ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 9, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Does This Peculiar Statue Found at an Ancient Egyptian Temple Really Depict Cleopatra? | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/does-this-statue-found-at-an-ancient-egyptian-temple-really-depict-cleopatra-180985789/

Egypt unveils new discoveries near Luxor, including 3,600-year-old burial shafts | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/egypt-unveils-new-discoveries-including-3600-year-old-burial-shafts-in-luxor/

Egypt uncovers blocks from 18th dynasty Queen Hatshepsut temple | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypt-uncovers-blocks-18th-dynasty-queen-hatshepsut-temple-2025-01-08/

Construction Workers Discover Ancient Stone Coffin Filled With Plaster While Expanding Highway in England | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/construction-workers-discover-ancient-stone-coffin-filled-with-plaster-while-expanding-highway-in-england-180985779/

Airborne lead cut ancient Romans’ IQ says study – Arts Culture and Style – Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2025/01/09/airborne-lead-cut-ancient-romans-iq-says-study_0ecf44a3-4e43-4ebc-913c-63b63e80385b.html

2,700-year-old archaeological site in Jordan may be a biblical place visited by King David | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-700-year-old-archaeological-site-in-jordan-may-be-a-biblical-place-visited-by-king-david

Ancient Temple and Statue of Mercury Discovered in Germany – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Temple and Statue of Mercury Discovered in Germany

Austin Weekly News Events – Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection

Events

Print – Ancient antiquities recovered in western Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/print/508457/Ancient-antiquities-recovered-in-western-Iran

Roman-era dog penis bone painted red discovered in ancient quarry shaft
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-roman-era-dog-penis-bone.html

Neolithic ‘Mountain Cult’ May Have Shaped the Spirit of Today’s Great Religions – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-01-09/ty-article-magazine/neolithic-mountain-cult-may-have-shaped-the-great-religions/00000194-45fe-dff1-a7bc-ddff26d50000

What Did People Eat and Drink in Roman Palestine? – Biblical Archaeology Society

What Did People Eat and Drink in Roman Palestine?

Neolithic Italian skull cache suggests centuries of ancestor veneration rituals
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-neolithic-italian-skull-cache-centuries.html

Caligula killed a king of Roman Morocco over a purple cloak
https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/158451/caligula-killed-king-roman-morocco.html

Right coding: who owns Homer anyway?

Right coding: who owns Homer anyway?

Inventing Writing in South-west Asia – The Ancient Near East Today

Inventing Writing in South-west Asia

Egypt denies claims of selling Grand Egyptian Museum – Tourism – Egypt – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/1/538251/Egypt/Egypt-denies-claims-of-selling-Grand-Egyptian-Muse.aspx

Roman Times: Leda and the Swan: Seduction or Rape?
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/01/leda-and-swan.html

Teaching Thursday: Greek History | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Greek History

Stories and the Snowy Mountain – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/stories-and-the-snowy-mountain?publication_id=1870284&post_id=154483229&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

characters from myth who seem to have relatable introvert burnout
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/characters-from-myth-who-seem-to?publication_id=2108238&post_id=153959789&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Pasts Imperfect (1.9.24)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-1924?publication_id=342873&post_id=153017751&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Odious Names, Constitutional Role of Tribunes – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Odious Names, Constitutional Role of Tribunes

Aequitas, the Leveler – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Aequitas, the Leveler

PaleoJudaica.com: Child sacrifice and the Carthage tophet teeth
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/child-sacrifice-and-carthage-tophet.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Doering & Cover (eds.), Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, open access)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/doering-cover-eds-philo-of-alexandria.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Euphrates papyri
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/01/the-euphrates-papyri.html

Destination unknown: The dispersion of the Euphrates papyri through the market | Roberta Mazza

Destination unknown: The dispersion of the Euphrates papyri through the market

Latin can lay down skills that last a lifetime | Classics and ancient history | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/jan/08/latin-can-lay-down-skills-that-last-a-lifetime

The Greeks, not Labour, should be teaching children oracy | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-greeks-not-labour-should-be-teaching-children-oracy/

Leeds teenager creates Venus de Milo sculpture out of snow
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/czr3rz3pjv2o

Scientist helps identify 1,000-year-old seedling linked to biblical myrrh
https://phys.org/news/2025-01-scientist-year-seedling-linked-biblical.html

‘The Return’ Shirks Hollywood’s Monopoly On Masculinity
https://thefederalist.com/2025/01/09/the-return-shirks-hollywoods-monopoly-on-masculinity/

Money, warfare and power in the ancient world: studies in honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Money, warfare and power in the ancient world: studies in honour of Matthew Freeman Trundle

Popular culture and the end of antiquity in southern Gaul, c. 400–550 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Popular culture and the end of antiquity in southern Gaul, c. 400–550

Hephaistus on the Athenian Acropolis: current approaches to the study of artifacts made of bronze and other metals – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hephaistus on the Athenian Acropolis: current approaches to the study of artifacts made of bronze and other metals


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AUDIENDA
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Special Episode – Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen – The Partial Historians

Special Episode – Storylife with Professor Joel P. Christensen

Rome’s Crisis of the Third Century – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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Getty Villa is “safe” and “everything is intact” amid devastating Palisades Fire – YouTube

A Basic Explanation Of The First Punic War – YouTube

Celebrities of the Roman Empire: Power, Glory and Scandal | Life in Ancient Times with ‪@DariusArya‬ – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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CFP – The Classical Association of Canada

Racialized Commodities | OUPblog

Racialized Commodities

SIU’s Paul Simon Institute hosts art history professor to discuss Alexander the Great
https://news.siu.edu/2025/01/010925-sius-paul-simon-institute-hosts-art-history-professor-to-discuss-alexander-the-great.php