- Parentalia possibly comes to an end with the festival of Feralia, during which sheep were sacrificed to the dead; the additional rites mentioned by Ovid (Fasti 2.565 ff) apparently in connection with the Feralia probably have nothing to do specifically with the festival.
- 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ February 20, 2026
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German builders accidentally discover ancient Roman ruins while working on LVR-Jewish Museum | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-germany-lvr-jewish-museum-b2923638.html
In a ‘race against time,’ archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/in-a-race-against-time-archaeologists-uncovered-roman-era-footprints-from-a-scottish-beach-before-the-tide-washed-them-away
Agesilaus II, the great warrior king of Sparta who fought in Egypt in the service of a pharaoh and could not prevent the decline of his city
Civilizational Hardware and Software – Nadya Williams
A coffin holding a dead ‘princess’ fell from an eroded cliff over 100 years ago — archaeologists just solved a major mystery about her | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/a-coffin-holding-a-dead-princess-fell-from-an-eroded-cliff-over-100-years-ago-archaeologists-just-solved-a-major-mystery-about-her
Scientists analyzed bottle residue from ancient Rome. They found human feces : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5712815/scientists-analyzed-bottle-residue-from-ancient-rome-they-found-human-feces
What Greek Myth Looked Like in Martha Graham’s Modernist World | CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/what-greek-myth-looked-martha-grahams-modernist-world
Second Temple Period Workshop Discovered Near Jerusalem – Biblical Archaeology Society
Who Was Pyrrhus and What is a Pyrrhic Victory?
https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/who-was-pyrrhus-and-what-is-a-pyrrhic-victory-52075.html
Updating the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of articles in PDF
Updating the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of articles in PDF
[AI?] Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
It’s LEGO Classicism Day! – Classical Studies Support
Writing on Mount Hymettos… in Duplo! – The VIEWS project
[paywalled] How historically accurate is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/christopher-nolan-odyssey-how-historically-accurate-wd7bdkzrn
Het vierkinderenrecht – Mainzer Beobachter
PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient bronze scale pan excavated in Sussiya
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancient-bronze-scale-pan-excavated-in.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/review-of-berkovitz-life-of-psalms-in.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fractured Britannia: The Twilight of Roman Britain
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/fractured-britannia-twilight-of-roman.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: GROMA | documenting archaeology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/05/open-access-journal-groma-documenting.html
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101: The Siege of Syracuse–Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts
Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA397 – Athenian Archers
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa397-athenian-archers
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VIDENDA
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(105) What is ‘a Roman Copy of a Greek Original’? – YouTube
New Podcast – The Homer Hotline – The Classical Association of Canada
(105) The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens – YouTube
(104) Odysseus really is “just a man” 🥸 #shorts #greekmythology #ancientgreece – YouTube
(104) Pikes, Elephants, Artillery at Thermopylae (191 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube
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THOUGHT FOR FOOD: ON NIOBE’S ETERNAL BROODING | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/thought-for-food-on-niobes-eternal-brooding/725D6374B5DCB0AD6FEE06BB26F31F36
FUTURES PAST | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/futures-past/98166E7715C0212BEA00E08FE7F0EA83
Classics: consigned to the past, or the key to the future? In defence of a classical curriculum | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/classics-consigned-to-the-past-or-the-key-to-the-future-in-defence-of-a-classical-curriculum/
Semester 2 2026 Reading Classics Research Seminars | Classics at Reading
Upcoming Event: L’Année philologique: A Guided Tour for College Students | March 13 | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/upcoming-event-lann%C3%A9e-philologique-guided-tour-college-students-march-13
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas martias
- Parentalia (Day 8) — the festival for honouring/appeasing the dead continues
- 116 A.D. — Trajan is given the title “Parthicus” by the senate for his victories against the Parthians
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ February 19, 2026
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Storms reveal rare 2,000-year-old footprints on Scottish beach
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-storms-reveal-rare-year-footprints.html
Egyptian-Chinese mission uncovers new clues to King Apries’ temple in Mit Rahina – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/562666.aspx
