• 37 A.D. — arrival of Gaius (Caligula) in Rome
• 193 A.D. — murder of the emperor Pertinax; recognition of Didius Julianus as Augustus
• 364 A.D. — elevation of Valens to the rank of Augustus
• … in the early Church, this was one of the days claimed as the day of Jesus’ birth …

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Scientists testing new scanning technology discover mysterious structure beneath an ancient Egyptian city
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-scientists-scanning-technology-mysterious-beneath.html

Plutarch’s not so simple lives – The Bowdoin Orient

Plutarch’s not so simple lives

Full article: A mass grave of young children and infants from the Persian period in Tel Azekah and its importance for the understanding of burial practices of unweaned infants
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00310328.2025.2589646

Ancient Greek inscription in Syrian mosque sheds light on lost Temple of the Sun – The Greek Herald

Ancient Greek inscription in Syrian mosque sheds light on lost Temple of the Sun

Second century CE Roman military fort found north of Hadrian’s Wall in Scotland | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-891179

The cargo of a Roman vessel loaded with olive oil amphorae from the Iberian Peninsula discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel

The cargo of a Roman vessel loaded with olive oil amphorae from the Iberian Peninsula discovered at the bottom of Lake Neuchâtel

2,200-Year-Old Greek Pyramid-Shaped Structure Discovered Near Dead Sea – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/27/greek-pyramid-shaped-structure-dead-sea/

Polish archaeologists discover remains of ancient ship graveyard | Science in Poland
https://scienceinpoland.pl/en/news/news%2C112057%2Cpolish-archaeologists-discover-remains-ancient-ship-graveyard.html

The Shatby Necropolis: Resting Place of Alexandria’s First Greek Settlers – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/27/shatby-necropolis-resting-place-alexandria-first-greek-settlers/

The Lost Huntress: Uncovering the First Image of a Female Beast Fighter in Ancient Rome
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/the-lost-huntress-uncovering-the-first-image-of-a-female-beast-fighter-in-ancient-rome/

Greece to open underwater archaeological sites in Fourni | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1299143/greece-to-open-underwater-archaeological-sites-in-fourni/

This Spellbinding Exhibition Explores How Ancient Cultures Used Magic to Navigate Life’s Challenges
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-spellbinding-exhibition-explores-how-ancient-cultures-used-magic-to-navigate-lifes-challenges-180988436/

6th century art piece at Denver museum returned to Turkey | FOX31 Denver
https://kdvr.com/news/local/6th-century-art-piece-at-denver-museum-returned-to-turkey/

Partial reconstitution of Temple of Zeus staircase in Jerash | Culture & Society | Ammon News
https://en.ammonnews.net/article/90154

Ancient Roman gemstone with grasshopper chariot – Boing Boing

Ancient Roman gemstone shows a grasshopper driving a butterfly-led chariot

Imagine having a robot to teach your kids Greek and Latin

Imagine having a robot to teach your kids Greek and Latin

Why the Temple of Artemis Was the Greatest Wonder of the World | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ephesus-temple-of-artemis/

Pytheas, the Ancient Greek Explorer Who Might Have Reached Iceland | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/pytheas-ancient-explorer/

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Feeling of Community
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-feeling-of-community.html

Well, Actually… On Trump Signing the Dollar Bill – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Well, Actually… On Trump Signing the Dollar Bill

Blog #118: Let’s Play Antiquity with Eduardo M. García-Molina – Peopling the Past

Blog #118: Let’s Play Antiquity with Eduardo M. García-Molina

Gap Week, March 27, 2026 (Society for Military History Annual Meeting) – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week, March 27, 2026 (Society for Military History Annual Meeting)

Crying Like a Girl: Similes at the Beginning of Book 16 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Crying Like a Girl: Similes at the Beginning of Book 16

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Faust & Farber, The Bible’s First Kings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/review-of-faust-farber-bibles-first.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Israeli archaeology in the West Bank
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/on-israeli-archaeology-in-west-bank.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The question of the historical Talmud
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-question-of-historical-talmud.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dossier: Vulves personnifiées
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/dossier-vulves-personnifiees.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Historiens de la Grèce franque 1: Charles Du Cange – Jean-Alexandre Buchon
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/historiens-de-la-grece-franque-1.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pencil and Dust. Women who shaped archaeology in Greece and the Greek world
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/pencil-and-dust-women-who-shaped.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Déchéance et réhabilitation dans l’Antiquité gréco-romaine: Espaces, personnes, objets
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/decheance-et-rehabilitation-dans.html

various Colchis | Spartokos has read

divers Colchide

Imperialism and appropriation in rural Roman Syria – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.32/

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Ancient History Hound: Sparta in the Spotlight. Part II
https://ancientblogger.libsyn.com/sparta-in-the-spotlight-part-ii

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA402 – Arausio 105 BC: military defeat or political disaster?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa402-arausio-105-bc-military-defeat-or-political-disaster

