Hodie est a.d. VII Id. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 14 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Artifacts seized from prominent New York collector as US authorities push to return looted treasures – ICIJ
• Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ Facing Backlash From Archaeologists | The Mary Sue
• A Renowned Archaeologist Is Calling on Sotheby’s to Withdraw Potentially Looted Antiquities From Its Auction | Artnet News
• The Elgin Marbles may finally return to Greece, 200 years after being removed by British nobility | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

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• Ramsay MacMullen Obituary (2022) – New Haven, CT – New Haven Register
• Dr. Jordan Pickett’s research on Roman baths featured on Hyperallergic | Department of Classics | The University of Georgia

Fresh Bloggery

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• Finnish Institute at Athens presentation – ‘You are the bandit!’: Criminalizing Conquered Peoples, and Some Retorts | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• New Work on Early Christian Attica | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
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• Don’t Gossip About the Gods! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Transfer, Adaption und Neukonfiguration von Schrift- und Sprachwissen im Alten Orient
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Desert Networks
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: A Decontextualised Spearhead “Saved from Rot”?
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Conference volume on Arrian’s Alexander
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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @abby_fecit on the Senatus Consultum de Baccahnalibus
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Fresh Podcasts

• Life Of Caesar: THE END on Apple Podcasts

News of Galba’s betrayal makes its way to Nero who is shocked into action. He sends troops to stop Galba – but they switch sides and join the conspiracy. Nero goes into hiding with the intent of running away to Alexandria and Greece, but even that plan is betrayed. Finally, he comes to the end of his story. And so do we! This is our last episode ever.

• Ancient Heroes: Update on the Graham Hancock Controversy on Apple Podcasts

The Society for American Archaeology sent an open letter to Netflix with a list of complaints and requests in reaction to its hit show “Ancient Apocalypse”. I give my analysis and reaction.

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Book Reviews

• BMCR ~ Pedar W. Foss, Pliny and the eruption of Vesuvius. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022.
• BMCR ~ Judith M. Barringer, François Lissarrague, Images at the crossroads: media and meaning in Greek art. Edinburgh Leventis Studies. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Ilsetraut Hadot, Simplicius the Neoplatonist in light of contemporary research: a critical review. Academia Philosophical Studies, 67. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2020.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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• Four positions in Late Antique Studies at Tuebingen, Germany
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• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Would You Be Considered Beautiful in Ancient Greece?
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Diversions

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

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

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

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the same for everyone.

… 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. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 13 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• No 10 rules out law change for return of Parthenon marbles | Parthenon marbles | The Guardian
• UK warns British Museum over Parthenon Marbles
• Türkiye’s archaeological ‘Stone Hills Project’ introduced in Berlin | Daily Sabah
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In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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• Stories ancient Greeks told about their gods and heroes – Neos Kosmos

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris ~ DE PERSIA

Public Facing Classics

• Why Did Roman Baths Disappear?

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Laying the Foundations: Manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme Archaeological Training Programme
• The Good Deeds of Fantasy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• How to compare manuscripts – Recensio part 1 – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Galeni In Hippocratis Epidemiarum librum VI commentariorum I–VIII versio Arabica
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: City of Caesar, City of God: Constantinople and Jerusalem in Late Antiquity
• Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
• Een geschiedenis van Sicilië – Mainzer Beobachter
• Kiwi Hellenist: Resources
• Read My New Piece on “Ancient Apocalypse” in “The New Republic” – JASON COLAVITO
• Spencer Alley: Zuccaro Brothers – Frescoes and Fresco Studies
• Looting Matters: UK Prime Minister’s Position on Parthenon Sculptures Clarified
• The Dangers of Ancient Apocalypse’s Pseudoscience – SAPIENS
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Godlike
• PaleoJudaica.com: Saint Nicholas Day
• PaleoJudaica.com: E. P. Sanders, 1937-2022
• Who is in the School of Athens? — ConsultTheClassics

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• Metallurgical fingerprint points to lost Roman legion – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 8

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #35 War – The Mother of Heroes on Apple Podcasts

The Final Episode! The Mother of Heroes was awarded first place in the Open Category of our 2022 Creative Writing Competition. It was written by Allan Gaw and narrated by the bestselling historical novelist Lindsey Davis, a former President of the Classical Association and Chair of the Society of Authors.

