Hodie est a.d. XIII Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 26 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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• Ancient Roman tomb found in Spain: See what’s inside | Raleigh News & Observer
• Ancient Greek Altar Found at Archaeological Site in Turkey
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• Yemen’s artifacts stolen, sold in auctions in US, other countries: Report
• Study finds new information on food culture in world’s first cities in 3500 BC | Evening Standard

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Unearth 2,000-Year-Old Odeon in Crete | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Tunnel Discovered Under Egyptian Temple

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Mary Beard: fight ‘bonfire of the humanities’ | Times Higher Education (THE)
  https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fight-bonfire-humanities-urges-mary-beard

Greek/Latin News

• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 19.11.2022 – Vatican News

Public Facing Classics

• The Higher Education Oscars | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS
• With Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse, Graham Hancock has declared war on archaeologists
• Ovid’s tales of mutual love show he was more than a poet of rape | Psyche Ideas
• I did it my Appian Way | Financial Times

Fresh Bloggery

• Blog Post #71: Connecting Humans, Animals, and Things: Work Animal Objects in the Greek World with Adam DiBattista – Peopling the Past
• The Eternity of Twitter, I mean, The World – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Let Us Drink and Have Fun
• The 2022 Classics Christmas Gift Guide! – Classical Studies Support
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Detectorists’ Finds Among Items Reportedly Missing from Northern UK Council Store
• This World Was Not Made for Us – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Spectator: “STOP Sneering at Metal Detectorists”
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: David gavra tava: Studies in Honor of David Marcus. JANES Special Supplement
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: D’Homère à Érasme: La transmission des classiques grecs et latins
• Strijd in Alexandrië: Caesar verovert Faros – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Ötzi the Iceman is more of a snowman
• The World of Sincerity is a Goddess – Part III – Humour and Comedy in Ancient Rome |
• Investigating changing socio-economic landscapes in the Early Bronze Age Levant through Zooarchaeology – The Palestine Exploration Fund

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Connecting Classics to its Wider Context | Classics at Reading

Other Blog-like Publications

• BMCR: A view under the hood – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined – Smarthistory
• The first time in Anatolia, a legionnaires’ cemetery belonging to the Roman Empire unearthed – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Martial, Epigrams 12.40

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #24 Justice – Heroes and Murderers on Apple Podcasts

Not for the squeamish, this is a bloody tale of revenge, deception and justice with some very famous characters involved, as Isabella Dennis makes us think – what really makes a hero a hero? Heroes and Murderers was narrated by Gráinne Cassidy, CA Education Coordinator. EPIC: Modern Writers, Ancient Stories is a compilation of short stories written by entrants in the 2022 Classical Association Creative Writing Competition, inspired by Stephen Fry’s trilogy Mythos, Heroes and Troy.

• Life Of Caesar: The Last Straw on Apple Podcasts

Nero celebrates two official triumphs. Not for military victories, but for singing. It’s the last straw. A new rebellion is formed, lead by Vindex and Galba.

• Nuntii Latini: diē duodēvīcēsimō mēnsis Novembris on Apple Podcasts

Comitia varia per Americam habita …

Fresh Youtubery

• Technolarynges and the production of artificial voice in antiquity – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Iphigenia | Reading Greek Tragedy Online – YouTube | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Letty Stott Cornu Performance at Vindolanda – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
• Scavo collettore sud del Colosseo – YouTube | Parco Colosseo
• The Story of Tutankhamun with Garry Shaw – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• The Roots of Ancient Civilizations: The Day Tomorrow Began at the University of Chicago – YouTube | University of Chicago

Book Reviews

• What I’m Reading: Hannibal, Philip Freeman | Stories | Notre Dame Magazine | University of Notre Dame

Exhibition Related Things

• “Pompeii: The Immortal City” at Liberty Science Center – Jersey City Times

Dramatic Receptions

• SF Opera dazzles with new production of ‘Orpheus and Eurydice’
• Review: THE PENELOPIAD at City Garage

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Helios – The Greek Titan God Of The Sun

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 good health for women.

