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ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN April 21, 2026
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LEGENDA
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Archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-archaeological-mission-oxyrhynchus-homer-iliad.html

Archaeologists discover an impressive 2,000-year-old Roman canal buried underground – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/archaeologists-discover-an-impressive-2000-year-old-roman-canal-buried-underground-f202604-n/

Antiquities from US collection returned to Greece | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1301502/antiquities-from-us-collection-returned-to-greece/

Remarkably Preserved Roman Palace Discovered in Eastern Libya – LibyaReview

Remarkably Preserved Roman Palace Discovered in Eastern Libya

How did the Gauls dress? The Gergovie Museum invites us into the wardrobe of the Celtic peoples

How did the Gauls dress? The Gergovie Museum invites us into the wardrobe of the Celtic peoples

The tomb of an Iron Age warrior in Italy contained a silver wire from the Iberian Peninsula and remains of a medicinal drink

The tomb of an Iron Age warrior in Italy contained a silver wire from the Iberian Peninsula and remains of a medicinal drink

Ancient Roman bread returns to Pompeii for first time in millennia | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/food-recipes/article-893698

Cista etrusca restaurata in mostra a Palazzo Dama a Roma

Una cista etrusca del Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia restaurata ed esposta a Palazzo Dama

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 13 Antiquities To The People Of Egypt – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 13 Antiquities To The People Of Egypt

Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/altar-to-sol-a-rare-1-900-year-old-monument-dedicated-to-the-roman-god-of-light-and-used-in-a-secret-underground-ritual

[paywalled] When Archeologists Opened This Tomb, No One Was Inside
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a71074462/roman-tomb-no-bodies-buried-inside/

[paywalled] Did a Roman ‘machinegun’ leave its mark on ancient Pompeii?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/science/article/ompeii-wall-romans-ancient-machine-gun-study-pqp02ncd8

When Was Rome Really Founded? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/21/when-rome-really-founded/

Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/20/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/

Princetonians honored with Guggenheim Fellowships
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2026/04/20/princetonians-honored-guggenheim-fellowships

Dame Averil Cameron obituary | Classics | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/apr/20/averil-cameron-obituary

Book by the Cover: Out of My Life and Two Visions | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Book by the Cover: Out of My Life and Two Visions

The Surprising History of the Sea Monsters That Destroyed Alexandria – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/the-surprising-history-of-the-sea-monsters-that-destroyed-alexandria

A 1559 drawing of the column of Arcadius in Constantinople

A 1559 drawing of the column of Arcadius in Constantinople

Thirty lines of the “Physica” of Empedocles found in a Cairo papyrus

Thirty lines of the “Physica” of Empedocles found in a Cairo papyrus

Schrödinger’s Companion: Productive Dissonance in Iliad 18 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Schrödinger’s Companion: Productive Dissonance in Iliad 18

Romulus en Remus & co – Mainzer Beobachter

Romulus en Remus & co

PaleoJudaica.com: On “Masada syndrome”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/on-masada-syndrome.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Zoroastrian World (Routledge)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-zoroastrian-world-routledge.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Suda
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-suda.html

LM IIIB Knossos and its relations to Kydonia – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.27/

Classicism and the construction of capital cities: London, Athens and Rome in the nineteenth century – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.26/

Are you an Athenian or a Spartan?
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/articles/athenian-spartan-061500862.html

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AUDIENDA
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A Light in the Attic: Lysias’ Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-217/

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VIDENDA
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(466) Men crying about Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey – YouTube

(466) Cardito Vecchio Excavation: Medieval Castle & Ancient Samnites – YouTube

(468) Women & Pleasure in the Ancient World (w/ ‪@JeansThoughts‬ ) – YouTube

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VIEWS Summer seminars 2026 – The VIEWS project

VIEWS Summer seminars 2026

• Parilia (a.k.a. Palilia) — originally a festival in honour of Pales (who protected shepherds and their flock), it eventually evolved — in the city of Rome, at least — into a ‘birthday of Rome’ celebration
• 753 B.C. — traditional date for the foundation of Rome
• 43 B.C. — pro-Caesarian forces “under” Octavian defeat the forces of Marcus Antonius at Mutina
• 47 A.D. — Claudius celebrates the ludi Saeculares (?)
• 148 A.D. — Antoninus Pius celebrates the 900th anniversary of Rome
• 248 A.D. — Philip Arabus celebrates the 1000th anniversary of Rome

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LEGENDA
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A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/altar-to-sol-a-rare-1-900-year-old-monument-dedicated-to-the-roman-god-of-light-and-used-in-a-secret-underground-ritual

