ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 16, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Northern Aegean Found to Be Earliest Producer of Commercial Amphorae – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/15/northern-aegean-found-earliest-producer-commercial-amphorae/

A Singular Statue of a Suid Discovered in the Ancient City of Gortyna in Crete

A Singular Statue of a Suid Discovered in the Ancient City of Gortyna in Crete

Archaeologists find chest full of Roman coins and precious jewelry – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-find-chest-full-of-roman-coins-and-precious-jewelry-histria/

Roman silver treasure unearthed near Borsum
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/roman-silver-treasure-unearthed-near-borsum/156151

Divers find Greco-Roman shipwreck carrying stacks of tableware – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/2000-year-old-adrasan-plate-greco-roman-shipwreck-with-tableware-still-stacked/

1,000 gold coins from 1st century discovered with a metal detector – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/over-1000-gold-coins-from-1st-century-bc-discovered-baddow-with-metal-detector/

1,800-year-old statue unearthed at Smyrna
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1-800-year-old-statue-unearthed-at-smyrna-214687

[AI?] Roman bronze ‘ghost’ skeleton revealed as rare party favor | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-870475

Skeleton-filled well in Croatia likely holds remains of Roman soldiers, study finds | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/skeleton-filled-well-in-croatia-likely-holds-remains-of-roman-soldiers-study-finds

Remains of Seven Roman Soldiers Fallen in the Battle of Mursa in 260 CE Found in a Well in Croatia

Remains of Seven Roman Soldiers Fallen in the Battle of Mursa in 260 CE Found in a Well in Croatia

The Mystery of the Ancient Roman Gravestone Discovered in a Family’s Backyard Has Been Solved
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-mystery-of-the-ancient-roman-gravestone-discovered-in-a-familys-backyard-has-been-solved-180987515/

TURKEY: Rare Byzantine mosaic with Latin and Greek inscriptions unearthed in Merde (Mardin) in Tur Abdin – SyriacPress

TURKEY: Rare Byzantine mosaic with Latin and Greek inscriptions unearthed in Merde (Mardin) in Tur Abdin

Newly Deciphered Herculaneum Scroll Sheds Light on Ancient Greek Founder of Stoicism – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/15/deciphered-herculaneum-scroll-ancient-greek-founder-stoicism/

Multidisciplinary study of human remains from the 3rd century mass grave in the Roman city of Mursa, Croatia | PLOS One
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pone.0333440

[AI?] Goodbye to myths—archaeologists discover a colossal Roman Empire stadium in Alanya that challenges everything we thought we knew about its architecture
https://unionrayo.com/en/roman-stadium-sport-discovery/

‘Cleopatra’s Last Temple’ Review: PBS’s Underwater Archaeology – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/television/cleopatras-last-temple-review-pbss-underwater-archaeology-250f56c5?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqfnaqJR1r0uhXeBV4oS6z-pKk54Zxl7Y7PPnsNAwXUr-EsynEqDl1IK&gaa_ts=68f0dba3&gaa_sig=qsvUjCaQFLmndd5UpJg8z2P7XGErdwhvyWoPtDpZd3hwNzaGtsEV5haaHruS1yLntPuJwciCQD3iwHq72Qz7BQ%3D%3D

What Most People Get Wrong About Plato’s Most Famous Quote | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/plato-most-famous-quote-explained/

Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire? — Harvard Gazette

Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?

What really happened to the Library of Alexandria? These are the theories. | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/who-burned-library-of-alexandria-egypt?loggedin=true&rnd=1760634356231

How Romans Crafted A Wine Dominance That Continues Today
https://www.forbes.com/sites/laynerandolph/2025/10/16/how-romans-crafted-a-wine-dominance-that-continues-today/

New documentary on the theft of the Parthenon Marbles – “Take the whole temple with the Carya… whatever they’re called – ProtoThema English

New documentary on the theft of the Parthenon Marbles – “Take the whole temple with the Carya… whatever they’re called

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts | Open Culture

The Genius Engineering of Roman Aqueducts

Literary Hub » Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Anna North Thinks About the Roman Empire All the Time

Hekate by Nikita Gill review – the ancient Greek goddess works magic in this retelling | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/16/hekate-by-nikita-gill-review-the-ancient-greek-goddess-works-magic-in-this-retelling

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem – The Ancient Near East Today
https://anetoday.org/alexander-great-jerusalem/

The Death of Children in Ancient Israel | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/death-children-ancient-israel

