• ludi Megalensia continue (day 5)
• 217 A.D. — murder of the emperor M. Aurelius Antoninus (Caracalla)
• 1898 — Birth of Maurice Bowra (The Greek Experience)
• 1979 — death of E.R. Dodds (The Greeks and the Irrational)

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A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

A 5,000-Year-Old Bronze Age Bread Found in Türkiye Reveals an Unusual Ritual Use

Roman sanctuary unearthed beneath Frankfurt may have a dark past involving ritual human sacrifice | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/human-sacrifice-roman-site-frankfurt-b2952336.html

Archaeologists Discover the Hidden History of the Ancient Underwater City of Iuliopolis in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/07/history-underwater-ancient-city-iuliopolis-turkey/

Khresis Mosaic Reveals the Hidden Wealth of Ancient Troy in Hatay – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/khresis-mosaic-reveals-the-hidden-wealth-of-ancient-troy-in-hatay/

Roman villa discovered on route of Norfolk wind farm cables | Eastern Daily Press
https://www.edp24.co.uk/resources/images/20698886.jpg?type=mds-article-962&x=0&y=0&w=2400&h=1350

Dutch Museum Discovers 8-Inch Ancient Roman Phallus
https://hyperallergic.com/dutch-museum-discovers-8-inch-ancient-roman-phallus/

Beadnet dress: A 4,500-year-old ancient Egyptian funeral ‘gown’ that was in vogue during the Old Kingdom | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/beadnet-dress-a-4-500-year-old-ancient-egyptian-funeral-gown-that-was-in-vogue-during-the-old-kingdom

[stale] The ‘Sarcastic’ Message Archaeologists Found Carved Into This 2,100-Year-Old Bullet Is Pretty Hilarious

The ‘Sarcastic’ Message Archaeologists Found Carved Into This 2,100-Year-Old Bullet Is Pretty Hilarious

Appian Way Archaeological Park, restoration of the Tomb of the Pancras has begun
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/appian-way-archaeological-park-restoration-of-the-tomb-of-the-pancras-has-begun

[old news]Odysseus Sanctuary Discovered on Ithaca in Major Greek Archaeological Breakthrough Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/07/odysseus-sanctuary-ithaca-discovery/

How Troy Became an Ancient Tourist Trap

Trojan Tourist Trap

[old news]A Tomb at Knossos Inspired by the Iliad?

The Archer’s Tomb

The Lost Remix of the Trojan War

Another Trojan War?

[paywalled] Archaeologists Found an Ancient Necropolis with More than 3,000 Burials
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a70920636/archaeologists-found-an-ancient-necropolis-with-more-than-3000-burials/

When the Legions Entered Rome for the First Time, Setting a Precedent That Would Not Stop

When the Legions Entered Rome for the First Time, Setting a Precedent That Would Not Stop

Thieves, soda cans and an ancient vessel: Carlos exhibit pieces together a provenance puzzle
https://news.emory.edu/features/2026/04/er_carlos_museum_provenance_puzzle_06-04-2026/index.html

Morality and murder: Medea takes stage – The Mass Media

Morality and murder: Medea takes stage

Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling
https://theconversation.com/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling-279566

(8) The Myth of Progress – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-myth-of-progress

Two Thing Tuesday: Harry’s Wall and Augustine’s Monica | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Thing Tuesday: Harry’s Wall and Augustine’s Monica

Monday Nonsense – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Monday Nonsense

The Provenance and Date of the Berlin Cretans | Variant Readings

The Provenance and Date of the Berlin Cretans

Prov[ena]nce: A Papyrological Easter Tale – The Philological Crocodile

Prov[ena]nce: A Papyrological Easter Tale

Latin Rules! – CANE

Latin Rules!

