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That's bad enough!!!!!!!! But the entire idea of needing permission from state authorities to access anything labeled mature by our friendly AI overlords is some fucking Boll shit. Die Gedenken Sind Frie baby. This is all a reaction to people getting uppity about their lowly lowly rights and is being propped up by the same bad actors tht have made life unlivable. Fuck that shit.

"Well it's only being rolled out in Brazil and UK" Yeah, to start. "Well they're being forced to do this by laws." YOu know it's always really funny when these tech giants (Or whatever you call owning tumblr dot com) get really antsy about laws considering they pick and choose which ones they abide by.

for the purpose of this poll, things like "animation" and "musical" are not options here because those are mediums and can be any genre! i also sort of felt like inclusion of either of these would result in them dominating this particular poll. so instead, think of which of these selections MOST sums up the movie you're thinking of. it's okay if multiple of these apply, but just pick the one that would sum it up best.

HAVE A PAINTING OF SET!! / SUETEKH!

I needed to try out my painting technique with gouache for a museum painting I'm doing soon, so I messed around with my new palette with this :D

which meant i went and read about snail brains.

here's the bad news, at least by human standards:

snails do not have anything like a centralized brain. their nervous system is made up of small clusters of neurons (ganglia) that mostly handle very local tasks. they don't have a cortex, they don't build big integrated models of the world, and they almost certainly don't experience things like appreciation, anticipation, or savoring.

pudding is not looking at the sky and thinking it's beautiful.

snail eyes are basically light sensors - they can tell bright from dark, but not form images. snail "taste" is done through chemoreceptors on their tentacles and around their mouth. those receptors don't produce flavor the way ours do; they just detect chemical compounds and sort them into "approach," "ignore," or "avoid."

so there's no evidence that snails enjoy food, or wind, or views, the way mammals do.

and that does sound kind of sad. but then i thought that maybe we are asking the wrong question.

snails do have valence. they detect aversive things (like salt or dryness) and withdraw from them. they detect non-aversive or beneficial conditions (like moisture) and stay extended. when pudding is stretched out like this, it means his nervous system is basically saying "this is safe; nothing is wrong."

if we define pleasure not as our human experience of dopamine and reward chemicals but instead as "the absence of aversion" - a state where the organism is open to its environment instead of defending itself - then this does count as something positive, even if it's extremely nothing like human enjoyment.

pudding isn't appreciating the wind. but his body is registering humidity, safety, and the ability to keep functioning, and that matters to him in the only way his nervous system can make things matter. he does not think "this is great, this is awesome, i love the weather", because he doesn't think in the way we do at all, but the neurological action in his ganglion tell his body that he is safe, that the moisture is an acceptable level, that it's not too dry or windy, and that there's nothing imminently threatening.

i think a lot of the sadness comes from assuming that a good life has to look like ours: full of enjoyment, meaning, and aesthetic experience. but a snail isn't missing those things. its world just isn't built to include them.

snails don't have a sense of flavor. they don't even have tastebuds. this seems like a gimme, right? but again that might be asking the wrong question about what "taste" is. biologically speaking, it's chemoreception. we taste sweet because it indicates high value, high calorie sugar molecules. we taste salty for salt, umami for proteins. so in what way does pudding's chemoreceptors differ from ours instrumentally? we can say "by our human perspective, pudding can't experience "preference" or "savoring" or "anticipation of delicious food"", but from pudding's perspective we have radically overengineered ourselves for the task at hand. pudding can tell what's salty, what's high value, what has the chemicals he needs. the functional outcome is that he can discriminate food souces based on their composition. is that not taste?

I’m just curious how many people at some point in their lives have played/learned to play an instrument of any kind.

I included a nuance button bc I know there might be some folks who might be like “well I played the recorder in grade school but idk if that counts” — count it if you want or hit nuance if you’re unsure! 😊

To be clear, if you studied an instrument to any level of proficiency, even if you’re out of practice now, please select yes!

Dionysus— god of fermentation. Of rot. Of life after death. Of decay that brings new life into existence. Of fungi and decomposers.

Glaucus, you see, is the other child of King Minos who was receiving prophecy about a miraculous cow who changed the colors of the mulbery fruit (underripe mulberries can be hallucinogenic, did you know?) who drowned in an omphalos/a vat of honey. Honey and mulberry, and the glaucus, the divine sheen of yeast making divine honey wine (don't worry Polyidus resurrected him because that's part of the Mystery, right?)

As someone who brews devotionally, I can rant about yeast a lot. Yeast as change, as fire, as the chemical reaction through heat, like the chemistry symbol delta, the first letter of Dionysos' name because He's present in that change. Yeast as the spirit horde, the coterie of Dionysos, the way community is integral to our survival, and the community together makes something sacred from our base matter.

