• Festival of Mars (day 24)
• Quando Rex Comitavit Fas — a somewhat obscure entry in the Roman calendar which seems to hearken back to the days of the monarchy. A plausible explanation connects this with the fact that this was one of the days when the ancient Comitia Calata would ‘witness’ wills, and so other legal matters could not take place until the king had dismissed the comitia.
• Happy blogday to Jim Davila’s Paleojudaica …

===========================================================
LEGENDA
===========================================================
Scholars Reject Claims That Achilles Had Scythian Origins
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/23/scholars-reject-claims-that-achilles-had-scythian-origins

Ancient coins from Hasmonean kingdoms, Jewish revolts seized after suspected smuggling | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-coins-from-hasmonean-kingdoms-jewish-revolts-seized-after-suspected-smuggling/

‘Learn your lesson’: Dark message is found inscribed on a 2,000-year-old sling bullet from the ancient Holy Land | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15671003/Dark-message-sling-bullet-Holy-Land.html

Ostia Antica uncovers mosaics after winter: protective tarpaulin removal operations underway
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/ancient-art/ostia-antica-uncovers-mosaics-after-winter-protective-tarpaulin-removal-operations-underway

How Dante’s Inferno Was a Fiery Act of Political Payback | HISTORY
https://www.history.com/articles/dantes-inferno-hell-people-alighieri-politics

Elite Old Kingdom Tombs Discovered in Aswan – Biblical Archaeology Society

Elite Old Kingdom Tombs Discovered in Aswan

Getting bogged down in Procopius of Gaza

Getting bogged down in Procopius of Gaza

Laudator Temporis Acti: Relief of Pan
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/relief-of-pan.html

Poëzie: Sappho – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Sappho

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Ancient Formula
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/an-ancient-formula.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Odyssey
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-odyssey.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Telemachus
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/telemachus.html

New Book Chapter: Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis (with Emily Peacock)

New Book Chapter: Exploring Aspects of the Online Trade in Antiquities Through Snapshot Analysis (with Emily Peacock)

So you have an interview for grad school… – Liv Mariah Yarrow

So you have an interview for grad school…

Weekly Varia no. 173, 03/22/2026 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 173, 03/22/2026

Dumb All Over | Sphinx

Dumb All Over

Archeologie en neoliberalisme – Mainzer Beobachter

Archeologie en neoliberalisme

PaleoJudaica.com: Römer Festschrift (De Gruyter)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/romer-festschrift-de-gruyter.html

PaleoJudaica.com: When was the Book of Daniel written?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/when-was-book-of-daniel-written.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The ANE Myth of the Servant
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-ane-myth-of-servant.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Christianity and Hellenism in the Fifth-Century Greek East: Theodoret’s Apologetics against the Greeks in Context
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/christianity-and-hellenism-in-fifth.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Interdisciplinary Uses of Homer: In Dialogue with Douglas Frame
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/interdisciplinary-uses-of-homer-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Middle East Cultural Heritage at Risk in Armed Conflict
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/middle-east-cultural-heritage-at-risk.html

Ergasteria: premises and processes of creation in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.26/

Tiberius and the charisma of Augustus: the principate enshrined – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.25/

===========================================================
VIDENDA
===========================================================
(175) Julius Caesar vs. King Ariovistus: The Battle for Gaul – YouTube

===========================================================
NOTANDA
===========================================================
What is life? An Aristotelian Solution

What is life? An Aristotelian Solution

Luxor Grant

Luxor Grant

The Early Greek Protome Griffin

The Early Greek Protome Griffin

Roman Voices – Text and Teacher’s Guide – CANE

Roman Voices – Text and Teacher’s Guide

Assistant Professor in Classical Greek Language and its Legacies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY495/assistant-professor-in-classical-greek-language-and-its-legacies

• Festival of Mars continues (day 23)
• Tubilustrum — as part of the general military preparations which are associated with the festival of Mars, the ‘war horns’ (tubae) were ritually cleaned
• Quinquatrus (day 5) — final day of the gladiator fest
• 1606 — Death of Justus Lipsius

===========================================================
LEGENDA
===========================================================
Ancient Greek Theater at Laodicea Restored to Former Glory – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/22/ancient-greek-theater-laodicea/

Restoration of Ramses III gateway completed at Karnak, Roman-era stela discovered – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/564381/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Restoration-of-Ramses-III-gateway-completed-at-Kar.aspx

Ancient Roman Machine Gun-Like Weapon May Have Damaged Pompeii’s Walls During Siege | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/ancient-roman-machine-gun-like-weapon-may-have-damaged-pompeii-s-walls-during-siege-48851

In Tavolara, on the trail of the Proto-Etruscans: an international archaeological project begins.
https://www.unionesarda.it/en/sardinia/in-tavolara-on-the-trail-of-the-proto-etruscans-an-international-archaeological-project-begins-dq9207gg?amp=1

[wtf?]dailysignal.com/2026/03/21/striking-parallels-what-can-ancient-roman-cult-reveal-about-transgender-movement/amp/
https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/03/21/striking-parallels-what-can-ancient-roman-cult-reveal-about-transgender-movement/amp/

Construction for new student residence in Rome reveals a new ‘City of the Dead’ – Rome Reports

