Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 13 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Greek city wall discovered under Stari Grad on Hvar island | Croatia Week
• Thefts Show British Museum Can’t Keep Parthenon Marbles, MP Says – The National Herald
• British Museum must list missing objects so antiquities dealers can help | British Museum | The Guardian
• Tornos News | AP: Following British Museum thefts, Greece keeping watch what happens
• Association of Greek Archeologists’ announcement on the British Museum debacle | eKathimerini.com
• Parthenon Marbles deal still on the table despite British Museum theft scandal
• Theft isn’t the only problem facing the cash-strapped British Museum – and I have some answers | Simon Jenkins | The Guardian
• Dan Hicks: the British Museum is an anachronism – let’s fix it
• China Joins a Growing Number of Nations Demanding the British Museum Restitute Artifacts From Its Collection in the Wake of Widespread Thefts
• Zahi Hawass Calls for International Conference to Retrieve Egyptian Items from British Museum | Sada Elbalad
• Nine in ten lost treasures never recovered by British museums
• Excavation Uncovers Potential Greek Cult Center Of Poseidon
• Lost Ancient Temple In Cyprus Rediscovered: German Archaeologists Unearth Sanctuary Of Frangissa
• Breakthrough for French researchers with discovery of Neolithic village
• New tombs from early Bronze Age found on Türkiye’s Çayönü hill | Daily Sabah

In Case You Missed It

• Carlisle: Roman bath dig finds to go on public display – BBC News
• Bricks emerging from forest floor turn out to be Roman ruins | Miami Herald
• 8-year-old unearths Roman-era silver coin in school sandbox | Live Science
• 300-meter stretch of aqueduct from late Second Temple period uncovered in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ PAGUM MUNITUM ROBOTYNE IN UCRAINA LIBERATUM 

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Love of Truth
• Home / X
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Spotted on eBay
• Qasr el-Azraq – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Another Ben-Tor memorial
• PaleoJudaica.com: More Jerusalem aqueduct uncovered. Lots more.
• REX Returns – buy our new ebook! – The Partial Historians
• Is Byzantine Studies a Colonialist Discipline? | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Other Blog-like Publications

• Excavations Continue at the Holy Sepulchre – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Using Raman to Analyze Ancient Murals in Pompeii
• PXRF Analysis Reveals Unique Deterioration in Ancient Pottery
• Non-Invasive Methods for Studying Papyrus from Ancient Egypt
• Ancient History Revealed Using Laser Light: Unraveling the Secrets of Roman Egyptian Blue
• Patina on Ancient Bronze Coins
• Aeneid XI.836-915 – by publius vergilius maro

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Remedia Amoris 795-806

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: There’s Nothing Like a Mad Woman… Seneca’s Medea Part 3 on Apple Podcasts

Finishing on our first ever Roman tragedy… Seneca’s Medea is bigger and badder and absolutely willing to commit violence on stage…

Fresh Youtubery

• Did Women Fight in the Arena as Female Gladiators? #shorts #history – YouTube | Invicta
• Wildest Dreams IN LATIN (Taylor Swift cover) – “immanibus somniis” – YouTube
• The True Story of Alexander the Great in Ancient Egypt – YouTube | History Hit
• Ancient Coins: The Cornucopia – YouTube | Classical Numismatics
• ARGONAUTICA BOOK 1: Jason + The Greek Heroes Impregnate The Lemnians & Then Attack The Doliones  YouTube | MoAn Inc

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Johann Goeken, Boire sous l’œil de Gorgias: un commentaire rhétorique du Banquet de Platon et du Banquet de Xénophon. Recherches sur les rhétoriques religieuses, 36. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022. 
• [BMCR] Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, Bart Danon, The uncertain past: probability in ancient history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 

Dramatic Receptions

• ‘The Gospel’ goes to the Getty | Arts & Entertainment | hpherald.com
• ‘The Odyssey’ review — an epic musical production with community at its heart | London Theatre
• The Odyssey Episode 5, National Theatre, review: akin to Ancient Greece, The Musical

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Nero: was Rome’s worst emperor really that evil? – Big Think
• Marcus Aurelius, the Roman Emperor Who Embraced Greek Philosophy
• Three Antiquities Traffickers and Their Fall From Grace
• The Age of the Museum is over – UnHerd
• The Mysterious Ancient Greek Game Made of Bones
• When John Oliver Demanded the Return of the Parthenon Marbles

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 nothing bad.

