Hodie est a.d. V Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Pizza’ painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii | Reuters
• Spain police seize 1,900-year-old Roman bust amid trove of archaeological treasures | Reuters
• Baena: A treasure trove of 119 archaeological pieces was hidden in a storage room in Córdoba, Spain | International | EL PAÍS English
• Web of biblical cities depicts King David as major ruler, says Israeli archaeologist | The Times of Israel
• Iraq recovers 23,000 artifacts – Iraqi News
• Türkiye smuggling crackdown raids – Famagusta Gazette
• Il Portico – Nuove scoperte archeologiche nel Salernitano: rinvenute resti di tombe e case nell’antica Nuceria
• Tombs and remains of a rustic Roman villa emerge during excavations for the gas network in Campania – Stile Arte
• The game of a Roman girl from 2000 years ago? During a walk in the fields the singular discovery – Stile Arte
• Pompeii, found fresco with highly seasoned and garnished white pizza. It is the 2000-year-old ancestor of our dish – Stile Arte
• Pompeii, new excavations have led to the discovery of a fresco depicting an ancestor of Neapolitan pizza – Il Crivello
• ‘Pizza’ painting found in ancient Roman ruins of Pompeii | Reuters
• Pompeii fresco shows pizza precursor — but hold the cheese
• Israeli Archaeologists Find Enigmatic 2,500-year-old Burials in the Desert – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

• Fury in Italy after tourist scrawls names into the wall of Rome’s ancient Colosseum | Daily Mail Online
• Stunning Greek Mosaics Uncovered in Syria

Public Facing Classics

• Virgil on pots (and walls) | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Review panel on Coogan, Eusebius the Evangelist
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der lateinische ›Alexanderroman‹ des Iulius Valerius: Sprache, Erzählung, Kontext
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SIRAR (Sylloge Inscriptionum Religionis Africae Romanae)
• Horatian Bohemianism – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Abuse of the Dead
• Fire, Fools, and Lesser Fates: A Heatwave Special – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 119 trafficked archaeological pieces found in Córdoba raid – The History Blog
• Vesuvius 1872 – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Professor of Luxury
• Changing the Nature of the State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• The Chipped Stones of Göbekli Tepe: A short teaser – Tepe Telegrams

Other Blog-like Publications

• An Ancient Guide to the Good Life | The New Yorker
• Site of Julius Caesar’s Assassination Opened – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Mine-clearance divers discovered an ancient shipwreck dating from the 3rd century BC – Arkeonews
• Evidence of Roman marching camp found in Paderborn | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• A large stone monument depicting the goddess Ishtar has been unearthed in the ancient Assyrian city of Nimrud – Arkeonews
• Aeneid IV.296-396 – by publius vergilius maro
• June 27 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• June 44 BCE: To Gaius Trebatius Testa (at Rome?) from Cicero (at Tusculum?)
• Stone head found in Lake Nemi may be from Caligula’s Nemi ships | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Why Hasn’t the Pantheon’s Dome Collapsed?: How the Romans Engineered the Dome to Last 19 Centuries and Counting | Open Culture
• Still-life with pizza-like dish uncovered at Pompeii

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient History Fangirl: PATREON BONUS: Cleopatra x King Herod: Wouldn’t Touch You With a Barge Pole (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

In the second installment of our Cleopatra x King Herod arc, the slow-motion train wreck continues. Herod makes increasingly ill-advised decisions as schemes and intrigue simmer around him. Meanwhile, Cleopatra influences things from afar, empowering Herod’s enemies and relatives (who are frequently one and the same). Find out how it all went down when their feud reached the boiling point.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: That Guy Really Got Around! Heracles (Hercules) & His Many, Many Boyfriends on Apple Podcasts

Heracles had lovers all over the ancient Greek world, and a whole collection of them were men. These are their stories and, let’s be honestly, brief mentions and anecotes.

