Hodie est a.d. VI Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Stolen Art Returned to Iraq — FBI
• Anger in Yemen after ‘2,000-year-old’ mummy found in trash
• Bronze nude figure with hinged phallus sells at auction for £2,200 – The Irish News
• Turkey Waited Too Long to Repatriate Marble Idol, Court Rules
• 1,800-year-old Roman pool complex reopening in Spain: Photos | The State
• Ancient artefact re-discovered in Kent Museum and Library of Freemasonry in Canterbury
• How Türkiye is taking care of its cultural heritage in quake-hit regions
• 50 years of the Vindolanda Tablets, the archaeological treasure found in Northumberland – Chronicle Live

In Case You Missed It

• The Vatican donates three fragments of the Parthenon to Greece
• Ancient Roman shrine discovered under Anglican cathedral
• Remains of ancient temple with hieroglyphic inscriptions discovered in Sudan | Live Science
• Bronze Age craftspeople tempered steel more than 1,000 years before the Romans did it | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard short films with the University of Cambridge aim to inspire the study of classics
• How the FAB started construction: A time capsule and ancient Greek offerings? – The Boar
• Discipline-specific Honours units endangered by new proposal – Honi Soit

Public Facing Classics

• Was Mithras worshipped in ancient Leicester? | Blog post by Mary Beard
• The secret dildos from history – and why researchers are desperate to get our hands on them
• Gladiators fought in Roman Britain, action-packed cremation urn carvings reveal | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Mediterranean peoples: Pausanias, ethnographic interests, and local traditions (mid-second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Ovid on identifying personified peoples in art to impress a girl (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on Nasamonians, Marmaridians, and Libyan Amazons (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Atlantians: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on supposed Atlantian stories about the earliest kings / gods (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Libyans: Dionysios of Mytilene and Diodoros on competing claims about the god Dionysos (third / mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Pssst, Friend. Don’t Listen to the Sirens’ Song! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Pliny’s Panegyric of Trajan
• 65 of 234 days: What now? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Lost to Childbirth at 18 and 20: Two Funerary Inscriptions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: SEDRA: The Syriac Electronic Data Research Archive
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Private and Public Life
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Oriental Institute Seminars (OIS)
• The Pythagorean Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Two Men, One Lituus – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Hedonisme (5): Epikouros en daarna – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: A Persian-era city in Nahariya?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Does Hebrew have a “reduced alphabet?”
• Blogging ancient epigram: Two literary epitaphs by Antipater of Sidon
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• CAC Diss Prize – The Classical Association of Canada
• CAC prize of merit – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• Commodus: Rome’s Problem Child? – Antigone
• ANE Today – The Emergence of Edom: Recent Debate
• A huge and elegant Roman panoramic room has now been discovered under the vegetation at the Terme di Baia – Stile Arte
• Paul and Thecla: Feminist Fantasy?

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Heroides 16.2-12

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: The Coming of the Hoplite on Apple Podcasts

When did the phalanx become the fully-developed formation we imagine? In this issue of Ancient Warfare, we explore the various changes and developments in the seventh through fifth centuries BC that eventually led to the emergence of the ‘Classical’ Greek hoplite. The Ancient Warfare team discuss issue XVI.2 of the magazine, The coming of the Hoplite: Shields, spears and shining bronze.

• Raising Standards: 2.07: Death Mask on Apple Podcasts

Servilia takes out a final curse on Atia, Timon struggles between faith and family, and Pullo’s love life becomes significantly more complicated.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: In Defence of Euripides, Aristophanic Nonsense w/ Julie Levy on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with returning guest Julie Levy about all things Thesmophoriazusae. What made Aristophanes tick and why is Euripides perfect and amazing, actually? We answer all your questions.