Tending brews, compost, or a "reverse kathiskos" (like a controlled mini compost in a bottle from old offerings or the replaced kathiskos contents) can all be direct ways to interact with the fungal Dionysos.

Updated 25 July 2019

There are three parts: This is Part I.

PART II is here

PART III is here

Ancient Mediterranean studies, also known as Classics and Classical studies, is the interdisciplinary study of the ancient Mediterranean world, including archaeology, language, literature, culture, history, philosophy, religion, and archaeology.

A tremendous amount of scholarly information is available online without a paywall, including archaeology, art, atlases, biography, culture, epigraphy, history, languages, law, literature, magic, medicine, music, mythology, organizations and associations, papyrology, philosophy, poetry, popular culture, religion, and sports. While all of the sites listed offer open access material, a few do require payment for full access.

This update is double the size of the previous version (which is why it’s split into three parts). Hopefully the change from alphabetical order to breakdown by topics will be seen as an improvement.

Please feel free to advise me of any wonky links, to suggest additions or improvements.

I hope you will let me know if you find this compilation enjoyable or useful.

🏺 Featured art (above):

Muse reading a volumen (scroll), at the left an open chest. Attic red-figure lekythos, circs. 435-425 BCE. From Boeotia. Collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris. Photo by Jastrow (2006) via WIkimedia Commons (here)

Part I Contents:

Other metasites

Academic Journals

Archaeology

Art, Architecture, and Images

Associations

Bibliographies

Blogs and other sites of interest in the Classics

Epigraphy and Papyrology

Gender and Sexuality

Other metasites

The metasites on this list contain many links, and their contents may overlap somewhat with this compilation - and with each other. They’re worth sifting through, though, for unique focus and unexpected gems.

AWOL: The Ancient World Online - Notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) - timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies, including archaeology.

Catalog - OpenEdition Books - more than 7,000 free ebooks in academic subjects including the Arts and Humanities, Archaeology, and History.

The Classics Pages -  well over 1000 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome.

Classics Resources - a list posted at WordPress.

Digital Classicist Wiki -  events, bibliographies, publications (print and electronic).

Electronic Resources for Classicists - The Second Generation Developed and maintained by Maria Pantelia, University of California, Irvine.

Google Scholar

KIRKE - Catalog of Internet Resources for Classical Philology This is a German language site

Perseus Digital Library - a digital infrastructure for the humanities in general and classics in particular.

Pomeorium - classics links, databases, and antiquarian and used specialist books.

The Stoa Consortium - news and announcements for classicists.

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 - almost 2,000 free books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

Academic Journals

Most classics-related journals available online can be found on the following sites:

Classics Resources in Internet

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals

Hacking Education: Download Research Papers and Scientific Articles for free

Journals in Classics that have a substantial on-line presence

JSTOR - digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) - searchable  tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

Archaeology

The AJA Learning Resources - an accessible starting point for those interested in a career in archaeology as well as a place to browse archaeological projects, databases, and image and bibliographic resources.

The AMPHORAS Project

Archaeopress Access Archaeology - monographs, conference proceedings, catalogues of archaeological material, excavation reports, doctoral theses and more.

The Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity

Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature by PAThs

Archaeology Expert -profiles of famous archaeologists, the basics of excavation with a glossary of terms, a variety of specializations within archaeology, key articles on important finds and artifacts, and information on how and where to find work on an archaeological dig.

Archaeology in the Community - a nonprofit organization that works to increase community awareness of the benefits of archaeology and history through public events, provide archaeology enrichment programs to students of all ages, and provides a professional development to college students interested in pursuing careers in archaeology.

The Archaeology Podcast Network - an educational resource with at least 18 shows, over 20 volunteer expert hosts, and an amazing back catalogue of content.

Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology - searchable database of pioneering women archaeologists.

Digital Archaeological Record

Digital Atlas of Ancient Egypt - a digital cultural map of archaeological sites in Egypt (ranging from the Predynastic to the Roman period.

Herculaneum in Pictures

Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) - a permanent institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

SEAD, the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database - past climates, environments and human impacts for environmental archaeology and Quaternary palaeoecology.

The Theban Mapping Project - comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes.

Troy - a collaboration between the University of Cincinnati’s Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites and the Troia Projekt of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)

Pompeii in Pictures  - A complete photographic plan of ancient Pompeii as it is today.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme website - online database of archaeological finds made by members of the public in Wales and England. Also, a guide to coins and Bronze Age objects.