Fresh Youtubery

• Moan Inc.
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  • Penelope is the real queen of this tale  #odyssey #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #odysseus – YouTube
  • Agamemnon & Achilles meet again! #greekmythology #ancientgreece #homer #shorts #underworld – YouTube
  • Some fun context before reading The Aeneid  #greekmythology #ancientrome #ancienthistory #shorts – YouTube
  • The ancient gods can hold grudges for a REALLY long time … #mythology #ancientrome #shorts #aeneid – YouTube
  • The Trojan horse!! #trojanwar #troy #mythology #shorts #ancienthistory #ancientrome – YouTube
  • The drama NEVER let’s up!!! #mythology #shorts #aeneid #ancientrome – YouTube
  • 4 Facts You Didn’t Know About The Day Julius Caesar Was Assassinated – YouTube
• Greek Tragedy in the Modern World with Paul O’Mahony and Professor Fiona Macintosh – YouTube | Classics for All
• How to Improve Your Odyssey 10 Marker – YouTube | Ancient Greece and Rome with runshawclassics
• Horace Ode 1.11 Carpe Diem! – YouTube | David Amster
• Orphic Hymn 5, to Aither, read in Ancient Greek (soft Ancient ASMR reading, ten minute loop) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
• Golden Maidens and Wheeled Chairs: Assistive Technology in Ancient Greece – YouTube | Chau Chak Wing Museum
• Pompei: emerge una natura morta dai nuovi scavi della Regio IX – YouTube | Pompeii

Book Reviews

• The work of Vitruvius relays the relationship between print and built
• BMCR ~ Benjamin Allgaier, Embedded inscriptions in Herodotus and Thucydides. Philippika. Contributions to the study of ancient world cultures, 157. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ C. T. Hadavas, Medieval Latin Arthur: Books 8-11 of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae: An intermediate Latin commentary. C. T. Hadavas, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• An Archaeology of Disability at the Canellopoulos Museum
• Alexander the Great, between Asia and Europe, by Maya Jaggi (Le Monde diplomatique – English edition, July 2023)

Dramatic Receptions

• Filicide Effects: Genesius Guild’s “Iphigenia in Aulis,” at Lincoln Park through July 2 | River Cities’ Reader

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities Symposium 2023
• 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

• Did Ancient Greeks Build their Temples Where Earthquakes Struck?
• Why Marcus Aurelius Really Wrote the Meditations | Psychology Today
• Prigozhin crosses his Rubicon in echo of Caesar’s march on Rome | Yevgeny Prigozhin | The Guardian

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 danger from the army for men in power.

… 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. VI Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• UK returns smuggled ancient artifact to Iran – Tehran Times
• Straordinaria scoperta archeologica nelle acque del lago di Nemi – Corriere Nazionale
• Preserved 3rd Century Ship with Amphorae Found off Hvar – Total Croatia

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Why advertising needs more classics students | Advertising | Campaign Asia

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ MERCENNARIORUM PETITIO Minae Russicae 

Public Facing Classics

• The Divine Comedy of Roman Emperors’ Last Words | The New Yorker

Fresh Bloggery

• Desperate and Unnatural: Post-Canonized Storyworlds and the Epic Cycle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Tree of Life
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Gore and Grief
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Same Men Over and Over Again
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Texts Added to the TLG Since 1 January 2023
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Seleucid Coins Online (SCO)
• Herodianen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Useless
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Bubbles
• PaleoJudaica.com: Talattof (ed.), Routledge handbook of ancient, classical and late classical Persian literature
• Revisiting the Repatriation theme | Turkish Archaeological News
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ISAC Museum Demotic Ostraca Online
• Tyranny, Terror, and Mutilation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Scoundrels, Fools, and Failing States – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Against the Aeneid – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The oldest known codex?
• IJsonderzoek – Mainzer Beobachter
• Revisiting rest | Classically Inclined
• Truth and Happiness, An Inverse Relationship? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Different Effects
• Looting Matters: Bubon and North American Collections
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Conspicuous Consumption

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Women in Theophrastus’ Characters – The Kosmos Society
• ClaReNet: Projektwoche im Archäologischen Museum Frankfurt – crossing borders – building contacts
• All the Constantines « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Other Blog-like Publications

• Largest repatriation of ancient coins to Greece in recent HSI history
• Egypt in the First Intermediate Period: The History and Chronology of its False Doors and Stelae
• The Ancestors of Democracy: Ancient Athens vs. Roman Republic
• Aeneid IV.90-194 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Aeneid IV.195-295 – by publius vergilius maro
• Mine-clearance divers discovered an ancient shipwreck dating from the 3rd century BC – Arkeonews
• Demosthenes: 7 Key Speeches & Their Influence
• June 26 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• Testa di marmo trovata dai sub sul fondo del lago di Nemi. Una protome romana autentica o uno scherzo? Il video – Stile Arte
• 26 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
• How Did the Romans Map Their Empire? | by George Dillard | Jun, 2023 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCRom on the Piombino Apollo

