Hodie est a.d. VI Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 4 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 65: Corinth’s Early History on Apple Podcasts

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• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Here’s Why Pseudoarchaeology & the Search For Atlantis is Bad, Actually (Deconstructing Atlantis Conversations RE-AIR) on Apple Podcasts

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends civil wars for the city and  disease for the animals of the forest.

… 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 Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 3 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Study finds why 3rd century European woman was mysteriously buried face down with nail hole in skull | The Independent
• Archaeologists discover homes of Europe’s first monument makers
• Archaeologists to commence underwater survey in Persian Gulf – Tehran Times
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• Ruins of Turkish city of Antakya tell story of a rich past – Los Angeles Times
• Macerata, scoperta necropoli romana di fianco al Centro fiere. Iommi: “Databile alla fine dell’età imperiale” – Picchio News – Il giornale tra la gente per la gente
• Plans approved for New Archaeological Museum on Lefkada island | eKathimerini.com
• Israeli Robot Helps Repair Pompeii’s Shattered Beauty – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• 12,000-year-old Neolithic artifacts in museums survive quakes | Daily Sabah
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Few places weathered the Bronze Age Collapse better than the Levant, the strip of land bordering the eastern Mediterranean that runs from Syria to Egypt. One small part of that coastline, mostly in what’s now Lebanon, became a launching pad for some of the most ambitious and wide-ranging commercial ventures in history. The Phoenicians, natives of this area, were the primary builders of the ancient Mediterranean.

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Dramatic Receptions

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a harmless disease for humans.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 2 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• 3rd-century-B.C. woman was buried facedown with a nail hole in her skull. Here’s why. | Live Science
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• Newly discovered ancient grave may allow archaeologists to retrace Gilan’s history – Tehran Times
• Devil’s Highway: The Roman road that can still be tracked through stunning Berkshire countryside – Berkshire Live
• Damaged artifacts moved to safe museums
• Mediterranean hunter-gatherers relied on marine resources more than previously thought – News and events, University of York

In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

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• BBC Radio 3 – Free Thinking, Phaedra, Cretan palaces and the minotaur
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Alia

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
• Verbdum – Ludus verborum cotidianus

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
• Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders, it portends abundance, but also many mice and deer.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. IX Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 1 Anthesterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Israel discovers 3,700-year-old Phoenician seal impression_china.org.cn

In Case You Missed It

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• Hadrian’s Wall: Wooden ‘Roman sex toy’ found in Northumberland – BBC News
• Ancient Artifact Might Actually Be Only Known Roman Dildo, Experts Say
• Wooden object suggests ancient Romans used sex toys, study says | CNN
• ‘Ah Yes, This Is a Dick’: Archaeologists May Have Found the First Roman Dildo
• This Roman “lucky charm” may actually be an ancient dildo
• Six-inch wooden ‘tool’ could be the first Roman dildo ever found | Metro News
• This Wooden Phallus Might Be a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Dildo : ScienceAlert
• The oldest Roman dildo has been discovered
• Archaeologists discover 2,000-year-old party hall in Italy – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• CEO of Melbourne’s Hellenic Museum becomes a Lego figure – Greek Herald

Public Facing Classics

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• Baby boom rewards have an ancient history of failure – Spear’s

Fresh Bloggery

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• Assyrians, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Celts, and others: The Cicero brothers on the nature and effectiveness of divination (mid-first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Charity Toward Fellow-Blunderers
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Corruption of the Body Politic
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The King as a Nodal Point of Neo-Assyrian Identity
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• Ummahnu – Mainzer Beobachter
• Vindolanda “darning tool” turns out to be wood phallus – The History Blog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther scrolls returned to Turkey
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Phoenix and ancient Judaism
• Etruscan writing.. in Lego! – The VIEWS project

Other Blog-like Publications

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• February 21st | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.9.1-14
• @SocolowskiLuk on the ‘peddler of Erotes’ motif

Fresh Podcasts

• Peopling the Past: Do Not Afflict the Widow: the Women of Ancient Nubia with Jacke Phillips on Apple Podcasts

We’re celebrating Black History and African Heritage month with a very special episode on the women of ancient Nubia! Join Chelsea and Melissa as they welcome Dr. Jacke Phillips, an expert in Nubian history and archaeology, to the show. In this episode, we discuss women in ancient Nubia, from rulers and royals to the lives of everyday women. Listen in as Dr. Phillips introduces a variety of evidence, including graves, tattoos, statues, and historical sources. You’ll also learn the origin of the name “Candace”! Don’t miss this very special episode on a fascinating region of the ancient world.

• Greeced Lightning: Clash of the Titans (1981): Perseus and Andromeda on Apple Podcasts

Episode 4 is the first of three episodes breaking down the “of the Titans” saga. We start with 1981’s Clash of the Titans! Join us for the story of Perseus and Andromeda, according to both Ovid and Ray Harryhausen: golden showers, color and gender in ancient art, special effects so bad they’re good, Laurence Olivier thirst, and more!