Security recommendations for historically important archaeological sites from ASIS International.

Survey Archaeology -  open knowledge base and communication platform for education and research regarding archaeological field-survey in the Mediterranean with information on projects, researchers, theory, methods and practice of survey archaeology and related areas, such as computer applications in archaeology. Home of the ArchaeoSurveyor project.

Trowelblazers - a celebration of women archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists.

Virtual Tours of Archaeological Museums

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield - a charitable, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the protection of cultural property worldwide during armed conflict.

The World Wide Web Library of African Archaeology - news, maps, bibliographies, and more.

Art, Architecture, and Images

A Day on the Acropolis in search of the goddess Athena

AEGARON - Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online - provides vetted and standardized architectural drawings of a selection of ancient Egyptian buildings. 

AIEMA (International Association for the Study of Ancient Mosaics)

Antinous - Virtual Museum of portrait sculpture from throughout the world.

Art History Resources on the Web

Art Images for College Teaching

ASPROM (The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics) - ancient mosaics, and especially the Roman mosaics of Britain.

The Beazley Archive - the world’s largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.

Body Language: How to Talk to Students about Nudity in Art 

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance - a  database registering antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in form of texts and image, including the antique monuments known to Johann Joachim Winckelmann and his contemporaries (Corpus Winckelmann) as well as the reception and adaption of antique art of the Middle Ages (Corpus Medii Aevi)

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture | MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classical Art Research Centre - Oxford University. Includes the Beazely Archive of ancient Greek painted pottery, Pottery database, Gem research, and Terracottas.

Colors of Classical Art - artworks from the perspective of color, an aspect of ancient art that is often under-represented in art historical literature.

Coptic Textiles from Ancient Egypt

The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (CSIR) -  sculptural heritage of the Roman Empire.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - a series of high-quality catalogs of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world.

Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project - art database

The False Door - an e-book about Roman wall painting

Fayum Mummy Portraits - database from the University of Manchester/ Manchester Museum

Find Images - Selected Online Museum Collections:  These museums have been selected for the quality and scope of their online collections.

Getty Publications Virtual Library - Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives

The Global Egyptian Museum

Greek Vase Shapes Teaching Poster - presented by the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Image of the Black in Western Art

Introduction to Roman Architecture - video from Open Yale Courses

Last Statues of Antiquity Database

Media Center for Art History - Columbia University

MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Minoan Epiphany - Introduction Xeste 3 fresco

Panoply Vase Animation Project

Pigments Through the Ages

Real ? Virtual: Representing Architecture in Time and Space Panoramic history of architecture from Columbia University

The Online Database of Ancient Art

Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Roman Forum

World Myths and Legends in Art - presented by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Associations

The following list contains associations and classics-related journals with online sources not mentioned in the links above.

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA) - an international advisory body working to educate scholars, governments, sport divers, and the general public about underwater archaeology and the preservation of underwater resources.

The American Classical League - access to the latest grant information, comprehensive teaching materials, and job placement resources for Classics teachers and teachers of classical studies and Greek and Latin languages in the classroom.

The Archaeological Society at Athens

ASOR: The American Schools of Oriental Research - supports and encourages the study of the cultures and history of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.

Association of Ancient Historians - Ancient History professionals in the United States and Canada.

Association for the Study of Women & Mythology

Athens Institute for Education & Research

Australasian Classical Receptions Studies Network

The Australasian Society for Classical Studies

Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

The Classical Association of Canada  

The Classical Association of New England - many activities and resources, including the annual meeting in March, scholarships, discretionary grants, CANE’s own press, and New England Classical Journal (NECJ).

Classical Association of the Empire State

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South - Classical Resources on the Internet.

Comparative Mythology - published by the International Association for Comparative Mythology

The European Association for Archaeologists - for archaeologists and other related or interested individuals or bodies in Europe and beyond!

The Historical Association - furthering the study and teaching and enjoyment of history in all guises and forms: professional, public and popular.

International Society for Studies in Oral Tradition

Journal of Ancient History - covers all aspects of ancient history and culture from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity (roughly the ninth century BCE through the eighth century CE). A few free articles are available online.

Kosmos Society - an online community for Classical Studies

MOISA: The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage

Postclassicisms - a global research network dedicated to redefining the study of classical antiquity

Reception Study Society

The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies - founded in 1910 to advance the understanding of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. Publishes The  Journal of Roman Studies.

The Society for Classical Studies - founded as the American Philological Association in 1869 for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. Offers teaching resources for K-12 and higher education.

