Hodie est a.d. XI Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 16 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Manhattan Antiquities Dealer Pleads Guilty to Manufacturing Thousands of Forgeries | Architectural Digest
• Artifacts looted from Syrian national museums seen in the office of a Lebanese official – Enab Baladi
• Mentally unstable man attempts to destroy ram statue in Tahrir Square – Egypt Independent
• Mosaic depicting grape harvest to go on display in Turkey’s Hatay | Daily Sabah

In Case You Missed It

• Human head carvings and phallus-shaped pillars discovered at 11,000-year-old site in Turkey | Live Science
• Mosaic floors from the 1,500-year-old lost ‘Church of the Apostles’ are discovered in Israel  | Daily Mail Online
• Oldest ghost drawing discovered on Babylonian exorcism tablet | Live Science

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Impact of Rivers on Ancient Economies
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Table Manners
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: CDLI Newsletter 2021/2: October 2021
• A Typology of Fear for a Spooky Time of Year – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• New Beatings in Death – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Krokotta: A Beast Worthy of October – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Practicalities of Hellenistic Ruler Cults
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: CTT – Conservation of Theban temples and tombs: symposium proceedings February 2016, Luxor
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Torah, Temple, Land: Constructions of Judaism in Antiquity
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was Nimrod a goodie or a baddie?
• Ktesifon – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Dorival, The Septuagint from Alexandria to Constantinople (OUP)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Mosaic inscriptions found at the church at El-Araj (Bethsaida?)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’Homosexualité féminine dans l’Antiquité grecque et romaine

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Of Ancient Dynasts, Border Guards and Potters – The 2021 Survey in the Pergamon Micro-Region – Pergamon Micro-Region
• Photo of the Month – October 2021 – DAİstanbul
• Upcoming Deadlines | Society for Classical Studies

Other Blog-like Publications

• Egyptian Cats and Greek Curiosity – Antigone
• Therasia: the new excavation finds from the prehistoric settlement
• Wicked Witches of Latin Literature | by AnnMarie Patterson | In Medias Res | Oct, 2021 | Medium
• Music on Ancient Coins

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Propertius 2.8.1-12
• @DcoCrom on some coinage depicting Nero

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Actually Interesting History: S2E18: Marc Antony and Cleopatra on Apple Podcasts

Their love affair has fascinated us for ages. In this episode, learn about the beginning of Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra put on possibly the greatest PR display of all time and even from here, 2000 years later, I assure Antony didn’t stand a chance.

• ‎Ancient Warfare Podcast: What is one battle where sources agree but you don’t? on Apple Podcasts

Thanks to Paul for sending this in, ‘what is one battle where sources agree but you don’t?’ It is a great question and one we may revisit on a full episode of the podcast.

• ‎Casting Through Ancient Greece: Interview: Bronze Age Collapse with Prof. Eric H Cline on Apple Podcasts

…. In this episode I talk to Prof. Eric Cline about the discipline of archaeology and his book 1177 BC where he talks about the late Bronze Age world and the Collapse it would suffer. He details the various evidence that has shown itself in the historical record to help us understand what was happing during this world changing period of time…

Fresh Youtubery

• Sally’s Song in Latin, Nightmare Before Christmas  (lyrics: Stefano Vittori) | ScorpioMartianus
• Emily Greenwood and María del Pilar Blanco: Disciplinarity | Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
• François Hartog on the genesis of his 1980 book Le miroir d’Hérodote | Herodotus Helpline
• ILIAD BOOK 20: After The Longest Strop In The World, Achilles Finally Returns To Battle | Moan Inc
• CHS Dialogues with Gregory Nagy | The Just, the Wrong, and the Hero | Center for Hellenic Studies
• Why is this 2,500 year old shipwreck so well-preserved? – Helen Farr and Jon Adams | TD-Ed
• The Curious Case of the Ryedale Hoard & Tik Tok Shopping for Bones!? – WB 22nd Oct 2021 | Archaeosoup
• A History of Christian Persecutions in Rome & Founding San Marino | 301AD-310AD | A.D. History Podcast

