- 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
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 9, 2026
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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
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
Keeping Coins at Home – Liv Mariah Yarrow
SUB CUR Lead Token from Frascata – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Notes on Il Santuario di Diana – Liv Mariah Yarrow
(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
Alexander de Grote op weg naar Gaugamela – Mainzer Beobachter
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
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
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v idus apriles
- ludi Megalesia continue (day 6)
- 193 A.D. — Septimius Severus given the rank of Augustus
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 8, 2026
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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
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
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
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
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
Reclame – Mainzer Beobachter
Alexander de Grote in de Levant – Mainzer Beobachter
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
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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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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
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vi idus apriles
- 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)