[Sunday] If it thunders today, it portends a brief period of famine.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 25 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Jordan celebrates International Day against Illicit Trafficking in Cultural Property | Culture & Society | Ammon News
• Cultural Antiquities Task Force Conducts Law Enforcement Workshops in Greece and Qatar | Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs
• Roman Empire’s legionary cemetery unearthed
• ‘Elgin Marbles’ solution? How American billionaire Leonard Stern may have created a model for reunification of Parthenon sculptures in Athens – Matthew Taylor | The Scotsman
• Archaeologists discover monumental structure at excavations of Urartu-era Karmir Blur | ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
• Rare Mosaics Of Europa And Orpheus Showcased In House Of Mosaics, Sparta

In Case You Missed It

• Photos: Remains of pillars hall of Bhutto Temple unearthed in Kafr el-Sheikh – Egypt Independent
• Archaeologists find remains of ancient colonnaded hall in northern Egypt
• Archeologists Find 24 Roman Bronze Statues in Tuscan Spa
• Ancient Roman Necropolis of 54 Tombs Discovered in Southern Spain – ARTnews.com
• Remote archeological site in Crete reveals ancient Roman amphitheatre – Greek Herald

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Romans in Galloway – Tourists or Conquerors?

Fresh Bloggery

• Indians, Ethiopians and others: Pliny the Elder on “unbelievable” peoples (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Indians: Ktesias on “Indian Matters” via Photios, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian (early fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Indians: Ktesias on “Indian Matters” via Photios, Pliny the Elder, and Aelian (early fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• What Color Will the Child Be? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Wise Man
• What’s this to Do with Helen? Reading Euripides’ Iphigenia Plays Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Drilling Prehistoric Holes in Stone
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Female Body in Roman Visual Culture
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Middle and Neo-Babylonian Literary Texts in the Frau Professor Hilprecht Collection, Jena
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Destin des hommes et jeu des dieux: Lectures de l’Iliade
• The Shock of the New – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Filon van Byblos: uitvindingen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots | Sphinx
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Under Your Command
• Ovid’s Metamorphoses: Mendelsohn on McCarter’s Metamorphoses
• Spencer Alley: Later French Artists copying Earlier Italian Artists

Other Blog-like Publications

• Pasts Imperfect (11.17.22)
• The Ends of History – Antigone
• The guided tour of and accessibility to Knossos to be upgraded
• ANE TODAY – 202211 – Decoding Tutankhamun: Understanding the Tomb and its Treasures – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Offerings to goddess Demeter uncovered in archaic temple on Crete island, Greek – Arkeonews
• Oldest text written in the Basque language found on the Hand of Irulegi – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Ancient temple remains uncovered on “Hill of the Pharaohs” – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Autumn 45 BCE: To Marcus Rutilius (in Etruria) from Cicero (at Rome)

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Vespasian’s first coinage
• @DocCrom on Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 92-102

Fresh Podcasts

• When in Rome: Venta Silurum on Apple Podcasts

Venta Silurum was a city on the western fringes of Roman Britannia, established to integrate the conquered tribes of the Silures. Its ruins are found on the grounds of the welsh town of Caerwent, where modern buildings are side by side with the Roman archaeology. Guest: Dr Peter Guest (Vianova Archaeology).

• Ad Navseam: Eye of the Tiber: Aeneid Book VII, Part 1 (Ad Navseam, Episode 103) on Apple Podcasts

Book VII! Aeneas and co. find themselves in the second half of the game and the stakes just keep getting higher and higher. Will they have the guts to get the glory? At first it seems like a cake walk—smooth sailing up the Tiber, a hearty welcome by the local king, even a swarm of bees seems to be down with it all on the local oracular BuzzFeed.  But is this all just the calm before the big storm? I mean, Latinus is Faun-ing all over Aeneas, but he also makes a rookie mistake—didn’t clear it with the wife. Uh oh, someone’s headed for the doghouse. So, pull up a chair to your (edible?) table and tuck in to the next part of the main course.

