Hodie est a.d. V Non. Oct. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Boedromion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
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- Roman coins found in Huntingdon on display in St Ives | The Hunts Post
- Sealed 5,000-Year-Old Wine Jars From Ancient Egypt Unearthed
- Oxford Archaeology present findings including evidence of Roman pottery industry from Urban and Civic Newark Southern Link Road site between Farndon and Balderton south of Newark
- If it’s all Greek to you, Emily Wilson’s new translation of ‘The Iliad’ may be worth a read – Deseret News
- Roman kilns discovered during nature reserve project | Colchester City Council
- Hagia Sophia in Danger of Collapse Turkish Expert Warns
- 10,000 march to Joshua’s altar to protect West Bank archaeological sites – Israel News – The Jerusalem Post
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- A Top Antiquities Sleuth Has Called Out the Manhattan D.A. For Continually Passing His Work Off As Its Own
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Fresh Bloggery
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- Laudator Temporis Acti: Blaming God
- An Alternate Telling of Medusa: Male Discourse Leads to Sexual Violence – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Modern Etruscans: Close Encounters with a Distant Past
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The LASLA Latin corpus has been published Open Access under a CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license
- Kirchner Collection – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Living Communities and Their Archaeologies in the Middle East
- Electoral graffiti found inside Pompeii house – The History Blog
- De Meden (2) Kyaxares en Astyages – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 3: Asterion | Greek Myth Comix
- Sincerity is a Goddess Honoured in the 2023 NYC Big Book Awards! |
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival #210
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- Passages on the Origin of a Minotaur – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Other Blog-like Publications
- 1800 Years Before Pompeii, Mount Vesuvius Devastated Another Civilization | by Erik Brown | Teatime History | Oct, 2023 | Medium
- “Tell Me about a Complicated Man”: A Homer Reading List – JSTOR Daily
- Archaeological mission finds hundreds of sealed jars in tomb of Merit-Neith | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Who will solve the puzzle of Bronze Age tin? Origin of tin ingots from Uluburun shipwreck disputed – the metal may have come from Cornwall – Arkeonews
- When Leftists Thought About Ancient Rome | Compact Mag
- Between 2 and 9 October 44 BCE: To Gaius Cassius Longinus (near Puteoli) from Cicero (at Rome)
- New monumental statues discovered at Göbeklitepe and Karahantepe
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Fresh Podcasts
Amanda Dylina Morse is a public health researcher, lecturer, and PhD student at Queen’s University, Belfast. She studied her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies and Ancient History at the University of Washington before embarking upon a Master’s in Public Health. She then became a surveillance epidemiologist leading and supporting investigations using emergency department, hospitalisation, and outpatient data in the United States. In this episode, we discover how the ancient world has been a thread throughout her varied career, her take on the differences between life in the US, UK and Ireland, and why she’d dress like Livia, kill Theseus, and always make sure the meat at a Roman banquet was fully cooked!
Aurelian is known as a conqueror, a general and a restorer, and his reputation is based on those achievements. But in his short rule of five years, he was also an Emperor, and made efforts to leave his mark on Rome. Part IV of ‘Aurelian’ Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).
PHRYNE! You’ve all seen the meme of the Hetarae who stripped in an Athenian courtroom to prove her innocence, right? Well that *may* have happened, but she was amazing regardless. Dr. Melissa Funke shares endless Phyrne and Hetarae stories of ancient Athens.
Liv is joined by Amy Pistone to talk all things reception of Sophocles’ Antigone, all the varied ways the play has been used to depict modern stories of resistance, in all its forms. Learn more about the Playing Antigone contest through Out of Chaos Theatre
Liv speaks with Rebecca Futo Kennedy about all things Athens: the politics behind Theseus’ mythology, immigration and the rights (and absolute lack thereof) of foreigners in the city depending upon the time period, and particularly, how women fit in.
It’s that time of year again… When we talk about the most horrifying stories from myth. Today, that cursed and murderous family, the Tantalids.
After her translation of Homer’s The Odyssey the classicist Emily Wilson tackles his epic, The Iliad. She brings to life the battle cries between the Greeks and the Trojans, the bellicose leaders, the political manoeuvres and the deals with the gods. Mary Beard looks at the expression of power in the ancient Roman world in her new study of Emperor of Rome. From Julius Caesar to Alexander Severus nearly two hundred years later, she explores just how much control and authority these rulers had, and the lengths they had to go to in order to cling on to power.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Ruth Bielfeldt, Johannes Eber, Susanne Bosche, Florian Knauß, Amelie Lutz, Neues Licht aus Pompeji. München; Oppenheim am Rhein: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Staatliche Antikensammlung; Nünnerich-Asmus Verlag & Media, 2022.
- [BMCR] Andrew M. Riggsby, Mosaics of knowledge: representing information in the Roman world. Classical culture and society. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2019.
- ‘Circé’ Review: A Re-Enchantment Through Greek Mythology and French Baroque Opera | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends hurricanes and the uprooting of trees; the lives of the common people will be greatly disrupted.
… 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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