Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 30 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Roman fragments offer glimpse of emperor Hadrian’s daily events calendar | Italy | The Guardian
- How do we return the Rosetta Stone to Egypt? – Egypt Independent
- Largest Roman griffin weight unearthed in Türkiye’s Assos | Daily Sabah
- Rare gold coins found at ancient sacrificial site in Tunisia | The Sacramento Bee
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- Synagogue unearthed in ancient Greek city of Phanagoria – Neos Kosmos
- Ancient Amphora Found on Beach in Italy – ARTnews.com
- Synagogue From Late Second Temple Period Found by Black Sea in Russia – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Cyprus dig reveals key trading hub in antiquity
Fresh Bloggery
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- “Support PHI” Petition – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
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- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antike Identitäten und Moderne Identifikationen: Raum, Wissen und Repräsentation: Mit Beiträgen einer Tagung des Berliner Exzellenzclusters Topoi, 18.–19. Juni 2015
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- The Roman Satirist, Lucian, Abandoned A Family Business Of Sculpting To Become A Man Of Letters – The Historian’s Hut
- Het graf van Sokrate – Mainzer Beobachter
- 2,000-year-old synagogue found in southern Russia – The History Blog
- PaleoJudaica.com: First-century CE synagogue excavated on the Cimmerian Bosporus
- The Roman Bath at Isthmia and the Hexamilion, Part II | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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- Ancient Coin Seizures Gain Attention – Numismatic News
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
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- 5,500-year-old gate found at Tell Erani | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Fresh Podcasts
In Episode 3, Claire Marchetti joins Katrina for a wide ranging chat: they talk Roman roads, pragmatism, Horace, project management, the triumvirate’s shared inbox, and some of her favourite historic places to visit in England. Claire studied for a BA and MA in Classics at the University of Exeter and she has since worked for the National Trust, Highways England and now Historic England.
In this week’s episode we look back on the mysterious Mitochondrial Eve, the mysterious Xia dynasty of ancient China, and the not so mysterious Battle of Carrhae between the Roman Republic and the Parthian Persian Empire.
Fresh Youtubery
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- why you should read Suetonius! – YouTube | Jennifer Brooks
Book Reviews
- Le périple de la mer Noire par Arrien | Spartokos a lu
- Alexandra Pierce Reviews Psyche and Eros by Luna McNamara – Locus Online
- BMCR ~ Amit Shilo, Beyond death in the Oresteia: poetics, ethics, and politics. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Andrew Tibbs, Facing the enemy? A GIS study of 1st century Roman fortifications in the Scottish landscape. Archaeology of Roman Britain, 9. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2022
- BMCR ~ Timothy A. Joseph, Thunder and lament: Lucan on the beginnings and ends of epic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
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- Herod’s Complicated Relationship with Judaism – Aish.com
- Greek Mythology’s Griffin and its Connection to Gobi Desert Dinosaurs
- The Forum of Augustus hidden from Via dei Fori Imperiali in Rome | Artribune
- For ancient Romans, India existed in a liminal zone between the marketplace and the imagination
- Famous travelers to Türkiye: Bedrich Hrozny, Czech scholar, archaeologist | Daily Sabah
- How the Ancient Greeks Designed Their Cities
- Decoding the pharmacological past | Arts & Culture | Yale Alumni Magazine
- Animals in ancient Egypt – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
- The Ancient Greek Celebrations of Mid-August
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 a long-lasting peace.
… 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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