Hodie est Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 6 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Rare find by UB archeologist provides new insight into Etruscan life under Rome – University at Buffalo
• Flurry of seizures intensify pressure on the Met over artifacts linked to accused traffickers – ICIJ

In Case You Missed It

• Research team claims to have deciphered ancient Iranian Linear Elamite language
• US customs agents seize Ancient Egyptian lid for mummy liver
• Investigation into Antiquities Trafficking Embroils German Museums – ARTnews.com
• Greece heralds deal to recoup 161 ancient treasures from US | eKathimerini.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Gertrude R. Harrington Becker Obituary – Visitation & Funeral Information
• Addio al professor Mario Benzi, grande studioso delle civiltà antiche nel Mediterraneo – Citta della Spezia

Greek/Latin News

• Akropolis World News ~ Ῥωσία

Public Facing Classics

• The Roman roots of Tony Blair’s approach to education | The Spectator Australia

Fresh Bloggery

• Scythians and other Pontic peoples: Herodotos (fifth century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sohag exhibition
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mark Twain’s Samaritan legacy?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ecbatana display and workshop
• Urine, Torn Clothes, and Ethnic Tensions in Ptolemaic Fayum – Papyrus Stories
• “The Cheapness of Our Tongue”: Three Latin Passages on Translation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• What I Did This Summer: Polis on Cyprus Edition | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Religious Tradition
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Gasbag
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Greek Miracle
• Lust, Longing, and Laughter – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Greater Hero: Poirot or Hercules? – Ancient Rome Refocused
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Studies in Semitic Linguistics and Manuscripts: A Liber Discipulorum in Honour of Professor Geoffrey Khan
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Necropolis of Abila of the Decapolis 2019-2021
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Who Were the Plunderers of Salmydessus?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Da Roma a Gades/De Roma a Gades: Gestione, smaltimento e riuso dei rifiuti artigianali e commerciali in ambiti portuali marittimi e fluviali/La gestión, eliminación y reutilización de residuos artesanales y comerciales en ámbitos portuarios marítimos y fluviales
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Wolf Pack
• Funny Religious Hats – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Waar staan we? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Mariupol: Alleged Redevelopment of Prehistoric Site
• The Way My Body Feels | The Votives Project
• Plato (8): De ideale staat – Mainzer Beobachter
• Multilingual Syro-Anatolian Iron Age inscriptions – my research as a CREWS Project Visiting Fellow: Guest post by Claudia Posani

Other Blog-like Publications

• A long-lost branch of the Nile helped in building Egypt’s pyramids – Scientists Say – Arkeonews
• The tomb of the “Bird Oracle Markos” was found in the ancient city of Pergamon – Arkeonews
• From Cyclopes to Superheroes – Biblical Archaeology Society
• CoinWeek Ancient Coin Series: Coins of the Celtiberians
• Why this ancient ‘King of the World’ was so proud of his library | National Geographic
• The tomb of the “Bird Oracle Markos” was found in the ancient city of Pergamon – Arkeonews

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on some coins of Augustus featuring a sphinx
• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 2.7.17-28

Fresh Podcasts

• The Ancients: Prosthetics in Antiquity on Apple Podcasts

Prosthetics – an artificial feature or body part commonly used to either help restore functions of lost limbs, or change a person’s appearance. Today, advancements in technology mean prosthetics can sense touch and be controlled by the mind – a far cry from their origins in antiquity as ivory embellished arms or hair extensions made out of plant fibres. In this episode, Tristan is joined by Dr Jane Draycott from University of Glasgow to talk about the brilliant uses of prosthetics in ancient societies, where the concept originated from, and how sources like Pliny the Elder and excavated wigs can tell us how their functions have changed across millennia.

