Hodie est Kal. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 28 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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Fresh Podcasts

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Tom and Dominic explore what Edward Gibbon called “the greatest, perhaps, and most awful scene in the history of mankind”: the decline and fall of the Roman Empire.

• The Rest Is History: 157. Byzantium and the Ghosts of Rome on Apple Podcasts

What happened to the Roman Empire after its fall? In the second of two episodes, Tom and Dominic discuss where Rome endured, how its ghost still haunts 21st century geopolitics, and which member of the British Royal Family Tom thinks is the last true Roman!

• The Maritime History Podcast: The Delian League: High and Dry in Egypt on Apple Podcasts

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

The focus on Trasimene is often largely about the events of the day, but what is as interesting are the events leading up to it. What choices did Hannibal have and how did Rome try to anticipate him?

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Book Reviews

• BMCR – Elena N. Boeck, The bronze horseman of Justinian in Constantinople: the cross-cultural biography of a Mediterranean monument. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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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 a year of strife and arguments.

… 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. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 27 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Where did Peter the Apostle, disciple of Christ, really live? – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Cirencester hare mosaic to be restored as part of £30,000 revamp – BBC News
• Gaza technicians link animal bones to distant past – Al-Monitor: The Pulse of the Middle East
• Tracking down looted cultural treasures | eKathimerini.com
• Palestinians ignored in US deal on stolen antiquities
• Historic monuments in northern Greece to undergo restoration | eKathimerini.com

In Case You Missed It

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Public Facing Classics

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Fresh Bloggery

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• PaleoJudaica.com: Introduction to late Egyptian history
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• Caesar’s Apex – Liv Mariah Yarrow
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• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: On Balance…
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Association/Departmental Blogs and News

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Fresh Podcasts

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With the destruction of the Celtiberian city of Saguntum in 219, much of the Mediterranean world was plunged into a state of warfare for nearly two decades, as the Roman Republic would once again battle Carthage for dominance, and face their greatest foe to date: Hannibal Barca, son of Hamilcar. To the surprise and horror of the Senate, Hannibal would audaciously plan and execute a crossing of the Alps and bring the war to Italy, slaughtering the Roman armies thrown at him at the Trebia River and Lake Trasimene in 218/217.

• The Ancients: Sappho: The Lesbian Poet on Apple Podcasts

Famous throughout antiquity, yet retold only in fragments today – who is Sappho? Her poetry inspired generations, from Catullus to Byron, so how come we know so little about her life? This week Tristan is joined by Professor Margaret Reynolds from Queen Mary University in London to piece together what we know about Sappho. What can we learn from her fragmented history and how do her depictions in art further our understanding of who she was?

• The Ancient World: Episode C12 – The Two Temples on Apple Podcasts

Synopsis: The growing power of the Israelites and Arameans is reflected in the construction of new temples to Yahweh in Jerusalem and Hadad-Rammon in Damascus. A resurgent Egypt – under increasing influence of the Libyan Meshwesh – begins to eye its former Levantine holdings.

• Quotomania: Quotomania 149: Demosthenes on Apple Podcasts

Today’s Quotation is care of Demosthenes..

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Book Reviews

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Dramatic Receptions

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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 abundance and yet at the same time, a disease carrying wind.

… 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. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 25 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

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Fresh Bloggery

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• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: BENI NUMISMATICI – MUSEO DI ARCHEOLOGIA COLLECTION HOME PAGE
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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• When in Rome: Londinium on Apple Podcasts

Londinium was a significant city in the Roman empire, as it was the hub of activity and the capital of the province of Britannia. It was built on the bank of the River Thames and became the largest city in Roman Britain. Guest: Dr Dominic Perring (Director of the Centre for Applied Archaeology at University College London).

• Nuntii Latini: diē vīcēsimō quīntō mēnsis Februāriī on Apple Podcasts

Russī in Ucraīnā …

• Emperors of Rome: Episode CLXXXIII – Philippics on Apple Podcasts

As the power struggle in Rome continued and generals waged their war on the battlefield, Cicero took to the floors of the senate, confronting Antony with the greatest weapon in his arsenal: the spoken word. He called his speeches the Philippics, and they were influential in turning the senate against Antony. Part II of ‘The Liberator’s War’ Guest: Dr Kathryn Tempest (Reader in Classics and Ancient History, University of Roehampton).

