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Hidden Vault Unearthed Beneath the Ruins of Roman Emperor Nero’s Palace, Featured an Array of Murals – Knewz
https://knewz.com/world/hidden-vault-unearthed-beneath-the-ruins-of-roman-emperor-neros-palace-featured-an-array-of-murals/

Ancient Herakleia Unearths Ornate Mosaics Showcasing Aquatic Life

Ancient Herakleia Unearths Ornate Mosaics Showcasing Aquatic Life

Ornate mosaics featuring aquatic animals found in ancient Herakleia
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/ornate-mosaics-featuring-aquatic-animals-found-in-ancient-herakleia/154507

Centuries-old Bronze drink filter unearthed in Türkiye’s Hadrianopolis ancient city – Türkiye Today

Centuries-old Bronze drink filter unearthed in Türkiye’s Hadrianopolis ancient city

Why Was the Ancient Greek City of Hadrianopolis Suddenly Abandoned? – GreekReporter.com

Why Was the Ancient Greek City of Hadrianopolis Suddenly Abandoned?

Ancient Greek Sanctuary Discovered During Railway Construction in Italy – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Sanctuary Discovered During Railway Construction in Italy

4th-Century BC Tomb of Warrior disovered in Campania, Italy – GreekReporter.com

4th-Century BC Tomb of Warrior disovered in Campania, Italy

Rare ‘Roman Figure’ Carved on Single Wood Recovered From a Water Ditch, Archaeologists Stunned By Its Preservation – NewsBreak
https://www.newsbreak.com/knewz-1594593/3797242168413-rare-roman-figure-carved-on-single-wood-recovered-from-a-water-ditch-archaeologists-stunned-by-its-preservation

Archaeologists restore Roman bath columns in Türkiye’s Stratonikeia | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/archaeologists-restore-roman-bath-columns-in-turkiyes-stratonikeia

Cleopatra Might Have Looked Totally Different Than We Thought
https://www.grunge.com/1774677/cleopatra-might-look-different-than-thought/

Villa of the Papyri treasures resurface: AI restores lost works after 2, – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-841291

The conference “Classical Education in Greek Education” at the Academy of Athens – ProtoThema English

The conference “Classical Education in Greek Education” at the Academy of Athens

Mysterious 2,500-year-old burials hint at human trafficking in ancient Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mysterious-2500-year-old-burials-hint-at-human-trafficking-in-ancient-israel/

Is this cheese kosher? Lower Galilee inn appearing in Talmudic s – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-841278

Greek Authorities Take Measures to Protect Santorini’s Antiquities Amid Earthquakes – GreekReporter.com

Greek Authorities Take Measures to Protect Santorini’s Antiquities Amid Earthquakes

Catullus and The Poetae Novi: Revolutionary Sentimentalism  – Retrospect Journal

Catullus and The Poetae Novi: Revolutionary Sentimentalism 

Quality of Life During the Roman Empire Was Higher in the Countryside Than in the Cities, According to a Bioarchaeological Analysis

Quality of Life During the Roman Empire Was Higher in the Countryside Than in the Cities, According to a Bioarchaeological Analysis

A Note on Alexander the Great Inspiring Roman Invasions of Persia | Kyle Orton’s Blog

A Note on Alexander the Great Inspiring Roman Invasions of Persia

The fall of the Roman Empire: what caused It? – Futura Sciences

The fall of the Roman Empire: what caused It?

What does LIX mean? Explaining the Roman numeral for 2025 Super Bowl | Sporting News
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/news/super-bowl-lix-meaning-roman-numeral-2025/7df7dcee014cbf8991ba1ffc

The week in theatre: Oedipus; Elektra review – all Greek | Theatre | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/feb/09/the-week-in-theatre-oedipus-old-vic-hofesh-shechter-matthew-warchus-indira-varma-rami-malek-review-elektra-duke-of-yorks-brie-larson-anne-carson-daniel-fish

Phallic Graffiti Found In Ancient Roman Ruins
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kelley_greene/phallic-graffiti-in-ancient-roman-ruins

Dr. Paul Cartledge on Socrates: The Philosopher Who Changed the World
https://www.thecollector.com/paul-cartledge-interview-socrates-philosopher/

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Exploitation et commercialisation de la pourpre dans l’Empire romain
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/exploitation-et-commercialisation-de-la.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Legiones, provincias, classes… Morceaux choisis
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/legiones-provincias-classes-morceaux.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le multilinguisme dans la Méditerranée antique
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/le-multilinguisme-dans-la-mediterranee.html

