ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN March 16, 2025

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Rare Roman columbariums in Türkiye enter cultural records | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/rare-roman-columbariums-in-turkiye-enter-cultural-records

Apollo gold ring with ‘healing serpent’ found in 2,000-year-old tomb in Greece | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/apollo-gold-ring-with-healing-serpent-found-in-2-000-year-old-tomb-in-greece

Cult centre revealed at ancient Amphipolis
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/03/cult-centre-revealed-at-ancient-amphipolis/154725

Royal Tomb, Greek-Language Writings Among Latest Discoveries in Egypt – GreekReporter.com

Royal Tomb, Greek-Language Writings Among Latest Discoveries in Egypt

Mystery ancient Egyptian royal tomb sheds light on history in Sohag – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/542019/Antiquities/Mystery-ancient-Egyptian-royal-tomb-sheds-light-on.aspx

Greek archivist suspected as kingpin in archaeology smuggling ring – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-846223

Headline: Antiquities Smuggling Rings Busted, Ancient Treasures Recovered

Headline: Antiquities Smuggling Rings Busted, Ancient Treasures Recovered

A Roman aqueduct lies beneath a Slovak chateau. No one knew until now. – The Slovak Spectator
https://spectator.sme.sk/culture-and-lifestyle/c/a-roman-aqueduct-lies-beneath-a-slovak-chateau-no-one-knew-until-now

Roman-era Jewish bath in Italy may be oldest outside of Israel, points to vibrant Diaspora | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/roman-era-jewish-bath-in-italy-may-be-oldest-outside-of-israel-points-to-vibrant-diaspora/

Assassination of Julius Caesar Re-Enacted at Original Rome Site – GreekReporter.com

Assassination of Julius Caesar Re-Enacted at Original Rome Site

Ukrainian soldiers discover 6th–5th century BC burial site during fortification works in southern Ukraine – photos | Ukrainska Pravda
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/03/16/7503138/

When a goddess enters the digital age | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1264138/when-a-goddess-enters-the-digital-age/

A Stunning Collection of Rarely Seen Ancient Roman Sculptures Is Coming to North America for the First Time | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-stunning-collection-of-rarely-seen-ancient-roman-sculptures-is-coming-to-north-america-for-the-first-time-180986226/

Did the Minoan Civilization Really End Due to Giant Tsunamis? – GreekReporter.com

Did the Minoan Civilization Really End Due to Giant Tsunamis?

‘The Odyssey’ is having a moment. Again. — Harvard Gazette

‘The Odyssey’ is having a moment. Again.

The Trojan War and an Ancient Language Come to Ithaca – The Cornell Daily Sun
https://www.cornellsun.com/article/2025/03/the-trojan-war-and-an-ancient-language-come-to-ithaca

Doing As the Romans Did | The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
https://gsas.harvard.edu/news/doing-romans-did

The Problem with the Ides of March: Not Enough Cicero, Not Enough MURDER – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Problem with the Ides of March: Not Enough Cicero, Not Enough MURDER

Obligatory Ides of March Post: Caesar Wanted to Go Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Obligatory Ides of March Post: Caesar Wanted to Go Out With A Bang, Not A Whimper

(4) Beware the Ides of March – The Octavian Report
https://octavian.substack.com/p/beware-the-ides-of-march?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=439995&post_id=158874724&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Venus Cloacina: Meet the Roman Sewer Goddess | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/venus-cloacina-roman-sewer-goddess/

Everything I Liked and Hated about Uberto Pasolini’s ‘The Return’ (2024) – Tales of Times Forgotten

Everything I Liked and Hated about Uberto Pasolini’s ‘The Return’ (2024)

De Bijbelkennis van de duivel – Mainzer Beobachter

De Bijbelkennis van de duivel

Ephemeris ~ NUNTIUS RUSSICUS
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2425

Een depositie uit Bronstijd-Drenthe – Mainzer Beobachter

Een depositie uit Bronstijd-Drenthe

Aeneas Tacticus – Mainzer Beobachter

Aeneas Tacticus

Pompeius en Caesar bij Munda – Mainzer Beobachter

Pompeius en Caesar bij Munda

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Beware
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/03/beware.html

The Tower of the Scipios, the Best-Preserved Roman Funerary Monument in Hispania

The Tower of the Scipios, the Best-Preserved Roman Funerary Monument in Hispania

Shackled with Iron Chains: Archaeologists Reveal the Harsh Reality of Gold Mines in Ptolemaic Egypt

Shackled with Iron Chains: Archaeologists Reveal the Harsh Reality of Gold Mines in Ptolemaic Egypt

