ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 25, 2025

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Urartian necropolis in Türkiye sheds light on Iron Age burial rites | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/urartian-necropolis-in-turkiye-sheds-light-on-iron-age-burial-rites

Bird divination text found at Hittite settlement – The History Blog

Bird divination text found at Hittite settlement

Roman-era gold jewelry found at Hippos testifies to wealth of city likely visited by Jesus | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/roman-era-gold-jewelry-found-at-hippos-testifies-to-wealth-of-city-likely-visited-by-jesus/

Martin Scorsese and a Sicilian Shipwreck – Biblical Archaeology Society

Martin Scorsese and a Sicilian Shipwreck

Where Are the Mysterious Cassiterides Islands Mentioned in Ancient Greek Records? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/24/cassiterides-islands-ancient-greek-records/

Ancient Greek Sanctuary From Hellenistic Era Discovered Inside a Cave in Italy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/25/ancient-greek-sanctuary-hellenistic-era-cave-italy/

Ancient Phoenician Builders Used Concrete-Like Plaster Before the Romans – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/25/phoenician-hydraulic-lime-plaster-before-romans/

How the Antonine Plague Became The Beginning of the End for Rome – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/25/antonine-plague-end-rome/

I bind down, bury deeply and make disappear from humanity… – National Archaeological Museum

I bind down, bury deeply and make disappear from humanity…

Google Just Released an A.I. Tool That Helps Historians Fill in Missing Words in Ancient Roman Inscriptions
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/google-just-released-an-ai-tool-that-helps-historians-fill-in-missing-words-in-ancient-roman-inscriptions-180987046/

Hadrian’s 2,000-year-old aqueduct returns to life in drought-hit Athens – The Greek Herald
https://greekherald.com.au/news/hadrians-2000-year-old-aqueduct-returns-to-life-in-drought-hit-athens/

Roman cavalry swords reveal ancient settlement in Gloucestershire | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/metal-detectorists-feeling-leads-massive-roman-settlement-discovery-popular-tourist-hotspot

‘Mysterious’ Roman artefact to go on show in Nottingham
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn7d7m83d1xo

The antiquities looters and the treasure hunt: They dug throughout Greece at night – How a lone “hunter” exposed their operation – ProtoThema English

The antiquities looters and the treasure hunt: They dug throughout Greece at night – How a lone “hunter” exposed their operation

New Archaeological Find Sheds Light on Bulgaria’s Roman-Era Stronghold – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233554/New%2BArchaeological%2BFind%2BSheds%2BLight%2Bon%2BBulgaria%25E2%2580%2599s%2BRoman-Era%2BStronghold

A trilobite fossil amulet from Roman Hispania

A trilobite fossil amulet from Roman Hispania

This trilobite fossil became ancient Roman bling | Science | AAAS
https://www.science.org/content/article/trilobite-fossil-became-ancient-roman-bling

Precious Acropolis Fragment Returned Home From Chile – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/25/precious-acropolis-fragment-returns-greece-chile/

Museum of Rescued Art reopens in Rome -Xinhua
https://english.news.cn/europe/20250725/16b8af8ad36c441c8c6ac16ff4bf1482/c.html

Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of Athens | Open Culture

Plato, Aristotle & Other Greek Philosophers in Raphael’s Renaissance Masterpiece, The School of Athens

Danger In Pompeii Is Launching Today On Steam – COGconnected

Danger In Pompeii Is Launching Today On Steam

Alexander Henry Rhind: The first experienced archaeologist to excavate in Egypt | National Museums Scotland
https://www.nms.ac.uk/discover-catalogue/alexander-henry-rhind-the-first-experienced-archaeologist-to-excavate-in-egypt

Medusa stones the gaze – Arena

Medusa stones the gaze

The Long Walk is Stephen King’s dark take on The Odyssey for Vietnam War-era America | Popverse
https://www.thepopverse.com/literary-stephen-king-the-long-walk-odyssey-if-it-bleeds-we-read

(9) Epic Bullsh*t – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/epic-bullsht?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=169230297&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VII.511-600 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii511-600-77c?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168991042&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

What’s in a book title? | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

What’s in a book title?

