Hodie est a.d. III Kal. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 28 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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• ‘City of Gladiators’: Turkey’s Stratonikeia revives after restoration | Daily Sabah
• How a Museum Curator Handles Restitution for ‘Looted’ Art

In Case You Missed It

• Pot brimming with Roman coins discovered in Switzerland | Live Science
• Zeus temple uncovered in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula – Neos Kosmos
• Ancient Roman pottery workshop discovered in Egypt – The Jerusalem Post

Classicists and Classics in the News

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• The Passing of Emily Batinski | The Louisiana Classicist

Greek/Latin News

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Plato is at once the most loved and possibly the most hated philosopher of all time. This episode explores five reasons why he drives some people mad.

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: Schrodinger’s Alcestis, Theories On the How & Why Behind Euripides’ Alcestis, w/ Dr. Ellie Mackin Roberts on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with past guest Dr. Ellie Mackin Roberts all about Euripides’ Alcestis… And Euripides, and tragedy, and tragedy competitions… And so much more. Mostly, what, on earth, is going on?

Fresh Youtubery

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Book Reviews

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• BMCR – Diskin Clay, Lucian, True History: introduction, text, translation, and commentary. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.
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Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

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• Lecturer – Department of Classics – Job at University of California – Irvine in Irvine, CA
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Diversions

• Latin Wordle – latindictionary.io
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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  zephyr winds.

… 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. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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• Classics Major (‘22) awarded a Mellon Fellowship for study at Cambridge | Yale Department of Classics

Greek/Latin News

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Public Facing Classics

• The long history of disinformation during war – The Washington Post

Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Origines des textes
• Another Reason to Be Cautious When Drinking – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: There is Always One
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• C. H. Roberts at Blackwell’s | Variant Readings
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Phoenician necropolis found in southern Spain
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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Flies in Milk
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• Remembering To Forget – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• Launching Classical Civilisation Digital Sourcebooks with National Museums Liverpool – ACE Classics

Other Blog-like Publications

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• Identifying Ancient Roman Coins: An OCRE Tool
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Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Ovid, Amores 11.15-24

Fresh Podcasts

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• The Ancients: An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living on Apple Podcasts

Poetry, parables, and produce – how did someone live a healthy life in the ancient Greco-Roman world? Tristan is joined by author Mark Usher to talk about what we can learn from our ancient ancestors. Discussing the impact farming has on both physical and mental well-being, the role it played in music and song, and philosophical musings about the land – Tristan and Mark discuss how can we live a sustainable, and ancient inspired, way of life?

• Ancient History Fangirl: Gender Rebels of Greek Mythology: Achilles at War on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we explore what happened to gender in the pressure-cooker of ancient war. To do that, we skip ahead ten years to a different beach: the war-blasted, corpse-strewn sands below the walls of Troy. As the Trojan War dragged on, the most respect went to those who were able to slaughter and pillage and plunder: gender for men devolved into “Smash and Grab” masculinity. Meanwhile, gender for women became “Gender as Property”—in the most explicit terms. It’s in this toxic wasteland that Achilles’ feud with Agamemnon rose to a fever pitch—over a woman called Briseis.

• The Forum: Emperor Nero: Bad boy of Ancient Rome on Apple Podcasts

Nero fiddled while Rome burned, didn’t he? At least, that’s what the history books tell us. Nero’s image as a depraved tyrant has been handed down to us by three biased sources, written after the emperor’s suicide in 68AD. These sources have informed interpretations of Nero’s legacy ever since, so much so that his involvement in the Great Fire of Rome has become a meme. Recent scholarship has sought to rehabilitate Nero to a certain extent, to try to understand him in the context of his time. He was indeed a man who succeeded in shocking the Roman elite, but also someone who could strike a chord with the public and was well thought of outside the centre of political intrigue. Rajan Datar attempts to separate fact from fiction, with guests Dr Ginna Closs, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the US and author of While Rome Burned: Fire, Leadership, and Urban Disaster in the Roman Cultural Imagination which was published in 2020; and Dr Evan Jewell, Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University, Camden. He’s writing a book entitled Youth and Power: Acting Your Age in the Roman Empire; and Dr Shushma Malik, Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Roehampton. She’s the author of The Nero-Antichrist: Founding and Fashioning a Paradigm.