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #23 Justice – Fury on Apple Podcasts

When you think of justice in the ancient world, you might think of Clytemnestra and Agamemnon, or of the Furies themselves – Tisiphone and Alecto. In today’s episode, Cheryl Byrne brings these characters to life, building to a dramatic crescendo. Fury was narrated by Clare Harvey, member of the Classical Association Teaching Board.

• Accessible Art History: The Arch of Titus on Apple Podcasts

In this episode of Accessible Art History: The Podcast, I’m discussing the Arch of Titus.

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: What was the standard depth of a hoplite line? on Apple Podcasts

Jonathan sent this question directly to Murray ‘What was the standard depth of a hoplite line? I see eight mentioned all the time – were there any others?’

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 62: Crisis in the Aegean on Apple Podcasts

After the battle of Tanagra, Athens was able to focus on pursuing its aims throughout Boeotia, the Gulf of Corinth and the Peloponnese. This saw Athens power and influence grow even more at the expense of Sparta and its allies. However, the disaster that would take place in Egypt for Athens would see them now needing to change their policies to better deal with the crisis that was brewing in the Aegean….

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses, Book III (Part 2) on Apple Podcasts

Liv reads Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Book III, translated by Brookes More. The continuation of Thebes… Echo and Narcissus, Bacchus v. Pentheus, and pirates!

• History Extra podcast: Crassus: Rome’s richest man on Apple Podcasts

Author Peter Stothard explores the eventful life of Marcus Licinius Crassus, an enormously wealthy politician and general, who rivalled Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great in late Republican Rome. In conversation with Rob Attar, Peter explores Crassus’s rise to wealth and influence, his key role in defeating the Spartacus Revolt, and the disastrous military campaign that ended in his humiliating death.

Fresh Youtubery

• Editing MediaWiki and the Digital Classicist Wiki – YouTube | Synoikisis DC
• Disney Hercules Retold: “Learn My Lesson” by Katee Robert Book Review – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• AQUINUM, Rediscover a lost Roman city! – YouTube | Ancient Rome Live
• Top 3 Misconceptions About Ancient Greece – YouTube | Jean’s thoughts
• De libro “Via Latina”, cum M. Aloisia Aguilar et Georgio Tárrega || “Rara avis” Podcast, S1EP3 – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• In Full Color, Ancient Sculpture Reimagined – YouTube | Smarthistory
• AIA Archaeology Hour with Tess Davis – YouTube

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Raúl González-Salinero, Military service and the integration of Jews into the Roman empire. The Brill reference library of Judaism, 72. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2022.
• RCR – George Alexander Gazis and Anthony Hooper, eds., Aspects of Death and the Afterlife in Greek Literature (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2021).

Dramatic Receptions

• Hadestown turns Greek myth into a musical steampunk dystopia | Pittsburgh City Paper
• Bishop Noll Institute revives an ancient tragedy with their production of “Eurydice” – NWILife

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Who is Who of Ancient Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Masterpiece
• The Royal Game of Ur: Play the Oldest Board Game on Record – The New York Times
• One Year, Five Emperors | Field Notes | North Coast Journal
• Gambling Games that were Popular for the Romans | The Paradise News

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 war and misfortunes for people in the city.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XV Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 24 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• NYU completes 3-month excavation in Yeronisos island off Paphos | in-cyprus.com
• German University To Return 4 Looted Antique Vases To Italy | SundiataPost
• House of Hercules! Karaftoo cave on World Heritage Tentative List – Tehran Times
• Zakhiku: The ancient city in Iraq revealed by severe drought | Climate Crisis | Al Jazeera
• Ancient City Discovered in Albania Could Have Greek Origins
• ANF | Ancient site in Van looted under the pretext of restoration
• A Hack Has Revealed What Many Long Suspected: The Owners of Auction Houses Are Also Some of Their Best Customers | Artnet News
• Ancient Temple Remains Uncovered in Kafr El Sheikh | Sada Elbalad
• 3 arrested for attempt to loot archaeological site in south | The Times of Israel
• Archaeologists on Crete Find More Details of Ancient City Phalasarna – The National Herald