Book Reviews

• Sarah A. Rous, Reset in Stone: Memory and Reuse in Ancient Athens (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2019).
• Homer’s range by Daisy Dunn | The New Criterion

Exhibition Related Things

• ‘A unique experience’: National Museum curator Dr Withycombe on the ‘Ancient Greeks’ exhibition – Greek Herald

Dramatic Receptions

• Film screening of “Prometheus Bound”

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• ENCODE Conference and Training Event – Leuven – Current Epigraphy
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• Visiting Tutor in the Department of Classics at Royal Holloway, University of London
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Asterix and The Griffin: When war becomes a women′s issue | Culture | Arts, music and lifestyle reporting from Germany | DW | 22.10.2021

‘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 bad weather and an outbreak of skin diseases among the 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. XII Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 15 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient-DNA Researchers Set Ethics Guidelines for Their Work – The New York Times
• What was Jewish life in Israel like at the time of the Mishna, Talmud? – The Jerusalem Post
• Archaeologists Discover A 6th-century Coin Hoard In Ancient Phanagoria
• ‘Church of the Apostles’ in Bethsaida mysteriously buried, archaeologists discover – Israel News – Haaretz.com
• A Contessa Entellina riemergono tracce dal passato: scoperti nuovi resti di antichi edifici
• Anti-flood works on Acropolis do the trick | eKathimerini.com
• Illegal Excavations of Cultural Property Surged During Pandemic – ARTnews.com
• Rare biblical ‘balsam tree’ found on 2000-year-old amethyst seal – The Jerusalem Post
• Excavation season ends in Dascylium ancient city in NW Turkey

In Case You Missed It

• Archaeology: Neolithic relief with a frontal depiction of a man holding his phallus found in Turkey | Daily Mail Online

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Obituary for Joe Schork – Classical Association of New England
• History professor Thomas Parker unexpectedly passes away at 71 | News | technicianonline.com
• The Color of Classics | Princeton Alumni Weekly
• The Hollowing Out of Stanford Classics

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE PRAESIDIS ACCVSA 

Public Facing Classics

• Smells like witch spirit: How the ancient world’s scented sorceresses influence ideas about magic today
• Statue abuse and fake news | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

Fresh Bloggery

• Minor Details and Obscured Lives – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Video #18: Athenian Democracy with Chandra Giroux – Peopling the Past
• Where Do Snakes Come From? A Spine-Tingling Explanation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Nachlass Paul de Lagarde: Orientalistische Netzwerke und antisemitische Verflechtungen
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aegyptus et Nubia Christiana. The Włodzimierz Godlewski Jubilee Volume on the Occasion of his 70th Birthday
• Orpheus and Eurydice, By An Unidentified 19th-Century Artist | The Historian’s Hut
• Een Macedonisch-Babylonische stad: Seleukeia – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Samaritan Sukkot 2021
• PaleoJudaica.com: Exhibition: “The Sanhedrin Trail”
• PaleoJudaica.com: Amethyst seal engraved with balsam tree excavated in Jerusalem
• Spencer Alley: Paolo de’ Matteis (Neapolitan Flourishes)
• The Shelbiad, Three Years On.

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• BONES AND BEADS – Human Bioarchaeology https://www.dainst.blog/hub/2021/10/20/bones-and-beads/
• Bursaries for Work on Herculaneum | The Herculaneum Society

Other Blog-like Publications

• Pasts Imperfect (10.21.21) – by Sarah E. Bond, Colin McCaffrey, and Monica H. Green – Pasts Imperfect

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Propertius 2.15.1-10

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Dan Snow’s History Hit: How Brutish Were Our Ancestors? on Apple Podcasts

Was life for our ancient ancestors brutish and short or did they exist as noble savages free and living in harmony with nature and each other? Many of our assumptions about ancient societies stem from renaissance theories about how society should be organized and what civilisation is. Dan is joined by David Wengrow, Professor of Comparative Archaeology at University College London and co-author of The Dawn of Everything to challenge some of these assumptions and show that they were founded on critiques of European society. David shines a light on the great variety of ancient civilisations, the different models of society they offer and how that might influence us today.