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Achilles on Apple Podcasts

Achilles is one of the greatest heroes in Greek mythology. The son of Peleus, a Greek King, and Thetis, a divine sea nymph, Achilles was a demigod with extraordinary strength and courage. The perfect combination to make a great warrior, he is perhaps best known from Homer’s epic poem the Iliad, which details his adventures in the final year of the Trojan War. He’s also gone down in history for his passionate love for his companion, Patroclus, and given June is Pride month, we wanted to explore this relationship. Was it really erotic? What do the sources say? Does our definition of love differ to that of the Ancient Greeks? And how did it inspire one of the greatest military generals in history: Alexander of Macedon? To help explore these themes, host Tristan Hughes is joined by returning guest Professor Alastair Blanshard from University of Queensland.

• The Ancient World: Episode C22 – Shammuramat on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: Emerging triumphant from civil war, Shamshi-Adad V devotes his energies to humbling Babylonia. Upon his death, his wife Shammuramat acts as regent for their son, Adad-nirari III, and both campaign across the Euphrates to confront a resurgent Arpad. Under its vigorous king Menua, Urartu begins the military conquests that would end with its regional dominance. “When Suppiluliuma, king of Kummuh, caused Adad-nirari, king of Assyria and Shammuramat, queen, to cross the Euphrates river; I smashed Attar-shumki, son of Hadram, of the city Arpad, together with eight kings, who were with him at the city Paqarhubunu, their boundary and land…In that year they put up this boundary stone between Suppiluliuma, king of Kummuh, and Halpartuntiya, son of Larama, king of Gurgum.’” – the Pazarcik Stele

Fresh Youtubery

• Moan Inc.
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  • Where did the ox hoof even come from??? #greekmythology #ancientgreece #homer #shorts #odysseus – YouTube
  • The test is upon us #greekmythology #ancientgreece #odysseus #theodyssey #shorts #homer – YouTube
• The Ancient Greek Magical Papyrus PGM VII – Overview, New Insights & Original Research – YouTube | The Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice
• 02. #VATICAN UNSEEN: A LIBRARY WITH MORE THAN 5 CENTURIES OF HISTORY – YouTube
• Latine loqui || Latin vocabulary: DISCRIMEN – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• What is the longest serving Roman Legion? – YouTube
• Retreats of the Rich: Delving into the Private Parks of Rome’s Aristocracy – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Lydian Infantry | Historical Warfare – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Michaël Girardin, L’offrande et le tribut: histoire politique de la fiscalité en Judée hellénistique et romaine (200 a.C.-135 p.C.). Scripta antiqua, 152. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Noah Hacham, Tal Ilan, Corpus papyrorum judaicarum, volume 5: the early-Roman period (30 BCE–117 CE). Berlin; Jerusalem: De Gruyter and Magnes Press, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• XXII Stage epigrafico ad Altino e dintorni – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Animals and the Environment in Ancient Mediterranean Medicine
• 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

• Snakes, Apes and Ferrets: The Ancient Greek Love of Pets
• Is the Golden Age of Greek Mythology Mentioned in the Bible?
• Psychedelics and the Eleusinian Mysteries in Ancient Greece
• The Suda, The Greek Encyclopedia Written in the Year 1100
• Searching for the Lost Biblical City of Bethsaida
• Hellenistic Age: Lysimachus, Pergamon, the Attalids and Asia Minor after Alexander – Neos Kosmos

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 winter harmful for crops.

