Hodie est a.d. V Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Cicero cleared at Supreme Court of murdering five opponents in 2,086 year old case
- Depiction of Trojan War hero Ajax found in 1,800-year-old submerged building in Greece | Live Science
In Case You Missed It
- ‘I’ve never unearthed anything this big in my life’: Assyrian sculpture with rich history dug up in northern Iraq
- Spy satellites reveal hundreds of undiscovered Roman forts
- ArtDependence | Scientists recreate the Fragrance of an Ancient Egyptian Mummy
- 2,700-year-old massive sculpture unearthed in Iraq – Tehran Times
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Politics is Horrifying: Plato on Lykanthropy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Question
- Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Blog Post #88: Graduate Student Feature with Sophia Taborski – Peopling the Past
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transitions funéraires en Occident: Une histoire des relations entre morts et vivants de l’Antiquité à nos jours
- Werewolf Week, JAMA Edition: Diagnosis and Therapy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Light on Old Manuscripts: The Sinai Palimpsests and Other Advances in Palimpsest Studies
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Vici.org: Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die göttliche Weisheit des Hermes Trismegistos: Pseudo-Apuleius, Asclepius
- Nero’s Gouden Huis (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- #ClassicsTober23 27: Pygmalion | Greek Myth Comix
- Nero’s Gouden Huis (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Weekend Reading: Projects Everywhere! – Classical Studies Support
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
- KulturGutRetter – practical test successfully completed – Kulturgutretter
- DAI4UKR: Cataloguing and Mapping the Linear Band Pottery Sites in Ukraine – Documenting, Recording and Saving Ukrainian Archaeological Heritage
- Véronique Dasen delivers the James E. Gordon Lecture | Classics at Reading
Other Blog-like Publications
- Archaeologists Discovered Submerged Stoa Complex in Ancient Salamis, Greece – Arkeonews
- Another intact Etruscan tomb has now been found and opened in the Osteria Necropolis, in Montalto di Castro. It is full of precious ceramics. I dig it. The story – Art Style
- Around 28 October 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Puteoli)
- New discoveries at Tell Muhammad | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- Meet the absentee gods and nefarious spirits of ancient Mesopotamia | Aeon Videos
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Join us this week as Dave and Jeff launch le paquebot onto the deep waters of pedagogical history, namely, H. I. Marrou’s seminal work The History of Education in Antiquity. Written in 1956 by a very learned Frenchman, and translated into English by Charles Lamb, the work is a sweeping review, artfully written, of how education functioned from the very beginnings of Western civilization down to the end of antiquity in the fifth century A.D. With Marrou as guide, the guys begin to examine such pressing questions as, what’s a proper definition of education, can Classical education exist today, and, will they succeed in escaping the book’s Introduction before the clock runs down on the episode? Join us for the first in this multi-parter.
Salvete sodales! Welcome to our series, “Rem Tene;” a Latin podcast presented by Latinitas Animi Causa for beginner and intermediate learners of the Latin language built and designed for the acquisition and understanding of it as a language, not just a code to decipher. In this episode, I, Andreas, tell a scary story originally told by Pliny!
Sermo Raedarius quo librum fabularum nubeculatarum commendo, c.n. “Origines Pictae”. Librum heic invenies.
This is a History Daily episode about the Great Fire of Rome–another natural or potentially man made disaster that we felt was perfect for our odds and sods season–topics that just didn’t fit into past arcs or that we didn’t get to. The day was July 18, 64 AD. When the Great Fire of Rome reduces two-thirds of the city to ashes, Emperor Nero uses the catastrophe as an excuse to persecute a new religious group: the Christians.
Revisiting the vastness of classical witchcraft… Liv speaks with Antonia Aluko who studies Roman witches and intersectionality, they talk all things Medea and Circe as they’re found in Ovid’s Metamorphoses.
Fresh Youtubery
- Sogno di Volare – Interviste sul Cantiere della Regio IX – YouTube | Pompeii
- Musée du Louvre
- L’Assyrien par Ariane Thomas – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Ougaritique par Jaroslaw Maniaczyk – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Élamite par Véronique Pataï – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- The Phoenician by Hélène Le Meaux – Discovering ancient writings and languages - YouTube
- Le vieux Perse par Julien Cuny – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- Le Hittite par Vincent Blanchard – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – Introduction d’Ariane Thomas – YouTube
- Le Sumérien par Grégoire Nicolet – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- La naissance de l’écriture par Véronique Pataï – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- L’Araméen par Vincent Blanchard – A la découverte des écritures et langues anciennes – YouTube
- British Museum Theft: A Lesson in Public Accountability for Archaeology? – WB 27th Oct 2023 – YouTube | Archaeosoup
- Who’s buried inside the Mausoleum of Augustus? – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
Book Reviews
- JCT ~ The Wolf Girl, The Greeks and the Gods. A Tale of the Persian Wars (T.) Holland, Pp. 209, b/w & colour ills, colour map, London: Walker Books, 2023.
- JCT ~ Plato of Athens: A Life in Philosophy (R.) Waterfield, Pp. xxvi + 255, ill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023.
- JCT ~ Platonism: A Concise History from the Early Academy to Late Antiquity (M.) Bonazzi, Pp. xvi+233. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- JCT ~ The Greeks: A Global History (R.) Beaton, Pp xii + 588, maps, colour pls. London: Faber & Faber, 2021.
- JCT ~ Plato Goes to China. The Greek Classics and Chinese Nationalism (S.) Bartsch, Pp. xvi + 279. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2023.
- Mary Beard’s ‘Emperor of Rome’ explores the exploits its pitiless rulers | Culture | EL PAÍS English
Dramatic Receptions
- Frogs | World’s First Film In Ancient Greek!
- ‘Odyssey’ play, acting company comes to Wharton Center – The State News
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- AIA: 1177 BC Revisited – WIVB Calendar
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor of Classics and Letters – Greek History, Culture or Political Thought – HigherEdJobs
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
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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:
[Saturday] If it thunders today, it portends a shortage of necessities.
[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a year of serious diseases.
… 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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