ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ May 29, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Unique 5th-century archaeological treasure transferred to Ukraine history museum
https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-society/3998486-unique-5thcentury-archaeological-treasure-transferred-to-ukraine-history-museum.html

Ancient Structure and Coptic Art Unearthed in Upper Egypt – EgyptToday
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/140447/Ancient-Structure-and-Coptic-Art-Unearthed-in-Upper-Egypt

Three Tombs Unearthed in Dra Abu El-Naga

Three Tombs Unearthed in Dra Abu El-Naga

Byzantine mosaic from 1,600 years ago found in Israel’s Western Negev – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-855613

[old news]Roman Wall Built to Stop Spartacus Rebellion Discovered in Italian Forest
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-wall-spartacus-italy/

[AI?]30-meter treasure tunnel found in Turkey home after foul smell report – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-855585

May: Exekias Games | News and features | University of Bristol
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2025/may/exekias-board-game.html

Winter Solstice Solar Alignment in Kastas Monument: Alexander the Great’s Tribute to Hephaestion – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/winter-solstice-solar-alignment-in-kastas-monument-alexander-the-greats-tribute-to-hephaestion/

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

How Emperor Claudius Tried to Promote the Art of Predicting the Future: A Political Strategy in Ancient Rome

Historian who Joe Rogan slammed as his ‘worst ever guest’ hits back about what REALLY happened on the podcast | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14758787/Joe-Rogan-worst-guest-Zahi-Hawass.html

Cyprus’ archaeological nerve center shuts its doors, KNEWS
https://knews.kathimerini.com.cy/en/news/cyprus-archaeological-nerve-center-shuts-its-doors

Lessons from the past: Rapid globalization in Roman Anatolia mirrors the modern Great Acceleration – Popular Archeology

Lessons from the past: Rapid globalization in Roman Anatolia mirrors the modern Great Acceleration

Earthquake Unearthed Lost Roman Odeon in Croatia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/earthquake-unearthed-lost-roman-odeon-in-croatia/

Why Did Rome Fall? | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/head-head/why-did-rome-fall

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War – GreekReporter.com

How an Ancient Vase From Mykonos Redraws the Trojan War

The Ephesus Massacre: 80,000 Romans Slaughtered in a Single Night of Blood and Betrayal – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/the-ephesus-massacre-80000-romans-slaughtered-in-a-single-night-of-blood-and-betrayal/

Calliope, By Joseph Fagnani (1819–1873) – The Historian’s Hut

Calliope, By Joseph Fagnani (1819–1873)

How A Marriage Rejection Contributed To The Athenian Conquest Of Mytilene – The Historian’s Hut

How A Marriage Rejection Contributed To The Athenian Conquest Of Mytilene

Three Things Tuesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Tuesday

Alexander de Grote in Pamfilië – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Pamfilië

Alexander de Grote in Lycië – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Lycië

[paywalled] The decoding of ancient Roman scrolls is speeding up
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/05/28/the-decoding-of-ancient-roman-scrolls-is-speeding-up

Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle – Biblical Archaeology Society

Solomon, Socrates and Aristotle

Ancient DNA and the Return of a Disgraced Theory
https://quillette.com/2025/05/28/ancient-dna-and-the-return-of-a-disgraced-theory/

A modern adaptation of the ‘Iliad’ – The Martha’s Vineyard Times

A modern adaptation of the ‘Iliad’

Review: THE FROGS, Southwark Playhouse (Borough) | West End Best Friend
https://www.westendbestfriend.co.uk/news/review-the-frogs-southwark-playhouse-borough

‘Please don’t fart, this is art’ – Stephen Sondheim’s musical The Frogs review | Musicals | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/may/29/the-frogs-review-stephen-sondheim-musical-aristophanes-southwark-playhouse

The Bulletin of the Bezan Club | Variant Readings

The Bulletin of the Bezan Club

What Life Was Really Like for Women in Ancient Pompeii

What Life Was Really Like for Women in Ancient Pompeii

Only One Illuminated Manuscript From Antiquity Depicts the Iliad

This Is the Only Illuminated Manuscript From Antiquity Depicting Homer’s ‘Iliad’