• ‎The Ancients: Ancient Kazakhstan: Gold of the Great Steppe on Apple Podcasts

Gold and horses! 2,500 years ago, in the area of the Great Steppe that is now Eastern Kazakhstan, an extraordinary ancient Scythian culture reigned supreme. They were called the Saka, renowned for their skill as horse archers and for their elaborate elite burials. Ancient Persian and Greek sources labelled them a barbaric, nomadic people – a scourge on the ‘civilised’ world. But new archaeological discoveries from East Kazakhstan are revealing a very different picture. A picture that highlights how the Saka were a highly-sophisticated ancient society. A culture that boasted complex settlements, expert craftsmen, extensive trade routes and more, alongside their equine mastery and their staggering wealth. Now, for a limited time only, you can see some of these newly-discovered artefacts at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge. The exhibition is called ‘Gold of the Great Steppe’. Running from 28th September 2021 to 30th January 2022, it is the first exhibition about this ancient culture ever to be shown in the UK. To find out more about the exhibition and what these newly-discovered artefacts are revealing about the Saka, Tristan headed up to Cambridge to interview Dr Rebecca Roberts, associated curator of ‘Gold of the Great Steppe’.

• ‎Movies We Dig: The Ancient World on Film: Episode 29 – The Odyssey (1997), with Deborah Beck on Apple Podcasts

We’re back at Troy, where shirts are optional, digging up an artifact from a bygone era: late 90’s television. Joined by the wonderful Dr. Deborah Beck, expert Homerist from UT Austin, we we break down the 1997 Hallmark miniseries, The Odyssey. This movie, by its director’s own omission hones in on the action-adventure aspects of Homer’s Odyssey. But, we scholars ruminate, are those really the best parts of the story? We mediate again on the pitfalls of sticking to the plot of a story while missing its larger themes. We also tackle two of the great questions of our time: Iliad or Odyssey and who had the best mullet?

Fresh Youtubery

• Donne dall’antichità. Torna a splendere l’urna di Monte Abatone grazie a Q8

Book Reviews

• [BMCR] Carlo Di Giovine, Metafore e lessico della relegazione: studio sulle opere ovidiane dal Ponto. Il carro di Medea, Studi 1. Rome: Deinotera editrice, 2020.
• [BMCR] Marina Escolano-Poveda, The Egyptian priests of the Graeco-Roman period: an analysis on the basis of the Egyptian and Graeco-Roman literary and paraliterary sources. Studien zur spätägyptischen Religion, Band 29. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2020.
• [BMCR] Antoine Viredaz, Fragmenta Saturnia heroica: introduction, traduction et commentaire des fragments de l’Odyssée latine de Livius Andronicus et de la Guerre punique de Cn. Naevius. Schweizerische Beiträge zur Altertumswissenschaft, Band 47. Basel: Schwabe Verlag, 2020.
• Preliminary Results of the Studies in the South-Eastern Part of the Tanais Citadel in 2015-2019. | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Rafael Ferber, Platonische Aufsätze. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 386. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Penn Museum launches first post lockdown exhibit with major look at clothing from ancient Scythia to Marian Anderson
• Innovating From Antiquities, Rubens Masterfully Took Inspiration From a Wealth of Sources – ArtfixDaily News Feed

Dramatic Receptions

• Epic re-telling of The Odyssey on the Yorkshire coast features more than 400 aspiring actors and rising stars | The Scarborough News
• Troy Theatre and Dance presents Medea, a Greek tragedy – Troy Today

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• FIEC: SIBC Conference: 100th Anniversary of l’Année Philologique
• Job Listing: Museum Review Editor | American Journal of Archaeology
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Is There Overlap Between Philosophy And PR?
• Arch-Tech: Purple Threads from the Days of David and Solomon – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Alexander the Great Tomb: All the Claims in One of History’s Greatest Mysteries
• How ideas from ancient Greek philosophy may have driven civilization toward climate change
• Malacandra as Utopia: Plato’s Republic as Reflected in C.S. Lewis’ Out of the Silent Planet | Tor.com
• Romantic Red Flags in “The Iliad” | The University News

‘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 coughing sicknesses and cardiac issues.