Achilles – God of the Northern Black Sea | Spartokos read

Achille – dieu du nord de la mer Noire

Reclame – Mainzer Beobachter

Reclame

Maron, een laatantieke kluizenaar – Mainzer Beobachter

Maron, een laatantieke kluizenaar

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Good Old Days
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-good-old-days.html

PaleoJudaica.com: T&T Clark Encyclopedia of Second Temple Judaism (2 vols.), paperback
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/t-clark-encyclopedia-of-second-temple.html

Cincinnatus, the Dictator Who Voluntarily Renounced His Power Twice After Saving Rome

Cincinnatus, the Dictator Who Voluntarily Renounced His Power Twice After Saving Rome

‘We’re not doing the thing we’re built to do’: Agnes Callard, the philosopher living life according to Socrates | Philosophy books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/09/agnes-callard-open-socrates-case-philosophical-life-interview
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Anima Latina 09.02.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/02/anima-latina-09-02-2025.html
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An ancient text you ✨could✨ go your whole life without reading BUT SHOULDN’T!! – YouTube

How 3D Scanning Could Undo Centuries of Theft. | Stuff The British Stole – YouTube

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Extraordinary painted tomb discovered in Tarquinia’s Etruscan necropolis in Italy | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Extraordinary painted tomb discovered in Tarquinia’s Etruscan necropolis in Italy

Elektra starring Brie Larson – review round-up
https://www.thestage.co.uk/review-round-ups/elektra-starring-brie-larson-review-round-up-duke-of-yorks-theatre-london-daniel-fish-anne-carson-patrick-vaill-stockard-channing-greg-hicks

PATRICK MARMION reviews Elektra at the Duke of York’s theatre: The REAL tragedy is this Hollywood star’s assault on West End | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-14370131/PATRICK-MARMION-reviews-Elektra-Duke-Yorks-theatre-REAL-tragedy-Hollywood-stars-assault-West-End.html

Lina Mendoni: Meeting on the protection of antiquities in the Cyclades due to seismic activity in Santorini
https://www.culture.gov.gr/el/Information/SitePages/view.aspx?nID=5244

Richborough: Fears solar farm will turn Roman ruin into ‘industrial park’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gzvxnpvdyo

1600-Year-Old Manuscript of Gospel Decoded by Researchers, Reveal Details About Jesus Christ’s Early Life – Knewz
https://knewz.com/world/1600-year-old-manuscript-of-gospel-decoded-by-researchers-reveal-details-about-jesus-christs-early-life/

‘Incredible moment in history:’ Particle accelerator and AI offer first peek inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/incredible-moment-in-history-particle-accelerator-and-ai-offer-first-peek-inside-2-000-year-old-herculaneum-scroll

Scientists Digitally Unroll Ancient Script Burned by Vesuvius
https://www.thecollector.com/scientists-digitally-unroll-ancient-script-vesuvius/

Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time in almost 2,000 years | University of Oxford
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02-07-inside-herculaneum-scroll-seen-first-time-almost-2000-years

Sapcote: Roman coins discovery a ‘once-in-a-lifetime find’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg80w8qqr0o

Report: Israel destroyed 226 archaeological sites in Gaza – Middle East Monitor

Report: Israel destroyed 226 archaeological sites in Gaza

1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary and coin found in flooded Spanish cave | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-900-year-old-roman-sanctuary-and-coin-found-in-flooded-spanish-cave

Caligula’s Secret Garden Found: A Glimpse into the Roman Emperor’s Extravagance | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/caligulas-secret-garden-found-a-glimpse-into-the-roman-emperors-extravagance

Where is Alexander the Great buried? Archaeologists continue to argue – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840951

Hadrianopolis named as archaeological site
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hadrianopolis-named-as-archaeological-site-205535

Il mistero dell’anfora di 2000 anni fa ritrovata in una casa di Trento
https://www.rainews.it/tgr/trento/articoli/2025/02/il-mistero-dellanfora-di-2000-anni-fa-ritrovata-in-una-casa-di-trento–a38579a4-d80e-48d8-804e-9a1ffbdc9536.html

Did a daring semiliterate sailor wreck a ship off the Israeli coast 2,400 years ago? | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/did-a-daring-semiliterate-sailor-wreck-a-ship-off-the-israeli-coast-2400-years-ago/

The Tomb of a 4th-Century BC Warrior Covered with a Slab Engraved with the Image of a Horseman, Found in Southern Italy

The Tomb of a 4th-Century BC Warrior Covered with a Slab Engraved with the Image of a Horseman, Found in Southern Italy

Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time

Inside of Herculaneum scroll seen for the first time

2000-Year-Old Temple Dedicated to Egyptian Cat Goddess Bastet Discovered by Archeologists Near a Train Station – Knewz
https://knewz.com/world/2000-year-old-temple-dedicated-to-egyptian-cat-goddess-bastet-discovered-by-archeologists-near-a-train-station/