Fresh Youtubery

• 2023-03-09 Connecting Tattooed Bodies & Figurines at Deir el-Medina, Egypt (A Austin) – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
• How A New Translation Changes The Way We Understand Ovid’s METAMORPHOSES (w/ Stephanie McCarter) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Colloquial Latin II – confabulationes tironum cum RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• The Forgotten Punic Wars – Greece vs Carthage (481-306 BC) FULL DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• The Hephaisteion: Its Date, Interior and Purpose – YouTube | ASCSAthens

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Architecture in Ancient Central Italy: Connections in Etruscan and Early Roman Building, edited by Charlotte R. Potts
• AJA ~ Hunde in der römischen Antike: Rassen/Typen – Zucht – Haltung und Verwendung, by Heidelinde Autengruber-Thüry
• AJA ~ Souvenirs and the Experience of Empire in Ancient Rome, by Maggie Popkin
• BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos. Mnemosyne supplements, 458. Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Andrea Jördens, Griechische Papyri aus der Sammlung des Louvre (P. Louvre III). Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen, 47. Bonn: Habelt Verlag, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Malte Helfberend, Ciceros Rede pro L. Cornelio Balbo: Einleitung und Kommentar. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Arte Liberata 1937-1947: Masterpieces Saved from War.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theater review: ‘Hadestown’ a hot time at The Bushnell

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• 2023 ARCA Amelia Conference – Save the Date & Call for Presenters ~ ARCAblog
• 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

• Il ritrovamento dell’Ara Pacis, l’altare di Augusto
• The Aeolian Islands and Their Ancient Greek Heritage
• What Was Traded On the Silk Road? | Discover Magazine

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 of four-footed 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)

Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 17 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Egyptian archaeologists hold their own history in their hands
• Kerameikos Archaeological Site in Athens to Get Upgrade | GTP Headlines
• UNESCO-listed Monumental Mount Nemrut statues survive Türkiye quakes

In Case You Missed It

• Vatican returns Parthenon sculptures to Greece in ‘historic event’
• Smiling Sphinx Statue Unearthed in Egypt | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Mini Roman-Era Sphinx Discovered Near Egyptian Temple
• Remember that ancient Roman “dildo”? It might just be an old Roman drop spindle | Ars Technica
• Acropolis Museum Welcomes ‘Venus in a Gold Bikini’ | GTP Headlines

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics Professor Melissa Mueller Named Spotlight Scholar | College of Humanities & Fine Arts
• Mary Beard short films with the University of Cambridge aim to inspire the study of classics
• Classics Researcher Improves Oracy Skills in UAE | Mirage News

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἡνωμένον Βασίλειον
• Professor Peter Parsons obituary

Public Facing Classics

• Cleopatra’s daughter: the forgotten queen – ABC Radio National
• The Athenian case for lockdown | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Boy Cicero Reading, or A Boy Reading Cicero?
• The Aging Body, A Failing Ship – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Catalogo dei papiri greci del Museo di Scienze Archeologiche e d’Arte dell’Università di Padova
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Praktiken der Aneignung: Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sessions 6–8, Single Contributions
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Rezeption römischer Schlachtenreliefs im Antikenfilm
• A Reminder: Medical and Philosophical Traditions Consider Women Not Fully Human – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De joden van Rome – Mainzer Beobachter
• Teaching Thursday: More on ChatGPT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Other Blog-like Publications

• Researchers help reveal evidence of rare Roman Temple
• Leicester Cathedral Revealed – a Roman shrine beneath the Cathedral?
• Excavations reveal Roman altar stone in shrine or cult room | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• SO I’VE FOUND ANOTHER EXCUSE TO WRITE ABOUT THE GODDESS INANNA

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 4.18

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Septimius Severus on Apple Podcasts

Given his incredible career, you’d perhaps expect the name of Roman Emperor Septimius Severus to be better known. Born in North Africa in 145AD, he rose to power after distinguishing himself as a military commander at a time of great instability in the Roman Empire. Finally bringing the Year of the Five Emperors to an end, Severus was in power for nearly two decades – so how did he end up perishing in York? In this episode, Tristan welcomes back author (and Severus’ unofficial 21st Century biographer) Dr Simon Elliot. Together, they explore the life and legacy of Septimius Severus – looking at his impact on the history of Ancient Rome, as well as the bloody events surrounding his campaign in Scotland, and asking how one of the most powerful men in the world was eventually bought down.

