Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 12 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Unfounded: Ancient Darius inscription shard isn’t authentic – Antiquities Authority | The Times of Israel
• Ky. professor using AI technology to read ancient manuscript about life after Alexander the Great | WKMS
• Ancient structures remain standing in Hatay despite Türkiye quake | Daily Sabah
• Boris Johnson Has Finally Lost His Marbles

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.03.2023 – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News ~ Λευκορωσία
• Ephemeris ~ DE BELLO ADVERSUS SCELERATOS Nova ab America Latina 

Fresh Bloggery

• Fireside Friday, March 3, 2023 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Weekend Reading: Tea Good, Work Bad – Classical Studies Support
• Mediterranean peoples: Augustus on his own achievements, conquests and alliances with peoples (14 CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Mediterranean peoples: Diodoros and Pliny on Pompey’s subjugation of peoples of the world (mid-first century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• WWED? (What Would Epicurus Do?) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Darius ostracon was a modern showpiece?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Love
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Administrative Hieratic from dynasties 19 and 20 : case studies on selected groups of ostraca with necropolis administration
• On the Road with Alexander – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Egypt, New Technology: The Present and Future of Computer Visualization, Virtual Reality and Other Digital Humanities in Egyptology
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Proclus on Aristotle on Plato. A Case Study on Motion
• Sappho’s Equal? Some Epigrams Assigned to the Poet Nossis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Convivial Gatherings
• Hedonisme (2): Aristippos’ idee van vrijheid – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Simple Explanation
• Two Reviews of the Two Plinys and Vesuvius « [quem dixere chaos]
• Pleiades Literature Club: Call for Participation
• The Age of Knowing Better – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

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• Ancient Mesopotamian Tavern Discovered
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Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: All’s Hair in Love and War! Aeneid X, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 113) on Apple Podcasts

This week Jeff and Dave are back at the Aeneid, wading into some deep waters murky and redolent with the unfulfilled wishes of Jupiter. As full-scale war erupts on the Latian plain, Venus and Juno bring their high-pitched quarrel to the king of Olympus, whose own hands, it turns out, are tied by the Parcae. As the Fates roll around in their El Camino, cutting short the threads of numerous heroes Sarpedon-like, men are dying on the field of battle like a scene straight out of the Iliad. But it’s not just questions of fate, of popsicle sticks, glue, and Fort Ticonderoga that occupy our sally into divine destiny. Along the way there is also room for Vergil’s frowzy digression on Ascanius’ lustral locks. What is he, a trichologist? Perhaps our poet was himself glabrous, and that explains his odd obsession with the young Iulus’ quiffs and frisettes? We comb through the evidence, attempting to answer this, and more.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 083: Hellenistic Literature – Apollonius of Rhodes and the “Argonautica” on Apple Podcasts

The “Argonautica”, written by the third century poet Apollonius of Rhodes, is the only surviving epic poem from the Hellenistic period. Recounting the travels of the hero Jason and his crew of Argonauts as they searched for the Golden Fleece, Apollonius managed to pay homage to the works of Homer while also reinventing the genre to better reflect the scholarship coming out of Alexandria.

• EI Weekly Listen: EI Weekly Listen — The City of God: on Augustine’s vision of Empire by Gillian Clark on Apple Podcasts

Augustine’s seminal book was written in the context of the Roman Empire, but it remains ever-relevant. Read by Leighton Pugh.

Fresh Youtubery

• It’s a FAKE: The Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” is Not Authentic – YouTube
• On the Unprovenanced “Darius Inscription” – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Le royaume du Bosphore et le monde barbare d’Europe centrale et orientale à la fin de l’ère romaine (milieu du IIe – milieu du IVe siècle après J.-C.). | Spartokos a lu
• River of the Gods by Candice Millard review – Readers are immersed in the crazy quest of two friends turned enemies | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT
• Natalie Haynes’ Stone Blind Fills in Mythological Silences | Tor.com

Dramatic Receptions

• UW drama’s adaptation of ‘The Oresteia’ explores questions behind justice and humanity | Events | dailyuw.com
• Caligula and the Sea – VAULT Festival, London – The Reviews Hub
• National Theatre’s Phaedra review: suicide tragedy leaves a bad taste

