Month: July 2025

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 18 , 2025

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Scavi di Unipa, statua di marmo greca rinvenuta nell’isola di Mozia | Nuovo Sud
https://www.nuovosud.it/articoli/283635-cronaca-trapani/scavi-di-unipa-statua-di-marmo-greca-rinvenuta-nellisola-di-mozia

Archeologia, le «infradito» dei Romani nei nuovi mosaici di Piazza Armerina – Giornale di Sicilia
https://enna.gds.it/articoli/cronaca/2025/07/17/archeologia-le-infradito-dei-romani-nei-nuovi-mosaici-di-piazza-armerina-f6ee56f0-21c3-4616-8452-566793d75685/

Bulgaria Unearths Marble Slab Depicting Entire Family from Roman-Era Heraclea Sintica – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
https://www.novinite.com/articles/233461/Bulgaria%2BUnearths%2BMarble%2BSlab%2BDepicting%2BEntire%2BFamily%2Bfrom%2BRoman-Era%2BHeraclea%2BSintica

An ‘Anomaly’ Near the Pyramids May Reveal an Ancient Portal
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a65436974/pyramids-anomaly-portal/

Romans loved to wear socks and sandals — could that be the reason for the massive shoes found at Magna fort? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/romans-loved-to-wear-socks-and-sandals-could-that-be-the-reason-for-the-massive-shoes-found-at-magna-fort

Mosaic of lovers returned to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii

Mosaic of lovers returned to the Archaeological Park of Pompeii

[AI?]Negev’s Byzantine wine: A tale of boom, bust, and rainfall dependence | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-861363

In London, a Roman era demolition pit yields fragments of beauty : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5439437/roman-artifacts-london

Ancient rural settlement in Fordingbridge reveals Iron Age to Roman transition, daily life, and industry | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient rural settlement in Fordingbridge reveals Iron Age to Roman transition, daily life, and industry

Geomatics for heritage preservation: Team DIRECT at the Etruscan Necropolis of Cerveteri | Politecnico di Torino
https://www.polito.it/en/polito/communication-and-press-office/poliflash/geomatics-for-heritage-preservation-team-direct-at-the

2,200-year-old Celtic settlement discovered in Czech Republic — and it’s awash in gold and silver coins | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-200-year-old-celtic-settlement-discovered-in-czech-republic-and-its-awash-in-gold-and-silver-coins

Italian archaeologists unearth ancient Tomb in Cyrene (Shahat) | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/news/italian-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-tomb-cyrene-shahat

[AI?]Archaeologists discover 6,000-year-old temple, ‘blood channel’ in Turkey | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-861220

Roman bathing complex discovered in eastern Türkiye
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/07/roman-bathing-complex-discovered-in-eastern-turkiye/155625

Mad emperor Caligula had surprising medical knowledge, new research reveals from ancient Roman texts | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Mad emperor Caligula had surprising medical knowledge, new research reveals from ancient Roman texts

Vast marble pavement of ancient agora found in Turkey – The History Blog

Vast marble pavement of ancient agora found in Turkey

Mosaic looted by Nazi officer returned to Pompeii – The History Blog

Mosaic looted by Nazi officer returned to Pompeii

Update on sealed Etruscan tomb – The History Blog

Update on sealed Etruscan tomb

Archaeologists discover 3000-year-old stone slab that is breaking ancient ideas of gender – Scoop Upworthy
https://scoop.upworthy.com/archaeologists-discover-a-3000-year-old-stone-slab-that-is-breaking-ancient-ideas-of-gender-ex1

A Late Antiquity Port Discovered at the Northern Tip of the Island of Corsica

A Late Antiquity Port Discovered at the Northern Tip of the Island of Corsica

What the Herodion will look like after the “facelift”: The architectural masterpiece that has seen everything – From bullfights & Delphic Festivals to Maria Callas & Rudolf Nureyev – ProtoThema English

What the Herodion will look like after the “facelift”: The architectural masterpiece that has seen everything – From bullfights & Delphic Festivals to Maria Callas & Rudolf Nureyev

