- 1640 — death of the Polish Jesuit/Latin poet Matthias Casimir Sarbiewski
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 1, 2026
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Is This 1,800-Year-Old Mosaic the First Known Image of a Woman Fighting Wild Beasts in an Ancient Roman Arena?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/is-this-1800-year-old-mosaic-the-first-known-image-of-a-woman-fighting-wild-beasts-in-an-ancient-roman-arena-180988456/
Enigmatic Artifact Found in Hippos May Reveal Forgotten Stage in Baptism – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-01/ty-article/enigmatic-artifact-found-in-hippos-may-reveal-forgotten-stage-in-baptism/0000019d-449d-d905-a39d-d49f5b3c0000
Archaeologists probe sunken harbor remains at site that inspired Seferis poem | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1299835/archaeologists-probe-sunken-harbor-remains-at-site-that-inspired-seferis-poem/
Marine Excavations Uncover 2,600 Years of History in Aegean
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/marine-excavations-uncover-2600-years-of-history-in-aegean
Frankfurt Uncovers Its Oldest Known Roman Military Camp in Höchst Excavations – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/frankfurt-uncovers-its-oldest-known-roman-military-camp-in-hochst-excavations/
New finds reveal daily life of Roman soldiers in Ancient León
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/new-finds-reveal-daily-life-of-roman-soldiers-in-ancient-leon/157629
[paywalled] Historians dispute link between drought and rebellion in Roman Britain | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2520194-historians-dispute-link-between-drought-and-rebellion-in-roman-britain/
Archaeologists unearth bronze belts in Samnite tombs
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-unearth-bronze-belts-in-samnite-tombs/157626
Greek Police Officers Sentenced Over Antiquities Trafficking
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/01/greek-police-officers-sentenced-over-antiquities-trafficking
Major underwater discoveries off Karpathos and Kasos
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/major-underwater-discoveries-off-karpathos-and-kasos/157633
2,000-Year-Old Pompeii Ash Reveals Romans Burned Incense and Wine From Distant Lands | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/2-000-year-old-pompeii-ash-reveals-romans-burned-incense-and-wine-from-distant-lands-48901
Meet the rebels who destroyed an ancient Roman legion with guerrilla warfare | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/rebels-destroyed-ancient-roman-legion-guerrilla-warfare/
Hermione, the Overlooked Daughter of the Trojan War and Her Significance in Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/01/hermione-greek-mythology-significance-role/
What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt
What Archaeologists Found While Searching for a Buried Second Sphinx in Egypt
Ashes from Pompeii: incense burners, residue analyses and domestic cult practices | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/ashes-from-pompeii-incense-burners-residue-analyses-and-domestic-cult-practices/CDE44811873BBC667EC3E7A19042EC62
Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits – The Past
Buried on the boundary: Interpreting Venta Icenorum’s enigmatic ditch deposits
Laying Out the Last Supper – Biblical Archaeology Society
Ephemeris ~ LEX NOVA HIEROSOLYMITANA
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2466
Shock a Cagliari: la scoperta archeologica è pesce d’aprile – Sardegna Sotterranea
Context of Nemi Finds – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Nemi Bibliography Round Up – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Hot For Teacher | Sphinx
Who Was “Phanophis”? Unearthing Bar Hebraeus’s First King of Egypt – JASON COLAVITO
https://www.jasoncolavito.com/blog/who-was-phanophis-unearthing-bar-hebraeuss-first-king-of-egypt
Taking Egypt out of the Israelites – The Temple Mount Sifting Project
March 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/march-2026-turkish-archaeology
Writing Wednesday: Revising the Introduction | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
PaleoJudaica.com: The hand and arm of the Lord
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-hand-and-arm-of-lord.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heat and Lust: Hesiod’s Midsummer Festival Scene Revisited
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/heat-and-lust-hesiods-midsummer.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/man-in-middle-voice-name-and-narration.html
“Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası within the Pontic Coastal Settlements: An Assessment in the Light of Archaeological Data | Spartokos a lu
Olbia Pontica after the Romans: late 3rd–early 5th centuries | Spartokos read
Olbia Pontica after the Romans : late 3rd–early 5th centuries
[paywalled] Book Review: ‘Son of Nobody,’ by Yann Martel – The New York Times
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Gods in Epic Poetry – Ancient History 101 | Acast
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(473) What was a Roman tettina? – YouTube
(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube
(472) Was the Trojan Horse Actually an Earthquake? – YouTube
(472) When the Tiber Flooded in Ancient Rome – YouTube
(473) Briseis and the Women, Grieving: Iliad 19. Ancient Greek, lute, lyre, drum. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube
(473) Investigating Early Bronze Age Urbanism at Tall al-Handaquq South – by Dr. Hanna Erftenbeck – YouTube
(475) Could you open carry in Ancient Rome? DOCUMENTARY – YouTube
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CfP: Reimagining Futures, Reinventing Pasts: Classical Antiquity and the Making of Imagined Worlds (AMPRAW 2026) – CRSN
Postdoctoral Research Associate in Roman Archaeology
https://www.jobs.london.ac.uk/Job/JobDetail?isPreview=Yes&jobid=3266
