Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 4 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Hundreds of artifacts stopped from being smuggled out of Afghanistan in past year | Ariana News
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• Greece Wins Back Hundreds of Stolen Artifacts From the Disgraced Dealer Robin Symes After a 17-Year Legal Battle
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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Public Facing Classics

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• A Universe of Change – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• May 23 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily
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Fresh Podcasts

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Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Natalie Abell, Ayia Irini: area B. Keos, 12. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2021.
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Alia

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
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• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 a good and productive 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)

Hodie est a.d. XI Kal.Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 3 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Experts find two new skeletons in Pompeii

Public Facing Classics

• The Odyssey of English: The both healing and harmful origin of ‘pharmacy’ | Stuff.co.nz

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• Celts / Gauls: Trogus on their invasions and character (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Pompeius Trogus: A guide for reading ethnographic passages | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Dacians and Istrians: Trogus on peoples west of the Black Sea (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Judean wisdom: Josephos on Abraham’s dissemination of astrological knowledge (late-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Triflers in our Midst
• PaleoJudaica.com: Yarbro Collins, Collected Essays on the Gospel According to Mark (Mohr Siebeck)
• Week 1 (Ceramics) | Ancient History Ramblings
• Laudator Temporis Acti: For You
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• A Petronian Commencement Valediction – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bakhmut Museum
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• De slag bij Zela (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Contentiousness, Enmity, and Envy
• Seneca’s Serenity Prayer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The not-so-secret Jewish treasures in the Vatican Library
• Praise for the Runner – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Collectors and their Notorious Inability to Profit from Sharing Information
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante: Une analyse comparée de la notion de “démon” dans la Septante et dans la Bible Hébraïqu
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Musical Proto-Semitic?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Achtung
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Fresh Youtubery

• Temple of Artemis at Ephesus – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Part 4 – YouTube | Dig It With Raven
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• Myth and Archaeology in Early Iron Age Greece – YouTube | Flint Dibble
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Fresh Podcasts

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• The Ancients: Hanging Gardens of Babylon on Apple Podcasts

A legendary, ancient architectural wonder, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon are one of the most famed wonders of the Ancient world. Described as being a luscious green space – likened to distant mountains, and fed by the Euphrates river, it’s hard to know what was fact and what was fiction. So were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon actually real? And is there any archaeological evidence proving so? In the next episode of our Babylon miniseries, Tristan is joined by Professor Grant Frame, and welcomes back Dr Stephanie Dalley, to delve into this mysterious ancient creation. Looking at the archaeology of ancient-Iraq, the geographic landscape on which the Gardens were built, and examining the socio-political history of ancient Babylon – is it possible that these gardens might have actually existed? And if not, what is this fantastical myth based on?

• Ancient History Hound: Helots of Sparta on Apple Podcasts

The helots of Sparta were a people who were indispensible for the Spartan state. But what did they do, how had Sparta acquired them and how did it go about controlling this population?

Book Reviews

• The Careless Representation of the Black Sea on the Tabula Peutingeriana and the Map’s Possible Origin under Julius Caesar | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Georgios Kazantzidis, Lucretius on disease: the poetics of morbidity in De Rerum Natura. Trends in classics. Supplementary volumes, 117. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Lea K. Cline, Nathan T. Elkins, The Oxford handbook of Roman imagery and iconography. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

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Dramatic Receptions

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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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Alia

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 rains and the destruction of fish in the sea.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal.Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Thargelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Ministry Of Culture Announces Repatriation Of 351 Antiquities And Ceramic Wares To Greece
• Hundreds of Looted Antiquities Returning to Greece
• Looted antiquities to return Greece after 17-year legal battle | eKathimerini.com
• A Roman votive head discovered during excavations in Friuli Venezia Giulia – Stile Arte
• Mosaics re-emerge towards the cryptoporticus of the Roman villa of the Monacato of Villa Eucheria in Lazio – Stile Arte
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In Case You Missed It