150 years of German excavations in Olympia

150 years of German excavations in Olympia

Teaching Thursday: Roman History and Syme’s The Roman Revolution | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: Roman History and Syme’s The Roman Revolution

PaleoJudaica.com: More open-access volumes of Mesopotamian royal inscriptions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/more-open-access-volumes-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Six new Aramaic inscriptions found in eastern Turkey, some erased
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/six-new-aramaic-inscriptions-found-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bible Secrets Revealed on “The Forbidden Scriptures”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/bible-secrets-revealed-on-forbidden.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The guardian of Maaloula’s Aramaic
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-guardian-of-maaloulas-aramaic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Viti, Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-viti-ancient-greek-and-latin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Mapping the Jews of Ancient Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/mapping-jews-of-ancient-egypt.html

De Wagenmenner van Delfi – Mainzer Beobachter

De Wagenmenner van Delfi

De Kimmeriërs – Mainzer Beobachter

De Kimmeriërs

10 Locations from the Odyssey and Their Real-Life Counterparts | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/locations-odyssey-real-life/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: US War Loot Ends up in a Garden
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/us-war-loot-ends-up-in-garden.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: “Significant destruction of the archaeological record and serious corruption of the corpus of knowledge”.
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/significant-destruction-of.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Danger
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/danger.html

Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Announcing a new release of the Perseus Art & Archaeology Artifact (A&A) Browser

Obituary for John Michael Fossey FSA, FRSC, RPA (February 25, 1943 – December 1, 2024) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/fosseyinmemoriam/

Obituary of Prof. Emeritus Gilbert Lawall : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/classics/news/obituary-prof-emeritus-gilbert-lawall

In Memory of Dennis Trout (1953–2025) | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/news/memory-dennis-trout-1953-2025

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Israel, Judah, and Neighboring Groups in the Books of Samuel: Textual and Historical Approaches. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times VIII
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/israel-judah-and-neighboring-groups-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Eljon – Höchster: Eine Gottesbezeichnung im Pentateuch
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/eljon-hochster-eine-gottesbezeichnung.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Forgetting to Remember: Cultural Memory, Intertextuality, and Scribal Agency in the Hebrew Bible
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/forgetting-to-remember-cultural-memory.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kingmakers and Kingbreakers: Philistines, Arameans, and Historical Patterning in Samuel-Kings. Research on Israel and Aram in Biblical Times IX
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/kingmakers-and-kingbreakers-philistines.html

Eastern Europe in the 1st Millennium AD according to archaeology and numismatics | Spartokos read

L’Europe de l’Est au Ier millénaire après J.-C. selon l’archéologie et la numismatique

Emperadores y esclavos: algunos aspectos de la legislación imperial sobre esclavitud entre Trajano y los Severos – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Emperadores y esclavos: algunos aspectos de la legislación imperial sobre esclavitud entre Trajano y los Severos

Poteri al confine. Filarchi giudici re tra Impero romano e Barbaricum – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Poteri al confine. Filarchi giudici re tra Impero romano e Barbaricum

Erasure in late antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Erasure in late antiquity

Calpurnius Flaccus. Deklamationen – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Calpurnius Flaccus. Deklamationen


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AUDIENDA
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15 INTERVIEW with Dr. Massimo Cè | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis
https://tllpod.podbean.com/e/15-interview-with-dr-massimo-ce/

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 5 Musa (S… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Special Episode – Central Italy and the Emergence of Rome with Dr Francesca Fulminante – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Central Italy and the Emergence of Rome with Dr Francesca Fulminante

Citizenship in the Ancient Roman Empire | KPFA

Citizenship in the Ancient Roman Empire

111: The Seleucid Empire – The…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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How to read ‘The School of Athens’ – a triumph of Renaissance art | Aeon Videos
https://aeon.co/videos/how-to-read-the-school-of-athens-a-triumph-of-renaissance-art

(38) Why Early Christians Gave Jesus a Magic Wand – YouTube

(38) Report on the 2025 excavation campaign at the archaeological site of Egnazia – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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ANE Today, 16 October 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-16-october-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=176053466&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences Job Details | University of Cincinnati
https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Assistant-Professor%2C-Classics%2C-College-of-Arts-and-Sciences-OH-45201/1333514900/

The NIA Annual Meeting

The NIA Annual Meeting

Lecturer in Classics (R&T) at University of Glasgow
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPB338/lecturer-in-classics-randt

Classical Association of Canada Conference 2026 | Queen’s University
https://www.queensu.ca/cac-conference-2026/

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