Hodie est a.d. XII Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 28 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• New York antiquities trafficking unit focuses on US patron of Israeli archaeology | The Times of Israel
• Archaeology: new accords boost Italy-Kuwait cooperation – Culture – ANSAMed.it
• Fugitive suspects create fake ancient cemetery to defraud antiquities dealers – Egypt Independent
• Egypt court reduces prison sentence for antiquities smugglers – Courts & Law – Egypt – Ahram Online
• Ancient hall found in villa where Roman emperor partied | Miami Herald
• Change to treasure law ‘will keep more artefacts in UK museums’ | Heritage | The Guardian

In Case You Missed It

• Tornos News | 4,000-year-old-seal returned to Greece by the Swedish embassy in Athens

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 18.02.2023 – Vatican News
• Ephemeris ~ TALEBANORUM CONSILIUM 

Fresh Bloggery

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• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Illusion of Progress
• Being Known, Praying Out Loud – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Coins and the date Judaism emerged
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Oldest Hebrew Bible up for auction
• Blog Post #75: Interview with Christine Johnston of the Ancient World in 3D Project – Peopling the Past
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: LGPN-Ling: Etymology and Semantics of Ancient Greek Personal Names
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 01/01/1989
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Gobbling Food Set Out for Hecate
• (I Don’t Want A) Photograph | Sphinx
• Heavy Bronze – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Lenborough All Over Again: Norfolk Roman Pewter Deposit Shown Being Crudely Dug Up on Tekkie Video
• Oxyrhynchos (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Bondi Treasure Hunter” Hits England
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Citizen Scientists Studying LiDAR Maps Have Found 1,000 Prehistoric Burial Mounds Across the Netherlands
• Roman funerary stele with portrait found – The History Blog
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: East of England Commercial Artefact Hunting Rally Organiser
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Britain Potentially But Inadequately Attempts to Change Definition of “Treasure”
• The World of Sincerity is a Goddess – Part IX – Plautus: Playwright of the Roman People |
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• Royal Sumerian palace and temple uncovered in ancient Girsu
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Fresh Podcasts

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: The Warriors (1979), with Joel Christensen and Tim Gerolami on Apple Podcasts

That’s right all you hard boppers, we’re back with a new episode on the 1979 cult classic, The Warriors. Joined by special guests Joel Christensen, Tim Gerolami and 60,000 soldiers, the streets are ours. We get into Xenophon’s 5th c. travel blog that (maybe) inspired this tale, gang life in the movies, Tim’s dad and the ultimate question one can pose on this show: CAN YOU DIG IT?

Fresh Youtubery

• Restauro di una rosetta dell’epoca di Maiuri – YouTube | Pompeii
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• Dan McClellan Discusses the Importance of Public Scholarship on Social Media | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube | XKV8R
• Laura Fontana | Politicising matrons’ mourning in the early Roman Republic | Assemblywomen – YouTube | Women’s Classical Committee UK
• What are the Largest Battles of Ancient Greece? (500 BC – 1500 AD) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Mauritzio Forte | Unlocking Digital Archaeology – YouTube | Oriental Institute
• Why the Myth of the Library of Alexandria Is Wrong – YouTube | Kaz Rowe

Book Reviews

• JCT ~ Oh My Gods (A) Sheppard. Scholastic 2019.
• BMCR ~ Greta Hawes, Pausanias in the world of Greek myth. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Dimosthenis Kosmopoulos, Architettura templare italica in epoca ellenistica. Studia archaeologica, 250. Rome: L’Erma di Bretschneider, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Alison Noble, Alexander Alexakis, Richard H. Greenfield, Animal fables of the courtly Mediterranean: the Eugenian recension of Stephanites and Ichnelates. Dumbarton Oaks medieval library, 73. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2022.