… 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 Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 6 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Feature: Rare Roman-era mosaic panel resurfaces amid Syrian archaeologists’ restoration efforts-Xinhua
• Siria, scoperto un nuovo mosaico romano vicino a Homs | Euronews
• Syrian Archaeologists Unveil 1600-Year-Old Greek Mosaic | News | teleSUR English
• Turkish police recover thousands of artifacts in anti-trafficking raid-Xinhua
• Bronze Statues Reveal Ancient Healing Rituals – The New York Times
• Abortion is ancient history and that matters today | CNN
• 3,680 antiquities seized by police at Tehran airport – Tehran Times
• Relics Of History’s First Known Goddess Emerge In Assyrian City Razed By ISIS | IFLScience
• Cumbria’s ancient fort that’s the ‘best preserved in the Roman Empire’ – and where ‘archaeologist’ moles do what humans can’t – LancsLive
• Rich trove of burial items uncovered during excavations near Tekke | Cyprus Mail
• Excavations At Dromolaxia-Vyzakia Site Unearth Rich Burial Gifts
• A Feast Fit for an Assyrian King (And 69,574 Guests) – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Mystery shrouds Roman head sculptures | Columnists | kpcnews.com
• Found in Pompeii high relief of an agatho-demon serpent. Indicates the presence of a lararium that will be brought to light – Stile Arte

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists discover broken statue of ancient Greek god in Turkey – Greek Herald
• Virgil Quotation Found Etched on 1,800-Year-Old Roman Jar | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Rare find of 24 ancient bronzes in Tuscany goes on display in Rome | Italy | The Guardian
• Found in Ancient Spa, Stunningly Preserved Bronze Statues Go on View in Rome | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 24.06.2023 – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News ~ ΗΑΠ

Public Facing Classics

• Why a piece of ancient pot and a scrap of Virgil’s poetry speak to us down the ages | Charlotte Higgins | The Guardian

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Body Parts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Haverford Digital Commentary Library: An Aggregator of Open-Access Classical Commentaries
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oracc: The Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus Projects List
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Digital Classicist Wiki
• Humanities Thirst Trap – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: India/US Cultural Property MOU
• Video tour of new Largo Argentina site – The History Blog
• De Philaeni – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Quidquid Agunt Homines
• Spencer Alley: Copies of Antique Sculpture at the Royal Academy Schools
• History, Stranger than Fiction – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Archaeologists Reveal First Settlement of Cimmerians in Anatolia – Arkeonews
• Tomba affrescata di un guerriero del IV secolo a.C trovata ora in Campania. Il defunto indossava una coroncina d’oro – Stile Arte
• Ancient Jerusalem—Not Where We Thought? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• 8 Key Facts on Ancient Greek Marriages & Wedding Ceremonies
• Aeneid IV.1-89 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• June 24 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• 24 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)
• Freud, the Antique Collector | The New Yorker

Fresh Podcasts

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCXI – Claudius Gothicus on Apple Podcasts

The treacherous death of Gallienus saw the rise of a man of war. Claudius Gothicus definitely earned his title, but with a reign of only two years perhaps he made the right kind of impact without the time to leave a bad impression. For an emperor in the third century that was more than enough, and he left an example for all who followed after. Guest: Associate Professor Caillan Davenport (Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the Australian National University).

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Queering the Classical World w/ Yentl Love (the Queer Classicist) on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with PhD student Yentl Love about queerness in the ancient world and Greek mythology, about classical reception in Lil Nas X (!!) and so much more.

Fresh Youtubery

• Why Teach Classics? – YouTube | Classics for All
• Moan Inc.
  • This chapter is … not a necessity #greekmythology #shorts #theodyssey #ancientgreece #greekmyth – YouTube
  • Menelaus … not now #greekmythology #ancientgreece #odyssey #shorts #telemachus #helenofsparta – YouTube
  • Odysseus does not handle this situation very well imo #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #homer – YouTube
  • Pretty rich coming from a goat herder. #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #odysseus #homer – YouTube
  • Odyssey book 18 bringing all the gossip 👀 #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #homer – YouTube
• The Ancient Romans at War – Warfare and Strategy – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos. By Nota Kourou (Études d’Archéologie 18). Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2021.
• AJA ~ Pots and Graves: The Lost Centuries of Early Iron Age Tenos. By Nota Kourou (Études d’Archéologie 18). Paris: Éditions de Boccard 2021.
• AJA ~ The Julian Basilica: Architecture, Sculpture, Epigraphy. By Paul D. Scotton, Catherine de Grazia Vanderpool, and Carolynn Roncaglia (Corinth 22). Princeton: American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2022.
• Le site d’Ovidiu (Roumanie) | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CfP: BES Autumn Colloquium (London, 18/11/23) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Assistant Professor – Contractually Limited Term Appointment, Classics
• 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

• What Exactly Is the Antikythera Mechanism, the Mysterious Ancient Greek Device in the New ‘Indiana Jones’ Movie? Here Are 5 Big Questions, Answered
• Did Indiana Jones help or hurt archaeology?
• The “Gate to Hell” in the Ancient Greek City of Hierapolis
• Athens: The Origin of the Name of the Greek Capital

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 abundance

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends wars and countless bad things.

