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Authorities arrest 2 suspects over trafficking ancient Egyptian antiquities – Egypt Independent
https://www.egyptindependent.com/authorities-arrest-2-suspects-over-trafficking-ancient-egyptian-antiquities/

The Real Locations of Odysseus’ Journey in Homer’s Odyssey – GreekReporter.com

The Real Locations of Odysseus’ Journey in Homer’s Odyssey

Ancient Roman Statue of Athena Emerges After Nearly 300 Years in Hiding

Ancient Roman Statue of Athena Emerges After Nearly 300 Years in Hiding

Italian farmer finds 84m² Roman mosaic while planning cherry orchard, st – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838501

Rediscovered Temple of Poseidon in Greece Larger Than Initially Assumed – GreekReporter.com

Rediscovered Temple of Poseidon in Greece Larger Than Initially Assumed

Archaeologists find 1,720-year-old Roman stone in Galilee, naming two lo – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838505

A new chapter in Roman administration: Insights from a late Roman inscription
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chapter-roman-administration-insights-late.html

Spectacular Discoveries Unearthed at Greece’s Ancient Site of Philippi – GreekReporter.com

Spectacular Discoveries Unearthed at Greece’s Ancient Site of Philippi

Impressive Discovery: 7th Century AD Statue Head Found In An Important City Named After An Ancient Greek God

Impressive Discovery: 7th Century AD Statue Head Found in an Important City Named After an Ancient Greek God

Archaeologists discover rare liquid gypsum burial of ‘high-status individual’ from Roman Britain | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/archaeologists-discover-rare-liquid-gypsum-burial-of-high-status-individual-from-roman-britain

Ancient Greek biblical inscription discovered in Byzantine-Era mosaic in Israel – Neos Kosmos

Ancient Greek biblical inscription discovered in Byzantine-Era mosaic in Israel

Gilgameš en Achilleus – Mainzer Beobachter

Gilgameš en Achilleus

Antalya’s archaeological triumph: 886 artifacts unveiled in 2024 | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/antalyas-archaeological-triumph-886-artifacts-unveiled-in-2024/news

Italian news agency reports intensified contacts for Parthenon sculpture – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838508

Roman Military Remains Discovered in Bulgarian Town: Excavations Uncover 1st Century Defenses – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
https://www.novinite.com/articles/230399/Roman+Military+Remains+Discovered+in+Bulgarian+Town%3A+Excavations+Uncover+1st+Century+Defenses

THE ODYSSEY: Tom Holland Will Reportedly Play The Lead Role In Christopher Nolan’s Adaptation
https://sffgazette.com/fantasy/movies/the-odyssey-tom-holland-will-reporteldy-play-the-lead-role-in-christopher-nolans-adaptation-a8620#gs.jvmspw

‘Glam Slam Ulysses’: Prince’s strange take on Homer’s poem
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/when-prince-paid-homage-to-greek-myths/

Mortal-Like Drama Didn’t Escape These 12 Powerful Greek Gods and Goddesses | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/mortal-like-drama-didnt-escape-these-12-powerful-greek-gods-and-goddesses

Map Of Ancient Greece And Cyprus On Google Maps

Map of Ancient Greece and Cyprus on Google Maps

The heroes of Homer’s Iliad are eco-warriors battling to protect nature
https://theconversation.com/the-heroes-of-homers-iliad-are-eco-warriors-battling-to-protect-nature-243548

Trump’s meme coin is nothing new: it takes a page out of the ancient world’s playbook
https://theconversation.com/trumps-meme-coin-is-nothing-new-it-takes-a-page-out-of-the-ancient-worlds-playbook-247807

Laudator Temporis Acti: Augustine on the Use of Amulets
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/augustine-on-use-of-amulets.html

I regret to say that I like this “Iliad-inspired” deodorant
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/i-regret-to-say-that-i-like-this?publication_id=2108238&post_id=154896238&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Patience, Precision, and Pavonazzetto: An Intern’s Story from Pergamon – Pergamon Micro-Region