… 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. V Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeological Find Supports Ancient Greek Explorer’s Account of Britons
• Saudi archeologists make ‘significant’ discovery at al-Abla archeological site | Al Arabiya English
• Thefts expose British Museum’s ‘ridiculous’ stance on return of artefacts, says MP | British Museum | The Guardian
• Get your house in order before pushing Elgin Marbles deal, British Museum told
• Inside the British Museum basements, where more treasures may be missing
• China state media calls on British Museum to return artefacts – BBC News
• Hawass: Searching for Huni’s Pyramid in Saqqara, Nefertiti’s Mummy in Luxor | Sada Elbalad
• Caistor Roman Town excavations reveal fresh Norfolk finds | Eastern Daily Press
• Archeofish, the origin of Sicilian tuna traps between garum and salsamenta | UnictMagazine
• 300-meter stretch of aqueduct from late Second Temple period uncovered in Jerusalem | The Times of Israel
• Israel uncovers massive section of Second Temple-era Jerusalem aqueduct – The Jerusalem Post
• Recent Discoveries in East Kazakhstan Unveil Mysteries of Past – The Astana Times

In Case You Missed It

• The British Museum: controversies, crises, missing artifacts
• Archaeologists in Serbia examine river ship uncovered at ancient Roman city of Viminacium | Euronews
• Carlisle: Roman bath dig finds to go on public display – BBC News
• 8,200-year-old water channel discovered in İzmir – Türkiye News
• Auctioneer exposed by BBC admits illegally selling rare ancient coins – BBC News
• Despotiko, a font of ancient treasures | eKathimerini.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Archaeologist Julie Dunne mines millennia-old fats to reconstruct ancient diets and lifestyles

Fresh Bloggery

• The Winter King: A Nayview – The Philological Crocodile
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Herod the Great
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Josephus
• How to identify an ancient Roman bar at Pompeii | Bacchus and beyond
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Articles Published in the UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology in 2022-2023
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Études philoponiennes: Philosopher à l’École d’Alexandrie
• Herodes de Grote – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Treasure Act 1996 (as amended in 2023)
• Did He Die or Not? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Hapax legomena (unique words) in the Hebrew Bible
• PaleoJudaica.com: Strange, Excavating the Land of Jesus (Eerdmans)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing That Is Not Zeus
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Sea
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Filibuster
• A Dream to Remember, Repeat – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Oezbekistan in Berlijn – Mainzer Beobachter
• Augustinus schiet op een stroman – Mainzer Beobachter
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Reconstructed Roman Gateway Tells The Story Of Britain’s Invasion
• PaleoJudaica.com: Giffone, Storymaking, Textual Development, and Varying Cultic Centralizations (Mohr Siebeck)
• Listening to Hard Rock helps Egyptologist make Middle-Kingdom Papyrus Discovery – Roger Pearse

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• SCS and ACL Grants – CANE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Aeneid XI.597-724 – by publius vergilius maro
• Aeneid XI.725-835 – by publius vergilius maro
• Oops, I did it again! – CSMFHT Writes

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Remedia Amoris 757-770

Fresh Youtubery

• NEW VERSION! Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata Cap.13 Annus & Menses | LLPSI FAMILIA ROMANA – YouTube | ScorpioMartianus
• BRITISH MUSEUM THEFT – Whistleblower BLASTS Museum Director – YouTube
• How voting worked in the Roman Republic. #animation #roman #history – YouTube | Stick Figure History
• British Museum recovered some of the 2000 stolen artefacts says chair George Osborne – YouTube
• The Fall Of Ancient Rome: The Events That Ended The Romans | Rome: Empire Without Limit | Timeline – YouTube
• Persians Join the Conflict – Peloponnesian War DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• The “Medical Industrial Complex” Of The Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Thefts at the British Museum — An Interview with Morag Kersel | Bible & Archaeology News – YouTube
• The curious tale of the British Museum’s disappearing collection – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Secrets de la terre cuite : figurines antiques en terre cuite des musées de la région de Krasnodar | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Plotin Traité 41: sur la sensation et la mémoire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review 
• [BMCR] Nichole Sheldrick, Building the countryside: rural architecture and settlement in Tripolitania during the Roman and late antique periods. London: The Society for Libyan Studies, 2021. 