… 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 Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 5 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeological excavation. Iron chalices and Etruscan buccheri discovered in the necropolis of the Crocifisso del Tufo in Orvieto – Stile Arte
• Tunisia’s Carthage Museum Gives Preview Of Expanded Renovation | Barron’s
• San Casciano bronzes go on show at Quirinale – Lifestyle – ANSA.it
• Rare find of 24 ancient bronzes in Tuscany goes on display in Rome | Italy | The Guardian
• Dealer of the ‘world’s most expensive coin’ which sold for $4.1M charged with grand larceny in NYC  | Daily Mail Online
• Greek Coin Smuggler, Dealer Of ‘World’s Most Expensive Coin’ Arrested For Grand Larceny In New York
• Maltese conservator discovers fragment of ‘oldest-known book in the world’
• Tetisheri – The last known pyramid for a queen in Ancient Egypt is back! – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Pontecagnano Faiano: from the excavations here is the tomb of the warrior

In Case You Missed It

• You Can Now Visit the Site Where Julius Caesar Was Stabbed | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• U.S. Returns ‘Priceless’ Ancient Coins to Greece at an NHM Ceremony
• Roman mosaic of Hercules illegally imported to California | The Sacramento Bee
• Purple from Holy Temple objects traced to snail guts at 3,000-year-old Haifa factory | The Times of Israel

Public Facing Classics

• Where did Julius Caesar die? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Parthians, Medes, and Babylonians: Pliny the Elder (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Trades
• Romans in the East – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Seuthes III – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: IG X 3, 3 Inscriptiones Scythiae minores: Sectio 1: Callatis et ager Callatianus
• A Fragment of An Odyssey – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aeolian Alexanders
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Assyrian Dictionary of the Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures of the University of Chicago (CAD)
• The Oldest Codex? | Variant Readings
• Free Speech Freeze – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De geboorte van Caesarion – Mainzer Beobachter
• LAST DAY of Legit Threads x Greek Myth Comix | Greek Myth Comix
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther as a Source for Achaemenian History?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: I Hear the Twanging of the Bow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Six to Eight Hours on One Greek Word
• Fireside Friday, June 23, 2023 (On Historical Judgement) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Short Prayer
• PaleoJudaica.com: More evidence for the site of Bethsaida?

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Otto Rubensohn and the excavations of the DAI in Paros (1898–1899) – People at the DAI Athens
• Developments in Ancient Language Pedagogy | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• Speaking Latin and Greek for a Day – Antigone
• Excavations at Dromolaxia-Vyzakia (Hala Sultan Tekke)
• ANE Today – The Book of Esther as a Source for Achaemenian History
• Archaeologists use artificial intelligence (AI) to translate 5,000-year-old cuneiform tablets | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Aeneid III.610-718 – by publius vergilius maro
• June 23 | Fastorum Liber Sextus: Iunius – by M.
• 23 June 44 BCE: To Atticus (at Rome) from Cicero (at Tusculum)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 1.34

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Did Alexander introduce Pankration to India? on Apple Podcasts

Curt asks Murray, ‘did Alexander The Great’s army introduce Pankration to India? If so could Pankration have contributed to the future expansion of martial arts from India to China & other Asian countries?’

• Ancient History Fangirl: PATREON BONUS: Cleopatra x King Herod: Wouldn’t Touch You With a Barge Pole (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

In the second installment of our Cleopatra x King Herod arc, the slow-motion train wreck continues. Herod makes increasingly ill-advised decisions as schemes and intrigue simmer around him. Meanwhile, Cleopatra influences things from afar, empowering Herod’s enemies and relatives (who are frequently one and the same). Find out how it all went down when their feud reached the boiling point.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Intense and Brutal Lives of Ancient Rome’s Gladiators – YouTube | Buzzfeed
• Julius Caesar’s assassination site reopens: Largo Argentina 4 Republican Temples! – YouTube | Ancient Rome Lie
• Moan Inc.
  • Helios and his cattle in Odyssey book 12  #greekmythology #ancientgreece #shorts #greekgod – YouTube
  • Prophecy would have been helpful like 30 minutes ago but ok. Odyssey book 13 #shorts #greekmyth – YouTube

