ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 31, 2025

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Kladios baths in ancient Olympia to be restored – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839900

1,600-year-old Roman padlock with spring mechanism discovered in Germany — and it’s tiny | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-600-year-old-roman-padlock-with-spring-mechanism-discovered-in-germany-and-its-tiny

Hundreds of 2,000-Year-Old Gold and Silver Coins Unearthed in Netherlands – GreekReporter.com

Hundreds of 2,000-Year-Old Gold and Silver Coins Unearthed in Netherlands

Archaeologists Discover 141 Ancient Gold Coins Depicting Nine Roman Emperors in Luxembourg | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-141-ancient-gold-coins-depicting-nine-roman-emperors-in-luxembourg-180985914/

Earliest Evidence of Lead Pollution Found From 5,200 Years Ago | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/earliest-evidence-of-lead-pollution-found-from-5-200-years-ago

Societal changes in Ancient Greece impacted terrestrial and marine environments | Communications Earth & Environment
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-024-01921-7

Ancient Greece and Rome’s Toxic Footprint Found in the Aegean

Ancient Greece and Rome’s Toxic Footprint Found in the Aegean

Ancient Papyrus Found in Desert Describes Roman Case Against Jewish Crooks – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-01-30/ty-article-magazine/ancient-papyrus-found-in-desert-describes-roman-case-against-jewish-crooks/00000194-b724-d69b-a3b7-b7661d500000

Archaeologists Unearth Mysterious Seated Burials in Ancient French Cemetery
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-unearth-mysterious-seated-burials-in-ancient-french-cemetery-2000555768

A Roman Sanctuary with Inscriptions Discovered in Cova de les Dones, One of the Largest Rock Art Sites in the Iberian Peninsula – Arkeonews

A Roman Sanctuary with Inscriptions Discovered in Cova de les Dones, One of the Largest Rock Art Sites in the Iberian Peninsula

2.4kg Egyptian blue ingot found in Nero’s grand palace in Rome – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840079

Greece to Build Museum for 7th Century BC “Desmotes” Skeletons – GreekReporter.com

Greece to Build Museum for 7th Century BC “Desmotes” Skeletons

Greek police arrest a suspect over online auctions for ancient artifacts – ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greek-police-arrest-suspect-online-auctions-ancient-artifacts-118311986

Ruins of Valerian’s palace to undergo archaeological excavation – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/509197/Ruins-of-Valerian-s-palace-to-undergo-archaeological-excavation

Oxford auction sees marble Roman head sold for £71,000 | Oxford Mail
https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/24897366.oxford-auction-sees-marble-roman-head-sold-71-000/

WAM, Italy enter agreement as two objects in collection may be stolen
https://www.telegram.com/story/entertainment/arts/2025/01/30/wam-italy-enter-agreement-as-two-objects-in-collection-may-be-stolen/78055597007/

Stephen Fry urges return of Parthenon sculptures to Greece – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840082

Christie’s to Auction Stunning Ancient Greek Art Worth Millions – GreekReporter.com

Christie’s to Auction Stunning Ancient Greek Art Worth Millions

Graphic novelist Gareth Hinds on imagining and illustrating the classics – Yale Daily News

Graphic novelist Gareth Hinds on imagining and illustrating the classics

Fish Addiction: An Ancient Greek Paranoia – JSTOR Daily

Fish Addiction: An Ancient Greek Paranoia

Was Alexander the Great eaten by sharks? Inside the wild theories for what happened to the iconic ruler’s body. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/was-alexander-the-great-eaten-by-sharks-inside-the-wild-theories-for-what-happened-to-the-iconic-rulers-body

How did Alexander the Great die? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/how-did-alexander-the-great-die

Alexander the Great quiz: How well do you know the famous king and conqueror from the ancient world? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/alexander-the-great-quiz-how-well-do-you-know-the-famous-king-and-conqueror-from-the-ancient-world

Did Herodes Atticus Murder His Wife Appia Annia Regilla? A Strange Case in Which No One Was Convicted Thanks to the Protection of Marcus Aurelius

Did Herodes Atticus Murder His Wife Appia Annia Regilla? A Strange Case in Which No One Was Convicted Thanks to the Protection of Marcus Aurelius

Roman Law & Order: Judean Fraud Unit – Biblical Archaeology Society

Roman Law & Order: Judean Fraud Unit

What’s up with Pompeii? | Apollo Magazine
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/pompeii-excavation-biggest-dig-generation-regio-ix-sophie-hay-update-bbc/

Plautus’ Casina and its uses in General Education-Level Gender History | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/plautus-casina-and-its-uses-in-general-educationlevel-gender-history/C6EB84FCED1CCDECE6A047BB10EDD6FD?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Forgery and Fiscal Fraud in Iudaea and Arabia on the Eve of the Bar Kokhba Revolt: Memorandum and Minutes of a Trial before a Roman Official (P.Cotton) | TYCHE – Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik
https://tyche.univie.ac.at/index.php/tyche/article/view/9224

Approaching Comparisons with Ancient Greek Traditions | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/approaching-comparisons-ancient-greek-traditions

If You Love Aeon Flux, You Need to Visit the Creator’s Little-Known Anime ASAP
https://screenrant.com/aeon-flux-anime-reign-tv-show-recommendation/

Musk Foundation funds research on ancient Rome: what Musk wants to do with his $3 million
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/news/musk-foundation-funds-research-on-ancient-rome-what-musk-wants-to-do-with-his-3-million

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Adds John Leguizamo
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/john-leguizamo-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-1236292024/

This Moment From The Odyssey Will Be Unlike Anything Christopher Nolan’s Movies Have Ever Done
https://screenrant.com/odyssey-movie-odysseus-polyphemus-fight-scene-nolan-different-op-ed/

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey: Everything We Know So Far
https://www.empireonline.com/movies/features/christopher-nolan-odyssey-everything-we-know/

The Death of the Individual and the Life of the Whole – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Death of the Individual and the Life of the Whole

The One Who Needs Forgiveness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The One Who Needs Forgiveness

(Re)Viewing Latin – The Roman Writing System – The VIEWS project

(Re)Viewing Latin – The Roman Writing System

Roman Times: Distinctions between Thetis and generic nereids in 4th century BCE Greek art
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/distinctions-between-thetis-and-generic.html

Classics showing its working | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/classics-showing-its-working-blog-post

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 31 Jan 2025

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 31 Jan 2025

The World of An Altar of Indignities – Part VII – Herodes Atticus: The Man and his Deeds |

The World of An Altar of Indignities – Part VII – Herodes Atticus: The Man and his Deeds

PaleoJudaica.com: The Tree of Life in the ANE
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-tree-of-life-in-ane.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part I (Brepols)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/lorber-coins-of-ptolemaic-empire-part-i.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Great Isaiah Scroll and manuscript groupings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/on-great-isaiah-scroll-and-manuscript.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Comparing the Hebrew Bible with ancient Greek traditions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/comparing-hebrew-bible-with-ancient.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that fraud-trial papyrus
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/more-on-that-fraud-trial-papyrus.html

Was de Griekse godsdienst polytheïstisch? – Mainzer Beobachter

Was de Griekse godsdienst polytheïstisch?

Laudator Temporis Acti: Good Things
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/good-things.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: More Stupid than Melitides
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/more-stupid-than-melitides.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ARCHIBAB Relaunched
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/archibab.html

Everything is Compared to Everything – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/everything-is-compared-to-everything?publication_id=1870284&post_id=156115399&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Outrage in Romania about Theft of Iconic Ancient Romanian Artefacts from ‘Negligent’ Dutch Museum
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/outrage-in-romania-about-theft-of.html

Summer Classics Fun – Classical Studies Support

Summer Classics Fun

Oxford Bound – Classical Studies Support

Oxford Bound

I can see Curly! – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/i-can-see-curly?publication_id=1877109&post_id=156043737&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Memorabilia Antonina: Academic Talks YouTube playlist
https://tonykeen.blogspot.com/2025/01/ive-put-together-playlist-on-youtube-of.html