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Discover Pre-Roman Etruscan Temple in Italy – ARTnews.com
• Rare Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of John Now at the Harry Ransom Center – UT News
• Temple, offerings to ancient water goddess found in Greece | Miami Herald
• Why the discovery of Cleopatra’s tomb would rewrite history
• What Witches from Ancient Greece Tell Us About Modern Witchcraft
• New building remains in western Peloponnese point to Poseidon’s temple  | eKathimerini.com
• Archeologists Find 24 Roman Bronze Statues in Tuscan Spa
• Words on bronze hand may rewrite past of Basque language | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary: Penelope Biggs, classics scholar and benefactor, 85 – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis
• Classics grads sweep advanced national competition for Greek and Latin translation – Dal News – Dalhousie University
• The Boss Has Spoken – Press Room – Montclair State University

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Πωλονία
• Ephemeris ~ DE RE POLONICA

Public Facing Classics

• The Greeks’ curiosity extended far beyond the cerebral | The Spectator Australia

Fresh Bloggery

• Assyrians, Medes and Persians: Ktesias via Diodoros and Photios on “Persian Matters” (early fourth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: UK Dealer Gets Inventive
• Born of the Same Mother – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• ASOR Annual Meeting | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Syllogism in Some Inscriptions
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Classics Curriculum
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Then and Now
• The Dog and His Treasure: A Fable about Priorities – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Corpus Nummorum Online
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La Justice du dialogue et ses limites: Étude du Gorgias de Platon
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Héros et la déesse: Personnages, stratégies narratives et effets de lecture dans l’Énéide de Virgile
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beyond Meaning. An Artefact Approach to the Neolithic Figurines from Tell Sabi Abyad (Syria) and Ҫatalhöyük (Turkey)
• Een nieuwe techniek, nieuw soort inzicht – Mainzer Beobachter
• De Derde Heilige Oorlog (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Offerings to Demeter found in archaic temple on Crete
• De Derde Heilige Oorlog (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Odyssey of an Iliad Papyrus | Roberta Mazza

Other Blog-like Publications

• Kuwaiti-Polish archaeologists back at Bahra 1 in the Al-Subiyah desert
• New finds at the temple of Buto in Egypt
• Archaeologists discover rare bone flute during excavations in Kent – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Fragment of boat model among new finds at Bahra in northern Kuwait – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Archaeologists in northern Spanish have discovered what they believe to be the oldest Basque language text – Arkeonews
• Ancient temple remains uncovered on “Hill of the Pharaohs” – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a sestertius of Tiberius
• @DocCrom on Seneca the Younger, Medea 675-690

Fresh Podcasts

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #21 Justice – Her Retaliation on Apple Podcasts

Revenge is sweet in this dramatic story by Maya Pyshkin, inspired by the theme ‘Heroes’ and written for the Senior category. It was narrated by Dr Ian Goh, a Senior Lecturer in Classics at Swansea University and a council member of the Classical Association

• The Classics Podcast: EPIC #22 Justice – Stone Cold on Apple Podcasts

In this brilliant short story, James Robson takes us into the mind of Meredith Gorgo – and introduces us to a young journalist on a mission. Stone Cold was awarded Third Place in the Senior Category and it was written by Sophie Davies. James is a Professor of Classical Studies at the Open University and the Grants Officer of the Classical Association.

• The Ancients: The Valley of the Kings on Apple Podcasts

On the west bank of the Nile, across from the ancient city of Thebes, lies the Valley of the Kings – the final resting place of several Pharaohs and their families. The valley is a 1,000 ft wide wadi [valley] that was utilised as a royal burial ground by three dynasties of the New Kingdom for over half a millennia. Made famous by Howard Carter’s discovery of Tutankhamun in 1922, the Valley of the Kings is home to the most celebrated archaeological finds in history. For this third episode of our special miniseries on Tutankhamun, Tristan is joined by renowned egyptologist, broadcaster and author, Dr Chris Naunton to learn more about the incredible place where Tut and so many others entered the realm of the dead.