Fresh Youtubery

• Can I finish my armour in one week? – YouTube | Lindybeige
• Could Mount Vesuvius Destroy Pompeii For A Second Time? | Lost World of Pompeii | Odyssey – YouTube

Book Reviews

• Phanagoria : Description du site archéologique | Spartokos a lu

Dramatic Receptions

• Achilles and Patroclus: love in war – Neos Kosmos

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Roman Villa of Oplontis – Time Travel Rome
• Eleusinian Mystery Rites Drink May Have Been Hallucinogenic
• Hundreds of Ancient Ornate Tombs Intrigue Archeologists
• Who were the Huns, the nomadic horse warriors who invaded ancient Europe? | Live Science
• Philosophy Attractions of Athens – The Good Men Project
• Putting the Luwian Culture on the Map
• Ancient Greek Story of Antigone Warns Against Sin of Pride

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 good harvest and good times.

… 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 pr. Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 5 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Shipwrecks ahoy? Unesco’s underwater mission scours sea bed off Italy for archaeological treasures
• Khufu branch of Nile River once flowed close enough to Giza to carry the stones needed to build the pyramids
• Ancient Greeks Used World’s First ‘cranes’ 150 Years Earlier Than Suspected – Greek City Times
• Exclusive: German museums latest to be implicated in far-reaching criminal investigation into antiquities trafficking
• Greece heralds deal to recoup 161 ancient treasures from US | AP News
• Celebrating 200 years of Egyptology – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• Relics dating from Copper and Stone ages discovered in western Iran – Tehran Times
• A Valletta museum unveils an ancient Phoenician sarcophagus
• BTA :: Archaeologists with Significant Finds in Valley of Thracian Kings
• Ancient ornithomancy: Pergamon reveals tomb of ‘Bird Oracle’ | Daily Sabah

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeologists Call on Unesco to Protect the Hagia Sophia | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Archaeologists Excavate Fully Furnished House at Pompeii
• The return of the Rosetta Stone? – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• Roman settlement flooded to create reservoir is visible in its entirety after drought in Spain | Daily Mail Online
• Greece’s Griffin Warrior Was Likely a Local Aristocrat – Archaeology Magazine
• Cryptic 4,000-year-old writing system may finally be deciphered | Live Science

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE OBITU PRISTINI PRINCIPIS

Public Facing Classics

• Who is Artemis? NASA’s latest mission to the Moon is named after an ancient lunar goddess turned feminist icon

Fresh Bloggery

• Knowing Helps, but Hurts a Lot Too: Some Words Go Back to School – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Change
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Propylaeum-DOK: Digital Repository: Classical Archaeology
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: The BICS Mycenaean Seminars
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Classics Textbooks
• A Safeguard Against Grief – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kingship in the Early Mesopotamian Onomasticon 2800–2200 BCE
• Death Of Porcia, Attributed To Gilles Marie Oppenord (c. 1672-1742) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Greco-Roman Myth About The Origin Of Spiders And Their Weaving | The Historian’s Hut
• Was Corinth Really an Ancient City of Vice? – Tales of Times Forgotten
• Plato (6): De menselijke psyche – Mainzer Beobachter
• Plato (7): De onevenwichtige psyche – Mainzer Beobachter
• Trojan Words — ConsultTheClassics
• SIAC NEWSLETTER – 208 (07-08/2022)  | Tulliana News

Other Blog-like Publications

• Learning Ancient Greek with Dyslexia | by AnnMarie Patterson | In Medias Res | Aug, 2022 | Medium
• Excavation reveals new insights into Iceni people during Roman period – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCromm on the funerary inscription of Gaius Calpurnius Receptus
• @petercampbell on a recovered ‘olympian meta’ brought to Rome by Nero (supposedly)

Fresh Podcasts

• Ad Navseam: The Renaissance Idea of the Dignity of Man (Ad Navseam, Episode 94) on Apple Podcasts

This week Jeff and Dave take a sustained look at an-oft discussed but ill-defined notion: what, if anything, gives people dignity? Drawing on the work of famous, late scholar Charles Trinkaus (The Scope of Renaissance Humanism), the guys trace this notion from Cicero through the Greek and Latin fathers and into the trecento. Thanks to the diligent spadery of Chuck T., you’ll enjoy a who’s who of what’s what when it comes to key themes and ideas surrounding what separates man (and woman) from animal, the noble brute. In the end it all comes down to Petrarch, Ficino, Mirandola, and Peter ‘Et’ Cetera of Chicago fame. The jinx here may be lower than normal, but the substance is swole. Don’t miss it!