Ancient Greek Shipwreck Found Off Sicily Reveals Rare Artifacts – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/18/ancient-greek-shipwreck-sicily-rare-artifacts/

Ancient Erotic Mosaic Stolen From Pompeii During World War II Finally Returns Home
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-erotic-mosaic-stolen-from-pompeii-during-world-war-ii-finally-returns-home-180986992/

Russian Archaeologist Charged for Illegal Excavations in Crimea | Ukraine news – #Mezha

Russian Archaeologist Charged for Illegal Excavations in Crimea

Remains of Massive Ancient Feast in Greece Reveal Eating Habits From 7,500 Years Ago – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/18/neolithic-feast-remains-greece-eating-habits/

Dating Game: How Archaeologists Date the Biblical Past – The BAS Library

Dating Game: How Archaeologists Date the Biblical Past

Tornos News | Chios Homeric sound: Music festival with classical education and world Greekness
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/52409-chios-homeric-sound-music-festival-with-classical-education-and-world-greekness.html

How Greece and Germany helped make the marvels of archeology modern
https://nypost.com/2025/07/12/lifestyle/how-greece-and-germany-helped-make-archeology-modern/

Isn’t It Time to Break Up with Linguistic Dating? Rethinking Hornkohl’s Method—and What Comes Next | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/isnt-it-time-break-linguistic-dating-rethinking-hornkohls-method-and-what-comes-next

The Fabulous Story of Eudoxus of Cyzicus, the Greek Navigator Who Reached India and Attempted to Circumnavigate Africa in the 2nd Century BCE

The Fabulous Story of Eudoxus of Cyzicus, the Greek Navigator Who Reached India and Attempted to Circumnavigate Africa in the 2nd Century BCE

Flesh, blood, memory: Oedipus reimagined | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1275511/flesh-blood-memory-oedipus-reimagined/

(9) An ancient soldier at arms – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/an-ancient-soldier-at-arms?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=168637278&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(9) Aeneid VI.752-853 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vi752-853-fe6?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167465214&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part II: Starting at the End

The Feats of Hercules [Подвиги геракла] (2000) – Animated Antiquity

The Feats of Hercules [Подвиги геракла] (2000)

Caesar en het Parthische Rijk – Mainzer Beobachter

Caesar en het Parthische Rijk

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew
http://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/07/diachronic-diversity-in-classical.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Simulations of late-antique viticulture in the Negev
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/simulations-of-late-antique-viticulture.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Longacre on Hornkohl on linguistic dating of biblical Hebrew
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/longacre-on-hornkohl-on-linguistic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ḥorvat Meṣad: A Way-Station on the Jaffa–Jerusalem Road
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/horvat-mesad-way-station-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: kinattutu ša darati: Raphael Kutscher Memorial Volume
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/kinattutu-sa-darati-raphael-kutscher.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Studies in the Iron Age Pottery of Israel: Typological, Archaeological and Chronological Aspects
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/studies-in-iron-age-pottery-of-israel.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Imagery and Representation: Studies in the Art and Iconography of Ancient Palestine. Collected Articles
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/imagery-and-representation-studies-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Alphabet at the Turn of the Millennium: The West Semitic Alphabet ca. 1150–850 BCE. The Antiquity of the Arabian, Greek and Phrygian Alphabets
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-alphabet-at-turn-of-millennium-west.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Breaking Ground: Plant Domestication in the Neolithic Levant: The “Core-Area One-Event” Model
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/breaking-ground-plant-domestication-in.html

The Sons of Remus & the Question of Western Identity ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Sons of Remus & the Question of Western Identity

A library to discover Crimea | Spartokos read

Une bibliothèque à la découverte de la Crimée

Empresses-in-waiting: female power and performance at the late Roman court – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Empresses-in-waiting: female power and performance at the late Roman court

Apuleius’s Metamorphoses Across Places and Ages: Receptions, Rewritings, Legacies – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Les Métamorphoses d’Apulée à travers les lieux et les âges. Réceptions, réécritures, héritages