• The Partial Historians: The Partial Recap – 430s BCE on Apple Podcasts

We recap the confusing details of the 430s BCE. Be careful – there’s a lot of dictators about! …

• The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos: Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: The Anger of Achilles on Apple Podcasts

Achilles has anger issues. The great Greek warrior sits out most of the Trojan War because he’s angrily sulking. When he finally enters battle, he does so in a fit of rage that causes him to commit atrocities and bring dishonor on himself. So what can we learn from this angry character in Homer’s epic poem, The Iliad? With the help of Harvard classics expert Greg Nagy and anger counsellor Dr Faith Harper, we look at how anger can creep up on us and what we can do to defuse this sometimes explosive emotion.

Fresh Youtubery

• Discover Roman Women: Tombstone Inscriptions – YouTube | The Roman Baths
• Making History Podcast | Content Club Film 1 : “Rome’s Forgotten War” – YouTube | Content Club
• Antiquities Circle Lecture: Dionysos between Osiris and Christ – YouTube | Tampa Museum of Art
• Ivan Matijašić on Herodotus as a model for Ammianus Marcellinus’ account of the Battle of Adrianople – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline

Book Reviews

• AJA ~ Minoische Bild-Räume: Neue Untersuchungen zu den Wandbildern des spätbronzezeitlichen Palastes von Knossos, by Ute Günkel-Maschek
• AJA ~ Ausgrabungen in der frühbronzezeitlichen Siedlung im Heraion von Samos 1966, by Hans Peter Isler
• AJA ~ Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, by Sarah F. Derbew Mary Ann Eaverly
• Mr. Socrates Goes To Beijing
• BMCR ~ Antony Augoustakis, Marco Fucecchi, Silius Italicus and the tradition of the Roman historical epos. Mnemosyne supplements, 458. Boston: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Elena Partene, Dimitri El Murr, Kant et Platon: lectures, confrontations, héritages. Bibliothèque d’histoire de la philosophie. Paris: Vrin, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Greek tragedy reimagined with poetry by former Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani – Neos Kosmos
• Travelling Homer: how the National Theatre is staging a multi-city Odyssey | Theatre | The Guardian
• The UK’s National Theatre Staging Homer’s Odyssey across England – The National Herald
• ‘Medea’ receives multiple meritorious achievement awards | Peninsula Daily News

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Summer School: An Interdisciplinary History of Writing – Hamburg – 17-28 July 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• 2023 Colloquium – Peopling the Past
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Teaching and Research Fellow in Ancient History – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers
• Teaching and Research Fellow in Roman History and Latin – University of Edinburgh Jobs Careers
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Was Homer Real?
• On International Women’s Day, Dido Speaks to Us Across the Millennia – WhoWhatWhy
• How story of legendary warrior Queen Boudica inspired women’s march in Colchester
• Did clitorises strike fear into the Greeks and Romans?
• Newfangled coins and mercenaries may have brought about democracy | The Economist

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 downfall of humans and the proliferation of wild beast.

… 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 Id. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Folktale becomes reality as Roman altar unearthed at Leicester Cathedral | Archaeology | The Guardian
• Shrine Believed To Be Dedicated To The Ancient Greek God Dionysus Discovered In Leicester
• Discovery of a Mauritanian tomb in Qsirissi, near Larache
• Vinum Hadrianum is Resurrecting Ancient Roman Wines and the Art and Architecture That Gives Them Context
• Pisa: resti di domus romane negli scavi di piazza Andrea Del Sarto – MediterraneoAntico
• Vatican Parthenon Marbles to return to Greece – DW – 03/07/2023
• Greece asks others to ‘imitate’ Vatican return of Parthenon pieces | Reuters
• Acropolis Museum presents ‘Venus in a gold bikini’ in celebration of IWD – Neos Kosmos
• ‘Americans wuz here!’ Two tourists leave their mark on Rome’s Colosseum: Jarvis DeBerry | Opinions and Editorials | nola.com
• Vandalism on a three thousand years old Assyrian wall sculptures | SBS Assyrian
• Un’antica città tra Palermo e Agrigento: tra i suoi resti c’è anche la “Tomba della Regina”
• Italian 18-Year-Old Fined Hefty €15,000 After Vandalising Ancient Ġgantija Temples
• Archaeologists uncover Iron Age cemetery and house during excavations in Oud-Turnhout | VRT NWS: news

