- Vinalia (urbana) — the wine which was ‘bottled’ in the previous autumn was opened and tasted for the first time, after a libation to Jupiter
- 248 A.D. — third day of celebration of Rome’s 1000th anniversary
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ February 26, 2026
===========================================================
LEGENDA
===========================================================
Bottarone Urn restored: original colors of 2400-year-old Etruscan grooms resurfaced
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/bottarone-urn-restored-original-colors-of-2400-year-old-etruscan-grooms-resurfaced
Rare Roman “pigs” found in Welsh farm
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/rare-roman-pigs-found-in-welsh-farm/157123
Tomb plate belonging to a centurion of the First Italic Legion discovered at Nove
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/tomb-plate-belonging-to-a-centurion-of-the-first-italic-legion-discovered-at-nove/157128
Salona’s Gate of Death: New Discoveries at Croatia’s Ancient Roman Arena – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/salonas-gate-of-death-new-discoveries-at-croatias-ancient-roman-arena/
[FWIW] Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik | Croatia WeekCroatia Week
[old news]Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turned Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-stone-in-us-backyard-turned-out-to-be-an-archaeological-treasure
This Legionnaires’ Fitness Test Turned Ancient Romans Into the Ultimate Hybrid Athletes
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a70511221/ancient-roman-training/
Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians – The Palestine Exploration Fund
Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians
Babies weren’t supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/babies-werent-supposed-to-be-mourned-in-the-roman-empire-these-rare-liquid-gypsum-burials-prove-otherwise
Ancient City of Salona in Croatia Reveals 2,000-Year-Old Hidden Tunnel – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/26/ancient-city-salona-croatia-hidden-tunnel/
[source???] Ancient Greeks Used Rosemary Crowns to Biohack Memory – Science Confirms Cognitive Boost
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/26/rosemary-memory-boost-ancient-greeks-biohacking
A study by the UAB demonstrates for the first time how the Romans exploited gold mines in the Catalan Pyrenees
https://en.ara.cat/culture/they-demonstrate-how-the-romans-exploited-gold-mines-in-the-pyrenees_1_5661073.amp.html
Back to in-person work? Classics professor offers tips on office humor
https://as.cornell.edu/news/back-person-work-classics-professor-offers-tips-office-humor
How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome – The River Newsroom
If Not Here, Where? | The University of Chicago Divinity School
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/if-not-here-where
Building Rome in a Couple Days: Erecting a Painted Portico in Alésia | The EXARC Journal
https://exarc.net/issue-2025-3/mm/building-rome-couple-days
AI Scores 3% on the Hardest Test Humans Could Write – NeuroEdge
Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise – Monocle
Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise
Inscriptions of a Doctor and Historian | Variant Readings
Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning Greek
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/learning-greek.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Upgrading the Aramaic Language Heritage Museum in Jabadeen, Syria
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/upgrading-aramaic-language-heritage.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Preview of “Listen to the Sibyl”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/preview-of-listen-to-sibyl.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Did Philo Allude to Sadducees and Pharisees?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/did-philo-allude-to-sadducees-and.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/master-of-game-competition-and.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèseséd.
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/le-caucase-et-la-region-circumpontique.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/victim-of-muses-poet-as-scapegoat.html
The Caucasus and the Circumpontic Region in Antiquity: Materials, Research, and Hypotheses (ed.) | Spartokos has read
Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèses
Cause and explanation in ancient philosophy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.38/
Cursus honorum: pathways to rank and power in the Roman republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.37/
===========================================================
AUDIENDA
===========================================================
BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, The Roman Arena
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qj85
Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia – The Ancients | Acast
===========================================================
VIDENDA
===========================================================
(273) Professor Barbara BorgVia Appia, Mile Three:Tracing Ethno-Religious Minorities in Imperial Rome – YouTube
(271) How Civilisation Came Back From Collapse (ft. Eric Cline) – YouTube
(271) How Much Of The Odyssey Was Based In Reality? – YouTube
(272) Historian Reacts To EPIC: The Musical (Wisdom Saga) – YouTube
(275) CCA South. Carlos Noreña. Roman, Han, Tang Empires. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
(275) Mary Beard, Q and A from Latin students. How do Classics benefit the public? Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
===========================================================
NOTANDA
===========================================================
Between Death, Memory, and Identity
Hoc Saxsum: History as conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hoc-saxsum-history-as-conversation-inside-the-tomb-of-the-scipios/73E09B6B0EC3CF8F9326CC10A9F48083?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Declamatory fictions and the crimen maiestatis — Seneca, Controuersiae 9.2 | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/declamatory-fictions-and-the-crimen-maiestatis-seneca-controuersiae-92/C0F6ED0D61D24A3F080A7BA9BDA5091F?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Hell is other poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in queer Elysium | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hell-is-other-poets-tibullus-ovid-and-statius-in-queer-elysium/1332D4F3428FF642CF6A3A423C41873E?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Claiming pietas: Vergilian Rhetoric in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/claiming-pietas-vergilian-rhetoric-in-valerius-flaccus-argonautica/4ED0518ABAB24F47E6EA6F34E0DDE200?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
A legal exemption for the temple cults of Rome and Alexandria in the fourth century | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/legal-exemption-for-the-temple-cults-of-rome-and-alexandria-in-the-fourth-century/8FCF6B2789837BED8D95874E77605DC5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Legislation and Christians | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/legislation-and-christians/4314F4F8BDE191C3201E0D7C187674D5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Cassius Dio revived | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/cassius-dio-revived/ABDFBE250261A31B9F51EDEFB22BB6C8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes
Evidence of Roman Use of Human Feces in Medicine – rogueclassicism
Evidence of Roman Use of Human Feces in Medicine
a compendium of coverage from late January/early February 2026
===========================================================
NOTES
===========================================================
- research done by scholars at Turkiye’s Sivas Republic University examining contents of ‘hundreds’ of vials from the Bergama Museum
- technology included gas chromatography and mass spectrometry
- a 1st/2nd century CE unguentarium from Pergamon (maybe) revealed traces of human feces mixed with thyme
- believed to be first evidence of medicinal use of feces, otherwise attested in ancient text sources
- Galen is mentioned as a source who mentions various fecal-containing remedies
===========================================================
TIER 0-1 SOURCES
===========================================================
- Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports ~ Volume 70, April 2026, 105589
Feces, fragrance and medicine chemical evidence of ancient therapeutics in a Roman unguentarium – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X26000246?via%3Dihub - Poop as medicine? A Roman vial’s chemistry backs up ancient medical texts
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-poop-medicine-roman-vial-chemistry.html - Ancient vial in Turkey shows Romans used human excrement in medicine | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/science/ancient-vial-turkey-shows-romans-used-human-excrement-medicine-2026-03-13/ - Romans used human feces as medicine 1,900 years ago — and used thyme to mask the smell | Live Science https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/romans-used-human-feces-as-medicine-1-900-years-ago-and-used-thyme-to-mask-the-smell
===========================================================
TIER 2 SOURCES
===========================================================
- Ancient Romans Really Did Use Poop as Medicine. We Just Got The First Real Proof. : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-romans-really-did-use-poop-as-medicine-we-just-got-the-first-real-proof - Archaeologists Find First Direct Evidence Of Human Poop Being Used As Medicine By The Romans | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/prescription-for-poop-first-direct-evidence-shows-romans-used-human-feces-as-medicine-82522 - Roman Doctors Used Human Feces as Medicine and Now We Have Chemical Proof
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/roman-doctors-used-human-feces-as-medicine-and-now-we-have-chemical-proof/ - Ancient Romans used human feces to make medicines
https://cen.acs.org/analytical-chemistry/art-%26-artifacts/ancient-Roman-poop-poo/104/web/2026/01 - Scientists find first physical evidence that Romans used human poop as medicine | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/10/science/roman-feces-medicine-study-scli-intl - Study: Ancient residue shows feces was used in medicine | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-885950 - Ancient Roman bottles contained traces of fecal matter : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5718375/ancient-roman-medicine-fecal-history - Scientists analyzed bottle residue from ancient Rome. They found human feces : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5712815/scientists-analyzed-bottle-residue-from-ancient-rome-they-found-human-feces - Roman medicine gets messy: Turkish archaeological study confirms feces treatment – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/roman-medicine-gets-messy-turkish-archaeological-study-confirms-feces-treatment-3214586?s=2 - Ancient Roman Flask Confirms Medical Use of Feces Described in Classical Texts – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/24/ancient-roman-flask-medical-use-feces-classical-texts/ - Ancient Roman Doctors in Pergamon Really Used Human Feces as Medicine—Now Science Has the Proof – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-roman-doctors-in-pergamon-really-used-human-feces-as-medicine-now-science-has-the-proof/ - A Roman Unguentarium Found in Pergamon Reveals the First Direct Evidence of the Medicinal Use of Human Feces in Antiquity
https://www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2026/01/a-roman-unguentarium-found-in-pergamon-reveals-the-first-direct-evidence-of-the-medicinal-use-of-human-feces-in-antiquity/ - Roman Medicine Vial: Romans used human feces as medicine: 1,900-year-old vial from Turkey reveals shocking treatment | World News – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/rest-of-world/romans-used-human-feces-as-medicine-1900-year-old-vial-from-turkey-reveals-shocking-treatment/articleshow/129562953.cms
===========================================================
TIER 3-4 SOURCES
===========================================================
- 1,900-year-old Roman unguentarium shows human feces used as medicine with thyme to mask smell | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2026/01/roman-vessel-shows-human-feces-used-as-medicine/ - Romans used poop to treat infections and inflammation, new study indicates: ‘Dark brown flakes’ discovered in medicinal vial
https://nypost.com/2026/01/29/science/romans-used-poop-as-medicine-new-study-confirms-darl-brown-flakes-discovered-in-medicinal-vial/
===========================================================
OTHER SOURCES
===========================================================
(507) Healing poop: Evidence shows feces used in ancient Roman medicine – YouTube
===========================================================
** tier explanations at Rogueclassicizing in the age of AI – rogueclassicism
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas maias
- 178 A.D. — martyrdom of Epipodias at Lyons
- 202 A.D. — martyrdom of Leonidas in Alexandria
- 248 A.D. — second day of celebrations for Rome’s 1000th anniversary
- ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Helimenas at Babylon
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 21, 2026
===========================================================
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN April 21, 2026
===========================================================
===========================================================
LEGENDA
===========================================================
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
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
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
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
Romulus en Remus & co – Mainzer Beobachter
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
===========================================================
AUDIENDA
===========================================================
A Light in the Attic: Lysias’ Speech Against Eratosthenes (Ad Navseam, Episode 217) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-217/
===========================================================
VIDENDA
===========================================================
(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
===========================================================
NOTANDA
===========================================================
VIEWS Summer seminars 2026 – The VIEWS project
rogueclassicism 