Cincinnatus, the Dictator Who Voluntarily Renounced His Power Twice After Saving Rome

Cincinnatus, the Dictator Who Voluntarily Renounced His Power Twice After Saving Rome

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Iraq shed light on hidden history of Mesopotamia | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/01/250114181723.htm

Jesus-era antiquities on display at Pullman Yards in Atlanta | | timesdaily.com
https://www.timesdaily.com/jesus-era-antiquities-on-display-at-pullman-yards-in-atlanta/article_8a408818-d82f-11ef-9681-bf2329c567da.html

Culture Ministry Takes Action to Protect Santorini’s Antiquities – tovima.com

Culture Ministry Takes Action to Protect Santorini’s Antiquities

Experts Are Alarmed by a Video of Workers Hammering Away at Egypt’s Great Pyramid of Giza | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experts-are-alarmed-by-a-video-of-workers-hammering-away-at-egypts-great-pyramid-of-giza-180986016/

Unrolling the scrolls: Herculaneum to Elon Musk | Blog post | The TLS
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/unrolling-the-scrolls-blog-post

Acclaim for St Mary’s College production of classical Greek tragedy – Educate magazine

Acclaim for St Mary’s College production of classical Greek tragedy

Life is short – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/life-is-short?publication_id=1877109&post_id=156690537&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Epicurus on the Couch – Everyday Epicurean
https://everydayepicurean.substack.com/p/epicurus-on-the-couch

Ancient Greeks and Transhumanists – by Pedro L. Gonzalez
https://www.readcontra.com/p/ancient-greeks-and-transhumanists

Emotional Rescue | Sphinx

Emotional Rescue

Akousilaos en Ferekydes – Mainzer Beobachter

Akousilaos en Ferekydes

Destigmatising Classics: opening up the ancient world to all | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/features/29026

Blog Post #102: The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance with Mireille Lee – Peopling the Past

Blog Post #102: The Mediterranean Antiquities Provenance Research Alliance with Mireille Lee

Utilising Generative AI in the Classics classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/utilising-generative-ai-in-the-classics-classroom/9CFC633778647140BD85526AD073D2CE?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Laudator Temporis Acti: Italy
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/italy.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Orgies
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/orgies.html

Anticipating the News – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Anticipating the News

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Power
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/platos-power.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Numérique et lecture de textes épigraphiques altérés
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/numerique-et-lecture-de-textes.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Querns and Mills in Mediterranean Antiquity: Tradition and Innovation during the First Millennium BC
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/querns-and-mills-in-mediterranean.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Un public ou des publics? La réception des spectacles dans le monde romain entre pluralité et unanimité
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/un-public-ou-des-publics-la-reception.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the “of the Sidonians” inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-on-of-sidonians-inscription.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Video on the Sifting Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/video-on-sifting-project.html

PaleoJudaica.com: AJR review panel on Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, part 3
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/ajr-review-panel-on-gross-babylonian_7.html

Project MUSE – Houses of Ill Repute
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/127380

Representations of writing materials on Roman funerary monuments: text, image, message – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Representations of writing materials on Roman funerary monuments: text, image, message

Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Thukydides second-hand bei Flavius Josephus: zur Rezeption thukydideischer Motive im Bellum Judaicum

Voiceless, invisible, and countless in ancient Greece: the experience of subordinates, 700-300 BCE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Voiceless, invisible, and countless in ancient Greece: the experience of subordinates, 700-300 BCE

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA343 – Which type of armor did the legions under Caesar and Augustus use?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa343-which-type-of-armor-did-the-legions-under-caesar-and-augustus-use

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The door that’s not a door at Pompeii #realarchaeology #archaeology – YouTube

What is Assyriology? – YouTube

Not Roman? That’s weird. YouTube

The Temple Mount Sifting Project—Past, Present and Future – YouTube

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LECTIO XIV International Conference ‘Representing the Human and Animal Body’ — KU Leuven Institute LECTIO
https://www.kuleuven.be/lectio/events/lectio-xiv-international-conference-representing-the-human-and-animal-body

Teaching Associate in Greek literature (Temporary Cover) – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49604/

Job details: Lecturer in  Ancient History
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/search-ucl-jobs/details?jobId=31736&jobTitle=Lecturer+in%E2%80%AF+Ancient+History%E2%80%AF

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Donald Gordon obituary | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/donald-gordon-obituary

Frederick Ahl, innovative classics scholar, dies at 83 | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/02/frederick-ahl-innovative-classics-scholar-dies-83