Roman Graffiti: The Writing on…–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

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(328) Warwick Classics’ 2026 production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia (Libation Bearers and Eumenides) – YouTube

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Visiting Assistant Professor in Classics job with University of Kansas | 37967494
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37967494/visiting-assistant-professor-in-classics

Job details: Lecturer in Ancient Philosophy
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=43015&jobTitle=Lecturer+in+Ancient+Philosophy

Rome as a Guide to the Good Life. A Philosophical Grand Tour (S.) Samuelson. Pp. 270, colour ills. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2023. Paper, US$20; cased, US$99. ISBN: 978-0-226-78004-7. https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo194243994.html | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/rome-as-a-guide-to-the-good-life-a-philosophical-grand-tour-s-samuelson-pp-270-colour-ills-chicago-university-of-chicago-press-2023-paper-us20-cased-us99-isbn-9780226780047-httpspressuchicagoeduucpbooksbookchicagorbo194243994html/56898675CA692B2ED61280DFE8D907B6?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Salto: Gesamtband inkl. Lernwortschatz. Lehrwerk für Latein als zweite Fremdsprache (H.) Haselmann, (F.) Hennerici, (P.) Jitschin, (G.) Laser, (S.) Losch. Pp. 304 + 46, colour ills, colour maps. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2021. Cased, €34. ISBN: 978-3-525-71781-3 and 978-3-525-71782-0. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/salto-gesamtband-inkl-lernwortschatz-lehrwerk-fur-latein-als-zweite-fremdsprache-h-haselmann-f-hennerici-p-jitschin-g-laser-s-losch-pp-304-46-colour-ills-colour-maps-gottingen-vandenhoeck-ruprecht-2021-cased-34-isbn-9783525717813-and-9783525717820/2A3EF78C86B25D6A40D34C5DDC0CC654?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Touching the past: object-based learning, classics teaching, and the materiality of marble | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/touching-the-past-objectbased-learning-classics-teaching-and-the-materiality-of-marble/AC68659C1B8EB36A6CC4F9B98FF239DB?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Why is Classics important? | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/why-is-classics-important/DC42BCB5216183DCDFBCFE7F9575FA7B?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Beyond Culture-Historical Models: Reframing Religious Change in Second–Third Century AD North Africa | Libyan Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/libyan-studies/article/beyond-culturehistorical-models-reframing-religious-change-in-secondthird-century-ad-north-africa/742042579D4B62585CDBA7CA8222B322?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

POLYBUS, NOT THE SON-IN-LAW OF HIPPOCRATES | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/polybus-not-the-soninlaw-of-hippocrates/598CC5D20270FB73E936D1FF1569FF31?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

• 538 B.C. — Accession of Cyrus the Great to the Persian throne (according to one reckoning)*
• 196 B.C.– Ptolemy V Epiphanes becomes pharaoh of Egypt (accordingto one reckoning)*
• 47 B.C. — Gaius Julius Caesar is victorious in Alexandria
• 47 B.C. — Ptolemy XIII drowns while trying to cross the Nile (related to the foregoing event?)

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Rare Roman treasures found on shipwreck in Swiss lake
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/rare-roman-treasures-found-on-shipwreck-in-swiss-lake/157564

Roman mosaic shows topless woman battling leopard in arena, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/roman-mosaic-shows-topless-woman-battling-leopard-in-arena-study-finds

From Iron Age to Roman Empire: A Child’s Tomb, a Kissing Figurine, and 800 Ancient Remains – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/from-iron-age-to-roman-empire-a-childs-tomb-a-kissing-figurine-and-800-ancient-remains/

One of world’s largest Ionic temples endures in Türkiye’s Sardis – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/one-of-worlds-largest-ionic-temples-endures-in-turkiyes-sardis-3216926

Roman shipwreck off Playa de Palma: Recovery begins

Shipwreck Mallorca: Recovery of the Roman shipwreck off Playa de Palma begins

Iron from a 2,600-year-old shipwreck off Israeli coast may rewrite the history of war | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/iron-from-a-2600-year-old-shipwreck-off-israeli-coast-may-rewrite-the-history-of-war

Chicago archaeologists on how war, looting threaten Iran’s cultural heritage – WBEZ Chicago
https://www.wbez.org/in-the-loop-with-sasha-ann-simons/2026/03/25/chicago-archaeologists-on-how-war-looting-threaten-irans-cultural-heritage

Classics at the U: Enduring and vital – @theU

Classics at the U: Enduring and vital

CLARE department closure planned under Arts Renewal; professors question consultation – The Gauntlet

CLARE department closure planned under Arts Renewal; professors question consultation

When the past leaves fingerprints: Students unearth ancient Italian artifacts in a new Etruscan exhibit at the UC Berkeley Library | UC Berkeley Library
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/about/news/etruscans

David Wenham opens up on return to stage in Sydney Theatre Company’s An Iliad
https://www.afr.com/life-and-luxury/arts-and-culture/david-wenham-on-what-the-iliad-can-tell-us-about-today-s-war-20260318-p5oymc