… 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. XIII  Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 14 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Valle dei Templi, finanziati scavi per il teatro greco – SICILIATV.ORG
• Magna Graecia: Corinthian Ship from 7th Century BC Found in Italy
• 1,600-year-old church unearthed in Priene ancient city in Aydın | Daily Sabah
• Swords, gold & shipwrecks: Israeli waters keep on revealing treasures – The Jerusalem Post
• Nuove scoperte archeologiche alle spalle della Basilica di Aquileia: mura, tombe e anche un mercato
• Turkey’s ‘City of Gladiators’ awaits visitors with its new unearthed artifacts

In Case You Missed It

• Skeleton of man fleeing Mount Vesuvius eruption found in Herculaneum | Live Science
• Boudicca acquitted of atrocities in Supreme Court ‘trial’ | Eastern Daily Press
• Lukios woz ‘ere: Personalized seats found in Pergamon amphitheater in Turkey – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Tornos News | Geological report: Colossus of the Naxians on Delos marble source identified

Classicists and Classics in the News

• ‘Goat-song’ analysis examines origins of mythical satyrs in culture and drama | The University of Kansas
• Cranfield research reveals how gold ‘bling’ was rejected by ancient societies
• Professor Spotlight: Dr. Dugan Advocates for Disabled Students, Staff, Faculty
• Elon University Classics Club works to understand diversity in classics – Elon News Network
• Dame Mary Beard, 66, says she was ‘pleased’ when Edward Colson’s statue was pulled down | Daily Mail Online
• Hungarian High School Student Wins One of Oxford’s Most Prestigious Essay Competitions – Hungary Today

Public Facing Classics

• Guide to the classics: Euripides’ The Trojan Women – an unflinching look at the brutality of war

Fresh Bloggery

• Methods and Time for An Archaeology of the Contemporary World | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Argo Navis & the Abolished Constellations – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Talking With Homer in the Underworld – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Tawdry Tuesday: Raising the Dead – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urban Religion in Late Antiquity
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die koptischen Autoren und ihre literarischen Werke im ersten Jahrtausen
• Boy And Muse, By Franz von Matsch (c. 1861 – 1942) | The Historian’s Hut
• The Bookish Lifestyle Of Pliny The Elder | The Historian’s Hut
• Charax, een stad van Alexander de Grote – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: The Few and the Many
• PaleoJudaica.com: Seven sites in Israel
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ben Gurion University has closed its Bible department
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Gottlieb, Targum Chronicles and its Place Among the Late Targums (Brill)
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Yahoo “Antiquisleuths” use Yandex to Accuse Foreign Archaeologists
• History Mysteries of Caroline Lawrence: How We Wrote Amarantus by Caroline Lawrence
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek I: A 21st Century Approach
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online
• Hellenistisch Babylon – Mainzer Beobachter

Other Blog-like Publications

• The Man who Translated the Bible into Latin – Antigone
• Guises of the Tribute Penny

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Afterlives with Kara Cooney: Ghosts, Spirits, and All Things Spooky on Apple Podcasts

In part one of our Halloween special, Kara and Jordan delve into all things *spooky*. Did the ancient Egyptians believe in ghosts? How did the living and the dead interact? What happened to you when you died? Did they have a concept of the soul?

• ‎Ad Navseam: “That’s the Power of Love: Two Ovidian Vignettes” (Ad Navseam, Episode 59) on Apple Podcasts

Jeff and Dave wade into the Olympic-sized pool that is Ovid’s masterpiece, the Metamorphoses. After untangling etymological tendrils of the word “vignette”, the guys dive right in. First up, “Apollo and Daphne”. Not happy with Apollo’s arch trash-talk, Cupid shows him who’s really the boss—his arrows unleash unstoppable passion and malodorous disdain between the titular two. This is not the chubby bowman on your Valentine’s card. Then it’s on to “Diana and Actaeon”. What’s the message here? Another defense of chastity? Haunting comment on the goddess’ sacredness? Is Ovid alluding to his own error or the recent Roman past? Maybe he’s whelping on the very conventions of epic? Come on in, the water’s fine, but be careful where you dogpaddle.

