Hodie est a.d. III Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 20 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• “Elgin Marbles Are Much Better Preserved In The British Museum Than In Any Greek One,” Says Greek Historian
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• Design for new archaeological museum revamp selected | eKathimerini.com
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Classicists and Classics in the News

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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.

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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)

Hodie est a.d. IV Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 19 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Elgin Marbles should remain in Britain because they will be ‘better preserved’, Greek academic says | Daily Mail Online
• What is George Osborne’s game of Marbles?
• Sculpture talks ongoing, says government spokesman | eKathimerini.com
• The Parthenon Marbles Can be Loaned to Greece and Never Return
• Reconstruction of shrine to regional Old Kingdom ruler Winnie set to enhance Sohag National Museum – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• A New Way to Restore Ancient Roman Mosaics – Susquehanna University
• Egypt police foil attempt to steal pharaonic era statue in Aswan
• Smallpox has plagued humans since ancient Egyptian times, new evidence confirms — ScienceDaily
• Ancient astronomy inscription discovered in Marvdasht – Tehran Times
• Iron Age shield and Roman finds on BBC Two’s Digging for Britain – BBC News
• 2,000-year-old sarcophagus found in Istanbul – Türkiye News
• BTA :: Bulgarian Customs to Hand over Some 3,000 Intercepted Antique Coins to Turkiye
• ‘Astonishing’ Pompeii home of men freed from slavery reopens to public | Italy | The Guardian

In Case You Missed It

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• Greece seeks ‘definitive return’ of Parthenon Marbles
• US returns stolen artefact to Palestine as part of investigation into New York collector Michael Steinhardt
• For the First Time, U.S. Repatriates an Artifact to the Palestinian Authority | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Police Discover Hundreds of Stolen Artifacts at Two Spanish Residences | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• French Archaeologists Make ‘Unprecedented Discovery’ of What May Be the Remains of a Roman-Era Mausoleum | Artnet News

Public Facing Classics

• Royal feuds in ancient Rome | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Christies’ Macaw Mosaic: A Conspiracy or One For The Conspiracy Theorists?
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• From Philistine Capital to Judahite City
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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W.E.B. Du Bois (1868-1963) was one of the foremost thinkers and writers about race in the period directly after Reconstruction. He was also a professor of Classics who engaged closely with a number of Greek and Roman writers, including Cicero, Aristotle and Plato. Shivaike Shah speaks to Dr Mathias Hanses, Associate Professor of Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, about his characterisation of Du Bois as a ‘Black Cicero’. What light does Du Bois shed on Cicero’s relationship with race in orations like Pro Archia Poeta? And how does an acknowledgement of Du Bois’s engagement with the Classics – and of the limitations of his approach to Black empowerment – reposition us in relation to the field today?

• 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

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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
• GNT Wordle
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‘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 heavy wind and an abundance of grain, but a shortage of other 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 a.d. V Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 18 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Debate Over Returning Elgin Marbles and Other Antiquities
• Newly analyzed 3,600-year-old silver pieces are 1st currency in Levant, study shows | The Times of Israel
• Silver coins were used as money in Israel 3,600 years ago – study – The Jerusalem Post
• Archaeologist explores sedintarisation in southern Levant | Jordan Times
• Return of UK-held Greek antiquities still uncertain | eKathimerini.com
• Look at the face of the ‘Jericho Skull,’ buried 9,000 years ago with shells for eyes | Live Science

In Case You Missed It

• Elgin Marbles deal may use ancient Greek treasures as ‘collateral’
• British Ex-Lawmaker Opposes Sending Parthenon Marbles to Greece – The National Herald
• British Museum reportedly close to deal for return of Parthenon Marbles to Greece
• Jerusalem’s 2,000-year-old Pilgrimage Road preparing for modern revival – The Jerusalem Post

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ἡνωμένον Βασίλειον
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Fresh Bloggery

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• Solon Says: Sue Bad Leaders of State – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Reserved and Unsocial
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: D’une rive à l’autre: circulations et échanges entre la Maurétanie césarienne et le sud-est de l’Hispanie (Antiquité-Moyen-âge)
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• January 9th | Fastorum Liber Primus: Ianuarius – by M.
• Conagen starts first commercial production of sustainable Tyrian purple for textile dye | Financial Post
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• What does being a 3rd year Classics student actually look like? – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

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• Metro construction reveals the rich history of Thessaloniki
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Fresh Podcasts