The Cod Latin Phrase That Links Amazon’s ‘The Assassin’ to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
https://www.esquire.com/uk/culture/tv/a65500552/the-cod-latin-phrase-that-links-amazons-the-assassin-to-the-handmaids-tale/

Gap Week, July 25, 2025 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week, July 25, 2025

(9) Literary devices – by Armand D’Angour

Faits divers (40) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (40)

PaleoJudaica.com: Moabite sex workers at Baal Peor?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/moabite-sex-workers-at-baal-peor.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Pagels, Miracles and Wonder
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/review-of-pagels-miracles-and-wonder.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gold jewelry excavated at Hippos-Sussita
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/gold-jewelry-excavated-at-hippos-sussita.html

[paywalled] Greek Mythology Books for Children of All Ages – The New York Times

Local experiences of connectivity and mobility in the ancient west-central Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Local experiences of connectivity and mobility in the ancient west-central Mediterranean

Brill’s companion to Cassius Dio – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Brill’s companion to Cassius Dio

Cassius Dio and the Principate – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cassius Dio and the Principate


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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA367 – How permanent were institutions like dux or comes?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa367-how-permanent-were-institutions-like-dux-or-comes

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Vespasian #3 – The Sticky Wicket – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #3 – The Sticky Wicket

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Conference – The Classical Association

Conference

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 24, 2025

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Volunteer uncovers 2,000-year-old Roman gold ring in Israel | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-862106

3,800-year-old burial of tall warrior buried with 4-pronged spearhead unearthed in Azerbaijan | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/3-800-year-old-burial-of-tall-warrior-buried-with-4-pronged-spearhead-unearthed-in-azerbaijan

Archaeologists race to preserve looted Parthian-era cemetery in Yazd – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/515992/Archaeologists-race-to-preserve-looted-Parthian-era-cemetery

Pella: A Window on Survival – Biblical Archaeology Society

Pella: A Window on Survival

Czech Republic, found fragment of armor dating back to the time of the Trojan War
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/czech-republic-found-fragment-of-armor-dating-back-to-the-time-of-the-trojan-war

Piece of Bronze Age chestplate found in Moravia – The History Blog

Piece of Bronze Age chestplate found in Moravia

Thracian Clues Emerge Near Heraclea Sintica as Bulgaria Restores Rare Ancient Statue – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233549/Thracian%2BClues%2BEmerge%2BNear%2BHeraclea%2BSintica%2Bas%2BBulgaria%2BRestores%2BRare%2BAncient%2BStatue

ai_meets_antiquity
https://warwick.ac.uk/news/pressreleases/ai_meets_antiquity

Contextualizing ancient texts with generative neural networks | Nature
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09292-5

AI helps Latin scholars decipher ancient Roman texts
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250723-ai-helps-latin-scholars-decipher-ancient-roman-texts

Google’s new AI deciphers missing Latin words in ancient Roman inscriptions | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/google-ai-decipher-roman-latin-inscriptions-b2795092.html

Dr. Zahi Hawass hits back at Joe Rogan: ‘Didn’t do his homework’
https://nypost.com/2025/07/24/lifestyle/dr-zahi-hawass-hits-back-at-joe-rogan-didnt-do-his-homework/

Yann Martel Has a New Book on the Way — See the Cover! (Exclusive)
https://people.com/life-of-pi-author-yann-martel-new-book-see-the-cover-exclusive-11775805

The Most Renowned Paintings Inspired by Homer’s Odyssey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/24/renowned-paintings-odyssey-homer-ancient-greece-literature/

Ancient Greek Genius Archytas Built a Flying Machine 2,400 Years Before Drones – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/24/ancient-greek-archytas-flying-machine-drone/

Intact Byzantine Frescoes Found in Church of Saint Nicholas, Albania – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/23/intact-byzantine-frescoes-found-church-albania/

Maria Luisa Nava. Non dimentichiamoci di Iside: la “scandalosa e la magnifica” abita nel cuore di Adriano e della sua Villa. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia

Maria Luisa Nava. Non dimentichiamoci di Iside: la “scandalosa e la magnifica” abita nel cuore di Adriano e della sua Villa.