• Legit Classics: Interior Design with EMMA JANE PALIN on Apple Podcasts

Emma Jane Palin, interior blogger and stylist joins Jasmine today to chat about how much inspiration our current homes draw from classical interiors. Alongside the more expected chats about mosaics and marble there’s also talk of what every Deco magazine celebrities want to be featured in and even how current music bands are referencing furniture items that have classical provenance!

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Thebes, the City of Tragedy, Sophocles’ Antigone Part 4 on Apple Podcasts

Continuing with Sophocles’ Antigone… There’s nothing but tragedy in the city of Thebes.

Fresh Youtubery

• International Congress on Roman Bioarchaeology
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  • S. Wright Presentation – YouTube
  • Z. Garcia-Lopez Presentation – YouTube
• Derek of The Hellenistic Age Podcast: Across the Indus Encounters between the Greek and Indian World – YouTube | Intelligent Speech Conference
• The Story of Lycaon, Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book I lines 163-243, read in Latin – YouTube | Ancient Literature Due
• Louise Hitchcock – “Missing or Miss Perceived? Locating the Purloined Ruler in Neopalatial Crete” – YouTube | Albright Live
• Dionysus the God of Wine, Festivity, and Theatre – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• 37. Aemilian – Crazy 88 Days – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland

Book Reviews

• Organisation et stratégie militaire en Scythe Mineure (fin du IIIe siècle-VIIe siècle) | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR ~ Jean-Pierre Olivier, Maurizio Del Freo, The Pylos tablets transcribed, second edition. Padova: Libreriauniversitaria.it, 2020.
• BMCR ~ Patrick T.R. Gray, Claiming the mantle of Cyril: Cyril of Alexandria and the road to Chalcedon. Late Antique history and religion, 24. Leuven: Peeters, 2021.
• BMCR ~ Camillo Neri, Saffo, testimonianze e frammenti: introduzione, testo critico, traduzione e commento. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2021.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• The Sparta Acropolis Basilica in the Late Antique Peloponnese
• 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

• Fitting the Sky to the Ground. A Review of Ancient Apocalypse 5 and 6 – Archaeology Review
• How to Read Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphs: A British Museum Curator Explains | Open Culture

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 people being visited with visions of the faces of the gods, and it will lead to bad things.

… 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 Non. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 12 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• ‘Highway of ancient world’: Part of an 1,800-year-old Roman road found in Galilee | The Times of Israel
• Archaeologists Solve Century-old Mystery of Prehistoric ‘Desert Kites’ – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• 17,000 relics kept in Sassanid fort’s treasure trove – Tehran Times
• Tomb with Greek Mummy Unearthed in Aswan, Egypt
• Parthenon Marbles Return: British Museum Greek Annex? Loan? – The National Herald

In Case You Missed It

• Deal to return Elgin Marbles to Greece at advanced stage – reports – BBC News
• Secret Negotiations Close To Returning Parthenon Sculptures (!)
• British Museum pledges ‘not to dismantle’ Parthenon sculptures amid reports of talks with Greece | Euronews
• Archaeologist urges Sotheby’s to cancel auction of ‘illicit’ artefacts
• Why the Rosetta Stone shouldn’t be returned to Egypt | The Spectator
• Italy’s ancient bronze statues discovery may rewrite Etruscan and Roman history : NPR

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard on the Elgin Marbles: ‘I see the good and bad arguments on both sides’ | Times2 | The Times
• Joan O’Brien | Obituary | The Daily News of Newburyport
• Stephanie McCarter recommends 6 translations of Greek and Roman literature | The Week

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Σίνα
• Nuntii Latini mensis Novembris 2022 – Bremen Two
• Ephemeris ~ DE VERBIS RUSSICIS
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• Ephemeris ~ POTESTAS BOREOCOREANA

