ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 3, 2025

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LEGENDA
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In Israel, a Festival of Fruit Adorns a Spectacular Ancient Samaritan Site – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-03/ty-article/mosaic-watermelon-and-artichoke-adorn-ancient-samaritan-site-in-israel/00000199-0eca-d487-a3d9-aeffd66c0000

Mosaics, mikvehs and oil lamps found at grand estate shed new light on ancient Samaritans | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mosaics-mikvehs-and-oil-lamps-found-at-grand-estate-shed-new-light-on-ancient-samaritans/

How the palmette motif shifted from elite status symbol to royal emblem in Iron Age Judah
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-palmette-motif-shifted-elite-status.html

First bone remain of a brown bear that participated in the spectacles of the Roman amphitheater of Viminacium found in Serbia

First bone remain of a brown bear that participated in the spectacles of the Roman amphitheater of Viminacium found in Serbia

Archaeology: Archaeologists find the remains of a Roman bridge near Aegerten BE | blue News
https://www.bluewin.ch/en/news/archaeologists-find-the-remains-of-a-roman-bridge-near-aegerten-be-2854119.html

Roman temple discovered in the Algarve – The Portugal News
https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2025-09-03/roman-temple-discovered-in-the-algarve/873889

Medusa Relief Found on Etruscan Urn in Italy Challenges Burial Traditions – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/03/medusa-relief-etruscan-urn-burial/

Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of | Games | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/sep/02/pushing-buttons-archaeology-and-games

Lina Mendoni visits Amphipolis: Works at Kasta Tumulus enter final stage – ProtoThema English

Lina Mendoni visits Amphipolis: Works at Kasta Tumulus enter final stage

Inside Ancient Rome’s Bacchanalia: What wine fueled the party?

Inside Ancient Rome’s Bacchanalia: What wine fueled the party?

What Aristophanes’ The Clouds Can Teach Canada About Post-Truth Politics – Open Canada

What Aristophanes’ The Clouds Can Teach Canada About Post-Truth Politics

Robots boast athletic skills at the first International Humanoid Olympiad in an ancient Greek city | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/next/2025/09/03/robots-boast-athletic-skills-at-the-first-international-humanoid-olympiad-in-an-ancient-gr

DNA identifies the ‘ketchup’ used on food by the Roman Empire – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/dna-identifies-ingredients-of-the-ketchup-sauce-used-on-food-by-the-roman-empire/

Research geolocates more than 200 cities in Spain and Latin America whose names refer to Greco-Roman antiquity | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1096688

Ancient sun hat possibly worn by Roman soldier uncovered
https://nypost.com/2025/09/03/science/ancient-sun-hat-possibly-worn-by-roman-soldier-uncovered/

A Tale of Two Years: Once Again on the Greek Text of the Kallimachos Stela (Turin Cat. 1764) – Rivista del Museo Egizio

A Tale of Two Years: Once Again on the Greek Text of the Kallimachos Stela (Turin Cat. 1764)

Where Was the First Council of Nicea? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Where Was the First Council of Nicea?

Catullus 64 unravelled – Engelsberg ideas

Catullus 64 unravelled

(15) Catullus’s rudest poem – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/catulluss-rudest-poem?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=172708168&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World ‹ Literary Hub

Emily Wilson Explores The Aeneid ’s Influence on the Contemporary Western World

The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset (Scientific Data 12. 1541) | Consulting Philologist

The Indo-European Cognate Relationships dataset (Scientific Data 12. 1541)

Portrait of the Emperor Vitellius, by Jean Miette (16th century) – The Historian’s Hut

Portrait of the Emperor Vitellius, by Jean Miette (16th century)

Lucian of Samosata’s Tale Of Harassment By Followers Of A Snake Cult – The Historian’s Hut

Lucian of Samosata’s Tale Of Harassment By Followers Of A Snake Cult

Pliny the Younger – The Historian’s Hut

Pliny the Younger

De opstand van Avidius Cassius – Mainzer Beobachter

De opstand van Avidius Cassius

Winckelmann in Dresden – Mainzer Beobachter

Winckelmann in Dresden

PaleoJudaica.com: Plato’s grave located? I doubt it.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/platos-grave-located-i-doubt-it.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Congratulations to Simcha Gross
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/congratulations-to-simcha-gross.html

Ephemeris ~ CONCUSSIO BACTRIANA Nuntius Asiaticus
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2442

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reading the Margins of the Early Modern Bible
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/reading-margins-of-early-modern-bible.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bibliography of Egyptological databases and datasets
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/02/bibliography-of-egyptological-databases.html

The Oxford critical guide to Homer’s Iliad – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.04/

Statius and Ovid: poetics, politics, and intermediality in the Thebaid – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.03/

The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.09.02/
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AUDIENDA
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(15) A Podcast about Rome: Episode 27. The Sarcophagus of Sextus Varius Marcellus, and the Roses of Heliogabalus
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-27-the?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=508757&post_id=172602025&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

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VIDENDA
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(357) Arrive/River #Etymology – YouTube

(357) Spartan Military How Greece’s Best Fell and Adapted #ancienthistoryguy #history #spartan – YouTube