Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Ancient Greek city wall discovered under Stari Grad on Hvar island | Croatia Week
- Thefts Show British Museum Can’t Keep Parthenon Marbles, MP Says – The National Herald
- British Museum must list missing objects so antiquities dealers can help | British Museum | The Guardian
- Tornos News | AP: Following British Museum thefts, Greece keeping watch what happens
- Association of Greek Archeologists’ announcement on the British Museum debacle | eKathimerini.com
- Parthenon Marbles deal still on the table despite British Museum theft scandal
- Theft isn’t the only problem facing the cash-strapped British Museum – and I have some answers | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
- Dan Hicks: the British Museum is an anachronism – let’s fix it
- China Joins a Growing Number of Nations Demanding the British Museum Restitute Artifacts From Its Collection in the Wake of Widespread Thefts
- Zahi Hawass Calls for International Conference to Retrieve Egyptian Items from British Museum | Sada Elbalad
- Nine in ten lost treasures never recovered by British museums
- Excavation Uncovers Potential Greek Cult Center Of Poseidon
- Lost Ancient Temple In Cyprus Rediscovered: German Archaeologists Unearth Sanctuary Of Frangissa
- Breakthrough for French researchers with discovery of Neolithic village
- New tombs from early Bronze Age found on Türkiye’s Çayönü hill | Daily Sabah
In Case You Missed It
- Carlisle: Roman bath dig finds to go on public display – BBC News
- Bricks emerging from forest floor turn out to be Roman ruins | Miami Herald
- 8-year-old unearths Roman-era silver coin in school sandbox | Live Science
- 300-meter stretch of aqueduct from late Second Temple period uncovered in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Love of Truth
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Spotted on eBay
- Qasr el-Azraq – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Another Ben-Tor memorial
- PaleoJudaica.com: More Jerusalem aqueduct uncovered. Lots more.
- REX Returns – buy our new ebook! – The Partial Historians
- Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Other Blog-like Publications
- Excavations Continue at the Holy Sepulchre – Biblical Archaeology Society
- Using Raman to Analyze Ancient Murals in Pompeii
- PXRF Analysis Reveals Unique Deterioration in Ancient Pottery
- Non-Invasive Methods for Studying Papyrus from Ancient Egypt
- Ancient History Revealed Using Laser Light: Unraveling the Secrets of Roman Egyptian Blue
- Patina on Ancient Bronze Coins
- Aeneid XI.836-915 – by publius vergilius maro
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Finishing on our first ever Roman tragedy… Seneca’s Medea is bigger and badder and absolutely willing to commit violence on stage…
Fresh Youtubery
- Did Women Fight in the Arena as Female Gladiators? #shorts #history – YouTube | Invicta
- Wildest Dreams IN LATIN (Taylor Swift cover) – “immanibus somniis” – YouTube
- The True Story of Alexander the Great in Ancient Egypt – YouTube | History Hit
- Ancient Coins: The Cornucopia – YouTube | Classical Numismatics
- ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1: Jason + The Greek Heroes Impregnate The Lemnians & Then Attack The Doliones YouTube | MoAn Inc
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Johann Goeken, Boire sous l’œil de Gorgias: un commentaire rhétorique du Banquet de Platon et du Banquet de Xénophon. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 36. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.
- [BMCR] Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, Bart Danon, The uncertain past: probability in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
- ‘The Gospel’ goes to the Getty | Arts & Entertainment | hpherald.com
- ‘The Odyssey’ review — an epic musical production with community at its heart | London Theatre
- The Odyssey Episode 5, National Theatre, review: akin to Ancient Greece, The Musical
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Nero: was Rome’s worst emperor really that evil? – Big Think
- Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor Who Embraced Greek Philosophy
- Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall From Grace
- The Age of the Museum is over – UnHerd
- The Mysterious Ancient Greek Game Made of Bones
- When John Oliver Demanded the Return of the Parthenon Marbles
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 nothing bad.
… 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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