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Bickart, The Scholastic Culture of the Babylonian Talmud (Gorgias)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Persian inscriptions at Persepolis
• Two Anchors, Two Lands – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Wrestling Hold
• Drinking is a Double-Edged Sword – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• “The Man, the Myth, the Pumpkin” Podcast – Tales of Times Forgotten
• De prioriteit van Marcus – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Not for Myself Alone
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Money for Cartagena’s archaeological heritage
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sokolskaya, Die griechische Bibel in Alexandrien (Brill)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mumienmasken – Entstehung und Entwicklung bis zum frühen Mittleren Reich
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Long Augment in Homer: a formula-based approach
• The Late Arrival of Rhodes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Frigidus, de koude rivier – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Metal signature of Roman 19th Legion identified at Teutoburg battle site
• PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac poetry: “the original Christian Rock”
• PaleoJudaica.com: Section of Roman road discovered in Galilee
• Looting Matters: Apulian Dinos Seized from NYC Private Collection
• Looting Matters: Identifications at Sotheby’s in London
• A Coptic Remedy Against Sleepless Nights for New Parents – Papyrus Stories

Other Blog-like Publications

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• Huge funerary building and Fayoum portraits discovered in Egypt Fayoum – Arkeonews
• Justinianic Wars: A Study – Retrospect Journal
• What Caused the Collapse of the Legendary Bronze Age? – Retrospect Journal
• 5 December 45 BCE: From Publius Vatinius (at Narona) to Cicero (at Rome)

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #34 War – The Fox Who Charmed The Snake on Apple Podcasts

In this story, inspired by Homer and Sophocles, Benjamin Howell introduces us to Diomedes and Odysseus who are en route to visit an old acquaintance – his name is Philoctetes… The Fox Who Charmed The Snake was narrated by the University of Edinburgh’s Professor Douglas Cairns, Chair of the Classical Association Council and a Fellow of the British Academy.

• The Man, The Myth, The Pumpkin – His End, Our Beginning | RSS.com

The princeps is dead, long live the princeps. The year is 54 C.E. The emperor Claudius has just died, and a new Claudius has come to take his place – a fictional Claudius straight from the pages of Seneca the Younger’s Apocolocyntosis Divi Claudii, whose boundless cruelty is rivalled only by his own mind-numbing obliviousness. What is Seneca trying to achieve? How does this reflect on Nero? And most bafflingly of all, what’s with all the gourds?

• The Dirt Podcast: Ur Never Going to Believe This on Apple Podcasts

Join Anna and Amber on a tour of third millennium BCE Mesopotamia, where they explore the Royal Tombs of Ur. It has everything: musical instruments, very extra jewelry looks, a Great Death Pit (!), a famous excavator with a flair for the dramatic, even a surprise find nearly a century later in a museum basement. Who was buried there? What makes these tombs so special? What did Sumerian music sound like? How great was that death pit?

• The Dirt Podcast: Made For Walkin’: A Very Brief History of Footwear on Apple Podcasts

Anna and Amber rummage around on the floor of history’s closet to bring you a brief history of shoes from around the world! Learn why caves in the southwestern USA are full of shoes. Find a shoe museum near you for some sole-searching. Enjoy a description of Anna’s favorite goofy historical fashion statement. All this and more!

• The Dirt Podcast: Lady Statues and Prehistoric Matriarchy on Apple Podcasts

Kick off Women’s History Month with a show all about some of the earliest representations of women in art! Anna introduces us to the Venus of Willendorf and her curvy comrades, and shares a research study with very modern take on ancient art. Meanwhile Amber bursts our bubble about the matriarchy and goddess religions in Old Europe, and discusses goddess worshippers of past and present at Çatalhöyük in present-day Turkey. Or, as Amber would insist we call it this month, Her-key.

• The Dirt Podcast: The Unsettling Business of Curating Human Remains on Apple Podcasts

Here at The Dirt, we talk a lot about the things that people leave behind, but we’ve not spent much time talking about what’s left behind of the people themselves. That changes this week, when Anna and Amber discuss excavating, storing, studying, and selling archaeological human remains, and take a look at some of the legal and ethical challenges involved. Content note: this episode contains descriptions of violence done to deceased people and discussion of trafficked human remains.

