Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
i – Parthians: Kneeling colossal support statues in eastern garb (first century CE) http://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2023/03/parthians-colossal-support-statues-in-eastern-garb-first-century-ce/
ii – Celtic / Galatian diasporas: Mercenaries settled at Alexandria in Egypt (ca. 250-200 BCE)
iii – Thracians: Attic vase paintings depicting Thracian women with tattoos, warriors, and Orpheus (sixth-fifth centuries BCE) https://www.philipharland.com/Blog/2023/03/thracians-attic-vase-paintings-depicting-thracian-women-with-tattoos-warriors-and-orpheus-sixth-fifth-centuries-bce/
v – Thracians and Odrysians: Thucydides on Thracians, power, and violence (late fifth century BCE)
vii – Babylonians: Diodoros on Chaldeans’ astrology and divination (mid-first century BCE)
viii – Parthians: Scenes from the Arch of Septimius Severus (early third century CE)
Greek
i – Ancient Greek Vases Were Decorated With Gypsum
ii – How Eratosthenes measured the earth. Part 1 & Part 2
iii – Brand new PowerPoints for GCSE Classical Civilisation on Mycenae Sources
iv – The gods have arrived in Athens! Delphi’s Guide to Athens has just had its first HUGE update!
v – Did the ancient Greeks wage their wars according to strict rules and regulation? Was their way of war, as some scholars refer to it, “agonistic”, like an athletic contest? This idea was once widespread, especially when it comes to the Archaic period (ca. 800 to 500 BC), but on closer examination the notion falls apart
vi – Diatribe: Weaving the tangled web: Arachne as a feminist
vii – Beware of Birds in Homeric Poetry
viii – The Goriest Fight Scenes from The Iliad, by Clive Thompson Pt. 1 & Pt. 2
ix – Why Do We Ignore the Ancient Treasures Atop Greek Mountains? For the sites that we do know about, this looks like an enormous missed tourism opportunity. One model for how to do better is Mt. Lykaion and the surrounding territory in Arkadia
x – Achilles and Patroclus: love in war. Neos Kosmos talked to David Morton about his new production Holding Achilles a queer reimagining of the Iliad’s most famous warrior duo
xi – Learning Ancient Greek with Dyslexia. No One Should Be Afraid To Learn Greek
xii – The Metal Artist Bringing Ancient Greek Armors Back to Life. The magnificent work of Greek armour Katsikis can presently be viewed at an exhibition held at the Kostas Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology,
xiii – Iliad as a lesson of individual v communal need
xiv – Who invented the classical temple? Architectural historian employs modern tools to defend Greek heritage. A 3-by-8-inch 3D-printed building model was tested in a cutting-edge wind tunnel in the Hessert Laboratory for Aerospace Research on Notre Dame’s campus, thousands of miles and several millennia from the ancient Greek building the model represents. Rather than evaluating the turbulence caused by a new turbine or wing design, the engineers were measuring wind loads to determine the structural stability of an ancient building that Alessandro Pierattini considers the precursor of classical architecture — the Toumba building at Lefkandi
and What You Need to Build a Greek Temple – Antigone
xv – Greek Mythology as an Allegory for Gay Dating. Paul Anagnostopoulos’s painted terra cottas are rife with rich allegory to unpack — whether you’re LGBTQ+ or not
xvi – Hesiod’s Guide to Winter
xvi – The British School at Athens “💥 Launched! Interactive ‘Fieldwork’ database on BSA Digital Collections ⛏️ Explore where the BSA has worked over the past 135 years 👉 Database: 👉 Read more
xviii – Oaths in Ancient Greece. Hesiod, Works and Days 218 ff :
“Beware of all the fifth days [of the month]; for they are harsh and angry; it was on the fifth, they say, that the Erinyes (Furies) assisted at the bearing of Horkos (Oath), whom Eris (Strife) bore, to be a plague on those who take false oath.”
xix – Trees and wood – The Kosmos Society
Part 1: Homer and Hesiod
Part 2: Theophrastus on the uses of timber
Part 3: Mythological trees
xx THE FUNCTION OF THE NIGHT IN ANCIENT GREEK RELIGION: an exploration of the ancient world between dusk and dawn (MA Thesis)
xxi – The Family & the Orchard: The Story of Civilization in the “Odyssey” The planting of trees in the orchard—the passing down of tradition, of the moral wisdom of the past, of the torch of life, and of the beauty of life’s simplest but richest and pleasures—produces the great harvest of joy that culminates in the final chapters of the “Odyssey.”
xxii – Cannabis Use In Ancient Greece. Scythians, Herodotus, Democritus, Dioscorides
xxiii – The “Greek Philosopher” app gathers more than six hundred of the most profound words of wisdom from the major schools of ancient Greece — and delivers them straight to you on your mobile device
Roman
i – Trojan ancestry in Republican art
ii – One term to rule them all? Small finds epigraphy deserves better
iii – Butchered to make a Roman holiday: cruelty to animals in and out of the Colosseum Life could be hard for frogs. They were boiled to make hair-removal cream as well as toothpaste
v – How to Make Roman Concrete, One of Human Civilization’s Longest-Lasting Building Materials
v – The World of Sincerity is a Goddess –
Part I – Drama and Actors in Ancient Rome
Part II – Theatres in Ancient Rome
vi – Romans Buried Barbary Ape with Military Offerings
vii – The Hydraulic Telegraph of Aeneas. Long-Distance Communication of Antiquity
vii – Eating Rome: Apicius’ Alexandrian Pumpkins
viii – Plotinus’ Plan to Save the Roman Empire
ix – The Intercalary Triumphs and the Missing Month
x – Being a prisoner in ancient Rome For the most part, confinement was often rather brief: Even the merciless Romans considered imprisonment as inhumane, so most prisoners were sentenced to death instead
xi – Sing, Muse, of Dutiful Elizabeth. Want To Understand the Aeneid?
xii – Whatever Happened to Caecilius?
Multifarious
i – Dr Cora Beth Classical Studies Support
ii – Farewell CREWS (and hello VIEWS)
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Fonts in the Epigraphic and Manuscript traditions of Roman Antiquity
iii – A level Class Civ: podcast resources – Keener Classics
iv – The Meaning of Ancient Greek and Roman Artisan Signatures
What did a signature mean in the ancient world, and how much can we trust what they seem to tell us?
v – Did clitorises strike fear into the Greeks and Romans?
vii – Heroes, or Cry-babies?
ix – When Will Museums Tell the Whole Truth About Their Antiquities?
x – Unmanly men and the flexible meaning of kinaidos in Classical antiquity