In Case You Missed It

• Bronze Age well contents reveal the history of animal resources in Mycenae, Greece: Analysis of a refuse dump, including dog and livestock animal remains, provides clues to food availability and destruction over time — ScienceDaily
• Hidden Corridor is Revealed in Great Pyramid of Giza
• Newfound ancient Egyptian sphinx statue may depict Roman emperor Claudius, but not everyone agrees | Live Science
• Sphinx statue with a ‘smiley face and two dimples’ is unearthed in Egypt | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Bernard Barcio, Latin teacher known for his catapult contest, dies

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DE NUNTIO RUSSICO Adversarius in vinclis 

Public Facing Classics

• Indiana Jones and Excavating Antiquity

Fresh Bloggery

• Persians: Irenaeus on Marcus the Valentinian Magian (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Don’t Try to Philosophize with Everyone! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Sour and Embittered Character
• Alexander’s Earth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die verzierte Arretina aus Oberaden und Haltern
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die römischen Töpfereien von Haltern
• Odysseus’s Sister and Names for In-Laws – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Joseph und Aseneth
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: On the daimonion of Socrates: Human liberation, divine guidance and philosophy
• Lucan | The Historian’s Hut
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Beware the Ides of March
• Study Of Composition From Roman History, By Milan Thomka Mitrovský (c. 1875–1943) | The Historian’s Hut
• Kiwi Hellenist: Homer’s metre 3. Catalogue and glossary
• Pliny The Younger’s Speak-For-Itself Speech Advice | The Historian’s Hut
• Roman shrine found under Leicester Cathedral – The History Blog
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Roma Numismatics and Gaza Hoard Coins
• Hedonisme (4): De tuin van Epikouros – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Career retrospective: Sidnie White Crawford
• PaleoJudaica.com: Milan Fashion Week meets 3 Enoch
• Spencer Alley: Views of Ruins
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Flabby Average Greekness
• A List of Women Authors from Ancient Greece and Rome for #InternationalWomensDay – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A Book By its Cover: festivalCHAT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Maria Tzannetaki (1925–2004) A Pillar of the Athens Department during the Emil Kunze years – People at the DAI Athens

Other Blog-like Publications

• Sphinx statue and Roman architectural remains found in Dendera
• Venus in a gold bikini
• Evidence of a Roman shrine dating back was discovered during dig at Leicester Cathedral – Arkeonews
• Excavations reveal Roman altar stone in shrine or cult room | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Nietzsche believed art could help you become stronger
• March 8th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Antoninus Pius and Pietas coinage
• @DocCrom on a Roman inscription from Wales

Fresh Podcasts

• The Authority File: Dr. Sarah Derbew on the Future of Classical Studies on Apple Podcasts

In the second episode of this two-part series, Dr. Sarah Derbew, assistant professor of Classics at Stanford University and author of Untangling Blackness in Greek Antiquity, discusses the future of Classical Studies. She digs into the complications of “decolonizing” a subject like the Classics—one that centers Greek and Roman civilizations while sidelining those in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. As Sarah explains, applying the term to an entire discipline can lead to superficial results, with the assumption that implementing inclusive and equitable practices is a one-step solution or short-term process. She also unpacks her current research on the intersections between Greek and African antiquity, and shares her hopes for the evolution of the Classics, including an interdisciplinary lens and thoughtful, ethical considerations from young scholars that she has already begun to witness.

• Peopling the Past: Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina: Roman Girlhood with Lauren Caldwell on Apple Podcasts

Ah, youth! We are all familiar with that mysterious and formative period of life between childhood and adulthood, but how did the ancient Romans describe this time of transition? In this episode, social historian Dr. Lauren Caldwell joins Chelsea and Melissa to talk about aspects of Roman “girlhood” and the difficult transition to “womanhood”. Listen in, as we dive into ancient Latin medical and legal texts to learn how the ancient Romans grappled with puberty and the various changes that took place in the female body that differentiated girls (puellae) from the women (feminae) they would become.

• Dive & Dig: Under the Mediterranean II – Women leading the way in deep water archaeology on Apple Podcasts

To celebrate International Women’s Day we are excited to share this interview on Deep Water Archaeology with Barbara Davidde and Franca Cibecchini, using advanced technology they are exploring ever greater depths and discovering ancient shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: BONUS: Answering Those Lingering Spartan Questions on Apple Podcasts

In a brief finale to the series on Sparta and the Spartan mirage, Liv answers lingering listener questions about that ancient city-state and its mythology.

