Hodie est a.d. XVIII Kal. Jul. 2775 AUC ~ 15 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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• The Rest Is History: 195. Young Cleopatra on Apple Podcasts

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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends a very arid climate but there will be an abundant harvest and a reasonable quantity of river fish. People, however, will suffer from weakness.

… 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 Id. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 14 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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Fresh Podcasts

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In this podcast episode, our guest Joseph E. Sanzo discusses the intersection between Christian and Jewish magic. Joseph Sanzo is Associate Professor of the History of Religions at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Joseph Sanzo obtained his PhD degree at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2012 and his thesis was published in 2014 in a volume called Scriptural Incipits on Amulets from Late Antique Egypt: Text, Typology, and Theory. Since then, he has held various positions; after his PhD, he was a lecturer at UCLA and a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Jerusalem, between 2015 and 2018 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Munich and between 2018 and 2020 he was the WIRL Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the University of Warwick. His research focuses on ancient Mediterranean religion, with a particular focus on ritual practices during late antiquity, and he is the author of numerous publications on the topic. His current European Research Council Starting Grant project running from 2020 investigates late-antique Jewish and Christian magical objects, such as amulets and incantation bowls, as sites for thinking about early Jewish-Christian relations. 

• Ad Navseam: Oh for Goodness Snakes! Vergil’s Aeneid Book 2, Part 2 (Ad Navseam, Episode 86) on Apple Podcasts

As Dave and Jeff plow deeper into Book 2 it is clearly getting worse for the Trojans. They didn’t Sinon for this! Those wily Greeks have set the trap and now it begins to spring. First, coiled, creepy snakes come writhing out of the sea to put Laocoon and his two unlucky sons into a suplex and drag them to watery graves. The Trojans read this omen in exactly the wrong way, and think that this is the perfect time to slap some roller skates on that huge wooden equine  and surf it into the city. And, well, we all know what happens next. Greeks storm the citadel, horrors multiply. Pyrrhus murders old Priam at Minerva’s altar. Aeneas is frozen in indecision—what should he do? Go down swinging? Run for it? Take Dave to task for his irrational opposition to R.E.M. and Michael Stipe?

• The Ancients: The Death of Alexander the Great: Explained on Apple Podcasts

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• Emperors of Rome: Episode CXCI – Empire Under Siege on Apple Podcasts

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• History Hack: History Hack: The Invincible Beast on Apple Podcasts

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‘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 downfall of a ruler.

… 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 Id. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 12 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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When you’ve been up to no good, and you get caught out, you have two options. Nero, like Ray, is a Number 2 kind of guy. In this episode, he goes after two significant Stoics, Thrasea Paetus and Barea Soranus, with trumped up charges. And we farewell one of our fans and friends, Victor Santochi. RIP mate.

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 074: Greco-Bactria – Land of a Thousand Cities on Apple Podcasts

In the first of several episodes on the “Hellenistic Far East”, we will cover the history of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, which controlled the lands of Central Asia stretching from Afghanistan to Kazakhstan during the third and second centuries B.C. As one of the most fascinating yet poorly understood regions in antiquity, we will try to piece together the fragmented history of Bactria and its inhabitants from the invasion of Alexander the Great to the reign of Eucratides I.

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• ISPC CNR
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  • 02 The Levantine amphorae in the transitional period – T. Pedrazzi – YouTube
  • 04 Innovation and economic integration of the amphorae production – A. Schmitt – YouTube
  • 05 Storage jars in Tyre vs. storage jars from Tyre – F. Nunez – YouTube
  • 06 Early Carthaginian amphorae: aspects of tradition and innovation – R. Docter – YouTube
  • 07 Trasformazioni socio-economiche in Sardegna fra IX e VII sec. a.C. – E. Madrigali – YouTube
  • 08 Al di là del commercio. – M. Guirguis – YouTube
  • 09 Anfore fenicie a Mozia tra la fine del IX e il VII secolo a.C. – F. Cappella – YouTube
  • 10 Pithekoussan amphorae: technology transfer and innovation between East and West – L. Donnellan – YouTube
  • 11 Ánforas fenicias de importación y producciones locales en el extremo occidente – J. R. Torres – YouTube
• Hieroglyphs Lesson 2: Verbal & Non-Verbal Statements of Fact – YouTube | Bitesized Ancient History

