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In the News
- Unearthing The Ancient Greek City Of Kelenderis: A Glimpse Into The Goddess Hecate’s Realm
- Roman Caistor: Town’s Iron Age past being unearthed in dig – BBC News
- New find throws light on life of slaves in Ancient Rome’s Pompeii | Reuters
- Bedroom ‘used by slaves’ found by archaeologists near Pompeii | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Rats and mice discovered entombed in Pompeii vases
- Pompeii discovery sheds light on life under slavery – DW – 08/20/2023
- Uncovering the history of Pompeii’s SLAVES: Archaeologists discover a cramped room in an ancient house that provides a rare glimpse into the lives of servants before Mount Vesuvius’ devastating eruption | Daily Mail Online
- Ancient tombs discovered in northern Iran – Tehran Times
- British Museum: How easy is it to steal from a museum? – BBC News
- Mosul archaeology project uncovers ‘spectacular’ Assyrian relics
- Yemen’s looted antiquities: Rare artifacts to be put on sale in Tel Aviv
- Kouros Sculptures Unearthed in the Ancient Greek Sanctuary of Despotiko
- Evidence of Jerusalem’s Destruction at the Hands of Babylonians, Then Romans Now Revealed on Mount Zion – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Archaeologists find dinosaur bone amongst Roman artefacts in Cambridge dig – Cambridgeshire Live
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- Stacks of Cash from the Lecture Circuit – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- De Heksenberg bij Heerlen – Mainzer Beobachter
- Archaic artifacts found at Helike temple site – The History Blog
- Consequences | Sphinx
- PaleoJudaica.com: Where did forgers get their ancient blank papyus?
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Queering the Past(s)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paizomen: A Database of Classical Antiquity Games
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Working Classicists
- Are You Down with O.P.P. (Other Peoples’ Pimples)? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A new fragment of the Fasti Ostienses dated to AD 128 found at Ostia Antica FOLLOWING HADRIAN
- Icarus [Ikarosz] (1996) – Animated Antiquity
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Codex Zacynthius: Catena, Palimpsest, Lectionary
- Laudator Temporis Acti: They Are Numerous
- Roots of Routes – Mainzer Beobachter
- Thoughts on the confessions of Cosa Nostra boss Matteo Messina Denaro during his February interrogation ~ ARCAblog
- Lost Treasures Department: Mother with Baby Centaurs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- A new paper in Science… and introducing the IE-CoR database | Consulting Philologist
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- Pompeii is Found | History Today
- New finds in ancient Rome’s Pompeii show ‘conditions of precarity and poor hygiene, in which people of lower status lived during that time – Arkeonews
- Of Mice and Men – Pompeii Sites
- Slave room found at Roman Pompeii | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Archaeologists find Hecate figurine at ancient Kelenderis | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- The lost Roman city of the legion: Caerleon, Wales
Fresh Podcasts
Pompeii is shrouded in myths and legends about it’s vibrant, after hours, night life. With theories of carved stone penis’ pointing towards brothels, frescoes of graphic images, and bawdy graffiti immortalising individual’s experiences – there’s a lot to unpack when it comes to Sex in Pompeii. But what can we decipher from the archaeology about the lives of sex workers in Pompeii – and are their experiences universal, even today? In the third episode of our special series on Pompeii, we’re delving into the Brothels of Pompeii with Sex Historian, and host of Betwixt the Sheets, Dr Kate Lister. Looking at the shared experiences between sex workers and gladiators, secret Museums filled with sordid artefacts, and the images that decorate Pompeii’s Lupanar – what do we know about Sex in Pompeii? And if you follow the Penis’ – where do they actually take you?
In the recent Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny movie, the Antikythera Mechanism is used for time travel but in reality it was actually more of a celestial calculator- to track and predict astronomical phenomena. It was discovered by a group of Greek sponge divers in 1901 as they explored the site of an ancient shipwreck that dated back to the first century BCE. Among the wreckage on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, they found a complex arrangement of gears, wheels, and dials housed in a wooden case. It has astounded archaeologists, scientists and historians for years. It challenges our previous understanding of ancient technological capabilities and reveals the sophisticated level of scientific knowledge possessed by the ancient Greeks. Dan is joined by Professor Tony Freeth, a man who understandings this astonishing object better than most- he is a founding member of the Antikythera Mechanism Research Project and an Honorary Senior Research Associate at University College, London. He believes that the Antikythera Mechanism, may be an iteration of something designed by the great Greek inventor Archimedes, decades earlier…
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- What We Actually Know About ‘Greek Fire’ – Medieval Flamethrowers and Hand Grenades? – YouTube
- The Besieger: Macedonia’s Greatest Losing General – YouTube | Classics in Color
- Pompei: ricostruita la vita degli schiavi a Civita Giuliana – YouTube | Pompeii
Book Reviews
- Thango Ntwasa reviews ‘Clytemnestra’ by Costanza Casati
- BMCR ~ Arnaud Tripet, La lanterne de Diogène. Perspectives comparatistes, 124. Paris: Classiques Garnier, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Nathan Gilbert, Margaret Graver, Sean McConnell, Power and persuasion in Cicero’s philosophy. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023
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- 10 Facts about Boudicca, warrior queen of the Iceni
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- 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 both prosperty and discord among the common people.
… 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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