Weekly Varia no. 176, 04/05/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 176, 04/05/26

One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later) | Sphinx

One Of Us Must Know (Sooner Or Later)

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Dullest Book in Latin?
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-dullest-book-in-latin.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Conflict Resolution
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/conflict-resolution.html

Testis unus, testis nullus – Mainzer Beobachter

Testis unus, testis nullus

Glykon – Mainzer Beobachter

Glykon

Always Second Best (Or Worst): Characterizing Hektor in Iliad 17 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Always Second Best (Or Worst): Characterizing Hektor in Iliad 17

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that marble baptismal (?) artifact
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-on-that-marble-baptismal-artifact.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The missing cuneiform evidence
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-missing-cuneiform-evidence.html

PaleoJudaica.com: How was Hezekiah shut up “like a caged bird” in Jerusalem?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/how-was-hezekiah-shut-up-like-caged.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Why a golden calf?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/why-golden-calf.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Lost Ark docudrama
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-lost-ark-docudrama.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Wild Songs, Sweet Songs: The Albanian Epic in the Collections of Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/wild-songs-sweet-songs-albanian-epic-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Loving Humanity, Learning, and Being Honored: The Foundations of Leadership in Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/loving-humanity-learning-and-being.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Literary History in the Parian Marble
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/literary-history-in-parian-marble.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Citizenship Practised, Citizenship Imagined: Multiple Ways of Experiencing Citizenship in the Greek World
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/citizenship-practised-citizenship.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tufts Greek Reading List Reader
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/tufts-greek-reading-list-reader.html

Plato’s Hippias Minor: analysis, text, translation, and commentary – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.08/

Lungo il corso del fiume Paglia. Archeologia, mobilità e mediazione culturale nell’antichità – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.07/

Perspectives on Plotinus: the collected essays of John Dillon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.06/

Ancient plaster: casting light on a forgotten sculptural material – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.05/

Corpus inscriptionum Latinarum IV: inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae Herculanenses Stabianae. Suppl. pars 4: inscriptiones parietariae Pompeianae. Fasc. 2 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.04/

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The Case of the Elephant Bone in Third Century BCE Spain, or, Babar Says, You Wouldn’t Like Me When I’m Angry | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-case-of-the-elephant-bone-in-third-century-bce-spain-or-babar-says-you-wouldn-t-like-me-when-i-m-angry/

Anima Latina – CCXXX – 06.04.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/04/anima-latina-06-04-2026.html

Expert in Residence: Get to Kn… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(26) What Can Greek Myths Tell Us About AI? With Stephen Fry – YouTube

(26) Uncovering the Social and Political History of Ancient Egypt – YouTube

Pompeii: The Legacy – Official Full Release Trailer – IGN
https://www.ign.com/videos/pompeii-the-legacy-official-full-release-trailer

(27) What Did Helen of Troy REALLY Look Like? – YouTube

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An Exclusive Excerpt from Yann Martel’s New Novel, Son of Nobody | The Walrus
https://thewalrus.ca/an-exclusive-excerpt-from-yann-martels-new-novel-son-of-nobody/

Job details: A. G. Leventis Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Ancient Greek Literature
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=43195&jobTitle=A.+G.+Leventis+Postdoctoral+Research+Fellow+in+Ancient+Greek+Literature

Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 7 April 2026

Cultural Heritage and Emerging Crime Opportunities List 7 April 2026

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Egyptian police in Minya arrest man possessing hundreds of antiquities – Egypt Independent

Egyptian police in Minya arrest man possessing hundreds of antiquities

The treasure in the mud: the bronzes of San Casciano, history of discovery
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/the-treasure-in-the-mud-the-bronzes-of-san-casciano-history-of-discovery

A Roman submerged port structure discovered off Asini in the Argolid, with foundations of several piers and docks

A Roman submerged port structure discovered off Asini in the Argolid, with foundations of several piers and docks

The attack that changed the history of the Vascones: evidence of a Roman Republic battle found at the oppidum of Irulegi

The attack that changed the history of the Vascones: evidence of a Roman Republic battle found at the oppidum of Irulegi

