Hodie est a.d. XVII Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 25 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• British Museum Holds 108,184 Greek Artefacts, Of Which Only 6,493 Are Even On Display
• Greece to Highlight Archaeological Site of Plotinopoli in Evros with Mild Interventions | GTP Headlines

In Case You Missed It

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• Excavators say they’ve found a previously unknown Egyptian royal tomb in Luxor : NPR

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἰρᾶν

Public Facing Classics

• Did Russian Archaeologists Really Discover a New Ancient Culture?

Fresh Bloggery

• Persians: Matthew and Luke-Acts on two contrasting approaches to Magians (late first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Fröhlich (ed.), Science in Qumran Aramaic Texts (Mohr Siebeck)
• Fascinating extra stuff at Google Translate for Latin – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Poetics of Plot in the Egyptian and Judean Novella
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: An Examination of Prices and Wages in Babylonia – ca. 2000-1600 B.C.E.
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Frightening Away Demons
• Philosophers, Brush Your Teeth! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• A complete Ibn Abi Usaibia “History of Medicine” now online in Arabic and English – Roger Pearse
• Nothing Even Matters | Sphinx
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Announcement of New Tombs Found at Luxor
• Paulus – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Outreach on Archaeological Looting: UK Style
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Can Britain Afford Mitigating Artefact Hunting? Actually, no.
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Diseases of the Soul
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Reminder
• Diomedes, The God – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Levison, The Greek Life of Adam and Eve (De Gruyter)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Power of an Oath
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Public Works and Private Work on the Threshold of Complexity: The Production and Use of Space at Late Chalcolithic 1 Tell Surezha, Iraq
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The House of the Satrap and the Making of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, 522-330 BCE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Internal Passives in Semitic: Functional Symmetry in a Variation-and-Change Model
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ḫatti, Troy, and the Balkans: Anatolian-Balkan Interactions during the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages (1300-1000 BC)
• The treasures of Ephesus in the Ephesos Museum in Vienna | Turkish Archaeological News
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Missile fragments fall on Museum in Kyiv
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Previous owner of Voynich Manuscript revealed
• De slag bij Pelousion – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Not Just a Modern Phenomenon
• Art Crime Research Opportunities 16 January 2023
• Sidonius shows elite men’s gender-disdain for men in 5th-century Gaul – purple motes
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• January 16th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
• Ancient Ruins Hidden Under Thessaloniki Metro Revealed – Arkeonews
• Royal tomb unearthed in Luxor

Fresh Podcasts

• When in Rome: Cloaca Maxima on Apple Podcasts

The cloaca maxima is the great sewer of Rome. A tad smelly but highly functional, it funneled water and waste increasing health and sanitation, and earned admiration for its importance to the people. Guest: Dr Gillian Shepherd (Trendall Centre, La Trobe University)

• Byzantium & Friends: 85. Lead mining and lead pollution in the Roman world, with Paul Stephenson on Apple Podcasts

A conversation with Paul Stephenson (Penn State University) about the impact of lead mining and smelting on the miners themselves, the communities around them, and on plants, animals, and human beings across the Roman empire. This is part of a broader and ongoing project on metallurgy and environmental violence. Paul integrates the recent science of Roman lead into his history of the empire, in New Rome: The Empire in the East (Harvard University Press 2022).

Fresh Youtubery

• Roman villa in Pompeii reopens after 20-year restoration – YouTube | AP Archive
• Female Infidelity In the Ancient World – YouTube | Classics in Color

Book Reviews

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• SCS Events Calendar

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• Are the Irish Descendants of the Ancient Greeks?
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• Examining Plato’s Most Important Dialogues: What is ‘The Sophist’?
• Unique gold 10 aurei of Diocletian tops $2 million in sale
• Husbands and Wives in Homer ~ The Imaginative Conservative
• What Was A Steak Dinner Like In Ancient Rome?

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 people being oppressed by the king.