See the ancient tunnels under Rome, Italy | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/travel/video/capitoline-hill-tunnels-italy-tour-digvid

One of ancient Rome’s most notorious emperors murdered his own mother, and there’s a dark reason why | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-rome-notorious-emperor-nero-murdered-own-mother/

Spartacus: House of Ashur reveals the Julius Caesar recasting in a new fresh look
https://www.soapcentral.com/shows/news-spartacus-house-ashur-reveals-julius-caesar-recasting-new-fresh-look

INTERVIEW: Sara Farrington’s ‘A Trojan Woman’ and the power of anti-war art – Hollywood Soapbox

INTERVIEW: Sara Farrington’s ‘A Trojan Woman’ and the power of anti-war art

“Step into Ancient Pompeii !  A new adventure game brings History to life.” – Games Press
https://www.gamespress.com/en-GB/Step-into-Ancient-Pompeii-A-new-adventure-game-brings-History-to-life-

Damaged Goods | Sphinx

Damaged Goods

What makes an academic career? – Noodlings

What makes an academic career?

Book Alert! Roman Law is FAR from boring! – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Book Alert! Roman Law is FAR from boring!

(9) Aeneid VII.406-510 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii406-510-75e?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167466387&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Foul-Tongued Man
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-foul-tongued-man.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Romans
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-romans.html

Two Article Tuesday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Article Tuesday

(9) The Commodification of the Female Body in Ancient Egypt and Today
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/the-commodification-of-the-female?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=167680026&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Een Gallische inscriptie uit Alesia – Mainzer Beobachter

Een Gallische inscriptie uit Alesia

PaleoJudaica.com: Danzig obituary
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/danzig-obituary.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Metaphor etc. in the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/metaphor-etc-in-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: An AI system for reconstructing ancient (Latin) inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-ai-system-for-reconstructing-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Beer-Sheba II: The Early Iron Age Settlements
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/beer-sheba-ii-early-iron-age-settlements.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Tel Michal, Israel
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/excavations-at-tel-michal-israel.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Prehistoric Anatolia: The Neolithic Transformation and the Early Chalcolithic Period
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/prehistoric-anatolia-neolithic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Shiloh: The Archaeology of a Biblical Site
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/shiloh-archaeology-of-biblical-site.html

Ars Amazonica: study of sources and comparative analysis | Spartokos read

Ars Amazónica: estudio de fuentes y análisis comparativo

Women in Martial: a semiotic reading – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Women in Martial: a semiotic reading

Conceptualising concepts in Greek philosophy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Conceptualising concepts in Greek philosophy

(9) ANE Today, 24 July 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-24-july-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=169061785&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Special Episode – Cleopatra 1963 – Cleopatra and Caesar – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Cleopatra 1963 – Cleopatra and Caesar

The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy) – Ancient History Fangirl

The Official Lore Olympus Cookbook (with Genn McMenemy)


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(25) Roman Politics: Republic vs Empire – Ancient History DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(26) La tomba etrusca inviolata di San Giuliano – Barbarano Romano commento storico archeologico – YouTube

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Politics of Greek in the Roman world – Centre for Geopolitics

Politics of Greek in the Roman world

Assistant Professor of Classical Studies – Ancient Rome | Society for Classical Studies
https://www.classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2025-2026/39115/assistant-professor-classical-studies-ancient-rome

