This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii idus martias

March 9, 2026March 8, 2026 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

Festival of Mars (day 9) which included another procession of the Salian priests around the city
320 A.D. — martyrdom of Candidus and the other “Forty Armenian Martyrs”

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 8, 2026

March 8, 2026 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Rare Roman underground tunnel discovered during construction in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/rare-roman-underground-tunnel-discovered-during-construction-in-turkiye-3215742

Ancient Coffins and Rare Papyri Discovered in New Archaeological Find in Luxor | Egyptian Streets

Ancient Coffins and Rare Papyri Discovered in New Archaeological Find in Luxor

Ancient Mosaic Unearthed Beneath Athens City Street – tovima.com

Ancient Mosaic Unearthed Beneath Athens City Street

‘Cikai Korran came here and saw’: Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/cikai-korran-came-here-and-saw-visitors-from-india-graffitied-dozens-of-egyptian-tombs-2-000-years-ago

Monumental Roman Forum Discovered Beneath Barcelona Hotel Forces 90-Degree Rewrite of Ancient City Barcino – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/monumental-roman-forum-discovered-beneath-barcelona-hotel-forces-90-degree-rewrite-of-ancient-city-barcino/

Rare Roman Ingots Discovered by Metal Detectorists Declared Treasure
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-ingots-found-ceredigion-wales-2751825

How Much Did the Egyptian Blue Color Found on the Walls of a Pompeii Room Cost? The Pigment Alone Was Nearly a Legionary’s Entire Annual Pay

How Much Did the Egyptian Blue Color Found on the Walls of a Pompeii Room Cost? The Pigment Alone Was Nearly a Legionary’s Entire Annual Pay

This Ancient Disk Found in Tuscany Holds One of the Longest Etruscan Texts Ever Discovered

This Ancient Disk Found in Tuscany Holds One of the Longest Etruscan Texts Ever Discovered

Is this the best routine to boost your health? Yes, according to an ancient Roman intellectual | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-routine-for-health-pliny-the-elder/

This New Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World

This “Cursed!” Exhibition Reveals How Magic Ruled the Ancient World [Interview]

From Egyptian queens to Hollywood royalty — Barnsley’s Cleopatra reigns with new exhibition
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/sponsored/first-look-from-egyptian-queens-to-hollywood-royalty-barnsleys-cleopatra-reigns-with-new-exhibition-5623589

[wtf?]Is Xenophon the Founder of Tachygraphy? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/07/xenophon-founder-tachygraphy/

Guest lecturer Rebecca Benefiel on history of graffiti in Pompeii – The Badger Herald

Guest lecturer Rebecca Benefiel on history of graffiti in Pompeii

The Bacchae – The Wee Review | Scotland’s arts and culture magazine

The Bacchae

How China Learned to Love the Classics | The New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/how-china-learned-to-love-the-classics

Ancient Greece, Gender Studies, and Social Media ━ The European Conservative

Ancient Greece, Gender Studies, and Social Media

(13) The Odyssey is Complicated – by The Paideia Institute
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/the-odyssey-is-complicated

February Reading Notes – Noodlings

February Reading Notes

Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, March 6, 2026

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Rule
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-rule.html

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (7) Herakleios – Mainzer Beobachter

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (7) Herakleios

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (8) Konstans II – Mainzer Beobachter

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (8) Konstans II

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (9) Konstantijn IV – Mainzer Beobachter

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (9) Konstantijn IV

Wie is de god der joden? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie is de god der joden?

PaleoJudaica.com: Weitzman, Disasters of Biblical Proportions (Princeton)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/weitzman-disasters-of-biblical.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Cielontko, The Visions of Enoch the Prophet (De Gruyter)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/cielontko-visions-of-enoch-prophet-de.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Theology of Arithmetic: Number Symbolism in Platonism and Early Christianity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-theology-of-arithmetic-number.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Africa: Greek and Roman Perspectives from Homer to Apuleius
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/africa-greek-and-roman-perspectives.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Theocritean Pastoral: A Study in the Definition of Genre
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/theocritean-pastoral-study-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Life and Miracles of Thekla: A Literary Study
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-life-and-miracles-of-thekla.html

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3809 – The (second) battle of Mantinea – The History Network

3809 – The (second) battle of Mantinea

Bronze Age Star Map: The Nebra Sky Disk – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 07.03.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/03/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-07-03-2026.html

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(530) The historical context of Aeschylus’ Oresteia: politics, religion, culture, by Paul Grigsby – YouTube

Anima Latina 08.03.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/03/anima-latina-08-03-2026.html

(530) Ido Aharoni & Guy Stiebel: What Archaeology Teaches Us About the Future? The Case of Masada – YouTube

(530) The Bronze Age civilisation you probably haven’t heard of before – YouTube

(530) They Called Him the “Half-Lion, Half-Fox” – Here’s Why: Sulla’s Civil War (ALL PARTS) – YouTube

(530) Historian Reacts To EPIC: The Musical (Ithaca Saga) – YouTube

(530) Schiller Vase: Greek Theatre Sources – YouTube

(531) Did you know that there’s a HIDDEN ART WORKSHOP in the VATICAN? – YouTube

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explorator 28.10 ~ March 8, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.10 ~ March 8, 2026

Writing As Visual Engagement – The VIEWS project

Writing As Visual Engagement

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii idus martias

March 8, 2026 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

Festival of Mars continues (day 8)
305 A.D. — martyrdom of Philemon and companions
1757 – death of Thomas Blackwell (Classical scholar)

