Hodie est a.d. IV Kal. Oct. 2775 AUC ~ 3 Pyanepsion in the second year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Mysterious stone spheres could be from an ancient Aegean board game | New Scientist
- Egypt Recovers Ancient Statue from Switzerland – Sada El balad
- Egypt repatriates ancient artefact from Switzerland: Foreign ministry – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
In Case You Missed It
- What Is the Rosetta Stone? | How Was the Rosetta Stone Deciphered? | History | Smithsonian Magazine
- A New U.K. Law Gives Museums Unprecedented Power to Deaccession Art and Repatriate Objects in Their Collections | Artnet News
- New UK Law Allows Museums to Return Objects For “Moral” Reasons
- Sarcophagus of Ramses II’s Chief Treasurer Discovered at Saqqara | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
- Google Doodle marks 1st female Turkish archaeologist
- Ancient Roman Mosaic in Danger of Falling Into the Sea
- Ancient ‘miracle plant,’ believed extinct, said rediscovered in Turkey | The Times of Israel
Classicists and Classics in the News
- iPad Pro is revolutionizing how archaeologists preserve the history of Pompeii – Apple
- Mercerians compete with the vigor of the ancient Greeks in the Great Books Games – The Mercer Cluster
Fresh Bloggery
- Barbarian wisdom: Porphyry of Tyre’s Neoplatonic perspective (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Judeans, Syrians, Indians, and others: Porphyry of Tyre on abstinence from meat (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Phoenicians: Gospel of Mark on Jesus and a Syro-Phoenician woman (late first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Judeans, Syrians, Indians, and others: Porphyry of Tyre on abstinence from meat (third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Egyptians and Canaanites: Wisdom of Solomon on worship of animals and images (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Epitaph of a Boxer
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Zelus Domus Tuae Comedit Me
- Souls Burning for Censure: Sallust Advises Caesar – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Whence We Come, and Whither We Go
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Economy of Death: New Research on Collective Burial Spaces in Rome from the Late Republic to the Late Roman Time
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Bibliothèque des Écoles françaises d’Athènes et de Rome (BEFAR) [recent volumes]
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Giza Mastabas Series Online
- New Video Premiere! – Roman Florence: A Short Walking Tour |
- Is There a Doctor in the House? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Of Songs and Sigma Stigma – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Pliny the Younger | The Historian’s Hut
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: American Numismatic Society Outreach to Europe
- Brand in Alexandrië – Mainzer Beobachter
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Mosaic found in caliph’s palace
- Morphosis: Myth and Science Fiction
- Solon’s First Concern — ConsultTheClassics
- Spencer Alley: Louvre – Unassigned French Figure Studies – 17th Century
Other Blog-like Publications
- Myth Retold: Phaethon in Genshin Impact – Antigone
- A wash-basin decorated with 2500-year-old mythological creatures and car races was discovered in Izmir, Turkey – Arkeonews
Assorted Twitter Threads
- @DocCrom on the ‘Pilate Inscription’
- @DocCrom on Ovid Amores 1.8.57-68
- @lostsupper on making garum/liquamen
Fresh Podcasts
Wait a minute…this sounds like rock and/or roll! Indeed, after some digging through attic boxes stuffed with 45s, 8-tracks, and cassettes, the guys sit down to puzzle over a number of classical allusions in pop songs from the ‘60s to the present day. The references are all over the place—from prog rock to new wave to folk to jazz-fusion to regrettable dabblings by Bob Dylan in cheese-ball ‘80s production. What purposes do these allusions serve? Is it just to make the singer look smart (looking at you, Sting)? To comment wryly on an ankle injury (sorry to hear about that, Mr. Plant)? To apply core themes of Plato’s Euthyphro to social commentary (Jay-Z and Kanye, really?)? So clean that wax out of your ears, strap yourself to that mast, and tune in as Jeff attempts to defend his title as “Johnny Pop” and Dave wrestles with jazz aversions and the over-cutesiness of folk.
Following the death of Menander I Soter, the Indo-Greeks would decline in power over the next 150 years as the newly arrived Indo-Scythians/Indo-Saka seized the Punjab, and with the last king disappearing by 10 A.D, Greek rule in Central Asia and India was brought to a definitive end. In their wake, later powers like the Kushan Empire established control over Bactria and Gandhara, and trade with the Roman Empire would flourish along the sailing routes of the Indian Ocean. Despite the disappearance of the Greco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek kingdoms, evidence points to a survival of Hellenistic culture nearly five centuries after Alexander’s death.
Theater as public entertainment has taken many forms throughout time and among different cultural groups. We’ll hop through various times and places to look at the places where performances were held, the types of pieces performed, and the role of theater as an emotional pocket dimension.
Fresh Youtubery
- Behind the Scenes at Wessex Archaeology: The Finds Room – YouTube
- Behind the Scenes at Wessex Archaeology: Excavation – YouTube
- Crustulificium Pars 2, making cookies in Latin, cum @RVMAK – YouTube | Musa Pedestris
- Penelope Being Bitter For 198 Pages Was NOT For Me. – YouTube | Moan Inc.
- The Atlantic Festival Are The Classics Overrated? Debate Night ft. Freestyle Love Supreme’s FLS+ – YouTube
Book Reviews
- Did Ancient Greeks and Romans Really Believe in the Gods? – Public Discourse
- BMCR – Valeria Selke, Ein Hortfund spätantiker Bronzemünzen aus Meckel, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm. 7486 Prägungen vom 3. Jahrhundert bis zur tetrarchisch-konstantinischen Zeit, verborgen 312/13 n. Chr. Trierer Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Kunst des Trierer Landes und seiner Nachbargebiete, 38. Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2021.
- BMCR – Jan R. Stenger, Education in late antiquity: challenges, dynamism, and reinterpretation, 300-550 CE. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022.
- BMCR – Ellen C. Schwartz, The Oxford handbook of Byzantine art and architecture. Oxford handbooks. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2021.
Exhibition Related Things
Online Talks and Conference-Related Things
- *Register for Parma* Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals | Early Modern Exchanges – UCL – University College London
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Events Calendar
Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters
- Part-time Lecturer at Tufts January 2023 – The Classical Association of Canada
- Assistant Professor of Ancient History – The University of Texas at Austin
- Placement:Service | Society for Classical Studies
Research Papers of Possible Interest
Alia
- Mercury Markers, History and Theory
- Stop Weaponizing History
- Every Art Collector Needs This Database. But Is it Being Manipulated by Thieves? | Observer
- The Most Distant Places Visited by the Romans: Africa, Scandinavia, China, India, Arabia & Other Far-Flung Lands | Open Culture
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 signs revealing great things. Beware that it doesn’t rain on your parade.
… 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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