Society for Early Modern Classical Reception

Society of Black Archaeologists - advocates to ensure the proper treatment of African and African diaspora material culture, raises and address concerns related to African peoples worldwide, and highlights the past and present achievements and contributions people of African descent have made to the field of archaeology.

The Sussex Egyptology Society (SES) - Egyptology-related news, lectures, and links.

Bibliographies

Ancient World Open Bibliographies - Notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world. Lots of bibliographies and a companion blog

Annotated Bibliography of Women in Classical Mythology

Cognitive Classics bibliography

Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) - an online collection of references in Egyptological literature, including records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography, combined with Bibliographie Altägypten.

Nestor - an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields.

ORB Online Encyclopedia - Online Bibliographies for Late Antiquity

Projekt Dyabola - Bibliographies on the subjects of Classical Archaeology, Etruscology, Minoan Archaeology and Prehistory. Other databases include museum collections.  WordPress Blog, Twitter

Scholarly Bibliographies Available Online: Classical Antiquity

Blogs and Other Sites of Interest in the Classics

Atlantides: Feed Aggregators for Ancient Studies

Classics and Social Justice

Classics At the Intersections

Classics for All - UK-based charity offers grants to support the study of Latin, Ancient History, Classical Civilization and Ancient Greek in state schools. Book reviews and Classics blog.

Classics Confidential – Podcasting Classicists, Sharing Research

Classical Studies Support

Database of Classical Scholars

Eidolon - an online journal for scholarly writing about Classics that isn’t formal scholarship.

History From Below – Musings on Daily Life in the Ancient and Early Medieval Mediterranean

Everyday Orientalism

Itinera Podcast

Institute of Classical Studies Blog

Mary Beard: A Don’s Life

ORIGINS Current Events in Historical Perspective Published by the History Departments at The Ohio State University and Miami University

rogueclassicism – quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est

Sententiae Antiquae - a Classics blog 

The Sportula - microgrants for Classics students. Also twitter.com/libertinopatren

University of Michigan Press - open access books in Classical Studies

Women of Ancient History - a crowdsourced list of female ancient historians

Epigraphy and Papyrology

ancientscripts.com a compendium of world-wide writing systems from prehistory to today.

Associations in the Greco-Roman World - an expanding collections of inscriptions, papyri, and other sources in translation.

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE)- a non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. Includes online resources, abbreviations, and bookshelf.ancientscripts.com a compendium of world-wide writing systems from prehistory to today.

Ancient Egyptian scripts (hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic)

Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) -  inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica in English translation.

CLAROS - Concordance of Greek inscriptions

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) - a collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references, sorted by inscription-number.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Dartmouth Ancient Books Lab – Historical Background and “How-To” Projects in Paleography, Papyrology, and Codicology

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

The Duke Papyrus Archive - electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

EDCS Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss - Slaby

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) - Latin and bilingual inscriptions from the provinces of the Roman Empire contains about 74.300 inscriptions at present.

Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR) - Greek and Latin inscriptions up to the 7th century A.D.

Epigraphical database of Greek inscriptions - from the Packard Humanities Institute

Epigraphical database of Latin inscriptions - Manfred Clauss / Anne Kolb / Wolfgang A. Slaby

The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Gnomon Bibliographic Database - a searchable database of Latin inscriptions.

Greek and Latin Inscriptions - a collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia

Hispania Epigraphica - Roman inscriptions from the Iberian peninsula.

The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

Mysteries at Eleusis - Images of ancient inscriptions on stone from Eleusis.

Online Resources for the Study of Greek Epigraphy

POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online - A guide and online database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

Papyri.info - The Papyrological Navigator (PN) and the Papyrological Editor (PE)

The Packard Humanities Institute - Searchable Greek Inscriptions

The Papyrology Homepage

Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online

St Andrews Corpus - Egyptian texts

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (subscription)and The Abridged TLG® (open access) - digital library of Greek literature from Antiquity to the present.

Unicode fonts for ancient scripts

U.S. Epigraphy Project -  a database of some 750 Greek and 1,700 Latin inscriptions in the USA, with links to search englines and epigraphy sites.

Vindolanda Tablets Online - a searchable online edition of the tablets, an introduction to the tablets and their context,  and a guide to aspects of the tablets’ content.

Gender and Sexuality

A Picture of Women Weaving in the History, Art, and Literature of Ancient Greece - Mansfield University

Diotima - Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents in translation

People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History - Links to primary sources and papers

Women in the Ancient World - the status, role and daily life of women in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, Athens, Israel and Babylonia

Women in Classical Athens by By Jørgen Christian Meyer

Women’s History Sourcebook - primary and secondary sources for time periods including Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome

Women’s Life in Greece and Rome by by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fan

Updated 25 July 2019

There are three parts: This is Part I.