Patience, Precision, and Pavonazzetto: An Intern’s Story from Pergamon

PaleoJudaica.com: Shocker: Jesus wasn’t called “Jesus?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/shocker-jesus-wasnt-called-jesus.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Exodus and Atrahasis?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/exodus-and-atrahasis.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Lying Pen of Scribes Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-lying-pen-of-scribes-project.html

Two For Tuesday: Byzantine Archaeology | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two For Tuesday: Byzantine Archaeology

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Thebaid in Times of Crisis: Revolt and Response in Ptolemaic Egypt
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-thebaid-in-times-of-crisis-revolt.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Taxes and Authority in the Late Antique Countryside: The Reach of the State and the Pagarchs of Byzantine Egypt (284–642 CE)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/taxes-and-authority-in-late-antique.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Galen, ›On Demonstration‹: Reconstruction of a lost treatise from Greek and Arabic sources
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/galen-on-demonstration-reconstruction.html

The Ship of State, Operated by Fools – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Ship of State, Operated by Fools

The Tyranny is Our Fault Too – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Tyranny is Our Fault Too

Roman Times: The integration of a Thracian goddess into the Olympian pantheon for political reasons during the Peloponnesian War
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-integration-of-thracian-goddess.html

Rise | Sphinx

Rise

Stolen Fragments

Stolen Fragments

Botanical icons: critical practices of illustration in the premodern Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Botanical icons: critical practices of illustration in the premodern Mediterranean

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The Cambridge Greek Lexicon
https://www.leschepodcast.com/2388571/episodes/16215692-the-cambridge-greek-lexicon
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NOTANDA
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Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered

Islands Between Palaces: The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered

Reinvestigating Kalydon’s Laphrion Hill

Reinvestigating Kalydon’s Laphrion Hill

Hermione between Hades and the sea

Hermione between Hades and the sea

Standing Sebomenos and Phritton in Front of the Gods

Standing Sebomenos and Phritton in Front of the Gods

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One of the largest private bath complexes ever to be discovered, adjoining a banqueting room, has been brought to lightduring the excavations of Regio IXin Pompeii – Pompeii Sites
https://pompeiisites.org/en/comunicati/one-of-the-largest-private-bath-complexes-ever-to-be-discovered-adjoining-a-banqueting-room-has-been-brought-to-lightduring-the-excavations-of-regio-ixin-pompeii/

A newly discovered bath complex—thought to be the biggest in a Pompeiian home—is set to open to the public – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/20/pompeii-bath-complex-set-to-open-to-the-public

Unlocking Roman Secrets: How Modern Science Analyzes Ancient Wood

Unlocking Roman Secrets: How Modern Science Analyzes Ancient Wood

Stern, ill, bald: French archaeologists discover large Ptolemaic marble – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838307

Marble statue head unearthed at Taposiris Magna
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/01/marble-statue-head-unearthed-at-taposiris-magna/154330

Disputed Ancient Greek sculpture ‘may not be by famous artist’
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/disputed-ancient-greek-sculpture-may-not-be-by-famous-artist-kskdqvf67

Acropolis Museum and Parthenon Marbles Efforts Highlighted in Athens – The National Herald

Acropolis Museum and Parthenon Marbles Efforts Highlighted in Athens

Archaeologists discover 2,000 fragmented bronze statues in ancient Metro – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838321

A Rare Boundary Stone from the Tetrarchy Period of the Roman Empire Contains Two Unknown Place Names

A Rare Boundary Stone from the Tetrarchy Period of the Roman Empire Contains Two Unknown Place Names

A new chapter in Roman administration: Insights from a late Roman inscription
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-chapter-roman-administration-insights-late.html

Small town found at A417 Missing Link scheme | Swindon Advertiser
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/24863374.archaeological-dig-found-a417-missing-link-scheme/