Dramatic Receptions

• The Odyssey: The Underworld – National Theatre, London – The Reviews Hub
• Review: THE ODYSSEY: THE UNDERWORLD, National Theatre

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Konferenz der International Ovidian Society in Europe: Sustainable Ovid — Institut für Klassische Philologie, HU Berlin
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Academic staff member (post-doc) (m/f/d, E 13 TV-L, 100%) | University of Tubingen
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• How pants went from banned to required in the Roman Empire – Big Think
• The Ancient Oracle of Delphi, Greece
• What Socrates Can Teach Us about Political Discourse | Merion West
• Ostia: Home to one of the greatest centers of post-Temple Jewry -opinion – The Jerusalem Post
• The birth of dialectics in Ancient Greece | Counterfire
• How Did Ancient Romans Build Aqueducts? | IFLScience

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 an abundance of crops but the death of cattle.

… 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. VII Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 10 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Artefacts stolen from British Museum ‘may be untraceable’ due to poor records | British Museum | The Guardian
• Revealed: How expert turned sleuth to unmask the astonishing extent of British Museum thefts by snapping up the precious items on eBay then presenting bosses with damning dossier of evidence… which he claims they DIDN’T want to know | Daily Mail Online
• Saudi archaeologists claim ‘significant’ discoveries at Al Abla site
• British Museum recovers some of 2,000 stolen items – BBC News
• Recovery of British Museum artefacts under way, says George Osborne | British Museum | The Guardian
• Did the ancient Egyptians really marry their siblings and children? | Live Science
• Historic archaeological finds to be displayed in Carlisle | News and Star
• Chicken Bones Reveal Exact Date of Ancient Greek City’s Destruction
• Call for further investigation into Roman remains at Southwick | Wiltshire Times
• Unexpected new discoveries made at Vindolanda Charitable Trust excavation project at Fort of Magna

In Case You Missed It

• British Museum director Hartwig Fischer resigns after suspected thefts | British Museum | The Guardian
• British Museum thefts: Director Hartwig Fischer quits over stolen treasures – BBC News
• British Museum director steps down amid theft investigation | CNN
• British Museum thefts: Director Hartwig Fischer quits and deputy Jonathan Williams ‘steps back’
• British Museum director quits over stolen treasures scandal and his number two also steps down after ignoring warnings that precious items were being stolen two years ago | Daily Mail Online
• British Museum Director Resigns After Worker Fired for Theft – The New York Times
• Nightmare at the British Museum: why the theft scandal won’t have a Hollywood ending
• The Guardian view on the British Museum losses: a diplomatic own goal | Editorial | The Guardian
• British Museum’s director resigns, says he didn’t take warning about possible theft seriously enough | AP News
• Enslaved Individuals Slept in This Bedroom, Untouched Since Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption 2,000 Years Ago | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• British Museum thefts deeply damaging for a world-renowned institution – BBC News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Leading archaeologist who dug with Yigael Yadin at Masada and Hazor dies at 88 | The Times of Israel

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 26.08.2023 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• Hidden Rome | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Rather Late in the Day but Hartwig Fischer Does the Decent Thing
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gouverner par le hasard : le tirage au sort des provinces à Rome (IIIe s. av. J.-C.-Ier s. ap. J.-C.)
• Pain-Relieving Dance – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Romulus Augustulus – Mainzer Beobachter
• Plutarch and the Moon – The Classical Astronomer
• Via Prima launches this Autumn! A Beginners’ Latin Course from the University of Birmingham – The Classics Library
• Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Other Blog-like Publications

• What can archaeology tell us about the Druids’ dark arts? | Aeon Essays
• Aeneid XI.498-596 – by publius vergilius maro
• They come across a mysterious lead tub in the waters in front of the Roman villa of Santa Marinella. Here comes the Superintendency – Stile Arte

Book Reviews

• [JCT] Seeing Color in Classical Art. Theory, Practice, and Reception, from Antiquity to the Present (J.M.S.) Stager Pp. xiv + 328, b/w & colour ills. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022. 
• [JCT] Walking the Antonine Wall: A Journey from East to West Scotland (A.) Montgomery Pp. 254, Perth: Tippermuir Books, 2022. 
• [JCT] Sport: Antiquity and Its Legacy (P.J.) Miller Pp. x + 223, ills. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023. 

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Greek Origin of the Ancient City of Troy

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 war

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends war and conspiracies.