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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA366 – When did the classical Greek hoplite cease to exist?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa366-when-did-the-classical-greek-hoplite-cease-to-exist

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(29) Battle of Silva Arsia: The Birth of the Roman Republic #rome #fyp #shorts #history #romanhistory – YouTube

(29) Hymn to the Muse (short). Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Ancient Greek with lyre. – YouTube

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The Conversation: Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall – but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ 1 Comment

Tim Penn, University of Reading

Excavations at the Roman fort of Magna near Hadrian’s Wall in Northumberland in north east England have uncovered some very large leather footwear. Their discovery, according to some news coverage, has “baffled” archaeologists.

The survival of the shoes is not by itself miraculous or unusual. Excellent preservation conditions caused by waterlogged environments with low-oxygen means that leather, and other organic materials, survive in the wet soil of this part of northern England.

Many years of excavations by the Vindolanda Trust at Vindolanda just south of Hadrian’s Wall, and now at Magna, have recovered an enormous collection of Roman shoes. These finds have provided us with an excellent record of the footwear of soldiers and the civilians who lived around them.

The shoes from Magna stand out because many of them are big. Big shoes have also been found at Vindolanda. However, of those whose size can be determined, only 0.4% are big. The average shoe size at Vindolanda is 9.5 to 10.2 inches in length, which is between a modern UK shoe size 7 to 8.

Big shoes make up a much larger share of the shoes at Magna. The biggest shoe is a whopping 12.8 inches long, roughly equivalent to a modern UK size 12 to 14.

This shoe collection raises an immediate and obvious question: why did people at Magna have such large shoes?

The possible answers to this question raise more questions and bring to the fore a central component of archaeological research: a good debate.

Emma Frame, senior archaeologist for the Magna excavations, suggests: “We have to assume it’s something to do with the people living here, having bigger feet, being potentially taller but we don’t know.”

This idea of bigger feet, bigger people makes a good deal of sense, though it would suggest that some of the military community at Magna were very tall indeed. And, as the Roman cemeteries of Hadrian’s Wall have been little excavated or studied, we have little information about how tall people were in this part of the Roman world.

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Other ideas might be worth entertaining too, however. For example, could these be some kind of snowshoes or winter boots meant to allow extra layers of padding or multiple pairs of socks to be worn?

A letter, preserved by similar conditions to the shoes at Vindolanda, refers to a gift of socks and underpants that was sent to someone stationed there, presumably to keep them warm during the cold winter nights. We also know from other evidence that Syrian archers made up one of the units stationed at Magna. These men would not have been used to the frosty climate of northern England.

Could these large shoes be an attempt to cope with the bitter shock of a British winter? Or instead, could these shoes have a medical purpose, perhaps to allow people with swollen feet or people utilising medical dressings to wear shoes?

It’s important to note, I am not claiming to have the answers. I’m simply putting out some hypotheses which could explain the extra-large shoes based on other evidence we have and potential logical explanations for such large footwear.

These kinds of hypotheses lie right at the heart of the archaeological method. Fresh archaeological discoveries are made everyday, and they often make headlines with phrases about “baffled archaeologists.” While this language can spark public interest, it also risks giving a misleading impression of the discipline. In reality, the work archaeologists like me and thousands of my colleagues around the world do is grounded in careful, evidence-based analysis.

The challenge lies not in our lack of expertise, but in the nature of the evidence itself. Much of the distant past has been lost to time, and what we do recover represents only a small fragment of the original picture.

We’re not so much “baffled” as we are rigorously testing multiple hypotheses to arrive at the most plausible interpretations. Interpreting these fragments is a complex process, like piecing together a thousand-piece jigsaw puzzle with many of the most crucial pieces (like the edges) missing.