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

• First bioanthropological evidence for Yamnaya horsemanship | Science Advances
• Intense community dynamics in the pre-Roman frontier site of Fermo (ninth–fifth century BCE, Marche, central Italy) inferred from isotopic data  | Scientific Reports

Alia

• What To Know About The Only Standing Roman Lighthouse In England (Which Is Now A Bell Tower)
• 11 Facts About Boudica, Warrior Queen of the Iceni

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 great prosperity.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a sunny spring and fruitful 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. V Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 11 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Egypt: Hidden corridor in Great Pyramid of Giza seen for first time – BBC News
• ‘What’s behind these stones?’ Egypt unveils newly discovered Great Pyramid chamber | The Times of Israel
• PHOTOS: Tiny Ancient Statue With Enormous Penis Found in England
• 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Fertility Figurine of Mercury to Be Auctioned – ARTnews.com
• Turkey: The Ancient Greek City Of Anazarbos Survived The Major Earthquakes
• Greek mythology’s forgotten women are getting their own stories | Broadview Magazine
• Is it time to hand back the Elgin Marbles? | Shropshire Star
• Another ‘phallic symbol’ found near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland by archaeologists – Chronicle Live
• 2,000-year-old tunnels found under Spanish church | Raleigh News & Observer
• 1,700-year-old Roman sarcophagus accidentally destroyed in Romanian cemetery | Romania Insider
• Ministry takes measures to protect artifacts from quakes – Türkiye News
• York’s Roman Quarter development is up for sale – as owners ‘try and secure delivery’ of the project | YorkMix

In Case You Missed It

• 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Dry Cleaner Unearthed at Pompeii – ARTnews.com
• Archaeologists Discover Wooden Spikes Described by Julius Caesar | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Archaeologist Anna Leone: Fight against illicit trafficking of Libyan antiquities is top priority | The Libya Observer
• Boston College Professor Hosts Furry Event in Class – The Torch | Boston College’s Catholic Newspaper

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DISCIPULAE VENENATAE Scelus in scholis Persicis 

Public Facing Classics

• At the Crick | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Teaching and ChatGPT | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egypt and the Mediterranean World from the Late Fourth through the Third Millennium BCE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Oberstadt von Ḫattuša: Die Bauwerke. III, Die Bebauung im südlichen Vorfeld von Büyükkale. Nişantepe – Südburg – Ostplateau (Grabungen 1988–1993)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Praktiken der Aneignung: Kulturelle Kontakte im nordöstlichen Azovraum vom späten 7.–3. Jh. v. Chr.
• Festivals for Women and Different Marriage Customs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Libyan Epigraphy Research Network – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: PAS Going for Remote Artefact Recording from Photos to Boost Database Numbers?
• Tacitus on Germanic Standards for Women and Child-Rearing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Een Fenicisch scheppingsverhaal – Mainzer Beobachter
• Autism and Classical Myth: Why this blog is like my garden
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Sassoon family and their collections
• PaleoJudaica.com: When did copying a Torah scroll became a sacred process?
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Bar’am Synagogue
• MARGINALIA: Venus Pays a Visit to Jupiter
• Art and Antiquities an Attractive Market for Money Laundering, FATF Argues
• Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Online Open House | Euclid Saves Us from Ignorance, with Graeme Bird – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Unknown room discovered in the Great Pyramid
• A rare inscription bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great
• Iron Age comb found made from human skull in UK – Arkeonews
• Why Was the Battle of Ipsus so Important?
• 5 Pieces of Propaganda from the Ancient World
• Scans reveal hidden tunnel in Great Pyramid of Giza
• Minoan civilisation may have used celestial “star path” navigation techniques
• March 3rd | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Discovered frescoed Roman baths, near a waterfall. Wonders emerge from the ground – Stile Arte
• A Gift from the Gods
• The Renaissance of Heracles: a 15th century plaquette inspired by a Greek coin | Antiquity at the BnF

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: How were enemy casualty figures calculated? on Apple Podcasts

Murray ponders why Macedonian casualty figures were low and how enemy casualty figures might have been calculated. Did someone go around counting all the dead Persian bodies, or did Macedonian soldiers get to estimate how many Persians they had killed?

