• 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

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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

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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

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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

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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

• 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
• 1766 — death of Richard Dawes (Classical scholar)

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The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily

The Bothros of Aeolus, a ritual pit on the island of Lipari that reveals the secrets of the cult that united Greeks and indigenous people in Sicily

The Golden Helmet of Leiro: A Bronze Age Masterpiece Hidden for Millennia on Spain’s Atlantic Coast – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-golden-helmet-of-leiro-a-bronze-age-masterpiece-hidden-for-millennia-on-spains-atlantic-coast/

Roman funerary inscription emerges from mud in Livorno Countryside
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/roman-funerary-inscription-emerges-from-mud-in-livorno-countryside/157476

Unusual burials of Celtic ‘warriors’ discovered in France point to violent deaths | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/unusual-burials-of-celtic-warriors-discovered-in-france-point-to-violent-deaths

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

Excavations in ancient Roman Saepinum uncover a domus with advanced hydraulic technology and a Byzantine treasure

Pompeii’s battle scars linked to an ancient ‘machine gun’
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-pompeii-scars-linked-ancient-machine.html

Ancient sling bullet delivers a 2,100-year-old taunt: ‘Learn your lesson!’
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-bullet-year-taunt-lesson.html#goog_rewarded

Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated. — Harvard Gazette

Is this art Celtic? It’s complicated.

1,800-year-old nails discovered in 3 burials in Roman necropolis, possibly to ‘protect’ both the living and the dead | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-800-year-old-nails-discovered-in-3-burials-in-roman-necropolis-possibly-to-protect-both-the-living-and-the-dead

Lost Parthenon Piece Unearthed From Lord Elgin’s Shipwreck
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/parthenon-fragment-lord-elgin-shipwreck-2755894?amp=1

Hipparchus’s Lost Star Catalogue Re-emerges – tovima.com

Hipparchus’s Lost Star Catalogue Re-emerges

Turkey in cultural diplomacy push to bring history home
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260320-turkey-in-cultural-diplomacy-push-to-bring-history-home

Nine ancient Greek vases stolen from Argos museum are returned from Hungary | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1298721/nine-ancient-greek-vases-stolen-from-argos-museum-are-returned-from-hungary/

Stunning Hellenistic Treasures Discovered in Bulgaria’s Nessebar – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/20/hellenistic-treasures-bulgaria-nessebar/

The Real Locations of Odysseus’ Journey in Homer’s Odyssey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/19/places-odysseus-journey-homer-odyssey/

Well, well, well! Workers discover unusual Roman feature built 2,000 years ago during shop renovation | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15660747/Workers-discover-unusual-feature-built-years-ago.html

Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures: An Appeal to Queen Mary and King Frederik of Denmark Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/19/reuniting-the-parthenon-sculptures-an-appeal-to-queen-mary-and-king-frederik-of-denmark

[AI?] 1,500-year-old mosaic reads like ‘haters gonna hate’ | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890556

[AI?] Evidence of ‘crucifixion’ found in Roman graves | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-890552

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town – The Past

Surveying Falerii Novi: Rethinking the development of a Roman town

Five Ways Ancient Queens Found Fame and Even Cult Followings Through Art and Visual Culture
https://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2026/march/five-ways-ancient-queens-found-fame-and-even-cult-followings-thr.html

March 20, 71 C.E.: Plutarch witnesses an eclipse

March 20, 71 C.E.: Plutarch witnesses an eclipse

IPHIGENIA Comes to Arcola Theatre in a New Adaptation by Serdar Biliş
https://www.broadwayworld.com/brooklyn/article/IPHIGENIA-Comes-to-Arcola-Theatre-in-a-New-Adaptation-by-Serdar-Bili-20260319

[old news]German scientists have deciphered 1800-year-old Roman tablets | Turkmenportal.com
https://turkmenportal.com/en/news/98139-nemetskie-uchenye-prochitali-rimskie-tablichki-vozrastom-1800-let-

Unprecedented Discoveries of Christian Baptism Found on the Shore of Galilee – Biblical Archaeology Society

Unprecedented Discoveries of Christian Baptism Found on the Shore of Galilee

Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’) – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM

Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’)

(9) What If You Could Study With the Greatest Minds in History?
https://latinum.substack.com/p/what-if-you-could-study-with-the

(9) Amaryllis, Cheesemaker – by The Paideia Institute
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/amaryllis-cheesemaker

The History Girls: “Read the Falco Books.” by Susan Price
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/03/read-falco-books-by-susan-price.html

Spencer Alley: Commercial Neoclassical
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/03/commercial-neoclassical.html

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (1)

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (2)

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De begrafenis van Julius Caesar (3)

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the British Museum change a display due to UKLFI objections?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/did-british-museum-change-display-due.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Stanley, A Ram for Mars: A Slave’s Story, Book 3
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/stanley-ram-for-mars-slaves-story-book-3.html

PaleoJudaica.com: BIAJS Book Prize 2026
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/biajs-book-prize-2026.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kition-Bamboula X: L’habitat de la fin du Bronze récent et du début de l’âge du Fer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/kition-bamboula-x-lhabitat-de-la-fin-du.html

The Oxford history of the archaic Greek world. Vol. IV: Cyrene to Metapontion – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.24/

The west pediment of the Parthenon: iconography and iconology – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.23/

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How the Tetrarchy Won the East – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA401 – Why Did Helmets Have Crests?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa401-why-did-helmets-have-crests
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(97) The Truth About the Ancient Celtic Gods – YouTube

(98) Archeologists Investigate The 3,000-Year-Old Mummy Of Ramesses II – YouTube

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Latin Morph!
https://latin-morph.streamlit.app/