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CXCVI – Fulvia on Apple Podcasts

Fulvia came from a Roman noble family and is strongly associated with a string of influential husbands, most notably Mark Antony. She was influential and powerful in her own way, and would go on to play an important role in the Perusine War against Octavian. Guest: Dr Rhiannon Evans (Associate Professor in Classics and Ancient History at La Trobe University).

• The Internet Says it’s True: The Incredible Legend of Theagenes on Apple Podcasts

In Ancient Greece, the incredible athlete known as Theagenes of Thasos was so successful, his legend of being unbeaten followed him into the afterlife. But is it true that even his depiction in a bronze statue fought his battles? In this episode, we talk about the Ancient Greek legend of Theagenes and then play the Quick Quiz with Mindreader, Eric Dittelman!

Fresh Youtubery

• Nymphs Edition: Hot Or Not (FEAT. LACAJADEISA) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Latin Exorcism in The Sandman (Netflix) | How is the Latin? – YouTube | polyMATHY
• 24. Macrinus – A Hairless Non Escape – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland
• Augustus, Hercules and Ancient Roman Mythological Propaganda – YouTube | Lady of the Library

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Greatest Operas Based on Greek Mythology
• Who were the Vandals, the ‘barbarians’ who sacked Rome? | Live Science
• Rape as an Ancient Weapon of War – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• The Flowering of Athens in the Fifth Century B.C.

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:

No entry for today …

… 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 Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 4 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Italy, new digs begin in archaeological park of Ostia antica – General news – ANSAMed.it
• Mount Nemrut hosts Commagene Biennial | Daily Sabah
• Ecbatana: photo exhibit, workshop to spotlight 22 seasons of excavation – Tehran Times
• Balkan Cemetery Studies Reveal High Prehistoric Mortality Rate
• Archaeologists in search of 6,000-year-old ruins in Sialk hills – Tehran Times
• Claros serves as prophecy center after Christinaity, new finds reveal | Daily Sabah
• Larnaca locals shouldn’t pay for unearthed antiquities | Cyprus Mail
• Roman Caistor: Dig reveals ‘what the Iceni did next’ – BBC News
• A Hidden Landscape We Can No Longer See May Explain The Mystery of The Pyramids : ScienceAlert

In Case You Missed It

• Scythian arrowheads and Bronze Age dwelling uncovered in Ukraine | Live Science
• Dietary study shows funerary meals of people in Roman Empire nearly the same as everyday meals
• Recuperato un rostro in bronzo di una nave romana dell’antico Impero Romano [VIDEO] » Scienze Notizie
• Greece’s Underwater Museum In Alonissos – Greek City Times

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Discovery Channel Star Follows Baylor Faculty and Students in ‘Expedition Unknown’ Season 10 Episode | Media and Public Relations | Baylor University
• Associate Professor Hérica Valladares to take American Academy in Rome Residency in Fall 2022 | Department of Classics

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – INDIGENA SUPERSTES INTERIIT

Public Facing Classics

• What I Found in the Earth | The Cornell Daily Sun
• Brown: Callimachus and ‘short and sweet’ TED talks: tricks of the trade of skills-based personalized learning – Mainline Media News

Fresh Bloggery

• PaleoJudaica.com: Usha in the Galilee
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lehtipuu & Petersen, Ancient Christian Apocrypha (Bible & Women Series; SBL)
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Jewish Himyarite Kingdom
• Laudator Temporis Acti: How Do You Put Up With It?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Stage Fright
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times Mini-MOOC
• A Dream to Remember, Repeat – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Enheduana
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Getty returns unique Greek terracotta sculptural group
• Plato (4): Geld, tyrannie en milities – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Arbel synagogue
• PaleoJudaica.com: DNA dating?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Forness et al. (eds.), 1 Maccabees According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Gorgias)
• Plato (5): Politieke evolutie – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Finds-poor field Becomes Amazingly ‘Productive’ Overnight
• Spencer Alley: Unassigned Italian Figure Drawings at the Louvre – III
• An Ode to My Alma Mater
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Vix Krater