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-find-iliad-catalog-of-ships-papyrus-inside-egyptian-mummy/

Archaeologists discover perfectly circular ancient Egyptian temple that may have been used for sacred water rituals | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/archaeologists-discover-perfectly-circular-ancient-egyptian-temple-that-may-have-been-used-for-sacred-water-rituals

Ancient dead with gold tongues discovered in Minya
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/04/ancient-dead-with-gold-tongues-discovered-in-minya/157832

Roman emperor revealed as Egyptian pharaoh in 2,000-year-old temple discovery
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/b14rdzg6wx

Hoard of ancient cauldrons discovered in Schaalby
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/04/hoard-of-ancient-cauldrons-discovered-in-schaalby/157836

‘Doors to Death’ reveal how Romans upgraded a stadium for bloodsport | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/science/doors-to-death-ancient-roman-stadium/

Complete roman palace discovered west of Benghazi | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/complete-roman-palace-discovered-west-benghazi

The Roman ruin under a shopping centre trapdoor
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98mm9eleqmo

Well-preserved 1,500-year-old Christian church discovered near Poreč | Croatia Week

Well-preserved 1,500-year-old Christian church discovered near Poreč

Agricola, the leader Tacitus has given us: Why his story is more relevant than ever – PaeseRoma

Agricola, the leader Tacitus has given us: Why his story is more relevant than ever

Greek coin from the 3rd c. BC discovered in Berlin-Spandau

Greek coin from the 3rd c. BC discovered in Berlin-Spandau

Ancient wallets lost in fire: Coin discovery in Phanagoria reveals daily life—and counterfeits
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/20/phanagoria-ancient-coins-wallets-fire/

[paywalled] Archaeologists resurrect ancient Roman recipes at Pompeii bake sale
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/18/archaeologists-resurrect-ancient-roman-recipes/

1,800-year-old feces show parasites that Romans in Bulgaria suffered from
https://interestingengineering.com/health/feces-roman-empire-disease-bulgaria

Why so many mollusks sound Greek—their naming evolves at a snail’s pace
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-mollusks-greek-evolves-snail-pace.html

The Trumps Before Trump: The Unbalanced Rulers of Ancient Rome – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-20/ty-article/the-trumps-before-trump-the-unbalanced-rulers-of-ancient-rome/0000019d-a6ea-d096-a3df-eeff772b0000

Minoan Greece Had Fast Food 3,600 Years Ago, Food Stall Discovery Reveals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/20/minoan-greece-fast-food-stall/

The Greek Monkey Mystery: An Important Clue to Bronze Age World – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/greek-monkey-mystery-bronze-age-world/

When Cleopatra and Marc Antony Celebrated Love on Ancient Greece’s ‘Mykonos’ – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/cleopatra-antony-samos-ancient-greece/

How Bronze Age Artisans Crafted the Impossible Mycenaean Agate Sword – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/20/bronze-age-mycenaean-agate-sword/

Why the Ancient Greeks Never Adopted the Latin Language – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/ancient-greeks-never-adopted-latin-language/

The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/longest-greek-word/

Roman Statesman Cicero and His Complex Admiration for Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/roman-statesman-cicero-complex-admiration-greece/

Harvard and The Secret History – Harvard Political Review

Harvard and The Secret History

The princess who has never aged for 2.500 years: What Antigone, the “bad girl” of antiquity, tells us today
https://en.vijesti.me/amp/804922/The-princess-who-has-never-aged-for-2500-years–what-does-Antigone–the-bad-girl-from-antiquity–tell-us-today

The Blogs: Jewish History Can Be Defaced, But It Will Never Be Erased | Irina Velitskaya | The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-history-can-be-defaced-but-it-will-never-be-erased/

Study turns Alexander into ‘enduring question’ across texts | Kuwait Times Newspaper
https://kuwaittimes.com/article/42534/opinion/others/study-turns-alexander-into-enduring-question-across-texts/

Professor Michael Cosmopoulos honored as a Guggenheim Fellow in the Classics – UMSL Daily
https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2026/04/17/michael-cosmopoulos-guggenheim-fellow/

Professor Eleanor Dickey becomes Honorary President of the Classical Association | Classics at Reading

Professor Eleanor Dickey becomes Honorary President of the Classical Association

Ancient history conference comes to UI campus for the first time – The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/04/19/ancient-history-conference-comes-to-ui-campus-for-the-first-time/

Classicism without Soul – Art and Architectural History
https://carleton.ca/aah/2026/classicism-without-soul/

