Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Restitution Is Moving Quickly. The Pergamon Museum Is Taking It Slow. – The New York Times
- British Museum theft may have started 25 years ago
- British Museum was victim of inside job, George Osborne says – BBC News
- British Museum thefts were ‘inside job’, says George Osborne | British Museum | The Guardian
- British Museum to fully digitise collection after ‘inside job’ thefts | Reuters
- British Museum Announces Plan to Stop Thefts – The New York Times
- After Thefts, British Museum Will Bring Its Collection Online
- Amateur detectorist’s coin find reveals unknown British king
- An archaeological dig near Paris unearthed beginnings of urbanization dating back to 4,200 BC
- Discovery of buried coins in Wales turns out to be Roman treasure: “Huge surprise” – CBS News
- British Museum Chair Proposes Temporary Return Of Parthenon Sculptures To Greece In Exchange For Unseen Artefacts
- Egypt had an unusually powerful ‘female king’ 5,000 years ago, lavish tomb suggests | Live Science
- Stolen British Museum items to go on show, says George Osborne
- Archaeologists find Roman remains during work before mega pipeline project
- Hidden rooms found in Egyptian pyramid may contain pharaoh’s riches | The Independent
- Pair arrested for illegal possession of antiquities | eKathimerini.com
In Case You Missed It
- Scroll Reveals Ancient Egyptians’ Venomous Snake Problem
- Archaeologists Excavating the Tomb of Egypt’s First Female Pharaoh Found Hundreds of Jars Still Holding Remnants of Wine
- Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old child’s shoe with laces intact | CNN
- 1800-year-old Ancient Military Medal Of Medusa Discovered In Ancient Greek City Of Perre
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
- Myth understood: Natalie Haynes on kick-ass Greek Goddesses
- The plight of Roman refugees | The Spectator Australia
Fresh Bloggery
- Five Things That I Think That I Think About Publishing | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- PaleoJudaica.com: Barthélemy, The Precursors of Aquila (Brill)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: OpenDANES
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’homme et le monde selon Plotin
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cultes et textes sacrés dans l’Égypte tardive: Diffusion, circulation et adaptation
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Colors, Gilding and Painted Motifs in Persepolis: Approaching the Polychromy of Achaemenid Persian Architectural Sculpture, c. 520-330 BCE.
- Arm en straatarm in Rome (4) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Happy Talk | Sphinx
- #ClassicsTober23 18: Phaedra | Greek Myth Comix
- PaleoJudaica.com: The statements from ASOR, SBL, and EABS
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hazael’s invasion and baked bricks at Gath
- PaleoJudaica.com: The two creation accounts in Genesis
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Consolations of Literature
Other Blog-like Publications
- The Mortal Combat of Foxes and Hedgehogs; or, Why Do Eagles Win? – Antigone
- Romans were early pioneers of recycling
- From Politics to Poetics – by Joel Christensen
- A marble slab with an inscription from the 2nd century was discovered during excavations in Bulgaria – Arkeonews
- 2500-year-old Persian ancient palace dish discovered in Oluz Höyük, Türkiye – Arkeonews
- Pasts Imperfect (10.19.23)
- Munich was densely populated during the Iron Age | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
In this episode we tackle the years 413 and 412 BCE. These years come hard on the back of the murder of the patrician Postumius. Rome is facing challenges that seem to be bound up in the spolia in times of war and the broader annalist focus on the idea of the Struggle of the Orders which has been the defining feature of the early republic in Livy and Dionysius of Halicarnassus. To catch up on the unfortunate fate of Postumius, check out Episode 142 – A Wrongheaded Man.
In 480 BC, the Persian Great King Xerxes descended on mainland Greece with one of the largest armies and navies the world had ever seen. The Persians swept through the approaches to Greece, winning allies and destroying their foes along the way, before meeting the Spartan king Leonidas at the Hot Gates of Thermopylae.
Fresh Youtubery
- Jeremy Swist: From Argentoratum to Argentina: The World’s First Concept Album on the Emperor Julian – YouTube
- Madeleine St. Marie: Pandemic: Fall of Rome: Romanness, Corruption, and the Popular Imaginary – YouTube
- Wine and Time in Horace – YouTube | Classics at Cambridge
- Kill/Devil #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
- Long Table 153. The Gallic Connection: Roman Coinage, Silver Bullion, and the Via Domitia – YouTube | ANS
- British Museum to fully digitize collection after ‘inside job’ thefts – YouTube | Reuters
- Hades Playthough Part 5 – YouTube | Ancient Geeko-Roman
- Greek Mythology Expert Reviews Sav R. Miller’s MONSTERS & MUSES Series – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Judith Muñoz Sogas, Thirsty seafarers at Temple B of Kommos: commercial districts and the role of Crete in Phoenician trading networks in the Aegean. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.
- [BMCR] Wiebke Nierste, Natur und Kunst bei Claudian: poetische “concordia discors”. Millennium-Studien, 99. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.
- Ancient City Planning in a Greek Colony The Urban Development of Olbia Pontica in the Archaic-Classical Period | Spartokos a lu
- Your death runs fast behind you
- [BMCR] Jan Heilmann, Lesen in Antike und frühem Christentum: Kulturgeschichtliche, philologische sowie kognitionswissenschaftliche Perspektiven und deren Bedeutung für die neutestamentliche Exegese. Texte und Arbeiten zum neutestamentlichen Zeitalter, 66. Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto, 2020.
- [BMCR] Purificación Ubric Rabaneda, Writing history in late antique Iberia: historiography in theory and practice from the 4th to the 7th century. Late antique and early medieval Iberia. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Erased from Existence? Reading Revisionist History on the Urban Landscape (London, November 8, 2023) – Current Epigraphy
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor (tenure-track), Department of Classics job with New York University Arts and Science | 37546513
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Alia
- Was Homer Real?
- How Ancient Greeks Harnessed Wind Power to Win the Battle of Salamis
- When Alexander the Great Met Diogenes the Cynic
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 the downfall of a ruler or the overthrow of a king, and also warns to discord among the common folk but also abundance.
… 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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