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Harassment in Classics is endemic and persistent, COGSIP survey says | Society for Classical Studies
• New Book: The Courts of Philip II and Alexander the Great: Monarchy and Power in Ancient Macedonia – The Classical Association of Canada
• Kore 670 at the ROM – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• What Are the Dead Sea Scrolls? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Archeologists Discover Huge Stone Penis in Ancient Roman Ruins – VICE

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @sauterne on a Panathenaic Amphora at the Louvre with a questionable history
• @DocCrom on Propertius, Elegies 2.15.29-40

Fresh Podcasts

• Life Of Caesar: The Stuff of Genius on Apple Podcasts

Nero’s first attempt at building a single property that covered his estates on the Palatine Hill and the Esquiline Hill was The Domus Transitoria, the House of Passage. It burned down in the Great Fire. He replaced it with the Domus Aurea (Golden House), designed by expert engineers Severus and Celer, and it was so revolutionary that it appears to be the stuff of genius.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: There’s Life After Death, An Attempt to Understand the Orphic Tradition on Apple Podcasts

What on Gaia’s earth is the Orphic tradition? Liv attempts to break down this mysterious tradition that may or may not have been more of an ancient religion. And it all revolves around that famous Thracian singer, Orpheus.

Fresh Youtubery

• Alexanders Balkan Campaign – YouTube | Ancient History Guy
• Women in Ancient Egypt – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
• How an Emperor Transformed into an Unforgiving Gladiator | Colosseum – YouTube | History

Book Reviews

• New book takes crack at Antikythera Mechanism | eKathimerini.com

Exhibition Related Things

• L’impératrice Messaline dans les collections de la BnF : les métamorphoses d’une femme de pouvoir | L’Antiquité à la BnF
• British exhibition reveals impact of ancient Egyptian arts on creativity in Europe – EgyptToday

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Job: UNB Classics – The Classical Association of Canada
• Assistant Professor (Ancient Mediterranean History) :: Human Resources ::.USNA..
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• The Origin of the 30,000-Year-Old Venus of Willendorf | Discover Magazine
• Ancient Greek History Video Games Now Part of College Curricula
• Roman Empire: Love in Pompeii – the confident baker’s wife and her handsome husband 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 disease in the city where the thunder rumbled.

… 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 Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 3 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Roman aqueduct find at Caistor St Edmund | Eastern Daily Press
• Police warn that ‘night hawkers’ are digging up Roman fort in Caernarfon
• Archaeology dig off M5 unearths Roman artefacts on first day – Birmingham Live
• An ax over a Bronze Age bowl. New findings at the stilts of Lucone – Art Style
• Ancient Rome: A Roman funerary banquet: Pigs for the rich, chicken for the poor… and oats for the women | Culture | EL PAÍS English Edition
• Athens Acropolis Walls To Undergo Long Overdue Strategic Preservation
• Roman Cambridge was called Duroliponte for a very special reason – Cambridgeshire Live
• Jewel of Roman Empire lies neglected in Libya chaos
• Hekate devotees request British Museum keep statue in public view – Arts & Culture, Culture, News, Paganism, Religion, Religion, The Wild Hunt, TWH Features, U.K., Witchcraft
• Travel back in time with the Sphinx of Muziris – The Hindu
• Virtual reality revives Iraq’s war-ravaged heritage
• Istanbul comes forefront with latest excavations, says official – Türkiye News

In Case You Missed It

• New DNA Analysis Redirects the Cradle of Indo-Europeans, Sheds Light on Proto-Greeks
• Temple Mount History Comes Back to Speak Again – Israel Today
• Ancient City of Ephesus to Reunite with Sea After 2,500 Years

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 28.08.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Akropolis World News – ΗΑΠ
• Ephemeris – INUNDATIO PAKISTANA