Construction for new student residence in Rome reveals a new ‘City of the Dead’

Greeks, Italians, and Phoenicians Coexisted During 8th-Century, Study Shows – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/22/greeks-italians-phoenicians-coexisted/

(10) Antigone [Still] Fights the Power
https://elizabethbobrick.substack.com/p/antigone-still-fights-the-power

[paywalled] Who Is Antigone? The 2500-Year-Old Rebel With a Cause. – The New York Times

The Black Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/21/black-pharaoh-ancient-egypt/

The First Library Rules: The Inscription of Pantainos in Ancient Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/22/library-rules-inscription-pantainos-ancient-athens/

Sapfo, de maan en de Plejaden – Mainzer Beobachter

Sapfo, de maan en de Plejaden

Robert Fagles: A New Voyage With Odysseus – The Imaginative Conservative

Robert Fagles: A New Voyage With Odysseus

The masses against the classicists? | Owen Edwards | The Critic Magazine
https://thecritic.co.uk/the-masses-against-the-classicists/

A Critical Review of Naoise Mac Sweeney’s New Book
https://quillette.com/2026/03/21/what-makes-the-west-western-classics-civilisation-mac-sweeney/

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) Review – New York Theater

Antigone (This Play I Read in High School) Review

review: MEDEA

REVIEW: MEDEA

(10) Book Review: “I, Medusa” – by Dr. Thomas J. West III
https://omnivorous.substack.com/p/book-review-i-medusa

Metamorphoses – Rijksmuseum
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/whats-on/exhibitions/metamorphoses

Ephemeris ~ ORMUZ, CENTRUM MUNDI?
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2464

Even Zeus Suffers: The Death of Sarpedon and the Beginning of Universal Human Rights – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Even Zeus Suffers: The Death of Sarpedon and the Beginning of Universal Human Rights

Gap Week: March 20, 2026 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: March 20, 2026

Where did the ancient Greeks and Romans think lightning came from? Hint: not just the gods
https://theconversation.com/where-did-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-think-lightning-came-from-hint-not-just-the-gods-270797

Laudator Temporis Acti: Good Government
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/good-government.html

Pontius Pilatus (1) Inleiding – Mainzer Beobachter

Pontius Pilatus (1) Inleiding

Pontius Pilatus (2) Het begin – Mainzer Beobachter

Pontius Pilatus (2) Het begin

Wie was Julius Caesar? (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Julius Caesar? (1)

Wie was Julius Caesar? (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Julius Caesar? (2)

Wie was Julius Caesar? (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Julius Caesar? (3)

PaleoJudaica.com: Ulmer, … Studies in Pesiqta Rabbati (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/ulmer-studies-in-pesiqta-rabbati-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Grabbe, When Israel Was Young (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/grabbe-when-israel-was-young-t-clark.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Letters
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/roman-letters.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tragedy, Authority, and Trickery: The Poetics of Embedded Letters in Josephus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/tragedy-authority-and-trickery-poetics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Euripides’ Ino: Commentary, Reconstruction, Text, and Translation
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/euripides-ino-commentary-reconstruction.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La population des contreforts de la Crimée et de la plaine hongroise à l’époque romaine : migrations et contacts
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/la-population-des-contreforts-de-la.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Symposium: Issues in Interpretation and Reception
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/platos-symposium-issues-in.html

The population of the Crimean foothills and the Hungarian plain in Roman times: migrations and contacts | Spartokos has read

La population des contreforts de la Crimée et de la plaine hongroise à l’époque romaine : migrations et contacts

===========================================================
AUDIENDA
===========================================================
Anima Latina 22.03.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/03/anima-latina-22-03-2026.html

Leonidas: King of Sparta, Hero of Thermopylae – The Ancients | Acast

Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16 – Life Of The Caesars

Slip, Trip, and Slit – Vespasian #16

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 21.03.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/03/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-21-03-2026.html

===========================================================
VIDENDA
===========================================================
Archaeologists astounded by Roman villa found in Wales
https://www.smh.com.au/national/archaeologists-astounded-by-roman-villa-found-in-wales-20260322-p5rmj1.html

Why Are We Obsessed With Antigone? – The New York Times

(144) CONSTRUCTION for new student residence in Rome reveals a new ‘City of the DEAD’ – YouTube

(144) The best preserved ancient Greek Temples aren’t in Greece – YouTube

(144) Excavating A Lost Roman Settlement – YouTube

(144) Laocoön and His Sons – YouTube

(144) Was Spartacus the original rebel? – YouTube

(144) Classical Latin beginner lesson example || Comprehensible Input + The Nature Method – YouTube

(144) How to translate a Graphic Novel into Latin! Presentation Memoria Veter – YouTube

===========================================================
NOTANDA
===========================================================
explorator 28.12 ~ March 22, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.12 ~ March 22, 2026

Mediterranean Antiquity in the Work of H. P. Lovecraft
https://www.carmanromanophd.com/lovecraftconference

• Festival of Mars continues (day 21)
• Quinquatrus continues (day 3) — originally a one-day festival with rites in honour of Minerva, by Ovid’s day it had been increased to five days, with the last four involving gladiatorial bouts