… 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. XIX Kal. Feb. 2776 AUC ~ 23 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Princely’ tomb of Hun warrior unearthed in Romania | Live Science

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• Greece insists Parthenon Marbles return debate ‘not closed’
• George Osborne is playing a risky game as chairman of the British Museum
• Spectacular Byzantine church mosaics uncovered near Jericho | The Times of Israel
• British Museum’s hopes of a ‘loan arrangement’ for the return of the Parthenon Marbles imperilled ahead of Greek elections
• 2,200-Year-Old Fruit Baskets Found in Underwater City of Heracleion

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Brock professor Elizabeth Greene named president of Archaeological Institute of America | The Star

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 14.01.2023 – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News ~ Ἰρᾶν

Fresh Bloggery

• Magians among Persians: Pliny on the dissemination of Magian skill to the peoples of the world (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Writing Your Way Out of Misery – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The Growth of Virtue and Needs of Friends – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Currency Bar Finds known in 1882 – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• 11 out of 234 days: Aes Grave outside Peninsular Italy – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Excavations at Khirbet el-Maqatir, Israel: 1995–2001 and 2009–2016. Volume 2: The Late Hellenistic, Early Roman, and Byzantine Periods
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Slavery and Servitude in Late Period Egypt (c. 900 – 330 BC)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hebrew Forms of Address: A Sociolinguistic Analysis
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Longing
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Religion
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Concise Dictionary of Akkadian: Justifications, Addenda and Corrigenda
• Lake Nemi Coin Finds – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The US United States of America has hands over a rare artefact to Palestine ~ ARCAblog
• Not surprisingly, and despite all of his protestations earlier, Ali Aboutaam has been convicted. ~ ARCAblog
• De Tyche van Antiochië – Mainzer Beobachter
• Weekend Reading: Sorry, Old Friend! – Classical Studies Support
• Referenda ad Senatum: January 13, 2023: Roman Traditionalism, Ancient Dates and Imperial Spies – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Spencer Alley: European Artists Projecting Antique Revels
• Quiet Old Age and Divine Luck – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

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• The Value of Secondary-School Latin: A Student’s View – Antigone
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• A Brief History of Ancient Horses: The Steeds of Gods and Kings
• Were There Mercenary Units in Ancient Greece?
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• The Surprising Etruscan Influence on the Early Celts

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 3.3.1-14

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: Signed, Shield, Delivered: Aeneas becomes Achilles in Aeneid Book VIII, Part 2 (Ad Navseam Episode 109) on Apple Podcasts

This week the guys wrap up Book VIII of Vergil’s epic by discussing Aeneas’ amazing shield. Wrought by the ignipotens fire-forger Vulcan at the lascivious behest of his sometime bride Venus, the shield is an ekphrasis of Roman history. But how does it compare to its predecessor, that of Achilles from Iliad XVIII? Is it, in Jeff’s words, “too on the nose”? Or are there deeper meanings beneath the oxhide? And how does Aeneas compare to Odysseus in terms of plausible humanity? Should he tell some lies or bump some fists to seem more real? Come along for these questions and more — complete with tedious detours through Dante, supines, album covers, early Christian apologists, and Disney’s Beauty and the Beast™! Did they leave out anything from this one?

• Nuntii Latini: diē tertiō decimō mēnsis Iānuāriī on Apple Podcasts

“Trēs Amīcī” Mexicopolī congressī…

• Women Who Went Before: In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors on Apple Podcasts

In the penultimate episode of season 1, “In Her Own Words: Ancient Women Authors,” we talk with historian and classicist Dr. Kate Cooper about gatekeeping, the privilege of individualism, and those rare surviving moments when women wrote for themselves. The famous Greek poet Sappho, who wrote of love and loss. Faltonia Betitia Proba, the elite Roman woman who adapted Virgil to tell Christian history. The pilgrim Egeria who described her tour of the Holy Lands to her circle of female friends back home. And of course we revisit Perpetua, the martyr from Carthage we first met in Episode 0.

