September 2022 – Appendix E

Appendix E – A miscellany of RESOURCES and TEACHING MATERIALS 

i – Connecting ancient Asclepieia – 200 to 300 operating in the ancient world, stretching all the way to France, Spain, Cyprus and Asia Minor:  

ii – An endangered Greek dialect which is spoken in north-eastern Turkey has been identified by researchers as a “linguistic goldmine” because of its startling closeness to the ancient language, as Cambridge researcher Dr Ioanna Sitaridou explains + Video  

iii – Historian Adrienne Mayor looks at the use of sound as a weapon from Ancient Greece to now. From whistling arrows and trumpeting elephants to battle cries and eerie horns, ancient soldiers used sound to frighten and confuse their enemies 

iv – A Roman funerary banquet: Pigs for the rich, chicken for the poor… and oats for the women. Animal bones found in a Barcelona necropolis reveal how poorer Romans used cheap meats to reduce the costs of funeral rituals  

v – It’s a WRAP: moving from Athens to Durham – It’s All Greek To Me It’s All Greek To Me. A blog about Classics, linguistics, archaeology, cake, and more – Anna P Judson  

vi – Athena’s Black Eyes – Liv Mariah Yarrow I learned about this statue thanks to Jane Sancinito on Twitter. And I decided to use it to start a discussion in my next Myth Class this coming Tuesday. Once I’d written it up on the private LMS for my students, I realized it would also be convenient to have a public url, hence this post. 

vii – The Gardens of Pompeii & Natural Disasters in Antiquity  

viii – New Discovery Reveals Thriving Pop Culture in Ancient Greece:  

“You didn’t need specialist poets to create this kind of musicalized language, and the diction is very simple, so this was a clearly democratizing form of literature. We’re getting an exciting glimpse of a form of oral pop culture that lay under the surface of classical culture.” 

ix – Blog: Thesis Spotlight: Furor and Elegiac Conventions in Vergil’s Depiction of Female Characters in the Aeneid | Society for Classical Studies  

x – Diatribe: When Homer serenaded Stalin – Neos Kosmos“Homer” is in fact, through exaggerated praise, parodying and ultimately subverting the cult of personality developed around Stalin, even as it purports to celebrate his almost divine authority  

xi – Musings on Daily Life in the Ancient and Early Medieval Mediterranean By Sarah E. Bond + resources!  

xii – Why ancient drama speaks to our time: An interview with Joel Christensen and Paul O’Mahony of Reading Greek Tragedy Online 

xiii – In search of the lost “Greek” tribe of Alexander the Great. A trek through the Hindu Kush to seek out the ancient Kalash people, who claim descent from Alexander’s army 

xiv – Web Page Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland | Portal to my podcast, websites, blog, and publications, providing an entryway into social and cultural life among Greeks, Romans, Judeans, Christians, and others  

 
xv – A new approach to old writing: using Graphology and RTI technology on Linear B: Guest post by Lavinia Giorgi  

xvi – The Magic Sphere of Helios, Ancient Greek God of Sun  

xvii – Layered limestone deposits give unique insight to Roman aqueducts  -Anio Novus aqueduct ripple-marked travertine deposits  

xvii – Precious boxes: the glitter of a new world by Carlo Lualdi, 26/07/22, Material Musings Apulian red-figure vase, dating to the last quarter of the third century BCE, which testifies to cultural interaction between Daunia, in the north of Apulia, and Macedonia   

xviii – Riaces
a – The Riace Bronzes turned out to be one of Italy’s most important archeological finds of the last 100 years. Were there extras?
b – Warrior’s crooked finger ends 50-year mystery of ancient statues’ identity {Nope!} 

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