Pox Romana. The Plague That Shook the Roman World (C.) Elliott Pp. xxiv + 304, ills, maps. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2024. Cased, £28, US$32. ISBN: 978-0-691-21915-8 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/pox-romana-the-plague-that-shook-the-roman-world-c-elliott-pp-xxiv-304-ills-maps-princeton-princeton-university-press-2024-cased-28-us32-isbn-9780691219158/70A7C800CF4B5B280F5C82FCBCAFA313?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Tradition and power in the Roman Empire: proceedings of the fifteenth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, 18-20 May 2022) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Tradition and power in the Roman Empire: proceedings of the fifteenth workshop of the International Network Impact of Empire (Nijmegen, 18-20 May 2022)

‘Plato’ and ‘Phocion’: Athens Beyond Democracy – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/plato-and-phocion-athens-beyond-democracy-c7e8a9a3?st=BYb2Uw&reflink=article_email_share

Catábasis: el viaje infernal en la Antigüedad – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Catábasis: el viaje infernal en la Antigüedad

Searching for the cinaedus in ancient Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Searching for the cinaedus in ancient Rome

Médecine et tragédie en Grèce antique. Scripta minora 1961-2023 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Médecine et tragédie en Grèce antique. Scripta minora 1961-2023

La notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La notion de volonté dans les écrits de saint Augustin entre 388 et 404

1. Från Homeros till Rom – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

1. Från Homeros till Rom

Pat Barker’s other odyssey – Washington Examiner

Pat Barker’s other odyssey

Ephemeris ~ REDEUNTES CCC milia in itinere ad septemtriones Gazae
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2419

Colin Renfrew obituary: archaeologist who shifted thinking on how societies evolve
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00220-1

In Memoriam: Edward J. Champlin, Paul M. Lion III *65 | Princeton Alumni Weekly
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/memoriam-edward-j-champlin-paul-m-lion-iii-65
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The Return (2024), with Joel Christensen, Joe Goodkin and Amy Pistone – Movies We Dig

The Return (2024), with Joel Christensen, Joe Goodkin and Amy Pistone

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA342 – How vulnerable were armies during the Bronze and Iron Ages to lightning strikes?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa342-how-vulnerable-were-armies-during-the-bronze-and-iron-ages-to-lightning-strikes

NT Pod: NT Pod 107: Why Do We Translate New Testament Names the Way We Do?
https://podacre.blogspot.com/2025/01/nt-pod-107-why-do-we-translate-new.html

In Search of the Real Alaric (With Douglas Boin): The Show Notes – Ancient History Fangirl

In Search of the Real Alaric (With Douglas Boin): The Show Notes


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Is There A Default Latin Word Order? – YouTube

The ultimate loser on the losing side of history ⚔️ – YouTube

Dr Emily Wilson on the teaching of Latin & Ancient Greek – YouTube

APULEIUS & His Golden A$$ – YouTube

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What is the Roman numeral for Super Bowl 2025? SB LIX explained, history, how it works – NBC Sports
https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/news/what-is-the-roman-numeral-for-super-bowl-2025-sb-lix-explained-history-how-it-works

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference – TALOS Artificial Intelligence for Humanities and Social Sciences

Semantic Annotation for the Ancient World Conference

A Monster of Our Creation: Rethinking Classical Reception in Children’s Literature (Women’s Classical Caucus) | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/monster-our-creation-rethinking-classical-reception-children%E2%80%99s-literature-women%E2%80%99s

Assistant Professor in Egyptian Archaeology (ARCH_01) job with DURHAM UNIVERSITY | 387299
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/387299/assistant-professor-in-egyptian-archaeology-arch01-/

College Lecturer in Roman History | St John’s College, Oxford
https://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/discover/vacancies/college-lecturer-in-roman-history/

We’re Hiring! – Two Faculty Posts | Department of Classics
https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/news/were-hiring-two-faculty-posts

Assistant Professor of Latin Classics job with University of Oregon | 37785118
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37785118/assistant-professor-of-latin-classics/

Assistant Professor – Greek and Latin Literature and Culture – CAUT | Academic Work
https://www.academicwork.ca/jobs/assistant-professor-greek-and-latin-literature-and-culture-university-of-toronto

Faculty Fellow in Roman History – HigherEdJobs
https://www.higheredjobs.com/institution/details.cfm?JobCode=179042641&Title=Faculty%20Fellow%20in%20Roman%20History

