Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 2 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- British Museum antiquities thief alleged to be veteran curator Peter Higgs
- Revealed: British Museum curator, 56, sacked after gold jewellery and gems worth tens of millions disappeared was world authority and one of institution’s ‘Monuments Men’ who helped fight international looting | Daily Mail Online
- Named: Curator sacked after British Museum treasures vanished | The Independent
- Pictured: British Museum worker sacked after artefacts theft | UK News | Metro News
- Race to find priceless artefacts stolen from British Museum in ‘inside job’ as staff… – LBC
- Greek archaeologists awarded Harvard fellowship to study Early Iron Age pottery | eKathimerini.com
- Greek Culture Ministry Evicts Archeologists’ Association From its HQ | Balkan Insight
- Rare gold coins found at ancient sacrificial site in Tunisia | Miami Herald
- British Museum: Other treasures previously stolen from its collections
- Damage And Theft Of Parthenon Marbles In British Museum Is “extremely Sad And Serious,” Says Greek Culture Minister
- Culture Ministry following developments at British Museum ‘very carefully’ | eKathimerini.com
In Case You Missed It
- Iron Window Bars Unearthed at a Roman Public Bath in Spain | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
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Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Like Blood Poured Over Milk: It Gets Worse When Achilles Dies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Bad Deal
- The Wrong Monkey: Neo-Latin Texts from Bloomsbury
- Two new fragments of Roman calendar found in Ostia – The History Blog
- De Grieks-Romeinse natuurwetenschappen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Red Faces at the British Museum: “It’s Chaos Down There”.
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Henze & Lincicum (eds.) Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings
- And You Will Know Us By The Interminable Appendices | Sphinx
- Cassius on Roman versus Greek superiority – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.
- The Endangered Writing Network
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Odd, Apparently unpapered, Roman Intaglio with Quadriga and Quirky Style
- Race and Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean and West Asian Worlds: A Syllabus – Everyday Orientalism
Other Blog-like Publications
- ANE Today – Local Communities and Archaeological Sites: A Case Study at Dougga in Tunisia
- Rare gold gifts 2300 years old discovered in the famous Phoenician city of Carthage – Arkeonews
- A Nymphaeum was discovered in the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon – Arkeonews
- The Weapons of the Roman Legionary: An In-Depth Guide
- Aeneid X.606-718 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- Mid August 44 BCE: From Cicero the Younger (in Athens) to Tiro
Fresh Podcasts
Our guest today is Dr Joanne Ball. Joanne is a Roman archaeologist and battlefield archaeologist based at the University of Liverpool, with a PhD in Archaeology on the subject of Roman battlefield archaeology. She is a regular contributor to several magazines focused on ancient history and was co-editor of Ancient World Magazine. And is soon to have published the Publius Quinctilius Varus: The Man Who Lost Three Roman Legions in the Teutoburg Disaster.
Jsoth, wonders what account of the battle of Milvain Bridge does Murray find most convincing, and what supporting evidence is of the battle?
Liv reads Book XII of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, translated by Brookes More. The Greeks prepare for war with Troy, Caenis becomes Caeneus, there’s a war between Centaurs and Lapiths, and Achilles, well… No spoilies.
Fresh Youtubery
- Tutela e conservazione del patrimonio di Pompei – YouTube | Pompeii
- Homer’s Odyssey, an ancient fresco cycle – YouTube | Smarthistory
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Günther Hölbl, ‘Aegyptiaca’ nella Sicilia greca di VIII-VI sec. a.C. Monumenti antichi, 81; serie misc., 26. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2021.
- BMCR ~ Gianpiero Rosati, Narcissus and Pygmalion: illusion and spectacle in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Hundreds of Ancient Ornate Tombs Intrigue Archaeologists
- The Ancient Roman Religion That Rivaled Early Christianity
- What Is a Centaur?
- The Cult of God Serapis in Egypt and the Greek World
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 civil war.
… 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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