2,500-year-old ‘primitive prosthetic’ found on jaw of mummified Scythian woman who survived complex jaw surgery | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-500-year-old-primitive-prosthetic-found-on-jaw-of-mummified-scythian-woman-who-survived-complex-jaw-surgery
Father, daughter find bronze scale pan in ancient Sussiya | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-887267
‘Cursed!’: Toledo Museum of Art to host exhibit exploring the power of ancient magic in the Mediterranean world | wtol.com
https://www.wtol.com/article/entertainment/arts/cursed-toledo-museum-of-art-exhibit-power-of-magic-in-ancient-world/512-c3a6c8e7-b297-490e-b03f-32b2ca30e41d
Ancient Roman bottles contained traces of fecal matter : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718375/ancient-roman-medicine-fecal-history
Prof. Ready offers fanfic framing for Euripides’ Orestes — The Kenyon Collegian
Recording your own books | Blog post | Mary Beard
Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Poseidon, Divine Hypocrite: Impersonation and Interpretation in Iliad 13
From the Heart of Jerusalem to the People of Iran: A Sassanid Treasure in the Soil of the Temple Mount – The Temple Mount Sifting Project
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Fifth Century Disc Brooch Seized by Police
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/ukraine-fifth-century-disc-brooch.html
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ukraine: Police in Vinnytsia Seize Metal Detectorist’s Loot AFTER He’d Destroyed a ‘Princely Grave’
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/police-in-vinnytsia-prevented-illegal.html
What is a Sycophant? | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/what-is-a-sycophant/
Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Evacuating Ukraine’s Ancient Stone Guardians
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/evacuating-ukraines-ancient-stone.html
‘People are in awe’: exhibition unveils ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead | Exhibitions | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/feb/19/book-of-the-dead-exhibition-brooklyn-museum-ancient-egypt
Even the best writing about science recalls ancient myths
https://theconversation.com/even-the-best-writing-about-science-recalls-ancient-myths-272269
Teaching Thursday: Reading Difficult Books | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Sara M. Koenig, The Ten Commandments through the Ages – Reading Acts
PaleoJudaica.com: Onomastic politics and What did Second Temple-era Jews call the Land of Israel?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/onomastic-politics-and-what-did-second.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Water Supply and Management Systems in the Western Mediterranean: Construction and Operation
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancient-water-supply-and-management.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Umm al-Quwain 2: A Neolithic settlement and graveyard in the United Arab Emirates
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/umm-al-quwain-2-neolithic-settlement.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Daughters of the Sun: Small Human Images in Megalithic Iberia, 4th-3rd Millennium BC
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/daughters-of-sun-small-human-images-in.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Edition osirianischer Ritualtexte auf fragmentarischen späthieratischen Papyri der Tempelbibliothek von Tebtynis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/edition-osirianischer-ritualtexte-auf.html
Sixty-six toilets and urinals in the ancient city of Rome: sanitary, urbanistic, and social agency – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.28/
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Who’s Afraid of Lupercalia?–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts
Episode 170 – The Gallic Sack of Rome – Part 5 – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies
The Fall of Persia | Alexander the Great – The Ancients | Acast
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(70) How Parthia Beat Roman Legions – YouTube
(71) Minoan Pithos, Palace of Minos, Knossos – YouTube
(71) Elizabeth Irwin on Polycrates’ ring: fate and the reader – YouTube
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ANE Today, 19 February 2026 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-19-february-2026
Ancient Egypt Magazine 153 – The Past
Pasts Imperfect (2.19.26)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-2-19-26/
University of Basel: University lectureship for Latin language and literature (60%)
https://jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stellen/universitaetsdozentur-fuer-lateinische-sprache-und-literatur/4979f52e-9556-4c53-8190-
What Thucydides Teaches Us About Great-Power Rivalry – Modern Diplomacy
Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics – HigherEdJobs
https://www.higheredjobs.com/search/details.cfm?JobCode=179368847&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20of%20Classics
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xi kalendas martias
- Parentalia (Day 7) — the period for honouring the dead continues
- 198 A.D. — death of emperor wannabe Clodius Albinus
- 1806 — death of Elizabeth Carter (Classicist who translated Epictetus)
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