Hodie est pr. Non. Aug. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- ‘Unique’ ruins found at mysterious ancient city in Albania | Miami Herald
- Roman Holiday: How the ancients vacationed – DW – 08/02/2023
- Rare ‘Ides of March’ dagger coin minted by Brutus after Julius Caesar’s murder goes to auction | Live Science
- What the British Museum reveals about the Torah’s view of beauty – The Jewish Chronicle
- What did the Romans do for us? Aqueducts and the art of Roman water management | University of Oxford
- The art of Roman water management revealed
- Submerged basilica in Türkiye’s Lake Iznik to open for VR visits | Daily Sabah
In Case You Missed It
- Highschooler unearths Byantine-era ‘magic mirror’ in northern Israel
- Roman-era structure uncovered close to Domus Romana
- Further Roman structural remains discovered close to Domvs Romana – The Malta Independent
- 4th century Roman ship uncovered by Serbian coal miners – The Jerusalem Post
- Archeologists Unearth Ancient Mosaic of Winged Medusa in Spain
- Elemental magic: How gemstones can reveal ancient trade routes – The Jerusalem Post
Classicists and Classics in the News
Public Facing Classics
Fresh Bloggery
- PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 208
- All the Simons You’ll Ever Need – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Correcteur de latin et de grec Titivillus
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Glaspasten im Martin von Wagner Museum der Universität Würzburg. Band 1 Abdrücke von antiken und ausgewählten nachantiken Intagli und Kameen
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Gynaecological Papyrus Kahun
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le pouvoir des bons mots: « Faire rire » et politique à Rome du milieu du IIIe s. a.C. à l’avènement des Antonins.
- The Dream of Love that Lingers – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Are You Down with O.P.P. (Other Peoples’ Pimples)? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Travails of an Untimely Tongue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Lucian – The Historian’s Hut
- Mark Antony And The Legend Of Hippias’ Wild Wedding In Occupied Rome During Julius Caesar’s Civil War – The Historian’s Hut
- Knowing Alexander (I) | The Second Achilles
- Ilja Pfeijffer, Alkibiades (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Ilja Pfeijffer, Alkibiades (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Demon-repellant magic mirror excavated at Usha?
- Traders in Britannia
- Memorabilia Antonina: A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London II: Embankment
Association/Departmental Blogs and News
Other Blog-like Publications
- Sparta in Plutarch’s Lives
- ANE Today – Before and After Babel
- New, splendid finds emerge from the excavations of Stabia, one of the towns covered by the eruption of Vesuvius – Stile Arte
- Menelaus In Greek Mythology: A Hero Lost in His Own Story
- Women with Sart Renovate Largest Synagogue of Ancient World – Arkeonews
- Aeneid IX.1-106 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- 4 August 44 BCE: To Mark Antony (at Rome) from Brutus and Cassius (at Naples)
- Astrology and imperial legitimacy in ancient Rome – Ancient World Magazine
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
After recently rereading Thucydides, GC asks, “Fire-signals of an attack were also raised towards Thebes; but the Plataeans in the town at once displayed a number of others, prepared beforehand for this very purpose, in order to render the enemy’s signals unintelligible.” I would have imagined that a fire signal was quite simple, fire or no fire. This implies much greater sophistication. What is known about this?’
The weakness of Rome was the strength of Palmyra, and the east came to be be ruled by the Queen Zenobia. Cultured and ambitious, her empire stretched from Egypt to Turkey, which made her a formidable challenge for Aurelian. Part II of ‘Aurelian’ Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).
Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book 11, translated by Brookes More. Orpheus is torn to shreds, Hesione faces a sea monster, the story of Ceyx and Alcyone, and more…
Fresh Youtubery
- Rome and Persia: 700 years of rivalry (with Adrian Goldsworthy) – YouTube | Toldinstone Footnotes
- Battle of Mantinea 418 BC – Peloponnesian War 4K Animated DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
- Serbian coal miners uncover ancient Roman ship – YouTube | Reuters
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Dunia Filippi, Rethinking the Roman city: the spatial turn and the archaeology of Roman Italy. Studies in Roman space and urbanism. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.
- BMCR ~ A. A. Long, Plotinus. Ennead II.4: On Matter. The Enneads of Plotinus. Las Vegas: Parmenides, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Torben Behm, Städte in Ovids Metamorphosen: Darstellung und Funktion einer literarischen Landschaft. Hypomnemata, 212. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Katharina Volk, Gareth D. Williams, Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as philosopher. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022
Dramatic Receptions
- Psychic Translations: Ong Ken Sen on Trojan Women at EIF – The Skinny
- You Can’t Tie a Mustang Down | Epidaurus | August 4-5 | eKathimerini.com
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- Cults of Boeotia Conference in December
- 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 Classical Studies, Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology Denison
- Associate/Full Professor, Latin Literature and Roman Studies Yale University: Faculty of Arts and Sciences: Humanities: Classics
- Assistant Professor of Classics job with Southwestern University | 37504237
- New Network, H-Antiquity, Seeks Editors and Advisory Board Members | H-Net
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- X marks the unknown in algebra – but X’s origins are a math mystery – Raw Story – Celebrating 19 Years of Independent Journalism
- The Deadliest Femme Fatales in Ancient Greek Mythology
- Antikythera Mechanism – in Las Vegas – CounterPunch.org
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 a shortage of food both for people and animals.
… 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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