Public Facing Classics

• The Gardens of Pompeii & Natural Disasters in Antiquity | Art & Object

Fresh Bloggery

• Casting Through Early Rome! – The Partial Historians
• Asterion’s First Birthday – Asterion | Celebrating Neurodiversity in Classics
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Take Some Metal Detectors, Put a Tent in a Field and Film. Instant TV.
• PaleoJudaica.com: Müller & Pakkala, Editorial Techniques in the Hebrew Bible (SBL)
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Psalms in Greek inscriptions
• No Bull, Just Zeus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cicéron et la Commune: Le rhéteur comme modèle civique (Italie, XIIIe-XIVe s.)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ACOR Insights
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Tekkies’ Thoughts on Channel Five TV Programme on Their Hobby
• New Youth on the Dance Floor – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De zegels uit de Openbaring van Johannes – Mainzer Beobachter
• Plato (1): De adoratie van Sokrates – Mainzer Beobachter
• The Mind Rules All (Or Fails…) – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: A call for a Hannibal movie
• PaleoJudaica.com: More LXX publications from William Ross
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Easily Satisfied
• Pain-Relieving Dance – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Confusing Sentence
• Plato (2): Plato’s politieke indeling – Mainzer Beobachter
• It’s a WRAP: moving from Athens to Durham – It’s All Greek To Me
• Plato (3): De richtingloze democratie – Mainzer Beobachter
• Een grap om te huilen – Mainzer Beobachter
• Philosophers Need Life-Coaches – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• NEH Grant Winners in Classics and Archaeology | Society for Classical Studies
• Classics outside the Classroom – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

• A tiny 2,300-year-old votive vessel presented to the gods by the poor was found in the Ancient City of Troy – Arkeonews
• Archaeologists discover one of the largest Phallus Relief Carving of ancient Rome – Arkeonews
• Baiae; The Thermal Resort That Got Punished by Its Blessings | History of Yesterday

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @sauterne on an unresolved provenance issue with a Black Figure Psykter Krater at the Louvre
• @theo_nash on the DNA claims recently attached to the Griffin Warrior

Fresh Podcasts

• Death of the Roman Republic: HBO’s ”Rome” S1E7 ”Pharsalus” – Review on Apple Podcasts

DOTRR’s review of HBO’s Rome’s seventh episode, “Pharsalus.”  Friends and I summarize the episode, speculate about the show, and take a quiz on historical accuracy!

• History Extra podcast: Troy: everything you wanted to know on Apple Podcasts

The story of the Trojan War – featuring the daring Achilles, beautiful Helen and one very deceptive horse – is a classic of western literature. But did this famous war ever really happen? And was Troy even a real place? On today’s ‘Everything you wanted to know’ episode, Professor Paul Cartledge answers listener questions on these ancient mysteries. Speaking to Ellie Cawthorne, he discusses the discovery of archaeological remains believed to be Troy, and why Homer’s Iliad may not be the most reliable historical source.

Fresh Youtubery

• Socrate. Tra Apollo e Dioniso, amore e morte 一 Federico Leonardi – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• Ancient News Episode 001 – YouTube | Study |  Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• Botanical Latin VLOG (part 2) || Vin parvum oppidum in Liguria lustrare? – YouTube | Satura Lanx
• Live History – Learn to Play Ancient Roman Games DOCUMENTARY – YouTube | Invicta
• Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood Game vs Real Life – Rome Landmarks Comparison – YouTube
• This Is Epic: Rob Doyle. Here Are the Young Men. Threshold. (Interview clip) Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
• Why Public Execution Was Rome’s Favorite Entertainment – YouTube | Invicta
• The British Museum leads restoration efforts of ancient artefacts in Beirut – YouTube
• Exploring Ancient Rome and Acting Like Ancient Romans | Wondrium Now – YouTube
• Iliad 1.318-348. Spoken English, then sung Ancient Greek. Iliad A Day, 11. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

Dramatic Receptions

• Acrobats and puppets in queer Iliad launch | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• CFP: Association of Ancient Historians 2023 Annual Meeting | Society for Classical Studies
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• One person was more powerful than Roman emperor – Big Think
• Who was this woman? Why was she in this position? What are the secrets of this sculpture? – Art style
• How the frogs were created: Greek mythology stories about origin of species- The New Indian Express
• Alexander the Great, and his legends : The Tribune India
• How Ancient Greeks Spread Buddhism to the Known World

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 good harvest.