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Greek/Latin News

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• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Day of Grand Intellectual Feasting
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• Warhol’s Alexander | The Second Achilles
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Liberty and Freedom of Speech
• III Gallica (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• III Gallica (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Day Nine: Masada, Arad, Mamshit, and the Dead Sea – Reading Acts
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• Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock-carved face at Spain’s Tossal de La Cala castle – Arkeonews
• May 20 | Fastorum Liber Quintus: Maius – by M. – Ovid Daily

Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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• Empire: Rome: A Slave Society on Apple Podcasts

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• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 086: The Attalid Kingdom of Pergamon on Apple Podcasts

The Attalid dynasty that ruled over the city of Pergamon (modern Bergama) is the first Greek monarchy to arise outside of the Successor Kingdoms. Founded by a eunuch named Philetaerus in western Asia Minor, the Attalids went from small regional power to major player in under a generation, in part thanks to their alliance with the Roman Republic. Their smart fiscal policies and unusually stable family life allowed them to become extremely wealthy, sponsoring buildings and works of art that celebrated their role as the defenders of Greek civilization against barbarians like the Galatians.

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• 19 maggio 1916 – 19 maggio 2023. 107 anni dalla scoperta dell’Apollo di Veio. – YouTube | Etruschannel
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Book Reviews

• ‘The Origins of Judaism’: Finding how far back rabbinic tradition goes – The Jerusalem Post
• Cimetière Pashkovsky, n ° 1 | Spartokos a lu
• JCT ~ The Song of Achilles (M.) Miller Pp. 352. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011 (first published in paperback 2017).
• JCT ~ Virgil, Aeneid XII. A Selection (J.) Burbidge (ed.) Pp. viii + 176. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

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Dramatic Receptions

• Skipton amphitheatre setting for reading of Homer’s Odyssey | Craven Herald
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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Lecturer, Classics (Faculty Wage) – HigherEdJobs
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• What Is The History Of Druids And Who Were They Really? | IFLScience
• As US-China tensions rise, the Punic wars offer a cautionary tale | South China Morning Post
• How imaging technology is recovering damaged texts and rewriting history | WBUR
• Celebrating Marriage in Ancient Israel and the Origins of Sheva Berakhot – TheTorah.com
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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 prosperity for those in the East, but not those in the West

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends the need for expiation because of terrible news.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal.Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Humans were kissing as early as 4,500 years ago – research | The Independent
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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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• Autism and Classical Myth: Plan B: slides for Fairer Societies
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• De Tigris – Mainzer Beobachter
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• Archaeologists discover oldest scale plans for humanmade mega-structures | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• 2,000-year-old “receipt” uncovered in Jerusalem | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The earliest recorded kiss occurred in Mesopotamia 4,500 years ago

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Ars Amatoria 3.579-594

Fresh Podcasts

• Against the Lore: That’s Entertainment: Art on Apple Podcasts

In which we discover how the ancients made and appreciated art. From bricks as art in ancient Persia to art as storytelling in ancient Rome to joke art in ancient Greece, the ancient world is full of beauty!

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Late Roman East on Apple Podcasts

‘Even before the empire split into two separate halves, the Augusti in the East had to contend with devastating Gothic raids and near-constant wars with the Sasanian Empire.’ The team discuss issue XVI.3 of the magazine Goths, Sasanids and Romans: The Roman Empire in the East at bay.

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 70: War is in the Air on Apple Podcasts

Athens support of Corcyra had seen hostilities once again develop with Corinth who had been engaged in a dispute with the island polis. Athens would send ships to support Corcyra, as the Corinthian set sail to impose their will. Out of this affair would see the battle of Sybota take place and with it the first engagement seeing Athenian and Corinthian ships openly fight one another. This would see tension raised further and questions around the official statue between the two….

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Tyche & Teaching Via TikTok w/ “Historical Han” Hannah Parker on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with Masters student (and TikTok star!) Hannah Parker “Historical Han”, about the goddess Tyche, and teaching through Tiktok.

