ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 24, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Research reveals first skeletal evidence of gladiator bitten by lion in Roman period
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-reveals-skeletal-evidence-gladiator-bitten.html

Bites on gladiator bones first evidence of combat with lion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8v2063r19o

Roman Gladiator Remains Show First Proof of Human-Animal Combat | Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/roman-gladiator-remains-show-first-proof-of-human-animal-combat/

MU-led study finds evidence of gladiator-animal combat in Roman period | Maynooth University
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/mu-led-study-finds-evidence-gladiator-animal-combat-roman-period

Italians spent thousands of years perfecting grape cultivation, ancient seeds show
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-italians-spent-thousands-years-grape.html

[AI?]Emperor Marcus Aurelius’ bridgehead fortress discovered along the Danube – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851325

Lion mauled gladiator to death 1,800 years ago in Roman Britain, controversial study suggests | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/lion-mauled-gladiator-to-death-1-800-years-ago-in-roman-britain-controversial-study-suggests

Severe drought helped bring about ‘barbarian’ invasion of Roman Britain, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/severe-drought-helped-bring-about-barbarian-invasion-of-roman-britain-study-finds

Greek Police Dismantle Antiquities Smuggling Ring on Island of Crete – GreekReporter.com

Greek Police Dismantle Antiquities Smuggling Ring on Island of Crete

Antiquities Smuggling Ring Busted in Crete

Greek Senior Public Servant Arrested in High Profile Antiquities Smuggling Case in Crete

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com

Celts Imported Greek Pottery, Olive Oil, and Wine 2,600 Years Ago

[AI?]LiDAR uncovers lost capital of ancient Lyncestis in N. Macedonia – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851332

[AI?]How Carthage spread Phoenician culture without genetic legacy – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-851331

Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
https://www.mpg.de/24574685/0422-evan-phoenician-culture-spread-mainly-through-cultural-exchange-150495-x

Who Were the Carthaginians? Ancient DNA Study Reveals a Stunning Answer – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-04-23/ty-article/who-were-the-carthaginians-ancient-dna-study-reveals-a-stunning-answer/00000196-521f-d9e7-a3df-db7f869f0000

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds

American Academy In Rome Announces This Year’s Rome Prize Winners
https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2025/04/23/american-academy-in-rome-announces-this-years-rome-prize-winners/

Lowering the Flag: Professor Emeritus Maurizio Gualtieri | The Quad
https://www.ualberta.ca/en/the-quad/2025/04/lowering-the-flag-professor-emeritus-maurizio-gualtieri.html

Reading Greek Tragedies Online: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Reading Greek Tragedies Online: Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis

Understanding the Lost Wax Process: Step-by-Step | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/lost-wax-process/

Thinking About Joel Joneitz | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Thinking About Joel Joneitz

Ancient Cretans ‘Killed’ Their Tombs in Symbolic Feasts 4,000 Years Ago – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-cretans-killed-their-tombs-in-symbolic-feasts-4000-years-ago/

No restrooms, no retreat: How ancient armies battled their own waste
https://interestingengineering.com/military/how-ancient-armies-handled-waste?group=test_a

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety – Whitman Wire

TogaGate: When Cultural Appreciation Becomes Cultural Anxiety

Laudator Temporis Acti: Martyrologies
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/04/martyrologies.html

Faits divers (38) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (38)

More on the mikveh at Ostia and Other Jewish Materials | Variant Readings

More on the mikveh at Ostia and Other Jewish Materials

PaleoJudaica.com: Caviezel, Gibson, Passion of the Christ 2, and the fall of the angels?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/caviezel-gibson-passion-of-christ-2-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Punic lack of Levantine ancestry
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/more-on-punic-lack-of-levantine-ancestry.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hybrid Lecture: Alexander the Great in Jerusalem and the Origins of the Alexander Romance
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/hybrid-lecture-alexander-great-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Why so many churches in the late-antique Levant?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/04/why-so-many-churches-in-late-antique.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paradeigmata voluntatis 2: L’esperienza dell’Occidente
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/paradeigmata-voluntatis-2-lesperienza.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Aegean and Cyprus: Interaction Between Two Distinct Cultural Mediterranean Areas from the Third Millennium to Ca 1200 BC
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/the-aegean-and-cyprus-interaction.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il corpo spezzato: Costruire e decostruire la figura umana nella tradizione funeraria egiziana
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/il-corpo-spezzato-costruire-e.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’anomalie nécessaire: Femmes dangereuses, idéologie de la polis et gynécophobie à Athènes
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/lanomalie-necessaire-femmes-dangereuses.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il nome e il genere: Il dramma satiresco e il ‘quarto dramma’ nel teatro greco
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/04/il-nome-e-il-genere-il-dramma-satiresco.html

The Northeastern Azov Region in Scythian Antiquity: A Handbook | Spartokos read

La région nord-est d’Azov dans l’Antiquité scythe : un manuel

Stolen fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Stolen fragments: black markets, bad faith, and the illicit trade in ancient artefacts

Ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient and medieval thought on Greek enclitics

Porphyre. Lettre à Marcella – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Porphyre. Lettre à Marcella

Classics and Race | UCL Press
https://uclpress.co.uk/book/classics-and-race/

Vitruvius & the Warlords | Ingrid D. Rowland | The New York Review of Books

Vitruvius & the Warlords


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AUDIENDA
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How an Empire Ends: Rome’s Gothic Immigrants – Ancient History Fangirl

How an Empire Ends: Rome’s Gothic Immigrants

Crassus vs Spartacus – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/crassus-vs-spartacus/id850148806?i=1000704667308

The Birth of Indo-European – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(252) Dr Artemis Papatheodorou, “The Ottoman laws on antiquities in the 19th and early 20th centuries” – YouTube

(253) Pr. Paul Halstead, “The importance of olive growing and oil exports in Archaic-Classical Athens” – YouTube

(253) The First Greco-Persian War | Animated History Documentary – YouTube

(253) The Meroe Head of Augustus Lets You Look Into The Eyes of a Roman Emperor #ancientrelics – YouTube

(253) Retroversiones as a Pedagogical Approach | Lecture in LATIN | Vukašin Miljković – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture: Palace and Town at Phaistos: a retrospective of research over the last twenty years | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/michael-ventris-memorial-lecture-palace-and-town-phaistos-a-retrospective-research-over-last