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 23, 2025

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Archaeologists race to preserve looted Parthian-era cemetery in Yazd – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/515992/Archaeologists-race-to-preserve-looted-Parthian-era-cemetery

Ancient Fossil Turned into Amulet Found at Roman Site in Spain – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/23/ancient-fossil-amulet-roman-site-spain/

The Dark Secret Behind the Ancient Odeon of Herodes Atticus in Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/22/secret-ancient-odeon-herodes-atticus-athens/

Did the Ancient Greeks Name Britain’s Isles of Scilly? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/22/britain-isles-scilly-name-ancient-greeks/

AI reveals new details about a famous Latin inscription

AI reveals new details about a famous Latin inscription

[paywalled] AI for Latin inscriptions supplies missing text and predicts date and location
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02132-6

Aeneas transforms how historians connect the past – Google DeepMind
https://deepmind.google/discover/blog/aeneas-transforms-how-historians-connect-the-past/

Athens Is Reviving a 2,000-Year-Old Roman Aqueduct to Deliver Water to the City Amid Prolonged Droughts
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/athens-is-reviving-a-2000-year-old-roman-empire-era-aqueduct-to-deliver-water-amid-prolonged-droughts-180987013/

Czech museum unveils rare ‘Trojan War’ armor found at ‘secret site’
https://tvpworld.com/87977706/czech-museum-unveils-rare-trojan-war-armor-found-at-secret-site

Iron Age builders used recycled ceramics in hydraulic mortar at Tell el-Burak Lebanon, new study reveals | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Iron Age builders used recycled ceramics in hydraulic mortar at Tell el-Burak Lebanon, new study reveals

From Ancient Banquet to Psychoanalysis: Plato’s Symposium | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/ideals-in-question/202507/from-ancient-banquet-to-psychoanalysis-platos-symposium

Sanctuary of Dodona Prepares for Bouleuterion Restoration Works This Year
https://www.argophilia.com/news/bouleuterion-at-the-sanctuary-of-dodona-restoration/243693/

Ultimate dinner party guests in ancient Iran

Ultimate dinner party guests in ancient Iran

Ancient Romans’ favorite sauce reveals fishy secrets
https://nypost.com/2025/07/23/science/ancient-romans-favorite-sauce-reveals-fishy-secrets/

Ancient DNA Analysis Proves Roman Fish Sauce Was, Shockingly, Made of Fish – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-07-23/ty-article/ancient-dna-analysis-proves-roman-fish-sauce-was-shockingly-made-of-fish/00000198-37c5-dce9-abfd-7fe716040000

Writing, Enslavement, and Power in the Roman Mediterranean, 100 BCE–300 CE | Oxford Academic
https://academic.oup.com/book/60683

The roots of honour: babies’ ‘struggle for recognition’ in Greek literature and thought « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog

The roots of honour: babies’ ‘struggle for recognition’ in Greek literature and thought

Dependency and Slavery in the Hebrew Bible and its Repercussions on the Image of God | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/dependency-and-slavery-hebrew-bible-and-its-repercussions-image-god

Ovid – The Historian’s Hut

Ovid

Sophonisbe Drinking Poison, By Isaac Moillon (c. 1614-1673) – The Historian’s Hut

Sophonisbe Drinking Poison, By Isaac Moillon (c. 1614-1673)

The Bizarre Tale Of The Gnomish Money-Men Cercopes Who Clashed With Zeus And Heracles – The Historian’s Hut

The Bizarre Tale Of The Gnomish Money-Men Cercopes Who Clashed With Zeus And Heracles

Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire? – Electric Literature

Why Are Tech Billionaires so Obsessed with the Roman Empire?

