ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 15, 2026

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“Let the Envious Burst!”: 1,500-Year-Old Mosaic with Surprising Message Discovered in Türkiye’s Syedra – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/let-the-envious-burst-1500-year-old-mosaic-with-surprising-message-discovered-in-turkeys-syedra/

2,000-year-old tomb shows gladiators in combat | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-889976

Roman well unearthed in Caistor during shop renovations
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6z8xvz58qo

From a “Drunken Hercules” to a Watchful Medusa: Roman Mosaics in Portugal Reveal Myth, Power, and Protection – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/from-a-drunken-hercules-to-a-watchful-medusa-roman-mosaics-in-portugal-reveal-myth-power-and-protection/

The Permanent Exhibition of Casts from Pompeii – Pompeii Online
https://www.pompeionline.net/en/archaeological-park-of-pompeii/the-permanent-exhibition-of-casts-and-organic-remains-from-pompeii

How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue?
https://hyperallergic.com/how-much-did-it-cost-to-paint-a-pompeii-room-egyptian-blue/

Ancient Herakleia theater discovered in Policoro
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/ancient-herakleia-theater-discovered-in-policoro

Celebrating Ancient Greek Math on Pi Day – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/pi-day-math/

Measuring the Earth: Greek Students Recreate Eratosthenes’ Historic Experiment – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/13/measuring-earth-greek-students-recreate-eratosthenes-historic-experiment/

What Was Daily Life Like in Ancient Greece? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/daily-life-ancient-greece/

What Did the Minoans Eat? Food, Ritual, and Daily Life in Ancient Crete – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/13/minoans-eat-food-ritual-daily-life-ancient-crete/

The Secret Minoan Fire Technique That Turned Blue Stone Red – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/secret-minoan-fire-technique-turned-blue-stone-red/

New Technology Reveals Hidden Secrets of 3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Aegean Scripts – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/new-technology-reveals-hidden-secrets-aegean-bronze-age-scripts/

Distinguished classicist and “The Odyssey” translator Emily Wilson visits UI – The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/03/13/distinguished-classicist-and-the-odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-visits-ui/

Scholar who breathed new life into ancient classics lectures at UI – Radio Iowa

Scholar who breathed new life into ancient classics lectures at UI

Neville Morley | Thucydides Traps
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/thucydides-traps

[wtf?]The ancient stone bridge that Spartan soldiers crossed and still stands to this day (VIDEO) Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/15/ancient-stone-bridge-spartan-2000/

Elon Musk “Yes” to Odyssey: Odysseus Revenge on Suitors Goes Viral Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/14/elon-musk-yes-odyssey-suitors-home-fight-viral-2026/

Sorry Christopher Nolan, ‘The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie’ Already Perfectly Adapted ‘The Odyssey’
https://movieweb.com/spongebob-squarepants-movie-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan/

The ancient Romans knew the power of entertainment as propaganda – here’s the proof | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-theatre-entertainment-propaganda/

Exploring ancient graffiti – The Past

Exploring ancient graffiti

Basilica built by father of Western architecture – The Past

Basilica built by father of Western architecture

Laudator Temporis Acti: Effects of Drinking Wine
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/effects-of-drinking-wine.html

Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026)

Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE)

Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE)

Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland

Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026)

Whatever Happened To…? | Sphinx

Whatever Happened To…?

Anger and Rage Among the Corpses: On the Doublet χόλος καὶ μῆνις in Iliad 15 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Anger and Rage Among the Corpses: On the Doublet χόλος καὶ μῆνις in Iliad 15

Blog-experiment: #RealTimeCaesar – Mainzer Beobachter

Blog-experiment: #RealTimeCaesar

Na de moord op Julius Caesar (1): familie – Mainzer Beobachter

Na de moord op Julius Caesar (1): familie

Na de moord op Julius Caesar (2): de moordenaars – Mainzer Beobachter

Na de moord op Julius Caesar (2): de moordenaars

De moord op Julius Caesar (1): de vooravond – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (1): de vooravond

De moord op Julius Caesar (2): de situatie – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (2): de situatie

De moord op Julius Caesar (3): het wachten – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (3): het wachten

De moord op Julius Caesar (4): vertrek – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (4): vertrek

De moord op Julius Caesar (5): offers – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (5): offers

De moord op Julius Caesar (6): de aanval – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (6): de aanval

De moord op Julius Caesar (7): de dood – Mainzer Beobachter

De moord op Julius Caesar (7): de dood

De nacht na de moord op Julius Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter

De nacht na de moord op Julius Caesar

Summer School Time! – Classical Studies Support

Summer School Time!

PaleoJudaica.com: Virnelson, Fruit of Her Hands (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/virnelson-fruit-of-her-hands-oup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Athas & Davage (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook to the Masoretic Text
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/athas-davage-eds-t-clark-handbook-to.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer the Preclassic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homer-preclassic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer the Classic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homer-classic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-updating-of-survey-of-recent-work.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Mythology and Poetics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-mythology-and-poetics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/pindars-homer-lyric-possession-of-epic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Responses
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-responses.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer’s Text and Language
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homers-text-and-language.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Questions
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-questions.html

La science russe sur les antiquités classiques du sud de la Russie (XVIIIe – milieu du XIXe siècle) | Spartokos a lu

La science russe sur les antiquités classiques du sud de la Russie (XVIIIe – milieu du XIXe siècle)

The Diver of Paestum: Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece – The Past