Archaeologists uncover 2,000-year-old Roman service station in Glouceste – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838314

Saalburg, The Largest Roman Fort of the Limes Germanicus

Saalburg, The Largest Roman Fort of the Limes Germanicus

Rare ‘Corinthian’ helmet from ancient Greece is up for auction, and stunningly preserved | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-corinthian-helmet-from-ancient-greece-is-up-for-auction-and-stunningly-preserved

Rome, Egyptian blue ingot discovered at Domus Aurea: extremely rare find
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/rome-egyptian-blue-ingot-discovered-at-domus-aurea-extremely-rare-find

Ancient Hadrian’s Stadium Restoration Starts in Bolu – Anatolian Archaeology

Ancient Hadrian’s Stadium Restoration Starts in Bolu

Ancient Philistines Were Likely of Greek Origin, DNA Study Shows – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Philistines Were Likely of Greek Origin, DNA Study Shows

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Accommodating the Individual: Identity and Control after Alexander
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/accommodating-individual-identity-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Maintaining Peace and Interstate Stability in Archaic and Classical Greece
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/maintaining-peace-and-interstate.html

Caesar bij Córdoba – Mainzer Beobachter

Caesar bij Córdoba

Laudator Temporis Acti: Two Bodies
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/two-bodies.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Kudos for the team that raised the Mazzarón II
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/kudos-for-team-that-raised-mazzaron-ii.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Inadvertent animal archaeologists
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/inadvertent-animal-archaeologists.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Stoutjesdijk, A Comparative Study of the Slavery Metaphor in Early Rabbinic and Early Christian Parables (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/stoutjesdijk-comparative-study-of.html

How to fix democracy? Ancient philosopher Plato may have an answer
https://theconversation.com/how-to-fix-democracy-ancient-philosopher-plato-may-have-an-answer-247602

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The Art of Cursing Your Rivals in Ancient Athens, Or, How to Say #$@#!&! in Greek | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-science-of-cursing-your-rivals-in-ancient-athens-or-how-to-say-in-greek/

A Coffin Girl’s Guide to the Coffin Texts
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/a-coffin-girls-guide-to-the-coffin?publication_id=752411&post_id=154849213&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

[RERUN] EPISODE 73: The Life of Marcus Aurelius (Part 1): Stoicism, Pandemic and War — History on Fire
https://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/2024/01/25/rerun-episode-73-the-life-of-marcus-aurelius-part-1-stoicism-pandemic-and-war
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Thucydides Trap #shorts #geopolitics #AthensVsSparta #athens #sparta #fypシ゚ #fyp #military #history – YouTube

The Iberian Cavalry | Warriors of History – YouTube

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EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements

EAA 2025 session on Ancient Egyptian Settlements

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LEGENDA
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Rare ‘Corinthian’ helmet from ancient Greece is up for auction, and stunningly preserved | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-corinthian-helmet-from-ancient-greece-is-up-for-auction-and-stunningly-preserved

2 million stones, one masterpiece: How the House of the Faun’s mosaic wa – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-838177

Preserving History at the Phaistos Archaeological Site
https://www.argophilia.com/news/phaistos-archaeological-site-restoration/239307/

Curse tablet found in Roman-era grave in France targets enemies by invoking Mars, the god of war | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/curse-tablet-found-in-roman-era-grave-in-france-targets-enemies-by-invoking-mars-the-god-of-war

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests | Italy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/pompeii-excavation-private-spa-thermal-bath-complex-vesuvius-eruption-italy

Major Roman pottery industry unearthed in Dorset, England | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Major Roman pottery industry unearthed in Dorset, England

Meet the real gladiators (and the animals who attacked them)
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/art/article/gladiators-of-britain-exhibition-museum-art-gallery-wdxvgwbzd

Researchers uncover the origins of the Sogdians, mysterious merchants of the Silk Road | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Researchers uncover the origins of the Sogdians, mysterious merchants of the Silk Road

Greek Biblical Inscription Found In Ancient Mosaic Floor Discovered In Israel

Greek Biblical Inscription Found in Ancient Mosaic Floor Discovered in Israel

Student discovers 1000-year-old Eastern Roman coin and donates it to Tro – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-837985

Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat? – GreekReporter.com

Was Helen Really to Blame for the Trojan War – or Just a Scapegoat?

