Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 3 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Ancient metal cauldrons give us clues about what people ate in the Bronze Age
• Sequencing genes of Iron and Bronze Age peoples to better understand early Mediterranean migration patterns
• Turkish archaeologist highlights Urartian settlements in northwest Iran – Tehran Times
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• Revealed: Stolen British Museum treasures worth up to £50,000 were offered on eBay for as little as £40 as expert curator is sacked | Daily Mail Online
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• British Museum director ‘resigned over jewel thefts’
• Five 2,300-Year-Old Gold Coins and Infant Remains Found at Ancient Cemetery

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Podcasts

• History of Persia: 105: The Life and Death of Philip II on Apple Podcasts

It’s time to turn back the clock – just a bit – and see what King Philip II of Macedon was doing over in eastern Europe while the Persians were busy with Egypt, rebels, and succession crises in the mid-4th Century BCE.

Fresh Youtubery

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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

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Alia

• New Artifacts Unearthed at Ancient Greek Sanctuary of Helike
• Thefts by staff a common problem in UK museums, say experts | Museums | The Guardian
• The Glory of Mycenae Where Early Greek Civilization Flourished

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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:

[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends women and the servile class daring to commit murders

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a plague on cattle and disorder in state affairs

… 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)

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
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• 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

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• In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists | The Times of Israel

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ PROFUGORUM PERICLUM Calamitas per freta 

Public Facing Classics

• Victor Nuovo: Explaining Skepticism – Addison Independent

Fresh Bloggery

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• 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
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• 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

• Rock, Paper, Swords!: Dr Joanne Ball, Roman/battlefield archaeologist! on Apple 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.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Which account of the battle of the Milvian Bridge is the most convincing? on Apple Podcasts

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• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XII on Apple Podcasts

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Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

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• BMCR ~ Gianpiero Rosati, Narcissus and Pygmalion: illusion and spectacle in Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Helios review – Greek myth comes sweetly to modern Yorkshire | Edinburgh festival 2023 | The Guardian

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

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• The Ancient Roman Religion That Rivaled Early Christianity
• What Is a Centaur?
• The Cult of God Serapis in Egypt and the Greek World

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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)

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Water drainage system discovered in Dromolaxia-Vyzakia archaeological site | in-cyprus.com
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• British Museum staff member dismissed as gold, jewellery and semi-precious gems dating back to the 15th century BC are found ‘missing, stolen or damaged’ from collection – bosses vow to find treasures but say recovery will be a ‘painstaking job’ | Daily Mail Online
• British Museum sacks member of staff over missing and stolen items | Reuters
• British Museum Fires Worker Accused of Stealing Gold and Gems – The New York Times
• British Museum sacks staff member after items vanish from collection | British Museum | The Guardian
• Exclusive: British Museum was told three years ago that member of staff was stealing artefacts
• 42 BC coin marking assassination of Julius Ceasar sells for $240,000
• Archaeologists Find Perplexing 4,000-year-old Canaanite Arch in Northern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Archaeologists find 3,800-year-old vaulted passageway in Jezreel Valley – The Jerusalem Post
• In northern Israel, massive 3,800-year-old monument stuns and stumps archaeologists | The Times of Israel
• Latest archaeological discovery at the ancient Thracian city of Perperikon – Българска национална телевизия
• Tools used to make rosary beads found in Nero’s Theatre

In Case You Missed It

• Israeli Armageddon mosaic sparks Christian museum loan debate – The Jerusalem Post
• Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic near Armageddon. Where it could go next sparks outcry | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
• Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic, send it to US Evangelical museum | The Times of Israel
• ‘Most Ancient Gate’ in Holy Land Found by Archaeologists in Israel
• Remains of a Synagogue from the time of the Second Temple were Discovered in Russia – The Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS
• Cyprus dig reveals key trading hub in antiquity
• Ancient Roman tablets document how Hadrian marked becoming emperor

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Monmouth College Classics Program Receives $175,000 Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities | River Cities’ Reader

Public Facing Classics

• Schoolboy, Where Are You Going? | Lapham’s Quarterly
• Aristotle’s advice for Coutts | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Think You’re Done with that Pee? Wait, There’s More! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Out, Damned Spot, Out
• Laudator Temporis Acti: What Harm?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Fable Society
• Spaces and Scripts: The Dynamic of Reading in Ancient Texts – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek and Latin Texts with Facing Vocabulary and Commentary: Free digital files for the textbook series written by Geoffrey Steadman
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AOI) update
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: LAREGRE. – Latin Relics in a Greek East
• Octavianus – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Gold coins and baby sacrifices excavated at Carthage
• PaleoJudaica.com: Megiddo “Jesus” mosaic to be loaned to Museum of the Bible?
• The Difference Between Life and Death – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• DAI4UKR: Stolen Heritage – Jewelry from Burial 128 of the Late Scythian Necropolis of Chervony Mayak, Kherson region – Documenting, Recording and Saving Ukrainian Archaeological Heritage