• The Ancients: Bethlehem on Apple Podcasts

Most famously known as the birth place of Jesus, Bethlehem has been immortalised in texts, carols, and imagery across history. But prior to the arrival of Jesus and the nativity, Bethlehem had a vibrant, and unexpected history. Located south of Jerusalem in the West Bank, Bethlehem was home to famous figures such as King David and was eventually a favourite spot of Roman Emperor Constantine I. But how do we know about all these figures – and what else is there left to learn? In today’s episode, Tristan is joined by Professor Joan Taylor to help illuminate Bethlehem’s hidden past. Looking at what the archaeology can tell us about this noteworthy settlement, and helping to separate fact from fiction – Joan offers a new take on this ancient village.

• Ancient History Hound: Rise of the Gladiator on Apple Podcasts

How did gladiators take hold in Rome? Where did they come from and how was their use moulded by the big political events of the 1st century BC? In this episode I get into this and other aspects such as a few myths and their fighting stats.

Fresh Youtubery

• Archaeologist Reviews Ancient Apocalypse Ep 3 – YouTube } ArchyFantasies
• Archaeologist Reviews Ancient Apocalypse Ep 4 – YouTube | ArchyFrantasies
• What a Powerful Woman Could Accomplish in Ancient Rome: Cornelia – YouTube | Classics in Color
• What Happened After The Battle of Allia? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• In Search of Greek Theatre #3: The Oresteia (1981) – Part One (Staging and Design) – YouTube | National Theatre
• In Search of Greek Theatre #4: The Oresteia (1981) – Part Two (Masks and Chorus) – YouTube | National Theatre

Book Reviews

• RCR ~ Stephanie Lynn Budin, Freewomen, Patriarchal Authority, and the Accusation of Prostitution (London: Routledge, 2021).

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Threat, Risk, and Uncertainty in the Ancient Near East
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Archaeological Research 2014 to 2021: an examination of its intellectual base, collaborative networks and conceptual language using science maps. Sinclair. Internet Archaeology 59.

Alia

• Nashville Parthenon: How the Greek temple’s only exact replica ended up in TN
• Was the Parthenon of Acropolis Built by Slaves?
• The Ancient Greeks of Gujarat, India
• Socrates, the Founder of Western Philosophy – GreekReporter.com
• Arbeia: Visit This Impressive, Partially Re-Constructed Roman Fort In England
• Here’s Where You Can Find The Vestiges Of Roman Paris
• Priestesses Among Few Women Who Had Status, Power in Ancient Greece

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 mangy 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 a.d. III Non. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 10 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Looted antiquities returned to Turkey and Italy were seized from New York home of Met trustee Shelby White
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• Roman, Byzantine Antiquities To Be Restored To Original Site At Thessaloniki Metro
• Nuova scoperta nella Domus dei mosaici: a Porto Torres spunta una rara iscrizione cristiana
• Inscription Dedicated To Ancient Greek God Of The Wild Found In Byzantine-era Church In The Golan Heights
• International Day of Disabled: How Ancient Greeks Cared for Them

In Case You Missed It

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• A 2,000-Year-Old Shipwreck Reveals Ancient Trade Routes | Discover Magazine
• Catacomb-style building with ancient coffins found in Egypt | The Sacramento Bee
• Archaeologists Find 1,900-Year-Old Snacks in Sewers Beneath the Colosseum | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Italy’s ancient bronze statues discovery may rewrite Etruscan and Roman history : NPR

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 03.12.2022 – Vatican News

Fresh Bloggery

• Northern peoples: Inscriptions on barbarians as bandits (second-third centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Blog Post #73: Phoenicians and the Making of the Mediterranean: An Interview with Dr. Carolina López-Ruiz – Peopling the Past
• Weekend Reading: A Classical Advent – Classical Studies Support
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Punta di Zambrone I: 1200 BCE – a Time of Breakdown, a Time of Progress in Southern Italy and Greece
• Hard to Diagnose, Like Rabies – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Brotherhoods and Clans
• Undermining the Secret Ballot – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Rumors of Dictatorship – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• The Truth about Daedalus and Icarus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Vragen voor oudejaarsavond 2022 – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » First mummy portraits in 112 years found at Fayoum
• The World of Sincerity is a Goddess – Part IV – The Games of Apollo |
• Social (media) shifts | Classically Inclined
• Sand Under the Glass
• Looting Matters: $24 million worth of antiquities reported to have been seized from NYC collector
• Collections: Why Roman Egypt Was Such a Strange Province – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Looting Matters: The Bubon statue in the Cleveland Museum of Art

