Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Elaphebolion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The exceptional discovery of a Roman camp in Villeneuve-sur-Lot – Quidam Hebdo
• Very ancient giant pirogue found in the Ferrara area – MediterraneoAntico
• D.A. Bragg Returns 29 Antiquities to Greece – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office
• Upcoming Christie’s Sale includes Sculpture Tied to Antiquity Looters | Observer
• Iraq’s looted artefacts: Thousands of antiquities still on black market – Focus
• Yodfat, the Jewish Town Attacked by 60,000 Roman Soldiers – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Over 50 instances of artifact smuggling prevented in last 18 months: officials | Ariana News
• Hoe ontstonden handelsnetwerken in het derde millennium voor Christus? – Leiden University

In Case You Missed It

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• Greek Archaeologist Manolis Psarros Mafia Hit Ordered By Property Developers From Mykonos
• Over 1,000 Objects in the Met Museum Linked to Antiquities Trafficking – ARTnews.com
• Byzantine-era church mosaic floor in Shoham to open to the public – JNS.org
• ‘Vibrant’ Roman mosaic discovered under supermarket construction site – CNN Style
• Roman villa and bathhouse mosaic discovered under Aldi construction site | The Independent
• Colchester Roman mosaic revealed under Lion Walk shopping centre | Gazette
• Work begins to reveal Roman mosaic under Colchester shops – BBC News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• By studying ancient residues, scholar finds clues of humanity’s past | YaleNews

Public Facing Classics

• The colour of sculpture | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Persians: Acts of Archelaos on Mani’s foreignness (early fourth century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• From Feces to Flowers And Back Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: No Curb or Limit
• Heracles’ fifth Labour: the Augean Stables | Greek Myth Comix
• Heracles’ fifth Labour – the Augean Stables | Greek Myth Comix
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Rot Starts at the Top
• The Original Virgin Suicides – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: No, By Zingo
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Animus. Studio sulla psicologia di Seneca
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: METra 1: Epica e tragedia greca: una mappatura
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Agamennone classico e contemporaneo
• Septicia’s Second Marriage and Final Testament – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Minor Peculiarities of Nature
• Kidinnu – Mainzer Beobachter
• PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Classical Mythology and Children’s Literature… An Alphabetical Odyssey
• Lecture Wednesday, March 29 6:30 p.m. Parisian archaeology: 170 years of discoveries | Antiquity at the BnF
• PaleoJudaica.com: The siege of Yodfat
• PaleoJudaica.com: The million-dollar Vesuvius Challenge
• Rushing Ahead To Fall Behind – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Manhattan District Attorney Bragg returns 29 antiquities to Greece
• The 11-meter giant statue of the island of Naxos “Dionysus of Apollonas” – Arkeonews
• Celestial reliefs depicting the heavens uncovered in the Temple of Esna | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Abandoned mosaic flooring found at Roman Pompeii | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• How to live like an Epicurean | Psyche Guides
• Cyprus’s copper deposits created one of the most important trade hubs

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a tabula ansata inscription for Mars Medocius
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.4.1-10

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: RE-AIR: Pandora, the Beautiful Evil & the Misogyny of Her “Curiosity” on Apple Podcasts

A Women’s History Month re-airing of the episode dedicated to vindicating the first woman of Greek mythology, Pandora.

• The History of Literature: 493 Catullus – The Poet of Love and Hate on Apple Podcasts

He loved and he hated. Other than that, not much is known about the life of Catullus, who scandalized the late Roman Republic with his bawdy poems, his aching love for the upper-class married woman he called “Lesbia,” and his invective against Julius Caesar and other Roman notables. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at the life and works of Catullus, whose poetry was lost for a thousand years, but which, once recovered, became highly influential among poets for its accomplished technique and urgent intimacy.