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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Roman Emperors Guide | List, Facts & Key Questions Answered | HistoryExtra

Diversions

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

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

[Saturday] If it thunders today it portends a heavy wind and the outbreak of pustules on people

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends an abundance of reptiles and worms

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 27 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• A Roman furnace from 300 AD. C. re-emerges during the works for the Genoa subway – Stile Arte
• British Museum hints at ‘sharing’ Parthenon Marbles with Greece – Greek Herald
• British Museum “reasonably optimistic” on a Deal with Greece Over Parthenon Sculptures
• Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced
• 300 artifacts seized from a man’s possession in east Libya | The Libya Observer
• 4,000 Year Old Seal Returned to Greece by Sweden
• Parthenon marbles could be seen both in London and Athens, museum chair says | Reuters
• Un tesoro in casa, 61enne denunciato per ricettazione di beni culturali
• Carabinieri sequestrano 18 reperti archeologici in una casa privata a Cerreto di Spoleto – Il quotidiano che racconta l’Umbria
• Una testa di Leone del 30 a.C. trovata nello scavo di Piazza del Sarto a Pisa. A cosa serviva? – Stile Arte
• CIA Cold War spy plane pictures help British Museum uncover long-lost palace beneath Iraqi desert | Evening Standard
• Meet Hinat, a Nabataean woman who lived 2,000 years ago in what is now Saudi Arabia | Live Science
• British Museum’s chairman suggests ‘hybrid’ deal with Greece over Parthenon Marbles

In Case You Missed It

• Roman bust acquired by Getty Museum – Beverly Press & Park Labrea NewsBeverly Press & Park Labrea News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Kutztown University set to host Rutgers’ Dr. T. Corey Brennan – The Keystone Newspaper Student Publishing Group

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἀφγανιστᾶν

Public Facing Classics

• Medea, again | Princeton University Press
• The good fortune of Antioch | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Art Crime, Repatriation, Antiquities Trafficking Book List
• Bird Signs: The Swallow – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Worthy of Admiration
• Three Things Thursday: Odd and Ends Galore | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Epic Duals and Audience Receptions – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ideologies of Lived Space in Literary Texts: Ancient and Modern
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: Emotions associated with Jewish prayer in and around the Second Temple period
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Masculinities and Third Gender: The Origins and Nature of an Institutionalized Gender Otherness in the Ancient Near East
• Friendship, Death, and Love Gone Crazy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Oxyrhynchos (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Sumerian tavern with food found in Iraq – The History Blog
• Oxyrhynchos (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Collections: On ChatGPT – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Roman Army’s Trusty Vultures: The World’s First Banded Birds – Antigone
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• Plato against the Sophists: Is Man the Measure of All Things?
• February 17th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.

Fresh Podcasts

• Dive & Dig: Under the Mediterranean II – Wrecks, rams and written history – three fascinating discoveries under the Med on Apple Podcasts

In this episode we hear about three fascinating research projects on wrecks discovered under the Mediterranean. Presented as part of the Under the Med conference in Malta these projects include a Roman cargo ship, the remains of an ancient sea battle off the Egadi Islands, and a 16th century merchant ship off Croatia. The team delve in to the archaeology and the archives to tell the stories of our ancient past.

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: Aphrodite: Goddess of Love on Apple Podcasts

This episode contains graphic references. Aphrodite is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology. Her origin story is one of the more colourful ones, being born from the foam of Uranus’s castrated genitals. Her life is no less dramatic, and one where love and war are intimately connected. She is unhappily married to the son of Zeus and Hera, Hephaestus, yet carries on her affair with Ares, God of War, and her competitive relationship with Hera and Athena results in the beginning of the Trojan War. In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by host of the Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! podcast, Liv Albert. Together they discuss Aphrodite’s origin in both myth and what she shares with warrior goddesses from other ancient cultures, as well as her most famous myths, and how she’s become one of the most iconic deities history has ever known.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Why did the Successor kingdom companion cavalry fair so poorly against the Romans? on Apple Podcasts

“Alexander’s Companion cavalry seemed to be the premier cavalry of its age, and was instrumental in the battles against the Persian empire. Why is it then, under the Successor Kingdoms’ Generals, that they faired so poorly when confronting the inferior Roman cavalry? Was it due to the lack of Alexander himself, poor training, or just the professionalism of the Roman Legion?” Murray gives us his thoughts…

