ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ August 27, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Ancient Statues Emerge From the Waters Off Egypt’s Coast, Where They’d Been Hiding for Thousands of Years
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-statues-emerge-from-the-waters-off-egypts-coast-where-theyd-been-hiding-for-thousands-of-years-180987230/

Ancient Egyptian rock art reveals rulers’ divine claims and violent displays of power
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ancient-egyptian-art-reveals-rulers.html

Uncovering Childhood in the Roman Army: A Perinatal Burial from the Roman Castrum of the Legio VI in León: Childhood in the Past: Vol 0, No 0 – Get Access
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17585716.2025.2538923

A Well-Preserved Roman Mausoleum Unearthed in France
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roman-mausoleum-saint-romain-en-gal-france-1234749962/

Massive 2,800-Year-Old Dam Found at Biblical Pool of Siloam in Jerusalem – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/26/dam-pool-siloam-jerusalem/

Myth and Marble | Kimbell Art Museum
https://kimbellart.org/myth-and-marble

Türkiye applies nanotechnology to protect ancient statues on Mount Nemrut – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiye-applies-nanotechnology-to-protect-ancient-statues-on-mount-nemrut-3205764?fbclid=IwY2xjawMbw1VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHii0YBHlmcbEotzPfwpvaCLBAkMjWokemwAe-cuylabA_bfEmBKcgbdFS5EQ_aem_LLMz6ZiRrzfkPvXZnvuuew

OU Classical Studies comes 4th in NSS results | Classical Studies
https://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/?p=1926

Radiocarbon dating of Jerusalem’s Siloam Dam links climate data and major waterworks | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2510396122

Mary Beard: ‘I’m having the time of my life’ – The Irish News
https://www.irishnews.com/life/mary-beard-im-having-the-time-of-my-life-ICLCA4BF4BLZDD4ENEMWADHD7E/

An Ancient Roman Guide to Trump’s Authoritarian Playbook
https://hyperallergic.com/1037152/an-ancient-roman-guide-to-donald-trump-authoritarian-playbook/

(14) Aeneid XI.597-724 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xi597-724-e81?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168994530&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(14) Better die free than live a slave – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/better-die-free-than-live-a-slave?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=172076810&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(14) Onwards and Upwards
https://latinum.substack.com/p/onwards-and-upwards?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=172080346&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

When AI meets ancient Rome
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-ai-ancient-rome.html

Terracotta Bell-Krater Bowl, Attributed To The Danaë Painter (c. 460 BCE) – The Historian’s Hut

Terracotta Bell-Krater Bowl, Attributed To The Danaë Painter (c. 460 BCE)

Pythagoras – The Historian’s Hut

Pythagoras

The Homeric Origin Legend Of Salamis On Cyprus – The Historian’s Hut

The Homeric Origin Legend Of Salamis On Cyprus

One Man’s Plot Unintentionally Launched Democracy in Ancient Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/26/cleisthenes-plot-isagoras-democracy-ancient-athens/

Jail looms for ‘prodigious’ Egyptian antiquities smuggler linked to British Museum | The National
https://www.thenationalnews.com/news/mena/2025/08/27/jail-looms-for-prodigious-egyptian-antiquities-smuggler-linked-to-british-museum/

Kasta Tomb: How Amphipolis will be transformed into a Museum and what it will include – ProtoThema English

Kasta Tomb: How Amphipolis will be transformed into a Museum and what it will include

Aramaic and the Making of the Gospel | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/aramaic-and-making-gospel

Why Are Most Ancient Roman Statues Headless? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/08/27/ancient-roman-statues-headless/

Penelope Mountjoy obituary | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/aug/27/penelope-mountjoy-obituary

PaleoJudaica.com: Sasson, Judges 13-21 (Yale ABC)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/sasson-judges-13-21-yale-abc.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The first archaeologist?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-first-archaeologist.html

Antonijnse Epidemie – Mainzer Beobachter

Antonijnse Epidemie

Johannes Haubold, Leigh Anne Lieberman and the Jefferson Papers awarded grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/08/26/johannes-haubold-leigh-anne-lieberman-and-jefferson-papers-awarded-grants-national

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Criteria of Truth: Representations of Truth and Falsehood in Hellenistic Poetry
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/criteria-of-truth-representations-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Von Joachim I. zu Winckelmann. Bibliotheken zwischen Humanismus und Aufklärung – Beiträge zur Tagung auf Schloss Hundisburg vom 17. bis19. Mai 2019
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/von-joachim-i-zu-winckelmann.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Geteilte Diskurse: Moritz Rahmers „Die hebräischen Traditionen in den Werken des Hieronymus” zum Buch Genesis
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/geteilte-diskurse-moritz-rahmers-die.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Monument More Lasting than Bronze: Classics in the University of Malawi, 1982–2019
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/a-monument-more-lasting-than-bronze.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kultpraxis in der altägyptischen Literatur: Phänomene und Funktion 2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/08/kultpraxis-in-der-altagyptischen_27.html

Treasuries of literature: anthologies, lexica, scholia and the indirect tradition of classical texts in the Greek world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.08.08/

Animalia: a Latin reader – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.08.07/

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VIDENDA
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(168) Why America Isn’t Rome (And Why That Matters) – YouTube

(170) Exodus Israelite Warrior | Ancient Israel | Warriors of History – YouTube