Fresh Youtubery

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• WCC UK AGM 2022: Assemblywomen – YouTube
• WCC UK AGM 2022 – ECR event – YouTube
• How Ancient Discoveries Still Guide Today’s Science | Footprints of Civilisation | Odyssey – YouTube
• Catullus 50 in Latin & English: Hesterno, Licini, die otiosi, Vocabulary notes – YouTube | David Amster
• Geophysical prospection of the eastern Caelian: large-scale urban research by Rome Transformed – YouTube | British School at Rome

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Adam Ziółkowski, From “Roma quadrata” to “la grande Roma dei Tarquini”: a study of the literary tradition on Rome’s territorial growth under the kings. Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beiträge, 70. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
• BMCR – Cesare Letta, “Tra umano e divino”. Forme e limiti del culto degli imperatori nel mondo romano. La Casa dei Sapienti, 3. Lugano: Agorà & Co., 2021.
• An academic read covering the Romans in Scotland – Scottish Field

Exhibition Related Things

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Dramatic Receptions

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• Cornell Classics Puts on Terrence’s “Adelphoe” in Original Latin for Its First Play Since the Pandemic | The Cornell Daily Sun
• SCIT Presents Elektrafied | Department of Classics

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

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• Lamia, the Man-devouring Goddess of Greek Mythology
• Stoicism at Plato’s Academy – The Good Men Project
• Three Ways Cleopatra Contributed to Science and Medicine | Discover Magazine
• Ancient Greek Amphitheater at Laodicea Restored to Former Glory
• Delphi Top 3 Attractions — Greek City Times

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 saved by shields.

… 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 Kal. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 26 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

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• Delays placing heritage at risk, metal detectorist warns – BBC News
• Nuovi scavi nell’area dell’Anfiteatro: spuntano nuovi reperti
• Colchester Roman Circus: Calls made to remove busy road | Gazette
• Roman skeletons and weapons discovered during football pitch work in Bishop’s Stortford – HertsLive
• Roman Bust set to go on sale at Reeman Dansie, Colchester | Gazette

In Case You Missed It

• Ruins of an ancient temple for Zeus were unearthed in Egypt | Wisconsin Public Radio
• Is a new archaeological find from Mount Ebal a game-changer or not? – Baptist News Global

Classicists and Classics in the News

• OU Professor Named Andrew Carnegie Fellow
• Andres Matlock awarded position as Assistant Professor of Classics at University of Georgia – Department of Classics – UCLA

Public Facing Classics

• Epic glory and modern war: from the walls of Troy to the defence of Kyiv – Neos Kosmos

Fresh Bloggery

• The Restoration of Peace – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Safaitic scripts: palaeography of an ancient nomadic writing culture
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Living with Seismic Phenomena in the Mediterranean and Beyond between Antiquity and the Middle Ages
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classical Archaeology and Art History Commons
• Twee Belgische praetorianen – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Temple of Zeus excavated in Pelusium
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Keddie, Class and Power in Roman Palestine
• Launching Classical Civilisation Digital Sourcebooks with National Museums Liverpool – ACE Classics
• De eerste filosofen en het boeddhisme – Mainzer Beobachter

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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• CAC Annual General Meeting – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

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Fresh Podcasts

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A bonus re-airing of last year’s conversation with author Elodie Harper whose book The Wolf Den is now available in North America. The sequel, the House With the Golden Door is now available in the UK and will be out in North America in September! Liv and Elodie talk about the book, the ancient Lupenar/Wolf Den of Pompeii, and the remains of Pompeii itself.

