Hodie est a.d. VII Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Archaeologists uncover Sassanian funerary ruins in northwest Iran – Tehran Times
- Research reconciles two dominant hypotheses of Indo-European language origin
- Roman coins found in Welsh field turn out to be buried treasure
- Archaeologists Find the First Red Paint Made From Plants | Science| Smithsonian Magazine
- Spy photos of Syrian desert reveal ancient Roman forts | Science | AAAS
- Spy Satellites Over Syria Reveal Hundreds of Ancient Roman Forts – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
- Cold war satellite images reveal hundreds of unknown Roman forts | Archaeology | The Guardian
- Iron Age settlement and skeleton has been found in Evesham | Evesham Journal
- Ancient complex unearthed in central Athens | eKathimerini.com
In Case You Missed It
- Ancient Assyrian Deity Statue Uncovered in Iraq
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- 2,000-year-old decorated Roman sandal unearthed in Spain | Live Science
- Police in Spain Seized Greco-Scythian Artifacts That Were Allegedly Stolen From Ukraine—But Experts Doubt Their Authenticity
- Carlisle’s Roman bath excavation project to return – BBC News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Why the Roman Empire is worth thinking about | Connecticut Public
- What the Hell Happened: The Roman Empire Trend & Modern Masculinity | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Greek/Latin News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- Werewolf Week In Rome: Don’t Look a Wolf in the Eyes! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Boxing Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Computational Assyriology
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proceedings of the International Conference on Taphonomy and Post-Funeral Practices in Pre-Roman Italy: Problems and Perspectives. Papers of the International Workshop held atthe University of Basel, January 12th, 2021
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: eAkkadian: An online Coursebook
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AOI) update
- Ancient Greek Vampires 1: Empousa – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Ideal Historian
- Paideia – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 25: Talos | Greek Myth Comix
- #ClassicsTober23 24: Hephaestus | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Augustine in a Sour Mood
- Continuing Adventures in AI – Noodlings
- PaleoJudaica.com: A new Book of the Dead manuscript excavated in Egypt
- PaleoJudaica.com: New open-access book: The Sinai Palimpsests
- Laudator Temporis Acti: The Spell of the Antique World
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Excavations at Körzüt Castle unearth 2 cuneiform inscriptions and a new Urartian Susi temple – Arkeonews
- Why Is Caligula’s Relationship with the Senate Controversial?
- 5,000 years old Mother Goddess statuette unearthed in Yeşilova Mound – Arkeonews
- Ancient Egyptians May Have Spiced Their Mummies – Gastro Obscura
- Hera on Ancient Coins – Queen of the Gods
- Lost Roman forts discovered using Cold War spy satellites | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- 5,000 years old Mother Goddess statuette unearthed in Yeşilova Mound – Arkeonews
- Indo-European Languages: New Study Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses About Their Origin
- A stretch of Roman road unearthed in Altino. Tweezers (surgical?) found in the cloaca from 2000 years ago – Art Style
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
We venture out into new seas — or new remote cabins-in-the-woods — with a new Halloween special listen-along commentary. Hear our real-time gasps, jeers and cheers as we group watch Travis Stevens’ indie horror / Greek tragedy A Wounded Fawn (2022). We discuss theater, art, shoes and much more. Let us know if this format works!
In this special bonus episode, we’re joined by Jennifer Saint, former English teacher turned bestselling novelist whose debut novel Ariadne took the world by storm and was shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year Award in 2021. Since then, she’s followed up with Elektra and, most recently, Atalanta, two vivid and unique reworkings of ancient stories and it was fascinating to chat to Jenny about her early interest in these characters, her transition from scholar to teacher to writer, her childhood love for Cyprus and how the ironing board can bring inspiration! In this series, we meet guests from all walks of life, fascinating people with a connection to classics who lead fascinating lives and we discuss where studying the past can take you; what classicists bring to the workplace (and the world!); how to forge your own path; and the resonance of the #ancientworld.
In celebration of recently winning a gold Signal Award, we are revisiting our series from last year on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
The Celts of the Iron age—roughly 600s BC to 43 AD—had a real preoccupation with severed heads. They took heads in battle. They displayed the heads of their enemies in prominent places. But what did all this decapitation mean? Some believe there was a set of religious beliefs around severed heads—but nobody knows what they were. And the severed head keeps popping up in later mythology and legend, creating more questions than answers. Join us as we investigate the very mysterious Cult of the Severed Head.
Revisiting an unofficial Spooky episode… Zagreus, Zagreus, Zagreus. It’s gross, it’s weird, it’s both an afterthought and supremely important. Welcome to the story of thrice born Dionysus, better known as Zagreus.
In excavating massive Iron Age burial mounds in southern Siberia, Dr. Gino Caspari is doing some of the most innovative archaeology in the world, and he’s doing it in one of the most remote places on the planet. Dr. Caspari is an expert on the Scythians, the enigmatic, powerful people who ruled the vast grasslands of Eurasia during the Iron Age.
Fresh Youtubery
- Women in Greek Mythography: Pythias, Melissae, and Titanides – YouTube | Max Dashu
- Magic/Machine #etymology – YouTube
- The Sound of the Ancient Greek Kithara – YouTube | Michael Levy
- Horace Ode 1.9 Latin & English: Vidēs ut altā stet nive candidum Sōracte – YouTube | David Amster
- Anna Polishchuk on linguistic and ethnocultural decoding of feceit in Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
- Historian Reviews THE WOLF DEN TRILOGY By Elodie Harper (+ Early Review of THE TEMPLE OF FORTUNA) – YouTube | MoAn Inc
- Chi (RI)cerca trova: Gli archi di Ledro: un arco per ferire – un arco per guarire – YouTube | Etruschannel
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Sian Lewis, Tyranny: new contexts. Dialogues d’histoire ancienne supplement, 21. Besançon: Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté, 2021.
- Odessos durant l’Antiquité tardive (IVe s. – début du VIIe s.) | Spartokos a lu
- [BMCR] Christophe Burgeon, La vie d’Auguste de Nicolas de Damas. Turnout: Brepols, 2022.
- [BMCR] Hartmut Leppin, Paradoxe der Parrhesie: eine antike Wortgeschichte. Tübingen: Mohr Siebrek, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Gaza in History
- Texts and Contexts Seminar: The Fortuna of Ovid | Department of Classics
- Beyond Alexander: The Impact of Alexander the Great in Greece, Persia, and Egypt Beyond Alexander- Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology – University of Liverpool
- 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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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 an increase in animals, but they will be short of water.
… 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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