Project MUSE – Essays on Ancient Israel in Its Near Eastern Context
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/132399
SAM Newsletter April 2026
https://mailchi.mp/f6e2ed6686e8/sam-newsletter-april-2026?e=875f90a671
Nestor – April 2024 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/870-april-2024-issue-available-2
Greek Mythology Quiz
https://www.buzzfeed.com/morgansloss1/greek-mythology-quiz-2026
The Odyssey release date: When Christopher Nolan’s take on the seminal story arrives in theaters | Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/movies-the-odyssey-release-date
This Day in Ancient History: kalendae aprilis
- Veneralia
- 114 B.C. — dedication of aTemple to Venus Verticordia
- 286 A.D. — Maximianus is elevated to the rank of Augustus
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 31, 2026
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Lost mosaic reveals first image of female beast-fighter from the Roman era
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-lost-mosaic-reveals-image-female.html
The camp of the first Roman legions settled in Frankfurt is discovered, surprisingly without evidence of battles or confrontations
Archaeologists unearth bronze belts in Samnite tombs
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-unearth-bronze-belts-in-samnite-tombs/157626
Divers find Gladius swords, other treasures in Roman shipwreck
https://nypost.com/2026/03/31/science/divers-find-gladius-swords-other-treasures-in-roman-shipwreck/
Seabed off Karpathos reveals ancient wrecks | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1299718/seabed-off-karpathos-reveals-ancient-wrecks/
[old news]Ancient Greek Jar From 2,300 Years Ago Holds Curse Against 55 People – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/31/ancient-greece-jar-contained-curse-to-kill-paralyze-55-people/
[old news]The Greek Mummy Portraits Discovered in Fayoum, Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/31/greek-mummy-portrait-funerary-building-discovered-fayoum-egypt/
Olbia, Punic walls collapse again: “Safety measures required immediately.”
https://www.unionesarda.it/en/sardinia/olbia-punic-walls-collapse-again-quot-safety-measures-required-immediatelyquot-ckzfcu2t
Evidence of lost baptism stage found in Byzantine era church | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-891771
Ancient Cypriot jug repatriated from United States | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/31/ancient-cypriot-jug-repatriated-from-united-states
[AI?] How Studying Ancient Civilizations Develops Critical Thinking in Students – Popular Archeology
How Studying Ancient Civilizations Develops Critical Thinking in Students
Sacred Smoke and Global Trade: Pompeii’s Ash Reveals a 2,000-Year-Old Network – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/sacred-smoke-and-global-trade-pompeiis-ash-reveals-a-2000-year-old-network/
What Did Pompeii Smell Like? A New Study Analyzes Its Ancient Incense
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/pompeii-ritual-incense-study-2760240
More on the Iconography of Diana – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Our Shared Humanity – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Rescuing the Bod(ies): Thinking about the Epic Cycle, Neoanalysis, and Introducing Iliad17 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Rescuing the Bod(ies): Thinking about the Epic Cycle, Neoanalysis, and Introducing Iliad17
Two for Tuesday: Porto Rafti and Thessaloniki in Late Antiquity | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Two for Tuesday: Porto Rafti and Thessaloniki in Late Antiquity
Iberisch aardewerk – Mainzer Beobachter
PaleoJudaica.com: More on that Sardinian Phoenician scarab
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/more-on-that-sardinian-phoenician-scarab.html
PaleoJudaica.com: What does the Hebrew particle נא- (-na’) mean, please?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/what-does-hebrew-particle-na-mean-please.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Who really wrote the Pentateuch?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/who-really-wrote-pentateuch.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La parole et le fléau: Calamités et catastrophes naturelles dans les textes antiques et médiévaux
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/la-parole-et-le-fleau-calamites-et.html
Storylife: on epic, narrative, and living things – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.36/
Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.35/
You’re Asking The Wrong Question About The Roman Empire
https://thefederalist.com/2026/03/31/youre-asking-the-wrong-question-about-the-roman-empire/
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Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: A Conversation with Translator Aaron Poochigian (Ad Navseam, Episode 215) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/marcus-aurelius-meditations-a-conversation-with-translator-aaron-poochigian-ad-navseam-episode-215/
The Tetrarchic Persecution of … – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts
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Aeschylus’ The Oresteia (Libation Bearers and Eumenides) – Greek Theatre Drama Festival – University of Warwick
Aeschylus’ Agamemnon – Greek Theatre Drama Festival – University of Warwick
Aeschylus’ The Persians – Greek Theatre Drama Festival – University of Warwick
(432) Did Ancient People Care About Coin Designs? – YouTube
(432) Ancient Greek Novel: The Gateway to Reading Greek | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Luke Ranieri – YouTube
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Roman Roads Research Association – The Past
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii kalendas apriles
- 317 B.C. — death of Phocion (?)
- 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Quirinus at Rome
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