Hodie est a.d. V kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 25 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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This is a bonus episode from our Patreon at the $2 level. It’s the third installment of our Jackasses of the Arena series–and we saved the best for last. The Emperor Commodus didn’t just disguise himself as Hercules and compete in the arena (against drugged animals and gladiators with blunted swords, naturally). He turned the arena into a playground of terror so complete that even now, the PTSD of those who witnessed it leaps off the page. Ladies and gentlepeople, we give you: King Jackass of the Arena, the One Jackass to Rule Them All: Commodus.

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the hatching of locusts.

… 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. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 24 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Ephemeris – DE CAEDE BENGALENSI –
• Ephemeris AVE ATQUE VALE, EPISCOPE!

Public Facing Classics

• On beards – Engelsberg Ideas
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Fresh Bloggery

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• PaleoJudaica.com: Apocryphal Christmas, once again
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• De slag bij Kounaxa (3) – Mainzer Beobachter
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• Didn’t Get What You Wanted for Christmas? Tell Xenophon About It – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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• Jezus, Petrus, Domitianus en een vis – Mainzer Beobachter
• Blogs of the Year 2021 | Sphinx
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Assorted Twitter Threads

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Fresh Podcasts

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Nero has some freedmen executed but the stories are murky. The Parthians decide to try their luck taking back Armenia while Corbulo tries to keep the peace.

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: Storytime with the Snows: Boudica on Apple Podcasts – 

In a special episode of the podcast, Dan’s children join him for a lively retelling of Boudica and the violent uprising that tore Roman Britain apart- a classic bedtime story in the Snow household. Merry Christmas from Dan and his family!

• The Ancients: Race & Identity in the Ancient Greek Novel on Apple Podcasts – 

For the first 4 centuries AD/CE, the ancient Greek novel was the most popular literary form in the Roman Empire and at the heart of these popular texts is discussion over race and identity. Could a Phoenician living within the Empire also identify as Roman? Could they be both X and Y? And can we use these novels as a lens through which to see how people in the ancient Mediterranean viewed prominent powers beyond Rome’s borders, for instance the Kingdom of Axum in modern day Ethiopia. To explain this and more, with a particular focus on Heliodorus’ Aethiopica, Tristan spoke to Dr Mai Musié, Public Engagement Manager at the Bodleian Libraries in Oxford.

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718 – 976 – This period represents a reestablishment of the Byzantine Empire in a new world of Christian competition, and emerging nations looking to challenge Byzantine dominance and ideology.

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Book Reviews

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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 the king helping many people.

… 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. IX kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 20 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

n.b. there may or may not be a post on Christmas Day … it all depends on when everyone wakes up

In the News

• a quiet day

In Case You Missed It

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Classicists and Classics in the News

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Greek/Latin News

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Assorted Twitter Threads

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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 civil wars for the city and disease for forest-dwelling creatures.

… 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. X kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 19 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Unfinished Roman-era Statue Unearthed in Veria, Greece

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• Illegal excavations unearth Roman villa 

Public Facing Classics

• Boris and the Romans | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

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• Nabis, the Last King of Sparta, and His Torture Robot – Tales of Times Forgotten
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Other Blog-like Publications

• Spectacular ancient treasure discovered at sea off the coast of Caesarea

Fresh Podcasts

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It’s fair to say that winter battles weren’t commonplace in the ancient Mediterranean world. There is, however, one striking exception. A clash that occurred in mid/late December 218 BC, in northern Italy very close to the Po River. This clash was the Battle of the River Trebia, fought between the Roman consular army of Sempronius Longus and the conglomerate Carthaginian force under the leadership of the legendary Hannibal Barca. In this special podcast, Dr Eve MacDonald, Dr Louis Rawlings and Dr Adrian Goldsworthy talk you through the run up to this decisive winter clash, before delving into the details of the battle itself. From Hannibal and his weary, worn down force emerging from the Alps to Roman soldiers wading through the icy waters of the Trebia, sit back and enjoy as Eve, Louis and Adrian talk you through the story of Hannibal’s first great victory against the Roman Republic.

• In Our Time: The Hittites on Apple Podcasts

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the empire that flourished in the Late Bronze Age in what is now Turkey, and which, like others at that time, mysteriously collapsed. For the next three thousand years these people of the Land of Hatti, as they called themselves, were known only by small references to their Iron Age descendants in the Old Testament and by unexplained remains in their former territory. Discoveries in their capital of Hattusa just over a century ago brought them back to prominence, including cuneiform tablets such as one (pictured above) which relates to an agreement with their rivals, the Egyptians. This agreement has since become popularly known as the Treaty of Kadesh and described as the oldest recorded peace treaty that survives to this day, said to have followed a great chariot battle with Egypt in 1274 BC near the Orontes River in northern Syria…

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
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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 disease for the people, but not a serious one.