PART II is here

PART III is here

Ancient Mediterranean studies, also known as Classics and Classical studies, is the interdisciplinary study of the ancient Mediterranean world, including archaeology, language, literature, culture, history, philosophy, religion, and archaeology.

A tremendous amount of scholarly information is available online without a paywall, including archaeology, art, atlases, biography, culture, epigraphy, history, languages, law, literature, magic, medicine, music, mythology, organizations and associations, papyrology, philosophy, poetry, popular culture, religion, and sports. While all of the sites listed offer open access material, a few do require payment for full access.

This update is double the size of the previous version (which is why it’s split into three parts). Hopefully the change from alphabetical order to breakdown by topics will be seen as an improvement.

Please feel free to advise me of any wonky links, to suggest additions or improvements.

I hope you will let me know if you find this compilation enjoyable or useful.

🏺 Featured art (above):

Muse reading a volumen (scroll), at the left an open chest. Attic red-figure lekythos, circs. 435-425 BCE. From Boeotia. Collection of the Louvre Museum, Paris. Photo by Jastrow (2006) via WIkimedia Commons (here)

Part I Contents:

Other metasites

Academic Journals

Archaeology

Art, Architecture, and Images

Associations

Bibliographies

Blogs and other sites of interest in the Classics

Epigraphy and Papyrology

Gender and Sexuality

Other metasites

The metasites on this list contain many links, and their contents may overlap somewhat with this compilation - and with each other. They’re worth sifting through, though, for unique focus and unexpected gems.

AWOL: The Ancient World Online - Notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world.

Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR) - timely open-access, peer-reviewed reviews of current scholarly work in the field of classical studies, including archaeology.

Catalog - OpenEdition Books - more than 7,000 free ebooks in academic subjects including the Arts and Humanities, Archaeology, and History.

The Classics Pages -  well over 1000 pages of news, information, games and controversy about the life, literature, philosophy, art and archaeology of the ancient world of Greece & Rome.

Classics Resources - a list posted at WordPress.

Digital Classicist Wiki -  events, bibliographies, publications (print and electronic).

Electronic Resources for Classicists - The Second Generation Developed and maintained by Maria Pantelia, University of California, Irvine.

Google Scholar

KIRKE - Catalog of Internet Resources for Classical Philology This is a German language site

Perseus Digital Library - a digital infrastructure for the humanities in general and classics in particular.

Pomeorium - classics links, databases, and antiquarian and used specialist books.

The Stoa Consortium - news and announcements for classicists.

UC Press E-Books Collection, 1982-2004 - almost 2,000 free books from academic presses on a range of topics, including art, science, history, music, religion, and fiction.

Academic Journals

Most classics-related journals available online can be found on the following sites:

Classics Resources in Internet

DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals

Hacking Education: Download Research Papers and Scientific Articles for free

Journals in Classics that have a substantial on-line presence

JSTOR - digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

TOCS-IN (Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists) - searchable  tables of contents of a selection of Classics, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion journals.

Archaeology

The AJA Learning Resources - an accessible starting point for those interested in a career in archaeology as well as a place to browse archaeological projects, databases, and image and bibliographic resources.

The AMPHORAS Project

Archaeopress Access Archaeology - monographs, conference proceedings, catalogues of archaeological material, excavation reports, doctoral theses and more.

The Archaeological Atlas of Antiquity

Archaeological Atlas of Coptic Literature by PAThs

Archaeology Expert -profiles of famous archaeologists, the basics of excavation with a glossary of terms, a variety of specializations within archaeology, key articles on important finds and artifacts, and information on how and where to find work on an archaeological dig.

Archaeology in the Community - a nonprofit organization that works to increase community awareness of the benefits of archaeology and history through public events, provide archaeology enrichment programs to students of all ages, and provides a professional development to college students interested in pursuing careers in archaeology.

The Archaeology Podcast Network - an educational resource with at least 18 shows, over 20 volunteer expert hosts, and an amazing back catalogue of content.

Breaking Ground: Women in Old World Archaeology - searchable database of pioneering women archaeologists.

Digital Archaeological Record

Digital Atlas of Ancient Egypt - a digital cultural map of archaeological sites in Egypt (ranging from the Predynastic to the Roman period.

Herculaneum in Pictures

Institute for Oriental and European Archaeology (OREA) - a permanent institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

SEAD, the Strategic Environmental Archaeology Database - past climates, environments and human impacts for environmental archaeology and Quaternary palaeoecology.

The Theban Mapping Project - comprehensive archaeological database of Thebes.