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 48 – The Eternals (2021) on Apple Podcasts

We dig back into the MCU with return guest and (pseudo-)archaeology expert, David S Anderson to excavate The Eternals (2021). Once more we revisit the thorny issue of what exactly is and isn’t a god in this universe and how to reconcile these immortal robo-stewards against the broader universe. We also dig into the problematic nature of its source material, the way ideas about myth and history slip in and out of cultural discourse and underlying assumptions about what humans are and are not good for. Is is love, creativity, hope, pyramid-building? Namor also pops up for reasons

Fresh Youtubery

• Classics Alumni Webinar | Nero: Life and Legend – YouTube | Cambridge Classics
• Casa Italia – Intervista a Valentino Nizzo – YouTube | Etruschannel
• Thumb/Thigh Etymologies – YouTube | Alliterative
• Latin word for “fart quietly” – YouTube | Ancient Literature Dude
• Alex Tarbet on Blind Pharaohs and Greek Seekers: Herodotus meets an Egyptian – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• The Ancient Origins Of The Roman Empire With Mary Beard | Rome: Empire Without Limit | Odyssey – YouTube
• Who was the last Tyrant of Athens? – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Damien Labadie, L’invention du protomartyr Étienne. Sainteté, pouvoir et controverse dans l’Antiquité (Ier-VIe s.). Judaïsme ancien et origines du christianisme (JAOC), 21. Turnhout: Brepols, 2021.
• BMCR – Raymond Marks, Marcello Mogetta, Domitian’s Rome and the Augustan legacy. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

• Found in translation – Winnipeg Free Press
• What do you get when you cross Dracula and Dionysus? ‘The Lord of Cries’ – The Boston Globe
• McLennan Theatre’s ‘Gods of Comedy’ brings laughs down to earth

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

• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ancient Greek Literature job with Durham University | 37362511
• Postdoctoral Research Associate in Ancient Greek Literature job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 316872
• Assistant Professor of Classics job with Bucknell University | 37363591
• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Giovanni Belzoni | Your Guide To The Italian Explorer & Archaeologist | HistoryExtra
• Sculpture of Ancient Greek Boxer Still Haunts Viewers Today
• The Mysterious Nabataeans and the Greek Influence
• Festina lente: A Roman emperor’s guide to getting stuff done – Big Think
• Cambridge Dictionary Announces ‘Homer’ As Word Of The Year

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 ample fodder for the flocks.

… adapted from the text and translation of:

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

Hodie est a.d. XVI Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 23 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Roman roads laid the foundation for modern-day prosperity, study claims
• Rare Papyrus Fragment of the Gospel of John Now at the Harry Ransom Center – UT News
• 2,700-year-old military fortress unearthed in northeast Iran – Tehran Times
• Archaeological investigations off the coast of Paphos completed | Cyprus Mail

In Case You Missed It

• Hand of Irulegi: ancient bronze artefact could help trace origins of Basque language | Spain | The Guardian
• Hundreds of mummies and pyramid of an unknown queen unearthed near King Tut’s tomb | Live Science
• Is Judaism a Younger Religion Than Previously Thought? | History| Smithsonian Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Classics grads sweep advanced national competition for Greek and Latin translation – Dal News – Dalhousie University
• Obituary: Penelope Biggs, classics scholar and benefactor, 85 – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis

Public Facing Classics

• What Greek myth tells us about modern witchcraft
• Why the discovery of Cleopatra’s tomb would rewrite history