Gladiators of Britain | Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/gladiators-britain-dorset-museum-roman/

Archaeologists uncover bust from the Ptolemaic era in Alexandria – Egypt Independent

Archaeologists uncover bust from the Ptolemaic era in Alexandria

Archaeologists uncover Ptolemaic-era statue head in Alexandria’s Taposiris Magna – Dailynewsegypt

Archaeologists uncover Ptolemaic-era statue head in Alexandria’s Taposiris Magna

Five of Iliad’s Lesser Known Characters Make Grandest Story Ever Told – GreekReporter.com

Five of Iliad’s Lesser Known Characters Make Grandest Story Ever Told

Weekly Varia no. 114, 01/19/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 114, 01/19/25

Nikolaos – Mainzer Beobachter

Nikolaos

The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
https://www.thecollector.com/colosseum-inaugural-games-spectacles/

Roman Times: A courtesan dancing the oklasma or an ecstatic Attis? Persian influence on Greek art following the fall of the Delian League
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-courtesan-dancing-oklasma-or-ecstatic.html

Edward Champlin, eminent Roman history scholar and ‘powerful mentor,’ dies at 76
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/01/17/edward-champlin-eminent-roman-history-scholar-and-powerful-mentor-dies-76

In French Necropolis 21 Roman “curse tablets” discovered including one written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish – Arkeonews

In French Necropolis 21 Roman “curse tablets” discovered including one written in the extinct Celtic language of Gaulish

Looting Matters: Bothmer and Francavilla Marittima
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/01/bothmer-and-francavilla-marittima.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Where Did You Say you Got Those Artefacts From?
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/where-did-you-say-you-got-those.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Cerberus
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/cerberus.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Joy of Vengeance
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-joy-of-vengeance.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Samnite Ritual
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-samnite-ritual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Lieber, Classical Samaritan Poetry (Eisenbrauns)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/lieber-classical-samaritan-poetry.html

PaleoJudaica.com: From the Magdala Stone to the Syriac Bema (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/from-magdala-stone-to-syriac-bema-brill.html

Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus

Spencer Alley: Nymphs
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2025/01/nymphs.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Astrological Poetry in Greek and Latin Literature
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-poesie-astrologique-dans-la.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La Renaissance de Tacite – Commenter les Histoires et les Annales au XVIe siècle
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/la-renaissance-de-tacite-commenter-les.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Walking Dead at Saqqara: Strategies of Social and Religious Interaction in Practice
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-walking-dead-at-saqqara-strategies.html

How the Greeks shaped our lust for revenge
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/greeks-lust-revenge-oedipus/

Stamped Amphorae from Amisos, collection of lawyer Suat Uzun | Spartokos read

Amphores timbrées d’Amisos, collection de l’avocat Suat Uzun

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Anima Latina 19.01.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/01/anima-latina-19-01-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 18.01.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-18-01-2025.html

diē septimō decimō mēnsis Jānuāriī — Nuntii Latini

diē septimō decimō mēnsis Jānuāriī

Et Cetera with Maia Lee Chin. Mythology, Latin, and Classics in today’s world – YouTube

O Brother Where Art Thou?: The Coen Brothers Folksy Odyssey | U92 Podcasts | thedaonline.com
https://www.thedaonline.com/podcasts/u92_podcasts/o-brother-where-art-thou-the-coen-brothers-folksy-odyssey/audio_8fb2260d-dbc8-5789-b441-3cd7aec62c27.html