Fresh Youtubery

• Prometheus the Greek Titan of Forethought who Gave Fire to Humanity – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
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• Ancient Greek and Roman Libraries – YouTube | Edith Hall
• “The Allegory of the Cave” in Plato’s Republic | Philosophers Explained | Stephen Hicks – YouTube | CEE Video Channel

Exhibition Related Things

• Sarcophagus of Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II to make rare visit to France

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

• Petition · Save Classics at Turku! · Change.org
• Classics – 2022-2023 Non-Tenure Track Faculty Pool job with University of Texas at Austin | 37391987
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The ideas that formed the Constitution, part 12: Plutarch – Independence Institute
• How ancient Greeks viewed pederasty and homosexuality – Big Think
• What being wealthy was like in 1000 BC, 1 AD, 1000 AD – Big Think
• Explore The Appian Way: Rome’s Oldest & Most Important Road

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 the outbreak of mice and the  deaths of many four-footed animals

[Sunday] If it thunders today , it portends a slave revolt, punishment for them, and an abundance of crops.

… 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 Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 22 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Headless skeletons in a settlement trench: A 7,000-year-old mass grave?
• Nuovi reperti archeologici a Porto Cesareo: iniziati gli scavi
• 2,000-year-old sarcophagus found in Istanbul – Türkiye News
• Around 10,500 new artifacts added to Turkish museums in 2022 | Daily Sabah
• Scheletri sepolti in anfore giganti scoperti in un’antica necropoli » Scienze Notizie
• Revealed: PA’s plan to build neighborhood on Joshua’s Altar | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
• Irish Columnist Makes Moral Case for The Parthenon Marbles Return – The National Herald
• Tornos News | Minister: Greece will continue to demand the return of the Parthenon Marbles

In Case You Missed It

• An ancient spoon stirs American mischief against Israel – JNS.org
• 8 ostrich eggs over 4,000 years old found near excavated firepit in south | The Times of Israel
• Pompeii residence filled with erotic frescoes reopens after 20 years – CNN Style
• Ancient Greek Temple of Poseidon Identified in Samikon – ARTnews.com
• How Ancient Greek letters were carved on a rock in Central Asia – Greek Herald
• Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Brock professor Elizabeth Greene named president of Archaeological Institute of America | StCatharinesStandard.ca

Public Facing Classics

• UnDisciplined: The 2000-year-old modern scholar | UPR Utah Public Radio
• Reunions can be nostalgic and painful as well as happy – as the ancient Greek heroes Achilles and Odysseus show us

Fresh Bloggery

• Chatting with ‘The Ancients’ Podcast – The Partial Historians
• Three Teaching Things Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Crying Everyone’s Tears – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Is Diversity Always a Strength?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: New Testament Greek
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Decay and the Millennia
• Whatever became of the World-Wide Web? – Roger Pearse
• Highways of Words and Rough Sailing – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• 10 of 234 days: UPenn Nemi connection – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Democracy in the Peloponnese, c.550–146 BCE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Healing Grief: A Commentary on Seneca’s Consolatio ad Marciam
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Staging Kingship: A Performance-Oriented Approach to the Hittite ‘Theatre of State’
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Exploring Pain in Ancient Egypt
• Keizer Augustus in Hamburg – Mainzer Beobachter
• Some Aes Grave Bibliography – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The History Girls: Wonders and Warnings – by Ruth Downie
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Look on my Face, ye Mighty, and despair!
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Another Euphronios Krater?
• Ammon, een Libische god voor de export – Mainzer Beobachter
• Blogging ancient epigram: From the statue of a Hellenistic cavalry captain
• January 13th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• AHRC to fund expansion of Reading Ancient Schoolroom | Classics at Reading

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• 4,000-year-old ostrich eggs uncovered in the Negev dunes
• House of the Vettii in Pompeii re-opened
• Three people arrested for trying to steal Ramesses II statue
• ANE Today – The Salt Traders of Seleucid Babylonia
• Roman ‘ritual center’ discovered in England – Arkeonews
• Ancient Burial Practices from Greece
• Ornate collection of mosaics uncovered near Jericho
• Ancient campsite where people cooked ostrich eggs

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Hoarce, Odes 2.10.5-20

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Envelopment of the Legion on Apple Podcasts

Mason sent in a question a few weeks ago, and here he is again with another for Murray.’If Romans were fighting and happened to get surrounded, did they have a formation for that? Did the back line and sides turn around and form a square?’