• Nuntii Latini: diē sextō decimō mēnsis Februāriī on Apple Podcasts

Americānī rēs sibi ignōtās dīsiciunt

• Spartan History Podcast: 038. Thermopylae with Professor Paul Cartledge on Apple Podcasts

Thermopylae. The title is synonymous with a bygone age of glory, bravery and defiance. It is an event entirely pivotal to the Spartan story and indeed, of this podcast as well. The events at the hot gates were one of the few natural places a chronological history of the Spartans would assuredly cover. It would be fair to say I dragged it out for as long as possible, well we are here now. I’m joined by Professor Paul Cartledge who is without a doubt the greatest living expert on Sparta, there could be no one more fitting to discuss this topic with. With his customary eloquence, breathtaking knowledge and passion for Laconia he takes us through those 3 fateful days that saw Leonidas and his brave 300 write their Polis’ legend into the annals of history. There were of course others who stood with the Spartans at the pass, but although mentioned, this isn’t the podcast for their story. With the Professors help we zero in on the facts and the myth making that has made Thermopylae one of the most recognizable events of all those that have come down to us.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Singing the Songs of Sparta, Alcman’s First Partheneion w/ Julia Perroni on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with fellow podcaster Julia Perroni about the (possibly) Spartan poet Alcman and his poem dedicated to the young women of Sparta, the First Partheneion.

Fresh Youtubery

• 2023-02-16 Women Priests & Orientalist Fantasies: A New Look at the Mesopotamian Qadistu (J Degrado) – YouTube |  Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley
• What was the Language of Ancient Greece? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• The Sacred Band: 150 Pairs Of Male Lovers To Guard Thebes?! JAMES ROMM Talks Ancient Greek Sexuality – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• ROMAN AQUEDUCTS: How did they work? – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live

Book Reviews

• Book review: Empress of the Nile, by Lynne Olson – The Washington Post

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• ‘Pompeii: The Exhibition’ at Museum of Science and Industry – CBS Chicago
• Never-before-seen Minoan artefacts go on display in the UK – Greek Herald

Dramatic Receptions

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• Gripping portrayal of Electra at the heart of Greek tale of grief & revenge at BGSU – BG Independent News
• Phaedra review: a ‘gobsmackingly audacious’ spin on the Greek myth | The Week UK

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

• The Goddesses of Ancient Egypt. Online course by the EES
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• What To Know About The Roman Bath In Algeria Still In Use 2,000 Years Later
• Turkey’s historic city of Antakya, known in Roman and medieval times as Antioch, has been flattened by powerful earthquakes in the past – and rebuilt itself
• Archaeologists Broke Open King Tut’s Inner Tomb Exactly 100 Years Ago. Here Are 5 of the Most Opulent Artifacts They Found
• Physical: 100 on Netflix: What Is the Punishment of Atlas?

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 very 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. XIV Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 26 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Why did the Romans want to settle in the Cotswolds? | Great British Life
• Man digs up Greek coin while weeding in the garden | Metro News
• Debate: Sorry, British Museum, a loan of the Parthenon Marbles is not a repatriation
• Michael Steinhardt’s Exile From the World of Antiquities
• Damaged cultural heritages taken under protection: Ministry – Türkiye News
• Antiquities Authority says seized “Capitoline Wolf” is not the same as the one in Tripoli | The Libya Observer
• How and why did the ancient Romans bury lightning? The Special Superintendence – Style Art explains it
• Imposing Roman stele with portrait emerges during the excavations of a roundabout in Abruzzo – Stile Arte
• Parthenon marbles could be seen both in London and Athens, museum chair says | Reuters
• Protests erupt outside Archaeological Museum in Athens as David Chipperfield revamp announced

In Case You Missed It

• Archeologists Discover Roman-Era Sarcophagus in Gaza Strip | Jewish & Israel News Algemeiner.com
• Archaeologists uncover 5,000-year-old tavern and “beer recipe” on tablet in Iraq – CBS News
• Five Archaeological Museums in Greece Have Closed in Protest of a New Law That Puts Them Under Government Control
• Knossos Research Center in for overhaul | eKathimerini.com
• Major renovation planned for Athens’ archaeological museum – ABC News