Fresh Youtubery

• 52 Constantius I – Reversing Brexit – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• The Great Pyramid of Giza – The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World | Part 1 – YouTube | Dig It With Raven
• The Fearsome Amazons of Greek Mythology – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Creating Art Inspired By The Ancient World With FLAROH ILLUSTRATION – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Why Hasn’t This Epic Hill-Fort Been Excavated? – YouTube | Pete Kelly
• Aux origins du Latin. En quoi Rome est une perpétuelle traduction ? – YouTube | Andrea Cirla

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Hannah Čulík-Baird, Cicero and the early Latin poets. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Aldo Schiavone, The pursuit of equality in the West. Trans. Jeremy Carden. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Thingsx

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Brock Cities and Sanctuaries – The Classical Association of Canada
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Famous travelers to Türkiye: Lord Byron, an admirer of Turks | Daily Sabah
• In a Roman villa at the center of a nasty inheritance dispute, a Caravaggio masterpiece is hidden from the public
• 3,500-Year-Old Unfinished Obelisk Would Dwarf Other Egyptian Monuments, If It Were Finished | 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 destruction for birds but an abundance of daily necessities.

… 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. XII Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 29 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Genome research: Origin and evolution of vine — ScienceDaily
• News | Discovery of a monumental site from the 2nd-3rd c… | Inrap
• The Elgin Marbles should stay in London – George Osborne’s plan is fundamentally flawed
• ‘Green museum’ to be built on ancient Plato’s Academy site | Architecture & Design
• Colchester Roman mosaic revealed under Lion Walk shopping centre | Gazette
• Iron Age shield found with Yorkshire chariot burial and called ‘the most important British Celtic object of the millennium’ to go on display at Malton Museum | Yorkshire Post
• Iraq’s looted artefacts: Thousands of antiquities still on black market – Focus
• Egypt recovers four rare artifacts from Italy – Egypt Independent
• Only 11% of Brits believe that Greece would return the Elgin Marbles after loan, new… – LBC

In Case You Missed It

• Deep dive: Archaeologists uncover oldest Gulf pearling town in UAE | The Times of Israel
• The Met Accused of Holding Antiquities Linked to Art Traffickers | Observer
• More than 1000 artifacts in Metropolitan Museum of Art catalog linked to alleged looting and trafficking figures – ICIJ

Classicists and Classics in the News

• 18th annual Classics Fest | Indiana Statesman | isustudentmedia.com

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Fresh Bloggery

• Big Fish, Small Pond – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Siblings
• 76 out of 234 days: Open Access Attalids – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Anthropological research using ChatGPT: Charity in the ancient world (Warning: Long Post)Roman Times: 
• Blog Post #78: Interview with Kyle Jordan Lewis of Curating for Change – Peopling the Past
• PaleoJudaica.com: VanderKam, R.H. Charles: A Biography (OUP)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Pindaric Calendar
• Richard Talbert’s World and Hour in Roman Minds Now Published | Ancient World Mapping Center
• Revised Atlas of Classical History Now Published March 2023 | Ancient World Mapping Center
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Pharaonic Palace 3D project (Walk in the footsteps of a great pharaoh!)
• Memnon’s Speaking Stone: Two Poems by Julia Balbilla – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Aeneas Rescues Anchises From Burning Troy, Attributed To Johann Heinrich Schönfeld (c. 1609 – 1683) | The Historian’s Hut
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Funerary Artifacts from Roman Ashkelon and the Rockefeller Collections
• An Immortal Soul and a Pious Poet: Another Poem by Julia Balbilla – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Babylonische astronomie – Mainzer Beobachter
• Unwrapping the Past – Pompeian Connections
• PaleoJudaica.com: Roman-era mosaic (re-)uncovered in Shoham
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lessons from the fake Darius ostracon

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Trevor Fear | Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Two virtual visits to ancient Egyptian sites invite us to explore the palace
• The Secret of Roman Concrete – Biblical Archaeology Society
• New rooms and mosaics discovered in Pompeii in via dell’Abbondanza under the ancient baths and shops – Stile Arte
• A Roman settlement discovered in Friuli Venezia Giulia during excavations for the methane network – Stile Arte
• 21(?) March 44 BCE: To Marcus Junius Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus (at Rome) from Decimus Junius Brutus (at Rome)
• New discoveries at the Matriya Sun Temple | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Byzantine mosaic excavated in Israel | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• 1,000+ Objects at The Met Linked to Antiquities Smugglers