Annual Leon Levy Biography Lecture: Mary Beard, “Misleading Lives: The Perils of Ancient Biography” | CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/events/annual-leon-levy-biography-lecture-mary-beard-misleading-lives-perils-ancient-biography

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 29, 2025

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Hundreds of gold and silver coins buried 2,000 years ago unearthed by metal detectorists in the Netherlands – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/roman-coins-buried-2000-years-ago-found-the-netherlands/

Ancient Roman Tablets Found in Israel Reveal Long-Lost Towns – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Roman Tablets Found in Israel Reveal Long-Lost Towns

1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Gripping Case About Roman Tax Fraud and Forgery
https://gizmodo.com/1900-year-old-papyrus-reveals-gripping-case-about-roman-tax-fraud-and-forgery-2000555769

Longest Greek papyrus in Judean Desert reveals Roman corruption trial – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839727

1,900-year-old papyrus ‘best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-900-year-old-papyrus-best-documented-roman-court-case-from-judaea-apart-from-the-trial-of-jesus

50,000 ancient Roman coins discovered Sardinia « Euro Weekly News
https://euroweeklynews.com/2025/01/29/50000-ancient-roman-coins-discovered-in-sardinia/

Archaeology: Excavations at a new Roman site in Faro – Portugal Resident
https://www.portugalresident.com/archaeology-excavations-at-a-new-roman-site-in-faro/

Archaeologists reveal a rare Roman miniature box lock discovered in North Rhine-Westphalia
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/01/archaeologists-reveal-a-rare-roman-miniature-box-lock-discovered-in-north-rhine-westphalia/154393

Archaeologists Discover 141 Ancient Gold Coins Depicting Nine Roman Emperors in Luxembourg | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-141-ancient-gold-coins-depicting-nine-roman-emperors-in-luxembourg-180985914/

Archaeologists Discover Bizarre Ancient Burials – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-discover-bizarre-ancient-burials-2022995

Archaeologists Discover Ancient Tokens That Roman Soldiers Used to Play Strategy Games | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-ancient-tokens-that-roman-soldiers-used-to-play-strategy-games-180985903/

See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-haunting-stone-face-of-a-ptolemaic-statue-unearthed-near-the-ancient-egyptian-city-of-alexandria-180985894/

Bronze Age Discoveries Preserved in Volcanic Eruption Found in Italy
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/bronze-age-footprints-vesuvius-discovered-italy-1234730934/

The 1996 Mauerbach benefit sale
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/mauerbach-benefit-sale-restitution-33b51268dbd9441aab9f07218b9b69ee

Roman Times: Athena and Anchises: Why would this imagery be more symbolic in Epirus or Macedon than Attica or the Peloponnese?
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/athena-and-anchises-why-would-this.html

Home | Substack
https://substack.com/home/post/p-150737028

The Illegal, Murderous Rapist: Herodotus Subtweets a Tyrant – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Illegal, Murderous Rapist: Herodotus Subtweets a Tyrant

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/rabbinic-parodies-of-jewish-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Poetry of Ennodius
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-poetry-of-ennodius.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Saving One’s Life and Losing It
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/saving-ones-life-and-losing-it.html

Herakleios (1): de staatsgreep – Mainzer Beobachter

Herakleios (1): de staatsgreep

Herakleios (2): de Perzische Campagne – Mainzer Beobachter

Herakleios (2): de Perzische Campagne

PaleoJudaica.com: AJR review panel on Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/ajr-review-panel-on-gross-babylonian.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique European silver ring excavated at Huqoq
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/late-antique-european-silver-ring.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A tax-fraud and forgery trial recorded in a pre-Bar Kokhba Revolt papyrus
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-tax-fraud-and-forgery-trial-recorded.html

ARTIFACT: Roman medallion in south Vietnam – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/artifact-roman-medallion-in-south?publication_id=2470207&post_id=154746739&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Histria XVI. The Sacred Area Sector Roman Coarseware (1st-7th centuries) | Spartokos a lu

Histria XVI. The Sacred Area Sector Roman Coarseware (1st-7th centuries)

A commentary on books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

A commentary on books 3 and 4 of Achilles Tatius’ Leucippe and Clitophon

Heracles and Athenian propaganda: politics, imagery and drama – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Heracles and Athenian propaganda: politics, imagery and drama

Pilgrims in place, pilgrims in motion: sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pilgrims in place, pilgrims in motion: sacred travel in the ancient Mediterranean

Turkish Museum of Troy invites Christopher Nolan ahead of ‘The Odyssey’ film release – Türkiye Today

Turkish Museum of Troy invites Christopher Nolan ahead of ‘The Odyssey’ film release

Homerathon: 24-hour Iliad reading at St Stephen’s School in Rome
https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/st-stephens-school-rome-24-hour-iliad-reading.html

Since When Is Neoclassical Architecture “Populist”?