… 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. VIII Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Avoca te’: prof ontdekt nieuwe Latijnse uitdrukking op opgegraven drinkbeker | De Standaard
• History’s one of oldest water channels discovered in Türkiye’s Izmir | Daily Sabah
• Five Fascinating Pompeii Finds Since Mount Vesuvius Erupted
• British Museum theft: underfunding of UK sector has weakened safeguarding of collections, museums body says
• Plaster Used to Cast Pompei’s Victims May Have Contaminated Their Remains : ScienceAlert

In Case You Missed It

• Hundreds of items ‘missing’ from British Museum since 2013 | British Museum | The Guardian
• The British Museum’s embarrassing failure
• Asphyxiation a likely cause of death at Pompeii – study – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
• It’s laughable for Greeks to say the Elgins are at risk | The Spectator
• London police interview man about British Museum thefts | Reuters
• Police interview man over theft of 1,500 artefacts from British Museum as police fear… – LBC
• Man interviewed by police following ‘thefts’ at British Museum | The Independent
• Police interview man over alleged artefacts thefts at British Museum
• Man questioned by police over thefts at British Museum
• Police interview man in connection with suspected British Museum thefts | British Museum | The Guardian
• Met Police interview man over British Museum ‘thefts’ as it its revealed that sacked curator’s Twitter name is same as ebay seller who flogged 70 items to whistleblower | Daily Mail Online
• British Museum boss Hartwig Fischer defends 2021 theft investigation – BBC News
• Revealed: Sacked British museum curator’s Twitter name is same as ebay seller who flogged 70 items to whistleblower – who now says museum director is ‘an idiot who lives on a cloud in cloud cuckoo land’ | Daily Mail Online
• Do Bricks Have DNA? This One From Ancient Mesopotamia Did – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Analyses of Pompeii victims with X-ray fluorescence suggests they died of asphyxiation

Public Facing Classics

• Emily Hauser on How Women Became Poets | Princeton University Press

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Classical Culture
• Theotokos: A review of the scholarship on the paleographical date of P.Ryl. III 470 (“Sub Tuum Praesidium”) – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ägyptologische „Binsen“-Weisheiten IV : Hieratisch des Neuen Reiches : Akteure, Formen und Funktionen : Akten der internationalen Tagung in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz im Dezember 2019
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Lost History of Sextus Aurelius Victor
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire Volume 1: History, Law, Literature
• 10 Quotes From The Roman Historian, Tacitus – The Historian’s Hut
• 8-year-old finds 1,800-year-old silver denarius in school sandbox – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sanders on who invented the alphabet
• PaleoJudaica.com: In memory of Amnon Ben-Tor
• No Bull, Just Zeus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Blogging ancient epigram: Theodorus titivates a bath

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• DAI4UKR: Warrior Grave in Bilsk (Herodotus’ Gelonus) – New Complex of the “Scythian Invasion” Time in Central Europe – Documenting, Recording and Saving Ukrainian Archaeological Heritage

Other Blog-like Publications

• ARCHEOLOGY / Selinunte, an ancient sima with a lion’s head comes to light (PHOTO / VIDEO) – Stories & Archaeostories
• Straordinaria testa di leone di un tempio perduto trovata ora dagli archeologi a Selinunte, in Sicilia. 250 chili di potenza e leggiadria, IV secolo a.C. – Stile Arte
• Archaeologists uncover large Roman complex in gravel quarry | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Aeneid XI.399-497 – by publius vergilius maro

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Alexander Wept on Apple Podcasts

Daniel writes, ‘Plutarch mentions a letter to Alexander from Anaxarchus in his Moralia. It was stated that there were ‘worlds innumerable’ and that Alexander wept as he had not even conquered a single one. Firstly, could this be an early precursor to the ‘multiverse’ theory so popular in media at the moment? Secondly, would you be able to comment on the contrast between this statement and the usual notion that Alexander wept when ‘there were NO more worlds left to conquer’, as these both seem to contradict each other?’

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCXIV – Aurelian, Restorer of the Age on Apple Podcasts

Aurelian has seen off vandals, goths, and conquered the forces of Zenobia to reclaim the east. But to the west lies the Gallic Empire, once firm territory of Rome, awaiting his attention. Part III of ‘Aurelian’ Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: Interview: Pericles & Aspasia with Yvonne Korshak on Apple Podcasts

In this fascinating interview, I have the privilege of sitting down with Prof. Yvonne Korshak, a distinguished historian and accomplished writer, to delve into the captivating world of her latest masterpiece, “Pericles and Aspasia.” This remarkable work of Historical fiction shines a brilliant light on the period preceding the Peloponnesian War in Athens. Instead of merely employing historical events as a distant backdrop, Prof. Korshak skillfully weaves them into the very fabric of her narrative. Through “Pericles and Aspasia,” Yvonne Korshak paints a vivid tapestry of unfolding historical events, interwoven with the intricacies of personal and intimate interactions. It’s a perspective that transcends traditional history books, offering readers a glimpse into the emotional depth and human experience of that era. By meticulously piecing together clues from historical records, Prof. Korshak masterfully constructs a narrative that feels authentic and relatable…

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: When Romans Write Greek Myth, Statius’ Thebaid w/ Meagan Cleveland on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with author Meagan Cleveland about Statius’ Thebaid… A very Roman (read: violent and dark) epic about the Oedipus dynasty and the Seven Against Thebes.