Fresh Youtubery

• 50. Diocletian – Cabbages! – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• The Curse of the House of Atreus – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Fragments of the Parthenon that the Vatican sent to Greece will arrive on March 24 – YouTube | Rome Reports

Book Reviews

• Dissecting Socrates, Orunmila’s lives in Prof Sophie Oluwole’s book – Tribune Online
• BMCR ~ Nathanael Aschenbrenner, Jake Ransohoff, The invention of Byzantium in early modern Europe. Extravagantes. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Hanna M. Roisman, Tragic heroines in ancient Greek drama. London; New York: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• Roman Landscapes: Visions of Nature and Myth from Rome and Pompeii – Featured Exhibition | San Antonio Museum of Art

Dramatic Receptions

• Greek tragedy reimagined with poetry by former Manus detainee Behrouz Boochani – Neos Kosmos
• Christopher Walker reviews Medea at The Soho Place Theatre – South London News
• Review: Caligula and the Sea, VAULT Festival – Everything Theatre

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

• AHCLC1202 Lecturer (Teaching & Research) in Ancient History and Curatorial Advisor (Numismatics) – Jobs at the University of Leeds
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Top 10 Ancient Greek Goddesses

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, it portends rain.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)

Hodie est Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Sphinx-like statue and shrine discovered in southern Egypt | Egypt | The Guardian
• In Photos: Egyptian archaeological mission uncovers smiling sphinx in Qena – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Egypt archaeology: Dig unearths smiling mini-sphinx which may represent Claudius – BBC News
• Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Sphinx-like Roman-era statue from 2,000 years ago | The Times of Israel
• College Students Find Ancient Stone Lioness During Field Trip in Northern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Calls to protect Libyan heritage site spoilt by vandals | Africanews
• New cold water pools found at ancient Roman bath house in Toledo – La Prensa Latina Media
• Fragments Of Parthenon Sculptures Are To Be Returned From The Vatican In The Next Few Days
• ‘Modern Elgin’ Arrested Trying to Steal Pieces of Acropolis
• 1,800 year-old evidence of Roman worship found in Leicester Cathedral dig | News | University of Leicester
• Roman shrine discovered near Leicester cathedral graveyard – BBC News
• A Roman public building with precious marbles discovered during construction works in the Marche – Stile Arte

In Case You Missed It

• Israel Antiquities Authority: Artifact bearing name of Ahasuerus’ father is not authentic | ערוץ 7
• Britain hosted GLADIATOR fights 1,800 years ago, ancient vase reveals | Daily Mail Online
• 2,000-Year-Old Laundrette Amongst First Finds From Ambitious New Pompeii Dig
• Israel Antiquities Authority must rein in enthusiasm before next find – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary for Robert Rivers Harris | Lord & Stephens Funeral Homes
• Charles H. Kahn (1928-2023) | Daily Nous

Public Facing Classics

• I dug for evidence of the Rosetta Stone’s ancient Egyptian rebellion – here’s what I found
• Hinged phallus of 2,000-year-old fertility figurine was ‘clearly intended to dangle’ | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 2] on humiliated captives kneeling or on the ground (first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Roman coins [part 3] on kneeling in supplication or adoration (first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Persians: Vitruvius theorizes about Greek depictions of enemies in architectural contexts (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Neith-hotep of Naqada – Queen Consort or First Female Pharaoh? | Garstang Museum of Archaeology
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Folly
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Such Is My Life
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Freedom
• Achilles’ (Missing) Sister – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Linguistic Slough of Despond?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Karten von Attika in the Era of Digital Humanities
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antiquitatum Thesaurus: Antiken in den europäischen Bildquellen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Typenatlas der römischen Reichsprägung von Augustus bis Aemilianus
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Griechischen Götter: Ein Überblick über Namen, Bilder und Deutungen
• A Physician’s Notes on the Lives and Deaths of Women – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Kiwi Hellenist: Homer’s metre 2. Hermann’s Bridge
• Roman-era sphinx found at Dendera – The History Blog
• Troje is nooit veroverd! – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lioness carving found in the Golan
• Nog even over de expositie over Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Updates from Pyla-Vigla on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Don’t Try to Philosophize with Everyone! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Other Blog-like Publications