Writing Wednesday: Pens and Notebooks | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Pens and Notebooks

(9) On the Use of Writing – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/on-the-use-of-writing?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=169042949&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VII.323-405 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii323-405-f41?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167466274&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Het Rijk van Toledo (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toledo (3)

Het Rijk van Toledo (4) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toledo (4)

PaleoJudaica.com: Mendels, A Hellenistic Ethical Lexicon (T&T Clark)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/mendels-hellenistic-ethical-lexicon-t.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A purple dye factory or fish-salting facility at Tel Dor?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-purple-dye-factory-or-fish-salting.html

Ephemeris ~ NIHIL PALAESTINIS
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2438

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tel ꜥIra: A Stronghold in the Biblical Negev
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/tel-ira-stronghold-in-biblical-negev.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Apollonia-Arsuf: Final Report of the Excavations, Volume I: The Persian and Hellenistic Periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/apollonia-arsuf-final-report-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ethnoarchaeology of Anatolia: Rural Socio-Economy in the Bronze and Iron Ages
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/ethnoarchaeology-of-anatolia-rural.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Megiddo III: The 1992–1996 Seasons
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/megiddo-iii-19921996-seasons.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ḥorvat Qitmit: An Edomite Shrine in the Biblical Negev
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/horvat-qitmit-edomite-shrine-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Naḥal Qanah Cave: Earliest Gold in the Southern Levant
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-nahal-qanah-cave-earliest-gold-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of the City: Urban Planning in Ancient Israel and Its Social Implications
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/archaeology-of-city-urban-planning-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Highlands of Many Cultures: The Southern Samaria Survey
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/highlands-of-many-cultures-southern.html

Aeschylus: Agamemnon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aeschylus: Agamemnon

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‘Sing, O muse!’ A look at muses and how we evoke them | Connecticut Public
https://www.ctpublic.org/show/the-colin-mcenroe-show/2025-07-23/sing-o-muse-a-look-at-muses-and-how-we-evoke-them

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YouTube Shorts: MYTHOLOGY PAINTING—Theseus Finding His Father’s Sword, By Jean Lemaire (1598-1659) – The Historian’s Hut

YouTube Shorts: MYTHOLOGY PAINTING—Theseus Finding His Father’s Sword, By Jean Lemaire (1598-1659)

(18) Archaeologist Reacts to AI Generated History Memes! – YouTube

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News: Upcoming Conference, Beyond War. Personal, Cultural and Economic Factors in Hellenistic Politics, Bergamo,September 10-13, 2025 – HeRoM

News: Upcoming Conference, Beyond War. Personal, Cultural and Economic Factors in Hellenistic Politics, Bergamo,September 10-13, 2025

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at The Met

Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship at The Met

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 22, 2025

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Study translates fragmentary ancient Sumerian myth around 4,400 years old
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-fragmentary-ancient-sumerian-myth-years.html

Bronze armour discovery dates from time of Trojan War
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/07/bronze-armour-discovery-dates-from-time-of-trojan-war/155649

First Trilobite Fossil Amulet from Roman Early Empire (1st–3rd Century CE) Found in Spain – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/first-trilobite-fossil-amulet-from-roman-early-empire-1st-3rd-century-ce-found-in-spain/

Archaeologists Uncover Rare Trojan War-Era Armor from 1200 BCE in Czechia – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-uncover-rare-trojan-war-era-armor-from-1200-bce-in-czechia/

‘A rare find for Etruscan archaeology’: Archaeologists discover sealed, untouched tomb in central Italy | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/pristine-etruscan-tomb-discovered-in-italy-contains-more-than-100-untouched-artifacts

Archaeologists dig deep in Türkiye’s southeast
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-dig-deep-in-turkiyes-southeast-211718

How to defend the humanities | Blog post by Mary Beard | The TLS

How to defend the humanities

The sirens in ancient mythology weren’t the seductresses of today | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/sirens-mythology?loggedin=true&rnd=1753204825699

Fresh Discovery At Pompeii Sheds New Light On Power Available To Women In The Roman City » TwistedSifter

Fresh Discovery At Pompeii Sheds New Light On Power Available To Women In The Roman City