Exhibit explores identity through ancient coins | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2026/04/17/exhibit-explores-identity-through-ancient-coins

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’ – Student Life

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’

Latin is Not Dead Yet. Here’s How We Keep It Alive – The 74

Latin is Not Dead Yet. Here’s How We Keep It Alive

Weekly Varia no. 178, 04/19/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 178, 04/19/26

Arbor fulgida: The Origins of Tolkien’s Shining Tree – Antigone

Arbor fulgida: The Origins of Tolkien’s Shining Tree

The Power to Control the World: Achilles’ Shield and Homeric Ekphrasis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Power to Control the World: Achilles’ Shield and Homeric Ekphrasis

Looting Matters: A Roman Portrait to be Returned to Italy from New Zealand
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-roman-portrait-to-be-returned-to.html

Filming Catullus – CANE

Filming Catullus

Kiwi Hellenist: Problems with Cline on The Trojan War. Ch. 4 ‘The Hittite texts’
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/04/cline-2.html

We’ve Only Just Begun | Sphinx

We’ve Only Just Begun

Het Mishna-traktaat Aboth – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Mishna-traktaat Aboth

Faits divers (50) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (50)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Proposal for a Greek Reader
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/proposal-for-greek-reader.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Fog of War
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-fog-of-war.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Those in Charge
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/those-in-charge.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Cart and the Horse
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-cart-and-horse.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Trauma hermeneutics and the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/trauma-hermeneutics-and-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Niehoff & Markschies (eds.), Aspects of Time in Jewish and Christian Exegesis (De Gruyter, open access)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/niehoff-markschies-eds-aspects-of-time.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-oxford-handbook-of-jewish-law.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-posen-library-of-jewish-culture-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/archaeology-of-war-studies-on-weapons.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Common Thread: Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-common-thread-collected-essays-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics: Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/stoic-presocratics-presocratic-stoics.html

Nature contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: elements of the method – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.25/

Classical reception and the rewriting turn in contemporary women’s fiction – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.24/

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AUDIENDA
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The Archaeology of Grumpy Old Men (and Women) in the Judean Iron Age, or, Grandpa, That’s a Cooking Pot Not a… | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-archaeology-of-grumpy-old-men-and-women-in-the-judean-iron-age-or-grandpa-that-s-a-cooking-pot-not-a/

Expert in Residence: Q&A with … – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 18.04.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/04/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-18-04-2026.html

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VIDENDA
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(434) Achilles Mother Bird and Commander Part 1 of 2 – YouTube

(434) Archeologists Investigate New Evidence About The Druids – YouTube

(435) How Anubis Guards You From Eternal Punishment #mythology #anubis #history – YouTube

(435) This Roman Site in Lebanon is one of the best – YouTube

(436) Archeologists Investigate New Clues About The Great Pyramid Of Khufu – YouTube

(436) Alicia Stallings. Poetry, migrant women, Briseis, music and women in Iliad. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube

(436) Member Lecture: Myth and Marble—Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection – YouTube

(437) Seneca, “Epistula ad Lucilium” IX, 77 – YouTube

(437) Conversation: Timeless Tales—Greek and Roman Mythology in the Art Institute – YouTube

(437) Mary Beard on the ‘shocking’ truth of the ancient world – and its links to modern politics – YouTube

(437) Lecture: Marvels of the World’s Oldest Shipwreck – YouTube

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explorator 28.16 ~ April 19, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.16 ~ April 19, 2026

Homer Appreciation Day (Waterloo, 24 April 2026) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/04/homer-appreciation-day-waterloo-24-april-2026/

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37977150
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37977150/visiting-assistant-professor-greek-and-latin-language-and-literature-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2162&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260420_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20260420_applynow_job1

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek and Roman History, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37977151
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37977151/visiting-assistant-professor-greek-and-roman-history-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2162&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260420_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20260420_applynow_job2

Teaching Associate in Latin Literature (Fixed Term) | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teaching-associate-in-latin-literature-fixed-term-ge49235

ca 117 — martyrdom of Servilian and Sulpicius

• ludi Cereri (day 8)– games in honour of the grain goddess Ceres, instituted by/before 202 B.C.
• Cerealia — the actual date of the Cerealia is uncertain, but it ‘reenacted’ Ceres’ search for her daughter Proserpina, with apparently all participants and spectators dressed in white.
• 69 A.D. — Vitellius is recognized as emperor by the senate in Rome
• … we also note today is the commemoration of an (undated) Roman soldier saint Expeditus