ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 14, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Ancient Shipwrecks Rewrite the Story of Iron Age Trade
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ancient-shipwrecks-rewrite-the-story-of-iron-age-trade

Roman theater in Iznik reveals ancient passages, frescoes | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/roman-theater-in-iznik-reveals-ancient-passages-frescoes/

Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns 29 Antiquities to Greece
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manhattan-district-attorney-returns-antiquities-greece-1234756833/

Massive 3,500-Year-Old Fortress Unearthed in Sinai, Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/fortress-sinai-egypt/

3,000-Year-Old Public Building Unearthed at Sogmatar: A New Chapter in the Sacred City of the Moon God – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/3000-year-old-public-building-unearthed-at-sogmatar-a-new-chapter-in-the-sacred-city-of-the-moon-god/

Ancient Greek Inscription Unearthed in Crimea Sheds Light on Lost Rituals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/ancient-greek-inscription-crimea-lost-rituals/

Scoperta archeologica a San Marco Argentano: rinvenuta una tomba del IV secolo a.C. con una donna e un bambino VIDEO – Gazzetta del Sud
https://cosenza.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cronaca/2025/10/13/scoperta-archeologica-a-san-marco-argentano-rinvenuta-una-tomba-del-iv-secolo-a-c-con-una-donna-e-un-bambino-2bbad7f2-7071-4c68-ba75-9395dd46fda8/

Public speeches challenged assumptions in ancient Greece | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/public-speeches-challenged-assumptions-ancient-greece

Genital problems? Ancient doctors thought goat’s cheese or warm baths could help
https://theconversation.com/genital-problems-ancient-doctors-thought-goats-cheese-or-warm-baths-could-help-264041

The phallus that had been hidden in the thermal baths of Caldes de Montbui
https://en.ara.cat/culture/the-phallus-that-had-been-hidden-in-the-thermal-baths-of-caldes-montbui_1_5527465.amp.html

Miniature Skeleton: A ghostly 2,000-year-old party favor from a Roman banquet | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/miniature-skeleton-a-ghostly-2-000-year-old-party-favor-from-a-roman-banquet

Excavation Results Shed Light on Mysterious Minoan Labyrinth on Crete – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/13/archaeologists-puzzle-over-purpose-minoan-labyrinth-crete/

Dion Restoration Project Protects Zeus’ Ancient Sanctuary
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/14/dion-restoration-project-protects-zeus-ancient-sanctuary/

The Ancient Greek Sculpture of Eros Captures Purity of Love – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/ancient-greek-sculpture-eros-purity-love/

Should We Blame Ancient Greece for Today’s Search for Six-Pack Abs? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/should-we-blame-ancient-greece-for-todays-trend-of-male-six-pack-abs/

Analysis of Carbonized Papyri Reveals Intimate Details of the Life of Zeno, Founder of Stoicism

Analysis of Carbonized Papyri Reveals Intimate Details of the Life of Zeno, Founder of Stoicism

How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BCE inscriptions offers clues | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-did-biblical-judeans-track-time-trove-of-6th-century-bce-inscriptions-offers-clues/

Helen’s Perspective: A New Take on an Old Legend
https://www.ilmattino.it/en/helen_s_perspective_a_new_take_on_an_old_legend-9124915.html

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2498245-were-finally-reading-the-secrets-of-herculaneums-lost-library/

150 years of German excavations in Olympia
https://idw-online.de/de/news859668

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Statue of Zeus at Olympia – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

(Video) 20 Enduring Quotes From The Ancient Roman Historian, Livy – The Historian’s Hut

(Video) 20 Enduring Quotes From The Ancient Roman Historian, Livy

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: German Collector Returns Stolen Artefact from Ancient Olympia After Six Decades
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/german-collector-returns-stolen.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bronze Age Gold Artefacts Stolen from St Fagans National Museum of History
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/bronze-age-gold-artefacts-stolen-from.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: “By Zeus” in Aristophanes’ Wealth
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/by-zeus-in-aristophanes-wealth.html

Did Horace throw away his shield? | Blog post | Mary Beard

Did Horace throw away his shield?

PaleoJudaica.com: A six-day administrative “week” at late-Iron-Age Arad?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-six-day-administrative-week-at-late.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Caviezel won’t play Jesus in “Resurrection of the Christ”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/caviezel-wont-play-jesus-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Letter of Aristeas on making the Jewish laws universal
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-letter-of-aristeas-on-making-jewish.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia volumes available in Open Access
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/royal-inscriptions-of-mesopotamia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Columna Traiani – Traianssäule: Siegesmonument und Kriegsbericht in Bildern. Beiträge der Tagung in Wien anlässlich des 1900. Jahrestages der Einweihung, 9.–12. Mai 2013
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/columna-traiani-traianssaule.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Villes mortes della Siria: Topografia cristiana e insediamenti del Massiccio Calcareo (IV-VII secolo)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/villes-mortes-della-siria-topografia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kushan Coins and History: A Type Catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun Coins Based on the Collection of the British Museum
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/kushan-coins-and-history-type-catalogue.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds: Papers from a Special Session of the Fifty-fifth Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, held in Berlin on 6th August 2022
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/scents-of-arabia-interdisciplinary.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reporting Heritage Destruction
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/reporting-heritage-destruction.html

Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean

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AUDIENDA
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Did St. Paul Speak Latin? and, The Forms You Really Need to Know: Souter and Mahoney (Ad Navseam, Episode 197) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-197/

Daniel J. Sherman, “Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940” (U Chicago Press, 2025) – College of Arts and Sciences
https://college.unc.edu/inthemedia/sherman-sensations/

The Curious Case of Athenodoru… – Deep into History – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(149) Underground passage used by Roman emperors to enter Colosseum to open in late October to visitors – YouTube

(149) Augustus Is Dead—Now What? – YouTube

(149) Excavating Göbekli Tepe: An Interview with Archaeologist Jens Notroff – YouTube

(149) The Politics of Clay: Historical and Postcolonial interpretations of Protocorinthian Earthenware. – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Calls for Papers – Annual conference, May 5th-7th 2026 (Deadline January 5) | Appels à communications pour la conférence annuelle, 5-7 mai 2026 (Date limite 5 janvier) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpagm2026/

CAC Graduate Student Caucus Abstract Writing Workshop (November 5) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cacgcswritnov5/

“Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945) | The Warburg Institute
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/CFP-civilizing-the-world-2026