Troy - a collaboration between the University of Cincinnati’s Center for the Electronic Reconstruction of Historical and Archaeological Sites and the Troia Projekt of the University of Tübingen, Germany.

The Levantine Ceramics Project (LCP)

Pompeii in Pictures  - A complete photographic plan of ancient Pompeii as it is today.

The Portable Antiquities Scheme website - online database of archaeological finds made by members of the public in Wales and England. Also, a guide to coins and Bronze Age objects.

Security recommendations for historically important archaeological sites from ASIS International.

Survey Archaeology -  open knowledge base and communication platform for education and research regarding archaeological field-survey in the Mediterranean with information on projects, researchers, theory, methods and practice of survey archaeology and related areas, such as computer applications in archaeology. Home of the ArchaeoSurveyor project.

Trowelblazers - a celebration of women archaeologists, paleontologists and geologists.

Virtual Tours of Archaeological Museums

UNESCO World Heritage Sites

U.S. Committee of the Blue Shield - a charitable, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization committed to the protection of cultural property worldwide during armed conflict.

The World Wide Web Library of African Archaeology - news, maps, bibliographies, and more.

Art, Architecture, and Images

A Day on the Acropolis in search of the goddess Athena

AEGARON - Ancient Egyptian Architecture Online - provides vetted and standardized architectural drawings of a selection of ancient Egyptian buildings. 

AIEMA (International Association for the Study of Ancient Mosaics)

Antinous - Virtual Museum of portrait sculpture from throughout the world.

Art History Resources on the Web

Art Images for College Teaching

ASPROM (The Association for the Study and Preservation of Roman Mosaics) - ancient mosaics, and especially the Roman mosaics of Britain.

The Beazley Archive - the world’s largest collection of images of ancient figure-decorated pottery.

Body Language: How to Talk to Students about Nudity in Art 

The Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance - a  database registering antique monuments known in the Renaissance together with the related Renaissance documents in form of texts and image, including the antique monuments known to Johann Joachim Winckelmann and his contemporaries (Corpus Winckelmann) as well as the reception and adaption of antique art of the Middle Ages (Corpus Medii Aevi)

The Cesnola Collection of Cypriot Art: Stone Sculpture | MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Classical Art Research Centre - Oxford University. Includes the Beazely Archive of ancient Greek painted pottery, Pottery database, Gem research, and Terracottas.

Colors of Classical Art - artworks from the perspective of color, an aspect of ancient art that is often under-represented in art historical literature.

Coptic Textiles from Ancient Egypt

The Corpus Signorum Imperii Romani (CSIR) -  sculptural heritage of the Roman Empire.

Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum - a series of high-quality catalogs of mostly ancient Greek painted pottery in collections around the world.

Digital Hadrian’s Villa Project - art database

The False Door - an e-book about Roman wall painting

Fayum Mummy Portraits - database from the University of Manchester/ Manchester Museum

Find Images - Selected Online Museum Collections:  These museums have been selected for the quality and scope of their online collections.

Getty Publications Virtual Library - Free digital backlist titles from the Getty Publications Archives

The Global Egyptian Museum

Greek Vase Shapes Teaching Poster - presented by the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska.

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Image of the Black in Western Art

Introduction to Roman Architecture - video from Open Yale Courses

Last Statues of Antiquity Database

Media Center for Art History - Columbia University

MetPublications | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Minoan Epiphany - Introduction Xeste 3 fresco

Panoply Vase Animation Project

Pigments Through the Ages

Real ? Virtual: Representing Architecture in Time and Space Panoramic history of architecture from Columbia University

The Online Database of Ancient Art

Visualizing Statues in the Late Antique Roman Forum

World Myths and Legends in Art - presented by the Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Associations

The following list contains associations and classics-related journals with online sources not mentioned in the links above.

American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works

Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (ACUA) - an international advisory body working to educate scholars, governments, sport divers, and the general public about underwater archaeology and the preservation of underwater resources.

The American Classical League - access to the latest grant information, comprehensive teaching materials, and job placement resources for Classics teachers and teachers of classical studies and Greek and Latin languages in the classroom.

The Archaeological Society at Athens

ASOR: The American Schools of Oriental Research - supports and encourages the study of the cultures and history of the Near East, from the earliest times to the present.

Association of Ancient Historians - Ancient History professionals in the United States and Canada.

Association for the Study of Women & Mythology

Athens Institute for Education & Research

Australasian Classical Receptions Studies Network

The Australasian Society for Classical Studies

Center for Studies in Oral Tradition

The Classical Association of Canada  

The Classical Association of New England - many activities and resources, including the annual meeting in March, scholarships, discretionary grants, CANE’s own press, and New England Classical Journal (NECJ).