Fresh Podcasts

• Aspects of History: Demetrius & the Successors of Alexander the Great with James Romm on Apple Podcasts

This week’s guest is James Romm, author of Demetrius: Sacker of Cities. James is an Ancient Historian and an expert in the period after the death of Alexander, when 5 families fought for control of his empire. Demetrius was one of them, and was a hugely attractive figure. Oliver and James chat about whether Alexander was murdered, Pyrrhus of Epirus and what would the ancient world would have looked like had Alexander had survived. We’d all be speaking Greek, no doubt.

• Ad Navseam: With Pallas toward None: Aeneid XI, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 115) on Apple Podcasts

Remember way back when the Trojans were “eating their tables”? Well, in Book 11 their tables seem to be turning. Seems like just yesterday Aeneas was raging as Rambo and Turnus was carrying himself with Hector-like respectability. Sed ecce!—Aeneas is handing out truces like sticks of Big Red and actually validating hurt Latin feelings, while Turnus’ allies are turning against him and blaming him for the whole mess. Even old Diomedes is once bitten, twice shy, telling the Latins there is no way he’s tangling with Venus or her son ever again. So that’s it? It’s over? Not quite—Turnus has a couple of aces up his sleeve, including a spear-swift, water-walking, grain-skipping warrior maiden who is juuuuuust over the horizon.

• Peopling the Past: (Not so) Risky Business: the Potential Perils of Childbirth in ancient Rome with Anna Bonnell Freidin on Apple Podcasts

In today’s episode, Dr. Anna Bonnell Freidin joins Melissa and Chelsea to talk about risk, pregnancy, and childbirth in the ancient Roman empire. Listen in as we discuss the definitions of risk in various contexts, how women’s lives were affected by risks associated with pregnancy, childbearing, and delivery, and how the concept of communities of care might link us to people who lived long ago. This episode discusses infant and maternal death, so might not be appropriate for our youngest listeners.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: So Much More Than Just Achilles’ Mother, the Strong-Willed Saviour Thetis on Apple Podcasts

She may have been mother to one of the most famous heroes, but Thetis did and meant so much more.

Fresh Youtubery

• Jeremy Swist_Julian & Roman Identity (Liverpool ACE Works in Progress Seminar, 8 March 2023) – YouTube | Jeremy Swist
• XXIX Colloquio AISCOM – Venerdì Mattina – YouTube | Parco Archeologico di Ostia Antica
• RePAIR, Reconstructing the Past: Artificial Intelligence and Robotics meet Cultural Heritage – YouTube | Pompeii
• What happened to the surrounded Roman army at Tifernum? – YouTube | History Marche

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Emilia Oddo, Konstantinos Chalikias, South by southeast: the history and archaeology of southeast Crete from Myrtos to Kato Zakros. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Sitta von Reden, Handbook of ancient Afro-Eurasian economies. Volume 2: local, regional, and imperial economies. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Have we got Ancient Egypt’s mummies all wrong? – BBC Culture

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 2023 Summer School: “Seafarers in Ancient Greece
• Book 10 of Pliny the Younger’s Epistles: An Edited Account of Governance Tickets, Fri, Apr 14, 2023 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite
• 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

• 7 Early Imaginings of Artificial Intelligence – HISTORY
• The Ancient Indian Buddhist Monk Buried in Athens
• The impressive portable, ancient sundial in Philippi Museum
• 5 ways the Persian Empire made the modern world – Big Think
• Meet the woman who helped save Egypt’s temples from certain doom | National Geographic

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 prosperity after wars and destructive 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)