(12) ANE Today, 29 May 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-29-may-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=164667628&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) Pasts Imperfect (5.29.25)
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-52925?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=342873&post_id=164298071&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(12) 29 May 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-may-58-bce-from-cicero-at-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=164684850&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Remembering royalty in ancient Egypt: shared memories of royal ancestors by private individuals in the eighteenth dynasty
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/remembering-royalty-in-ancient-egypt.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Tiberias, 1989–1994
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/excavations-at-tiberias-19891994.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bronze and Iron Age Tombs at Tell Beit Mirsim
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bronze-and-iron-age-tombs-at-tell-beit.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ashdod VI: The Excavations of Areas H and K (1968–1969)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/ashdod-vi-excavations-of-areas-h-and-k.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tel Yoqne‘am: Excavations on the Acropolis
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/tel-yoqneam-excavations-on-acropolis.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Tel Bet Yeraḥ Excavations, 1994–1995
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-tel-bet-yerah-excavations-19941995.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Gamla I: The Pottery of the Second Temple Period, The Shmarya Guttman Excavations, 1976–1989
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/gamla-i-pottery-of-second-temple-period.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Coptic-era building with mural, inscriptions, etc. excavated in Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/coptic-era-building-with-mural.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Mount Zion stone-cup cryptic inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/more-on-mount-zion-stone-cup-cryptic.html

The same, but different? Monarchical rule and representation in the Hellenistic world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The same, but different? Monarchical rule and representation in the Hellenistic world

Gallia docta? Education and in-/exclusion in late antique Gaul – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Gallia docta? Education and in-/exclusion in late antique Gaul

Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hercules performed: the hero on stage from the Enlightenment to the early twenty-first century

Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hellenistic athletes: agonistic cultures and self-presentation

Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Birthing Romans: childbearing and its risks in imperial Rome

Dionysius the Periegete. A Description of the Inhabited Earth – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Denys le Périégète. La Description de la terre habitée

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37838190
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37838190/visiting-assistant-professor-classics-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1836&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20250529_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20250529_jobtitle_job1

Plato and the Tyrant by James Romm — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/plato-and-the-tyrant-by-james-romm

Book of the day: The Buried City – Unearthing the Real Pompeii by Gabriel Zuchtriegel – NZ Herald
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/the-listener/books/book-of-the-day-the-buried-city-unearthing-the-real-pompeii-by-gabriel-zuchtriegel/GD3NFUA26NCGJP6OV2YUV3NG4E/

MARY MOORE Obituary (2025) – New York, NY – New York Times
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/mary-moore-obituary?id=58474075
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AUDIENDA
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Special Episode – Fulvia with Dr Jane Draycott – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Fulvia with Dr Jane Draycott

Glory and Gold – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

What’s the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? – Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 184) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/whats-the-best-greek-textbook-part-i-ad-navseam-episode-184/

Theseus and Ariadne 6: “You’re giving me Labrys? The sacred weapon of Knossos?” | Onassis Foundation
https://www.onassis.org/initiatives/onassis-podcasts/live-from-mount-olympus-main/theseus-and-ariadne/theseus-and-ariadne-6-youre-giving-me-labrys-the-sacred-weapon-of-knossos

Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 5: Naturalizing Inequalities: The Colonial Museum with Dan Hicks


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VIDENDA
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(488) What an opening – YouTube

(488) Decoding Hieroglyphs. Who needs the Rosetta Stone? With Dr Monica Hanna – YouTube

(488) Matteo Zaccarini on Herodotus’ Women – YouTube

(488) Spotlight Lecture: Once upon a thing: storytelling and encounters with objects in ancient Egypt – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Call for Papers: one-day international colloquium „Eloquence of Marble in Antiquity“ | Filozofická fakulta Univerzity Karlovy
https://www.ff.cuni.cz/udalost/call-for-papers-one-day-international-colloquium-eloquence-of-marble-in-antiquity/

Visiting Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Visiting-Assistant-Professor%2C-Classics%2C-College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-OH-45201/1294125000/

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