INTERVIEW – Who were the Pythia and the priestesses of ancient Greece?
https://www.europe1.fr/emissions/au-coeur-de-l-histoire/entretien-qui-etaient-la-pythie-et-les-pretresses-de-la-grece-antique-241413#about
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Heroes of Thermopylae, Salamis, and Plataea – 2nd Persian Invasion of Greece (ALL PARTS) – YouTube

How did the Carthaginians NOT see this coming??? – YouTube

Archaeologists make ‘once-in-a-century’ discovery at Pompeii | BBC News – YouTube

[Ancient Romans vs The Weather: the second saga – YouTube]

A Simple Explanation of The Battle Of Ecnomus ⚔️ – YouTube

The Spartan Who Bought Carthage TIME – YouTube

Scipio Asina (read: the a$$) – YouTube

De perspicillis fractis || Spoken Latin podcast (47) – YouTube

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ROM Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of Art & Culture (Deadline March 31, 2025) – The Classical Association of Canada

ROM Rebanks Postdoctoral Fellowship – Department of Art & Culture (Deadline March 31, 2025)

AGM CFP – Deadline extended to January 31st – The Classical Association of Canada

AGM CFP – Deadline extended to January 31st/ Date limite repoussé au 31 janvier

Memorabilia Antonina: ‘Gladiators’ lecture
https://tonykeen.blogspot.com/2025/01/gladiators-lecture.html’

The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros – Introduction – HERC Hellenic Education & Research Center

The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros – Introduction

Summer School in Homer 2025 | Department of Greek & Latin – UCL – University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/classics/outreach-and-summer-schools/summer-schools/summer-school-homer-2025

Greek Play 2025: Elektra – A Throne Restored | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek-play-2025-elektra-a-throne-restored

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ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 17, 2025
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LEGENDA
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Biggest ever private bathhouse found in Pompeii | ANSA.it
https://www.ansa.it/amp/english/news/2025/01/17/biggest-ever-private-bathhouse-found-in-pompeii_18084880-2de1-4126-97d5-5b857ce1bfca.html

New Pompeii excavation reveals a large private thermal complex built 2,000 years ago | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/italy-pompeii-park-discovery-thermal-baths-archeology-03d8b699dfeab2c88274d870f90c7b19

Ancient Pompeii excavation uncovers lavish private bath complex | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ancient-pompeii-excavation-uncovers-lavish-private-bath-complex-2025-01-17/

Pompeii: Spectacular new discoveries unearthed include private spa
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15zgvnvk4do

Pompeii excavation unearths private spa for wooing wealthy guests | Italy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/17/pompeii-excavation-private-spa-thermal-bath-complex-vesuvius-eruption-italy

Roman Roadchef! Archaeologists uncover a ‘service station’ in Gloucester where ancient travellers would have stopped for ‘fast food’ 2,000 years ago | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14295611/Roman-service-station-Gloucester-ancient.html

Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production

Discoveries relating to industrial-scale Roman pottery production

Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/16/ancient-roman-athena-statue-acquired-halsted-foundation-wrightwood-659-chicago

Bronze statue fragments found in ancient scrap yard
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/bronze-statue-fragments-found-in-ancient-scrap-yard-204769

2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists say | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-800-year-old-structure-unearthed-in-israel-was-likely-used-for-cultic-practices-and-sacrifice-archaeologists-say

Excavations find major Roman pottery industry near Poole Harbour
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/01/excavations-find-major-roman-pottery-industry-near-poole-harbour/154311

The untold story of the gladiator and one of Britain’s most remarkable archaeological finds | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/hawkedon-helmet-latest-gladiator-exhibition-b2681504.html

Sound Reveals Secrets of Ancient Sanctuary of Zeus in Greece – GreekReporter.com

Sound Reveals Secrets of Ancient Sanctuary of Zeus in Greece

Researchers Find Hidden Clues in The Alexander Mosaic. Its 2 Million Tiny Stones Came From All Over the Ancient World
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/hidden-clues-alexander-mosaic/