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Gods, tombs and Nazis: the Third Reich’s bad relationship with Egyptology | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• Un’antica anfora romana ritrovata in riva sul litorale di San Vero Milis – LinkOristano
• In Photos: Egypt’s first complete Zodiac uncovered in Luxor’s Temple of Esna – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Britain has ‘nothing to apologise for’ over Elgin Marbles, think-tank says | Daily Mail Online
• Greece can’t be trusted to return Elgin Marbles, says historian
• Their world was the oyster: Oldest pearl town found in UAE
• Too-good-to-be-true Darius ostracon mix-up teaches a public lesson etched in pottery | The Times of Israel
• ‘The stuff was illegally dug up’: New York’s Met Museum sees reputation erode over collection practices | Museums | The Guardian

In Case You Missed It

• Ancient Mosaic Floor with Colorful Floral Designs Re-Uncovered after 40 Years | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 26 Adar 5783 – March 19, 2023 | JewishPress.com
• Ancient rest stop with flowery mosaic to host tired travelers once again | The Times of Israel

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Three Professors Receive 2023 Distinguished Scholar-Teachers Awards
• Mary Beard: ‘Everyone is policing everything, and the left are just as bad as the right’ | Mary Beard | The Guardian

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ TEMPESTAS AFRICA De ‘Frederico’ vortice 
• Akropolis World News ~ Βρυξέλλες

Public Facing Classics

• The Odyssey of English: The deadly origins of ‘toxic’ | Stuff.co.nz

Fresh Bloggery

• Thracians and Odrysians: Thucydides on Thracians, power, and violence (late fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• A Return, A Reflection, and on Olympias | The Second Achilles
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tov on the evolution of the biblical DSS
• Heracles’ fourth labour – the Erymanthian Boar | Greek Myth Comix
• Heracles’ fourth Labour: the Eymanthian Boar | Greek Myth Comix
• A Woman’s Party Invitation and a Girl’s Epitaph: Some Documentary Latin – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Bank Run
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Côtoyer les dieux: L’organisation des espaces dans les sanctuaires grecs et romains
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La rencontre pacifique de deux mondes chrétiens: Les monastères de la Péribleptos et de la Pantanassa à Mistra
• Mattia, Daughter of Mattios and Eutukhia – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De lijdende dienstknecht – Mainzer Beobachter
• Free Lunch Owns You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Miserable Sinners
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Rogers, For the Freedom of Zion
• PaleoJudaica.com: Bakker, The Secret of Time (Brill, Open Access)
• Praksô, the Samian, Gone at 22 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Piety
• The Dumbest Fictional Law in Ancient Literature – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Animaniacs: “Warners Unbound” (2020) – Animated Antiquity
• Hades’ Newest Bride: A Remarkable Epitaph – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Thermografie – Mainzer Beobachter
• MARGINALIA: Vatican To Return Fragments of the Parthenon
• Apology of Socrates | Plato | *Philosophers, Explained* by Professor Stephen Hicks – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Stigma of Stigmata: Tattoos in the Ancient World – Antigone
• March 19th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Would Socrates Be Anti-Woke? A Stoic Critique of Identity Politics | Merion West
• okay now I wanna talk about the myth I hate the MOST
• The Colossus of Rhodes: The Life & Afterlife of the Ancient Wonder
• The People of the Gaps: Rescuing Roman Slaves from Obscurity  – Retrospect Journal
• More victims of Vesuvius now on display in Pompeii. Are there still bones and jewels in these bodies? – Art style
• POMPEII, A PERMANENT STUDY AND RESEARCH LABORATORY – Pompeii Sites

Fresh Podcasts

• The Rest Is History: 314. Atlantis: The Legend on Apple Podcasts

Majestic palaces, untold riches, and indeterminable power… the story of Atlantis is a tale as old as time. But is there really any truth behind the ancient tome, or was Plato simply trying his hand at political satire? Join Tom and Dominic as they discuss the origins of the legend of Atlantis.

• The Rest Is History: 315. Atlantis: Legacy of the Lost Empire on Apple Podcasts

From claims that the alphabet was originated by Atlantians, Francis Bacon using the story as a model of utopia, to the Nazis co-opting Atlantis as the birthplace of the Aryan race, everyone seems to have wanted a slice of the Atlantian pie. Join Tom and Dominic as they explore the academics and the amateurs who lay claim to discovering the real Atlantis.