What happened to the Minoan civilization? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/what-happened-to-the-minoan-civilization

Pompeii Evidence Points to an Ancient Automatic Weapon Used More Than 2,000 Years Ago — The Polybolos – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/pompeii-evidence-points-to-an-ancient-automatic-weapon-used-more-than-2000-years-ago-the-polybolos/

Buried Roman sanctuary discovered beneath Frankfurt hints at shocking rituals | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260405003937.htm

Roman camp discovery linked to Battle of Pydna
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/04/roman-camp-discovered-linked-to-battle-of-pydna/157662

Previously Unknown 2,500-Year-Old Achaemenid Cemetery Discovered in Northern Iran—Includes Woman Buried with Horse Gear – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/previously-unknown-2500-year-old-achaemenid-cemetery-discovered-in-northern-iran-includes-woman-buried-with-horse-gear/

Bybon, the Ancient Greek Strongman Who Lifted a 316-Pound Stone With One Hand – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/04/ancient-greek-weightlifter-bybon/

Explore the Ancient Greek World Through a Revolutionary Digital Map – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/04/ancient-greek-world-digital-map/

Apollonius of Rhodes: The Man Who Changed Ancient Greek Literature for Ever – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/05/apollonius-rhodes-man-change-greek-literature/

Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter – Terracotta hydria: kalpis (water jar) – Greek, Attic – Classical – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/256791

Terracotta mug with horizontal rills – Greek, South Italian, Apulian – Classical – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/255791

Falcon-headed sphinx recumbent on a pedestal with a ramp, and a feline(?) behind, possibly a gnomon for a shadow clock or instrument – Late Period–Ptolemaic Period – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/570309

Mosaic of the House of Citharist of Pompeii – Roman – Late Republican – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/ja/art/collection/search/900498

Pompeii Study Confirms Roman ‘Wine’ Ritual Previously Known Only From Texts
https://gizmodo.com/pompeii-study-confirms-roman-wine-ritual-previously-known-only-from-texts-2000739384?fbclid=IwZnRzaAQ3q8hleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAo2NjI4NTY4Mzc5AAEe8hvEZv1g295vC-k_l-k7JZa_I0Dr_56qO59lXJzMgxoO3XauI2Rx8RcfJI8_aem_4ZFxkVezqBuQEYQY8zChyw

Spectacular Roman Villa Being Restored in Amyntaio near Florina – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/spectacular-roman-villa-being-restored-in-amyntaio-near-florina/

A crisis in the Classics and Religious Studies department: U of O Honours BA in Greek and Roman Studies suspended again  – The Fulcrum

A crisis in the Classics and Religious Studies department: U of O Honours BA in Greek and Roman Studies suspended again 

[paywalled] Mary Beard: ‘I’ve annoyed people. It comes with the territory’
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/mary-beard-ive-annoyed-people-it-comes-with-the-territory-rx3n3pn8z

Erin L. Thompson | The Epstein Marbles
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/the-epstein-marbles?fbclid=IwVERTSAQ88sJleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR5V1I2KssUFtg4ARWI-wTvxnfdtO3aP4Oo84biVV2JVa-evXpsmrQQKwNYSpw_aem_SGorfajk1eyYaPmbBXKMMQ&sfnsn=mo

Japan gets its first “ancient Roman VTuber” as author of legendary Thermae Romae series announces debut  – AUTOMATON WEST

Japan gets its first “ancient Roman VTuber” as author of legendary Thermae Romae series announces debut 

‘Lysistrata’ in Shanghai | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/opinion/1299948/lysistrata-in-shanghai/

Cuneiform Written Artifacts and Missing Evidence in the Study of the Ancient Near East – The Ancient Near East Today

Cuneiform Written Artifacts and Missing Evidence in the Study of the Ancient Near East

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homily 12, De Pascha 1 – English translation