Why we need Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ in these xenophobic times – The Forward
https://forward.com/culture/books/756958/daniel-mendelson-translation-homer-odyssey-emily-wilson-peter-green/

Why Does Elon Musk Have Such a Straight View of Antiquity?
https://hyperallergic.com/1029023/why-does-elon-musk-have-such-a-straight-view-of-antiquity/

Centuripe’s imperial past shines in its Archaeological Museum
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/travel/centuripe-s-imperial-past-shines-in-its-archaeological-museum

Teaching Tuesday: Prepping Classes | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Tuesday: Prepping Classes

(9) A Roman Werewolf – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/a-roman-werewolf?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=168939525&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VII.212-322 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii212-322-4cc?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167466036&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

PaleoJudaica.com: A fifth-century West Bank church was not burned down.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-fifth-century-west-bank-church-was.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical archaeology, interrupted
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/biblical-archaeology-interrupted.html

Het Rijk van Toledo (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toledo (1)

Het Rijk van Toledo (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toledo (2)

Is Gibbon’s “The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire” Still Relevant? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/edward-gibbon-decline-fall-roman-empire/

Aeschylus. The Persians – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Eschyle. Les Perses

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VIDENDA
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Greek and Latin ChangeMakers | Faculty of Arts and Humanities
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/classics/about-us/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/greek-and-latin-changemakers

(131) Secrets of Pompeii’s Dead (Full Episode) | Drain the Oceans | National Geographic – YouTube

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The SSEA – Symposium 2025 – Call for Papers
https://ssea2020.thessea.org/index.php/events/annual-scholars-colloquium-symposium-weekend-2025/symposium-2025-call-for-papers

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 21, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Vounous Bowl: A 4,000-year-old basin holding 4 miniature cows and 18 people — that was buried for mysterious reasons in a Bronze Age tomb in Cyprus | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/vounous-bowl-a-4-000-year-old-basin-holding-4-miniature-cows-and-18-people-that-was-buried-for-mysterious-reasons-in-a-bronze-age-tomb-in-cyprus

War Interrupts Biblical Archaeology – Christianity Today

War Interrupts Biblical Archaeology

Riemerge la tomba di un neonato etrusco con poppatoio, scoperta nella necropoli di Sasso Pinzuto | FOTO
https://www.viterbotoday.it/attualita/tomba-neonato-necropoli-sasso-pinzuto-tuscania-21-luglio-2025.html

Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall—but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-big-roman-hadrian-wall-dont.html

Eating Salted Fish in Roman Judea – Biblical Archaeology Society

Eating Salted Fish in Roman Judea

This Ancient Greek City Was Swallowed by the Sea—and Yet Refused to Die
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/this-ancient-greek-city-was-swallowed-by-the-sea-and-yet-refused-to-die/

The First Kiss in Recorded History Took Place 4,500 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/21/first-kiss-history/

Birth of a Legend: Alexander the Great, July 20-21, 356 B.C. – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/20/alexander-the-great-birth-july-356-b-c/

Ancient Sunken City of Aenaria in Italy Resurfaces After 2,000 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/19/ancient-sunken-city-aenaria-resurfaces-italy/

The Enduring Legacy of Suetonius, Rome’s Most Controversial Biographer | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/suetonius-roman-imperial-biographer/

A newly discovered Late Antique port structure in Cap Corse

A newly discovered Late Antique port structure in Cap Corse

Rare intact Etruscan tomb discovered in Italy

Rare intact Etruscan tomb discovered in Italy

British Lawmakers Want to Loan Greece Stolen Parthenon Marbles – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/british-lawmakers-want-to-loan-greece-stolen-parthenon-marbles/

[AI?]Ancient Greek shipwreck from 6th century BC found off Sicily coast | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-861574

Sicily, part of a Greek marble statue found on the island of Mozia: depicts a woman
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/sicily-part-of-a-greek-marble-statue-found-on-the-island-of-mozia-depicts-a-woman