Fresh Youtubery

• Up close with Colossal Constantine reconstructed – YouTube | Darius Arya Digs
• Stealing from the British Museum: How, why, who? – BBC Newsnight – YouTube
• BRITISH MUSEUM THEFT – Whistleblower BLASTS Museum Director – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• ‘Homer and His Iliad’ by Robin Lane Fox review | History Today
• [BMCR] Walter T. Wilson, Ancient wisdom: an introduction to sayings collections. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2022. 
• [BMCR] Daniel Delattre, Philodème de Gadara. Sur la Mort: book IV. Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2022. 

Exhibition Related Things

• Exhibitions | Between modern and ancient: 4 statues of the goddess Artemis brought together for the first time – Stile Arte
• New Pompeii exhibit opening at Museum of Science and Industry – CBS Chicago

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

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Ancient Greek Papyrus Is Europe’s Oldest Surviving Book
• The Spot Where Lovers Jumped to Death in Ancient Greece
• What Happened to Achilles After the Iliad?

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 stormy winter and a shortage of tree fruit.

… 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. IX Kal. Sept. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Metageitnion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• British Museum suspect ‘was promoted to job in charge of Elgin Marbles after theft warning’ – as director claims whistleblower had 60 of the artefacts himself | Daily Mail Online
• Sacked British Museum curator was promoted to oversee Elgin Marbles
• British Museum director says extent of missing items was ‘not revealed’ in 2021 | British Museum | The Guardian
• Antiquities dealer Ittai Gradel who uncovered British Museum theft was treated like ‘village idiot’
• Stolen British Museum artefacts melted down or in private collections, experts warn as list may top 2,000
• X-Ray Analysis of Pompeii Victims’ Bones Suggest They Suffocated to Death
• Chemical analysis unveils mysteries from Pompeii | Popular Science
• These Pompeii victims choked on ash while covering themselves with garments | Ars Technica
• Residents of Pompeii who fled the eruption of Vesuvius died of asphyxiation | Culture | EL PAÍS English
• Plaster casts of victims of the Pompeii erupt | EurekAlert!
• Hawass hints at Imminent Unveiling of Queen Nefertiti’s Mummy at Bowers Museum | Sada Elbalad
• A Museum Was Warned About Looted Antiquities. It Didn’t Listen.
• Exquisite jewellery and ancient coins among British Museum’s missing treasures
• The Times view on the British Museum losses: Absent Antiquities
• Roman Caistor: Veterans help uncover new Iron Age evidence – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• ‘Frustrated’ British Museum boss says dealer did not mention more missing items | The Independent
• British Museum treasures safe, MP insists after thefts – BBC News
• Greek archaeologists claim British Museum thefts show Elgin Marbles are not safe
• Gold coins depicting the Greek God Apollo discovered in Wales – Greek Herald
• Recent Excavations in an Ancient Greek City Reveal Cult Center – ARTnews.com
• New Pompeii Discovery Sheds Light on Slavery in Ancient Rome

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ NUNTIUM RUSSICUM De Eugenio Prigozhin 

Public Facing Classics

• Why all Roman roads really did lead to Rome | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• My Digital Workflow: Obsidian | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A return to the past | Turkish Archaeological News
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Not Too Old
• Get Sh*T Ready and Drink – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cultes et sanctuaires de l’île de Cos
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Purity and Purification in the Ancient Greek World. Texts, Rituals, and Norms
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Des dieux et des plantes. Monde végétal et religion en Grèce ancienne
• The Goddess of the Semuncia – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• PaleoJudaica.com: LXX conference in honor of Jim Aitken
• PaleoJudaica.com: Cartagena Festival 2023 is coming
• 2023 Blog Posts Update – Paizomen
• Looting Matters: Acquiring Antiquity at the Carlos Museum
• “Covered in Flames and Sorrowful Ash”: Martial on Vesuvius – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Magnetometry in Archaeology – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Roman capitolium temple discovered in Sarsina | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Pompeii: Ancient Roman City Destroyed In Mount Vesuvius Eruption | HistoryExtra
• Aeneid XI.296-398 – by publius vergilius maro
• The Rather Stunning Backlash Against Professor Garfinkel’s Latest Paper on | ArmstrongInstitute.org
• How Were Pompeii & Herculaneum Discovered? | HistoryExtra
• Pompeii Archaeology: What The Streets Reveal About Daily Life in Rome | HistoryExtra
• Pasts Imperfect (8.24.23)
• ANE Today – Who Really Invented the Alphabet?