Fresh Bloggery

• Thracians, Getians, Paionians, and others: Herodotos (mid-fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Ethiopians: Agatharchides and Diodoros on lifestyles and diets in the extreme south (second-first centuries BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Scythians and Ethiopians: Agatharchides and Diodoros theorize about the effects of climate (second-first centuries CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Latinity of the Dark Ages
• The Value of A Poem – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Historia Antigua en diálogo. Humanidades Digitales e innovaciones metodológicas
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Orient des Bonfils (1867-1918)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le « châle » de Sabine
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Banquet Scene
• Kudurru – Mainzer Beobachter
• Zeus and Semele, painted by Jacques Blanchard (c. 1600 – 1638) | The Historian’s Hut
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bronze hand is first document in Basque language
• The Myth Of Ixion Murdering His Father-In-Law Over A Horse Dispute | The Historian’s Hut
• The Roman Thing | Sphinx
• Τhe new finds from the acropolis of Falasarna

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Imagining the Sky: The Zodiac and Related Astral Imagery in the Ancient World – zodiacblog – Ein weiteres Blog der Freien Universität Berlin

Other Blog-like Publications

• Τhe new finds from the acropolis of Falasarna
• Archaeologists in northern Spanish have discovered what they believe to be the oldest Basque language text – Arkeonews
• Anatomy of a Book Review(er) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on the tombstone of Titus Aurelius Saturninus
• @DocCrom on Seneca the Younger, Medea 397-411

Fresh Podcasts

• Professor Laurence Totelin: Botany and Pharmacology

This week, we hear from Professor Laurence Totelin, who is a specialist in ancient pharmacology and botany at the University of Cardiff, Wales. She is an historian of Greek and Roman Science, Technology, and Medicine and has published wildly on of ancient pharmacology, gynecology, botany and sensory studies. She is currently working on the history of pharmacological retail; the history of plant grafting; and the history of ancient cosmetics and sexual aids, such as aphrodisiacs. With Dr. Patty Baker and Professor Helen King, she helped create a MOOC Health and Wellbeing in the Ancient World. In this episode, Professor Totelin  speaks with us about ancient medicines, Greco-Roman classifications of pharmaceutical ingredients, and medical recipes.

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: A 25th Dynasty Cheese Fit for the Afterlife, or, Why Expiration Dates Matter on Apple Podcasts

The discovery of cheese in a 25th Dynasty Egyptian tomb made us realize, everybody loves cheese. But what is cheese, really? And whether a spreadable chevre or a squeaky halloumi, how did people even survive it before pasteurization? Our panelists stand proudly with the cheese.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: BONUS: Furious Furies and Tartarean, …Well, Tartarus (QCODE’s CUPID Aftershow 5) on Apple Podcasts

We’re back with more bonus mythological content based on QCODE’s new podcast CUPID! This time… Furies! Underworld gods! Chthonic everything! Listen to Cupid wherever you get your podcasts. F

Fresh Youtubery

• Gli Ori Castellani si raccontano – YouTube | Etruschannel
• Losing the narrative, Homeric Psychology, Addiction and the need for Myth | Dr. Joel Christensen #55 – YouTube | Neutral Ground Podcast
• Why Are There No Greek Gods In TROY 2004? Historian Reacts – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Lyre of the Levites – YouTube | Michael Levy
• 34. Trebonianus Gallus – A Mess – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Natalie Haynes Reads Stone Blind – YouTube | Pan Macmillan

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Pietro Zaccaria, Die Fragmente der griechischen Historiker IV: biography and antiquarian literature A. Biography. Fascicle 5. The first century BC and Hellenistic authors of uncertain date [nos. 1035-1045]. Die Fragments der Griechischen Historiker. Leiden: Brill, 2021.
• Monnaies en électrum de Cyzique des collections du musée de l’Ermitage et du musée-réserve historique et culturel de Crimée orientale | Spartokos a lu

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends an outbreak of locusts and field voles, danger for the king, and an abundance of grain.

… 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. XVII Kal. Dec 2775 AUC ~ 22 Maimakterion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends fish being especially plentiful but  it won’t go so well for water-dwelling beasts. The  republic will improve.

… 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)