Since When Is Neoclassical Architecture “Populist”?

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Destroying the Humanities at Cardiff University. My First Thoughts – YouTube

Engineering an Empire: Ancient Greece & the Foundation of Democracy (S1, E1) | Full Episode – YouTube

This lost history will always hurt – YouTube

Herodotus A Tangent – YouTube

Arrian and his Campaigns Of Alexander The Great ⚔️ – YouTube

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Spaces and Landscapes of Production in the Aegean World

Spaces and Landscapes of Production in the Aegean World

Crake Doctoral Fellow in Classics | Mount Allison
https://mta.ca/about-mta/work-at-mta/current-opportunities/crake-doctoral-fellow-classics

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 28, 2025

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Excavation Unearths One of Pompeii’s Largest Bath Complexes
https://mymodernmet.com/bath-complex-pompeii-excavation/

See the Haunting Stone Face of a Ptolemaic Statue Unearthed Near the Ancient Egyptian City of Alexandria | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-the-haunting-stone-face-of-a-ptolemaic-statue-unearthed-near-the-ancient-egyptian-city-of-alexandria-180985894/

Two treasure hunters uncovered a rare hoard of 404 Roman and British coi – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839572

Major hoard of Roman-British coins found near Utrecht
https://artdaily.com/news/177724/Major-hoard-of-Roman-British-coins-found-near-Utrecht

Over 400 gold and silver Roman-era coins unearthed in the Netherlands depict rulers from Rome, Britain and Africa | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/over-400-gold-and-silver-roman-era-coins-unearthed-in-the-netherlands-depict-rulers-from-rome-britain-and-africa

Archeologists decipher 2,000-year-old Aramaic inscription in Israel
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/hknx2uruyg

Pre-Pompeii: Footprints of villagers fleeing Mount Vesuvius found in Sal – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839562

Forgery and fiscal fraud: New papyrus from Israel reveals a spectacular criminal case from the Roman empire
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-forgery-fiscal-fraud-papyrus-israel.html

Archaeologists Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Mask Mould Believed to Depict Medusa
https://gizmodo.com/archaeologists-uncover-2000-year-old-mask-mould-believed-to-depict-medusa-2000555542

Roman Discovery Reveals Places Lost to Time – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-roman-artifact-discovered-abel-beth-maacah-2021634

‘EPIC: The Ithaca Saga’ is an emotional ending to a unique retelling of the Odyssey – Highlander

‘EPIC: The Ithaca Saga’ is an emotional ending to a unique retelling of the Odyssey

Archaeology: Excavations at a new Roman site in Faro – Portugal Resident
https://www.portugalresident.com/archaeology-excavations-at-a-new-roman-site-in-faro/

A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute reconstruction of the eruption th – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839410

3rd-century Roman mosaic finds its way home, thanks to local association – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839412

Turf over surf: Isotope analysis reveals prehistoric Greek dietary practices
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-turf-surf-isotope-analysis-reveals.html

The Hidden Role of Women in Agriculture in Ancient Greece and Rome – GreekReporter.com

The Hidden Role of Women in Agriculture in Ancient Greece and Rome

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Filming Locations Include Where Homer’s Epic Actually Takes Place
https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-movie-filming-locations-revealed/

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Dramatic Dialogue
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/a-dramatic-dialogue.html

Roman Times: Do horse trappings from 4th century BCE Elis reflect Thracian or Scythian influence?
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/do-horse-trappings-from-4th-century-bce.html

The Body that Is Our Home – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Body that Is Our Home