Classicists and Classics in the News

• After 17-Year Journey, Monmouth College Classics Professor Bob Simmons Celebrates His First Book with “Amusement, Relief, Satisfaction” | River Cities’ Reader

Public Facing Classics

• Cyrus knew bullies don’t win | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Arabians: Agatharchides and Diodoros on peoples of Arabia Felix on the eastern coast of the Red Sea (second-first centuries BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• A Stoic Who Loves Epicurus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Long Story
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Sacked for Bad Spelling
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Archaism
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Secret of Time: Reconfiguring Wisdom in the Dead Sea Scrolls
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Journal of Mosaic Research
• The Need for a Serious Friend or a Committed Enemy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Het hellenisme in Mesopotamië – Mainzer Beobachter
• 44 out of 234 days: More notes from Rome – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Roman Archaeology Blog: Roman city uncovered by archeologists in Luxor
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Leg Irons
• PaleoJudaica.com: “Legends of Destruction” film dubbed in English
• PaleoJudaica.com: Rocca, In the Shadow of the Caesars (Brill)
• Looting Matters: A Roman fresco fragment and some apparent cut marks
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Classic Historians

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• The Petra Hinterland Social Landscapes Project. Launch of First Season in 2022 – The Palestine Exploration Fund

Other Blog-like Publications

• National Archaeological Museum competition win announced
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• What Was the Crisis of the Third Century?
• Archaeologists uncover Roman soldier’s paycheck at Masada
• Plato’s Pharmacy: Derrida on Speaking, Writing, and Plato (4 ideas)
• Change and Transition on Crete

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom n Horace, Odes 1.3.1-8
• @DocCrom on some of Julius Caesar’s coinage

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The Colossus of Rhodes on Apple Podcasts

One of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, the Colossus of Rhodes has lived on in legend – with fact and fiction often blurring. A 108 ft high statue of the Sun God Helios, it was erected in celebration by the people of Rhodes after successfully defending the island against Alexander the Great’s successors in 304 BC. But what happened to this monumental statue, and why did it only stand for 50 years? In this episode Tristan is joined by Professor Andrew Erskine to delve into this iconic monument and the legacy it left. From Alexander the Great to Game of Thrones, what can we learn about the Colossus of Rhodes, and just how wonderful was it really?

• Ancient History Fangirl: Women in Greek and Hindu Mythology (With Nikita Gill) on Apple Podcasts

Both Greek and Hindu mythology are populated with fascinating women—goddesses, heroines, and monsters alike. Award-winning and best-selling author and poet Nikita Gill incorporates both into her work, forging a compelling connection between ancient narratives and personal mythologies of place and family. Nikita’s poetry is haunting, fiercely feminist, and filled with insight and heartbreak. Join us for a conversation about the women of Hindu and Greek mythology, the feminist themes in both, and which “monsters” we identify with most.

• The Partial Historians: A Dry Period on Apple Podcasts

Prepare yourself, dear listener, for a drought or two! After spending several episodes on individual years, we are speeding ahead in our latest episode. We are covering not one, not two, but THREE years in a single instalment. Join us as we tackle 430, 429 and 428 BCE.

Fresh Youtubery

• Who wrote the Iliad? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Daily Life of the Ancient Egyptians – Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Kings and Generals
• Modern/Medicine #etymology – YouTube | Alliterative
• Losing its marbles? Pressure mounts on British Museum to return Parthenon frieze • FRANCE 24 – YouTube
• A Youtube playlist of conference papers at the Louvre: Bahrein et ses voisins
• What Would Your Life (And Death) Be Like In Ancient Egypt? | In The Valley Of The Kings | Odyssey – YouTube
• The Untold Truth Of Gladiator – YouTube | Looper