Book Reviews

• AJA – Crossing the Alps: Early Urbanism Between Northern Italy and Central Europe (900–400 BC), edited by Lorenzo Zamboni, Manuel Fernández-Götz, and Carola Metzner-Nebelsick
• AJA – Neolithic Spaces: Social and Sensory Landscapes of the First Farmers of Italy, by Sue Hamilton and Ruth Whitehouse, and Neolithic Spaces: The Bradford Archive of Aerial Photographs, by Mike Seager Thomas
• AJA – Das Heiligtum des Jupiter Optimus Maximus auf dem Pfaffenberg/Carnuntum 3: Ausgrabungen und Funde im Spannungsfeld der Interessen, by Werner Jobst
• AJA – A Catalogue of the Sculpture Collection at Wilton House, by Peter Stewart
• BMCR – Mark B. Wilson, Dictator: the evolution of the Roman dictatorship. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Erik Gunderson, The art of complicity in Martial and Statius: Martial’s ‘Epigrams’, Statius’ ‘Silvae’, and Domitianic Rome. Classics in Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Dramatic Receptions

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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

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• Plato’s Republic at a Glance

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 hot weather but not damagingly so; there will be celebrations at the national level

 [Sunday]  If it thunders today it portends the same thing as the previous day.

… 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 Id. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 11 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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• Ancient Warfare Podcast: Wargaming Ancient Battles on Apple Podcasts

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• History Hack: History Hack: Not Far From Brideshead with Daisy Dunn on Apple Podcasts

Daisy Dunn joins us to talk about how Oxford found itself at war, even after the First World War ended…

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: PRIDE SPECIAL: Call Them Queer, Conversations of Queerness, Asexuality, Nonbinary Gods & So Much More on Apple Podcasts

Selections from past conversation episodes featuring LGBTQIA topics from Greek mythology (and history!). Selected by incredible intern Grace Roby, put together by the magnificent Michaela Smith. CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it’s fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I’m not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

• History Extra podcast: The end of Roman Britain | 1. introduction, and a mystery mosaic on Apple Podcasts

What really happened in Britain as Roman influence waned? Recent research is shaking up our view of the end of imperial rule during the fifth century, and one new find in particular – a mosaic at Chedworth Roman villa – is leading experts to reassess how far people carried on “being Roman”. In the opening episode of our new series, David Musgrove takes a trip to Chedworth to begin his investigation into the end of Roman Britain.

Fresh Youtubery

• PROMISE OF LIGHTNING: How To Meet Your Soulmate According To Greek “Myth” (Book Review) – YouTube | Moan Inc.
• Did the Romans find Dinosaur Fossils? #history #history #documentary – YouTube | Invicta
• The Myth of Persecution: How Early Christians Invented a Story of Martyrdom | Candida Moss PhD – YouTube | MythVision Podcast

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Hany Kahwagi-Janho, Les chapiteaux corinthiens du Liban. Formes et évolution du Ier au IVe siècle p.C. Mémoires, 58. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2020.
• BMCR – Carolina López-Ruiz, Phoenicians and the making of the Mediterranean. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2021

Dramatic Receptions

• Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas | Theatre | The Guardian

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

• PDRA in Ancient Material Religion | Employment
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Archaeologists digging into Egypt’s past – Late Night Live – ABC Radio National
• The Enduring Legacy of Ancient Greek Fashion and Clothing
• Not Just Rome: Where You Can See The Incredible Roman Ruins Of Switzerland
• When Greek Hero Achilles Fell in Love with an Amazon

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 many deaths but also prosperity.

… 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. V Id. Iun. 2775 AUC ~ 10 Skirophorion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Under settler pressure, Israel extends Antiquities Authority’s powers into West Bank – Israel News – Haaretz – Haaretz.com
• Earthanware pitos found in Turkey’s Prusias ad Hypium | Daily Sabah
• Prosecute looted antiquities dealers for war crimes: Clooney Foundation
• In Maremma torna alla luce una terrazza monumentale di 600 metri
• Reperto romano d’epoca imperiale emerge dalle acque del fiume (VIDEO): era parte di un antico ponte sull’Isonzo – il Dolomiti

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeology sensation: An ancient city reemerges in Iraq reservoir | Science | In-depth reporting on science and technology | DW | 08.06.2022
• Jim Fitton: Jailed Brit ‘asked guide if he could take pottery home’ | Metro News
• At Goliath’s Gath, board games give relatable insight into daily lives of Canaanites | The Times of Israel

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – SUFFRAGATUR

Public Facing Classics

• Opinion: Saving Sappho – The Minnesota Daily
• The true birth of communism | The Spectator