This Day in Ancient History: nonae martiae

March 7, 2026March 6, 2026 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

Festival of Mars continues (day 7)
rites at the temple of Vediovis on the Capitoline
322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (maybe)
149 A.D. — birth of a daughter, Lucilla, to the emperor Marcus Aurelius
161 A.D. — death of Antoninus Pius; dies imperii of Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius
203 A.D.– martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 6, 2026

March 6, 2026 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Archaeologists uncover evidence of Iron Age rituals at Germany’s Bruchhauser Steine
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/archaeologists-ncover-evidence-of-iron-age-rituals-at-germanys-bruchhauser-steine/157270

Ancient Tombs with Winged Victories Unearthed in Rome’s Vast Ostiense Necropolis – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-tombs-with-winged-victories-unearthed-in-romes-vast-ostiense-necropolis/

Roman Necropolis Filled With Artifacts Found In Romania
https://allthatsinteresting.com/romania-ancient-roman-necropolis

Board game that pre-dates chess discovered in ancient burial mound
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/board-game-that-pre-dates-chess-discovered-in-ancient-burial-mound/157260

A guide to screening the Ancient World – Engelsberg ideas

A guide to screening the Ancient World

How the Sasanians Used Chemical Warfare to Beat Rome at Dura-Europos | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/dura-europos-rome-sasanian/

Blue Threads of the Bronze Age – Biblical Archaeology Society

Blue Threads of the Bronze Age

Lysimachus: Alexander’s Bodyguard Turned King of Thrace, Macedonia & Asia Minor – Hellenistic Legacy Explored
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/06/lysimaus-king-thrace-macedonia-alexander-successor-greece-history

How misfired pottery hits the mark | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/31285

The Ancient Women Who Ruled Their Kingdoms | Getty News
https://www.getty.edu/news/ancient-nubia-queens-art/

How the Greeks mapped the mythical places of their heroes and legends
https://theconversation.com/how-the-greeks-mapped-the-mythical-places-of-their-heroes-and-legends-275035

Hero or War Criminal? National Hellenic Museum Puts Odysseus on Trial – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/05/hero-or-war-criminal-national-hellenic-museum-puts-odysseus-trial/

Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors | Open Culture

Roman Statues Weren’t White; They Were Once Painted in Vivid, Bright Colors

Aristotle – The Historian’s Hut

Aristotle

Hadrian’s Wall museum plans revealed | Architecture and design news | CLADglobal.com
https://www.cladglobal.com/CLADnews/architecture-design/Hadrians-Wall-museum-plans-revealed/98353

Greek Tips to Beat Iran: Persian Wars Lessons for 2026
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/06/greek-tips-to-beat-iran-persian-wars-2026/

Michele Zazzi. The Spurinna family of Tarquinia. – Online Archaeology – Archeomedia

Michele Zazzi. La gens Spurinna di Tarquinia.

Pittsburgh Opera’s “Time To Act” Asks What If Sophocles Wrote “The Breakfast Club”? – Pittsburgh Quarterly

Pittsburgh Opera’s “Time To Act” Asks What If Sophocles Wrote “The Breakfast Club”?

Natalie Haynes wants to answer your Greek mythology questions | St. Louis Magazine
https://www.stlmag.com/culture/natalie-haynes-wants-to-answer-your-greek-mythology-questions/

‘Heated Rivalry’ Creator Jacob Tierney Gets Netflix Series Order For Alexander The Great & Aristotle Drama; Jason Bateman’s Aggregate Films Producing – IMDb
https://www.imdb.com/fr/news/ni65736964/

Denzel’s Hannibal Movie Targets June Start? – Dark Horizons

Denzel’s Hannibal Movie Targets June Start?

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: British Library Papyri Images
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2026/03/british-library-papyri-images.html

Fotis Sees Her Lover Lucius Transformed Into An Ass. Motif From Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, by Nicolai Abildgaard (c. 1743 – 1809) – The Historian’s Hut

Fotis Sees Her Lover Lucius Transformed Into An Ass. Motif From Apuleius’ The Golden Ass, by Nicolai Abildgaard (c. 1743 – 1809)

Random Stuff Friday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Random Stuff Friday

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (6) Catastrofe – Mainzer Beobachter

De Maronitische Wereldkroniek (6) Catastrofe

Faits divers (49) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (49)

PaleoJudaica.com: Experiencing Ancient Synagogues
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/experiencing-ancient-synagogues.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Report on the Amman Citadel excavation
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/report-on-amman-citadel-excavation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Web of Athenaeus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-web-of-athenaeus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Attic Inscriptions Online (AIO) updates
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/attic-inscriptions-online-aio-updates.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Public Monuments of the Persian Wars
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-public-monuments-of-persian-wars.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: King of Sacrifice: Ritual and Royal Authority in the Iliad
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/king-of-sacrifice-ritual-and-royal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Master of Signs: Signs and the Interpretation of Signs in Herodotus’ Histories
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-master-of-signs-signs-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Irish Migrations and Classical Antiquity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/irish-migrations-and-classical-antiquity.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Begriff τέχνη bei Plato
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/der-begriff-bei-plato.html

Sacred landscapes in central Italy: votive deposits and sanctuaries (400 BC–AD 400) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.09/

Aristotle and tragic temporality – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.08/

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Ancient History Podcast – White Pedestal with Curtis Dozier
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-white-pedestal-with-curtis-dozier

Medium Rare: An interview with A. Natasha Joukovsky

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA399 – Outflanking as a Tactical Innovation
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa399-outflanking-as-a-tactical-innovation
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(485) The 3,300 Year Old Shipwreck That Changed History – YouTube