Book Reviews

• Review: The Destruction of the Canaanites – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Pratiques funéraires dans les tombes d’époques romaine et romano-byzantine d’Histria | Spartokos a lu
• Anaximander and the Nature of Science by Carlo Rovelli review — the greatest philosopher you’ve never heard of | Times2 | The Times
• BMCR ~ Simon Forty, Jonathan Forty, Limits of empire: Rome’s borders. Havertown: Casemate, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Andreas Antonopoulos, Menelaos Christopoulos, George William, Mallory Harrison, Reconstructing Satyr drama. MythosEikonPoiesis, 12. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2021.
• BMCR ~ C. W. Marshall, Latin poetry and its reception: essays for Susanna Braund. Routledge monographs in classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
• MAARC Keynote Lecture 2023 – YouTube | Chau Chak Wing Museum

Exhibition Related Things

• Golden Mummies of Egypt review – ancient faces meet your eye across millennia | Art and design | The Guardian
• British Museum’s Egyptian hieroglyphs exhibition to go on tour
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Dramatic Receptions

• Alley Theatre Announces The Cast & Creative Team For THE ODYSSEY
• Bleecker Street Acquires Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche Pic ‘The Return’ – Deadline

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 Profound Influence Of Greek Mythology On Valentine’s Day
• ChatGPT is confronting, but humans have always adapted to new technology – ask the Mesopotamians, who invented writing

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 auspicious things for the people, but bad things for the powerful out of discord.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 25 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Petition update · University of Turku keeps Classics! · Change.org
• Did Valentine’s Day Start as a Roman Party or to Celebrate an Execution? – The New York Times
• Roman-era sarcophagus uncovered in Gaza | Reuters
• Greece Offers British Museum Antiquities Loan for Marbles Return – The National Herald
• Should Major Institutions Reconsider Acquiring Egyptian Antiquities? – ARTnews.com
• “Capitoline Wolf” artifact recovered by Libyan Stability Support Apparatus | The Libya Observer
• Knossos Research Center in for overhaul | eKathimerini.com
• 5,000-year-old ‘scepters’ may actually be the oldest drinking straws in the world
• BTA :: Last Year’s Archaeological Discoveries in Bulgaria Go on Display in Sofia

In Case You Missed It

• Greek Archaeologists Strike Over Newly Approved Law About Museums – ARTnews.com
• Ancient Golden Glass Unearthed During Roman Subway Construction | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Iraq dig uncovers 5,000 year old pub restaurant
• New Testament’s Book of Revelation Was Influenced by Curse Tablets, Scholar Deduces – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Spoken Latin Is Making a Comeback | History| Smithsonian Magazine
• John Ellis Jones | About the University of Leicester | University of Leicester

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ NUNTIUM ORIENTALE 

Public Facing Classics

• Earthquake 115CE/2023 | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
• Don’t underestimate Cupid – he’s not the chubby cherub you associate with Valentine’s Day

Fresh Bloggery

• Assyrian / Babylonian wisdom: Sibyl of Babylon on the superiority of the Judean people (second century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Thinking about Sites in Survey, Part 1 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Loving and Self-Loathing, A Valentine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Conservatism in Vocabulary?
• One Is All I Need, A Senecan *Love* Note – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Eternal Autumn of Your Smile: A Love Note – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Work of Magic, the Work of Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Synchronizing the Destructions of the Mycenaean Palaces
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Palimpsests at Saint Catherine’s Monastery (Sinai): Three Euchologia as Case Studies
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and in the Global South: Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective
• Alexis, What is Love? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Love Keeps the World Together: Get Philosophical About Valentine’s Day – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Manuale di geoarcheologia. Un approccio geomorfologico da remoto
• De Kopten (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• 43 out of 234 days: Notes from Rome – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lead sarcophagus excavated in Gaza
• PaleoJudaica.com: Did curse tablets influence the Book of Revelation?
• Thoroughly Shaken – MAPPOLA
• Looting Matters: Two octagonal panels probably from the Bay of Naples
• Thinking about Sites in Survey, Part 2 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Love and passion – The Kosmos Society
• Classics goes Forensic | Classics at Reading
• Reviewing My Classics Modules – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

• A Class Apart-heid
• Coins of Ancient Greek Troas (Troad): Part 4
• Archaeologists find lost stronghold of Únětice Culture
• February 15th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
• February 44 BCE: To Manius Curius (at Patrae) from Cicero (at Rome)

Fresh Podcasts

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: How I Made Your Mummy, Or, A Special Blend of Herbs and Spices with a Side Order of Sun Dried Crocodiles on Apple Podcasts

The discovery of a 26th Dynasty mummification workshop has shown that exotic ingredients came from as far as India and Africa. Is this just an early version of Goop, rich people getting sold on weird ingredients just because the poors were catching up? But then how do we explain the sun dried crocodiles? Go ahead, we’ll wait.

• Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society: Agrippina: Rome’s Most Powerful Empress? on Apple Podcasts

She was a woman of unparalleled power, descended from Julius Caesar and Augustus. But how did she get there, whilst most of the rest of her family were exiled and starved to death? And how, then, did she come to be murdered by her own son, Nero? Today Kate is joined by Emma Southon for an introduction to this very powerful hustler, and to find out why she is so often remembered as a seductress. *WARNING there are adult words and themes in this episode*

• The Dirt Podcast: MINISODE 2: It’s Just Archaeology on Apple Podcasts

We’re doing something different this week while Amber is on a whirlwind tour of life admin stuff. In response to some of the conflict over Graham Hancock’s Ancient Apocalypse show on Netflix, Anna has been writing about the double-edged sword of creating archaeology content online. Social media can be a useful tool, but it can also be…well, not great. So, we figured, why not cover two types of content in one!

• History Extra podcast: Cleopatra’s triumphant daughter on Apple Podcasts

When Cleopatra took her own life in 30 BC it marked the conclusion of Egypt’s ruling dynasty, but not the end of her family line. Classicist Jane Draycott tells the little-known story of Cleopatra Selene, daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony, who overcame her parents’ tragic deaths to become a powerful ruler in her own right. Speaking to Rob Attar, Jane explains how Cleopatra Selene trod a fine line between appeasing Rome and honouring her mother’s legacy.

• Ancient Office Hours: Episode 59 – Dr. Sturt Manning on Apple Podcasts

Dr. Sturt Manning, a professor of classical archaeology at Cornell University, joins Lexie to discuss the benefits of Australia’s interdisciplinary scholarship model, approaches to the study of climate archaeology and how they affect us today, and explore the timeline of traumatic climate disasters like the volcanic explosion on Santorini. So tuck in your togas and hop aboard Trireme Transit for this week’s exciting odyssey!

Fresh Youtubery

• What was the religion of the Celts? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• A Latin Teacher Reviews: A Touch Of Darkness, Hades X Persephone – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Does RADIANT SIN’s Apollo & Cassandra Romance Work? KATEE ROBERT Book Review – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• 47. Carus – Lightning Strikes – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Circe | The History of Most Famous Sorceress in Greek Mythology – YouTube | Lady of the Library

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Christopher Pelling, Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War: book VI. Cambridge Greek and Latin classics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Christelle Veillard, Hécaton de Rhodes. Les fragments. Histoire des doctrines de l’Antiquité classique. Paris: Vrin, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Dimitra P. Rousioti, Ιερά και θρησκευτικές τελετουργίες στην ανακτορική και μετανακτορική Μυκηναική περίοδο (Sanctuaries and cult practices in the Palatial and Postpalatial Mycenaean Period). Ερευνα και θεωρία ανθρωπιστικών επιστημών. Athens: Maistros, 2018.
• De Mithridate VI à Arrien de Nicomédie : changements et continuités dans le bassin de la mer Noire (Ier siècle a.C. – Ier siècle p.C.) | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Roshdi Rashed, L’hydrostatique de Ménélaüs: introduction, édition et traduction. Scientia Graeco-Arabica, 27. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
• BMCR ~ Christopher S. van den Berg, The politics and poetics of Cicero’s Brutus: the invention of literary history. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Theatre Review: Phaedra collapses under the weight of its own pretentiousness – The New European

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Equality in Ancient Greece – Did it exist?
• Late Scythian Hillfort at Konsulovskoe (Kherson Oblast, Ukraine) | Spartakos read
• 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