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This week Jeff and Dave launch into the fascinating, often misunderstood world of Rome way, way back before there were Romans. As Aeneas readies for battle in the idyllic landscape, he needs some allies. So it’s off a-paddlin’ to Arcadia, where the rustic Greek king Evander and his momentous son Pallas make ready allies. While enjoying some old-fashioned hospitality, Evander tells our hero the long, digressive backstory of Greece’s mightiest avenger: Hercules. On the way back from rustlin’ Spanish cattle, Hercules got rustled himself by the smoke-belching Cacus. This troglodytic monster must be killed. But what does this mean for the epic as a whole and for Vergil’s view of the Pax Augusta? Well to find out, warm up your jerri-can of coffee, chill your bucket of Diet Coke, and tuck in for a classical repast past its prime not at all.

• The Ancients: Hephaestus: God of Fire on Apple Podcasts

This episode contains references to sexual assault and terms for groups which were classified that way at the time. Hephaestus, son of Zeus and Hera, is the God of fire and foundry in Greek mythology. He is the only god with a disability, a part of his identity that becomes a double-edged sword. Often treated disparagingly by the rest of the Greek pantheon as a result, chiefly by his own mother, Hera, who in some versions of mythology throws him off Mount Olympus she’s so ashamed of him, it also becomes a key component of his wisdom and creativity, using his blacksmith powers for both good and bad. In this episode, Tristan Hughes is joined by University of Oxford’s Dr Steve Kershaw where together they discuss Hephaestus’s origin story, his controversial marriage to Aphrodite, and why in Dr Kershaw’s words, he is “the god that should never be underestimated”.

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CCIII – Augustan Egypt on Apple Podcasts

Egypt was a valuable province to Rome, with natural wealth and successful agriculture. Thanks to an arid climate there’s also a number of preserved papyri from that era, providing modern scholarship with an invaluable paper-trail on the administration at the time. One papyri has led to the belief that Augustus confiscated lands of the Egyptian temples, and ultimately the decline of Egypt’s religions. Andrew Connor is the author of Confiscation or Coexistence: Egyptian Temples in the Age of Augustus published by University of Michigan Press.

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• Why Romans Shunned Freckled People – YouTube | Classics in Color

Book Reviews

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Exhibition Related Things

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Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

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• Twelve Labors of Hercules Exemplify Greek Mythology
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• The Priceless Ancient Greek Treasures of Dion, Macedonia
• Classical-Inspired Furniture Brings the Past into the Present
• The Best Ancient Greece Comedies Still Funny Today
• Who Owns History’s Patrimony? Not Murderous Politicians and Incompetent Governments – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics

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 danger for a king in the east.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 16 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Why Roman concrete outlasts its modern counterpart – CNN Style
• Researchers Reveal Why Ancient Roman Monuments Still Stand After Millennia – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Riddle solved: Why was Roman concrete so durable? | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 2,500-year-old pantry found during construction in Germany | Tri-City Herald

In Case You Missed It

• A Possible Gallo-Roman Mausoleum was Uncovered in France – ARTnews.com
• US returns 2,700-year-old looted cosmetic spoon to Palestine | Middle East Eye
• Archaeologists didn’t dig up a mythological tomb of Osiris | AP News
• George Osborne’s Elgin Marbles deal ‘dangerous’ for Britain’s museums
• Greece Rejects Possiblity Parthenon Marbles ‘Loan’ in New Statement – ARTnews.com
• Elgin Marbles row explodes as ex-Labour MP lashes out at plans to send sculpture to Greece: ‘An unacceptable precedent!’
• ANDREW PIERCE: What gives George Osborne the right to send the Elgin Marbles back to Greece?  | Daily Mail Online
• The Elgin marbles and the rot of ‘decolonisation’ | The Spectator
• A Gallo-Roman mausoleum with a sea monster discovered in these hours during a preventive excavation. The photos – Style Art
• Ancient Phoenician Plaque Unearthed in Cyprus

Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

• How was the holiday for you?| Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

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• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bronze Age well with offerings found in Bavaria
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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 2.8

Fresh Podcasts

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Mas’ud in diciōnem Americānōrum redditus …

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Research: Poverty, vulnerability and family in the ancient world
• 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

• Greek God Dionysus’ Campaign in India

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 slave revolt and recurring sicknesses