Eusebius Gallicanus, Homily 12, De Pascha 1 – English translation

Security, Spectacle, and Return – Illicit Cultural Property

Security, Spectacle, and Return

Laudator Temporis Acti: Contentment
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/contentment.html

Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Reconstructing the Roman Pectoral

Voor-westerse geschiedenis (8) de zeeën – Mainzer Beobachter

Voor-westerse geschiedenis (8) de zeeën

PaleoJudaica.com: Isaiah between Judaism and Christianity (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/isaiah-between-judaism-and-christianity.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Easter 2026
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/easter-2026.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Does the Exodus story subvert Egyptian propaganda?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/does-exodus-story-subvert-egyptian.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Levin, The Chronicles of David and Solomon (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/levin-chronicles-of-david-and-solomon-t.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: “Mixed Aorists” in Homeric Greek
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/mixed-aorists-in-homeric-greek.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/lovers-of-soul-lovers-of-body.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Women Weaving the World: Text and Textile in the Kalevala and Beyond
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/women-weaving-world-text-and-textile-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/agamemnon-pathetic-despot-reading.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Equine Poetics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/equine-poetics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Au prisme des goûts: Sociétés phéniciennes et puniques
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/au-prisme-des-gouts-societes.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Histoires des handicaps à travers les siècles: Identifications, trajectoires, institutions et sociabilités
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/histoires-des-handicaps-travers-les.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Imaginaires des reines des steppes: Regards croisés entre Orient et Occident
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/imaginaires-des-reines-des-steppes.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Violences extrêmes et transgression en temps de guerre: Dialogue entre mondes anciens et contemporains
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/violences-extremes-et-transgression-en.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/poetry-and-polis-in-euripidean-tragedy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Culture of Kitharôidia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-culture-of-kitharoidia.html

The Bosporus Necropolis from the Great Migration Period. Last Quarter of the Fourth Century to the Early Seventh Century | Spartokos read

The Bosporus Necropolisfrom the Great Migration Period. Last Quarter of the Fourth Centuryto the Early Seventh Century

‘Those Who Are About to Die’ Review: Ancient Martial Artists – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/those-who-are-about-to-die-review-ancient-martial-artists-9e3cac58?st=eSn4vm&reflink=article_email_share

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Anima Latina 05.04.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/04/anima-latina-05-04-2026.html

Judas Iscariot – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.04.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/04/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-04-04-2026.html

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(593) The surprising truth about archaeology – YouTube

(593) Passio Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Joannem 📖 | St. John Passion (Latin Audiobook) – YouTube

(593) Movies We Dig Watch Party: Romulus S02:E01 with The Partial Historians ‪@partialhistorians‬ – YouTube

(593) Evidence For Ancient Greek Myths That PREDATE Homer – YouTube

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explorator 28.14 ~ April 5, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.14 ~ April 5, 2026

Call for Papers: ‘Trauma, Tragedy and Redemption in the Ancient World and beyond’ (Exedra Mediterranean Centre, Siracusa) – The Classical Association | The Classical Association

Call for Papers: ‘Trauma, Tragedy and Redemption in the Ancient World and beyond’ (Exedra Mediterranean Centre, Siracusa)

• ludi Megalesia in honour of Cybele (day 2)
• rites in honour of Fortuna Publica
• 347 B.C. — death of Plato (by one reckoning)

• 357 B.C. — Aristotle observes the transit of the moon past Mars (source?)
• ludi Megalesia (day 1 … associated with the next item, obviously)
• 204 B.C. — the image and cult of the Mater Magna (a.k.a. Cybele) is brought to Rome during the conflict with Hannibal on the advice of the Sybilline books
• 37 A.D. — the ashes of Tiberius are placed in the Mausoleum of Augustus
• 186 (or 188) A.D. — birth of the future emperor Septimius Bassianus (later known as M. Aurelius Antoninus Caesar; better known as Caracalla)