What’s Your Star Sign? The Ancients Could Offer You Some Insight. – The New York Times

World’s Oldest Erotic Graffiti Is on Astypalaia, Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/26/worlds-oldest-erotic-graffiti-found-in-greece/

Greek Gallery Ower Arrested for Allegedly Selling Stolen Antiquities
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/giorgos-tsagarakis-dealer-arrested-stolen-antiquities-1234778988/

Greece, marble fragment possibly linked to Parthenon marbles emerges from 1802 shipwreck
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/greece-marble-fragment-possibly-linked-to-parthenon-marbles-emerges-from-1802-shipwreck

Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame | The Spectator Australia

Ovid puts today’s radicals to shame

‘The ancients would laugh’ at what we consider democracy today, says archaeologist | CBC The Nature of Things
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/the-ancients-would-laugh-at-what-we-consider-democracy-today-says-archaeologist-9.7141887

Ephemeris ~ BELLUM ET INDUTIAE IN ORIENTE PROPINQUO
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2465

Aristotle On Being Kind To Foreigners – The Historian’s Hut

Aristotle On Being Kind To Foreigners

(10) Gazing on Ulysses – by The Paideia Institute
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/gazing-on-ulysses

Ancient texts and marital breakdown: Yann Martel’s Son of Nobody descends into implausibility
https://theconversation.com/ancient-texts-and-marital-breakdown-yann-martels-son-of-nobody-descends-into-implausibility-276857

Reusing Pages of Books | Variant Readings

Reusing Pages of Books

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Useful Chart
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-useful-chart.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A War That Does Not Concern Us
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-war-that-does-not-concern-us.html

Varia! – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Varia!

Spring Cleaning Academic Style – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Spring Cleaning Academic Style

Decentralizing Data (and Publishing) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Decentralizing Data (and Publishing)

PaleoJudaica.com: Shipwreck evidence for Iron Age II smithing and smelting
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/shipwreck-evidence-for-iron-age-ii.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Armenian alphabet come from the Ethiopic alphabet?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/did-armenian-alphabet-come-from.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Why was the Elephantine Judean temple really destroyed?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/why-was-elephantine-judean-temple.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Californian Hymn to Homer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/a-californian-hymn-to-homer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: “Questo è cosa stupenda”. Il Museo egiziano descritto da Champollion
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/questo-e-cosa-stupenda-il-museo.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: »Diaetae hypocaustae«: Klimatisierung von römischer Oberschichtarchitektur unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der urbs und der Region Latium
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/diaetae-hypocaustae-klimatisierung-von.html

The Straits from Troy to Constantinople | Spartokos read

The Straits from Troy to Constantinople

Brill’s companion to the campaigns of Philip II and Alexander the Great – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.31/

The Molyvoti, Thrace, archaeological project 1: landscape, architecture, and material culture – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.30/
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The Delian League: Ancient NATO? – The Ancients | Acast

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(297) The Roman Guide to War – YouTube

Slavery was vital to the democracy of ancient Athens | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140492

The Western world’s first democracy was sparked by an assassination | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140489

The word ostracize comes from an ancient Greek anti-corruption practice | CBC.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7140490

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MINOAN STUDIES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/minoan-studies/5B126AD1C009706CD685CF0DD5BCBF4F

RECENT RESEARCH ON THUCYDIDES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/recent-research-on-thucydides/584084732164F1E2261AC47C6B0E9FE0

ROMAN RELIGION | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/roman-religion/E1B663ABD02544150E8207B689A1B36C

‘THEY ARE NOT FAR FROM BEING ALL ROMANS’: LATINISATION AND THE LATIN-NOW PROJECT | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/they-are-not-far-from-being-all-romans-latinisation-and-the-latinnow-project/F2F64072067D2A663F1C9EF6A88F1D3F

DEATH IN CLASSICAL ATHENS: POLITICAL, EMOTIONAL AND INTELLECTUAL PERSPECTIVES | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/death-in-classical-athens-political-emotional-and-intellectual-perspectives/B6561779F2D6271FE45E9D8A1A2CB210

ASPECTS OF THE ROMAN IMPERIAL AND LATE ANTIQUE PERIOD | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/aspects-of-the-roman-imperial-and-late-antique-period/158B427852B76F894BEECEAA8841444E

ROMAN CONCEPTS OF LEADERSHIP | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/roman-concepts-of-leadership/07DE391630A62265FA3A1542988A0F6A

ANTIQUITY BEYOND BORDERS: NEW VISIONS OF A GLOBAL, POSTCOLONIAL, RACIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE FIELD | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/antiquity-beyond-borders-new-visions-of-a-global-postcolonial-racially-transformative-field/D09A542BF619319258FD360D987D4410

• 1546 — death of Thomas Elyot (compiler of the first major (?) Latin-English dictionary)
• 1859 — birth of A.E. Housman