Fresh Youtubery

• Medea | Reading Greek Tragedy Online – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• The AP Interview: Greek PM on Parthenon Sculptures – YouTube
• Occasion/Cheat #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• Two victims of Mount Vesuvius eruption found in Pompeii – YouTube | NBC
• The Real Story Of Ancient Rome’s Brutal Campaign Against Gaul | History Of Warfare | Odyssey – YouTube
• How COSTANZA CASATI Breathed New Life Into Greek Mythology With Her Novel CLYTEMNESTRA – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Male Harp Player of the Early Spedos Type, Getty Conversations – YouTube | Smarthistory
• Ancient Assyria | The Very Short Introductions Podcast | Episode 67 – YouTube | Oxford Academic
• Happy International Museum Day | 2023 – YouTube | ACOR Jordan
• Lecture: Mary Beard—Will the Real Emperor Vitellius Please Stand Up? – YouTube | Art Institute of Chicago
• Combating Looting and Illicit Trafficking of Cultural Heritage in Cyprus – YouTube | Chau Chak Wing Museum

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy, by Paul D. Scotton, Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool, and Carolynn Roncaglia
• AJA ~ Musarna 4: La céramique à paroi fine, by Julie Leone
• Retelling the Story of Little-Known Warrior, Lover & Hero of Greek Mythology | BookTrib.
• Living for Pleasure: An Epicurean Guide to Life by Emily A. Austin – The Objective Standard
• BMCR ~ Niklas Holzberg, Carmina Priapea: griechisch – lateinisch – deutsch. Sammlung Tusculum. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Dulce et Decorum – to Die for the Fatherland in Ancient Greece and Rome
• Participation and Political Life: Cross View of the Greek West and the Roman East
• The role of local communities throughout the Red Sea history
• Work-in-Progress: George Gazis, “Lamenting for the wrong crime” Tickets, Wed 24 May 2023 at 13:00 | Eventbrite
• Ancient Sparta in the 21st Century: Recent Trends and New Developments
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• ‘Rhetoric’ doesn’t need to be such an ugly word – it has a lot to teach echo-chambered America
• From Love to Work and Play: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt | Egyptian Streets
• The shapeshifting Queen of Sheba: legends, facts and fictions | CBC Radio

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 a good man rising to the  peak of good fortune through the goodwill of the city.

… 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)

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal.Iun. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Mounichion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient coins, purse remains found in charred Spanish ruins | Miami Herald
• Berlin museums to look into origins of archaeological collections
• Desert Monoliths Reveal Stone Age Architectural Blueprints – The New York Times
• Stone Engravings of Mysterious Ancient Megastructures May Be World’s Oldest ‘Blueprints’ – Scientific American
• British Museum drops reference to the Rosetta Stone from title of major refurbishment plans
• Detectorists who targeted Baylham Roman site plead guilty | East Anglian Daily Times

In Case You Missed It

• Waltzing The Parthenon Sculptures
• Greece and the British Museum May Have Found a ‘Win-Win’ Solution for the Parthenon Marbles. Just Don’t Call It a Loan
• Archeologists discover receipt from time of Second Temple- study – The Jerusalem Post
• 2,000-year-old ledger found in City of David points to widespread 2nd Temple literacy | The Times of Israel
• Ruins of ancient Roman villa found under cemetery in France | Miami Herald
• 1,700-year-old Roman watchtower ruins discovered in Switzerland | Live Science
• Iraq recovers 6,000 antiquities that Britain ‘borrowed’ – Famagusta Gazette
• Swimmer discovers shipwreck loaded with Roman artifacts – DW – 05/16/2023
• 2 hidden male skeletons discovered under pile of rubble in Pompeii’s ‘House of the Chaste Lovers | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Some students see classics as outdated, immaterial in modern world –UI prof
• What a second-century Roman citizen, Lucian, can teach us about diversity and acceptance
• Family and culture connect classics professor to Korea – News

