• ludi Megalesia (day 7) — the Cybelefest continues
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Pompeius and Terence at Carthage
• 401 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Theodosius II

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This metro stop is Ancient Rome’s new attraction
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20260408-a-150-metro-ticket-to-ancient-rome

Historic tower, walls restored at Türkiye’s Sillyon ancient city | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/historic-tower-walls-restored-at-turkiyes-sillyon-ancient-city/news

A citizen in Shahat delivers the head of an archaeological statue to Antiquities Control

A citizen in Shahat delivers the head of an archaeological statue to Antiquities Control

Archaeologists Reveal New Findings From Eretria and Amarynthos
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/08/archaeologists-reveal-new-findings-from-eretria-and-amarynthos/

Man arrested on Kythera for antiquities violations | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1300626/man-arrested-on-kythera-for-antiquities-violations/

Utah Meets Antiquity: UVU Hosts Researchers Who Are Unlocking a 2,000-Year-Old Library Buried by Vesuvius – TechBuzz News
https://www.techbuzznews.com/utah-meets-antiquity/

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Roman Necropolis Beneath New Hospital Site – Men’s Journal
https://www.mensjournal.com/news/ancient-graves-romania-archaeology

Long Before Machine Guns, Ancient Roman Troops Used This 2,000-Year-Old Rapid-Fire Weapon in Pompeii, New Research Suggests
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-before-machine-guns-ancient-roman-troops-were-using-this-rapid-fire-weapon-180988504/

Banded agate amphoriskos (perfume bottle) – Roman – Early Imperial, Augustan or early Julio-Claudian – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/257557

[paywalled] World-leading classicist gave female student unwanted ‘slobbery kiss’
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/cambridge-university-classicist-female-student-unwanted-kiss-disciplinary-action-3cfm0gjfh

The Unexpected World of Homer’s Odyssey

The Unexpected World of the Odyssey

Everything is Compared to Everything: Menelaos as a Lion in Iliad 17 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Everything is Compared to Everything: Menelaos as a Lion in Iliad 17

Roman Ruler in Bone! – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Roman Ruler in Bone!

Keeping Coins at Home – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Keeping Coins at Home

SUB CUR Lead Token from Frascata – Liv Mariah Yarrow

SUB CUR Lead Token from Frascata

Notes on Il Santuario di Diana – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Notes on Il Santuario di Diana

(8) To be a Poet – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/to-be-a-poet

Reading the Roman Revolution 28: The Succession | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Reading the Roman Revolution 28: The Succession

Alexander de Grote op weg naar Gaugamela – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote op weg naar Gaugamela

PaleoJudaica.com: “Ancient Jewish Memories of Achaemenid Persia” (JHS special issue)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/ancient-jewish-memories-of-achaemenid.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Dead Sea Scrolls: The Exhibition (Museum of the Bible)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/review-of-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibition.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Jewish Kingdom of Himyar
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-jewish-kingdom-of-himyar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Counterfeit Sophists
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/platos-counterfeit-sophists.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: In Her Own Words: The Life and Poetry of Aelia Eudocia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/in-her-own-words-life-and-poetry-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Origins of the Goddess Ariadne
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-origins-of-goddess-ariadne.html

The censors as guardians of public and family life in the Roman Republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.12/

The Oxford handbook of Greek cities in the Roman empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.11/
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Rebellions Against Rome: The Jewish Revolts
https://classicalwisdomspeaks.buzzsprout.com/925648/episodes/18988098-rebellions-against-rome-the-jewish-revolts

Rome Has No Kings – Ancient History Fangirl

Rome Has No Kings

The Romans and China – The Ancients | Acast

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(91) Rebellions Against Rome: The Jewish Revolts – YouTube

(91) Collecting for the Public: The Fondazione Luigi Rovati , Milan – YouTube

(92) Paving the way: Rome Colosseum renovation reveals structures hidden for centuries – YouTube

(93) Spotlight Lecture: Coffins in Ancient Egypt: An Overview – YouTube

(93) Hannah Arendt: Vita Activa | Lecture in LATIN | John Arnold | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

• ludi Megalesia continue (day 6)
• 193 A.D. — Septimius Severus given the rank of Augustus

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April 8, 1820: Venus de Milo Discovered on Milos — Calls Grow for Its Return to Greece Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/08/venus-de-milo-return-greece/

Survey of Eretria plain on Evia points to unknown ancient sites | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1300422/survey-of-eretria-plain-on-evia-points-to-unknown-ancient-sites/

When a Warrior’s Terrible Weapon to Deal Death Is Just a Tool – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-08/ty-article/when-a-warriors-terrible-weapon-to-deal-death-is-just-a-tool/0000019d-6764-d759-ab9d-7ffd788a0000

Roman villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella resurfaces in Bacoli: first site on property confiscated from the Camorra
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/roman-villa-of-publius-cornelius-dolabella-resurfaces-in-bacoli-first-site-on-property-confiscated-from-the-camorra

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

Archaeologists Didn’t Expect to Find Anything at This Site in England. Then, They Stumbled Upon a Roman Villa and a Bronze Artifact Dubbed ‘Norfolk Nessie’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-didnt-expect-to-find-anything-at-this-site-in-england-then-they-stumbled-upon-a-roman-villa-and-a-bronze-artifact-dubbed-norfolk-nessie-180988505/

Finding the Mycenaeans of Cape Madness

Maritime Mycenaeans

Roman Complex Unearthed Near Marseille Points to Larger Ancient Settlement – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/08/ancient-roman-complex-discovered-marseille/