Roman helmet discovered in Denmark
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/roman-helmet-discovered-in-denmark/154442

The Ancient Greek Woman Buried With Her Gold Jewelry – GreekReporter.com

The Ancient Greek Woman Buried With Her Gold Jewelry

Xenophon’s Ten Thousand: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Escape – GreekReporter.com

Xenophon’s Ten Thousand: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Escape

226 archaeological sites in Gaza damaged by Israeli milit…
https://www.gulftoday.ae/news/2025/02/06/226-archaeological-sites-in-gaza-damaged-by-israeli-military-operations

1,900-year-old Roman sanctuary and coin found in flooded Spanish cave | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-900-year-old-roman-sanctuary-and-coin-found-in-flooded-spanish-cave

‘Disgust’ among first words decoded in 2,000-year-old charred scroll | CNN
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/02/06/science/herculaneum-scroll-words-deciphered

‘Incredible moment in history:’ Particle accelerator and AI offer first peek inside 2,000-year-old Herculaneum scroll | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/incredible-moment-in-history-particle-accelerator-and-ai-offer-first-peek-inside-2-000-year-old-herculaneum-scroll

Archaeologists Found Game Pieces Used by Ancient Roman Soldiers

Archaeologists Found Game Pieces Used by Ancient Roman Soldiers

Talk about striking gold! Bathroom fitter discovers 50 Roman coins in a field in Leicestershire – and they could be worth £1,500 | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14362997/Bathroom-fitter-discovers-Roman-coins-field-Leicestershire.html

New archaeological discovery unearthed in Jerash – official | Jordan Times
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/new-archaeological-discovery-unearthed-jerash-%E2%80%93-official

From the Doria family vault to Moscow: The Journey of a 4th-century BCE – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840758

Amphipolis Tomb With Its Exquisite Mosaic Prepares for 2027 Opening – GreekReporter.com

Amphipolis Tomb With Its Exquisite Mosaic Prepares for 2027 Opening

Caligula’s Secret Garden Found: A Glimpse into the Roman Emperor’s Extravagance | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/caligulas-secret-garden-found-a-glimpse-into-the-roman-emperors-extravagance

The Edwin Smith Papyrus Sheds Light on Ancient Egyptian Medicine | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-edwin-smith-papyrus-sheds-light-on-ancient-egyptian-medicine

Meet Messalina, Bonnie Blue’s ancient inspiration
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/meet-messalina-bonnie-blues-ancient?publication_id=991656&post_id=156018882&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

‘Nothing is more timeless than hatred’: King’s Greek Play 2025 auditions open now | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/nothing-is-more-timeless-than-hatred-kings-greek-play-2025-auditions-open-now

Spotlight on: Professor Edith Hall – championing Classics education for all – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/current/research-news/2025/02/spotlight-on-professor-edith-hall–championing-classics-education-for-all/

The monstrous and mythical | Penn Today
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/penn-classics-mcinerney-monstrous-and-mythical

PaleoJudaica.com: Limitied sifting continues …
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/limitied-sifting-continues.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Tony Burke’s Regensburg Year: January
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/tony-burkes-regensburg-year-january.html

PaleoJudaica.com: AJR review panel on Gross, Babylonian Jews and Sasanian Imperialism in Late Antiquity, part 2
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/ajr-review-panel-on-gross-babylonian.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient caravan human-trafficking in the Negev? Maybe.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/ancient-caravan-human-trafficking-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hasmonean-era coin hoard excavated at Khirbet el-Eika
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/hasmonean-era-coin-hoard-excavated-at.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavation coins added to Levantine Coins Online
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/excavation-coins-added-to-levantine.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mondes grec et indien, d’Alexandre le Grand à Kaniṣka
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/mondes-grec-et-indien-dalexandre-le.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Samaritan Pentateuch: An English Translation with a Parallel Annotated Hebrew Text
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-samaritan-pentateuch-english.html

At a Glacial Pace: Why does the return of stolen art take years? ~ ARCAblog
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/02/at-glacial-pace-why-does-return-of.html

Judge Rules Against Safani Gallery in Fight Over Stolen Marble Head of Alexander ~ ARCAblog
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/01/judge-rules-against-safani-gallery-in.html

Drents Museum Heist: Two Suspects Named, Search for Stolen Artifacts Continues ~ ARCAblog
https://art-crime.blogspot.com/2025/01/drents-museum-heist-two-suspects-named.html

Roman Times: Implications of Alexandrian faience funerary art in an early Hellenistic Boeotian tomb
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/02/implications-of-alexandrian-faience.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Two Out of Three
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/two-out-of-three.html

Gymnosofisten – Mainzer Beobachter

Gymnosofisten

Kettingbrief – Mainzer Beobachter

Kettingbrief

Anacreontics … by ChatGPT! – Roger Pearse

Anacreontics … by ChatGPT!

Reviewing Pseudoarchaeology (Part 1) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Reviewing Pseudoarchaeology (Part 1)

Schrödinger’s Companion – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/schrodingers-companion?publication_id=1870284&post_id=156622567&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Pasts Imperfect (2.6.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-2625?publication_id=342873&post_id=155540697&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

Christopher Hitchens’ influential book on Parthenon Sculpture reunification rereleased | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1260786/christopher-hitchens-influential-book-on-parthenon-sculpture-reunification-rereleased/

Ephemeris ~ DISPLOSIO SYRIACA
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2420

Classicist Mary Beard on Confronting the Narratives and Debates on Museums – The Phoenix

Classicist Mary Beard on Confronting the Narratives and Debates on Museums

UNSW Greek Studies’ Mythology breaks enrolment record – The Greek Herald

UNSW Greek Studies thrives as Mythology Course breaks student enrolment records

Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema | Christie’s
https://www.christies.com/en/stories/artist-lawrence-alma-tadema-3414d0551a784a85adc039a5089bd772

Forsan et haec – by Donna Zuckerberg – Myth Takes
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/forsan-et-haec?publication_id=2108238&post_id=156547196&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

In Praise of Antiquity’s Grande Dames
https://quillette.com/2025/02/06/in-praise-of-antiquitys-grande-dames-2/

Murder, incest and paedophilia in imperial Rome | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/murder-incest-and-paedophilia-in-imperial-rome/

Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma. Teilband 1: Grabungsstratigraphie, archäologischer Kontext und topographische Einbindung – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Der archaische Heiligtumsbefund vom Taxiarchis-Hügel in Didyma. Teilband 1: Grabungsstratigraphie, archäologischer Kontext und topographische Einbindung

Komische Bilder: Bezugsrahmen und narratives Potenzial unteritalischer Komödienvasen – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Komische Bilder: Bezugsrahmen und narratives Potenzial unteritalischer Komödienvasen

La democrazia ateniese in età moderna e contemporanea – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La democrazia ateniese in età moderna e contemporanea

Valerius Flaccus and imperial Latin epic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Valerius Flaccus and imperial Latin epic

The Routledge handbook of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Routledge handbook of Jews and Judaism in late antiquity

The nourisher of Apollo: Miletos from Xerxes to Diocletian – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The nourisher of Apollo: Miletos from Xerxes to Diocletian

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AUDIENDA
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The Hunger Games’ Swansong: Erisychthon and Cycnus in Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 171) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-171/

104: The Seleucid Empire – Madness and the Divine by The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Rhodessa Jones, Activist & Performer: Classics and Careers by The Classics Podcast

Special Episode – Gladiator II with Dr Lindsay Steenberg – The Partial Historians

Special Episode – Gladiator II with Dr Lindsay Steenberg

Hieroglyphs – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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See inside the circus school that trained heralds to entertain Rome’s emperors – YouTube

Dr. Jan Sienkiewicz, “Islands Between Palaces The ‘Mycenaean’ Civilisation Reconsidered” – YouTube

Who Was The REAL Aesop? – YouTube

How Scholars Are Reconstructing the Lost Gospel of Marcion – YouTube

The Laodicean War | Seleucid Empire | Animated Documentary – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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College Lectureship in Roman History

College Lectureship in Roman History

Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great | Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale
https://www.ispc.cnr.it/it_it/2025/02/04/music-dance-and-soundscapes-in-the-world-of-alexander-the-great/

Assistant Professor – Department of Classics | Mount Allison
https://mta.ca/about-mta/work-at-mta/current-opportunities/assistant-professor-department-classics-0

Lecturer in  Ancient History  at UCL
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLS529/lecturer-in-ancient-history

New York Classical Club Greek and Latin Reading Contest — Columbia University Department of Classics
https://classics.columbia.edu/events/2025/4/5/new-york-classical-club-greek-and-latin-reading-contest

A bit of catching up …
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LEGENDA
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Talk about striking gold! Bathroom fitter discovers 50 Roman coins in a field in Leicestershire – and they could be worth £1,500 | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14362997/Bathroom-fitter-discovers-Roman-coins-field-Leicestershire.html

Skeletons From Ancient Santorini Volcano Eruption Found in Turkey – GreekReporter.com

Skeletons From Ancient Santorini Volcano Eruption Found in Turkey

Roman-era treasures seized in Aydın home raid in western Türkiye | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkiye/roman-era-treasures-seized-in-aydin-home-raid-in-western-turkiye/news

AI and scientists unite to decipher old scrolls charred by the Vesuvius volcano – Newsday
https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/britain-herculaneum-scrolls-ai-vesuvius-oxford-b75705

Volcano-scorched Roman scroll is read for the first time in 2000 years | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2466940-volcano-scorched-roman-scroll-is-read-for-the-first-time-in-2000-years/

Peer inside the Herculaneum scroll for the first time in 2,000 years: Scientists use AI to virtually unfurl a ‘badly burnt’ manuscript that was charred during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14362767/Herculaneum-scroll-AI-burnt-Mount-Vesuvius.html

AI helps researchers read ancient scroll burned to a crisp in Vesuvius eruption | Science | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/feb/05/ai-helps-researchers-read-ancient-scroll-burned-to-a-crisp-in-vesuvius-eruption

First glimpse inside burnt scroll after 2,000 years
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yvrq7dyg6o

Scientists review Arabic manuscript containing lost works of Apollonius and shed light on Islamic scientific tradition
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-scientists-arabic-manuscript-lost-apollonius.html

Oldest Known Evidence of Lead Pollution Found in Ancient Greece | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-known-evidence-of-lead-pollution-found-in-ancient-greece-180985989/

An experiment of Athenian democracy | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1260347/an-experiment-of-athenian-democracy/

Painted Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Necropolis in Lazio, Italy – GreekReporter.com

Painted Etruscan Tomb Discovered in Necropolis in Lazio, Italy

Archaeologists uncover burial site in Negev Highlands – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-840832

How Rome built a 37-meter-high, Nubian-style pyramid in 15 BCE – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840593

His father used diplomacy, he conquered the world: How Alexander became – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840592

Turkey hands over 152 illegally smuggled artifacts to Egypt – Egypt Independent

Turkey hands over 152 illegally smuggled artifacts to Egypt

Stern-faced Roman Medusa mask mold discovered in Sicily’s Finziade – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840589

A Five-Pound Hunk of the World’s Oldest Known Synthesized Pigment Was Found in Nero’s Palace | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-five-pound-hunk-of-the-worlds-oldest-known-synthesized-pigment-was-found-in-neros-palace-180985974/

New evidence suggests Funerary Palaces in the southern Levant originated in the north
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-evidence-funerary-palaces-southern-levant.html

Ancient evidence of women slave trade exposed in southern Israel
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/05/2500-years-old-dig-sheds-light-onto-horror-of-human-trafficking/

New Discoveries Shed Light on the Ancient Wonders of Pompei – UNESCO World Heritage Centre
https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2741

How AI imagery could be used to develop fake archaeology
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-ai-imagery-fake-archaeology.html

Researchers Examine 2400-Year-Old Quivers, Reveals Ancient Scythians Used Human Skin for Leather – Knewz
https://knewz.com/world/researchers-examine-2400-year-old-quivers-reveals-ancient-scythians-used-human-skin-for-leather/

Ancient herald school in Roman Forum opens to public after major restoration | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/video/2025/02/05/ancient-herald-school-in-roman-forum-opens-to-public-after-major-restoration

Xenophon’s Ten Thousand: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Escape – GreekReporter.com

Xenophon’s Ten Thousand: Ancient Greece’s Greatest Escape

Missing link in Indo-European languages’ history found
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-link-indo-european-languages-history.html

In Pompeii, increased tourist flows do not depend on new excavations or reopening of domus: a new study
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/in-pompeii-increased-tourist-flows-do-not-depend-on-new-excavations-or-reopening-of-domus-a-new-study

Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?

Why Is There an Ancient Rome Researcher on Musk’s DOGE Staff?

Donald Gordon obituary | Roman Britain | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/feb/04/donald-gordon-obituary

Classics Department Could be History – The Observer

Classics Department Could be History

Home | Substack
https://substack.com/home/post/p-156168957

Ilimilku of Shuban—Scribe Of The Ancient Kingdom of Ugarit – The Historian’s Hut

Ilimilku of Shuban—Scribe Of The Ancient Kingdom of Ugarit

Epicurus – The Historian’s Hut

Epicurus

Pallas And Arachne, Designed By Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (c. 1595–1676) And Etched By Stefano della Bella (c. 1610–1664) – The Historian’s Hut

Pallas And Arachne, Designed By Jean Desmarets de Saint-Sorlin (c. 1595–1676) And Etched By Stefano della Bella (c. 1610–1664)

Narrative Analogy in the David Story | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/narrative-analogy-david-story