Sometimes we have exactly the right pieces to understand the big picture, but other times we have gaps, and we have to put forward a series of different suggestions until more evidence comes to light.The Conversation

Tim Penn, Lecturer in Roman and Late Antique Material Culture, University of Reading

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 17 , 2025

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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[paywalled] Why no one may ever be charged over the British Museum thefts
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/mass-theft-british-museum-peter-higgs-never-charged/

Ancient rural settlement in Fordingbridge reveals Iron Age to Roman transition, daily life, and industry | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Ancient rural settlement in Fordingbridge reveals Iron Age to Roman transition, daily life, and industry

2,700-Year-Old Rare Bronze Knives from the Early Saka Period Unearthed in Kazakhstan – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2700-year-old-rare-bronze-knives-from-the-early-saka-period-unearthed-in-kazakhstan/

[wtf?]What Ancient Greece can teach the United States about defending against cyber attacks – Atlantic Council

What Ancient Greece can teach the United States about defending against cyber attacks

The Spoon of Diocles, the Mysterious Ancient Medical Instrument for Extracting Arrows Whose Appearance Remains Unknown

The Spoon of Diocles, the Mysterious Ancient Medical Instrument for Extracting Arrows Whose Appearance Remains Unknown

Ancient Greek shipwreck from the 6th–5th Century BC discovered in Sicily – ProtoThema English

Ancient Greek shipwreck from the 6th–5th Century BC discovered in Sicily

Remains of a Sixth-Century B.C. Greek Ship Found in Sicily with Mast and Rope Fragment Perfectly Preserved

Remains of a Sixth-Century B.C. Greek Ship Found in Sicily with Mast and Rope Fragment Perfectly Preserved

Rare Intact Etruscan Tomb in Italy Discovered by International Baylor-led Archaeological Research Team – Popular Archeology

Rare Intact Etruscan Tomb in Italy Discovered by International Baylor-led Archaeological Research Team

Roman bathing complex discovered in eastern Türkiye
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/07/roman-bathing-complex-discovered-in-eastern-turkiye/155625

Beware of Dog! A 2,000-Year-Old Warning from Pompeii
https://www.history.com/articles/cave-canem-pompeii-mosaic-beware-of-dog

Big Roman shoes discovered near Hadrian’s Wall – but they don’t necessarily mean big Roman feet
https://theconversation.com/big-roman-shoes-discovered-near-hadrians-wall-but-they-dont-necessarily-mean-big-roman-feet-256369

[AI?]Archaeologists uncover evidence supporting reality of Trojan War | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-861322

ANSA – Erotic Roman mosaic stolen by Wehrmacht returned to Pompeii
https://www.aman-alliance.org/Home/ContentDetail/92485

[paywalled] Feasts, board games and brawls — life as a Colosseum spectator
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/feasts-board-games-and-brawls-life-as-a-colosseum-spectator-939bt8g5b

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Old Latin of Esther
http://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/07/old-latin-of-esther.html

Two Book Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Two Book Thursday

Agora of Smyrna | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/object/agora-smyrna

(8) 17 July 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/17-july-58-bce-from-cicero-at-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=168509167&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(8) Aeneid VI.679-751 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vi679-751-020?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167464901&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(8) Gold-digging ants – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/gold-digging-ants?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=168566575&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(8) ARTIFACT: Greco-Egyptian stele of Diphilos – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/artifact-greco-egyptian-stele-of?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=163198070&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Sex on the floor at Pompeii | Blog post | Mary Beard

Sex on the floor at Pompeii

Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures event

Reuniting the Parthenon Sculptures event

Remarkable Roman road found beneath Manchester streets

Remarkable Roman road found beneath Manchester streets

Commentaries by Oecumenius now online in English – Roger Pearse

Commentaries by Oecumenius now online in English

The Gluttonous Roman Emperor Vitellius of 69 CE | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/vitellius-gluttonous-roman-emperor-69-ce/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Freeloader
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/07/freeloader.html

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

Hercules van Magusa? – Mainzer Beobachter

Hercules van Magusa?