• Let’s Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold: Conversations: The Many Faces of Monsters, Monster Theory with David J. Wright on Apple Podcasts

Liv speaks with David J Wright who has studied Monster Theory as it relates to the monsters of Greek myth… He also teaches mythology, and Medusa specifically, so you just know they had a great conversation. Follow David on Twitter for all things monsters and more. The piece of pottery referred to after the ad break can be found here.

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• MazzaSCS2022 – YouTube | Roberta Mazza
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Book Reviews

• JCT – The Making of a King. Antigonus Gonatas of Macedon and the Greeks (R.) Waterfield Pp. xxvi + 277, b/w & colour ills, maps. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – James Diggle, Bruce Fraser, Patrick James, Oliver Simkin, Anne Thompson, Simon Westripp, The Cambridge Greek lexicon. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Jacques A. Bromberg, Global classics. Routledge focus on classical studies. Abingdon; New York: Routledge, 2021.
• BMCR – Andrea U. De Giorgi, Cosa and the colonial landscape of republican Italy (third and second centuries BCE). Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2019.
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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

‘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, drought, and scabs on bodies.

[Sunday]  If it thunders today, it portends unrest among the commons.

… 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. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 24 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Archaeologists reveal ‘Karasuk cake’ burials in Siberia – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Tel Yarmuth urban archaeology park test case for new cooperation – The Jerusalem Post
• Fake treasure maps and savvy thieves: A day in the life of an antiquities crime-buster in Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Ongoing sabotage of Syria’s civilisational heritage | Iranian-backed militias loot artifacts in Palmyra • The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights
• These African heritage sites are under threat from rising seas, but there’s still time to save them | CNN Travel

In Case You Missed It

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• Parasite Eggs Help Archaeologists Identify Ancient Roman Chamber Pot | Smart News| Smithsonian Magazine
• Antiquities Valued at More Than $20 Million Returned to Greece – The New York Times

Public Facing Classics

• How to celebrate retirement | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• The Difference Between Power and Strength – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: NERD (NEAR EAST RADIOCARBON DATES)
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• Worse Through Words: National Emergencies and War – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Thucydides | The Historian’s Hut
• The Pointed End Of Governor Sallustius Lucullus | The Historian’s Hut
• Roman Times: Part 1 of the 5th 30-minute segment of the ProWalk Tours Virtual Pompeii Walk
• De uitvinding van het geld – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of McDowell et al. (eds.), Diversity and Rabbinization
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• PaleoJudaica.com: An archaeological park in Beit Shemesh
• How I fell in love with the classical world
• Dating the Fortress of Umm Tawabin, Jordan – The Palestine Exploration Fund
• Looting Matters: Steinhardt Antiquities Returned to Greece

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• ANE TODAY – 202202 – Dreams of Early Ancient Egypt – American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR)
• Archaeologists find evidence of large-scale Roman silver extraction in England – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News
• The Fascinating Truth About the Undervalued Late Roman Army | History of Yesterday

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on a bronze sesterius of Nero
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Fresh Podcasts

• Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA188 – How did the Romans and others counter the firepower and mobility of horse archer armies? on Apple Podcasts

Patron of the podcast Carlos sent us this question, ‘what were the methods used by groups like the Romans or any of the Near East powers to counter the firepower discipline and mobility of the horse archer nomad armies?’

• Casting Through Ancient Greece: 47: Anatolia, Revolt in the West on Apple Podcasts

The words of the Delphic oracle had rung true, the rising empire founded by Cyrus the great, the Persians had just destroyed a mighty empire, in that of king Croesus and his Lydians. The Greeks of Ionia had stood by idle only having been subjected to the Lydians a generation earlier. Cyrus had tried to incite the Greeks to rebel, though they would wait to see which way the winds would blow. With the Persian victory the Greeks now sought to arrange favourable terms with the new power in the region. Though, their fence sitting would find their attempts met with anger and distain from Cyrus. With Sardis captured and only mopping up operations left in the west, Cyrus departed back into the empire leaving his commanders to finish the job…

• History Hack: History Hack: The Jew Who Defied Rome on Apple Podcasts

Lindsay Powell joins us to talk about Bar Kokhba, the Jew who defied Hadrian and challenged the might of Rome.