The Diver of Paestum: Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece


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Anima Latina 15.03.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/03/anima-latina-15-03-2026.html

Episode A12 – The Flood–The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

Herodotus: The Father of History – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 14.03.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/03/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-14-03-2026.html
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(39) The Mysterious Golden Masks of Mycenae – YouTube

(41) Casts of Victims Who Died in Pompeii Volcanic Eruptuion on Display for First Time in HISTORY – YouTube

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explorator 28.11 ~ March 15, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.11 ~ March 15, 2026

CFP: Call For Proposals | CAAS-CW
https://caas-cw.org/category/cfp-call-for-proposals/

This Day in Ancient History: idus martias

  • festival of Mars continues (day 15)
  • festival of Jupiter
  • festival/rites in honour of Anna Perenna (Happy New Year!)
  • 44 B.C. — murder of Gaius Julius Caesar
  • ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Longinus (the soldier who is said to have pierced Jesus’ side with a spear) in Cappadocia

This Day in Ancient History: pridie idus martias

  • Festival of Mars (day 14)
  • Equirria — the second of two days of horse racing (the first was on February 27) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing horses for the upcoming campaigning season
  • 222 A.D. — Severus Alexander is given the title Augustus

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 13, 2026

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Ancient vial in Turkey shows Romans used human excrement in medicine | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/science/ancient-vial-turkey-shows-romans-used-human-excrement-medicine-2026-03-13/

Polish archaeologists uncover ancient shipwreck trail in Libya
https://tvpworld.com/92073481/100-meter-shipwreck-trail-found-by-polish-archaeologists-near-ancient-ptolemais-in-libya

Ancient Italian necropolis reveals children buried with warrior belts
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/ancient-italian-necropolis-reveals-children-buried-with-warrior-belts/157359

Ancient Greek Woman Led Major Olive Oil Industry in Pamphylia. Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/13/ancient-greek-woman-led-major-olive-oil-industry-in-pamphylia/

Pompeii, a new permanent path for casts of victims of the Vesuvius eruption
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-a-new-permanent-path-for-casts-of-victims-of-the-vesuvius-eruption

Apollosa, un monumento funerario con scene di gladiatori ritrovato lungo la via Appia | Corriere.it
https://salerno.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_marzo_13/apollosa-un-monumento-funerario-con-scene-di-gladiatori-lungo-la-via-appia-22187032-7fd9-4a0f-91ce-99fd59b22xlk.shtml

Remains of Roman fortlet found under house gardens in Bearsden
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gk5864rdo

1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-900-year-old-double-scythian-burial-in-ukraine-contains-toxic-red-mineral

History Made: Alexander the Great’s Lost City Discovered in Iraq After Nearly 2,000 Years Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/13/history-made-alexander-the-greats-lost-city-discovered-in-iraq-after-nearly-2000-years

What the Roman Republic can teach us about Trump’s war in Iran – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis

What the Roman Republic can teach us about Trump’s war in Iran

The Odyssey Translations to Read Before Christopher Nolan Film
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-odyssey-translations-to-read-before-christopher-nolan-film

Sex and the Search for Religious Truth – Biblical Archaeology Society

Sex and the Search for Religious Truth

The Situation of Classics at the University of Ottawa and in Canada – Antigone

The Situation of Classics at the University of Ottawa and in Canada

Laudator Temporis Acti: Succession
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/succession.html

The History Girls: ‘It’s all Greek to me’: the story behind my Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon by Caroline K. Mackenzie
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/03/its-all-greek-to-me-story-behind-my.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Shibboleth
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/shibboleth.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Henderson: Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt … (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/henderson-defeat-and-deliverance.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Thousands more inscribed ostraca from Athribis (Sohag), Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/thousands-more-inscribed-ostraca-from.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-anger-of-achilles-menis-in-greek.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Tears of Achilles
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-tears-of-achilles.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/comparative-studies-in-greek-and-indic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι through its formulas
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-meaning-of-homeric-through-its.html

Metaphors of the ancient world: conceptual metaphor theory and ancient sources – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.17/

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The AskHistorians Podcast: AskHistorians Podcast Episode 249: Egyptology Today with the History of Egypt Podcast
https://askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorians-podcast-episode-249-egyptology-today-with-the-history-of-egypt-podcast

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW400 – Warriors in Bronze
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/aw400-warriors-in-bronze

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The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans | Open Culture

The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans

(675) Healing poop: Evidence shows feces used in ancient Roman medicine – YouTube

(675) Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts – YouTube

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CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026 – CRSN

CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026

Assistant Professor in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean

Assistant Professor in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean

Material Religion in Private Contexts

Material Religion in Private Contexts

Interaction among master artisans in Early Mycenaean times

Interaction among master artisans in Early Mycenaean times

Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas

Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas

Writing a New History of Carthage

Writing a New History of Carthage

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 244 (02/2026) | Tulliana News

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 244 (02/2026)

Volume 2, Issue 1 (2026) | AI & Antiquity
https://ai-antiquity.org/index.php/ai/issue/view/3

Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026

Leventis MA Studentships at The Open University

Leventis MA Studentships at The Open University

Reimagining a Good Monarch: Phylarchus’ Fragment 44 (Ath. 4.20–1, 141F–42F) and the Hellenistic Discourse of Kingship | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/reimagining-a-good-monarch-phylarchus-fragment-44-ath-4201-141f42f-and-the-hellenistic-discourse-of-kingship/E79E810C23CA80044A7CFF0DE3EACA74?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles