ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 27 , 2025

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LEGENDA
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Very rare paintings depicting the god of wine unearthed in Pompeii 2,000 years after city was buried by ash and lava – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pompeii-rare-paintings-god-of-wine-unearthed/

Pompeii had a secret CULT for ‘raving, intoxicated women’, archaeologists say | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14442077/Pompeii-secret-CULT-raving-women-archaeology.html

Rare fresco discovered in Pompeii shows type of woman who ‘breaks free from male order to dance freely, go hunting and eat raw meat in the mountains’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/rare-fresco-discovered-in-pompeii-shows-type-of-woman-who-breaks-free-from-male-order-to-dance-freely-go-hunting-and-eat-raw-meat-in-the-mountains

Man’s brain turned to glass by Vesuvius volcano ash cloud
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgr2n8xx5gyo

Mount Vesuvius eruption turned a man’s brain into glass. Here’s how it happened | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/science/mount-vesuvius-eruption-turned-mans-brain-into-glass-heres-how-it-happened-2025-02-27/

Massive Roman Legion Camp Discovered at Mythical ‘Armageddon’ – GreekReporter.com

Massive Roman Legion Camp Discovered at Mythical ‘Armageddon’

Buzzing Around With The Wasps: Austin filmmakers find the sting in a 2,500 year old Greek comedy – Screens – The Austin Chronicle
https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/screens/2025-02-26/buzzing-around-with-the-wasps/

Not your ancient Antigone: this is theatre for our convoluted times | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/theatre/29218

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 233 (01/2025) | Tulliana News

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 233 (01/2025)

The Assyrians were really not so different from us | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-assyrians-were-really-not-so-different-from-us/

Is Social Media a Digital Version of the Ancient Greek Agora? – GreekReporter.com

Is Social Media a Digital Version of the Ancient Greek Agora?

What is a trechedipnum? – by Adam Roberts
https://profadamroberts.substack.com/p/what-is-a-trechedipnum

The Met Returns Stolen Seventh-Century B.C.E. Bronze Griffin Head to Greece | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-met-returns-stolen-seventh-century-bce-bronze-griffin-head-to-greece-180986113/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Yours Not to Reason Why
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/yours-not-to-reason-why.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Rot Within
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-rot-within.html

Writing Wednesday on a Thursday: Modernity and Oil | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday on a Thursday: Modernity and Oil

PaleoJudaica.com: Prof. Bezalel Porten (1931-2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/prof-bezalel-porten-1931-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Sennacherib’s Invasion of Hezekiah’s Judah and the War of 1812
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/sennacheribs-invasion-of-hezekiahs.html

PaleoJudaica.com: New scrolls at the Reagan Library
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-scrolls-at-reagan-library.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Almost out: Lorber, Coins of the Ptolemaic Empire, Part 2 (ANS)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/almost-out-lorber-coins-of-ptolemaic.html

News – Announcing the 2026 AIA Gold Medal Winner: Nancy Thomson de Grummond – Archaeological Institute of America

Announcing the 2026 AIA Gold Medal Winner: Nancy Thomson de Grummond

New publication: “Greek, Latin and Augmented Intelligence: the other AI” » Perseus Digital Library Updates

New publication: “Greek, Latin and Augmented Intelligence: the other AI”

De triomfboog van Septimius Severus – Mainzer Beobachter

De triomfboog van Septimius Severus

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New approaches on Anatolian linguistics
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/new-approaches-on-anatolian-linguistics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le monde grec des foulons: Histoire et archéologie d’un métier du textile dans l’Orient grec
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/le-monde-grec-des-foulons-histoire-et.html

The tyrants of Corinth: legends of Cypselus and Periander – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The tyrants of Corinth: legends of Cypselus and Periander

Συντομογραφίες και σύμβολα στους αρχαίους ελληνικούς παπύρους / Abbreviations and symbols in Greek papyri – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Συντομογραφίες και σύμβολα στους αρχαίους ελληνικούς παπύρους / Abbreviations and symbols in Greek papyri

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AUDIENDA
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Rebel Daughters of the Roman Empire (With Tana Rebellis) – Ancient History Fangirl

Rebel Daughters of the Roman Empire (With Tana Rebellis)

The Persian Wars: Xerxes, Thermopylae and Salamis – The Ancients | Acast

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Vesuvius volcano turned this brain to glass – YouTube

Secrets of ancient Pompeii revealed in newly discovered paintings | BBC News – YouTube

New frescoes discovered at Pompeii shed light on Bacchanalian mysteries – YouTube

The Skene and the Mind of Oedipus – YouTube

The Most Bitter Man In All Of Ancient Rome: Meet JUVENAL – YouTube

History of the Seleucid Empire | Part 1 | Animated Documentary – YouTube

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Colloquium on Aeschylus’ Agamemnon | University of Oxford
https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/conferences-and-events/classics-apgrd/events/colloquium-on-aeschylus-agamemnon

9-Month Teaching-Term Appointment – Department of Classics at Memorial University (Deadline March 31) – The Classical Association of Canada

9-Month Teaching-Term Appointment – Department of Classics at Memorial University (Deadline March 31)

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