Other Blog-like Publications

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• Excavations uncover gothic cemetery filled with ornate jewellery | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Remedia Amoris 653-662

Fresh Podcasts

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A new article suggests that an elite Copper Age burial in southern Spain belonged to a young woman, not a man, and that society was a matriarchy. Our contestants are a little conflicted about reconstructing society starting with a single tooth, but it sounds a bit like Barbie Land, which is cool with us.

• The Partial Historians: Classical Reception in Lil Nas X with Yentl Love on Apple Podcasts

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• Tides of History: The Neo-Babylonian Empire and the Destruction of Jerusalem on Apple Podcasts

Despite controlling a huge swathe of the Near East for the better part of a century, the Neo-Babylonian Empire is nearly forgotten today, aside from one key act: the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of the people of the kingdom of Judah.

Fresh Youtubery

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• 12 Romance Books Inspired By Greek Mythology You NEED TO READ! – YouTube | MoAn Inc.

Book Reviews

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• Pratiques cultuelles et dynamiques religieuses entre le Pont-Euxin et la mer Égée dans l’Antiquité | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Luca Basso, Dee di maggio: introduzione e commento a Ovidio, Fasti 5, 1-378. Millennium, 12. Alessandria: Edizioni dell’Orso, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Rebecca J. Henzel, Honores inauditi: Ehrenstatuen in öffentlichen Räumen Siziliens vom Hellenismus bis in die Spätantike. Cultural interactions in the Mediterranean, 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Jessica Clementi, Mariateresa Curcio, Rachele Dubbini, Un atleta venuto dal mare: criticità e prospettive di un ritorno. Adrias, 9. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2023.
• BMCR ~ Timothy A. Joseph, Thunder and lament: Lucan on the beginnings and ends of epic. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Was Alexander the Great an Alcoholic?
• Epictetus on Nero – The Good Men Project
• Work and Wages in Ancient Greece
• Snakes Were Used to Heal the Sick in Ancient Greece
• The Quest to Unravel Herculaneum’s Lost Library

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 gloomy times for lower class 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)

Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 30 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• 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

In Case You Missed It

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• Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic, send it to US Evangelical museum | The Times of Israel
• Archaeologists Unearth Israel’s Oldest Monumental City Gate – ARTnews.com
• 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
• Make the Law Great Again! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Studying Written Artefacts: Hamburg, September 27–29 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• 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
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le périple de la mer Noire par Arrien
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Modern Greek for Classisicts: A Graded Reader
• 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
• Greek Myth and Roman History Chickens sticker sale! | Greek Myth Comix
• Ancient Coin Seizures Gain Attention – Numismatic News

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Death in Three Acts: Conference on Practices of Dealing with Body and Death – crossing borders – building contacts
• Public Speaking: Secrets from the Classical Tradition | Dickinson College Commentaries
• Iron Age treasure hoard found in Anglesey | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Other Blog-like Publications

• 5500-year-old city gate unearthed in Israel -the earliest known in the Land of Israel- Arkeonews
• Trajan: Rome’s Greatest Emperor? | HistoryExtra
• When and Why Did Roman Britain End?
• 5,500-year-old gate found at Tell Erani | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Aeneid X.426-509 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: Classics and Careers: Claire Marchetti, Carbon and Sustainability Manager at Historic England on Apple 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.

• History of the World podcast: The History of the World podcast Magazine – 16th August 2023 on Apple Podcasts

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

• What Is Female Strength In a Man’s World? Reviewing Luna McNamara’s PSYCHE & EROS w/ @BooksandBao – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
• The Five Good Emperors of the Roman Empire – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• The Pictish Problem – Genetics of Scotland – YouTube | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• 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

• TROJAN WOMEN [Edinburgh International Festival] – STARBURST Magazine

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• 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

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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)

Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ostia, ritrovati due nuovi frammenti dei Fasti Ostienses | Corriere.it
• 2,000-year-old gold treasure from Iron Age tribe unearthed by metal detectorists in Wales | Live Science
• Ancient Greek Gold Coins From Iron Age Unearthed in Wales
• Europe’s ancient languages shed light on a great migration and weather vocabulary
• Archaeologists start new dig at site previously yielded urn-like tombs in southwest Iran – Tehran Times
• Lifeguard turns ‘accidental archaeologist’ with amphora find – English – ANSA.it
• One of the World’s Oldest Synagogues Has Just Been Discovered
• Synagogue unearthed in ancient Greek city of Phanagoria – Neos Kosmos
• Sarsina, tracce di un tempio “Scoperta eccezionale”
• Discovery of Israel’s oldest gate resets clock on local urbanization by centuries | The Times of Israel
• Archaeologists Unearth Earliest Monumental City Gate in Israel, From 5,500 Years Ago – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Israeli archeologists find ‘most ancient gate’ discovered in Holy Land – The Jerusalem Post
• Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic near Armageddon. Where it could go next sparks outcry
• Israel may uproot ancient Christian mosaic near Armageddon. Where it could go next sparks outcry | AP News
• The Parthenon Marbles And The Culture Of Protest

In Case You Missed It

• More stolen archaeological treasures return to Italy from the US
• 266 Antiquities Seized in US Returned to Italy – ARTnews.com
• Intact Iron Bars Found at Ancient Roman Bath Complex in Spain – ARTnews.com
• How engineer and his sons found ancient Greek ship on Egypt’s north coast

Public Facing Classics

• Jupiter and Semele in the #MeToo world | Blog post by Mary Beard

Fresh Bloggery

• Sikanians, Sikelians, Phoenicians and Greeks: Thucydides on settlement of Sicily (late fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Melqart in meervoud – Mainzer Beobachter
• Pliny Plans a Staycation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Antiquarian Twaddle
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dieu au Collège de France
• Ignoring the Cause, Assailing the Symptoms – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Subjektive und objektive Zeit: Aristoteles und die moderne Zeit-Theorie
• Pilier des nautes – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Briquel Chatonnet & Debie, The Syriac World (Yale)
• It’s called an illusion – Noodlings
• The Roman Bath at Isthmia and the Hexamilion, Part I | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Entreaty

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• My Classics Placement Experience So Far – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

• Host. Two fragments of the Fasti Ostienses have now been brought to light. Translated the passage. The meaning, the history – Art Style
• Archaeologists discover ancient synagogue in the Black Sea region | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Is Poetry Dangerous? Plato’s Philosophy of Art
• Aeneid X.308-425 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a denarius of Octavian
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Remedia Amoris 509-620

Fresh Podcasts

• Latinitas Animi Causa: Ep. 23: De Rusticatione (cum Secunda Mensa!) Pars Prima on Apple Podcasts

Andreas et Ilsa (Clara, proh dolor, absente) c*m amicis nobis carissimis ac desideratissimis Timotheo et Catharina adsumus ut de Rusticatione quam una celebravimus mense Iulio colloquamur!

• So You Think You Can Rule Persia: 45. Phraates IV on Apple Podcasts

Chosen to be king just because he was next in line, will Phraates learn quickly on the job? Join us for the end of the Roman Republic, civil wars, and a look behind the curtain of Augustus’ boasts.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Who Knew Medea Could Be Even Angrier, Even More Bloodthirsty? (Seneca’s Medea Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

It’s time for our first ever Roman tragedy… Seneca’s Medea is mouthier, angrier, and even more vengeful than Euripides, and I’m here for it.  Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content!

Fresh Youtubery

• How Did the Roman Legions Get Paid? – YouTube | Invicta
• Walk inside Trajan’s Column – YouTube | Darius Arya Digs
• When I Am Laid in Earth – “ubi ego moriar” [Dido and Aeneas – Purcell] – YouTube
• Wilby’s Guide to Latin Conversation – YouTube | LatinPerDiem

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Fernando Echeverría, Adolfo J. Domínguez Monedero, César Fornis, José Pascual, Laura Sancho Rocher, Jerjes contra Grecia: la Segunda Guerra Médica, 2500 años después. Col. Instrumenta, 82. Barcelona: Edicions Universitat de Barcelona, 2022.
• Book Review: ‘House of Odysseus’ by Claire North
• BMCR ~ Robert Maltby, Niall W. Slater, Fragmentary Republican Latin, volume VI: Livius Andronicus. Naevius. Caecilius. Loeb classical library, 314. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Topos exhibition at Museum of Classical Archaeology in Cambridge ‘questions canons of beauty’

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Who is Prometheus, the Greek God Referenced in ‘Oppenheimer’?
• First Women Lawyers of Ancient Rome

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 change for the worse in business.

… 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)