• ‎This Week in the Ancient Near East: 11,500 Year Old Cultic Site With Huge Stone Circles, Pillars, and Skulls Mystifies Easily Mystified Archaeologists, Or, Gimme That Really, Really, Really Old Time Religion on Apple Podcasts

Where does religion come from? How did hunter-gatherers build early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe in southeastern Turkey? What’s with the gigantic carved stone pillars and the defleshed human skulls anyway? What is religion, really? Why am I asking you? It’s an episode as profound as it is, well, mystifying.

Fresh Youtubery

• ILIAD BOOK 19: Achilles and Agamemnon Make Up | Moan Inc
• PtP 18: Athenian Democracy with Chandra Giroux | Peopling the Past
• Professor Judith Mossman – The colours on the wings of the Sphinx: imagery and metaphor in Plutarch | Hellenic Society

Book Reviews

• The 20-Year Contest to Crack the Code of the Rosetta Stone – The New York Times
• Emily Wilson · Punishment by Radish: Aristophanes Remixed · LRB 21 October 2021
• Mithridate le Grand, « le dernier Hellène  | «Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Lloyd P. Gerson, Platonism and naturalism: the possibility of philosophy. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2020.
• [BMCR] Sandra Blakely, Billie Jean Collins, Religious convergence in the ancient Mediterranean. Studies in ancient Mediterranean religions, 2. Atlanta: Lockwood Press, 2019.
• [BMCR] Cengiz Işık, Die Wandmalereien in der Grabkammer des Hekatomneions: Beobachtungen zu Figurentypen, zur Komposition, Ikonographie und zum Stil. Asia Minor Studien, 91. Bonn: Rudolf Habelt, 2019.

Exhibition Related Things

• University of Reading museum event exploring beliefs about life after death
• 2021 Leventis Exhibition | The University of Edinburgh
• Crete Getting Ready to Welcome New Archaeological Museum in Chania | GTP Headlines

Dramatic Receptions

• Troy Theatre and Dance presents Medea, a Greek tragedy – Troy Today

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF CLASSICS
• UCLA SNF Hellenic Center Lectures in Greek Archaeology Conclude Oct. 23 | archive , usa , arts & literature | The National Herald
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• The Rise and Fall of the Liberty Cap – JSTOR Daily
• Mermaids: When And Why Did People Believe In Them? – HistoryExtra
• In Full Color – Archaeology Magazine
• Five Caryatids in Athens Still Waiting for Their Lonely Sister
• Villa Albani’s treasures of Roman and Greek art revealed in picture book | World | The Times
• The classic Cream song inspired by Homer’s ‘Odyssey’
• Lead Figurine of an African Warrior | English Heritage

‘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 reopening of old grievances and for many, extreme suffering as a result.

… 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. XIV Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 13 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Archaeological mission discovers amphoras from Byzantine era in Luxor – Daily News Egypt

In Case You Missed It

• 1,800-Year-Old Rock-Cut Tombs Explored in Turkey – Archaeology Magazine
• Human Remains Unearthed at Herculaneum – Archaeology Magazine

Classicists and Classics in the News

• Milestones: S. Thomas Parker (1950–2021) – Biblical Archaeology Society

Greek/Latin News

• [Ephemeris] DE AQVARVM POTESTATE.