• The Forum: Alexander the Great or not so great? on Apple Podcasts

From Persia to India to Greece – they called him The Great – that is Alexander the Great. Also known as Alexander III of Macedon, he was one of the most successful military leaders of all time. Undefeated by the time of his death in 323 BCE, he is still a go-to figure when people want to define an empire builder. But how should we view this often cruel and destructive militarist today in the light of current world events? And, despite his brutality, like his ransacking of the beautiful capital city of Persepolis, is there a more progressive side to Alexander, his desire for cultural assimilation for instance, that explains why he became an inspiration not just to nationalists and imperialists but also to writers, poets, and the gay community? To discuss the relevance of Alexander the Great today, Rana Mitter is joined by James Romm, Professor of Classics at Bard College in New York state whose latest book is Demetrius: Sacker of Cities, the failed but would-be successor to Alexander the Great; Dr Haila Manteghi from the University of Münster in Germany who’s the author of Alexander the Great in the Persian tradition; Ali Ansari, Professor of Iranian History at the University of St Andrews in the UK; and Meg Finlayson, a specialist on the evolution of the queer Alexander, from the University of Durham in the UK.

• Sea Control: Sea Control 420 – Building an Ancient Naval Ram with Stephen DeCasien on Apple Podcasts

Stephen DeCasien, a Ph.D. candidate at Texas A&M University studying Nautical Archaeology, discusses his team’s effort to build a naval ram based on ancient techniques. The ram DeCasien and his team produced is the first of its type built in 1.500 years.

• Smarty Pants: #271: Filling in the Fragments on Apple Podcasts

The Greek poet Sappho’s reputation looks something like a parabola: at the height of her powers, her lyrics were so beloved that grammarians quoted them as exemplars of the Greek language; Plato called her the “Tenth Muse.” Then, after a thousand years of exaltation, she tumbled from the pantheon. Today, we know very little of her life and precious few of her works remain, most of them recovered from ancient garbage heaps in the 19th century. The surviving 306 fragments of her verse—dozens of them but a single word or phrase—are compiled in a new and updated translation by classicist Diane J. Rayor, simply titled Sappho, out this month from Cambridge University Press. Rayor, Professor Emerita of Classics at Grand Valley State University, joins us on the podcast to discuss the difficulties—and joys—of rediscovering Sappho and translating her verse into English.

Fresh Youtubery

• The Return of Achilles & the Cassandra Complex:An ‘Iliadic’ Reading of the Foundry Painter Name-Vase – YouTube | Canadian Institute in Greece
• Catullus 60 in Latin & English: Num te leaena montibus Libystinis – YouTube | David Amster
• So you want to learn Latin… || Workshop REPLAY – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• The language activity you can’t do without | Complete Latin Autodidact Guide 2023, pt 1 – YouTube | Found in Antiquity: Latin
• How The Romans Changed The Climate – YouTube | Classics in Color
• How to Join the Roman Army? – From Testing to Oath of Service DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• FELICE BARNABEI “CENTUM DEINDE CENTUM” – YouTube | Etruschannel
• The monuments of Rome in some late eastern sources | Robert Coates-Stephens (BSR) – YouTube | British School at Rome

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen – Zucht – Haltung und Verwendung By Heidelinde Autengruber-Thüry (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 84). Oxford: Archaeopress 2021.
• AJA ~ La villa dopo la villa 2: Trasformazione di un sistema insediativo ed economico nell’Italia centrale tra tarda Antichità e Medioevo Edited by Marco Cavalieri and Carla Sfameni. Louvain: Presses Universitaires de Louvain 2022.
• AJA ~ Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome By Maggie Popkin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022.
• AJA ~ Eastern Mediterranean Economic Networks in the Age of the Crusades: The Case of the Peloponnese By Katerina Ragkou. Nicosia: Astrom Editions 2020.
• AJA ~ Preserving Cultural Heritage in the Digital Age: Sending Out an S.O.S. Edited by Nicola Lercari, Willeke Wendrich, Benjamin W. Porter, Margie M. Burton, and Thomas E. Levy. Sheffield: Equinox 2022.
• Mounds of south-eastern Crimea on the maps | Spartakos read
• BMCR ~ Nicholas Jackson, Trajan: Rome’s last conqueror. Barnsley: Greenhill Books, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theater Review: “An Iliad” at Denizen Theater | Theater | Hudson Valley | Chronogram Magazine
• Denizen Theatre in New Paltz stages ‘An Iliad,’ one-man adaptation of Homer’s ‘The Illiad’ – Daily Freeman

