ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 12 , 2025

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LEGENDA
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London’s first Roman basilica found under office basement
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2jdnv0ywyo

U of A expert’s discovery to be displayed in Cyprus archaeological museum | University of Arizona News
https://news.arizona.edu/news/u-experts-discovery-be-displayed-cyprus-archaeological-museum

Gladiators ready: how Rome’s bloodsport was brought to Britain – The New European
https://www.theneweuropean.co.uk/rosalind-ormiston-gladiators-ready-how-romes-bloodsport-was-brought-to-britain/

We Finally Know Why Ancient Roman Concrete Was So Durable : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-finally-know-why-ancient-roman-concrete-was-so-durable

2,500-year-old painted tomb with ‘unique scene of smithy’ discovered at Etruscan necropolis in Italy | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-500-year-old-painted-tomb-with-unique-scene-of-smithy-discovered-at-etruscan-necropolis-in-italy

An Etruscan Tomb with Exceptional Paintings, Including a Representation of a Metallurgical Workshop, Found in Tarquinia

An Etruscan Tomb with Exceptional Paintings, Including a Representation of a Metallurgical Workshop, Found in Tarquinia

Reed straws, and reusable bronze filters–How Roman-era people drank – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-841772

Receding Sea Levels Reveal Ancient Greek Port on Turkey’s Coast – GreekReporter.com

Receding Sea Levels Reveal Ancient Greek Port on Turkey’s Coast

Alexander the Great’s Tomb: Archaeologist Reveals New Insights on Its Location – GreekReporter.com

Alexander the Great’s Tomb: Archaeologist Reveals New Insights on Its Location

Peggy Zouboulaki donates 6,000 ancient artifacts to Greek museums – ProtoThema English

Peggy Zouboulaki donates 6,000 ancient artifacts to Greek museums

Greece’s new president is a leading advocate of bringing home the Parthenon sculptures from Britain
https://www.thestar.com/news/world/europe/greeces-new-president-is-a-leading-advocate-of-bringing-home-the-parthenon-sculptures-from-britain/article_14c28f30-0ba8-5378-b3f6-7c97cfa16ae2.html

Trento, scoperta una necropoli preromana con 200 tombe: «Si deve riscrivere la storia della città» | Corriere.it
https://corrieredeltrentino.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/25_febbraio_12/scoperta-una-necropoli-preromana-si-deve-riscrivere-la-storia-di-trento-239c712f-137b-4918-8eaf-2a6f77388xlk.shtml

Major discovery of a pre-Roman necropolis in Trento
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/major-discovery-of-a-pre-roman-necropolis-in-trento/154525

Tornos News | Museum of Cycladic Art | Unknown Stories of Women of the Cyclades islands
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/51014-museum-of-cycladic-art-unknown-stories-of-women-of-the-cyclades-islands.html

Archaeological Exhibition at Ben-Gurion Airport Explores Israel’s Storied Past | The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com | David Israel | 14 Shevat 5785 – Wednesday, February 12, 2025 | JewishPress.com

Archaeological Exhibition at Ben-Gurion Airport Explores Israel’s Storied Past

Stunning 5th-Century BC Gold Bracelet Among 1,000 Treasures Found in Kazakhstan – GreekReporter.com

Stunning 5th-Century BC Gold Bracelet Among 1,000 Treasures Found in Kazakhstan

Elon Musk pledges support to help decode ancient Herculaneum scrolls – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-841768

The Power of Love – Biblical Archaeology Society
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-rome/the-power-of-love/?mqsc=E4167805&dk=ZE5120ZF1

Panthers and Bulls, Stags and Wolves… – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Panthers and Bulls, Stags and Wolves…

The Meeting Of Alexander The Great And Diogenes, By Gaspar de Crayer (c. 1584–1669) – The Historian’s Hut

The Meeting Of Alexander The Great And Diogenes, By Gaspar de Crayer (c. 1584–1669)

Protagoras Of Abdera And His Agnostic Beliefs That Led To Athenian Exile And Censorship – The Historian’s Hut

Protagoras Of Abdera And His Agnostic Beliefs That Led To Athenian Exile And Censorship

My Life in (is?) Museums: Anthesteria Festival
https://imagesofantiquity.substack.com/p/my-life-in-is-museums-anthesteria

Roman Times: The judgement of Solomon or Polyxena being sacrificed to the ghost of Achilles: Possibly a testament to evolving appreciation for female virtue and achievement?
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-judgement-of-solomon-or-polyxena.html

Philodemos shows diversity and inclusion in love for women – purple motes

Philodemos shows diversity and inclusion in love for women

Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus caused death of insanely loving man – purple motes

Praxiteles’s Aphrodite of Cnidus caused death of insanely loving man

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: How Long Can this go on? PAS: “Record Increase for Treasure Finds in England, Wales and Northern Ireland”
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/how-long-can-this-go-on-pas-record.html

Facing Justice: Ashraf Omar Eldarir Pleads Guilty in High-Profile Smuggling Case ~ ARCAblog
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/02/facing-justice-ashraf-omar-eldarir.html

Tyranny, Terror, and Mutilation – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Tyranny, Terror, and Mutilation

There’s Nothing (Ancient) Roman about a Nazi Salute – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

There’s Nothing (Ancient) Roman about a Nazi Salute

Laudator Temporis Acti: Impossible
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/impossible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: AJR review panel on Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, part 4
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/ajr-review-panel-on-gross-babylonian_12.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Tu B’Shevat 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/tu-bshevat-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the inscribed ostraca from Sartaba-Alexandrium
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-on-inscribe-ostraca-from-sartaba.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Wisdom of Solomon in the Septuagint
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-wisdom-of-solomon-in-septuagint.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Narratives at Play in Aeschylus: Perspectives on Genre and Poetics
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/narratives-at-play-in-aeschylus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Antiquity in Progress: Intermedial Presences of Ancient Mediterranean Cultures in the Modern World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/antiquity-in-progress-intermedial.html

James Romm · Mapped Out: The World according to Strabo
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n03/james-romm/mapped-out

Geschichte und Erbe der Etrusker – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Geschichte und Erbe der Etrusker

The Battle of Frogs and Mice / ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ: Greek text with facing vocabulary, commentary, and illustrations – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Battle of Frogs and Mice / ΒΑΤΡΑΧΟΜΥΟΜΑΧΙΑ: Greek text with facing vocabulary, commentary, and illustrations

Aristide ‘le Juste’. L’art et la manière de fabriquer un héros dans la cité démocratique – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aristide ‘le Juste’. L’art et la manière de fabriquer un héros dans la cité démocratique

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The Battle of Issus 333 BC – Alexander faces King Darius – YouTube