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: There Was No Ancient Apocalypse & Atlantis Wasn’t the Eye of the Sahara (Deconstructing Atlantis RE-AIR) on Apple Podcasts

Stop trying to make Atlantis happen, it’s not going to happen.

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• Women of Iran – YouTube | Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
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Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Janja Soldo, Seneca, Epistulae Morales book 2: a commentary with text, translation, and introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Arjan A. Nijk, Tense-switching in classical Greek: a cognitive approach. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Dramatic Receptions

• Odysseus: Hero, Trickster, or Colonizer? – The McGill Daily
• ‘Seneca’ Review: John Malkovich Stars As Stoic Philosopher – Deadline
• THE BACCHAE is Now Playing at the National Theatre of Prague
• Medea review: Sophie Okonedo has a moving dignity in this triumphant production | The Independent

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

• Touch wood: luck, protection, power or pleasure? A wooden phallus from Vindolanda Roman fort | Antiquity | Cambridge Core

Alia

• Novel Set In Ancient Greece Features Real Life Historical Feminist Figure Defying Social Customs – GirlTalkHQ
• I Bronzi di Riace a colori esposti al Met oltre l’evidenza archeologica e il dato storico artistico
• All the Wars of Alexander the Great in a Single Video

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.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. X Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 30 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Couple arrested for illegal possession of ancient coins | eKathimerini.com
• Smooth wooden phallus found at a Roman fort was likely a sex toy | Live Science
• It’s not a darning tool, it’s a very naughty toy: Roman dildo found | Archaeology | The Guardian
• ‘Oldest Roman sex toy’ found at Hadrian’s Wall
• Hadrian’s Wall: Wooden ‘Roman sex toy’ found in Northumberland – BBC News
• Veni, vidi, vici: Roman pestle found in ditch could be a dildo | The Independent
• Wooden object suggests ancient Romans used sex toys, study says | CNN
• Return? Reunification? Loan? Parthenon Marbles Wheeling and Dealing – The National Herald
• 209 Roman coins found thanks to an animal. Look in the badger cave. Archaeologists: “There are others” – Stile Arte

In Case You Missed It

• British Man Finds Ancient Greek Coin Depicting Alexander The Great And Zeus When Cleaning His Mum’s House
• Archaeologists hail find of Sumerian palace in southern Iraq – Tehran Times

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Two Reed Faculty Earn Fulbright Scholar Awards for 2022-23 – Reed Magazine – Reed College

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ MINISTRI VERBA 
• Akropolis World News ~ Πολωνία

Public Facing Classics

• Mary Beard interview: ‘Harry and Meghan are going too far’ | Culture | The Sunday Times
• Medea, again | Princeton University Press

Fresh Bloggery

• Indians: Aelian on Indian views and customs about animals (late second century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: New Idea for “Treasure” in British Heritage Debate and its Likely Consequences
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Diadochoi, the successors of Alexander the Great
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Demonstrative pronouns and articles in Egyptian and Coptic
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Innovation und Wandel im 4. Jt. v. Chr.: Technik- und Sozialgeschichte im nordpontischen Raum
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Von Layard bis Lara Croft: Eurozentrische Denkweisen in den Bildmedien der Archäologie Westasiens
• A Life of Circles, Enclosed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kiman Fariss, Krokodilopolis in griechisch-römischer Zeit: archäologische Untersuchung der Terrakotta-Figuren
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: NCMD and The Treasure Redefinition
• The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros, 11-24 June 2023 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Maria van Magdala – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Egyptian Antiquities Dealers Know there’s One Born Every Minute
• Ephesus finds in the British Museum | Turkish Archaeological News
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lasine, Divine Envy, Jealousy, and Vengefulness in Ancient Israel and Greece (Routledge)
• Simon Stone Phaedra (2023) – Review – The Philological Crocodile
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Exhortation
• Feel the Pity, Feel the Fear! Now Stop. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: CIfA Hopes Antiquities Collecting will “Remain” “Ethical and Sustainable”
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: „Sondergebäude“ in präkeramischen Siedlungen im westlichen Vorderasien (Anatolien, Syrien, Levante) und ihre funktionale Deutung
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Need of a Teacher
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ÜBERlebensmittel: Die Darstellung von Opfergaben auf den Opfertischen des Neuen Reiches in Theben-West unter besonderer Berücksichtigung ihrer symbolischen Bedeutung und der Opfertischszene
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Spinnwirtel, Wolle und Textilien: Die Aneignung und Nutzung von Wolle im 7. bis 3. Jt. v.u.Z. in Westasien.
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Residenz des Kalifen Hārūn Ar-Rašīd in Ar-Raqqa / Ar-Rāfiqa (Syrien)
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Kirsty Takes Part in Commercial Looting
• Bypassing Treatment for Sorrow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• No New Starts for the Old – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• ChatGPT Is Impressive for an AI, But Not for a Human – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Letter to a Journalist
• Geen provenance, geen wetenschap – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Author summary of Kiperwasser, Going West
• PaleoJudaica.com: Shelby White’s antiquities collection under investigation
• A Money Maker is Not a Money’s Master – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Children of the Labyrinth: #ILCD2023 – Classical Studies Support