… 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. VI Kal. Sept. 2775 AUC ~ 1 Boedromion in the second year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Mediterranean countries take on archaeology project off Tunisian coast – Al-Monitor: Independent, trusted coverage of the Middle East
• Traces of settlement dating back over 9,000 years discovered in Türkiye
• Digitally made replicas could help us return Elgin Marbles | Comment | The Times
• Returning the Parthenon sculptures to Greece: A great historical wrong may soon be rectified
• US agents seize antique Egyptian artifact that could potentially be 3,000 years old
• Vulci (Montalto di Castro, VT): scoperto un nuovo tempio del VI/V sec. a.C. – MediterraneoAntico

In Case You Missed It

• Massive Roman Era Phallus Relief Carving Uncovered in Spain – ARTnews.com
• Abandoned Roman ruins surface in river from Europe’s drought | Miami Herald

Classicists and Classics in the News

• John Cooper, renowned interpreter of ancient Greek and Roman philosophy and ‘incredibly generous’ mentor, dies at 82
• The Gardens of Pompeii & Natural Disasters in Antiquity | Art & Object

Fresh Bloggery

• A Model Response to an Engagement – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: On Karaism and the Karaites
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Church of the Holy Sepulcher
• PaleoJudaica.com: Macaskill et al. (eds.), Congress Volume Aberdeen 2019 (Brill)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Members of British Public Exhorted to “Get Diggy!”
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Little Too Close for Comfort
• Athena’s Black Eyes – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Basic Necessities
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Monograph Series: Archaeologia Bulgarica Supplements
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Necropolis journal: daily records of events in an ancient Egyptian artisans’ community
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A History of the Congress of Roman Frontier Studies 1949-2022: A Retrospective to mark the 25th Congress in Nijmegen
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Neolithic seal with bull heads found in Turkey
• De colonnade van Byblos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Guidance” for Collection-Driven Exploitation of the Archaeological Record in England and Wales
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Irritatingly Perverse
• Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Celts and Ligurians: Strabo on peoples south of the Alps (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Britons and Iernians (Irish): Julius Caesar, Pytheas, and Strabo on customs and cannibalism (early first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Spencer Alley: Italian Drawings of Apollo at the Louvre
• The Flavian Amphitheater of Pozzuoli – Time Travel Rome

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Ancient Worlds, Modern Communities: Supporting Projects in Archaeology, Philology, Pedagogy, and Film | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Whatever Happened To Cleopatra And Caesar’s Child? | by Erik Brown | Aug, 2022 | History of Yesterday
• A tiny 2,300-year-old votive vessel presented to the gods by the poor was found in the Ancient City of Troy – Arkeonews
• Metamorphoses XV.752-879 – by M. – Ovid Daily

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 32

Fresh Youtubery

• #OfficineETRU – Il restauro del tempio di Alatri – Nono appuntamento – YouTube | Etruschannel
• My Top Ten Sumerian Words #shorts – YouTube | Digital Hammurabi
• An Introduction to Aesop’s Fables – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• Commémorer les actes fondateurs : Enée, Romulus et Auguste – YouTube | Andrea Cirla
• The Roman Villa Protected By A British Army Base | Time Team | Odyssey – YouTube

Exhibition Related Things

• The Art Of The Parthenon Continues To Inspire

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• See what’s hapuening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Jobs, Postdocs, and other Professional Matters

• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• One person was more powerful than Roman emperor – Big Think
• Ancient burials reveal how ordinary Romans fed their dead for the afterlife
• Brewing Mesopotamian beer brings a sip of this vibrant ancient drinking culture back to life – Big Think
• Griffins: The Noble Protectors of Ancient Greece
• The Mysterious Minoan ‘Snake Goddess’ of Crete
• Explore the nearly 2,000-year-old Jewish metropolis of Usha in the western Galilee | The Times of Israel
• Ancient city of Ephesus to reunite with sea – Türkiye 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:

[Saturday]  If it thunders tdoay it portends an outbreak of skin diseases.

[Sunday] If it thunders today it portends a shortage of water and a plague of venomous reptiles.

… 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)