Hodie est a.d. XIV Kal. Feb. 2775 AUC ~ 17 Gamelion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad
In the News
- Μετρό Θεσσαλονίκης: Νέα αρχαιολογικά ευρήματα στο σταθμό Βενιζέλου – Συνεχίζονται οι ανασκαφές | Ειδήσεις
- Excavations shed further light on ancient Kition | Cyprus Mail
- Roman coins and bracelets unearthed in Ribble Valley farm dig – BBC News
- Swiss archeologists dig up youngest Roman amphitheatre – SWI swissinfo.ch
In Case You Missed It
- New Research into Greek Artifacts Looted by Nazis Highlighted in NY Times – The National Herald
- Villa Aurora auction fails to attract bidder, despite rare Caravaggio mural : NPR
- Manhattan Prosecutors Return Two Artifacts to Iraq – The New York Times
- Ancient Greek Heritage Uncovered at the Black Sea Coast of Bulgaria
Public Facing Classics
- Boris wouldn’t be the first to be brought down by a party | The Spectator Australia
- Recovering the Female Clerics of the Early Church – Los Angeles Review of Books
- What the Greek Myths Can Teach Us About Our Moment of Crisis | Time
Fresh Bloggery
- A Ramble on Academic Salaries | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Wounds and the Dreams that Cure Them – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Universality of Human Misery – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bayuda and its Neighbours
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Rural Foundations of The Roman Economy. New Approaches to Rome’s Ancient Countryside from the Archaic to the Early Imperial Period
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Laying the Foundations: Manual of the British Museum Iraq Scheme Archaeological Training Programme
- Vienna talk – script and slides – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- A Secret Messaging Strategy for the De-platformed – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Mishmash
- Achilles Restrained By Athena In Agamemnon’s Tent, By Johan Tobias Sergel (c. 1740-1814) | The Historian’s Hut
- Homer | The Historian’s Hut
- The Myth Of Medea Being Criminally Cleared For Killing A King And Princess Of Corinth | The Historian’s Hut
- The History Blog » Blog Archive » Bejeweled woman buried with child found in Siberia
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Not in it Fer Th’ Munny”? The Implications of £4.5m payment for Le Catillon Hoard.
- PaleoJudaica.com: Mendels, Hellenistic Inter-state Political Ethics and the Emergence of the Jewish State (T&T Clark)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Herms et al. (eds.), The Spirit Says (De Gruyter)
- Spencer Alley: Mediterranean World as Viewed or Imagined by French Artists
- Domitianus (22): Nog eens Isis – Mainzer Beobachter
Other Blog-like Publications
- No bids for 16th century mansion in Rome, Villa Aurora
- Results of 2021 Kition-Pampoula excavations
- Coins and Their Target Audiences in the Roman Empire
- Roman Columns of Brindisi – Brindisi, Italy – Atlas Obscura
Assorted Twitter Threads
Fresh Podcasts
In January 330 BC, Alexander the Great faced one of his most difficult challenges to date. A small Persian force, entrenched in a formidable defensive position that blockaded Alexander’s route to the Persian heartlands. A narrow pass through the Zagros Mountains that has gone down in history as the Persian, or Susian, Gates. Although nowhere near the size or scale of Alexander’s previous pitched battles against the Persians at the Granicus, Issus and Gaugamela, this clash in the mountains deserves its moment in the spotlight. A clash where the tables were turned and the Persians were outnumbered by their Macedonian counterparts. A battle that has been dubbed the Persian Thermopylae. From the immediate aftermath of Alexander’s victory at Gaugamela to his army’s antics at Babylon. From a merciless, punitive campaign in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains to a detailed run down of the Persian stand the Gates, enjoy as Tristan talks you through the events of late 331 / early 330 BC. In this first part, Tristan covers the events that followed Alexander the Great’s victory at Gaugamela and how these culminated with Alexander’s army approaching the Persian heartlands deep in the winter of 331/0 BC.
Fresh Youtubery
- AIASCS2022: Counting Animals in the Archaeological and Textual Records of Ancient Greece – YouTube | Flint Dibble
- Episode Two: Set, Props, and Costumes and Greek Tragedy – YouTube | Greek and Latin UCL
- Episode Three: Translation, Adaptation, and Greek Tragedy – YouTube | Greek and Latin UCL
- Herodotus and the foundation of the Peloponnesian League – YouTube | British School at Athens
- The Indo-European Origins of Sanskrit (Endnote to Nation) – YouTube | Alliterative
- Unboxing Ancient Clothing from Garb the World – YouTube | The Ancient Geeko-Roman
- Insula Occidentalis di Pompei – ritrovate lastre di marmo pronte per il rifacimento di un pavimento – YouTube | Pompeii Sites
- Gnaeus – how is GN pronounced in Latin? – YouTube | polyMATHY
Book Reviews
- BMCR – Beate Beer, Aulus Gellius und die Noctes Atticae: die literarische Konstruktion einer Sammlung. Millennium-Studien, 88. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.
- BMCR – Christopher Schliephake, Natascha Sojc, Gregor Weber, Nachhaltigkeit in der Antike: Diskurse, Praktiken, Perspektiven. Geographica Historica, 42. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2020.
Exhibition Related Things
- Ancient Greece is the word at the National Museum – Canberra Weekly
- Art Review: Greek & Roman Gods at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts | National Review
Online Talks and Professional Matters
- Imperial Imagery and Allusion within the Baths of Caracalla
- Classics and Archaeology research seminar – Wiedemann lecture – The University of Nottingham
- Underwater archaeological research in the Fourni Archipelago
- Returning and Recovery: The Homeric Odyssey on Trauma and Survival Tickets, Thu 24 Feb 2022 at 17:30 | Eventbrite
- See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
- SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars
Alia
- We’ve Lost the True Meaning of Cynicism – The Atlantic
- Dead Languages Remain Alive in the Classroom – and Beyond – The University Times
- Unicorns Are More Legit Than You Think | Discover Magazine
‘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 an abundance of imported products, but people will be afflicted with a coughing illness.
… adapted from the text and translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
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