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Crimean natives at the beginning of Iron Age: sites and material culture | Spartokos a lu
• 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

• This Forgotten Roman City Is One Of The Best-Preserved Examples Of Roman Urban Planning
• The Ancient Greeks Had Advanced Plumbing, Drainage, and Water Systems
• ‘The School of Athens’: the impact of frescoes in the 21st century – The Boar
• Pompey’s Pillar: Learn The Significance Of The Last Roman Monument Still Standing In Egypt’s Alexandria
• Hypsipyle and the Murderous Greek Women of Lemnos

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, humans will live peacefully and prosperously.

… 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. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 26 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• In Photos: German-Egyptian archaeological mission uncovers new remains at Matariya’s Sun Temple – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Olney: Roman villa mosaic found under Aldi supermarket site – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• Can YOU decipher these scrolls? Scientists are offering a $250,000 prize | Daily Mail Online
• Bent nails at Roman burial site form “magical barrier” to keep dead from rising | Ars Technica
• Pantheon: You will soon have to pay to enter Rome’s best preserved ancient monument | Euronews
• 7,000-year-old cult site in Saudi Arabia was filled with human remains and animal bones | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Professor Jane Gardner, 88: Translator of Caesar and authority on women in ancient Rome
• Texas A&M grad student explores ancient warfare with naval ram project
• Here’s what you should know about St. Patrick The Daily

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 18.03.2023 – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News ~ Γαλλία

Public Facing Classics

• The loot of Venice | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Neglected Conjecture
• PaleoJudaica.com: Antiquities-smuggling arrests in West Bank
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on those Turkish Esther scrolls
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ezekiel’s Babylonian-inspired temple?
• Can We Be Good? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The “Tomb of Absalom”
• Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Blog Post #77: Interview with Gino Canlas of the Database of Religious History – Peopling the Past
• Popular Speech and Philosophy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Praesens the Slacker
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Apparenza del diritto e rapporti di fatto nell’esperienza giuridica di Roma antica
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Menandro e l’evoluzione della commedia greca: Atti del convegno internazionale di studi in memoria di Adelmo Barigazzi nel centenario della nascita (Firenze, 30 settembre – 1 ottobre 2013)
• Imagining the Striking Process – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Gaius Censorinus, mon. 88 – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• 73 of 234 days: borrowed images – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Korinna’s Song: A Poetic Competition Between Mountains – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Weekend Reading: I Come to Bury Caesar – Classical Studies Support
• The Wrong Monkey: “This is a permanent book.”
• Gifts of Chicks and Shells: The Fragment of the Poet Hedyle – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Roman mosaic found under Aldi supermarket site – The History Blog
• De Chauken (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Edithorial: The Mystery of Greek Theatre’s Use in Ancient Medicine
• De Chauken (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Spirit in the Sky is Inside You! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Dacians: Frieze of Trajan’s conquest reused on the so-called Arch of Constantine (likely 107 CE or after) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Egyptians, Chaldeans, and Phoenicians: Julius Africanus on competitive chronologies (ca. 222 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Collections: How to Polis, Part IIa: Politeia in the Polis – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Summer Term 2023 Reading Classics Research Seminars | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• What Cicero Should Have Done: The Catilinarian Conspiracy Revisited – Antigone
• The Cyrus Cylinder – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The Economy of the Roman Empire: The Financial Crisis of 33 AD | Short History
• Michele Zazzi. Le navi etrusche. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
• 7500-year-old cursed city of Iran – Arkeonews
• Aldi construction uncovered Roman mosaic in UK – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists unearth Roman mosaic in Olney | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Silius Italicus, Punica 1.1-11
• @DocCrom on Silius Italius, Punica 1.21-33

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Did the quality of Hellenistic cavalry decline? on Apple Podcasts

Murray gives this thought on this question sent in, ‘is the supposed decline in the quality of Hellenistic cavalry true or is that exaggeration with Hellenistic cavalry remaining elite well into the conquest of said Hellenistic kingdoms by the Romans?’