Other Blog-like Publications

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• 5,000-Year-Old Owl-like plaques May Have Been ancient Toys – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Pervigilium Veneris, 7-16

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: TCP Does Ancient History A Level – Episode 6 Part 3, Athens Depth Study – Aristophanes with Rosie Wyles on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to The Classics Podcast Does…Ancient History A Level, designed for students, teachers and anyone interested in learning more about the ancient world! Episode 6 features Dr Rosie Wyles and James discussing how we can enjoy and use Aristophanes as a valuable source for this period of ancient Greek history. Part 3 focuses on the Athens Depth Study.

• The Classics Podcast: TCP Does Ancient History A Level – Episode 6 Part 2, Sparta Depth Study – Aristophanes with Rosie Wyles on Apple Podcasts

Welcome to The Classics Podcast Does…Ancient History A Level, designed for students, teachers and anyone interested in learning more about the ancient world! Episode 6 features Dr Rosie Wyles and James discussing how we can enjoy and use Aristophanes as a valuable source for this period of ancient Greek history. Part 2 focuses on the Sparta Depth Study.

• diē alterō mēnsis Decembris — Nuntii Latini

PYROBOLĪ IN HISPĀNIĀ …

Fresh Youtubery

• How did the Romans keep warm? – Roman Heating – Latin – YouTube | Magister Craft
• Zeus, God of the Sky and King of the Olympian Gods – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Marisa Bonamici, Elena Sorge, Velathri Volaterrae: la città etrusca e il municipio romano. Atti del convegno di studi (Volterra, 21-22 settembre 2017). Biblioteca di “Studi etruschi,” 64. Roma: Giorgio Bretschneider, 2021.
• BMCR – Juliette Dross, Le philosophe dans la cité: Sénèque et l’otium philosophique. Philosophie hellénistique et romaine, 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2022.
• BMCR – Max Bergamo, Raffaele Tondini, Filosofia, filologia e scienza in età ellenistica. L’Ippogrifo, 7. Milan: Ledizioni, 2022.

Exhibition Related Things

• Ulysses and the others. The hero emerges from the deposits with all his loves and traveling companions. The exhibition – Style Art

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Directors’ Report: East London Classics Summer School (August 2022) | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core

Alia

• Archaeologists Ask Netflix to Reclassify Graham Hancock’s ‘Unfounded’ Netflix Docuseries ‘Ancient Apocalypse’ as Fiction | Artnet News
• The Glorious History of the Ancient Greek City of Antioch

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 people overconsuming  their flocks because of a shortage of fish

 [Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a harsh winter, but there will also be abundance.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. IV Non. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 9 Poseideion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• In Photos: Large Ptolemaic funerary structure unearthed in Fayoum – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
• Fayum mummy portraits discovered in Fayoum – Egypt Independent
• Owl-shaped plaques may have been on Copper Age children’s wish list
• Israel uncovers section of 1,800-year-old Roman road-Xinhua

In Case You Missed It

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• Antiquities to go on display in new Thessaloniki metro | eKathimerini.com
• Three ‘centurions’ arrested in Rome selfie scam that cost tourists up to $800 | Stuff.co.nz
• Sheikh and fakes: 159-page judgment probes Asian ‘antiquities’ | News | Law Gazette
• Ancient Romans Snacked on Pizza at the Colosseum
• Egyptians call on British Museum to return Rosetta stone | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Neil Bernstein brings modern access to 2,000-year-old classic Latin poetry
• Beloved Ancient Near East Scholar and Archaeologist Oscar White Muscarella Dies, Age 91 – OSCILLATIONS

