Hodie est Id. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 20 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- The archaeological discovery of the century? What the San Casciano bronzes tell us about Roman and Etruscan life
- Italian experts invited for Burnt City excavation – Tehran Times
- Early-career archaeologists are pessimistic about future careers
- Roman finds and remains discovered in Suffolk | East Anglian Daily Times
- Roman revival in Rincón de La Victoria – Euro Weekly News
- 2,200-year-old coin hoard gives hard proof of Book of Maccabees, say archaeologists | The Times of Israel
- Huge Roman fort in Northumberland to be excavated in lottery-backed project – Chronicle Live
- For US Museums With Looted Art, the Indiana Jones Era Is Over – The New York Times
- Egyptian-British archaeologists unearth gold jewellery in Amarna
In Case You Missed It
- Unique Byzantine Inscription Found off Black Sea Coast
- Gaza archaeologists find ‘complete’ Roman-era cemetery
- A Recently Discovered Trove of Ancient Roman Coins Has Mysteriously Vanished From a U.K. Museum Facility | Artnet News
- “Fake” Roman coins authenticated, bearing likeness of lost Roman emperor | Ars Technica
Classicists and Classics in the News
Greek/Latin News
Fresh Bloggery
- Autism and Classical Myth: On ‘opening up a world’ of autism and classical myth at Bristol University on 29 November 2022
- Like Dolphins, Guardians of the Muses – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Sententiae AI-ntiquae: Chat[GPT]ing Up the Classics – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Terrible Scenes
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) 10th anniversary and update
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Latin Comes Into Its Own
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Creating the Ancient Rhetorical Tradition
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paul on the human vocation : reason language in Romans and ancient philosophical tradition” Reason Language in Romans and Ancient Philosophical Tradition
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pragmatic Approaches to Drama: Studies in Communication on the Ancient Stage
- The Battle Of Pharsalus And The Death of Pompey, By The Workshop Of Apollonio di Giovanni (c. 1415/17-1465) And Marco del Buono Giamberti (c. 1403-1489) | The Historian’s Hut
- Het Uruk-fenomeen – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Hartenstein & Schmid (eds.), Farewell to the Priestly Writing? (SBL)
- Memorabilia Antonina: Spring 2023 MANCENT courses
- Penn Museum Blog | The Process of Processing: How Collections Become (and Stay) Organized
Other Blog-like Publications
- Approval of studies for the antiquities in the Thessaloniki Metro
- Excavate the Holy Land from South to North
- Nuovi reperti emergono a Pompei durante uno scavo esplorativo nei pressi della cripta del Teatro – Stile Arte
- Archaeologists uncover ancient mosaic in Naples – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
- A Roman altar discovered under the lawn of the park where a fitness area will be created – Stile Arte
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
Turns out that famous prince of Troy, Paris, had a wife before Helen… This is the story of the nymph Oenone.
Io Saturnalia! Long before Christmas existed and was celebrated… There was another mid-winter festival…SATURNALIA! Gaius Valerius Catullus described it as “the best of times”; an extravaganza of food and drink, an inversion of social roles, an expression of one’s self through singing gambling… Originating as a farmers’ festival dedicated to Saturn, the Roman god of agriculture and the harvest, it started as one day celebration, usually December 17th, but over centuries evolved to something bigger. Eventually the Roman dramatist Seneca complained ‘December used to be a month- now it’s a whole year’ Can you not relate? Every holiday nowadays seems to last, until the next one! Could be month, could be longer, after all, the Christmas tat goes for sale in August these days!
What happens when, in the wake of worldwide upheaval, a Classics department decides to put into practice the principles of anti-racism and social justice in the classroom? Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina is now the first department of Classics in the world to require coursework in critical race theory for all majors and minors. Shivaike Shah talks to the founding teachers, THM Gellar-Goad (Associate Professor at Wake Forest) and Caitlin Hines (Assistant Professor at the University of Cincinnati), about the impetus for the project, the impact it has had on the faculty, and the importance of destabilising assumptions about what ‘core’ Classics curricula should contain.
Fresh Youtubery
- Obert Mlambo | Land Expropriation in Ancient Rome and Contemporary Zimbabwe | Paideia Online Lecture – YouTube | Paideia Media
- Why Were The Thebans At Thermopylae? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
- Roman-Era Tombs Uncovered At Gaza Strip Housing Development – YouTube | NBC
Book Reviews
- BMCR ~ Francisca Pordomingo, La poesía popular griega: estudio y texto. Syncrisis, 5. Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2022.
- BMCR ~ David Konstan, The origin of sin: Greece and Rome, early Judaism and Christianity. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
- BMCR ~ Gian Mario Cao, The marriage of philology and scepticism: uncertainty and conjecture in early modern scholarship and thought. Warburg Institute colloquia, 33. London: The Warburg Institute, 2019.
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
Alia
- Marcus Aurelius on how to drag yourself out of bed in the morning
- 70 years ago, Honor Frost dived into a well… – Divernet
- Hanukkah: An Overview – San Diego Jewish World
- What did the Ancient Greeks look like? – Neos Kosmos
- How did this royal tomb become an ancient wonder? Size and style. | National Geographic
- Hooray for Pompeii: The horrible history of this Italian city will have children in raptures | Daily Mail Online
Diversions
‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
- Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
- Sortes Virgilianae (English)
- Sortes Virgilianae (Latin)
- Consult the Oracle at UCL
Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If it thunders today, it portends abundance but also threatens disease.
… 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)
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