Famous Alexander Mosaic found in Pompeii is made with 10-color tesserae from Italy, Greece, the Iberian Peninsula, and Tunisia

Famous Alexander Mosaic found in Pompeii is made with 10-color tesserae from Italy, Greece, the Iberian Peninsula, and Tunisia

An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part I – Marginal REVOLUTION
https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2025/01/an-economic-approach-to-homers-odyssey-part-i.html

Why Stoicism will always be in vogue | Culture | EL PAÍS English
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-01-16/why-stoicism-will-always-be-in-vogue.html

Gladiators in Britain | Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/gladiators-britain-dorset-museum-roman/

The Lying Pen of Scribes Project: An Appreciation | Variant Readings

The Lying Pen of Scribes Project: An Appreciation

FOEDUS INDUTIARUM SUBSIGNATUM EST EPHEMERIS_ Nuntii Latini Universi
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2417

Laudator Temporis Acti: Dancing
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/dancing.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Fairest Thing
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-fairest-thing.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Becking, Identity in Persian Egypt (Eisenbrauns)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/becking-identity-in-persian-egypt.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A mythic reading of anthropomorphic mountains?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-mythic-reading-of-anthropomorphic.html

Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Non-Material Aspects of Artefact Collecting
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/non-material-aspects-of-artefact.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Illegal Metal Detecting in Butts Close: he got away with his lies
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/illegal-metal-detecting-in-butts-close.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Diffusion of Archaeological Content on Social Media
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/diffusion-of-archaeological-content-on.html

The Shelbiad is back!
https://theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-shelbiad-is-back.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Theme of Love in the ‘Romans d’Antiquité’
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-theme-of-love-in-romans-dantiquite.html

Seminars on the Ancient Levant and Greece – The VIEWS project

Seminars on the Ancient Levant and Greece

Faits divers (33): archeologie – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (33): archeologie

Sing to Me, Muse, of the Man – The Catholic Thing

Sing to Me, Muse, of the Man

The House of Atreus: putting your family dysfunction into some much needed perspective after the holidays 🔪
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/the-house-of-atreus-putting-your?publication_id=991656&post_id=153937719&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Cheesy Positions: The Shameful Lioness on a Kitchen Knife – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Cheesy Positions: The Shameful Lioness on a Kitchen Knife

Crying Like a Girl – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/crying-like-a-girl?publication_id=1870284&post_id=154974004&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Excavating Sipontum: Archaeology, Community, and Ancient Discoveries in Southern Italy | Faculty of Arts – McGill University
https://www.mcgill.ca/arts/article/excavating-sipontum-archaelogy-discoveries-southern-italy

Durham University launches an interdisciplinary centre for Classics education and research – Palatinate

Durham University launches an interdisciplinary centre for Classics education and research

Andrea Berlin receives AIA Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement | Archaeology

Andrea Berlin receives AIA Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement

“Calypso’s Longing: A Woman’s Odyssey of Love” Captivates
https://www.openpr.com/news/3819057/calypso-s-longing-a-woman-s-odyssey-of-love-captivates

The Culture of Athens (J. P.) Sabben-Clare, (M.S.) Warman (edd.) (LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History, Volume 12), pp. 164. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023 (Third Edition). Paper, £15.99. ISBN: 978100938134 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/culture-of-athens-j-p-sabbenclare-ms-warman-edd-lactor-sourcebooks-in-ancient-history-volume-12-pp-164-cambridge-cambridge-university-press-2023-third-edition-paper-1599-isbn-978100938134/A51790ACA0C6D3220C98B56F0653CED5?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The Iliad Out Loud (W.) Zappa, Pp. xiv + 169. Seven Hills, NSW: Phoenix Education, 2024. Paper, AU$29.95. ISBN: 978-925169-44-7 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/iliad-out-loud-w-zappa-pp-xiv-169-seven-hills-nsw-phoenix-education-2024-paper-au2995-isbn-978925169447/0728F44D05E2F24B745934D2322026F1?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Lore Olympus, Volume Four (R.) Smythe, Pp. 416, b/w & colour ills. London: Del Rey, 2023. Cased, £22. ISBN: 978-1-5299-0988-3 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/lore-olympus-volume-four-r-smythe-pp-416-bw-colour-ills-london-del-rey-2023-cased-22-isbn-9781529909883/266C8A392CEB5F496442B9427E5B767F?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The history of hylomorphism: from Aristotle to Descartes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The history of hylomorphism: from Aristotle to Descartes