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Pausanias in the Peloponnese, Spartan Myth & Culture w/ Dr. Maria Pretzler on Apple Podcasts

Liv is joined by Maria Pretzler, a professor of Classics who specializes in mythology and the writings of Pausanias. They talk about the culture of the Peloponnese, what we learn from the late travel writer Pausanias, the mythology of ancient Sparta.

Fresh Youtubery

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• The Function of Prophecy in Greek Mythology – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Dyeus: The Indo-European Sky Father – YouTube | ReligionForBreakfast
• Andrew Tate and Ancient Ideas About Women – YouTube | Lady of the Library

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Jacob L. Mackey, Belief and cult: rethinking Roman religion. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2022
• BMCR – Sonya Nevin, The idea of Marathon: battle and culture. London; New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
• BMCR – That tyrant, persuasion: how rhetoric shaped the Roman world
• BMCR – R.J. Hankinson, Matyáš Havrda, Galen’s epistemology: experience, reason, and method in ancient medicine. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022.
• The Tragedy of Ukraine – CounterPunch.org

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

• Teaching Assistant (TA 90) in the History of Science and Technology Program and Department of Classics – Part-time | University of King’s College
• Thomas F. Cooper Post-Doctoral Fellow in Classics – HigherEdJobs
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Ten Stunning Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Art – GreekReporter.com
• Antiquities: A Crooked Market – Australian Institute of International Affairs – Australian Institute of International Affairs
• Priapism Was Named After The God Of Gardens With An Unfortunate Ailment | IFLScience
• Playing God: Wisdom from the Greeks or Monsters of Artificial Intelligence? – CounterPunch.org
• 7 famous ghosts from the ancient world | Sky HISTORY TV Channel

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 diseases.

… 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. Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 21 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Parthenon Sculptures belong in UK, says Culture Secretary Michelle Donelan – BBC News
• Dispelling Rumors, Greece Has Rejected the British Museum’s Offer to Return the Parthenon Marbles as a Long-Term Loan | Artnet News
• Greek PM dashes hopes of swift return of Parthenon marbles | Reuters
• The British Museum shouldn’t just return the Elgin marbles, it should offer British artefacts too
• Archaeologists discover Roman ‘ritual centre’ at Overstone housing site – BBC News
• Ancient Roman shrine and Bronze Age burial mound discovered in ‘highly significant’ Northampton dig – Northants Live
• Roman town unearthed in England. Evidence of makeup found | Raleigh News & Observer
• Archaeologists Find Surprising ‘Moment in the Life’ of Prehistoric Hunters in Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Ancient Byzantine church with preserved mosaic floor found near Jericho – The Jerusalem Post
• Israeli Archaeologists Discover First-ever Cooked Ostrich Eggs, Maybe – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Leftovers of 2,000-year-old feast unearthed at UK farmstead | Centre Daily Times
• The Biden Administration’s archaeological absurdity | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva
• Busy Colchester car parks will be closed for excavation works of ancient Roman wall – Essex Live

In Case You Missed It

• Extremely rare inscribed sling bullet from 2nd century BC found in Israel | The Past
• Discovery of the temple of Poseidon located at the Kleidi site near Samikon in Greece
• Three men try to steal 10-ton ancient statue of Ramesses II in Egypt with crane
• Pompeii reopens House of the Vettii after 20 years – Wanted in Rome
• Elite Life And Erotic Art: Pompeii House Reveals Its Secrets After 20 Year Restoration

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Ralston College and the Rejuvenation of Higher Ed | City Journal

Public Facing Classics

• Speculum: the creepy history of this ancient gynaecological device and why it’s still feared today
• What the ancients would have made of Harry and Meghan | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• Judean wisdom: Pseudo-Clement on a journey to Peter the Judean wise man (third century CE and on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Teaching about Orientalism in 2023: A History/Anthropology/Classics Syllabus – Everyday Orientalism
• Be More Amateur | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A True Note of Praise – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Hard
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Dangers
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kelten und Germanen im 2.-1. Jahrhundert vor Christus: Archäologische Bausteine zu einer historischen Frage
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Grabdenkmäler aus Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonien
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mise à jour d’Archibab
• 9 of 234 days: Nemi lake finds – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Herculaneum en Pompeii in Assen – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Nemi Temple – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Zeitschrift für Provenienzforschung und Sammlungsgeschichte
• De slag bij Ipsos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Archiving Dealers’ Stories (aka. “collection histories”)
• Art Crime Research Opportunities 12 January 2023
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Lowering of Moral Standards