How AI is helping save 2,000-year-old Roman relics in Northern England – Channel 4 News
https://www.channel4.com/news/how-ai-is-helping-save-2000-year-old-roman-relics-in-northern-england

See the 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Cargo From an Accidental Shipwreck Discovered at the Bottom of a Lake in Switzerland
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-cargo-from-roman-ship-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-swiss-lake-180988492/

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/08/dementia-ancient-greece-rome/

Ancient Romans were obsessed with a plant said to be a contraception and an aphrodisiac. Then one day, it went extinct
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-romans-obsessed-contraception-aphrodisiac.html

Thieves Who Allegedly Stole an Ancient Gold Helmet Belonging to a Lost European Culture Just Returned It
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thieves-allegedly-stole-gold-helmet-lost-european-culture-returned-it-180988487/

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman bridge in Zaragoza. ‹ ARTSAKH NEWS
https://artsakh.news/en/news/355446

Farming the Roman way: unearthed 1,800-year-old farmhouse had cosy covered porch – and a bathhouse! | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15709715/Farming-Roman-way-unearthed-1-800-year-old-farmhouse-cosy-covered-porch-bathhouse.html

Museum Finds 8-Inch Ancient Roman Bone Penis in Unopened Box

Museum Finds 8-Inch Ancient Roman Bone Penis in Unopened Box

HBO’s Rome – A Stunning Series
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/hbos-rome-a-stunning-series

The Ancient Greek Myth That Inspired Lord of the Rings Author J.R.R. Tolkien – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/07/greek-myth-inspired-tolkien/

Yann Martel Son of Nobody review: Trojan War reimagined by The Life of Pi author
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/son-of-nobody-yann-martel-review-20260406-p5zlim.html

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top) – Greek, South Italian, Apulian – Late Classical – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/255648

End of an era: Xavier College ends 147-year classical Greek tradition as enrolments decline – Neos Kosmos

End of an era: Xavier College ends 147-year classical Greek tradition as enrolments decline

Scientists Discover New Group of Tarantulas Named After the Greek Deity of Unstrained Indulgence – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/07/scientists-new-group-tarantulas-named-ancient-greek-deity-unstrained-indulgence/

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

This Bold ’80s Sci-Fi Anime Tackled The Odyssey Decades Before Christopher Nolan
https://www.slashfilm.com/2136633/ulysses-31-80s-sci-fi-anime-the-odyssey-adaptation/

Face-to-face with the past: TV classicist Mary Beard interviewed

Face-to-face with the past: MARY BEARD interviewed

UMass Amherst Receives $1.5 Million Gift from Estate of Late Classics Lecturer Caroline Hill Horvitz to Endow Professorship in Her Honor : UMass Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-receives-15-million-gift-estate-late-classics-lecturer-caroline-hill

Averil Cameron passes away – Medievalists.net

Averil Cameron passes away

NIU Today | Sinclair Bell named 2026 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor

Sinclair Bell named 2026 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor

Revisiting the God-Fearers | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/revisiting-god-fearers

Did You Know? Ancient Iberian Warrior Tombs Were Reportedly Adorned With Spikes – The Historian’s Hut

Did You Know? Ancient Iberian Warrior Tombs Were Reportedly Adorned With Spikes

Perseus 4.0 Outage » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Perseus 4.0 Outage

Reclame – Mainzer Beobachter

Reclame

Alexander de Grote in de Levant – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in de Levant

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Longman, The Book of Ecclesiastes, 2nd ed.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/review-of-longman-book-of-ecclesiastes.html

PaleoJudaica.com: DNA from all over in the Shroud of Turin?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/dna-from-all-over-in-shroud-of-turin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the iron blooms from the Dor shipwreck
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-on-iron-blooms-from-dor-shipwreck.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-purpled-world-marketing-haute.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/aspects-of-history-and-epic-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/paideia-and-cult-christian-initiation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/platos-wayward-path-literary-form-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Concordia discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/concordia-discors-eros-and-dialogue-in.html

Homer: Odyssey Book IX – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.10/

The Cambridge encyclopaedia of late antique art and archaeology – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.09/

Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Iberia, by Fernando Quesada Sanz, translated by Elizabeth Clowes | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741338

The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains, by Michael Lindblom | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741339

Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries: Exploring the Human Experience of Visiting the Gods, edited by Judith M. Barringer, Gunnel Ekroth, and David Scahill | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741340

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The Thirty Tyrants – Ancient History 101 | Acast

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXI (Ad Navseam, Episode 216) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/hi-marrou-s-a-history-of-education-in-antiquity-part-xxi-ad-navseam-episode-216/

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS the audiobook podcast – episodes 1 & 2 | Greek Myth Comix

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS the audiobook podcast – episodes 1 & 2

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VIDENDA
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(55) Femicide and gender violence in ancient Rome: evidence from epigraphy and Roman art – YouTube

(56) Inside a Roman villa: ancient life REVEALED – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Treatment and Pharmacology of Anxiety From Classical Antiquity to the Present Day: Methods and Therapeutic Practices | Cureus
https://www.cureus.com/articles/480922-treatment-and-pharmacology-of-anxiety-from-classical-antiquity-to-the-present-day-methods-and-therapeutic-practices#!/

Conference: Play, from Greece to Rome: between pleasure and transgression | Antiquity at the BnF

Conférence : Jouer, de Grèce à Rome : entre plaisir et transgression

• 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)