ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 9, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Secret Colosseum tunnel used by Roman emperors reopens after nearly 2,000 years | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rome-colosseum-tunnel-roman-emperor-commodus-b2842656.html

Roman artefacts unearthed at Attingham Park
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cz9j8v2j82xo

Buried Secrets: How a Roman Sailor’s Gravestone Resurfaced in a New Orleans Yard – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/buried-secrets-how-a-roman-sailors-gravestone-resurfaced-in-a-new-orleans-yard/

Divine Punishment or Human Theft? 4,000-Year-Old Relief Missing from Egypt’s ‘Cursed’ Tomb – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/divine-punishment-or-human-theft-4000-year-old-relief-missing-from-egypts-cursed-tomb/

Ghost Fleet of the Iron Age: Three Ancient Shipwrecks Rewrite the Story of Mediterranean Seafaring – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ghost-fleet-of-the-iron-age-three-ancient-shipwrecks-rewrite-the-story-of-mediterranean-seafaring/

The 10 Greatest Cities of the Classical World | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/greatest-ancient-cities/

How Olive Oil Shaped Ancient Greek History, Mythology and Philosophy for 7,000 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/09/olive-oil-ancient-greek-mythology-history-philosophy/

Recent investigation of Herculaneum papyri reveals new information about Zeno, founder of Stoicism
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/recent-investigation-of-herculaneum-papyri-reveals-new-information-about-zeno-founder-of-stoicism

Roman Wooden Palisades Discovered in Italy Reveal Dramatic Sea Level Changes in the Adriatic at the Beginning of the Middle Ages

Roman Wooden Palisades Discovered in Italy Reveal Dramatic Sea Level Changes in the Adriatic at the Beginning of the Middle Ages

Morocco’s ancient city of Lixus : A pillar of the Mauretanian-Roman trade in salted fish
https://en.yabiladi.com/articles/details/178364/morocco-ancient-city-lixus-pillar.html

$45 Million in Ancient Greek Artifacts Returned to Greece After Manhattan DA’s Crackdown on Illicit Trafficking | 77 WABC
https://wabcradio.com/2025/10/08/427301/

Ringling Museum Of Art Installs Esteemed Antiquities Collection, Fulfilling Founder’s Vision
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2025/10/09/ringling-museum-of-art-installs-esteemed-antiquities-collection-fulfilling-founders-vision/

[AI?]Göbeklitepe find: Were these quadrangular plans homes? | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869879

Göbeklitepe excavation season concludes with major discoveries | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/gobeklitepe-excavation-season-concludes-with-major-discoveries

Çatalhöyük – Mainzer Beobachter

Çatalhöyük

Ancient Roman theatre was a powerful weapon of empire, so why were actors’ lives so tragic? | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/empire-theatre-weapon-life-of-actors/

Dallas theater company turns Luka Doncic trade into Greek tragedy | Nba | lancasteronline.com
https://lancasteronline.com/sports/nba/dallas-theater-company-turns-luka-doncic-trade-into-greek-tragedy/article_f7077db9-4b82-5bb1-ac7d-42c4317538c3.html

Louvre’s Jacques-Louis David Show Offers a Fresh Perspective on the Artist
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/louvre-jacques-louis-david-museum-retrospective-1234755977/

More from the library wars | Blog post | Mary Beard

More from the library wars

Socrates, Cicero, & the Meaning of Citizenship ~ The Imaginative Conservative

Socrates, Cicero, & the Meaning of Citizenship

Trump on a coin? When Julius Caesar tried that, the Roman republic crumbled soon after
https://theconversation.com/trump-on-a-coin-when-julius-caesar-tried-that-the-roman-republic-crumbled-soon-after-266887

(23) Multiple scrolls now show Greek letters
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/multiple-scrolls-now-show-greek-letters?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1454609&post_id=175398487&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Letter From America | Sphinx

Letter From America

Three Things Thursday: Chapters, Bakken, and Bibliography | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: Chapters, Bakken, and Bibliography

PaleoJudaica.com: Cartagena: Phoenician and Punic archaeology and epigraphy
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/cartagena-phoenician-and-punic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Where did wine originate?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/where-did-wine-originate.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another review of Fredriksen, Ancient Christianities
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/another-review-of-fredriksen-ancient.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Open-access volume on Neo-Babylonian royal inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/open-access-volume-on-neo-babylonian.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-ashurbanipal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Amēl-Marduk (561–560 BC), Neriglissar (559–556 BC), and Nabonidus (555–539 BC), Kings of Babylon
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-amel-marduk.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 3
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-ashurbanipal_9.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Eton College Greek Software Project
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2018/10/the-eton-greek-software-project.html

Living together: essays on Aristotle’s ethics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Living together: essays on Aristotle’s ethics

Plato’s Gorgias: a critical guide – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plato’s Gorgias: a critical guide

Tolkien et l’Antiquite: passé et antiquités en Terre du Milieu – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Tolkien et l’Antiquite: passé et antiquités en Terre du Milieu

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VIDENDA
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(35) Overboard! 2025 – YouTube

(35) Did the Romans use archers? – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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CCA South Virtual Conference
https://sites.google.com/site/ccasouthernsection/fall-2025-program

Pasts Imperfect (10.9.25)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-10-9-25/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter

Dodona: The Oracular Lamellae

Dodona: The Oracular Lamellae

Expanding the Ancient World Workshop: — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
https://isaw.nyu.edu/events/etaw-cults-imperial-rome

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem vii idus octobres

  • rites in honour of Genius Publicus
  • rites in honour of Fausta Felicitas
  • rites in honour of Venus Victrix
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 7 — from 19-23 A.D.)
  • 28 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine (and associated rites thereafter)
  • c. 95 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysus the Aeropagite
  • 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Denis and Rusticus