• This Week in the Ancient Near East: A ‘Dark Age’ Shipwreck Mystery, or When Your Cargo Absolutely, Positively Has to Get There Eventually Between the Byzantine and Umayyad Period Unless the Ship Sinks on Apple Podcasts

A Late Byzantine/Early Islamic shipwreck off the coast of Israel has us donning our Speedos once again. Wasn’t this tramp steamer aware of the momentous political and social changes taking place on land? Who cares when you’ve got walnuts and broken glass to deliver!

• Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 42 – The Emperor’s Club (2002) on Apple Podcasts

This episode, it’s all about the three C’s of classical education: Caesar, Cicero and Cheating at trivia contests. We dig into The Emperor’s Club (2002), the oft-forgotten antithesis to Dead Poets Society about how Kevin Kline instills soon-to-be-famous teen actors with moral rigor among by talking about Rome. We discuss the value and shortcomings of teaching classical civilizations, our own pedagogical knacks and how much we’d charge to help an eccentric millionaire cheat at his own trivia contest. Answer: one bottle of nice-ish wine. Justice for Šutruk-Nakhunte!

Fresh Youtubery

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• Did Ancient Romans have first names? Latin Praenomina – YouTube | polyMATHY

Book Reviews

• Class and Power in Roman Palestine: The Socioeconomic Setting of Judaism and Christian Origins — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
• BMCR – Jonas Grethlein, Luuk Huitink, Aldo Tagliabue, Experience, narrative and criticism in ancient Greece: under the spell of stories. Cognitive Classics. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.
• BMCR – Angela Standhartinger, Der Philipperbrief. Handbuch zum Neuen Testament, 11/1. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2021. Pp. 310.
• BMCR – Nina Nikki, Kirsi M.J. Valkama, Magic in the ancient eastern Mediterranean: cognitive, historical, and material perspectives on the Bible and its contexts. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021.

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Summer Term 2022 Reading Classics Research Seminar Series | Classics at Reading
• 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

• University of Auckland Lecturer in Classical Studies and Ancient History | SmartRecruiters
• Placement: Advertisements 2021-2022 | Society for Classical Studies

Alia

• Queens of Ptolemaic Egypt – Heritage – Al-Ahram Weekly – Ahram Online
• Find out why Nietzsche wasn’t a fan of Socrates | Boing Boing

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 omens from the sky appearing.

… 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. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

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• Egypt: Ruins of ancient temple for Zeus unearthed in Sinai
• Ancient goddess sculpture found by farmer in Gaza Strip
• Hundreds of engraved stones discovered in Persepolis – Tehran Times
• 66 years passed since establishing Egypt’s Antiquities Registration Center – EgyptToday
• Czech Institute of Archaelogy hopes to discover “hidden worlds“ in remote area of Sudan | Radio Prague International

In Case You Missed It

• Decapitated skeleton, ‘mercenary’ buried with sword in Roman-era burial – The Jerusalem Post
• An Ancient Underground City Was Unearthed in Southern Turkey  – ARTnews.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• APSU professor says give Taylor Swift a try if your Struggling with Latin – Clarksville Online
• News – Member Spotlight: Robert Littman – Archaeological Institute of America Societies
• Worlds of anime, Greek tragedy collide in Political Science course – The Brock News

Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE FRANCOGALLIA 

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: LXX Bibliography (2012-)
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• Killing the God of Plague and Famine – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Prometheus, By Carl Rahl (c. 1812 – 1865) | The Historian’s Hut
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Frontiers of the Roman Empire: The Antonine Wall – A World Heritage Site
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Rediscovery and Reception of Gandhāran Art
• De eerste filosofen (10): De atoomtheorie – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: BHD on the Mount Ebal amulet
• Everything Terrible is Our Fault – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: The material culture of Ugaritic writing
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ginormous LXX bibliography
• At 50: Slow at 50 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Ruins of ancient temple dedicated to Zeus unearthed in Sinai – The Archaeology News Network
• Canaanite sculpture of the goddess Anat discovered in the Gaza Strip – The Archaeology News Network
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The End of This Age is Drawing Near

Other Blog-like Publications

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• An Early Israelite Curse Inscription from Mt. Ebal? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Ancient temple dedicated to Zeus uncovered in Northern Sinai – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• Recipes of Ancient Egyptian makeup more diverse than previously thought – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Tibullus, Elegies 2.4.1-12

Fresh Podcasts

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: CLXV: Well, Well, Well, If it Isn’t the Consequences of My Own Actions… (Euripides’ Alcestis Part 3) on Apple Podcasts

Taking an even stronger turn into the comedy side of tragicomedy, Heracles finds out the truth of the situation in Pherae.