Passion for ancient past drives grad student’s present success – The Brock News

Passion for ancient past drives grad student’s present success

It was never a Roman salute | The Butler Collegian

It was never a Roman salute

WC Theatre to present the Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ | The Highland County Press
https://highlandcountypress.com/education/wc-theatre-present-greek-tragedy-antigone#gsc.tab=0

Why Trump’s rage defies historical and literary comparisons, according to a classics expert
https://theconversation.com/why-trumps-rage-defies-historical-and-literary-comparisons-according-to-a-classics-expert-248510

Why Hitchens Wanted to Return the Parthenon Marbles – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2025/02/why-hitchens-wanted-return-parthenon-marbles/681563/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Humanitas
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/humanitas.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Yes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/yes.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A List of Body Parts
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-list-of-body-parts.html

Reviewing Pseudoarchaeology (Part 2) | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Reviewing Pseudoarchaeology (Part 2)

PaleoJudaica.com: Phoenician inscription recovered in IAA underwater survey
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/phoenician-inscription-recovered-in-iaa.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Musk Foundation is funding the Vesuvius Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/the-musk-foundation-is-funding-vesuvius.html

Update (February 5th, 2025) – Tales of Times Forgotten

Update (February 5th, 2025)

A Mosaic from Thabraca with a Writer at a Desk | Variant Readings

A Mosaic from Thabraca with a Writer at a Desk

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From the Prehistory of Upper Mesopotamia to the Bronze and Iron Age Societies of the Levant. Volume 1. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/from-prehistory-of-upper-mesopotamia-to.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Imperial Connections. Interactions and Expansion from Assyria to the Roman Period. Volume 2. Proceedings of the 5th “Broadening Horizons” Conference (Udine 5-8 June 2017)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/imperial-connections-interactions-and.html

How to Eat | Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691256993/how-to-eat

Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE | Spartokos a lu

Racialized Commodities: Long-distance Trade, Mobility, and the Making of Race in Ancient Greece, c. 700-300 BCE

Classical controversies: reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the twenty-first century – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Classical controversies: reception of Graeco-Roman antiquity in the twenty-first century

The Oxford handbook of Palmyra – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Oxford handbook of Palmyra

LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

LRCW 6: late Roman coarse wares, cooking wares and amphorae in the Mediterranean: archaeology and archaeometry. Land and sea: pottery routes

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VIDENDA
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Spotlight Lecture: Ancient Egyptian Cancer: Disease, Treatment and Evolutionary Perspective – YouTube

The “right” version of Greek Myth (w Natalie Haynes) – YouTube

What Graham Hancock Wants You to Ignore: Real Archaeology in the Ice Age – YouTube

Conjuring Ghosts In Ancient Mesopotamia (w Irving Finkel) – YouTube

See inside the circus school that trained heralds to entertain Rome’s emperors – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Postdoctoral Researcher in Ancient Near Eastern Studies

Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient Greek History) – Job Opportunities – University of Cambridge
https://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48963/

Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great | Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale

Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great

Data Driven Classics: Interdisciplinary Connections through Shared Data | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/events/data-driven-classics-interdisciplinary-connections-through-shared-data-workshop

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LEGENDA
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Elon Musk is looking for the secrets of Ancient Rome and has paid for it: his goal is the Herculaneum papyri – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/elon-musk-is-looking-for-the-secrets-of-ancient-rome-and-has-paid-for-it-his-goal-is-the-herculaneum-papyri-n/

Egyptologists raise ‘mismanagement’ concerns after worker seen hammering at Great Pyramid of Giza – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/02/03/egyptologists-mismanagement-concerns-great-pyramid-of-giza

Echoes of an Empire: Roman-Era Coin Hoard Discovered in the Netherlands – Numismatic News
https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/echoes-of-an-empire-roman-era-coin-hoard-discovered-in-the-netherlands

New Discoveries At Philippi Challenge Long-Held Beliefs About Its History

New Discoveries at Philippi Challenge Long-Held Beliefs About Its History

Roman pottery and human remains found in Exeter archaeology dig
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgx3vdy871o

New archaeological museum contains original marble map from Ancient Rome | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/travel/news-and-advice/ancient-rome-marble-map-museum-b2690352.html

Roman ritual site found 200 meters deep in prehistoric Spanish cave – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840272

Archaeologists Unearth Unknown Early Christian Settlement and Monastery in Israel – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-01-06/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-unearth-unknown-early-christian-settlement-in-israel/00000194-3bd4-d96e-a1d6-3bfc57c60000

Roman expansion linked to 5,200-year-old lead pollution, study finds – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840261

Painted tomb uncovered in Etruscan necropolis
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/painted-tomb-uncovered-in-etruscan-necropolis/154436

Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change

Lead Contamination in Ancient Greece Points to Societal Change

Golden laurel Hellenistic crown found in eyeglass case in Turkish police – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840265

Why sheep count: Lack of textile trade stymied Israel’s growth for millennia, study shows | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-sheep-count-lack-of-textile-trade-stymied-israels-growth-for-millennia-study-shows/

An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part II – Econlib

An Economic Approach to Homer’s Odyssey: Part II

A First in Denmark: Rare 4th Century Roman Helmet and Chainmail Found – Arkeonews

A First in Denmark: Rare 4th Century Roman Helmet and Chainmail Found

Archaeologists uncover ancient game pieces revealing Roman soldiers’ str – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-840409

Spotlight on: Professor Edith Hall – championing Classics education for all – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/02/spotlight-on-professor-edith-hall–championing-classics-education-for-all/

An archaeological record that doubles as art — Harvard Gazette

An archaeological record that doubles as art

Iberian Neolithic herders were already strategically managing cattle herds 6,000 years ago
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-iberian-neolithic-herders-strategically-cattle.html

Cyprus ramps up efforts against illegal antiquities trafficking, KNEWS
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-ramps-up-efforts-against-illegal-antiquities-trafficking

Woman arrested after selling ancient Greek artefacts – The Greek Herald

Woman arrested after allegedly selling ancient Greek artefacts online

Temple of Zeus Horse Recovered from the Sea – GreekReporter.com

Temple of Zeus Horse Recovered from the Sea

Archaeological Discovery in Jerash Unveils Foundations of Roman Bridge
https://petra.gov.jo/Include/InnerPage.jsp?ID=68069&lang=en&name=en_news

The Top-5 Poems Inspired by Ancient Greece, According to Scholars – GreekReporter.com

The Top-5 Poems Inspired by Ancient Greece, According to Scholars

Did the Trojan War Really Happen? – GreekReporter.com

Did the Trojan War Really Happen?

Was Caesarion the son of Julius Caesar and Cleopatra? – Progeny and propaganda in the first century BCE – Ancient World Magazine
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/caesarion-son-julius-caesar-cleopatra/

Ephemeris ~ DISPLOSIO SYRIACA Nuntius ab Oriente
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2420

January Reading Notes – Noodlings

January Reading Notes

Nestor – February 2025 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/811-february-2025-issue-available

It Is Their Fault They Suffer – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

It Is Their Fault They Suffer

PaleoJudaica.com: Poirier, Aseneth and the Honeycomb (Peeters)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/poirier-aseneth-and-honeycomb-peeters.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Profile of an IAA archaeologist
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/profile-of-iaa-archaeologist.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival #224
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/biblical-studies-carnival-224.html

Things that PhD students can read about writing | Classically Inclined

Things that PhD students can read about writing

Laudator Temporis Acti: Against Jury Nullification
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/against-jury-nullification.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From Exploration to Exploitation: Giovanni Mariti, Domenico Sestini, Antonio Mondaini and the Early History of Cypriote Archaeology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/from-exploration-to-exploitation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: THOTH AI: Ancient Egyptian & Coptic AI Assistant (multi-lingual)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/thoth-ai-ancient-egyptian-coptic-ai.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fundmünzen & Co. 30 years of Ancient Coin Finds (VI c. BCE – VIII c. CE). Trieste, April 22nd-23rd, 2022
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/fundmunzen-co-30-years-of-ancient-coin.html
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AUDIENDA
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The Mysterious Giant Astronomical Observatory of Stone That Wasn’t, or Rujm el-Hiri and the Spirit in the Sky | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-mysterious-giant-astronomical-observatory-of-stone-that-wasnt-or-rujm-el-hiri-and-spirit-in-the-sky/

The Development of Roman Theatre: A Reprised Conversation with Dr Elodie Palliard – The History Of European Theatre | Acast

[RERUN] EPISODE 74: The Life of Marcus Aurelius (Part 2): Stoicism, Pandemic and War — History on Fire
https://historyonfirepodcast.com/episodes/2024/02/03/rerun-episode-74-the-life-of-marcus-aurelius-part-2-stoicism-pandemic-and-war
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VIDENDA
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Highlighting The Work Of Natalie Haynes – YouTube

The Lost Works Of Suetonius – YouTube

The Teachings Of Epictetus – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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CFP – Living, Laughing, Loving: Roman Elegy in Light of New Developments in Roman Comedy (SCS 2026; Deadline Feb 28) – The Classical Association of Canada

CFP – Living, Laughing, Loving: Roman Elegy in Light of New Developments in Roman Comedy (SCS 2026; Deadline Feb 28)

Ancient Water Management (16th CCC)

Ancient Water Management (16th CCC)