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Remedia Amoris 715-730

Fresh Podcasts

• The Prospect Podcast: Jane O’Grady: Were the Greek philosophers self-help gurus? on Apple Podcasts

Can the Stoics help solve the mental health crisis? Should we adopt an Epicurean approach to pleasure? On this week’s podcast, writer and lecturer Jane O’Grady joins Prospect’s Mindful life columnist Sarah Collins to discuss whether the ancient Greeks can teach us how live.

• A Language I Love Is…: Akkadian and Iris Kamil on Apple Podcasts

Episode 2 of ALILI and it’s time to head back to ancient Mesopotamia and hear all about Akkadian, an influential lingua franca of the ancient world. Old it may be, but Akkadian still has much to tell us about its many cousin languages still spoken to this day. Akkadian expert Iris Kamil both introduces and shares a little of her boundless enthusiasm for the language and its surprisingly relatable sources.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 089: Antigonid Macedon – Legion and Phalanx on Apple Podcasts

No longer tied up by Hannibal, the vengeful Romans give their undivided attention to Philip V in the Second Macedonian War (200-197 BC). The king manages to hold his own against the Republic until they send the ambitious young commander Titus Quinctius Flamininus, who forces a showdown at Cynoscephalae that will radically change the balance of power in Greece.

• Ancient History Fangirl: Buzzballs and Buboes: The Plague of Justinian (a Drunk Deep Dive) on Apple Podcasts

This is an episode about a plague that killed up to 100 million people by the time it was done—as many as 60% of its victims. It’s the first documented occurrence of a pandemic that we have, and it’s the first documented outbreak of the deadlyYersinia pestis. No, we’re not talking about the Black Death of Medieval Europe. We’re talking about the Plague of Justinian. The Plague of Justinian was just one part of the fallout of the global volcanic eruption of 536 AD. Three eyewitness accounts have survived–and, in the grand tradition of this podcast, we decided to read them to you whilst Yule-level drunk. Buckle up. It is a wild, plague-tastic ride.

• Tides of History: Theocracy, Fragmentation, and the Kushite Kings: Egypt after the New Kingdom on Apple Podcasts

Egypt’s New Kingdom, the peak of its monumental building and international power, ended in the aftermath of the Bronze Age Collapse. Once again, Egypt fragmented into multiple smaller states. Yet millions of people still lived and died under the rule of those claiming the mantle of the ancient pharaohs, and Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period was far from a backwater.

Fresh Youtubery

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• Two Centurions – YouTube | Adrian Goldsworthy
• Hades Playthrough Part 1 – YouTube | Ancient Geeko-Roman
• Servants’ Bedroom Found in Roman Villa in Pompeii – YouTube
• Jason & Medea As Colonial History: RANI SELVARAJAH On Adapting Greek Myth Into 1700s India – YouTube | MoAn Inc.
• British Museum Curator STOLE artefacts for DECADES – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• Typologie des établissements de la chôra de Chersonèse taurique et des colonies scythes tardives de Crimée | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Hernán González Bordas, Manuscrit d’un voyageur, voyages d’un manuscrit: un recueil d’épigraphie africaine établi par Francisco Ximenez et son étude par Scipione Maffei. Scripta receptoria, 22. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2022.
• [BMCR] Pauline LeVen, Music and metamorphosis in Graeco-Roman thought. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• International Conference: Caelius Aurelianus: Medicine and Medical Tradition — Alexander von Humboldt Professorship
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

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Alia

• The mother tongue: How the Proto-Indo-European language changed humanity
• The Mysterious Nabataeans and the Greek Influence
• Was Greek Philosopher Diogenes the Cynic the First Anarchist?
• Why was Julius Caesar Killed?
• Rare Photos Show First Excavations at Sacred Greek Island of Delos
• Was the Etruscan Language Related to Greek?

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 the death of  upper class youths.

… 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)