… 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. XI kal. Ian. 2774 AUC ~ 18 Poseideon in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

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• Ancient underwater treasure found in Caesarea with Christian gold ring – The Jerusalem Post
• Serres: Father and daughter in possession of more than 500 coins of great archaeological value | ATHENS 9,84
• Biblical Archaeology’s Top 10 Discoveries of 2021 | News & Reporting | Christianity Today
• Archaeologists tell of efforts to conserve ancient culture near developing dam – Tehran Times
• ‘Good Shepherd’ gold ring found in Roman-era wreck off Israel
• Ephesus Ancient Canal project takes its shape

In Case You Missed It

• Altar site for Greek goddess Demeter found in Turkey’s Blaundus | Daily Sabah
• The Search for Sources of Roman Silver – Archaeology Magazine
• Temple Of Hercules Gaditanus Where The God Was Worshipped By The Ancient Greeks And Romans In The 9th Century BC May Have Been Discovered Off The Coast Of Spain — Greek City Times
• Young Boris Johnson was passionately advocating for the return of the Parthenon marbles – Neos Kosmos

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Renowned archaeologist Vassos Karageorghis dies (updated) | Cyprus Mail

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE REPERTO SINENSI. 

Public Facing Classics

• The Art of Life: Charlotte Higgins | Apollo Magazine
• Holiday Supply Chain Issues of Ancient Rome – JSTOR Daily
• Golden-Tongued Mummies Might Have Talked With Ancient Gods

Fresh Bloggery

• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Shame of a Monoglot
• Writing the Greek Revolution | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Travel Plans for the Holidays: On to Bethlehem with the Protoevangelium of James – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Wish
• Love as Classroom Management – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Using the Past as a Guide for the Future – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Het Antikythera-mechanisme – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: In memory of Baruch Levine
• PaleoJudaica.com: CT’s biblical archaeology top ten 2021
• PaleoJudaica.com: Two shipwrecks found at Caesarea
• Domitianus (3): Jeugd – Mainzer Beobachter
• 7 Questions You Have About the Manhattan DA’s Agreement with “A New York Antiquities Collector”
• Poetic dispatches from the Dacian Limes – MAPPOLA
• Women Doing Ancient History: A Best Of 2021 – Everyday Orientalism

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Statement of the SCS Executive Committee | Society for Classical Studies
• Übersetzung 1: “Die sechs Säulen für die Einbindung von Forschenden in das Forschungsdatenmanagement (FDM)” – EcoDM – Ökosystem Datenmanagement
• Inaugural Scholarship Contest for LCA Teachers | The Louisiana Classicist
• News – Society Sunday is January 2, 2022! – Archaeological Institute of America

Fresh Podcasts

• Dan Snow’s History Hit: King Herod on Apple Podcasts

Thanks largely to his feature in the Gospel of Matthew, King Herod ‘the Great’ of Judaea is one of the infamous figures from the whole of history. So what do we know about this ancient near eastern ruler, who in his lifetime had contacts with a series of ‘goliath’ figures from the ancient Mediterranean World: from Caesar to Cleopatra and from Marc Antony to Augustus. To talk about King Herod, with a particular focus on the material and meaning of his monumental tomb at Herodium, Tristan was re-joined by Holy Land archaeologist Dr Jodi Magness. A wonderful speaker, Jodi has previously been on the podcast to talk all about the Siege of Masada and Jewish burial at the time of Jesus.

Fresh Youtubery

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• The Death of Emperor Vespasian | Dr Raoul McLaughlin
• Louvre aulos, Ancient Greek instrument. After my 10th lesson. Oahu, Hawaii. Bettina Joy de Guzman
• Ecole française d’Athènes
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Pottery assemblages from the Aphrodision of Stesileos on Delos
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – Epichysis: The origin and circulation of a disputed ceramic type
  • 29/11/2021- Greek Pottery – The use of preliminary drawing

Book Reviews

• [AJA] An Enchantment of Digital Archaeology: Raising the Dead with Agent-Based Models, Archaeogaming and Artificial Intelligence By Shawn Graham (Digital Archaeology 1). New York: Berghahn Books 2020. 
• [AJA] Wine Jars and Jar Makers of Cyprus: The Ethnoarchaeology of Pitharia By Gloria London. Nicosia: Astrom Editions 2020.
• [AJA] Les arrière-pays des cités phéniciennes à l’époque hellénistique (IVe–Ier s. av. N.È.): Approches historique et spatiale d’une aire géoculturelle By Élodie Guillon (Collezione di Studi Fenici 50). Rome: CNR Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale 2020. 

Exhibition Related Things

• Fearsome mythology and a touch of marble | The Canberra Times | Canberra, ACT

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Non-Stipendiary Research Associates at the ICS
• Oxford Online Course in Phoenician
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• New York Times: Britain Remains Silent About Parthenon Sculptures | ATHENS 9,84
• “House of Menander” in Pompeii Showcases Ancient Greek Themes
• Watch: A 3D Flythrough Tour of Classical Athens – Greek Herald

‘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 hot summer with abundant crops.

… 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)