• Does the artificial watercourse in the Hessian Ried have a Roman past? – Archaeology Wiki
• The Darius Ostracon: From Real to Fake
• Archaeologists in Egypt unearth Roman-era cabin and royal sphinx statue – Arkeonews
• SAN MICHELE AT THE CUTTING (VE). An ancient Roman villa on the beach of Bibione. – Archeology online – Archeomedia
• Roman era sphinx uncovered at Dendera Temple Complex | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• What Makes the Most Expensive Ancient Coins So Valuable
• Why Is the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius so (In)famous?
• March 7th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 85

Fresh Podcasts

• My Life In Books with Red Szell: Natalie Haynes on Apple Podcasts

For this episode, Red is joined by Champion of the Classics, Natalie Haynes. Through her best-selling novels, her sell-out stand-up comedy performances, and eight series of her hit radio show, Natalie has brought the myths of Ancient Greece and Rome to legions of new fans. Her novels The Children of Jocasta and A Thousand Ships retold the Greek myths of Oedipus and Antigone, and the Trojan War respectively, reshaping the stories by placing women at their hearts. And her latest novel, Stone Blind, reveals a new side to the seemingly familiar myth of Perseus and The Gorgon, Medusa. Not only does it put male power under the spotlight but it explores how we create monsters out of our fear of the unknown. And best of all for fans of Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics, she narrates the audiobook version of Stone Blind herself!

• Peopling the Past: Not a Puella, Not Yet a Femina: Roman Girlhood with Lauren Caldwell on Apple Podcasts

Ah, youth! We are all familiar with that mysterious and formative period of life between childhood and adulthood, but how did the ancient Romans describe this time of transition? In this episode, social historian Dr. Lauren Caldwell joins Chelsea and Melissa to talk about aspects of Roman “girlhood” and the difficult transition to “womanhood”. Listen in, as we dive into ancient Latin medical and legal texts to learn how the ancient Romans grappled with puberty and the various changes that took place in the female body that differentiated girls (puellae) from the women (feminae) they would become.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Egregious Euripides Slander, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

(Fictional) Euripides and Mnesilochus work to infiltrate the Thesmophoria festival and things get very, very weird.

Fresh Youtubery

• Rita Dove in conversation with Helene Foley – YouTube | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
• Tramine vehi latine (Pars 1)!  Going by train in Latin: vocab & grammar @RVMAK​ – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Why BCE/CE is Better than BC/AD (Even for Christians) – YouTube | XKV8R
• Techniques of Etruscan and Roman earthen architecture – YouTube | British School at Rome
• Textile Conservation at The Met – YouTube
• Did Blue Exist in the Ancient World? – YouTube | Dig it With Raven

Book Reviews

• Ingesting Mercury and the Noble Lie: On Anthony Barbieri-Low’s “The Many Lives of the First Emperor of China” and Shadi Bartsch’s “Plato Goes to China”
• Book Spotlight: Circe by Madeline Miller – The Cowl
• BMCR ~ Guillaume Flamerie de Lachapelle, Lemaire, Panckoucke, Nisard: trois collections d’auteurs latins sous la Restauration et la monarchie de Juillet. Scripta receptoria, 21. Bordeaux; Pessac: Éditions Ausonius, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Christopher Chinn, Visualizing the poetry of Statius: an intertextual approach. Mnemosyne supplements, 449. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre Erindale’s Alcestis: Merging styles of the past and present – The Medium

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Housman Lectures | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
• 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 Acropolis As We Know It Today Never Existed | Art & Object

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 major wind which will affect the business of the powerful.