Hercules Magusanus – Mainzer Beobachter

Hercules Magusanus

PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeological dating methods
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/archaeological-dating-methods.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On linguistic dating of biblical Hebrew
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/on-linguistic-dating-of-biblical-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Reordering an Aramaic ostracon that may mention Passover?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/reordering-aramaic-ostracon-that-may.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Village Communities of the Pottery Neolithic Period in the Menashe Hills, Israel: Archaeological Investigations at the Sites of Naḥal Zehora
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/village-communities-of-pottery.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ipamati kistamati pari tumatimis Luwian and Hittite Studies Presented to J. David Hawkins on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/ipamati-kistamati-pari-tumatimis-luwian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Animal Mummies of the Museo Egizio, Turin
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-animal-mummies-of-museo-egizio-turin.html

Aesop’s Fables: a new translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aesop’s Fables: a new translation

Contacts linguistiques en Grèce ancienne. Diachronie et synchronie – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Contacts linguistiques en Grèce ancienne. Diachronie et synchronie

Epicureanism and scientific debates. Epicurean tradition and its ancient reception. Volume II. Epistemology and ethics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Epicureanism and scientific debates. Epicurean tradition and its ancient reception. Volume II. Epistemology and ethics


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BBC Audio | Business Daily | Looted: the risks of buying ancient history
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/w3ct6s2b

How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity – Ancient History Fangirl

How an Empire Ends: Gothic Christianity

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Why is Q so appealing? – YouTube

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Research Associate [Greek Studies/Papyrology] (m/f/d/x) | University of Leipzig | 256
https://uni-leipzig.b-ite.careers/jobposting/9ec27581f7a8e51f59e9faad61ef7d86c27ba55e0

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 16 , 2025

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Greek shipwreck uncovered in the sea off Ispica, Sicily – Arts Culture and Style – Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2025/07/16/greek-shipwreck-uncovered-in-the-sea-off-ispica-sicily_1a88007f-23b6-48d0-9ac5-515654ec3b8b.html

Erotic mosaic stolen by Nazi captain in second world war returned to Pompeii | Italy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/pompeii-mosaic-stolen-nazi-second-world-war-return

A Risqué Pompeii Mosaic Returns Home Decades After Wartime Theft
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/risque-pompeii-mosaic-looted-german-restituted-2668012

Why Canaanites Buried Lamps and Bowls Under Their Homes – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-07-16/ty-article/why-canaanites-buried-lamps-and-bowls-under-their-homes/00000198-13b7-d13e-adfb-13f7d0cb0000

Groundbreaking discovery at ancient city of Troy may prove legendary Trojan War true | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14908647/Groundbreaking-Trojan-War-discovery-prove-legendary-tale-true.html

We can learn a lot from Troy’s trash
https://theconversation.com/we-can-learn-a-lot-from-troys-trash-260613

[old news]Greek Philosopher Plato’s Secret Code Discovered and Solved, Historian Claims – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/16/secret-plato-code-solved/

Ancient Athens Slaves: How Solon’s Laws protected Their Rights
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/16/rights-role-slaves-ancient-athens-greece/

New Look – Matt Damon Spotted in Full Odysseus Costume as Nolan’s Epic ‘The Odyssey’ Continues Filming
https://www.comicbasics.com/new-look-matt-damon-spotted-in-full-odysseus-costume-as-nolans-epic-the-odyssey-continues-filming/

[paywalled] Opinion: How America’s political far right co-opted classical imagery
https://www.stltoday.com/opinion/column/article_adb24108-d73f-43eb-9806-e3635db6100c.html

America: The Roman Connection | Opinion | times-herald.com
https://www.times-herald.com/opinion/america-the-roman-connection/article_a873ac43-5180-45a3-b0b6-1d2094af8a65.html

Mysterious 1,600-year-old settlement emerges from soil with rare Roman military finds
https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/science/mysterious-1600-year-old-settlement-emerges-from-soil-with-rare-roman-military-finds/

Who were the spectators and what did they do at the Colosseum? A new museum section opened in the hypogea
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/who-were-the-spectators-and-what-did-they-do-at-the-colosseum-a-new-museum-section-opened-in-the-hypogea