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCV – Cleopatra Selene on Apple Podcasts

Cleopatra Selene was the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, and was destined for greatness. Following the death of her parents she became a prisoner of Rome, survived into adulthood, and became a queen of the ancient world. Dr Draycott is the author of ‘’Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen’. Guest: Dr Jane Draycott (Classics, University of Glascow)

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: They Make Rome Fun, Rome’s First Kings w/ the Partial Historians on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with the Partial Historians, Dr Rad and Dr G, who share the stories of the seven kings of Rome!

Fresh Youtubery

• Meet The Women Of World Mythology: A Peek Into AncientHistoryFangirl’s New Book! – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Jeremy Swist: Metalizing the History & Literature Classroom – YouTube |  Jeremy Swist

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Hans-Markus von Kaenel, Vom Wort zum Bild: I. N. Svoronos und E. S. G. Robinson und ihr neues Konzept zur Edition griechischer Münzen aus der Antike. Abhandlungen der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaftlichen Klasse, 2022.1. Mainz: Akademie der Wissenschaften und Literatur, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• From Byzantium to the modern world handmade ceramics of Chios
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Dramatic Receptions

• Award-winning ‘Hadestown’ visits Capital Region – Saratogian

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The ceramic landscapes of Corinth and Sikyon
• 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

• Lessons from the Melian Dialogue: A Case Against Providing Military Support for Ukraine | The National Interest
• Exploring Israel: A Visit to a 1,600–year–old Synagogue – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

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 discord for the state after a period of famine.

… 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 Non. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 10 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Bronze Age well contents reveal the history of animal resources in Mycenae, Greece
• Xiplomacy: Why exploration of Greek, Chinese civilizations is beneficial to the whole world – Chinadaily.com.cn
• Legendary beasts from ancient literature may have been whales gulping down fish | Natural History Museum
• A paradox for George’s marbles | ArtsProfessional
• The case for returning the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece has never been stronger
• Five discoveries that changed our understanding of how the ancient Egyptians created mummies

In Case You Missed It

• Hiker discovers 2,500-year-old ancient receipt from reign of Purim king’s father | The Times of Israel
• Inscription Naming Persian King Darius, Father of King Ahasuerus, Discovered in Southern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Dry Cleaner Unearthed at Pompeii – ARTnews.com
• RePAIR Archaeology Artificial Intelligence Italy Art | Hypebeast

Classicists and Classics in the News

• W&M researcher tracks ancient Greek comic poet’s influence on modern sitcoms – W&M News
• Lowering the Flag: John Richard Wilson | The Quad

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ CASUS GRAECUS 
• Ephemeris ~ DISCIPULAE VENENATAE Scelus in scholis Persicis 
• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Public Facing Classics

• An American Tragedy: On the Suicide of Liberal Education – Public Discourse
• Blue monkeys, bull-leaping and child sacrifice: why were the Minoans so weird? | The Spectator
• The ancient relationship between comedy and politics | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Confession of a Jesuit Father
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Study of a Lifetime
• Let Nothing External Spark Joy, the Stoic Way – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Reason to Live
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Proceedings of the International Conference on Cultural Heritage and New Technologies, Vienna
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Männlichkeit verhandeln: Von Lüstlingen, Kriegern und wahren Römern (1./2. Jh. n. Chr.)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In Search of the Origins of Lower Egyptian Pottery: A New Approach to Old Data
• The Best Omen – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Western Anatolia before Troy: Proto-Urbanisation in the 4th Millenium BC? Proceedings of the International Symposium held at the Kunsthistorisces Museum Wien Vienna, Austria, 21-24 November, 2012
• Reclining Bacchus, By An Unknown 17th-Century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
• Hedonisme (1): Aristippos’ genotzucht – Mainzer Beobachter
• Comb made from human skull found – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Today is Mani’s death day, maybe.
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 204
• MARGINALIA: That March Boy Martial
• Biblical Studies Carnival 204 for February 2023 – Reading Acts
• They Might Be In De Nile But I’m Going In Seine
• A Philosopher is Done with Doing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Happy World Book Day! – Classical Studies Support