Project MUSE – From Trophy Towns to City-States
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/128635

Herculaneum Scrolls: title revealed – The Past

Herculaneum Scrolls: title revealed

Book review: ‘Ecstasy’ is a work of horror based on ancient Greek play, ‘The Bacchae’ by Euripides
https://www.daytondailynews.com/lifestyles/book-nook-this-is-the-same-old-story-hes-lost-control-again/E2R2PJDORVHB3FLPQK3J4US5AI/

Michael Cosmopoulos explores the origins of Greek epics in new book, ‘The World of Homer’ – UMSL Daily
https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2025/07/21/michael-cosmopoulos-the-world-of-homer/

(9) 21 July 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/21-july-58-bce-from-cicero-at-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=168809549&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VII.1-106 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii1-106-e2b?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167465613&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VII.107-211 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vii107-211-c4c?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167465694&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Composing ancient Greek verse – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/composing-ancient-greek-verse?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=168780400&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Ritual of Greek Drinking
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-ritual-of-greek-drinking.html

Weekly Varia no. 139, 07/19/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 139, 07/19/25

Apollos – Mainzer Beobachter

Apollos

New Images of P52 | Variant Readings

New Images of P52

PaleoJudaica.com: New photos of P52
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/new-photos-of-p52.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Crossan Festschrift (Cascade)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/crossan-festschrift-cascade.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Redfield, Adventures of Rabbah and Friends (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/redfield-adventures-of-rabbah-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tel Kabri The 1986–1993 Excavation Seasons
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/tel-kabri-19861993-excavation-seasons.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Explorando el pasado de manera multidisciplinar: Conexiones entre la arqueología y otras ciencias y artes
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/explorando-el-pasado-de-manera.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The lost mummy of Djedhor: Reconstructing the burial of a Ptolemaic priest from Thebes
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-lost-mummy-of-djedhor.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of Sinai: The Ophir Expedition
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/archaeology-of-sinai-ophir-expedition.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Renewed Archaeological Excavations at Lachish (1973–1994)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/open-access-pdf-open-in-new-window.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Inscribed in Clay: Provenance Study of the Amarna Tablets and Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/inscribed-in-clay-provenance-study-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Megiddo IV: The 1998–2002 Seasons
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/megiddo-iv-19982002-seasons.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ḥorvat ‘Uza and Ḥorvat Radum: Two Fortresses in the Biblical Negev
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/horvat-uza-and-horvat-radum-two.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Timber in Ancient Israel: Dendroarchaeology and Dendrochronology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/timber-in-ancient-israel.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Une bibliothèque à la découverte de la Crimée
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/une-bibliotheque-la-decouverte-de-la.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Art Institute of Chicago joins the numismatic Linked Open Data cloud
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/art-institute-of-chicago-joins.html

The ancient city and necropolis of Amisos | Spartokos read

La cité antique et la nécropole d’Amisos

Cicero: De Re Publica – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cicero: De Re Publica

Ilias diachronica. Sprachgeschichtliche Textbearing and unitarische Analysis – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ilias diachronica. Sprachgeschichtliche Textbearbeitung und unitarische Analyse


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How Phoenicians Turned Into Carthaginians But Forgot Their Genes, or, The Other Phoenician Scheme | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/how-phoenicians-turned-into-carthaginians-but-forgot-their-genes-or-the-other-phoenician-scheme/

NT Pod: NT Pod Shorts: What is the Synoptic Problem?
https://podacre.blogspot.com/2025/07/nt-pod-shorts-what-is-synoptic-problem.html

Versus: The Cimbrian War III – Deep into History – Apple Podcasts

Anima Latina – CXCVIII – 20.07.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/07/anima-latina-20-07-2025.html
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(107) Roman era mosaic panel with erotic theme that was stolen during World War II returns to Pompeii – YouTube

(108) Cursed Ring Lost in Roman Britain #ancientrome – YouTube