll be looking back at the paleoanthropologist Eugene Dubois; the relationship between the Mycenaeans and the Minoans; the incredible journey of Hannibal across the Alps; and the rise and fall of the Macedonian Empire.
Matt Panciera (Gustavus Adolphus College) discusses calvus ‘bald’ in the TLL and in Latin pedagogy.
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- Why Archaeology & Social Media Are A Perfect Match: The BOOM Of Myth-Busting (w/ @ArchaeologyTube ) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- Dying For Victory: The Sacrificial Vow Of Ancient Roman Generals – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Hastati Samnitici | Historical Warfare – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
Book Reviews
- Боспорские исследования (Recherches bosporanes) en ligne | Spartokos a lu
- BMCR ~ Tom Brughmans, Andrew Wilson, Simulating Roman economies: theories, methods, and computational models. Oxford studies on the Roman economy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Céline Urlacher-Becht, Dictionnaire de l’épigramme littéraire dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.
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Alia
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- How the Ancient Greeks Founded Naples in Italy
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- The True Date of the Trojan War
- Sampling a taste of Roman life in county | Shropshire Star
- Seven Ancient Greek Women Who Left Their Mark in History
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends beneficial river waters.
… 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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