Fresh Youtubery

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• Heroism in the Ancient Greek Epics – YouTube | Chau Chak Wing Museum
• The Role of Dance in Ancient Greece – YouTube | World History Encyclopedia
• WCC UK 2022 AGM – mentoring report – YouTube
• WCC UK AGM – Class Acts report – YouTube
• 6. Galba – Too Good to Be Ruled, Not Good Enough to Rule – YouTube | Classical Association Northern Ireland

Book Reviews

• Military Book Review Incidental Archaeologists: French Officers and the Rediscovery of Roman North Africa

Dramatic Receptions

• Punchdrunk: The Burnt City – Cartridge Place, Woolwich, London – The Reviews Hub

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Lecture Announcement: PATARA. DIE URBANISTISCHE ENTWICKLUNG EINER METROPOLE. ZUM GEDENKEN AN PROF. DR. HALUK ABBASOĞLU – DAİstanbul
• 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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• Cyrene: The Stunning Ancient Greek City of Libya
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• Greek Fire: The Weapon that Protected the Byzantine Empire
• Why was the Ancient Greek City of Hadrianapolis Abandoned?

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 longing for fruits but a scarcity of harvests.

… 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. VII Kal. Mai. 2775 AUC ~ 24 Mounichion in the first year of the 700th Olympia

In the News

• Ancient Marble Bathtub from Greek City of Aphrodisias Seized
• Sewer system found in ancient city of Mastaura
• Eastrea Road, Whittlesey and a Romano-British deathly secret | Cambs Times
• Epidaurus’ Dig Uncovers Layers of Ancient Greek History

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• ‘Inconceivable’: Centuries of Jewish life rescued from Cairo garbage dumps – Egypt – Haaretz.com

Classicists and Classics in the News

• UMass classics chair leads archaeology project in Italy – Massachusetts Daily Collegian
• The trailblazing archaeologist uncovering the untold stories of prehistoric skeletons – Archaeology – Haaretz.com

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 24.04.2022 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
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• DE CLADE NIGERIANA

Fresh Bloggery

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• Laudator Temporis Acti: Words
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Emptor, Caveat and Do Your Homework
• PaleoJudaica.com: Kugler, Resolving Disputes in Second Century BCE Herakleopolis (Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Jesus walking on water as a resurrection appearance?
• Theognis: A Poet to Avoid for, Um, Virtue – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitale Einführung in die hieroglyphisch-ägyptische Schrift und Sprache
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Esagil Games: Fun Games and Teaching Tools about Ancient Mesopotamia
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Another Roman Cavalry Helmet on the British Antiquities Market
• De leugenaarsparadox – Mainzer Beobachter
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Theater of Herculaneum reopens
• The False Mask of Happiness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• PaleoJudaica.com: Neusner on Judaism, Vol. 1: History (Routledge paperback)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Canticles and Qoheleth, sex and death
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Dancing
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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das eManual Alte Geschichte
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• Clean Rivers and Peacock Tongues: Some Cures for the Plague – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• PaleoJudaica.com: Folmer (ed.), Elephantine Revisited (Eisenbrauns)
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Speech from Scythians
• PaleoJudaica.com: Stein et al. (eds), Routledge Companion to Ecstatic Experience in the Ancient World
• This Current Time of Sickness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• At 50: Not Full by Fifty | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Roman Nijmegen and the Valkhof Museum – Time Travel Rome
• A 2000-year-old postcard – Medieval manuscripts blog
• Spencer Alley: Luca Giordano (1634-1705) – Abundant Emotions
• Fergus Millar (1935–2019) | Historical Materialism
• Dissertation Day