Real History | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Real History

PaleoJudaica.com: Palmyra after Assad
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/palmyra-after-assad.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Inscribed ostracon from turn of the era excavated at Sartaba-Alexandrium
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/inscribed-ostracon-from-turn-of-era.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Guide to ethnographic passages in the Pseudo-Clementine writings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/guide-to-ethnographic-passages-in_28.html

Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis – Mainzer Beobachter

Koninklijke Musea voor Kunst en Geschiedenis

WallGIS: A Database and GIS for Hadrian’s Wall (Data paper). Murphy and Collins. Internet Archaeology 65.
https://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue67/24/index.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Microstructures and Mobility in the Byzantine World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/microstructures-and-mobility-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Kingdom Hieratic Collections From Around the World. Volume 2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/new-kingdom-hieratic-collections-from.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Walter Burkert: Kleine Schriften X: Varia
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/walter-burkert-kleine-schriften-x-varia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cursus studiorum: Festschrift für Günther Schörner zum 65. Geburtstag
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/cursus-studiorum-festschrift-fur.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Place, Encounter, and the Making of Communities: The Lower Sirwan/Upper Diyala River Valley from Prehistory to the Iron Age
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/place-encounter-and-making-of.html

See How the Ancient Mediterranean is Distorted by Generative Image AI | Classics at Reading

See How the Ancient Mediterranean is Distorted by Generative Image AI

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th January 2025 | Sphinx

Twelve Days in the Year: 27th January 2025

Istros and barbarians in the age of Augustus. A review of the epigraphic dossier | Spartokos read

Istros and barbarians in the age of Augustus. A review of the epigraphic dossier

The colonate in the Roman Empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The colonate in the Roman Empire

Supplementum grammaticum Graecum 7: Pius – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Supplementum grammaticum Graecum 7: Pius

Pythéas. Explorateur du Grand Nord – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pythéas. Explorateur du Grand Nord


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H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XV (Ad Navseam, Episode 170) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/hi-marrou-s-a-history-of-education-in-antiquity-part-xv-ad-navseam-episode-170/

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How Drusus Formed Rome’s Germanic Frontier – Emperor Augustus DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

The Ancient World’s TMZ – YouTube

The underlying message of Xenophon – YouTube

Why is the Universal History special? – YouTube

Odysseus in Ithaca: Scroll 24.542 – YouTube

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Vesuvius Challenge
https://scrollprize.org/

Harvard Academic Positions | Lecturer on Ancient History
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14628

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 27, 2025

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LEGENDA
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A 32-hours nightmare: Minute-by-minute reconstruction of the eruption th – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839410

Man finds a 2,000-year-old Greek statue in a trash can
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/man-finds-decapitated-greek-statue-in-trash-can-1234730844/

Deadly ancient ‘Pluto’s Gate’ in Turkey still emits lethal gases in Turk – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839393

Gold Thracian Helmet Among Ancient Artifacts Stolen from Dutch Museum – GreekReporter.com

Gold Thracian Helmet Among Ancient Artifacts Stolen from Dutch Museum

Hoard of silver Denarii from Nero, Claudius era found in British treasur – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839262

Better to Have No Reason Than Use it for Harm? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Better to Have No Reason Than Use it for Harm?

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

Ancient British coins taken as ‘spoils of war’ by Romans found in Holland | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/gold-coins-romans-britain-holland-b2687100.html

Ancient British coins found in Dutch field likely to be spoils of Roman conquest | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/27/hoard-of-coins-dating-from-roman-conquest-of-britain-found-near-utrecht

Embodied emotions in ancient Neo-Assyrian texts revealed by bodily mapping of emotional semantics: iScience
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(24)02590-2?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS2589004224025902%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

Roman Times: Early depictions of Eros and Psyche before Apuleius’ “The Golden Ass”
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/early-depictions-of-eros-and-psyche.html

Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius? | Dickinson College Commentaries

Who Killed Marrucinus Asinius?

