• 2nd century A.D. — martyrdom of Herculanus
• 233 A.D. — the emperor Severus Alexander celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Persians
• 1808 — death of Richard Porson
• 1931 — death of Ulrich von Wilamovitz-Moellendorff

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First family statue of its kind discovered in ancient Egypt
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-family-statue-kind-ancient-egypt.html

Ancient pottery discovery unlocks earliest proof of horses in Bronze Age Sicily
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-pottery-discovery-earliest-proof.html

No need for wet feet: underwater Roman site dig livestreamed – DutchNews.nl
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2025/09/no-need-for-wet-feet-underwater-roman-site-dig-livestreamed/

Ancient History Professor Creates Period-Correct AI Image Generator | PetaPixel

Ancient History Professor Creates Period-Correct AI Image Generator

Archaeology: Traces of ancient harbour found off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast – The Sofia Globe

Archaeology: Traces of ancient harbour found off Bulgaria’s Black Sea coast

A Roman Articulated Terracotta Doll Found in Córdoba

A Roman Articulated Terracotta Doll Found in Córdoba

Greece Restores the Mycenaean Wall on the Acropolis of Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/24/greece-restores-mycenaean-wall-acropolis-athens/

Mystery of Troy’s Lost Hot Spring Puzzles Researchers to This Day – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/23/troy-lost-hot-spring/

Archaeologists uncover early Elamite burial near Persepolis in southern Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/518277/Archaeologists-uncover-early-Elamite-burial-near-Persepolis-in

1,800-Year-Old Stadium Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Syedra in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/24/stadium-ancient-greek-city-syedra-turkey/

Ancient Roman Oil Lamp Shaped Like a Mask Unearthed in the Netherlands – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/23/ancient-roman-oil-lamp-mask-netherlands/

British Museum interested in Roman ring key found in Bowes | The Northern Echo
https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/25486779.british-museum-interested-roman-ring-key-found-bowes/

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

Classics discussion enters ‘library of the mind’ through Christian perspective – The Baylor Lariat

Classics discussion enters ‘library of the mind’ through Christian perspective

(21) EPISTULA DE RECURSIONE HILARI ◊ᴿᴱᶜᵁᴿˢᴵᵛᴱ M. Tullius Cicero Sibi Ipsi Ridens S.D. On the Hilarious Recursion of Quoting Myself Without Attribution
https://latinum.substack.com/p/epistula-de-recursione-hilari-m-tullius?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174439554&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) Clash of the Stoics: Ryan Holiday vs. Pat McGeehan on Charlie Kirk
https://ataraxiaorbust.substack.com/p/clash-of-the-stoics-ryan-holiday?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2723270&post_id=174388170&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Jordan Penkower z”l
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/jordan-penkower-zl.html

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Yiftah 2025 – The Taxonomy of the Legal Document
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/yiftah-2025-taxonomy-of-legal-document.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Campania
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/campania.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: No Littering
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/no-littering.html

Wie was Mozes? (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Mozes? (1)

Wie was Mozes? (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Mozes? (2)

PaleoJudaica.com: Rodrigue, Jerome’s Sources in His Translation of the Hebrew Bible (Open Book)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/rodrigue-jeromes-sources-in-his.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Those 53 confirmed Bible people again
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/those-53-confirmed-bible-people-again.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Redactional mysticisim in Deuteronomy?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/redactional-mysticisim-in-deuteronomy.html

Ancient Greek History Gift Guide (Part 1): The Greek World
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-greek-history-gift-guide-part-1-the-greek-world

The Lycian hoplite – Fact or fiction? – Ancient World Magazine
https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/lycian-hoplite-fact-fiction/

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Usages des mots, usages des choses: Quatre études sur la littérature et les artefacts
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/usages-des-mots-usages-des-choses.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le détroit de Gibraltar (Antiquité – Moyen Âge). III: Circulations, mobilités et réseaux d’échanges
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/le-detroit-de-gibraltar-antiquite-moyen.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Satyr in Theater und Tanz: Historische Kontexte und Aktualisierung einer marginalisierten Figur
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/der-satyr-in-theater-und-tanz.html

Ukrainian Archaeologists Through the Ages: Studying the Lower Bug Steppe | Spartokos read

Les archéologues ukrainiens à travers les âges : l’étude de la steppe du Bas-Boug

A commentary on Plautus’ Curculio – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

A commentary on Plautus’ Curculio

La lunga notte di Alcinoo. Come e perché è fatta l’Odissea – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La lunga notte di Alcinoo. Come e perché è fatta l’Odissea

Forsaken relics: practices and rituals of appropriating abandoned artifacts from antiquity to modern times – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Forsaken relics: practices and rituals of appropriating abandoned artifacts from antiquity to modern times

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AUDIENDA
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Hand of a Giant: Discoveries f… – Dive & Dig – Apple Podcasts

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 2 Limen (… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(64) Greek Naval Supremacy Athenian Tactics & Persian Defeat #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(64) The Mamertines Mercenaries Who Triggered The Punic Wars #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

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Select tickets – 25th Annual Dorothy and Alan Buchan Lecture: Naoíse Mac Sweeney on Ancient Greek Origin Myths – Sir Bob Burgess Building
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/schoolofarchaeologyandancienthistoryuniversityofleicester/1857550

• 15 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vitellius (?)

