ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 31, 2025

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LEGENDA
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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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AUDIENDA
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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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VIDENDA
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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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NOTANDA
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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

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