Laudator Temporis Acti: Second Thoughts
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/second-thoughts.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Death Penalty
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-death-penalty.html

Let’s Live and Love – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/lets-live-and-love?publication_id=1877109&post_id=155833491&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that newly published boundary stone
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/more-on-that-newly-published-boundary.html

PaleoJudaica.com: “The Pleasures of Pseudepigraphy” Conference, March 30–31, Loyola University Chicago.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-pleasures-of-pseudepigraphy.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Windle’s 2024 biblical archaeology top 10
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/windles-2024-biblical-archaeology-top-10.html

Money and honor in ancient athletics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Money and honor in ancient athletics

Plutarch’s moon: a new approach to De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plutarch’s moon: a new approach to De facie quae in orbe lunae apparet

Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman spolia: objects, appropriation and cultural change – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reading Greek and Hellenistic-Roman spolia: objects, appropriation and cultural change


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VIDENDA
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Greek Heritage in European Culture: Books, Language and Identity – YouTube

David Ricks, “Poetry between Languages: Writing and Translating Poetry in English and Greek” – YouTube

#Carthaginian #Prisoner #Sacrifices #shorts #fypシ゚ #fyp #carthage #hannibal #war #history #warfare – YouTube

Costanza De Martino | Philumenus’ On Venomous Animals within the Vat. gr. 284 – YouTube

Leonardo Boulay & Tommaso Gianiorio | The Legacy of Hellenistic Mathematics – YouTube

What’s In Pliny’s Natural History? – YouTube

Who is the Roman goddess VESTA? – YouTube

He Took A Bath While Vesuvius Was Erupting!? – YouTube

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Pleasures of Pseudepigraphy
https://sites.google.com/view/pleasuresofpseudepigraphy/home

Memorabilia Antonina: ‘Gladiators – fact and fiction’
https://tonykeen.blogspot.com/2025/01/gladiators-fact-and-fiction.html

CFP: Domesticated? Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman worlds or, La Belle et la Bête? Female Beasts and Bestial Women/ Domestiquées ? Les femelles animales et les femmes animalisées dans les mondes grecs et romains ou, La Belle et la bête ? Bêtes femelles et femmes bestiales (Deadline/ date limite 2/21) – The Classical Association of Canada

CFP: Domesticated? Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman worlds or, La Belle et la Bête? Female Beasts and Bestial Women/ Domestiquées ? Les femelles animales et les femmes animalisées dans les mondes grecs et romains ou, La Belle et la bête ? Bêtes femelles et femmes bestiales (Deadline/ date limite 2/21)

CfP: Epigraphy and Mobility (Coimbra, 15-18 July 2025) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

CfP: Epigraphy and Mobility (Coimbra, 15-18 July 2025)

The Mimetic Ideal of Greek Drama

The Mimetic Ideal of Greek Drama

‘In the Ruins of History ’: In Solidarity with Palestine II

In the Ruins of History

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 26, 2025

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Hoard of silver Denarii from Nero, Claudius era found in British treasur – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-839262

Description of Alexandria’s Lighthouse Found in Ancient Chinese Writings – GreekReporter.com

Description of Alexandria’s Lighthouse Found in Ancient Chinese Writings

Roman-era boundary stone hints at a political tiff described in the Jerusalem Talmud | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/roman-era-boundary-stone-hints-at-a-political-tiff-described-in-the-jerusalem-talmud/

Iconic 2,500-Year-Old Coțofenești Helmet and Dacian Treasures Stolen from Dutch Museum – Arkeonews

Iconic 2,500-Year-Old Coțofenești Helmet and Dacian Treasures Stolen from Dutch Museum

Perre Ancient City Set to Revive Its 1,800-Year-Old Grape Mill – Arkeonews

Perre Ancient City Set to Revive Its 1,800-Year-Old Grape Mill

Archaelogists dig up Roman ‘Tupperware’ at Arne – Swanage News

Archaelogists dig up Roman ‘Tupperware’ at Arne

Remains of Roman military facilities shed new light on life near Bulgaria’s town of Lom on the Danube – History and religion
https://bnr.bg/en/post/102105529/remains-of-roman-military-facilities-shed-new-light-on-life-near-bulgaria-s-town-of-lom-on-the-danube

DNA Analysis Sheds Light on Ancient Minoan Marriage Practices – GreekReporter.com

DNA Analysis Sheds Light on Ancient Minoan Marriage Practices

Nahavand’s Nagarechi Hill may hold clues about Seleucid era in Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/509094/Nahavand-s-Nagarechi-Hill-may-hold-clues-about-Seleucid-era-in