Fresh Bloggery

• De sofist Protagoras – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A Doddering Old Man on the Throne
• Actors without Masks and Dancing Monkeys – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• De eerste vermelding van Jahweh? – Mainzer Beobachter
• Elephant Scalp Alexander – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Banned Birds: The Birds of Leviticus 11 and Deuteronomy 14
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Crisis to Collapse: The Archaeology of Social Breakdown
• Style as Substance in Ancient Philosophy – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Johnson Advocates Proemial Clickbait – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Power Struggle
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Clooney Foundation for Justice on Antiquities Trade
• Kiwi Hellenist: How to read an app crit (video)
• Caesars aftocht – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Getty Exhibition: Persia and the Classical World
• PaleoJudaica.com: Lafitaga, Apocalyptic Sheep and Goats in Matthew and 1 Enoch (SBL)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Deadly Dead Sea Scrolls?
• THREE MORE GREEK INSCRIPTIONS FROM EGYPT IN THE COLLECTIONS OF NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND | cahaeresearch
• Gauls: Timagenes of Alexandria (first century BCE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Basileia at Lebadeia and Roman conquest of Greece | Georgy Kantor’s blog

Other Blog-like Publications

• Dig in the Roman City of Calagurris
• How The Ancient Greeks Transported 20 Ton War Ships Over Dry Land | by Erik Brown | Jun, 2022 | History of Yesterday
• 2800-year-old two Swords found in Germany from the start of the Iron Age – Arkeonews
• Can Machine Learning Translate Ancient Egyptian Texts? – SAPIENS

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on some coins of Macrinus
• @DocCrom on Tibullus, Elegies 1.5.37-46

Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient History Fangirl: Transgender Achilles and Found Family in the Illiad (With Maya Deane) on Apple Podcasts

Many of us have preconceived notions about what the Illiad was like. Prepare to have those notions blown away. In this episode, debut author Maya Deane methodically strips away the lenses of the Victorian era, Classical Greece, and the modern day to reveal an Illiad that’s older and darker and weirder than any of us could ever have dreamed.

• Ancient Greece Declassified: 48 Time Traveling to the Ancient World on Apple Podcasts

Thirty three scholars, philosophers, and archaeologists answer the question: If you could time travel to the ancient world, who would you want to meet? …

• History Extra podcast: How the Persians were written out of history on Apple Podcasts

Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones tells Spencer Mizen why Eurocentric depictions of the “barbarous” Persians have obscured the achievements of one of the ancient world’s great civilisations.

Fresh Youtubery

• EES Tuesday Spotlight: Medieval Arab Predecessors of Champollion – YouTube
• Sardis: Recent Discoveries from the Bronze Age until the End of Antiquity by Nicholas Cahill – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
• Application of LiDAR Scanning for the Documentation of Ancient Cities and Regions by Chris Fisher – YouTube | ArchaeologyTV
• FAQ: Can You Explain the Problem with the Census in the Gospel of Luke? | Bible & Archaeology – YouTube | XKV8R
• Edward Nolan on Interpreters in Herodotus – YouTube | Herodotus Helpline
• What Was Normal Life Like For An Ancient Artist? | Footprints of Civilization | Odyssey – YouTube
• How to read an app crit – YouTube | Kiwi Hellenist

Book Reviews

• AJA – Cetamura del Chianti, by Nancy Thomson de Grummond, and Treasure of Chianti: Silver Coinage of the Roman Republic from Cetamura del Chianti, by Lora L. Holland Goldthwaite
• AJA = Hellenistic and Roman Gerasa: The Archaeology and History of a Decapolis City, edited by Achim Lichtenberger and Rubina Raja
• AJA – The Origins of Concrete Construction in Roman Architecture: Technology and Society in Republican Italy, by Marcello Mogetta
• AJA – The Cult of Castor and Pollux in Ancient Rome: Myth, Ritual, and Society, by Amber Gartrell Pier Luigi Tucci
• Études sur les Pontiques d’Ovide | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Stylianos Chronopoulos, Felix K. Maier, Anna Novokhatko, Digitale Altertumswissenschaften: Thesen und Debatten zu Methoden und Anwendungen. Digital classics books, 4. Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2020.
• BMCR – Julia Pfefferkorn, Antonino Spinelli, Platonic mimesis revisited. International Plato Studies, 40. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2021.

Exhibition Related Things

• English Heritage launch Roman Face Pot Gallery | English Heritage
• Sex in the shadow of Vesuvius – The New European
• Anonymous Hadrian’s Wall excavators celebrated in new exhibition | English Heritage

Dramatic Receptions

• Cancelling Socrates, Jermyn Street Theatre (compilation of reviews)

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• XVI Congreso Internacional de Estudios Clásicos de la Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques (FIEC) | Society for Classical Studies
• TAPA Virtual Open House | 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

• What it’s like to scuba dive under pyramids
• Good Facts About Alexander The Great | History Daily
• How Ancient Greeks Shaped the Latin Alphabet

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 loss of flocks due to the arrival of wolves.

… 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)