Fresh Bloggery

• Babylon, Assyrisch hoofdpijndossier – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Symbols of Other-World Potations
• St Jerome on “Christmas Trees” in Jeremiah 10 – Roger Pearse
• An Epitaph for a Dog – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Five unmissable novels about ancient Greece and Rome | Classically Inclined
• Turnabout’s Example and Fair Play – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Euripides | The Historian’s Hut
• Linus—The Literature And Music Instructor Of Ancient Greek Heroes | The Historian’s Hut
• Het Babylon van Nebukadnezar – Mainzer Beobachter
• Ramesside Inscriptions. Translated & Annotated
• PaleoJudaica.com: Angelini, L’imaginaire du démoniaque dans la Septante (Brill)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Remember that Irish bog Psalter?
• Classics Can Stay in its Cozy Cave of Whiteness While the Rest of Us Move On – Everyday Orientalism

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Blog: Dissertation Spotlight: The Shape of an Empire: Environments, Economies, and the Nature of the Seleucid State | Society for Classical Studies
• Corvus CFP – The Classical Association of Canada

Other Blog-like Publications

• Somnium Sapphicum. Ella Hochstadt Visitatur A Visione… | by Ella Hochstadt | In Medias Res | Oct, 2021 | Medium
• Archaeologists excavate hoard of rare silver coins – HeritageDaily – Archaeology News

Assorted Twitter Threads

• @DocCrom on Horace, Odes 1.11
• @nadhirawho on ancient symposium venues

Fresh Podcasts

• ‎Classically Trained: Episode Twelve: A Thousand Ships on Apple Podcasts

In this episode we discuss Natalie Haynes’s 2019 novel A Thousand Ships. Digressions include identity theft, ancient clothing, and ecofascism. We also spend a while simping for basically every ancient woman mentioned.

• ‎The Ancients: Caracalla: The Common Enemy of Mankind? on Apple Podcasts

Often up there in the upper echelons of most articles listing Rome’s worst emperors, it’s fair to say that history has not been kind to Caracalla. Whether it was contemporary sources depicting him as a deranged Heracles and Alexander the Great loving megalomaniac or the 18th century historian Edward Gibbon labelling him ‘the common enemy of mankind,’ for centuries he has been an epitome of infamy. To talk through what we know about this figure, and whether he deserves this reputation, Tristan was joined by Edinburgh University’s Dr Alex Imrie, an expert on the Severan Dynasty and the author of The Antonine Constitution: An Edict for the Caracallan Empire.

• ‎Ciao Bella: Getting under Rome with Darius Arya and Adriano Morabito on Apple Podcasts

Rome is a gorgeous palimpsest of history and no one knows that better than archaeologist Darius Arya and speleologist Adriano Morabito. Darius and Adriano join Erica for an afternoon chat about Rome.

• ‎Literature and History: Episode 95: Rutilius Namatianus on Apple Podcasts

In 417 CE, the Roman poet Rutilius Namatianus journeyed from Rome back to his homeland of Gaul, not knowing whether there was a home to return to.

• ‎Ancient Greece Declassified: R5 Philosopher Queens | Plato’s Republic, book 5 w/ Mary Townsend on Apple Podcasts

The most controversial part of Plato’s Republic is its fifth book, wherein Socrates argues for the political equality of men and women, the abolition of the nuclear family, a strange eugenics program, and the idea that philosophers kings and philosopher queens should be put in charge of political affairs. With us to discuss book 5 is Mary Townsend, assistant professor of philosophy at Saint John’s University in Queens and author of the book The Woman Question in Plato’s Republic.

• ‎That’s Ancient History: S. 5 E. 1 Answering the Most Googled Questions About Ancient Greece with Jill Scott on Apple Podcasts

In this week’s episode Jean Menzies and regular guest Jill Scott welcome back the podcast for a new season by finding out what the most googled questions about Ancient Greece are and have a go at answering them.