Fresh Youtubery

• Legamus Vergilium! Aeneis, Nisus and Euryalus @RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• How did I NOT KNOW THIS!? The Secret Army of Ancient Thebes Is Out! – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Foreigners in ancient Rome: epigraphic perspectives | BSR Roundtables – YouTube | British School at Rome
• Dan McClellan on Fake Inscriptions and Biblical Misinformation | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube | Robert Cargill
• How We Made It: Phaedra’s Five Sets in One at the National Theatre – YouTube
• The Greek Magical Papyrus PGM IV in a Nutshell – YouTube | The Archaeology of Ancient Magic and Ritual Practice
• Art Night – Nero – puntata del 15 marzo 2023 – YouTube | Etuschannel
• The Sky Gods of Greek Mythology – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• AI baffles Latin teacher ChatGPT speaks Latin – YouTube | polyMATHY
• Enea, Atena e l’umile Italia. Novità dagli scavi dell’Athenaion di Castro in Messapia – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• Is This An Ancient Archeological Treasure Trove Or An Elaborate Hoax? | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
• The greatest Roman Arch – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Archaeological Landscapes of Roman Etruria: Research and Field Papers Edited by Alessandro Sebastiani and Carolina Megale (Archaeological and Historical Landscapes of Mediterranean Italy 1). Turnhout: Brepols 2021.
• AJA ~ Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building Edited by Charlotte R. Potts (British School at Rome Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022.
• AJA ~ The Archaeology of Roman Macedonia: Urban and Rural Environments By Vassilis Evangelidis. Oxford: Oxbow 2022.
• The Ancient Greek Myths Retold – WSJ

Dramatic Receptions

• Theater Roundup: ‘Hadestown’ puts New Orleans spin on classic Greek mythology | Arts & Living | independentri.com

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

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• The Marketplace of Ideas and the Agora: Herodotus on the Power of Isegoria | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core

Alia

• The Roman Ragnarök: What Did The End Of The World Look Like To The Ancient Romans? | IFLScience
• Check out the must-see new discoveries at ancient Pompeii – Lonely Planet
• Roman Empire: Love in Pompeii – the confident baker’s wife and her handsome husband News
• Next To Athens’ Parthenon Is The Unusual Erechtheion, & It’s One Of The Greatest Temples Of Ancient Greece
• Horses in ancient art: What were the artists seeking to convey? – Horsetalk.co.nz

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 a period of heavy rain, disease, an outbreak of locusts, and poor crops.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a dry and destructive  summer.

… 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. XVI Kal. Apr. 2776 AUC ~ 25 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Excavations reveal copper deposits that made Cyprus one of the most important Late Bronze Age trade hubs
• Could Britain, Greece Be Nearing Compromise Over Elgin Marbles? | The New York Sun
• In Rome, church and state agree to Pantheon entrance fee | AP News
• Olney: Roman villa mosaic found under Aldi supermarket site – BBC News

In Case You Missed It

• If You Can Decipher These 2,000-Year-Old Scrolls, You Could Win $250K

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Grad Student Explores Ancient Warfare With Naval Ram Project – Texas A&M Today
• Minnesota Catholic colleges cut languages, other humanities

