Hodie est pr. Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Relief of bearded man, recovered from the UK, passes microscopic tests – Tehran Times
- New York authorities order seizure of ancient statue at Cleveland Museum of Art possibly connected to looting, trafficking of antiquities in Turkey – cleveland.com
- Ancient Greeks staged plays here. Now, theater is restored | Miami Herald
- Hunt for British Museum stolen artefacts raises questions
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- York: Archaeologist to be onsite for hotel extension work – BBC News
- Experts to search for Roman remains in The Mount, York | York Press
- ‘Extremely rare’ Roman temple discovered on supermarket building site | CNN
- Archaeologists uncover parts of long-lost temple of a cult of Poseidon – The Jerusalem Post
- Now Welsh nationalists demand return of ancient treasures as they say theft-hit British Museum cannot be trusted to look after them | Daily Mail Online
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Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Too Late‘
- Twelve Days in the Year: 27 August 2023 | Sphinx
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Remember Virgil
- “The Cheapness of Our Tongue”: Three Latin Passages on Translation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gertrude Bell Archive
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Linguistic Classification of the Reading Traditions of Biblical Hebrew: A Phyla-and-Waves Model
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Perspectives in Biblical and Rabbinic Hebrew
- Vanitas Allegory, By Willem de Poorter (c. 1608-1649) – The Historian’s Hut
- Keizer Augustus (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Too Late to Dig a Well
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Praise of Philology
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Catacomb of Priscilla – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Archaeologists find stone lion’s head during excavations in Sicily | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Large Roman Complex found in Swiss Gravel Quarry – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists Find Mysterious 2,800-year-old Channels in Jerusalem – Arkeonews
- Aeneid XII.113-215 – by publius vergilius maro
- The Stoic Wisdom of Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius: An Introduction in Six Short Videos | Open Culture
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Excavation of Iron Age cesspits in Jerusalem has us thinking many things. These include 1) wow, they actually recovered protozoa that caused dysentery, how’d they do that, and, 2) umm, Jerusalem elites were really unhealthy. Our contestants try to keep the juvenile humor to a minimum.
This episode contains references to scenes that some listeners may find distressing In 79 AD, ancient armageddon hit Pompeii: Mount Vesuvius erupted, freezing in time a town and its inhabitants. Nearly 2000 years on, Pompeii’s story continues. In the last episode of our special mini series, we’re exploring the stages of the eruption, how the town was buried, and how it was eventually found nearly 1500 years later. Hear from our only eyewitness account, Pliny the Younger, on what the tragedy looked like, discover what the Romans knew after the eruption and why they came back, and how Caroline Bonaparte, Napoleon’s sister, contributed to first efforts of public conservation.
We return to the 410s BCE to explore some classic Conflict of the Orders. This one will end with an evil patrician plan (mwahahaha) to divide and conquer their plebeian foes.
Off the coast of Israel there is an underwater megalithic stone circle dating back to the 7000s BC – that is perfectly preserved, keeping its secrets from another time. This is the story of a prehistoric city (well, village) off the coast of Israel. Thousands of years ago, it sank beneath the waves. Its discovery was revolutionary and changed what we thought about the people who lived in this area during the stone age. Today, we’re going to dive into the past, to a time when the Mediterranean rose up and sunk a city – and froze a time, a people, and a way of life in place.
The Persians were unlikely successors to the Assyrians and Babylonians, a fringe people of no particular importance, until Cyrus the Great became the most successful conqueror the world had ever seen. He built an empire stretching from Central Asia to the borders of Egypt, the Aegean to the Persian Gulf, and laid the foundations for a state that would last for 200 years.
Fresh Youtubery
- Pompeii of the Middle East: Roman Jerash – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
- Battle of Pylos 425 BC #tactical #documentary #history #peloponnesianwar #athens #sparta #military – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Foundation/Bottom #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
- Decoding the Mystery of the Minoan Ancient Civilization – YouTube | History Hit
- Massive 1-Hour Long Ancient Coins Unboxing! – YouTube | Classical Numismatics
- What was the function of the Channel Installation discovered dating to the time of the Judean Kings? – YouTube | IAA
- You Are Odysseus – writing an Odyssey Choose-Your-Own-Path book for education and fun – YouTube | Greek Myth Comix
- Greek Myths I Wish Authors Would Retell – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
Book Reviews
- Les 100 ans du musée de Kertch (essai historique) | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Ronald A. Bleeker, Aspar and the struggle for the eastern Roman empire (A.D. 421-471). London: Bloomsbury, 2022.
- [BMCR] Marek Węcowski, Athenian ostracism and its original purpose: a prisoner’s dilemma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor of Classics University of Notre Dame
- Assistant or Associate Professor – Greek Literature – Department of Ancient Greek and Roman Studies (JPF04014) – UC Berkeley AP Recruit
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Best Greek Mythology Books | The Mary Sue
- Anahit: The Armenian Goddess Of Fertility, Healing And Wisdom
- Eros and Psyche: The Greatest Love Story in Greek Mythology
- Cerberus: Guard Dog of the Underworld in Ancient Greek Mythology
- George Osborne’s midlife crisis | The Spectator
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
[no entry for today]
… 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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