Book Reviews

• ‘King of the World: The Life of Cyrus the Great’ Book Review | National Review
• BMCR ~ Paul Kalligas, The Enneads of Plotinus: a commentary, volume 2. Trans. Nickolaos Koutras. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2023.
• BMCR ~ Jeremiah Coogan, Eusebius the evangelist: rewriting the fourfold gospel in late antiquity. Cultures of reading in the ancient Mediterranean. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

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

• Trent LTA – The Classical Association of Canada
• Visiting Lecturer of Classics – Pittsburgh, PA – Indeed.com
• Harvard Academic Positions | Tenure-Track Professor in Archaeology and History of Ancient Israel and Its Environs
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Alexander the Great and the Eighth Wonder of Ancient World

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 good times, a setting aside of differences, and an end to disease.

… 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. X Kal Iul. 2776 AUC ~ 4 Skirophorion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The tragedy of Syrian heritage told through six UNESCO sites
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• An archaeological first: A poem by Virgil appears on the remnants of a Roman oil amphora
• Ancient Greek theater in Italy’s Syracuse gives new life to classics
• The Acropolis Museum: A Beacon of Art and Culture is Now 14 years old – The National Herald
• Federal agents, National Hellenic Museum conduct largest repatriation of ancient coins to Greece in recent HSI history | ICE
• Central District of California | Palmdale Man Found Guilty of Illegally Importing an Ancient Roman Mosaic from Syria Depicting Hercules | United States Department of Justice
• Palmdale man convicted of illegally importing ancient Roman mosaic from Syria – CBS Los Angeles
• San Casciano dei Bagni, presentate le placche poliviscerali trovate durante lo scavo nel tempio di cura etrusco-romano – Stile Arte
• How a Mix-up in Antiquity Involving Jesus Could Support Identification of ‘The Real Bethsaida’ – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

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Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mediterranean archaeology offerings help students ‘rehumanize the past’ | University of Arizona News

Public Facing Classics

• Lady Hallett and a Socratic enquiry | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Pliny the Elder: A guide for reading ethnographic passages | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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• Peoples of Arachosia and Ariana: Pliny the Elder on peoples between Baktria and India (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Gladiators of Ancient Rome |
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Jebb’s Lectures
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• Incrimination and Punishment – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• Clovis Loves Killing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: eΜousikē: Ancient Greek Music Online
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Virtual Reality Oracle
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Los Angeles Man Convicted of Illegally Importing Ancient Roman Mosaic depicting Promethius from Syria
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• Three Things Thursday: Another Big Book, A Mistake, and Bazball | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The woman born with Rome – The History Blog
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• Ignorance of Animals – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

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• The Babylonian Princess Who Founded the World’s First Museum
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Fresh Podcasts

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• The Partial Historians: Special Episode – Quo Vadis (1951) – Part Two on Apple Podcasts

This episode we return to the ‘Golden Age of Hollywood’ with a classic sword and sandal epic, Quo Vadis (1951). This film is available through many streaming platforms and we highly recommend revisiting it. In Part Two of two episodes on Quo Vadis, we delve into our analysis of the film. If you have not listened to Part One, you might want to check it out for the context.

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

• IG X 3, 3 Inscriptiones Scythiae minores: Sectio 1: Callatis et ager Callatianus | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Stuart McKie, Living and cursing in the Roman west: curse tablets and society. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Russell E. Gmirkin, Plato’s Timaeus and the Biblical creation accounts: cosmic monotheism and terrestrial polytheism in the primordial history. Copenhagen international seminar. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Greek and Roman Gods return to Liverpool in epic exhibition – Liverpool Echo
• L’Amato di Iside: alla Domus Aurea di Roma arriva la mostra dedicata alla Dea dai mille volti

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Graeco-Aegyptiaca II: Naukratis. New fieldwork and new results
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Brock Sessionals 23-24 – The Classical Association of Canada
• Sessional Positions: Bishops University 23-24 – The Classical Association of Canada
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Why Are Most Ancient Roman Statues Headless?
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• The ancient Greeks will never be feminists – New Statesman
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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 damaging hot weather.

… 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)