Laughing at domestica facta: identity construction in mid-Republican Rome through the lens of the togata – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Laughing at domestica facta: identity construction in mid-Republican Rome through the lens of the togata

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Hades II (2024 Early Access), with Meg Sullivan – Movies We Dig

Hades II (2024 Early Access), with Meg Sullivan

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA340 – Usurpers legions and provinces
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa340-usurpers-legions-and-provinces

EI Talks… the case for Class–Engelsberg Ideas Podcasts – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/ei-talks-the-case-for-classics/id1524774362?i=1000684234540
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New Pompeii excavations reveal large private bath house – YouTube

Scavi a Pompei, emerge un grande complesso termale nella Regio IX – YouTube

Archaeologists make ‘once-in-a-century’ discovery at Pompeii | BBC News – YouTube

GENIUS Ancient Roman Invention! – YouTube

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Greek Play 2025: Elektra – A Throne Restored | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/greek-play-2025-elektra-a-throne-restored

13th International Plutarch Society Congress | Calendar | University of Groningen
https://www.rug.nl/rcs/news/events/2025/13th-international-plutarch-society-congress

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Archaeologists uncover Roman ‘service station’ during roadworks in Gloucester | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/16/archaeologists-uncover-roman-service-station-during-roadworks-in-gloucester

Alexander the Great and the Buddha: A Cross-Cultural Evolution – Buddhistdoor Global

Alexander the Great and the Buddha: A Cross-Cultural Evolution

Archaeologists make ‘history-changing’ discovery near Tutankhamun’s tomb in Egypt | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14288121/Archaeologists-make-history-changing-discovery-near-Tutankhamuns-tomb-Egypt.html

Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed after 1st-of-its-kind analysis | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/secrets-of-alexander-the-great-mosaic-revealed-after-1st-of-its-kind-analysis

From tiny to immense: Geological spotlight on the Alexander Mosaic (National Archaeological Museum of Naples, Italy) using non-invasive in situ analyses | PLOS ONE
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0315188

Ancient Curse Tablets Discovered in Roman-Era Graves in France – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Curse Tablets Discovered in Roman-Era Graves in France

2,800-year-old structure unearthed in Israel was likely used for cultic practices and sacrifice, archaeologists say | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-800-year-old-structure-unearthed-in-israel-was-likely-used-for-cultic-practices-and-sacrifice-archaeologists-say

New Discoveries Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya – GreekReporter.com

New Discoveries Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Ptolemais in Libya

Polish Archaeologists uncover a ancient residence and mysterious mask in Libya’s ancient city Ptolemais – Arkeonews

Polish Archaeologists uncover a ancient residence and mysterious mask in Libya’s ancient city Ptolemais

Preserving Ancient Pelinna in Greece: Restoration of the Acropolis Begins – GreekReporter.com

Preserving Ancient Pelinna in Greece: Restoration of the Acropolis Begins

What’s an ancient Greek brick doing in a Sumerian city? An archeological investigation | Aeon Videos
https://aeon.co/videos/whats-an-ancient-greek-brick-doing-in-a-sumerian-city-an-archeological-investigation

British Museum announces gladiator exhibition in Dorset | Bournemouth Echo
https://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/24858254.british-museum-announces-gladiator-exhibition-dorset/