• 5 Love Stories from Greek Mythology
• Who Are the Diadochi of Alexander the Great?
• The Ancient Greek Sculpture of Eros Captures Purity of Love
• Valentine’s Day: The Greek Roots of the Saint of Love

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 air bringing plague and an abundance of wild beasts and mice.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Mart. 2776 AUC ~ 24 Gamelion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Sassanid petroglyph on moral teachings discovered in Marvdasht – Tehran Times
• Greece approves disputed museum law seen as antiquity ‘export’ plan
• Archaeologists Close Five Most Prominent Museums In Greece To Protest Status Change
• Greek Museums Shut in Protest Against New Law
• Zahi Hawass Urges Arabs to Sign Amendment to UK Law for Returning Egyptian Antiquities | Sada Elbalad
• Archaeologist Reflects On Tell Bleibil Excavations After Pan… | MENAFN.COM

In Case You Missed It

• Once home to civilisations, fabled Antioch left in ruins
• A Lost Language Translated From Ancient Tablets Reveals Names of Gods in Stunning Find

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Joseph Farrell: McKay Book Prize | University of Pennsylvania Almanac
• Sirens, Gorgons and Harpies (oh my!): a discussion on female monsters in video games – The Brock Press

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ ΗΑΠ – Σίνα

Public Facing Classics

• What a second-century Roman citizen, Lucian, can teach us about diversity and acceptance

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Prolific
• Come Over! We Can Help Each Other – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Pedantic Obsession with Words
• Laudator Temporis Acti: No Harmless Drudge
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Presidential Reading
• One Perpetual Sleep for A Week of Love – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Against Mosquitoes, A Love Poem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De Kopten (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Saqqara still holds secrets
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Status Quo
• PaleoJudaica.com: Were the Ten Commandments an afterthought?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Bonds of Friendship
• ‘My heart, don’t act so stupidly!’: An Ancient Egyptian Love Song – Papyrus Stories
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Biography
• Looting Matters: The frescoes from a wealthy seaside villa
• Wie gaat mee naar Tunesië? – Mainzer Beobachter

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Pandemic Stories Report – CUCD EDI

Other Blog-like Publications

• Getty to Acquire Bust of Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius
• Plato’s Parmenides: 3 Arguments Against Plato’s Theory of Forms
• There Is No “Lone Genius” in Archaeology – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Roman Londinium – AD 47
• February 14th | Fastorum Liber Secundus: Februarius – by M.
• The Frumentarii – Rome’s army of spies

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 1.15.31-42

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: TikTok Teen Heartthrob Eros or Creepy Cupid Cherub? The Evolution of the God of Love on Apple Podcasts

Love has always been excruciating.

Fresh Youtubery

• Who was Socrates and what was his Philosophy? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Orphic Hymn 3, to Nyx, read in Ancient Greek (powerful meditative reading, 10-minute loop) – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
• 2023-02-08, BB- W. White: How did the Pandemic Change Archaeological Field Schools? – YouTube
• Eros-Cupid and Psyche, the Greek and Roman Gods of Love and the Soul – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Homosexuality in Ancient Egypt? The Tomb of Khnumhotep and Niankhkhnum – YouTube | Dig it With Raven

Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Jeroen De Keyser, Noreen Humble, Keith Sidwell, Henri Estienne: On books. LYSA Neo-Latin texts, 2. Ghent: Lysa, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Julie Stone Peters, Law as performance: theatricality, spectatorship, and the making of law in ancient, medieval, and early modern Europe. Law and literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• International Study Programme in Egyptology
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Lapis Niger Was A Mystery Even In Ancient Times. The Truth Was Even Stranger | IFLScience
• Did Valentine’s Day Start as a Roman Party or to Celebrate an Execution? – The New York Times
• Ancient Greece, to Rome and Crete – celebrating St Valentine and Eros – Neos Kosmos
• Metamorphosis by Love ~ The Imaginative Conservative
• ‘When Roman Priests Ran Naked, Slapped Women With Bloody Animals’: Dark History of Valentine’s Day
• The Deep Influence Of Greek Mythology On Valentine’s Day

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 loss of children and an abundance of poisonous reptiles.

… 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)