Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Skeleton discovered among other unexpected surprises from a Hadrian’s Wall excavation project
- Repatriating Greece’s stolen heritage | Cyprus Mail
- The eye of one of the Riace Bronzes? The Superintendence slows down on the finds found in August – Gazzetta del Sud
- Majestic Minoan Palace Uncovered at Archanes, Crete
In Case You Missed It
- Declassified images from American Cold War spy satellites reveal HUNDREDS of lost Roman forts across Syria and Iraq | Daily Mail Online
- Cold War satellite images reveal nearly 400 Roman forts in the Middle East | Live Science
- Beads found in Israel are the oldest known example of the use of organic red pigments
- 15,000-year-old red-shell beads earliest example of organic red pigment – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
- New ancient literature | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
- Plaster casts (and dinosaurs) in Pittsburgh | Blog post by Mary Beard
- Classicist Mary Beard explains what we know and don’t know about ruling the Roman Empire – OPB
Fresh Bloggery
- Europeans, Asians, and Greeks: Aristotle on hierarchies, slaves, and environmental determinism (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Barbarians and Greeks: Theophrastos theorizes hierarchical relations of humans and animals (fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Slaves to Lucre
- Don’t Eat Brains: Zombie-Tydeus for Werewolf Week – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Quoting Parallel Passages in Full
- Three Things Thursday: Reading a Bit | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Materialien und Arbeitsmittel aus Projekten des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo (MAPDAIK) 3: Die Kinderbestattungen von Elephantine
- Ancient Vampires 2: What’s Really Scary is Misogyny – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Animals in Religion, Economy and Daily Life of Ancient Egypt and beyond
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stabiae. Ricerche, progetti, prospettive
- Hesiod’s House of Horrors – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- 5,000-year-old mother goddess found in İzmir’s most ancient settlement – The History Blog
- De krijgers van Riace: verdronken schoonheid – Mainzer Beobachter
- Romeinse forten in Syrië – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 26: Thetis | Greek Myth Comix
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Pindar’s Prayer
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jonah (Anchor Bible commentary)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Lenzo G., The Greenfield Papyrus (Peeters)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Burke on Christian Apocrypha at SBL 2023
- Looting Matters: Hecht and a calyx-krater attributed to the Achilles painter
- PaleoJudaica.com: On King Sennacherib
Other Blog-like Publications
- Interview with a Gladiatrix – Antigone
- ANE Today – A Reverse History of the Pharos Lighthouse of Alexandria: From the Underwater Remains to the First Structure – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
- Origins of our Alphabet – by Armand D’Angour
- Heroic Appearances – by Joel Christensen
- Declassified CIA Satellite Spy Program Reveals Lost Ancient Roman Forts – Arkeonews
- Archaeologists excavate a partially submerged stoa complex in ancient Salamis | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Autumn 44 BCE: To Tiro from Cicero the Younger (in Athens)
- The Arch of Titus’s Menorah Panel in Color – Biblical Archaeology Society
Fresh Podcasts
“Why does Marcus Aurelius never take the blame for appointing his son his heir rather than the most qualified, like 3 of the 4 emperors before him? Maybe he should have spent less time philosophising and more time being a father.”
A dire warning from the spirit of Africa! A Haunting in Athens! And someone cuts the hair of Pliny’s freedman. Pliny the Younger presents a Roman Haunting in Three Parts. Guest: Associate Professor Rhiannon Evans (Classics and Ancient History, La Trobe University).
More spooooky ancient sources: this time, the two most famous descents into the Underworld, a mere 800 or so years apart… Homer’s Odyssey, translated by Samuel Butler; Virgil’s Aeneid translated by JW Mackail.
Fresh Youtubery
- Who is Thetis in Greek Mythology? #shorts #achilles #ancientgreece #greeklegends #greekgods #zeus – YouTube | MoAn, Inc.
- Inside the AI-Powered Race to Decode Ancient Roman Scrolls – YouTube | Time
- Who is Pygmalion in Greek Mythology? #shorts #galatea #madelinemiller #ancientgreece #greeklegends – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Juan Carlos Moreno García, From house societies to states: early political organisation, from antiquity to the Middle Ages. Multidisciplinary approaches to ancient societies, 3. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2022.
- [BMCR] Irina Chernetsky, The mythological origins of Renaissance Florence: the city as New Athens, Rome, and Jerusalem. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
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 heavy rain.
… 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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