Fresh Youtubery

• How to write like an Ancient Roman: Rustic Capitals | polyMATHY
• Seneca (pars II) || Latin language podcast || Litterae Latinae Simplices 41 | Satura Lanx
• Avenging Varus – Battle of the Angrivarian Wall (16 AD) | Invicta
• Ancient Coins: Upgrading a coin in your collection | Classical Numismatics
• Ex Subura! Speaking Latin in Rome SUBTITLES! @polýMATHY| Musa Pedestris
• Creepy Crawlies: Spooky Urban Legends from Ancient Rome & Greece | Classics in Color
• Excavating Abila: Past, Present, and Future | ACOR Jordan
• Roma Aeterna: Palatium & Capitolium  Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata Cap.36 vv.1-57 | Scorpio Martianus
• AIA Iowa Society Talk: Bjorn Anderson and Erin Daly [10.11.2021] | University of Iowa Department of Classics
• House Tomb 2 in the Pre- and Protopalatial Cemetery – Petras-Kephala, Crete | Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
• The Partial Historians: ‘Why Yes I Did Murder the King: The Women of Early Rome’ | Chau Chak Wing Museum

Book Reviews

• Themistocles. The Powerbroker of Athens (J.A.) Smith. Pp. xxviii + 284, maps, colour pls. Barnsley: Pen & Sword Books, 2021.
• Euripides: Trojan Women (B.) Goff Pp. 173. London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc (Bristol Classical Press). 2012
• Euripides: Electra (R.) Rehm Pp. 180 Bloomsbury, 2020.
• Our ancient ancestors may have been more civilized than we are – Macleans.ca
• Pat Barker’s New Novel of the Trojan War, Reviewed | The New Yorker
• Perfecting Diseases’ Pasts: On Kyle Harper’s “Plagues Upon the Earth”

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• Base Metal Coinage in Antiquity and Beyond
• Between Magnesia and Macedon
• Payment, Profit, or Prestige?
• Brave New Classics » Workshop Programme
• Assistant Professor or Associate Professor of Early Christianity (Penn State)
• Digital Project Specialist in Princeton, New Jersey | Careers at Princeton University
• Conference in honour of Prof. Emeritus Demetrios Michaelides
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

• Zeusy gossip: Novelist explains eternal fascination with the myths of ancient Greece
• Ancient Greek Mathematician Apollonius Has Own Crater on Moon
• Who was the first person to write about the British Isles? | Live Science
• Daily Life in Ancient Greece: What it Was Like to Live in Athens and Sparta
• 5 Fast and Furious Facts About The Lives of Gladiators | Discover Magazine
• Cultural property crime thrives throughout pandemic says new INTERPOL survey
• Can Skeletons Have a Racial Identity? – The New York Times
• Chair, Department of Classics and Philosophy – HigherEdJobs
• 7 lesser-known archaeology sites in Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
• Prehistoric Religion: A Pagan Riddle We Will Never Solve? – HistoryExtra

‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:

• Homeromanteion | Online Homeric Oracle
• Sortes Virgilianae (English)
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• Consult the Oracle at UCL

Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it thunders today, it portends the downfall of a ruler or the overthrow of  a monarch, and also portends civil discord and abundance.

… 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. XV Kal. Nov. 2774 AUC ~ 12 Pyanepsion in the first year of the 700th Olympiad

In the News

• Ancient Rome’s ‘pleasure palace’, where Caligula got his kicks, to open to the public

In Case You Missed It

• ‘Sensational’ fugitive skeleton found at Herculaneum – English – ANSA.it

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• Italian archaeologist spends half century in excavations in Turkey

Greek/Latin News

• Radiogiornale Latino 17.10.2021 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• [Ephemeris] RAPTVS HAITIENSIS De crimine insulari 