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Bad Man
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-bad-man.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: In Charge
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/in-charge.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Fewer Have More
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/fewer-have-more.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Lasso
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/lasso.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Forgiveness
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/forgiveness.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Peasant
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-peasant.html

The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism | Open Culture

The Ancient Greeks Who Converted to Buddhism

PaleoJudaica.com: Zellentin, Rabbinic Parodies of Jewish and Christian Literature (Mohr Siebeck, open access)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/zellentin-rabbinic-parodies-of-jewish.html

PaleoJudaica.com: For the Ides of March
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/for-ides-of-march.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Conference: The Bible in its Ancient Iranian Context
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/conference-bible-in-its-ancient-iranian.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Ophir, In the Beginning Was the State
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/review-of-ophir-in-beginning-was-state.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Obituary: Ze’ev Meshel (1932–2024)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/obituary-zeev-meshel-19322024.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Old Testament Pseudepigrapha: More Noncanonical Scriptures, Vol. 2!

PaleoJudaica.com: Bodner (ed), The Cambridge Companion to Biblical Narrative
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/03/bodner-ed-cambridge-companion-to.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Orthographic Traditions and the Sub-elite in the Roman Empire
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/orthographic-traditions-and-sub-elite.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Biblical Terror: Why Law and Restoration in the Bible Depend Upon Fear
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/biblical-terror-why-law-and-restoration.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A digital corpus for Greco-Arabic studies
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2014/02/a-digital-corpus-for-greco-arabic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Semites, Iranians, Greeks, and Romans: Studies in their Interactions
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/semites-iranians-greeks-and-romans.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Antikythera Mechanism
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-antikythera-mechanism.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tokens and Social Life in Roman Imperial Italy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/tokens-and-social-life-in-roman.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Pasts for Modern Audiences: Public Scholarship and the Mediterranean World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/ancient-pasts-for-modern-audiences.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Poetry and Number in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/03/poetry-and-number-in-graeco-roman.html

The History Girls: A taste of Homer, Virgil and Ovid by Caroline K. Mackenzie
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2025/03/a-taste-of-homer-virgil-and-ovid-by.html

Roman Times: The Harpax: A much lighter more effective substitute for the corvus in Roman naval battles
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-harpax-much-lighter-more-effective.html

Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Perils of biography | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/perils-of-biography-blog-post

Q&A | Joe Goodkin keeps the bardic tradition alive with ‘The Blues of Achilles’ – The Daily Iowan

Q&A | Joe Goodkin keeps the bardic tradition alive with ‘The Blues of Achilles’

Roman Feet and Shoes: The cultural significance of feet, footwear, and their representations in the north-western provinces – The Past

Roman Feet and Shoes: The cultural significance of feet, footwear, and their representations in the north-western provinces

Private baths at Pompeii – The Past

Private baths at Pompeii

Reading a new Herculaneum scroll – The Past

Reading a new Herculaneum scroll

Gold, the Horse, and the Man. Collection of Articles for the 60th Anniversary of Alexander Vladimirovich Simonenko | Spartokos Read

L’or, le cheval et l’homme. Recueil d’articles pour le 60e anniversaire d’Alexander Vladimirovich Simonenko

Pompeian pigments. A glimpse into ancient Roman colouring materials – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440325000500

What pigments were used in the frescoes of Pompeii? Study published on the subject
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/what-pigments-were-used-in-the-frescoes-of-pompeii-study-published-on-the-subject
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Anima Latina 16.03.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/03/anima-latina-16-03-2025.html

(530) Beware the Ides of March – YouTube

Duo mūnera docendī — Nuntii Latini

Duo mūnera docendī

105: The Sixth Syrian War and Day of Eleusis by The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW348 – Greece in the fourth century BC
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/aw348-greece-in-the-fourth-century-bc
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VIDENDA
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(530) Beware the Ides of March! Great event by Gruppo Storico Romano in Largo Argentina – YouTube

Rise of Julius Caesar – The Ancients | Acast

(530) Little Dark Age cover in Classical Latin (SOFTBARDCORE) – YouTube

(530) De philologia, pars I || Spoken Latin podcast (51) – YouTube

(530) Avenging Leonidas – The 2nd Greco Persian War (ALL PARTS) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(531) Is Translation Cheating? – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Arts & Science Lecture in Classics: Dr. Emily Greenwood | Department of Classics
https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/arts-science-lecture-classics-dr-emily-greenwood

Guest Lecture: Dr. Luke Roman | Department of Classics
https://www.classics.utoronto.ca/events/guest-lecture-dr-luke-roman

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