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• Beginning Beyond Notability: excavating the archives for women in archaeology: Dr Amara Thornton – YouTube | Current Archaeology

Book Reviews

• RCR – Catherine E. Pratt, Oil, Wine, and the Cultural Economy of Ancient Greece from the Bronze Age to the Archaic Era (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Dramatic Receptions

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• Event Preview: Khameleon Productions to Present at Skidmore College on March 8th — The Skidmore News

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• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• Cleopatra’s Needle, the Central Park obelisk, holds secrets we’ll never know – Gothamist
• When Cleopatra Died Again | At the Smithsonian| Smithsonian Magazine
• First ever Festival of Minerva to go ahead in County Durham Park next month – Chronicle Live
• The Celestial Antikythera Mechanism: the Second Parthenon of Hellenic Civilization – CounterPunch.org

‘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, there will be a reversal of fortune for the wealthy; there will also be wars and a heavy storm.

… 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. Mart. 2775 AUC ~ 23 Anthesterion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Man Finds Roman-Era Marble Heads in Apartment in Greece
• Today is a golden age for archaeology in the Middle East
• Archaeological committee agree to light temple on Aegina | eKathimerini.com

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• London’s largest Roman mosaic in 50 years discovered by archaeologists – CNN Style
• Ancient Egyptian cache of mummification supplies unearthed | Live Science

Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

• Ephemeris – DE RE MEXICANA

Fresh Bloggery

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• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Hearth
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• The February Poems in the Chronography of 354 – Roger Pearse
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Recycling and Reuse of Sculpture in Roman and Late Antique Times
• Writing Wednesday: Campuses and Control | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• The Etruscan Sea God – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Flaying the Flayed Dog – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bible & Archaeology
• The Anticlimactic Death Of Hyllus | The Historian’s Hut
• Alexander Consulting The Oracle Of Apollo, By Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée (c. 1724 – 1805) | The Historian’s Hut
• Petrarch’s Postal Pleasures – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bazaar Archaeology: Issues About Four Artefacts Displayed in Internet Yesterday
• Een zilverstuk uit Syracuse – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: 30 externally verified people in the NT
• PaleoJudaica.com: Stoneman, A History of Alexander the Great in World Culture (CUP)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Timothy Lim reflects on his career

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Photo of the Month – February 2022 – DAİstanbul

Other Blog-like Publications

• Flights of Fancy. Anthony Doerr’s Latest Novel “Cloud… | by Scott D. Moringiello | In Medias Res | Feb, 2022 | Medium
• 55 antiquities valued at more than $20 million repatriated to Greece
• “A Lady of York” – The life and times of the Ivory Bangle Lady – Ancient World Magazine
• MOLA archaeologists discover major Roman mosaic in London – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Catullus 22.1-11
• @chapps explains his restoration of a gladiator funerary stele

Fresh Podcasts

• Actually Interesting History: S3E4: Caligula Part 1, a Boy in Boots on Apple Podcasts

Caligula’s reputation through the ages has been one of tyranny and insatiable appetite, but he was once just a little boy in boots. In today’s episode we cover the beginning of the Roman Empire and the family at the center of it all!

• Ancient History Fangirl: Gender Rebels of Ancient Greece and Rome: Eunuchs (Part 1) on Apple Podcasts

In ancient Rome, there were a lot of eunuchs. Some were enslaved, some were free; some were members of religious cults, some were not. No study of queer history in ancient Greece and Rome would be complete without them. Today, we’re going to take a look at the history of people who underwent castration in the Roman Empire—why they did it, when they did and didn’t have a choice, and what their lives were like.

Fresh Youtubery

• Book Review: Madam – YouTube | Millennial Classicist
• Giacomo Boni. L’alba della modernità | La sezione della mostra nel Tempio di Romolo – YouTube | Parco Colosseo

Book Reviews

• BMCR – Visalis Politis, Plato’s essentialism: reinterpreting the theory of forms. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• BMCR – S. Douglas Olson, Aristophanes’ Clouds: a commentary. Michigan classical commentaries. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2021.
• BMCR – Stéphane Benoist, Le pouvoir à Rome: espace, temps, figures. Paris: CNRS Editions, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• The radical drawings of Jacques-Louis David | Apollo Magazine

Online Talks and Conference-Related Things

• Digital Humanities + EpiDoc workshop, Cyprus 23–27, 2022 – Current Epigraphy
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Ancient Roman Pollution | Lapham’s Quarterly
• This explorer visited Israel in the 19th century and found it to be anything but empty – Israel News – Haaretz.com

‘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 good health for humans but destruction for fish and 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)