Classical Association of the Empire State

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South - Classical Resources on the Internet.

Comparative Mythology - published by the International Association for Comparative Mythology

The European Association for Archaeologists - for archaeologists and other related or interested individuals or bodies in Europe and beyond!

The Historical Association - furthering the study and teaching and enjoyment of history in all guises and forms: professional, public and popular.

International Society for Studies in Oral Tradition

Journal of Ancient History - covers all aspects of ancient history and culture from the Archaic Period to Late Antiquity (roughly the ninth century BCE through the eighth century CE). A few free articles are available online.

Kosmos Society - an online community for Classical Studies

MOISA: The International Society for the Study of Greek and Roman Music and its Cultural Heritage

Postclassicisms - a global research network dedicated to redefining the study of classical antiquity

Reception Study Society

The Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies - founded in 1910 to advance the understanding of ancient Rome and the Roman Empire. Publishes The  Journal of Roman Studies.

The Society for Classical Studies - founded as the American Philological Association in 1869 for the study of ancient Greek and Roman languages, literatures, and civilizations. Offers teaching resources for K-12 and higher education.

Society for Early Modern Classical Reception

Society of Black Archaeologists - advocates to ensure the proper treatment of African and African diaspora material culture, raises and address concerns related to African peoples worldwide, and highlights the past and present achievements and contributions people of African descent have made to the field of archaeology.

The Sussex Egyptology Society (SES) - Egyptology-related news, lectures, and links.

Bibliographies

Ancient World Open Bibliographies - Notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world. Lots of bibliographies and a companion blog

Annotated Bibliography of Women in Classical Mythology

Cognitive Classics bibliography

Online Egyptological Bibliography (OEB) - an online collection of references in Egyptological literature, including records and abstracts from Annual Egyptological Bibliography, combined with Bibliographie Altägypten.

Nestor - an international bibliography of Aegean studies, Homeric society, Indo-European linguistics, and related fields.

ORB Online Encyclopedia - Online Bibliographies for Late Antiquity

Projekt Dyabola - Bibliographies on the subjects of Classical Archaeology, Etruscology, Minoan Archaeology and Prehistory. Other databases include museum collections.  WordPress Blog, Twitter

Scholarly Bibliographies Available Online: Classical Antiquity

Blogs and Other Sites of Interest in the Classics

Atlantides: Feed Aggregators for Ancient Studies

Classics and Social Justice

Classics At the Intersections

Classics for All - UK-based charity offers grants to support the study of Latin, Ancient History, Classical Civilization and Ancient Greek in state schools. Book reviews and Classics blog.

Classics Confidential – Podcasting Classicists, Sharing Research

Classical Studies Support

Database of Classical Scholars

Eidolon - an online journal for scholarly writing about Classics that isn’t formal scholarship.

History From Below – Musings on Daily Life in the Ancient and Early Medieval Mediterranean

Everyday Orientalism

Itinera Podcast

Institute of Classical Studies Blog

Mary Beard: A Don’s Life

ORIGINS Current Events in Historical Perspective Published by the History Departments at The Ohio State University and Miami University

rogueclassicism – quidquid bene dictum est ab ullo, meum est

Sententiae Antiquae - a Classics blog 

The Sportula - microgrants for Classics students. Also twitter.com/libertinopatren

University of Michigan Press - open access books in Classical Studies

Women of Ancient History - a crowdsourced list of female ancient historians

Epigraphy and Papyrology

ancientscripts.com a compendium of world-wide writing systems from prehistory to today.

Associations in the Greco-Roman World - an expanding collections of inscriptions, papyri, and other sources in translation.

The American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE)- a non-profit organization whose purpose is to further research in, and the teaching of, Greek and Latin epigraphy in North America. Includes online resources, abbreviations, and bookshelf.ancientscripts.com a compendium of world-wide writing systems from prehistory to today.

Ancient Egyptian scripts (hieroglyphs, hieratic and demotic)

Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) -  inscriptions of ancient Athens and Attica in English translation.

CLAROS - Concordance of Greek inscriptions

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum (CIL) - a collection of squeezes, photographs and bibliographical references, sorted by inscription-number.

Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative

Dartmouth Ancient Books Lab – Historical Background and “How-To” Projects in Paleography, Papyrology, and Codicology

The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls

The Duke Papyrus Archive - electronic access to texts about and images of nearly 1400 papyri from ancient Egypt.

