Hodie est Id. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Ancient street to come to surface in Phaselis
- Digging Up the Nakba: Israeli Archaeologists Excavate Palestinian Village Abandoned in 1948 – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Will British Museum scandal hasten return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece?
- 7,000-year-old animal bones, human remains found in enigmatic stone structure in Arabia | Live Science
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- More Details on the Possible Codex at Graz | Variant Readings
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Current Research in Egyptology 2022: Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Symposium, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 26-30 September 2022
- F**k Sleep, I’m Going to the Library! [FTS Week] – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Circe’s Island Is Really about Reincarnation: An Allegorical Reading of Odyssey 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Edoardo Almagià, Antiquities and Princeton
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- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Cultural property criminals’ responses to the invasion and occupation of the Donbas
- PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on the Legio X Fretensis
- PaleoJudaica.com: Persepolis tablets to be returned to Iran
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 209
- Antonina: a sixth-century military wife | OUPblog
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- Caesar Thought Gaul Was an Easy Target—Until a Vicious New Enemy Rose Up Against Him
- Raider of the Lost Art | Princeton Alumni Weekly
- Archaeologists discovered a Thracian tomb from the time of the Odrysian kingdom in southern Bulgaria – Arkeonews
- Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview
- They find a temple, precious marbles, houses and streets. The first excavations prove the professor right who, with Google Earth, had seen a Roman neighborhood buried in the Marche – Style Art
- Archaeologists find statue of Triton in Roman mausoleum | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Fresh Podcasts
NT Pod 102 asks, “Has Q Been Discovered?” It is 14 minutes long. NT Pod 102: Has Q Been Discovered? (mp3) Key texts: P.Oxy.5575; Matt. 6.25-33; Luke 6.22-31; Luke 12.16-21; Thomas 27; Thomas 36; Thomas 63. For more on P.Oxy.5575, see: Candida Moss, “Scholars Publish New Papyrus with Early Sayings of Jesus” (Daily Beast) Peter Gurry, Synopsis of P.Oxy. 5575, Matt, Luke, and Thomas (Evangelical Textual Criticism Blog)Mark Goodacre, English Synopsis of P.Oxy. 5575, Matthew, Luke, and Thomas (PDF)Brent Nongbri, “The Date of the New Oxyrhynchus Sayings of Jesus P.Oxy. 87.5575”, Variant Readings BlogJ. Fish, D.B. Wallace, and M. W. Holmes (eds), “P.Oxy. 5575” in Volume LXXXVII of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (2023) [Fuller citation to follow]
Argishti ruled the ancient kingdom of Urartu, located in today’s Armenia and Eastern Turkey. During Argishti’s reign in the 8th century BC, Urartu held sway over its powerful neighbor, the Neo-Assyrian Empire
Dr George Maher, actuary, Roman economist and honorary treasurer of the Classical Association discuss his twofold career, what the Romans would have made of Bitcoin, life on a Roman frontier, and gives us a crash course in ancient economics 101 – this is such an interesting conversation and we hope you enjoy Episode 7 of Classics and Careers!
Fresh Youtubery
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- Ancient Empires: Alexander the Great Establishes Alexandria (S1) | Exclusive – YouTube
- Inside and up the Mausoleum of Augustus – YouTube | Darius Arys Digs
- Silphium tasting – YouTube | A taste of the ancient world
|Book Reviews
- The Boundaries of Ancient Trade – The Source
- [BMCR] Sarah F. Derbew, Untangling blackness in Greek antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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- Assistant Professor- Department of Classics – HigherEdJobs
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends a serious famine.
… 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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