Who Were the Famous Pompeii Victims? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/who-were-famous-pompeii-victims/

Antikythera shipwreck reveals ancient shipbuilding secrets in 2025 excavation | Archaeology News Online Magazine

Antikythera shipwreck reveals ancient shipbuilding secrets in 2025 excavation

Isn’t It Time to Break Up with Linguistic Dating? Rethinking Hornkohl’s Method—and What Comes Next | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/isnt-it-time-break-linguistic-dating-rethinking-hornkohls-method-and-what-comes-next

Ancient News: The Spread of Leprosy in the Bronze Age
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-news-the-spread-of-leprosy-in-the-bronze-age

The Upstart Roman Emperor Otho Who Claimed Nero’s Legacy | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/otho-roman-emperor-nero-legacy/

The Gluttonous Roman Emperor Vitellius of 69 CE | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/vitellius-gluttonous-roman-emperor-69-ce/

Pliny The Younger’s Advice To An Ancient Roman Writer Struggling With A Tough Subject – The Historian’s Hut

Pliny The Younger’s Advice To An Ancient Roman Writer Struggling With A Tough Subject

Het Rijk van Toulouse (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toulouse (1)

Het Rijk van Toulouse (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Rijk van Toulouse (2)

It’s Getting Hot In Here | Sphinx

It’s Getting Hot In Here

PaleoJudaica.com: On working out naked in Jason’s Jerusaelm
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/on-working-out-naked-in-jasons-jerusaelm.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Nir, The Tales of the Sages in Late Midrash (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/nir-tales-of-sages-in-late-midrash-brill.html

John Williams’s Augustus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

John Williams’s Augustus

(8) Aeneid VI.562-678 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vi562-678-b39?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167464827&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Ovids Weltgedicht der Metamorphosen: zur Intertextualität als Multiplikationsfaktor – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ovids Weltgedicht der Metamorphosen: zur Intertextualität als Multiplikationsfaktor

Zeremoniell und Herrschaft in der Spätantike. Die Rituale des Kaiserhofs in Konstantinopel – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Zeremoniell und Herrschaft in der Spätantike. Die Rituale des Kaiserhofs in Konstantinopel

Soldiers, wages, and the Hellenistic economies – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Soldiers, wages, and the Hellenistic economies

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(8) A Podcast about Rome. Episode 26: The Baths of Caracalla
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-25-the-a80?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=508757&post_id=167831941&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_show_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

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(91) Mead/Amethyst #Etymology – YouTube

(92) Walking Through the Roman Forum – YouTube

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Assistant Professor (Teaching Focussed) in Roman History (110578-0625) at University of Warwick
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/images/employer-logos/medium/134.gif?1751275737

The 33rd Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference
https://www.trac.org.uk/upcoming-conferences/

Associate Lecturer – Archaeology in Roman Slavery at Birkbeck, University of London
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNX213/associate-lecturer-archaeology-in-roman-slavery?uuid=78f2dc3a-611d-11f0-b61c-027e9b1da9c1&campaign=jbe20250715&source=jbe

Call for Papers – Digital Classicist Seminar
https://digital-classicist.bbaw.de/

Full Professor, Greek History, Antiquity and Epigraphy, University of Vienna, Austria (Deadline September 17) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/07/viennagkhist/

EACC 26 – 10th Anniversary Conference

EACC 26 – 10th Anniversary Conference

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ July 15 , 2025

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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We can learn a lot from Troy’s trash
https://phys.org/news/2025-07-lot-troy-trash.html

Erotic mosaic stolen by Nazi captain in second world war returned to Pompeii | Italy | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/15/pompeii-mosaic-stolen-nazi-second-world-war-return

Erotic ancient Roman mosaic looted by Nazi officer returned to Pompeii
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/italy/pompeii-erotic-ancient-roman-mosaic-looted-nazi-officer-wwii-rcna218886