Professor recalled as scholar, yeoman – Essex News Daily

Professor recalled as scholar, yeoman

Gladiator 2 Nearly Introduced A Wild Lucilla Twist Involving The Emperors
https://screenrant.com/gladiator-2-deleted-scene-lucilla-emperors-adopt-explainer/

Phillis Wheatley: The First African-American Poet Knew Ancient Greek – GreekReporter.com

Phillis Wheatley: The First African-American Poet Knew Ancient Greek

The Dark Secret Behind the Ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens – GreekReporter.com

The Dark Secret Behind the Ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens

Italian Cultural Chief Disputes Attribution of Famed Getty Bronze, Rankling Locals

Italian Cultural Chief Disputes Attribution of Famed Getty Bronze, Rankling Locals

Vivid Paintings Turn Greek Goddesses Into Symbols of Resilience

Vibrant Paintings Reimagine Greek Goddesses Into Complex Symbols of Empowerment and Resilience

Carl Bloch’s lost masterpiece Prometheus Unbound finds fame again in Athens | Greece | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/25/carl-bloch-lost-masterpiece-prometheus-unbound-finds-fame-again-in-athens

Is Matt Damon right for Odysseus in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey adaptation?
https://screenrant.com/thread/is-matt-damon-right-for-odysseus-in-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-adaptation/

Brie Larson’s Elektra – The Latest Revival of a Sophocles Play
https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a63385525/brie-larson-elektra-sophocles-revivals/

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reconstructing Mosul: Occupation, destruction and rebuilding
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/reconstructing-mosul-occupation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Olympian Gods and the Sea
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/les-dieux-olympiens-et-la-mer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Eleusinian Mysteries
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-eleusinian-mysteries.html

How to Live Metaphysics? Plotinus on Contemplation – Antigone

How to Live Metaphysics? Plotinus on Contemplation

The Minotaur on the Couch – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/the-minotaur-on-the-couch?publication_id=991656&post_id=155197898&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Laudator Temporis Acti: Weather Signs
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/01/weather-signs.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Basham, Paul, the Temple, and Building a Metaphor (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/basham-paul-temple-and-building.html

“De Egyptenaar” – Mainzer Beobachter

“De Egyptenaar”

Literaire quiz (14) – Mainzer Beobachter

Literaire quiz (14)

Ehrman on Titles of the Gospels in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus: Fact Check | Variant Readings

Ehrman on Titles of the Gospels in Sinaiticus and Vaticanus: Fact Check

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Collectors’ Vases and their Archaeological Context
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/collectors-vases-and-their.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Artefacts Safer in Western Collections Than in their Homelands” (Eh?) [UPDATED]
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/01/artefacts-safer-in-western-collections.html

Roman Times: Ganymede or Paris? The eponymous fresco from the House of Ganymede in Pompeii
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/ganymede-or-paris-eponymous-fresco-from.html

The Edithorial: My Telegraph article on Gladiators in Britain
https://edithorial.blogspot.com/2025/01/my-telegraph-article-on-gladiators-in.html

The Real Locations of Homer’s Odyssey – by S.E. Bagwell
https://shannonbagwell.substack.com/p/the-real-locations-of-homers-odyssey

CANI and co. on Nero « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

CANI and co. on Nero

The Black Sea region in ancient and medieval times. 3. Collection of scientific articles dedicated to the memory of Professor Viktor Pavlovich Kopylov | Spartokos read

La région de la mer Noire à l’époque antique et médiévale. 3. Collection d’articles scientifiques dédiés à la mémoire du professeur Viktor Pavlovich Kopylov

Lawless Republic by Josiah Osgood — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/lawless-republic-by-josiah-osgood
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AUDIENDA
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Anima Latina 26.01.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/01/anima-latina-26-01-2025.html

The Kingdom of Kush – The Ancients | Acast
https://shows.acast.com/the-ancients/episodes/the-kingdom-of-kush

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 25.01.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-25-01-2025.html
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VIDENDA
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What did the Romans Think About Race and Identity? – YouTube

Crescent City & The Eleusian Mysteries of Greek Mythology – YouTube

Ancient Roman Politics in Crescent City YouTube

Rome Awakens! Germanicus marches east (10 – 15 AD) – Lost Eagles (Part 2) – YouTube

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