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• La bourse Neda et Franz Leipen – The Classical Association of Canada
• Bourse d’études ICEM-ICG – The Classical Association of Canada
• Frederick and Joan Winter Student Travel Bursary – The Classical Association of Canada
• News – 2023 Council Election Results – Archaeological Institute of America AIA News

Other Blog-like Publications

• Burning Sappho in Love and Song – Antigone
• Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable?
• Ancient Latin texts written on papyrus reveal new information about the Roman world – Arkeonews
• The Mesha Stele and King David of the Bible – Biblical Archaeology Society
• 5 Auxiliary Units of the Roman Army
• 4 Famous Horses from the Ancient World: Most Noble Steeds
• What’s So Special About the Venus De Milo? | by Christopher P Jones | Jan, 2023 | Medium

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Horaced, Odes 2.13-28

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: The Kings of Rome on Apple Podcasts

This episode contains references to sexual assault and suicide. When you think of Ancient Rome, you don’t often associate it with the idea of a Monarchy. But long before the likes of Julius Caesar, Augustus, or even Nero – Kings ruled over the land. Specifically – seven of them. But what happened to these Kings of Rome, and why aren’t they immortalised in history the same way as their Emperor successors? In this episode of The Ancients, Tristan is joined by fellow Podcast hosts and authors Dr Peta Greenfield and Dr Fiona Radford, to take us through this mysterious part of Ancient History. Looking at the key figures and myths who defined this period of Ancient Rome – what really happened to the Kings of Rome?

• Ancient History Fangirl: RE-RELEASE: We Wrote a Book! on Apple Podcasts”

We are SO excited that we have a book coming out in February 2023! Our book, Women of Myth, will be available worldwide from Simon and Schuster. Listen in as we talk about our favorite Women of Myth from around the world with Liv Albert from Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Our book is about epic women in mythology from around the world. We cover a diverse range of cultures, from Greek and Roman mythology to important figures from regions such as Africa and African Diaspora countries, the Pacific Islands, Asia and the Middle East, indigenous cultures from North, South, and Central America; and more. We cannot wait to share these tales with you.

Fresh Youtubery

• Pompeii’s House of the Vettii reopens after 20-year restoration – YouTube | The Times
• ‘Phaethon’ – a film inspired by a surviving fragment of a lost Euripides’ play – YouTube | BareFacedGreek
• Spotlight Lecture: The Kandake Today: The legacy of Sudanese Hero-Queens – YouTube | Egypt Exploration Society
• Visiting Ovid in Sulmo! Recitation Tristia 1,3 (cum subit illius) – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
• Punic-Sicilian Wars  The Battle of Crimissus – Last Stand of the Sacred Band (339 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta

Book Reviews

• Die Grabdenkmäler aus Pompeiopolis in Paphlagonien | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Craig A. Evans, Adam Z. Wright, Gods, spirits, and worship in the Greco-Roman world and early Christianity. Jewish and Christian texts in contexts and related studies, 23. London; New York: T & T Clark, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Attilio Mastrocinque, The Mithraic prophecy. BAR international series, 3074. Oxford: BAR Publishing, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• BTA :: Photo Exhibition on Temple of Pontic Mother of Gods in Dionysopolis Opens in Parliament Building

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Unsung Pioneer Women in the Archaeology of Greece
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Pre-doctoral Fellowships in Hellenic Studies 2023-2024: Call for applications | Center for Hellenic Studies in Greece
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• 2022 wasn’t the year of Cleopatra – so why was she the most viewed page on Wikipedia?
• The Philosophical Therapy of Anaxagoras – The Good Men Project
• Ancient Egyptian pharaoh Ramesses II’s ‘handsome’ face revealed in striking reconstruction | Live Science

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 men having their reputations damaged but there will be plenty of fodder for horses and cattle  and an abundance of fish.