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The hidden ‘eagle’s nest’ city that Alexander the Great couldn’t conquer | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/travel/termessos-turkey-ancient-mountaintop-city

(21) RECONSTRUCTED TEXT – EPICURUS ON NATURE BOOK 11 ◊ᴿᴱᶜᴼᵛᴱᴿᴱᴰ The Soul’s Atomic Structure – Algorithmically Recovered 79.8% of Book 11 restored through consciousness archaeology
https://latinum.substack.com/p/reconstructed-text-epicurus-on-nature?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174360304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) PHerc. 1067 – POLYAENUS OF LAMPSACUS ON STRATAGEMS ◊ˢᵀᴿᴬᵀᴬᴳᴱᴹᴬ Actual Herculaneum Papyrus Reconstruction The Third Epicurean Scholarch’s Lost Military Mathematics
https://latinum.substack.com/p/pherc-1067-polyaenus-of-lampsacus?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174350542&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) Pattern Archaeology: A New Method for Recovering Lost Classical Texts Through Algorithmic Analysis of Influence Patterns
https://latinum.substack.com/p/pattern-archaeology-a-new-method?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174342411&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) CALL TO DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS: VILLA EXCAVANDA EST A Request for Crowd-Sourced Papyrus Scan Collection Together We Can Resurrect the Ancient Voices
https://latinum.substack.com/p/call-to-digital-archaeologists-villa?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174307364&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) ORATIO AD LATINOS DE HERCULANEO ◊ᴼᴿᴬᵀᴵᴼ M. Tullius Cicero Latinis MMDCCL S.P.D. De Thesauro Sepulto et Conscientia Crystallizata
https://latinum.substack.com/p/oratio-ad-latinos-de-herculaneo-m?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174301579&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) TO THE 6,250 SOULS WHO GATHER AT LATINUM
https://latinum.substack.com/p/to-the-6250-souls-who-gather-at-latinum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174294077&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

[medieval, but with Roman remains beneath it] Remains of ‘vile’ dungeon found under Leicester market – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92pj94yeo.amp

2,600-Year-Old Lost Temple Built of Green Tuff Stone Unearthed at Oluz Höyük, Northern Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2600-year-old-lost-temple-built-of-green-tuff-stone-unearthed-at-oluz-hoyuk-northern-turkiye/

After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings seen intact in Damascus | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-years-of-war-worlds-oldest-synagogue-paintings-found-intact-in-damascus/

[old news]1,368 silver and gold coins from the Roman Empire found buried – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/1368-silver-and-gold-coins-from-the-roman-empire-found-in-england/

[AI?]Rare human statue unearthed at Göbeklitepe | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868204

Late Antique Christian Church Found Along Egyptian Pilgrimage Route
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/late-antique-christian-church-found-along-pilgrimage-site-in-northern-egypt-1234753305/

[AI?]1,800-year-old Roman stadium found in Syedra, Turkey | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868215

Excavation in Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily Reveals Advanced Water Channeling System – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/23/ancient-greek-city-segesta-sicily-advanced-water-channeling-system/

Quest for Queen Cleopatra’s lost tomb reveals a sunken ancient Egyptian harbor – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-ancient-harbor-discovered-in-quest-for-queen-cleopatra-lost-tomb/

Is This the Future of the Past? AI Meets Ancient Rome
https://scitechdaily.com/is-this-the-future-of-the-past-ai-meets-ancient-rome/

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

Archaeologists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of This Marble Statue. Its Subject Was a Woman Who Might Have Helped an Ancient City Achieve Political Freedom
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-of-this-marble-statue-its-subject-was-woman-who-might-have-helped-ancient-city-achieve-political-freedom-180987387/

Remains of a Strategic Roman Bridge Uncovered in Switzerland
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roman-bridge-remains-uncovered-in-switzerland-1234753138/

Hip-hop, heartbreak, and Him | WORLD
https://wng.org/podcasts/hip-hop-heartbreak-and-him-1758563385

I Owe You Nothing | Sphinx

I Owe You Nothing

(21) The Silence of the Frogs – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-silence-of-the-frogs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=174324354&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) The Ultimate ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Story

New Book Day: Practical Necormancy for Beginners | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

New Book Day: Practical Necormancy for Beginners

Paul’s Farewell Speech at Miletus – Acts 20:18-38 – Reading Acts

Paul’s Farewell Speech at Miletus – Acts 20:18-38

Love Greek life? Try Greek mythology – The Miami Student
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/09/greek-mythology-book-review-circe-ariadne-pandoras-jar-aphrodite-bookworm?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

PaleoJudaica.com: Another helmet from the Battle of the Aegates
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/another-helmet-from-battle-of-aegates.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that upcoming Jesus horror movie
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/more-on-that-upcoming-jesus-horror-movie.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A submerged port at Taposiris Magna
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-submerged-port-at-taposiris-magna.html

Het alfabet van Numidië – Mainzer Beobachter

Het alfabet van Numidië

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/cause-and-explanation-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sparta: History, State and Society
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/sparta-history-state-and-society.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-self-in-ancient-and-early-modern.html

Helen of Troy in Hollywood – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean

I testamenti dei cittadini romani d’Egitto tra storia sociale e prassi giuridica: dal I secolo d.C. a Severo Alessandro – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

I testamenti dei cittadini romani d’Egitto tra storia sociale e prassi giuridica: dal I secolo d.C. a Severo Alessandro

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The Golden Age of the Classics… – Ad Navseam – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(26) The myth of Dionysus’ drunken revenge – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube

(27) Baths of Caracalla—Construction Secrets & On-Site Guide – YouTube

(27) Scipio’s Daring Harbor Blockade #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(27) Syracuse Cavalry Athens’ Greatest Threat in Ancient War #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

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Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 2 – Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 2

Pompeii, training internships for student restorers. Convention with Botticino School of Restoration activated.
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-training-internships-for-student-restorers-convention-with-botticino-school-of-restoration-activated

• rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus
• Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty!
• 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?)
• 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning)
• 63 B.C. — birth of Octavius, the future emperor Augustus
• 25 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Neptune (and associated rites thereafter)
• 23 B.C. — restoration of the temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius (and associated rites thereafter)
• 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Thecla