Sculptures of the Parthenon: “The day is approaching when they will return to Athens” – ProtoThema English

Sculptures of the Parthenon: “The day is approaching when they will return to Athens”

Ancient Roman statue of Athena goes on public view for first time in more than 200 years – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/01/16/ancient-roman-athena-statue-acquired-halsted-foundation-wrightwood-659-chicago

Open Socrates by Agnes Callard review – a design for life | Philosophy books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/jan/16/open-socrates-by-agnes-callard-review-a-design-for-life

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Contemporary Art and the Display of Ancient Egypt
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/contemporary-art-and-display-of-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Purity in Ancient Judaism: Texts, Contexts, and Concepts
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/purity-in-ancient-judaism-texts.html

Roman Times: The fate of Persian noblewomen married to Macedonians after the death of Alexander the Great
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-fate-of-persian-noblewomen-married.html

Zes redenen om Filon van Byblos te lezen – Mainzer Beobachter

Zes redenen om Filon van Byblos te lezen

Three Things Thursday: Teaching Version | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: Teaching Version

PaleoJudaica.com: Diocletian-era boundary stone excavated in northern Galilee
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/diocletian-era-boundary-stone-excavated.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Michael V. Fox (1940–2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/michael-v-fox-19402025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Joe Rogan and P52
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/joe-rogan-and-p52.html

‘Hyperborea’ – The White Supremacist Dogwhistle Infiltrating Classics
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/hyperborea-the-white-supremacist?publication_id=1211085&post_id=154658216&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Executions, Trespassing, and Banishment—The Tale Of The Time Publius Clodius Pulcher Forced Cicero Into Exile – The Historian’s Hut

Executions, Trespassing, and Banishment—The Tale Of The Time Publius Clodius Pulcher Forced Cicero Into Exile

The Destruction Of The Children Of Niobe, Designed By Frans Cleyn And Woven By The Mortlake Tapestry Manufactory Between 1650–70 – The Historian’s Hut

The Destruction Of The Children Of Niobe, Designed By Frans Cleyn And Woven By The Mortlake Tapestry Manufactory Between 1650–70

“We Are Not Born for Ourselves”: Cicero on Private Property – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

“We Are Not Born for Ourselves”: Cicero on Private Property

Noumenia: The New Moon Day Was the Holiest in Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com

Noumenia: The New Moon Day Was the Holiest in Ancient Greece

The voices of the consul: the rhetorics of Cicero’s De Lege Agraria I and II – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The voices of the consul: the rhetorics of Cicero’s De Lege Agraria I and II

‘Ptolemy’s zoo’: exotic animals in third-century BC Egypt – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

‘Ptolemy’s zoo’: exotic animals in third-century BC Egypt

Professor Henriette van der Blom wins Fellowship to explore the invention of ancient Roman speech – University of Birmingham
https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/professor-henriette-van-der-blom-wins-fellowship-to-explore-the-invention-of-ancient-roman-speech
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Flora Kirk, Jenks and Cora Beth Fraser, Illustrators: Classics and Careers by The Classics Podcast

BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Plutarch’s Parallel Lives
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00260s5

The Roman Invasion of Britain – The Ancients | Acast

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Tomb of Herod the Great (Full Episode) | Uncovering Herod’s Lost Tomb | National Geographic – YouTube

How Good Are Jennifer Saint’s Greek Mythology Retellings? Historian Reacts! – YouTube

Ancient Romans VS Boats: A Saga ⛵️ – YouTube

The Hangry Battle Of Agrigentum 🤺 – YouTube

Crucifixion in Roman Era Britain | Full Episode | Secrets of the Dead | PBS – YouTube

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warwick_ancient_drama
https://warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/warwick_ancient_drama

CFP: Domesticated? Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman Worlds | Society for Classical Studies
https://www.classicalstudies.org/scs-news/cfp-domesticated-female-animals-and-animalized-women-greek-and-roman-worlds