… 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. III Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 20 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Discovery in Gabès of the remains of a wall and a tiled floor dating from Roman times
• Archaeologists discover Roman ‘ritual centre’ at Overstone housing site – BBC News
• Three people detained for attempted robbery of Ramses II statue in Upper Egypt – Courts & Law – Egypt – Ahram Online
• FIIA captures 4 gang members for trafficking in antiquities in Babil and Salah al-Din » Iraqi News Agency
• Drought helps expose the secrets of a Roman city | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• New “witchcraft” artifacts found in Pompeii’s House of Magical Rites. The discovery, the video – Stile Arte
• Busy Colchester car parks will be closed for excavation works of ancient Roman wall – Essex Live
• Second mysterious dodecahedron found in Flanders | VRT NWS: news
• Appian Way bids for UNESCO status – English – ANSA.it
• Flouting Oslo Accords, Israel Razes Structures in West Bank Area Under Palestinian Civil Control – Israel News – Haaretz.com

In Case You Missed It

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• Greece Says Parthenon Marbles Return Talks On – The National Herald
• “Elgin Marbles Are Much Better Preserved In The British Museum Than In Any Greek One,” Says Greek Historian
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• Roman statues and stone decorations emerge near the shore of the Adriatic – Stile Arte
• BTA :: Bulgarian Customs Agency Hands Over to Turkiye 2,940 Antique Coins Rescued from Smuggling

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mathias Hanses elected president of Classical Association of the Atlantic States | Penn State University
• F. Bryce Obituary (1944 – 2022) – St. Paul, MN – Northfield News
• Paul Bidwell obituary | Register | The Times

Fresh Bloggery

• Celts / Gauls: Livy on legends of migration south of the Alps into Italy (late first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Now You Have Touched Greatness
• Fact Check: Did Clement of Alexandria say that “Every woman should be overwhelmed with shame at the thought that she is a woman”? – Roger Pearse
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Study of Terrain
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• “Duo mercatores” – Another miracle story about St Nicholas (BHL 6159) – Roger Pearse
• Decussis miscellany – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The Ancient Tale Of Gello, The Supernatural Baby-Snatcher | The Historian’s Hut
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Other Blog-like Publications

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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a funerary inscription from Carnuntum
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Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Why Is Sparta So Weird? Ancient Sparta & The Spartan Mirage (Part One) on Apple Podcasts

In this introduction to the new series on ancient Sparta and the Spartan Mirage, Liv gives a rundown on the history of Archaic and Classical Sparta, truths and misconceptions.

Fresh Youtubery

• 42. Quintillus – Two and a Half Weeks – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
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• Restauro Casa dei Vettii – YouTube | Pompeii
• Colloque « 1822/2022 – Autour de Champollion : Déchiffrements d’hier et d’aujourd’hui » – YouTube | (playlist)
• The face of the Skull of Jericho in the 9,000-year-old British Museum has been created – YouTube | History Origins

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Daniel W. Leon, Arrian the historian: writing the Greek past in the Roman Empire. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2021.
• BMCR- Heidi Marx, Sosipatra of Pergamum: philosopher and oracle. Women in antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Dhun H. Sethna, The wine-dark sea within: a turbulent history of blood. New York: Basic Books, 2022.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CFP: HESPERIDES PANEL “TRANSLATION” | Society for Classical Studies
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• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Digital Tools for Cultural Heritage Management
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Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Illustrating papyrus in Ancient Egypt | Scientific Reports

Alia

• The Roman Empire and Ancient Africa: Trading with East Africa
• Why Alexander the Great Ditched Plan for Ancient Wonder on Mount Athos
• 5 Pioneering Women in Archaeology | Art & Object
• Did Scientists Find Tomb of Egyptian God Osiris in 2022? | Snopes.com
• How universities entered Cloud Cuckoo Land – UnHerd

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 a famine affecting animals.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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