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends danger for the ruler of the state from the people.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. VIII Id. Ian. 2776 AUC ~ 15 Poseideion II in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Exceptionally preserved’ Corby Roman road discovery strengthens understanding of town’s 2,000-year-old manufacturing roots | Northamptonshire Telegraph
• Coin from Bar Kochba revolt found in Judean Desert – The Jerusalem Post
• Archaeological sensation in Split: The first shots of ancient columns that were hidden from the public eye for centuries
• United States repatriates cultural antiquity to Palestinian Authority
• US gives Palestinians looted antiquity owned by Steinhardt, in 1st such repatriation | The Times of Israel

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Reconstruct Huge Early Christian Cathedral in Northern Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• British Museum confirms talks over Parthenon Marbles – DW – 01/05/2023
• Stephen Fry calls for return of Parthenon marbles to Athens | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
• Greece: Parthenon Marbles Deal Must Recognize They Belong to Us
• World Media: London-Athens Close to Deal Over Parthenon Marbles’ Return | GTP Headlines
• Is a deal on the Parthenon Sculptures possible? | eKathimerini.com
• Britain should give the Elgin Marbles to Greece
• The fate of the Elgin marbles can’t be George Osborne’s choice
• Ministry of Culture: British Museum has no legal right to Parthenon Sculptures, a product of theft – Neos Kosmos
• German undersecretary calls for returning Pergamon Altar to Türkiye | Daily Sabah
• U.S. Officials Repatriate a Looted Relic to the Palestinian Authority – The New York Times
• US ‘repatriates’ rare Assyrian artifact to Palestinian Authority – The Jerusalem Post

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 06.01.2023 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• Ancient Greece had extreme polarization and civil strife too — how Thucydides can help us understand Jan. 6 and its aftermath

Fresh Bloggery

• Did the Carthaginians sacrifice human babies? – Bad Ancient
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Enough
• Teaching Thursday: Practicum Priorities | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• 3 of 234 Days: Triple Diana or Three Nymphs? – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• A Wandering Ship of Songs – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Commonplace vs. Common Sense – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Disc-ground Amulet in a US Museum
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mykenische Keramik aus Tell el-Amarna: Studien zum interkulturellen Austausch zweier Machtzentren
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reconceiving Religious Conflict: New Views from the Formative Centuries of Christianity
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Profession and Performance: Aspects of oratory in the Greco-Roman world
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Collection de l’École française de Rome
• Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Financing of terrorism and the market for cultural goods
• The treasures of Miletus in the Altes Museum in Berlin | Turkish Archaeological News
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Where? New Orleans. When? 5-8 January 2023. It’s the SCS/AIA 2023 annual meeting, & RU Classics has landed |
• Architectural investigations on the Eastern Baths of Pergamon – Pergamon Micro-Region

Other Blog-like Publications

• ANE Today – Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map
• Were the Ancient Britons Really Celts?
• The Toys of Dionysus and Their Religious Significance
• Who Was the Greatest Roman Emperor?
• Rome in Chaos: The Year of the Five Emperors (193 CE)

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Military Admin on Apple Podcasts

‘How did the Romans keep track of who actually completed their years of service? What’s to stop you from deserting and showing up to claim your pension unfairly? Presumably, this could be tricky in an empire of mostly illiterate people from all over the known world without government driver’s licenses or passports’. Murray gives us his thoughts…

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: New Year Q&A Special! on Apple Podcasts

It’s that time again! I answer listener questions to mark the start of a new year and to give me an excuse not to research and write a script. We all win!

Fresh Youtubery

• Tesserae as time machine: 5th and 13th century mosaics in Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome – YouTube | Smarthistory
• Who Are The Amazons Of Greek Mythology? – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Statua et Thesaurus | A story in Latin for beginners from Legentibus – YouTube | Latinitium

Exhibition Related Things

• Alexander the Great and the birth of the modern world | The Economist

Dramatic Receptions

• Medea starring Sophie Okonedo announces complete West End cast | WhatsOnStage

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• FOA Webinar: Chris Rollston on January 12 – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Monsters of Alexander the Great’s Legends in World Cultures – The British Library
• 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

• Common Greek Myths Found Throughout Art History
• The Sacred Band Of Thebes: The Elite Unit Of Soldiers That Took Down Sparta
• Soldiers stumbled upon a 2,400-year-old tomb on the battlefields of WWII | National Geographic
• A City Where Socrates Need Not Die – The American Conservative
• Greek Art in All its Stunning Glory: The Jockey of Artemision

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 coughing illness but an abundance of fish and fruit.

… 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)