Fresh Bloggery

• Parthians: Kneeling colossal support statues in eastern garb (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Celtic / Galatian diasporas: Mercenaries settled at Alexandria in Egypt (ca. 250-200 BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Introducing the PRICELESS project!
• Citations | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• 72 of 234 days: Hoards between 88-78 BCE – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Heracles’ third Labour – the Ceryneian Hind | Greek Myth Comix
• Heracles’ third Labour: the Hind of Ceryneia | Greek Myth Comix
• “Greetings to My Sister”: A Letter Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Perseus 6.0: Beyond Translation — the first version of a next generation Perseus
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Folly
• To the Nymphs of the River: Two Poems from Moero – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Girls: ‘Digging for Lullingstone’ – Dr Anne Thick shares her memories of the excavations of Lullingstone Roman Villa over 60 years ago. By Caroline K. Mackenzie.
• Monumental Roman complex found in Reims – The History Blog
• De Gallische boerderij – Mainzer Beobachter
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Competition for Deciphering Herculaneum Rolls

Other Blog-like Publications

• ANE Today – The “Tomb of Absalom”: The Earliest Judeo-Christian Place of Pilgrimage in Jerusalem
• What Did Aspasia Really Look Like? – Antigone
• The Symbolism of Animals in Mesopotamian Art
• Rise of the Sasanian Empire: The Persians (205-310 CE)
• Where Did the Nabataeans Come From? | Discover Magazine
• March 17th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Eco-Worriers?

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The Philistines on Apple Podcasts

Perhaps best known from the Biblical tale of David and Goliath, the Philistines were an ancient civilisation who lived on the south coast of Canaan. Despite living over a millennia ago, their name has been rebranded as a description of someone who disregards intellectual pursuits – but how, and why, was this connection made? Just who were the philistines, and what do we know about them? In today’s episode, Tristan is joined by archaeologist, and leading Philistine expert, Dr Aren Maeir, leader of excavations for several years at Gath, the ancient Philistine city. Looking at the archaeology, Aren is able to build a picture of how Philistine civilisation functioned, and what they were really like. So is it fair to use their culture as an insult, or have we been wrong this entire time?

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 084: Rome Arrives in the Hellenistic East on Apple Podcasts

During the Illyrian Wars of 229-228 and 219, the Roman Republic would intervene in the affairs of Greece for the first time. Their swift defeats of Queen Teuta and Demetrius of Pharos impressed the Greek communities, but would draw the attention of King Philip V of Macedonia.

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCVI – Rome Crumbles on Apple Podcasts

When the Emperor Valerian was captured by the enemy what the empire needed was a trusted, capable, firm set of hands to take on the imperial mantle. In retrospect, that probably wasn’t his son Gallienus. For the next eight years Gallienus would rule as sole emperor and proceed to lose two thirds of the empire, leaving Rome at its weakest position in centuries. Part I of ‘Gallienus’ 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: I Guess Aristophanes Is Worth Reading After All, Redeeming the Thesmophoriazusae w/ George Kovacs on Apple Podcasts

Liv is joined by associate professor George Kovacs to give us all a much needed appreciation of Aristophanes and the Thesmophoriazusae.

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Marginalised Populations in the Ancient Greek World: The Bioarchaeology of the Other By Carrie L. Sulosky Weaver. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2022.
• AJA ~ Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity By Sarah F. Derbew. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2022.
• AJA ~ The Making of a Roman Imperial Estate: Archaeology in the Vicus at Vagnari, Puglia Edited by Maureen Carroll (Archaeopress Roman Archaeology 88). Oxford: Archaeopress 2022.
• Francine Prose Liberates Cleopatra | The New York Sun
• BMCR ~ Matt Waters, King of the world: the life of Cyrus the Great. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Cassandra by Lesia Ukrainka, streamed performance Tickets, Thu 23 Mar 2023 at 19:30 | Eventbrite

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

• What is the meaning of ‘Et tu, Brute’ and did Caesar really say it on Ides of March?
• ‘Destroy the Copy’: Essay collection rethinks the history of plaster casts | The College of Arts & Sciences
• On Roman Charity, or a woman’s filial debt to the patriarchy | Aeon Essays
• What’s a life worth living? For the ancients, it depends | Psyche Ideas

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 something unexpected affecting the people with disaster after disaster for men and beasts.

… 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)