Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Nov. 2776 AUC ~ 10 Pyanepsion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Monza art cops recover Greek coins on sale on Web – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
- Cinque monete antiche restituite all’ambasciata greca
- ‘Scent of the afterlife’: Scientists recreate the fragrance of an ancient Egyptian mummy | Euronews
- Hawass: 2 new tombs discovered in Luxor | Sada Elbalad
- Human settlements established in Isfahan 5,000 years ago, study finds – Tehran Times
- Yale’s Babylonian Collection holds a key to the story of Gilgamesh
- How an Academic Uncovered One of the Biggest Museum Heists of All Time – WSJ
- Ancient Greek Inscription Found in Bulgaria’s Roman Baths
- Why Ajax and so many Dutch clubs have names from Greek myth – ESPN
- What Matters Now to archaeologist Erez Ben-Yosef: King David’s tent-dwelling monarchy | The Times of Israel
- Roman, Ottoman coins, discovered at border in Bulgarian treasure hunters’ luggage
- Spanish police seize stolen Ukrainian artefacts worth $101 million smuggled out of Ukraine – ABC News
- ARCHEOLOGY / Three Roman statues returned to the public: “Saved Beauty” on display in Milan – Stories & Archaeostories
In Case You Missed It
- Cleveland Museum of Art sues the Manhattan District Attorney to retain ownership of $20m bronze statue
- Roman grave found at water pipeline construction site – BBC News
Classicists and Classics in the News
- Janet Martin, medieval Latinist and ‘gracious, generous mentor,’ dies at 84
- Joseph Solodow, erudite scholar, memorable Classics professor | YaleNews
- From the Boston Book Festival: ‘Deconstruction of Myth’ Panelists Refresh Myths for the Present | Arts | The Harvard Crimson
Fresh Bloggery
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Man’s Place
- Laudator Temporis Acti: For Your Own Good
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paleo Codage: A machine-readable way to describe cuneiform characters paleographically
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: TLHdig: Thesaurus Linguarum Hethaeorum digitalis – Beta Version
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: i₃.MesopOil: Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats in Early Urban Societies of Syro-Mesopotamia
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mesopotamian Ancient Place-names Almanac
- PaleoJudaica.com: Antiquities sites at risk in Gaza
- PaleoJudaica.com: Korytko, Death of the Covenant Code (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: … New Trajectories in Syriac Studies (Brock Festschrift) (Brill)
- PaleoJudaica.com: A gateway of Cyrus found at Persepolis?
- No, the Roman Emperor Hadrian Didn’t Invent Palestine – Tales of Times Forgotten
- Oldest Mithraeum in the West reopens – The History Blog
- Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman grave found at water pipeline construction site
- Naxos, museaal juweeltje in wording – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: A virtual Herod’s Temple
- PaleoJudaica.com: Matsangou, The Manichaeans of the Roman East (Brill)
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Hard to Swallow
- Pippa’s new book on writing in the Bronze Age Aegean
- Pippa’s new book on writing in the Bronze Age Aegean – The VIEWS project
Other Blog-like Publications
- A Woman at the Olympics – by Armand D’Angour
- AI Shares What Ancient Languages Would Have Sounded Like
- How Did Socrates Die?
- A new finding in Persepolis reveals a Royal wall – Arkeonews
- (Re-)Starting the Trojan War – by Joel Christensen
- The ancient Romans in Germany: a temple of Mithras and a statue discovered during the construction of a barracks – Art Style
- The Parthenon Marbles: What they are and why Britain MUST return them
- Hector versus Achilles: Who’s the Hero? ~ The Imaginative Conservative
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
This week Jeff and Dave wrap up their 3-parter on Aeschylus’ famous play. When Io mooves onto the scene, her first impulse is to show compassion for the shackled Promy, even though she herself is writhing in gadfly-induced agony. Why? To seek an answer, we take a long look at the thesis of Stephen White, namely that the play subtly reinforces ancient Greek gender roles: women are to be complaisant and domestic (something Io has transgressed), while men’s ingenuity ought not threaten the social order (as Prometheus has done). But is this a persuasive way to look at the plot, or even helpful? What does the play mean, and can Bernad Knox shed any light on that question? Stick around, and we’ll get it all sorted.
Habemus podcast! CXXXII puntata di Anima Latina con il prof. Roberto Fusco, scriptor dell’Ufficio Lettere Latine, che spiega come la parola “synodos” abbia etimologicamente il significato di “incontro” e Stefano Vittori che con la moglie Marina Garanin annuncia la pubblicazione del fumetto in latino Medeae Daemones edito da Nubes e tratto da una tragedia già messa in scena con successo da questa coppia di sposi amanti del latino.
Fresh Youtubery
- “LA SCUOLA DI POMPEI” – Ep. 3 | Il Foro e il Tempio del Genius Augusti (Tempio di Vespasiano) – YouTube | Pompeii
- “UN GIORNO A POMPEI” – Teaser – YouTube | Pompeii
- The myth of Orpheus & Eurydice in Greek Mythology #ClassicsTober #shorts #ancientgreece – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
- The Oldest Haunted House! – Extra History #shorts – YouTube | Extra History
- How did the Romans Send Letters? #shorts – YouTube | Invicta
- NT’s Odyssey: Emily Lim in conversation with Lucy Jackson – YouTube | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
- Finding the God Osiris: Latest Excavations at Abusir and Saqqara – YouTube
- History of the Seleucid Empire | Ancient History Documentary – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- A Detailed Summary of THE SUPPLIANTS by Aeschylus – YouTube | MoAn Inc
- Being Egyptian – The Egyptian House 04 – YouTube | EES
- Being Egyptian – The Egyptian House 03 – YouTube | EES
Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Krešimir Vuković, Wolves of Rome: the Lupercalia from Roman and comparative perspectives. Transregional practices of power, 2. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.
- [BMCR] Bartolo A. Natoli, Angela Pitts, Judith P. Hallett, Ancient women writers of Greece and Rome. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
Dramatic Receptions
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Dolia should be bought at Rome
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Assistant Professor in Second Temple Judaism – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
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 portend the common people oppressing others as a result of discord among the powerful.
… 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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