… 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 pr. Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 14 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The Darius Artifact: How Did We Get From Discovery of the Decade to Disgrace? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Israel Antiquities Authority must rein in enthusiasm before next find – The Jerusalem Post

In Case You Missed It

• Gladiator fights were staged in Roman Britain, evidence suggests – BBC News
• Ancient Roman vase is 1st evidence of gladiator battles on English soil | The Times of Israel
• Accidental destruction of Roman sarcophagus represents significant cultural loss ⋆ Universul.net

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἰνδία
• Ephemeris ~ NOVUM PYROBOLUM Nuntium Ucrainum 

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: List of C-14 dated manuscripts
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of The Lexham Old Testament Apocrypha
• “What Kinds of Things Are Roses”: More Poems from Nossis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Life
• Review: SAVAGE BEASTS by Rani Selvarajah – Classical Studies Support
• Have Been Accepted to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)’s Summer Session for 2023! – Tales of Times Forgotten
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Position of Roman Slaves: Social Realities and Legal Differences
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Öffentliche Räume in Pompeji: Zum Design urbaner Atmosphären
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Libyan Epigraphy Research Network
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’auctoritas à Rome: Une notion constitutive de la culture politique
• Colchester Vase was gladiator sports memorabilia – The History Blog
• Jezus’ vrouwelijke leerlingen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Garbled Greek
• One month after the quake – cultural properties damage assessment | Turkish Archaeological News
• Buying Erudition – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Photos of the Book of the Dead scroll from Saqqara
• Perictione and the Harmonious Woman – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of Central Asia during the 1st millennium BC, from the Beginning of the Iron age to the Hellenistic period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epigraphische Forschungen in Termessos und seinem Territorium IV
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Griechische Epigraphik in Lykien: Eine Zwischenbilanz. Akten des internationalen Kolloquiums München, 24.–26. Februar 2005
• A Funerary Inscription for a Twelve-Year Old Girl – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Poor Charles Vanderpoop
• Hedonisme (3): De Cyreense School – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the fake Darius inscription
• MARGINALIA: Remains from the Temple of Vespasian
• Time and the Ancient World – The Classical Astronomer
• Limits of totality; fragmentary fragilities   – o pietas animi
• Wherever You Go, You’re Still You – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The results of the CREWS project: new CORDIS article

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• New article explores Holocene geomorphodynamics in a long-term settled mountain catchment in the Pergamon Micro-Region – Pergamon Micro-Region
• HeroesX: 10th anniversary – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Ancient Boundaries of Classics – Antigone
• Classical Culture in British India, Part III: The Ovid of Calcutta – Antigone
• The world’s first horse riders
• What’s a life worth living? For the ancients, it depends | Psyche Ideas
• Pasts Imperfect (2.23.23)
• March 5th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• March 6th | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Ancient Egyptian discovery rewrites history of Sudanese kingdom | HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The Darius Ostracon: From Real to Fake
• PaleoJudaica.com: Purim 2023

Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

• Literature and History: Episode 102: An Old Man’s Book (Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2) on Apple Podcasts

Augustine’s City of God, Part 2 of 2. The second half of the City of God contains some of Late Antiquity’s most influential writings – most notably Augustine’s take on Original Sin.

• History of the World podcast: Unscripted (50) ( Retrospective special ) on Apple Podcasts

Something completely new for the History of the World podcast.  While we wait for the new episode, we revive some of the great stories that we have already told in years gone by.  Plus the result of the first semi-final of the History of the World podcast Ancient World Cup.

Fresh Youtubery

• Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen – Warwick Ancient Drama Festival 2023 – YouTube
• SUUS et EIUS in Latin, what’s the difference? || LLPSI – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• How Could an Ethiopian Princess Be Born White? The Intriguing Tale of Aethiopika – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Unlocking the Secrets of Mesopotamian Magic with Dr. Irving Finkel – YouTube | Archaeology Now
• Plutarch’s Parallel Lives | Ancient Classics – YouTube
• TGR Lazio – Il rhython assiro di Veio – YouTube | Etruschannel

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Joanna Kenty, Cicero’s political personae. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
• BMCR ~ Giovanni Ligabue, Falerii Veteres. Il sepolcreto di Montarano: scavi, materiali e contesti. Monumenti antichi, 83. Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean review – art of extraordinary intimacy | Museums | The Guardian

Dramatic Receptions

• Homer’s Odyssey takes center stage in EPIC – The Georgetown Voice
• Former detainee and advocate Behrouz Boochani brings new life to an ancient play – ABC News
• ‘Tragic tale of forbidden love has been told down the ages’ – EasternEye

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

• Women’s Life in Ancient Greece: Grooming and Care of the Body – The National Herald

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 same as yesterday portended and even more.

… 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)