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Pecunia non-olet: Vespasian and the Smell of Money « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

Other Blog-like Publications

• Helena, Julian and Attila: The Twilight of Rome in 20th-century Fiction – Antigone
• Lost Royal Sumerian Palace and Temple discovered in ancient city of Girsu
• Who Were the Ancient Scythians? | Discover Magazine
• Three Ancient Greek Female Philosophers You Should Know
• Cleopatra: Seductress of Men or an Intelligent Leader?
• What Is the Story Behind Trajan’s Column?
• The Unique Status of Vestal Virgins in Roman Society  – Retrospect Journal
• 8 Lesser-Known Facts About Alexander the Great

Fresh Podcasts

• The Layman’s Historian: Episode 51 – Carthago Delenda Est on Apple Podcasts

The thirty years following the deaths of Scipio and Hannibal saw Carthage revive economically. Relations with Rome and Numidia, however, remained strained to the utmost, especially due to the Numidian King Masinissa’s continued encroachment on Carthaginian territory with tacit Roman approval. When the frustrated Carthaginians finally struck a blow to defend their land, Rome seized the opportunity to invade and finish her rival off – once and for all.

• History Hack: History Hack: Magnus Maximus on Apple Podcasts

On today’s episode, we jump into the Roman period. Maxwell Craven joins us to talk about Magnus Maximus.

• History Extra podcast: Heliogabalus: Rome’s scandalous emperor on Apple Podcasts

The story of the Roman emperor Heliogabalus is filled with sex, death, decadence and religious extremism, but it also touches on some key questions about imperial Rome. What were the limits of political power? How far should a ruler intervene in the life of his subjects? And what was a Roman emperor actually expected to do? Harry Sidebottom talks to Rachel Dinning about the emperor’s short but extraordinary reign.

• Ancient Heroes: Plato: The man behind Socrates, Atlantis, and much more (w/ Angie Hobbs) on Apple Podcasts

Widely regarded as one of history’s greatest philosophers, Plato is our leading source on the legend of Atlantis and the life and death of Socrates. Who was Plato and what can we learn from him? We talk to one of the world’s top experts.

Fresh Youtubery

• Ancient Persian Language? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• The Buried Mysteries Of The Roman Cemetery Beneath Hadrian’s Wall | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube
• Beginner, intermediate & advanced Latin PODCASTS || Saturae Lancis ACROAMATA – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• Porphyre et Plotin ● Luc Brisson – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• Classics Shorts with Mary Beard – YouTube
• What was the main form of government in ancient Mesopotamia? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• 2nd Battle of Nola, 215 BC  Hannibal (Part 19)  Second Punic War – YouTube | History Marche

Book Reviews

• Cimmériens de la steppe et des contreforts de la Crimée (monuments funéraires et « décors  des IXe-VIIe siècles av. J.-C.) | «Spartokos a lu
• Sindikè : histoire, archéologie, paysages anthropiques | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Françoise Villedieu, La Vigna Barberini III. La cenatio rotunda. Roma antica, 3. Rome: École Française de Rome, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Caleb M. Cohoe, Aristotle’s On the soul: a critical guide. Cambridge critical guides. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Frances Pownall, Sulochana R. Asirvatham, Sabine Müller, The courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: monarchy and power in ancient Macedonia. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Antonine Wall exhibition to shine new light on Roman history | The National
• Rare Roman Cut Glass on Display at Ceredigion Museum

Dramatic Receptions

• Medea review – Sophie Okonedo is magnificent as ancient Greece’s preeminent rebel woman | Stage | The Guardian
• Medea review — Sophie Okonedo’s hellish descent into darkness | Saturday Review | The Times
• Medea at @sohoplace review: a blazing Sophie Okonedo makes this spartan production a must-see | Evening Standard
• Medea, @SohoPlace, review: Sophie Okonedo gives a mythic, otherworldly performance

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Ancient Graeco-Roman Medicine and Biology Workshop | Princeton Classics
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Not just Alexander the Great, there are myths around his pet dog too
• Michael Zazzi. Tesserae hospitalis with Etruscan inscriptions. – Archeology online – Archeomedia
• The Ancient Greeks of India’s Tamil Nadu Region
• Red Traces, Part 2: Gilgamesh and the first ruling class | Counterfire
• Odysseus: Patron Hero of the Liberal Arts-The Imaginative Conservative

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 gentle breezes.

… 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)