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• DAI Istanbul Brochure 2023 – DAİstanbul
• Actualité | Des thermes antiques à Yenne (Savoie) | Inrap

Other Blog-like Publications

• Classical Culture in British India, Part II: Michael Madhusudan Dutt, Poet and Classicist – Antigone
• The Bar Hill Comb
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• March Schedule & Calendar – by M. – Ovid Daily
• Archaeologists have discovered sandstone blocks belonging to a pharaoh’s temple covered with hieroglyphs in Sudan – Arkeonews
• Epicurus on the Values of Family and Friendship
• The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum | Aeon Videos
• Art and Antiquities an Attractive Market for Money Laundering, FATF Argues
• Discover Ancient Mesopotamia Through 7 Key Artifacts
• 4 Battles From Alexander the Great’s Legendary Persian Campaign
• The Coins of Carthage During Hannibal’s War With Rome
• The Earliest Known Author May Have Been a Woman from Mesopotamia – HISTORY
• Ancient Egyptian discovery rewrites history of Sudanese kingdom
• Hieroglyphs discovered in Old Dongola, Sudan

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 8.30

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient History Fangirl: Inventing Medusa: Reclaiming the Gorgon Girl (With Natalie Haynes) on Apple Podcasts

The traditional myth about Medusa is that she was the monster—a fearsome snake-haired gorgon who could turn men to stone with a glance—and her killer, Perseus, was the hero of the tale. But give the story a closer look, and it’s not even clear the Greeks always saw it that way. Ancient depictions of this myth don’t always show Perseus as the hero. And there’s evidence that gorgons originally had a protective role in Greek iconography. In this episode, Natalie Haynes—bestselling author of Stone Blind—guides us in retracing the clues the ancients left us to reclaim our Gorgon Girl.

• Creepy Classics: The Story of the Unidentified Flying Object on Apple Podcasts

Rome is at war, and strange ships accompanied by men in shining white are seen in the sky… This story is inspired by Livy, History of Rome, 21.62.5 and 24.10.10, and is followed by a discussion including ancient UFOs, dream interpreters, and dream books.

• Tides of History: The Phoenician Mediterranean on Apple Podcasts

Soon after 1000 BC, Phoenicians began to take ever-longer voyages away from their homeland. Within just a few decades, they were already present at the far end of the Mediterranean and even further, past the Straits of Gibraltar on the Atlantic coast of Iberia. The process of creating an interconnected Mediterranean had begun.

Fresh Youtubery

• Skulls and Animate Houses: The Development of Sedentism and Agriculture in Central Anatolia – YouTube | Oriental Institute
• Bugle/Bulimia #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• Sydnor Roy on purposeful change in Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Kiersten Neumann, Allison Thomason, The Routledge handbook of the senses in the ancient Near East. Routledge handbooks. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2022

Exhibition Related Things

• Photo exhibit to turn spotlight on Persepolis’ engraved stones – Tehran Times
• Museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Art Reopens

Dramatic Receptions

• Review: Musical ‘Hadestown’ explores Greek underworld at Bushnell
• Mojada updates Medea at the Phoenix – University of Victoria

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Ancient Greeks Were Only 10 Years Away From Inventing The Steam-powered Water Pump
• The Forgotten Legacy of Byzantine Education and Learning
• Why is there a replica of a Roman temple on West 51st Street?
• The Apollonian and Dionysian: growing up in the Algarve and living in Lisbon – Portugal Resident
• The Accidental Anonymity of Ancient Portraits | The Art Institute of Chicago
• Who Is Really Buried in KV55, Egypt’s Most Mysterious Tomb?

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 end of threatening business.