Fresh Bloggery

• Time and the Death of Pain – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Variatio in Kunst und Handwerk: Modulare Arbeitsweisen in spätantiker und frühbyzantinischer Zeit
• November 2022 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
• The Ancient Greek Woman Who Dressed as a Man to Seduce Men – Tales of Times Forgotten
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Nestor: Bibliography of Aegean Prehistory and Related Areas
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Debunking Bunker
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beyond Cyprus: Investigating Cypriot Connectivity in the Mediterranean from the Late Bronze Age to the End of the Classical Period
• Heraclitus | The Historian’s Hut
• Artabazos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Friendship
• PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 201
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Borrowings
• Be Excellent, Just Don’t Try To Become A God – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Memorabilia Antonina: ‘It’s this wretched country’: Roman Britain on Screen
• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 211 (11/2022)  | Tulliana News
• Looting Matters: Returning Glories of the Past
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lecture on the Judean Babylonian cuneiform archive
• Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Birth and Development of the Idealized Concept of Arcadia in the Ancient World
• Survey at Kalavasos-Laroumena and Arkhangelos
• New finds from the Ptolemaic Philadelphia in Egypt’s Fayoum – Archaeology Wiki
• Large funerary building and Fayoum portraits from the Ptolemaic and Roman period discovered – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Pasts Imperfect (12.1.22)
• ANE TODAY – 202212 – Reforming (and Decolonising) Excavation and Survey in Iraq – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Coming Soon: Ovid’s Fastorum Libri Sex – by M. – Ovid Daily
• The Orbis — The Little-Known Roman Defensive Formation | Short History

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Seneca the Younger, Hercules on Oeta 38-51

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: TCP Does Ancient History A Level – Episode 5 – Plutarch with Judith Mossman on Apple Podcasts

In this episode of TCP Does Ancient History A Level, Professor Judith Mossman talks to James about the life and works of the biographer and historian Plutarch.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Bridging Rivers on Apple Podcasts

Murray got this question from Jonathan via email ‘I read about Caesar bridging of the Rhine, is that how armies bridged rivers after him, following his example, what about before him?’

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 63: Wars End on Apple Podcasts

Athens and Sparta were now in a position to turn their attention to matters within their own spheres of influence, with the truce that existed between them. Sparta would look at eliminating the threats that they had faced on the Peloponnese, seeing Argos now at peace with Sparta, and Tegea brought back into the Peloponnesian league. While negotiations would appear to be taking place with other cities on the Corinthian isthmus…

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book IV (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

Liv reads part 1 of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book IV, translated by Brookes More. The daughters of Minyas tell stories, including that of Pyramus and Thisbe. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv’s Patreon for bonus content! This is not a standard narrative story episode, it’s a reading of an ancient source, audiobook style. For regular episodes look for any that don’t have “Liv Reads…” in the title!

Fresh Youtubery

• ‘Nativism in Herodes’ Sophistic Attica: Rural Heroes, Hellenic Purity and the Bust of ‘Sauromates’ – YouTube | British School at Athens
• An Evening with Mary Beard – YouTube | Classics for All
• Introduction to Live Chats 2022/23 – YouTube | Classics and Ancient History @ Warwick
• The WORST Greek Mythological Retellings I’ve Read (According To An Ancient Historian) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• True Size of a Legion of the Roman Republic (3D) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Engineering the Via Appia: through the Pontine Marshes – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
• De schola condenda, cum Alexandro Feye (@scholanovabelgium1055) || “Rara avis” Podcast, S1EP5 – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• 2022-11-30, BB – O’Grady: Legitimizing the Past – YouTube | Archaeological Research Facility, UC Berkeley

Exhibition Related Things

• Photos: Three-dimensional Roman life in the Pergamon Museum in Berlin – Egypt Independent

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Winckelmann-Feier 2022
• Staging Emotions: Affect and emotional expressions in Euripides Tickets, Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 9:30 AM | Eventbrite
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Events Calendar

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Research Papers of Possible Interest

• Mummies, myths, and medicine in ancient Egypt – The Lancet

Alia

• Precious and Rare “Lysippos of Fano Statue” in Getty Villa: The Efforts to Repatriate it – La Voce di New York
• Ancient Greek City of Chersonesus in Crimea Founded 2,500 Years Ago
• Nestor – December 2022 issue available
• The Ancient Greek Kingdoms of China
• Exploring empirically: Tracing Roman roots and rocks in modern-day Mainz   | Stars and Stripes
• Romans Destroyed Their Republic in Partisan Warfare | Time

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 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)