Public Facing Classics

• The Ancient World’s Secret Weapon? The Ejaculating Phallus

Fresh Bloggery

• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Komik im Kult. Eine kontextuelle Untersuchung der böotischen Kabirenbecher
• Laudator Temporis Acti: El Jefe
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sefaria releases a new-old German translation of the Talmud
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Water
• PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Parks, Gender in the Rhetoric of Jesus
• I Am Dedicating My Life to Philosophy. Please Send Me Some Gossip From Rome – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Influential Teachers and the Meaning of the Good: Two Anecdotes Concerning Epicurus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A spring of ambrosial words: finding Pindar in Pindar
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les inscriptions de Scythie Mineure
• Kort Irakees (5): Bahlul – Mainzer Beobachter
• Lol-lianos: He’s In It For the Words. – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » 7th c. B.C. shipwreck illuminates trade in early Magna Grecia
• Domitianus en de joden – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: A High School Library
• Kort Irakees (6): Koninklijke Weg – Mainzer Beobachter
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epameinondas the Great
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Sifting Project has found a Kufic inscription fragment
• PaleoJudaica.com: Levantine late-antique earthquakes
• Revealed by the Character of His Snake – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Faddan More Psalter | Variant Readings
• The Infantile Mind: Pliny on Where Amber Comes From – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digital (Egyptian) Epigraphy 3D Model Collection
• The History Blog » Blog Archive » Roman lead figurine is warrior, not slave
• Nineveh, de laatste Assyrische hoofdstad – Mainzer Beobachter
• Why That Fresco from Pompeii Isn’t Sappho – Tales of Times Forgotten
• The Punic Wars Part II | From A (Alps) to Z (Zama) – The Kosmos Society
• Gone Fishing | Sphinx
• Caveat Venditor takeaways during the guilty pleas of New York ancient art dealers ~ ARCAblog
• PaleoJudaica.com: Was the Flood story added later?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeological evidence for the United Monarchy?
• Spencer Alley: Hendrik de Keyser (Design in Amsterdam)
• Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: British Museum Halloween Trope
• Aristarchus on the Moon – The Classical Astronomer
• Sanctuaries in the Danubian provinces: about an important conference | Szabó Csaba

Association/Departmental Blogs and News

• Black History Month in Reading Classics | Classics at Reading
• Ein Tempel nimmt Form an – DAI Newsblog
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• Archäologie als Detektivarbeit – DAI Newsblog

Other Blog-like Publications

• Did Amazons roam Ancient Rome? – Antigone
• Prehistoric habitation layer unearthed at Ioannina
• The Mystery of Maltese Temples – Retrospect Journal
• Augustan Propaganda: Virgil and Idealism in the Aeneid  – Retrospect Journal
• Binyavanga Wainaina’s ‘How To Write About Africa’ and the Dangers of the Single Story – Retrospect Journal
• Are the Gospels Reliable Sources? Part One: ‘Who is This Man?’ – Retrospect Journal

Book Reviews

• The Roman Republic to 49 BCE. Using Coins as Sources (L.M.) Yarrow Pp. xxxviii + 273, b/w and colour ills, maps. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
• The Secret Lives of Words From Rome to Apalachicola (R.A.) LaFleur Pp.282. Independently published, 2020.
• Birth of the Persian Empire (V.) Sarkosh Curtis, (S.) Stewart (edd.) Pp. 147, ills. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005.
• Les inscriptions de Scythie Mineure | Spartokos a lu
• [BMCR] Florian Steger, Antike Medizin: Einführung und Quellensammlung. BGL-Studium, 6. Stuttgart: Anton Hiersemann, 2021.
• [BMCR] Ioanna Karamanou, Refiguring tragedy: studies in plays preserved in fragments and their reception. Trends in classics – supplementary volumes, 80. Berlin; Boston: De Gruyter, 2019.
• [BMCR] Nicole Belayche, Francesco Massa, Mystery cults in visual representation in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Religions in the Graeco-Roman world, volume 194. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020.

Exhibition Related Things

• Shenzhen Nanshan Museum displays  Syrian antiquities – Syrian Arab News Agency

Online Talks and Professional Matters

• SCS 2022 Hybrid Annual Meeting: Funding Available | Society for Classical Studies
• Alexandria and Rome: The Special Relationship?
• See what’s happening today in Dr Pistone’s Online Classics Social Calendar
• SCS Calendar: Classics, Ancient History, and Classical Archaeology Webinars

Alia

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• The Story Behind the “Greek Foot” and its Medical Explanation
• The Gospels that Didn’t Make the Cut · The BAS Library
• Archaeology Turns Political to Benefit a Trio of Middle East Strongmen – New Lines 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 a plentiful supply of imported grain.

… 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)