… 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 Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 9 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Comb made from human skull found among A14 artefacts – BBC News
• Comb made from human skull may have been used in Iron Age rituals | Live Science
• Châlons-en-Champagne: the Customs mobile scanner is at the service of archaeologists
• Steel was already being used in Europe 2,900 years ago, shows study
• Scoperta una tomba di coppia. Lui e lei. 30enni vissuti 3200 anni fa. Sepolti insieme nel letto, sull’oro – Stile Arte
• Mysterious Grave for a Couple Discovered in Armenia – ARTnews.com
• Inscription bearing Persian King Darius the Great’s name discovered – The Jerusalem Post
• Hiker discovers 2,500-year-old ancient receipt from reign of Purim king’s father | The Times of Israel
• Ancient Roman ‘spike defenses’ made famous by Julius Caesar found in Germany | Live Science
• Roman ‘dry cleaners’ shop uncovered along Pompeii street | Miami Herald
• Capo Bove. Il georadar rivela strutture – forse romane – sepolte sotto questo prato – Stile Arte
• Crime in Art Law: Digitalisation, Trafficking, Destruction
• Archaeological survey sheds new light on Sassanid architecture – Tehran Times
• 3000 reperti archeologici di Ercolano in 3D. Presto potranno essere visti da tutti via internet – Stile Arte

In Case You Missed It

• As good as gold … why toothpicks and hair locks are the new treasure | Kate Mavor | The Guardian
• Archaeologists dig new part of Pompeii for rare treasures

Greek/Latin News

• Nuntii Latini mensis Februarii 2023 – Bremen Zwei

Public Facing Classics

• Is it a dildo or is it a …?

Fresh Bloggery

• Egyptian perspectives: Oracles of the Lamb and the Potter on Greco-Macedonians and other foreigners (third-second centuries BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Late Antique Mining on Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean WorldLaudator Temporis Acti: The Body Politic
• MASSIVE Redbubble shops sale! | Greek Myth Comix
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Live Free or Die
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality
• Glory and Worthless Wealth – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: (u)Mzantsi Classics: Dialogues in Decolonisation from Southern Africa
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavating the Future: Archaeology and Geopolitics in Contemporary North American Science Fiction Film and Television
• Celtic figurine, now with hinged phallus action! – The History Blog
• At What Age Did Ancient Greek Women Typically Marry? – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Alchaudonios de Arabier – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: CBA Closes its Archaeology Discussion List
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ostracon mentioning Darius I found at Lachish
• PaleoJudaica.com: Saranda synagogue signage restored
• Laudator Temporis Acti: When One Is Old
• February 2023 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
• Champollion and the Gaul. On a mysterious Eauze inscription | Antiquity at the BnF
• MARGINALIA: All About That JCL Motto: A Keynote Address

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• The Largest Theater in Ancient Asia Minor Rediscovered – Pergamon Micro-Region
• Book Club | March 2023: Speeches of Demosthenes – The Kosmos Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Steel was already used in Europe 2900 years ago
• Evidence of steel tools being used in Europe during Late Bronze Age
• Longest hieratic papyrus on display in Cairo’s Egyptian Museum
• March 1st | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• Golden necklaces discovered in Bronze Age tomb
• New discoveries at Roman Pompeii

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 8.36

Fresh Podcasts

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: A Mediterranean Metal Mystery, or, Those Tin Ingots from Uzbekistan? Yeah, Well, They’re at the Bottom of the Ocean on Apple Podcasts

Central Asian tin in a Late Bronze Age shipwreck at the bottom of Mediterranean raises questions like, “who brought the tin thousands of kilometers west from what’s now Uzbekistan,” and “who’s tin was it when the boat sank.” Ok, they’re not questions like, “what is best in life” or “are you going to eat that sandwich” but they’re what we’ve got.

• The Delicious Legacy: Salt- A Brief History on Apple Podcasts

Salt! Homer, Plato, Plutarch, Pliny and Livy all wrote about it in various forms. Life saving, literally we can’t survive without salt our bodies won’t function. Preserving in more than one ways, giving us the chance to have food in the lean harsh winters… Delicious in so many ways. And yet not known too well, commonly misunderstood, and with many myths attached to it. Let’s explore the deep, ancient and fascinating history of salt!