Public Facing Classics

• Three lessons from Aristotle on friendship
• 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Arabia may be world’s oldest megastructure blueprints | Live Science
• 2,000-Year-Old Grave of Roman Doctor Unearthed in Hungary
• The Myth of the ‘Dark Ages’ Ignores How Classical Traditions Flourished Around the World | History | Smithsonian Magazine
• How the ancients handled old age | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Greek diasporas and indigenous Libyans: Herodotos on tales of colonization (mid-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Tar-Pot of English Literature
• Were Greek boxers ripped? – Bad Ancient
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Myth of Perseus and Images: From the Beginning to Today
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sammeln um jeden Preis: Die Entstehung der archäologischen Sammlung an der Berliner Universität im Kontext des Antikenhandels im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Editing and Commenting on Statius’ Silva
• 2023 Field Season Has Arrived | Ancient History Ramblings
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning from the Past
• Het Romeins klimaatoptimum – Mainzer Beobachter
• Out Of Time | Sphinx
• After 100 Letters, Seneca Mentions His Wife – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Sit Down and Shut Up
• Day Five: Around the Sea of Galilee – Reading Acts
• Day Six: Jerash, Madaba, Mount Nebo – Reading Acts
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Queen of Sheba legend
• PaleoJudaica.com: Schiffman on ancient synagogues
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Alive

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Faculty Hired, Placement Year 2020-2021 | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Scientists prove that Romans were breeding small bulldogs
• Paul and Sacred Prostitution in Corinth – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Neolithic Turkey: investigating the transition to settled and farming lifestyles on the Konya Plain | The Past
• 2,000-year-old financial record uncovered on Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalem – Arkeonews
• 2,000-year-old “receipt” uncovered in Jerusalem | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• 2,000-year-old financial record uncovered on Pilgrimage Road in the City of David, Jerusalem – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists discover that Iranian farmers grew rice about 3,000 years ago – Arkeonews
• The Greek Philosopher Who Laid The Foundation For Christianity And Stoicism
• 18 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Sinuessa)
• 18 May 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Vescia)
• ANE Today – “Proto-Rams”: Piecing Together the Early History of Naval Ram Development

Fresh Podcasts

• Freakonomics Radio: 543. How to Return Stolen Art on Apple Podcasts

Museums are purging their collections of looted treasures. Can they also get something in return? And what does it mean to be a museum in the 21st century? (Part 3 of “Stealing Art Is Easy. Giving It Back Is Hard.”)

• Ancient History Fangirl: End of Season 9 Announcement on Apple Podcasts

It’s the end of our Women of Myth season, and wow, has it been a whirlwind! We had a blast on this season and we hope you did too. We’ll be back July 6 with a brand-new season–one that’s all about ancient history and returns to our roots. Listen in to hear some behind the scenes info, and all about our plans for the coming few months and the season beyond.

• Tides of History: Building Archaic Rome: Interview with Dr. Andrea Brock on Apple Podcasts

What was Rome like before it became one of the biggest cities in the ancient world? How did its early inhabitants adapt to the threat of flooding, and change the landscape to suit their needs? Dr. Andrea Brock of the University of St. Andrews is an expert on the archaeology of Rome’s first few centuries and especially the local environment.

• Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society: Murder in the Roman world on Apple Podcasts

The Ancient Romans are often thought of as ahead of their time. They invented concrete, sophisticated road systems and even underfloor heating. But their approach to murder is starkly different to how the modern world recognises it, and frankly it’s a bit weird. These people saw 26 emperors murdered in one 50-year period, and would watch people being killed for entertainment in the Colosseum. Today Kate is Betwixt the Sheets with Emma Southon to talk murder in Ancient Rome. You can find out more about Emma’s book here.

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Marcin Kurpios, The reception of Thucydides in the theory and practice of Hellenistic historiography. Tyche supplement, 14. Wien: Verlag Holzhausen, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Julia Hoffmann-Salz, Im Land der räuberischen Nomaden? Die Eigenherrschaften der Ituraier und Emesener zwischen Seleukiden und Römern. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022.
• Sparrow by James Hynes review – a boy’s life in a Roman empire brothel | Fiction | The Guardian

Exhibition Related Things

• Power or decadence? Luxury under the Achaemenids, Athenians, and Alexander the Great | The Past

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• SASA Opening the Ancient World 2023 Virtual Conference
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Archaeology from the sky: how satellite and laser tech can reveal ancient secrets | The Independent
• From Indiana Jones to Netflix’s Beef – how ‘collectors’ of cultural artefacts have gone from heroic figures to villainous thieves
• Alexander the Great’s Tomb: One of History’s Greatest Mysteries
• Greek Philosopher Diogenes was the First to Give Someone the Finger

Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘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 discord and war and shortages as a result of it.

… 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)