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Resonate 2022! – OurWarwick

Other Blog-like Publications

• Roman Spintriae – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Fresh Podcasts

• The Hellenistic Age Podcast: 070: The Second Punic War – To the Victors… on Apple Podcasts

In this episode, we bring the Second Punic War to a close as Hannibal tries to conquer southern Italy, while the Scipio and Barcid families clash over control of the Iberian Peninsula. During the Spanish campaigns, Publius Scipio (the future Scipio Africanus) becomes the premier general of the Republic, bringing the fight to Africa itself as he clashes with Hannibal at the legendary confrontation at Zama.

• Ancient History Hound: The Second Punic War. Cannae. on Apple Podcasts

Time for the big one. Cannae is one of the most famous battles of antiquity. Not only did Rome suffer a crushing defeat but the tactics behind the victory have been studied by generals and military tacticians ever since. In this episode I discuss what happened in the lead up to it, trust me there’s a drama at every turn. From dictators to deceptive cattle. Then there’s the battle itself which I try to unpack to see how each side approached it and what tactics were used. Aside from the brutality and bloodshed there’s a lot to get into.

• The Ancients: Saint George on Apple Podcasts

The 23rd of April marks Saint George’s Day – but who are we actually celebrating? Is there any truth behind the myth of the man who slew the dragon and rescued the princess – and where does the Patron Saint of England actually come from? Spoiler alert – it’s not where you think. In this episode Tristan travelled to the Lancashire Archives to talk to Dr Sam Riches, from Lancaster University, about all things Saint George. Religious origins, centuries old cults, and farm animals going on a day out to the local church – there’s more to Saint George than the well known myth.

• Manic Classics: Omnia Vincit Amor on Apple Podcasts

Does this popular phrase mean what you think it means? Check out the first episode of season 2 of Manic Classics and find out the history of the powerful phrase: love conquers all.

• Women In Archaeology: Badass Women in Archaeology – Part 3 on Apple Podcasts

Join hosts Emily Long, Chelsi Slotten, and Kirsten Lopez, as we explore the works and contributions of women archaeologists from the past and present. These are women that inspire not only us, but the field of archaeology as a whole to do better, be better, and create great work.

Fresh Youtubery

• 8 Strangest Ways Animals Were Used in Ancient Warfare – YouTube | Classics in Color
• Battle for Rome – Were Barbarian invasions a Peaceful settlement or Violent conquest #projectukraine – YouTube | History Marche
• History of Ancient Spain – YouTube | Ancient History Guy

Book Reviews

• Peninsula/Island of St. Thomas: History and archaeology of the Black Sea Islands | Spartokos a lu
• BMCR – Giulia D’Alessandro, Ammonio di Alessandria: Frammenti. Diotima. Studies in Greek philology, Bd. 2. Baden-Baden: Academia Verlag, 2020.
• BMCR – Mattias Gassman, Worshippers of the gods: debating paganism in the fourth-century Roman West. Oxford studies in late antiquity. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• U.S. exhibit offers visitors time travel to Achaemenid capital – Tehran Times

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

• Did Ancient Greeks Enjoy Swimming and Going to the Beach?
• Thoughts on The Iliad and The Odyssey – The Syrinx
• Cologne connects underground jewels of Roman palace, Jewish quarter | Daily Sabah
• April 24, 1183 BCE – The Legendary Fall Of Troy — Greek City Times
• Discovery claim of biblical scroll in Iran is fake | Fact Check
• The Ancient Art of Marble Sculpture Lives on at Greece’s Tinos
• Everyday Life in Ancient Athens
• Archaeological site along the Nile opens a window on the Nubian civilization that flourished in ancient Sudan
• Greek Fire: The Weapon that Protected the Byzantine Empire

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 year of peace.

… 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)