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: The Mysterious Voynich Manuscript on Apple Podcasts

Matt Lewis continues his Mystery Month on Gone Medieval with another tantalising enigma of the Middle Ages – possibly the most mysterious manuscript that exists anywhere in the world. Carbon-dated to the early 15th century, the Voynich manuscript is hand-written in an unknown script, embellished with illustrations and diagrams, showing people, fantastical plants and astrological symbols. Yet the origins, authorship, and purpose of the manuscript continue to baffle experts, which have even included British codebreakers from both World War I and World War II. Matt finds out more from Raymond Clemens, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts at Yale University.

• The Dirt Podcast: Achoo, and Welcome to The Dirt on Apple Podcasts

This week, Amber is recovering from a nasty cold that has left her normally dulcet tones extremely froggy. So we’ve made lemons out of that germy lemonade (ew, sorry). It’s an episode about the archaeology, prehistory, and history of the common cold! Learn how to tell if a skeleton had the sniffles, figure out if there are ghosts in your colon, uncover the great Vitamin C scam, and more!

• History Hack: History Hack: Persian Wars, Battle of Plataea on Apple Podcasts

Roel Konijnendijk joins us to talk all things Ancient Greek, but more specifically the battle of Plataea during the second Persian war.

• The Partial Historians: Special Episode – Our Top Ten at Ten on Apple Podcasts

On the 1st March 2013, something momentous happened. We published our first episode of the Partial Historians podcast! Clearly, this is an event akin to Hannibal crossing the Alps or the expulsion of the kings. Well, perhaps not quite. But it certainly changed our lives forever in ways that we could not imagine. Therefore, we decided to mark the occasion by getting together and discussing our Top Ten Moments from the Roman Republic thus far. We hope you enjoy our chat about the Republic as much as we have enjoyed making this show for the past ten years….

• Thin End of the Wedge: 52. Birgül Öğüt: phytoliths in west Asian archaeology on Apple Podcasts

Birgül explains about her work using microscopic plant remains to understand life in ancient western Asia. What are phytoliths and how do we find them? How can such microscopic evidence tell us about building use, for example? And where do they sit in the archaeological toolkit?

Fresh Youtubery

• 49. Numerian – What’s That Smell? – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Cleopatra’s Needle – The Harrowing Journey from Alexandria to London – YouTube | Dig it With Raven
• Ancient Greek Theatre For Modern Veterans: PETER MEINECK On The Need For Military Voices In Academia – YouTube | Moan Inc.

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Stephen R.L. Clark, Cities and thrones and powers: towards a Plotinian politics. Brooklyn: Angelico Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Christopher A. Faraone, Sofia Torallas Tovar, Greek and Egyptian magical formularies, vol. I: text and translation. California classical studies, 9. Berkeley: California Classical Studies, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Labyrinth: Knossos, Myth and Reality | The Past
• The Capitoline Museums’ New Republican Rome Archaeology Exhibition | Art & Object
• Celtic coin hoard exhibition opens at La Hougue Bie – BBC News

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The character of the cemetery at Phaleron
• “Dorian” “Civic” Dining? Rethinking the Syssition on Crete and at Sparta
• The long journey of the house mouse from central Asia to the western Mediterranean
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Lecturer (Doctoral Schedule) – Classical and Oriental Studies Hunter College
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Nestor – March 2023 issue available
• 4 Battles From Alexander the Great’s Legendary Persian Campaign
• Ancient Romans Used “Magic” To Keep Restless Spirits Down, Bizarre Grave Suggests | 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 a year of strife and arguing.