Libya: Italian archaeologists unearth monumental necropolis in Cyrene
https://www.agenzianova.com/en/news/Libya%253A-Italian-archaeologists-unearth-a-monumental-necropolis-in-Cyrene./

Rare Intact Etruscan Tomb in Italy Discovered by International Baylor-led Archaeological Research Team | Media and Public Relations | Baylor University
https://news.web.baylor.edu/news/story/2025/rare-intact-etruscan-tomb-italy-discovered-international-baylor-led-archaeological

Archaeologists Open Up Untouched 2,600-Year-Old Tomb Found In Italian Park — See What’s Inside | Bored Panda
https://www.boredpanda.com/ancient-tomb-found-park-italy/

Ancient Helike Reveals How Earthquakes Shaped a Greek City’s Rise, Fall, and Return – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/15/ancient-helike-earthquakes-greek-city-rise-fall-return/

Ancient Thracian Royal Palace Uncovered in Vratsa, Bulgaria: Possible Seat of the Powerful Triballi Ruler – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-thracian-royal-palace-uncovered-in-vratsa-bulgaria-possible-seat-of-the-powerful-triballi-ruler/

Ancient Greek drama continues at Curium Ancient Theatre | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/07/15/ancient-greek-drama-continues-at-curium-ancient-theatre

Debate mounts over Parthenon Marbles amid legal threat – The Greek Herald

Debate intensifies over Parthenon Marbles return amid legal threat

Was Homer’s Odyssey Actually Set in Scandinavia? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/15/homer-odyssey-scandinavia/

Tornos News | Chios welcomes the Homeric Academy and the Euroclassica conference
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/52390-chios-welcomes-the-homeric-academy-and-the-euroclassica-conference.html

The Cliff on Lefkada Island Where Lovers Leapt to Their Deaths in Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/07/15/cape-lefkada-where-lovers-jumped-to-death-in-ancient-greece/

Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it
https://theconversation.com/tyranny-is-an-ever-present-threat-to-civilisations-heres-how-classical-greece-and-china-dealt-with-it-259680

Laudator Temporis Acti: An Evening’s Entertainment
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/07/an-evenings-entertainment.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Murphy, Deification in classical Greek philosophy and the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/review-of-murphy-deification-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac department opens in Kurdish university
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/syriac-department-opens-in-kurdish.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the redating of 4QDanielc
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/07/more-on-redating-of-4qdaniel-c.html

Plechelmus – Mainzer Beobachter

Plechelmus

Some Concluding Thoughts on Isthmia from Summer 2025 | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Some Concluding Thoughts on Isthmia from Summer 2025

FIEC Blog: Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies – Two scholarships for doctoral studies (October 2026 – September 2030)
https://fiecnet.blogspot.com/2025/07/berlin-graduate-school-of-ancient.html

Barbarians at the gates | Blog post | Mary Beard

Barbarians at the gates

(7) Aeneid VI.477-561 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-vi477-561-4ce?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=167464610&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

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

Freed persons in the Roman world: status, diversity, and representation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Freed persons in the Roman world: status, diversity, and representation

Ancient Roman literary gardens: gender, genre, and geopoetics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Roman literary gardens: gender, genre, and geopoetics

Politics of language: foreign nativeness and identity in the Roman empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Politics of language: foreign nativeness and identity in the Roman empire

Ancient Roman literary gardens: gender, genre, and geopoetics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Roman literary gardens: gender, genre, and geopoetics


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Podcast Season 4, Episode 11: Protecting Heritage in Times of Conflict with Isber Sabrine – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 11: Protecting Heritage in Times of Conflict with Isber Sabrine

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(71) Alexander the Great: Military Might and Hellenistic Legacy – YouTube

Vespasian #2 – Big Dick Imperium: Vespasian’s Real Power Brokers – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #2 – Big Dick Imperium: Vespasian’s Real Power Brokers

What’s the Best Textbook for Learning Ancient Greek? – Part III (Ad Navseam, Episode 187) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/whats-the-best-textbook-for-learning-ancient-greek-part-iii-ad-navseam-episode-187/