ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN September 22, 2025

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LEGENDA
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86 Ancient Greek Artifacts Return Home from Abroad in Voluntary Handover –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/22/greek-artifacts-handover

Extensive and Sophisticated Water Channeling System Discovered in the Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily

Extensive and Sophisticated Water Channeling System Discovered in the Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily

Statuette of a Comic Actor: A 2,000-year-old depiction of a ‘farting’ Roman actor letting one rip | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/statuette-of-a-comic-actor-a-2-000-year-old-depiction-of-a-roman-actor-letting-one-rip

News – Ancient Greek texts still shape modern thought,…
https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11568

Rare human statue sheds light on Neolithic rituals
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/rare-human-statue-sheds-light-on-neolithic-rituals-213839

Roman Circus in Colchester to have 203 homes built nearby
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge25773p42o

Ancient Roman recipes discovered in archaeological site being recreated in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/ancient-roman-recipes-discovered-in-archaeological-site-being-recreated-in-turkiye-3207259

This ancient Roman palace became a living city where 3,000 locals now call Emperor Diocletian’s retirement home their neighborhood

This ancient Roman palace became a living city where 3,000 locals now call Emperor Diocletian’s retirement home their neighborhood

1,600-year-old coin hoard found in complex tunnel system under Galilee dates to last Jewish rebellion against Romans | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-600-year-old-coin-hoard-found-in-complex-tunnel-system-under-galilee-dates-to-last-jewish-rebellion-against-romans

Roman villa with swimming pool marked out in Hemel Hempstead – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w54n0n975o.amp

Classicist Mary Beard on her new Instant Classics podcast | Great British Life
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/national/25446063.classicist-mary-beard-new-instant-classics-podcast/

Demons, or Disease? A Brief History of Depression in the Ancient World – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-09/ty-article/a-brief-history-of-depression-in-the-ancient-world/00000199-2d9b-df0a-a3bd-7fffe3950000

What Ancient Rome and Greece can teach us about comedians and free speech
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-09-21/what-ancient-rome-and-greece-can-teach-us-about-comedians-and-free-speech

Greek President Calls Parthenon Marbles’ Return “The Most Reasonable Cultural Demand of Our Time” –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/22/greek-president-calls-parthenon-marbles-return-the-most-reasonable-cultural-demand-of-our-time

An interdisciplinary study of an unknown Roman matron’s sculpture portrait from Chersonesos Taurica | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-01975-6

(22) THE BURIED LIBRARY What If I Told You We’re Letting Alexandria Burn Again? A message from 2,000 years ago, waiting to be heard
https://latinum.substack.com/p/the-buried-library-what-if-i-told?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174253743&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(22) ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΣ: ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΙΣΘΗΣΕΩΝ ΗΔΟΝΩΝ Philodemus: On Sensory Pleasures A Reconstruction from the Herculaneum Fragments
https://latinum.substack.com/p/philodemus-on-sensory-pleasures-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174242171&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(22) The power of spreading one’s legs – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/the-power-of-spreading-ones-legs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=170801407&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

INC 2022 Warsaw – Now Published – Liv Mariah Yarrow

INC 2022 Warsaw – Now Published

‘Cleopatra’s Final Secret’ documentary reveals hundreds of coins and port found in Egypt. But does that mean Cleopatra was buried there? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/cleopatras-final-secret-documentary-reveals-hundreds-of-coins-and-port-found-in-egypt-but-does-that-mean-cleopatra-was-buried-there

Pharaoh’s bracelet melted after museum theft sparks outrage in Egypt | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/pharaohs-bracelet-melted-after-museum-theft-sparks-outrage-in-egypt/news

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Public Domain Loeb Volumes
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/public-domain-loeb-volumes.html

SPATIUM AERIUM VIOLATUM
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2444

Why Did Paul Visit Miletus in Acts 20:13-38? – Reading Acts

Why Did Paul Visit Miletus in Acts 20:13-38?

PaleoJudaica.com: Rosh HaShanah 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/rosh-hashanah-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On making prophetic scripture relevant in antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-making-prophetic-scripture-relevant.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Dura-Europos Synagogue paintings are safe
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-dura-europos-synagogue-paintings.html

[AI?]PaleoJudaica.com: Erdogan says no deal on Siloam Inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/erdogan-says-no-deal-on-siloam.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aulus Gellius und die ›Noctes Atticae‹: Die literarische Konstruktion einer Sammlung
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/aulus-gellius-und-die-noctes-atticae.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Arete in Plato and Aristotle: Selected Essays from the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/arete-in-plato-and-aristotle-selected.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/yearning-for-immortality-european.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Landscape of Plenty: Excavations on a Roman Estate, Cambridgeshire
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-landscape-of-plenty-excavations-on.html

The Greek words in Persius’ literary programme – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Greek words in Persius’ literary programme

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice

La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie


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AUDIENDA
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Why everyone wants a piece of ancient Egypt
https://plus.flux.community/p/why-everyone-wants-a-piece-of-ancient?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1714795&post_id=173999824&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

Does a Tiny Find Sort of Illuminate a Biblical Figure and Judean Bureacracy? or, Yedayahu, We Hardly Knew You | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/does-a-tiny-find-sort-of-illuminate-a-biblical-figure-and-judean-bureacracy-or-yedayahu-we-hardly-knew-you/

Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias

Free Speech – An Ancient Histo…–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(22) The Seleucid Empire | Part 2 | Animated Documentary – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Vergilian Society: Call for Tour Directors – CANE
https://caneweb.org/vergilian-society-call-for-tour-directors/

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem x kalendas octobres

  • Mercatus — the Romans continue the shopping spree
  • 479 B.C. — the Persian general Mardonius is killed in the Battle of Plataea (source? … seems a little late)
  • 36 B.C. — the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus agrees to retire after losing all his military support to Octavian
  • 19 B.C. — another (less likely) date for the death of Virgil
  • 130 (129?) A.D.– birth of Galen (still not sure of the ultimate source for this date)
  • 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Digna and Emerita at Rome
  • 287 A.D. — martyrdom of Maurice and companions
  • 1999 — death of Chester Starr