EDCS Epigraphik Datenbank Clauss - Slaby

Epigraphic Database Heidelberg (EDH) - Latin and bilingual inscriptions from the provinces of the Roman Empire contains about 74.300 inscriptions at present.

Epigraphic Database Roma (EDR) - Greek and Latin inscriptions up to the 7th century A.D.

Epigraphical database of Greek inscriptions - from the Packard Humanities Institute

Epigraphical database of Latin inscriptions - Manfred Clauss / Anne Kolb / Wolfgang A. Slaby

The Europeana Network of Ancient Greek and Latin Epigraphy (EAGLE)

Gnomon Bibliographic Database - a searchable database of Latin inscriptions.

Greek and Latin Inscriptions - a collection of digitized squeezes (accurate paper impressions) of inscriptions from Greece, Italy, and Macedonia

Hispania Epigraphica - Roman inscriptions from the Iberian peninsula.

The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania

Mysteries at Eleusis - Images of ancient inscriptions on stone from Eleusis.

Online Resources for the Study of Greek Epigraphy

POxy: Oxyrhynchus Online - A guide and online database for the Oxyrhynchus Papyri.

Papyri.info - The Papyrological Navigator (PN) and the Papyrological Editor (PE)

The Packard Humanities Institute - Searchable Greek Inscriptions

The Papyrology Homepage

Roman Inscriptions of Britain Online

St Andrews Corpus - Egyptian texts

The Thesaurus Linguae Graecae® (subscription)and The Abridged TLG® (open access) - digital library of Greek literature from Antiquity to the present.

Unicode fonts for ancient scripts

U.S. Epigraphy Project -  a database of some 750 Greek and 1,700 Latin inscriptions in the USA, with links to search englines and epigraphy sites.

Vindolanda Tablets Online - a searchable online edition of the tablets, an introduction to the tablets and their context,  and a guide to aspects of the tablets’ content.

Gender and Sexuality

A Picture of Women Weaving in the History, Art, and Literature of Ancient Greece - Mansfield University

Diotima - Materials for the study of women and gender in the ancient world

Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index

Homosexuality in Greece and Rome: a sourcebook of basic documents in translation

People with a History: An Online Guide to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Trans* History - Links to primary sources and papers

Women in the Ancient World - the status, role and daily life of women in the ancient civilizations of Egypt, Rome, Athens, Israel and Babylonia

Women in Classical Athens by By Jørgen Christian Meyer

Women’s History Sourcebook - primary and secondary sources for time periods including Ancient Mesopotamia, Greece and Rome

Women’s Life in Greece and Rome by by Mary R. Lefkowitz and Maureen B. Fan

This is the money butt.

the real main character let’s be honest

The Old Man of the Lake is a log that floats around the lake. It is somewhat strange in that it floats vertically. It's roughly 30 feet tall, with only about 5 or so feet sticking out above the surface of the water. It was first 'offically' recorded in the early 20th century, though there are oral reports of it as far back as 1896 (and likely earlier still given the cultural importance of Crater Lake to the Klamath tribe of that area.

The Old Man should have rotted away long ago or at the very least become waterlogged and sank into the water fully, but nope. Over a hundred years, and there is this log still in the water just floating.

So y'know how I said the fact that it floats vertically was 'somewhat strange'? Let's get into some actual strange territory regarding the Old Man. It moves. Against the wind. It has been recorded moving in paths that do not make sense, never getting stuck on the shore of Wizard Island, nor the area of shore around the lake. Now that's strange.

So now let's get freaky: The free-floating Old Man posed a hazard to boats since it moves, and only a small portion of it was above water. (though personal boats are no longer allowed on the lake) Anyway, in 1988 a team was using a small submersible to explore the lake. The scientist figured it'd be a good idea to moor the Old Man near the coast of Wizard Island out of their way, for safety. So they tied some rope to it, to move the Old Man. As soon as they did so, the clear blue skies of a warm August day turned dark. The wind kicked up, bad, and it started to rain, then hail, then snow in the span of a few minutes...again in August. Now snow in that area is common, but not in the summer months. It gets super warm in that area in summer (like 70 to 90 degrees on average) So the scientists decided to nope the fuck out of the water, because of this freak storm. They unmoored the Old Man, preparing to get the fuck out of dodge of this summer snowstorm. As soon as the rope loosened and was in the water, as quickly as the storm had come on them, the darkened skies cleared and it was once more a fine sunny summer day.

"The Old Man floats vertically through the lake on a calm day"

"THE OLD MAN FLOATS. VERTICALLY. THROUGH THE LAKE ON A CALM DAY"

'The Grand Illusionist',

Digitally hand drawn, 2024

Tempted to actually put this on spotify so I can secretly stream it at work...