… 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. Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 8 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• The unsolvable mystery of Hannibal’s soldier | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• A Roman “industrial laundry” and a house with an oven emerge from the new excavations in Pompeii – Stile Arte
• Myths and Dreamings: the link between Ancient Greece and Aboriginal Australians – Neos Kosmos
• Pompeii diggers dream of treasure in untouched zone | World | The Times
• Treasure-filled tomb from 3,200 years ago found in Armenia | Miami Herald

In Case You Missed It

• Is This Wooden Artifact an Ancient Roman Phallus? | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Archaeologists in Italy Are Using A.I. Robots to Piece Together Ancient Frescoes From Fragments Discovered at Pompeii
• Salona in Croatia to be world archeological sensation after new discoveries | Croatia Week

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Noting the generosity of The Haverford School in hosting 84th PCS Annual Latin Week contests – Mainline Media News

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Τουρκία

Fresh Bloggery

• It’s You. You’re the problem. It’s You. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Flowers and Dogs
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Agents Provocateurs
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Nothing Will Be Lacking
• Bodies on Beaches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gender Transformations in Prehistoric and Archaic Societies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digging up the Bible? The Excavations at Tell Deir Alla, Jordan (1960-1967)
• Kiwi Hellenist: Dactylic hexameter 1. Structure
• Cato de Jongere in actie – Mainzer Beobachter
• Gold, carnelian necklaces found in Bronze Age double grave – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tombs excavated at Oxyrhynchus
• How Work is Like a Girlfriend – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Making Misogyny Timeless on the Incel Wiki – Pharos
• Milton, ‘On Shakespeare’ (Latin First Asclepiads) | Permessus
• MARGINALIA: ad nauseam

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Hello Dissertation! – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

• A Girl Ηovers over Kerameikos
• Surface sruvey at Hala Sultan Tekke
• Brain Surgery at Canaanite Megiddo – Biblical Archaeology Society
• POMPEII, NEW EXCAVATIONS STARTED IN THE CENTRAL AREA OF THE SITE – Pompeii Sites
• What Was the Society of the Celts Like?
• New discoveries at Roman Pompeii
• February 28th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
• Introduction | Fastorum Liber Tertius: Martius – by M.
• The strange journey of the Parthenon Marbles to the British Museum | Aeon Videos

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on an aureus of Sulla

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: No Boys Allowed! Celebrating Demeter & Persephone, Aristophanes’ Women of the Thesmophoria (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

It’s time for a bit of comedic relief (and Euripidean slander)… We’re diving in to Aristophanes’ play the Thesmophoriazae/the Women at the Thesmophoria. It’s got women (kind of!)! It’s got a women’s only festival! It’s got Euripides! This one has it all. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content!

Fresh Youtubery

• UIC Art History Colloquium: Erin Thompson on Vimeo
• Hitpoints and History conference, March 4th-5th!! – YouTube
• Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons: Ancient Pompeii’s hidden messages, preserved in graffiti | TED Talk

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Chrysanthos S. Chrysanthou, Reconfiguring the imperial past: narrative patterns and historical interpretation in Herodian’s History of the Empire. Historiography of Rome and its empire, 15. Boston: Leiden: Brill, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Ryosuke Takahashi, The ties that bind: the economic relationships of twelve Tebtunis families in Roman Egypt. London: University of London Press, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Vladmir D. Kuznetsov, Mikhail G. Abramzon, The beginning of coinage in the Cimmerian Bosporus (a hoard from Phanagoria). Colloquia antiqua, 34. Leuven: Peeters, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Cristophe Cusset, Pierre Belanfont, Claire-Emmanouelle Nardone, Féminités hellénistiques: voix, genre, représentations. Hellenistica Groningana, 25. Leuven: Peeters, 2020.
• Archaeological map of Abkhazia | Spartakos read
• The West by Naoíse Mac Sweeney review: Is it time to give up on ‘Western Civilisation’?
• Book Review: ‘Empress of the Nile,’ by Lynne Olson – The New York Times

Dramatic Receptions

• Review: An Epic Journey Through History and Culture in Black Odyssey | TheaterMania

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• ENCODE/Epigraphy.info VII Workshop in Leuven, April 24-26 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Roman Comedy | Wake Forest University
• 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

• Pyrrhus of Epirus, the Ancient Greek King who Fought the Romans
• The downsides of Stoicism – Big Think
• A new future for the antiquities trade | Apollo Magazine
• 9 things classical philosophy can teach us about office politics | Times2 | The Times
• NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day 28 February 2023: Moon and the Temple of Poseidon | Tech News

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 abundance, but a disease-bearing wind will also blow.

… 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)