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Bust of Ancient Egyptian goddess unearthed in Turkey
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/bust-of-ancient-egyptian-goddess-unearthed-in-turkey/156228

FRANCIA. Una ricca tomba femminile di epoca romana. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia

FRANCIA. Una ricca tomba femminile di epoca romana.

‘Extremely rare’ and ‘highly unusual’ Roman-era tomb in Germany is completely empty | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/extremely-rare-and-highly-unusual-roman-era-tomb-in-germany-is-completely-empty

Altino (Venice), the city’s Roman center resurfaces: new excavations begin in the forum
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/altino-venice-the-city-s-roman-center-resurfaces-new-excavations-begin-in-the-forum

[paywalled] Nero didn’t let Rome burn, Supreme Court rules
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/25/nero-didnt-let-rome-burn-supreme-court-rules/

Japanese tourist falls to death at Pantheon in Rome
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8y529kl8yo

Alexander the Great: the proto-diplomat? | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/10/26/alexander-the-great-the-proto-diplomat

Why Alexander the Great won every battle: New theories on his death and the location of his tomb – ProtoThema English

Why Alexander the Great won every battle: New theories on his death and the location of his tomb

The Greek Education That Shaped Cleopatra’s Character – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/25/greek-education-cleopatra/

The Adventurous Journey of an Ancient Greek Lyre – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/25/journey-ancient-greek-lyre/

Traditionalist Catholics celebrate old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-latin-mass-burke-4ab6bcafb6c47cfacbb1ce0b7f35373d

Remembering William Scott, Distinguished Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
https://fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/remembering-william-scott-distinguished-scholar-ancient-greek-literature

Fireside Friday, October 24, 2025 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, October 24, 2025

Speaking of Centaurs: Paradeigmatic Problems in Iliad 1 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Speaking of Centaurs: Paradeigmatic Problems in Iliad 1

All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading Homer’s Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading Homer’s Iliad

The Politics of Rage: Beginning the Iliad, Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Politics of Rage: Beginning the Iliad, Again

Wie schreef de Brief van Jakobus? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie schreef de Brief van Jakobus?

Khalchayan – Mainzer Beobachter

Khalchayan

PaleoJudaica.com: Shemesh, Elisha: The Holy Man of God (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/shemesh-elisha-holy-man-of-god-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Annese & Berno (eds.), Gnosticism and Its Metamorphoses (Brepols)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/annese-berno-eds-gnosticism-and-its.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The International Association for Assyriology free online talks
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-international-association-for.html

Monuments du haut Moyen Âge à Gurzuf. Cimetière d’Artek I | Spartokos a lu

Monuments du haut Moyen Âge à Gurzuf. Cimetière d’Artek I

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Anima Latina 26.10.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/10/anima-latina-26-10-2025.html

Boudica’s Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 25.10.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/10/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-25-10-2025.html

diē vīcēsimō quartō mēnsis Octōbris — Nuntii Latini

diē vīcēsimō quartō mēnsis Octōbris

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(146) Carthage Must be Destroyed! – Third Punic War (Part 1) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(146) Seneca On Providence (Latin Audiobook) – YouTube

(146) Hymn to the Sun: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Ancient Greek. – YouTube

Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive – Life Of The Caesars

Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive

(146) Spartacus: Rise of the Gladiator (Full Episode) | Warriors of the Ancient World | Nat Geo – YouTube

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explorator 27.45 ~ October 26, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.45 ~ October 26, 2025

(PDF) Beyond “Athens and Jerusalem”: Integrating Classical Philosophy into the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396773586_Beyond_Athens_and_Jerusalem_Integrating_Classical_Philosophy_into_the_Comparative_Study_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_and_the_Ancient_Near_East

Professor of Ancient History | University Graz
https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/b42ffe07-8f40-2f96-7c8e-6895cc7aef27

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
• 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
• ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
• 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled

• 322 B.C. — death of Demosthenes (by one reckoning)
• 237 A.D. — martyrdom of Daria and Chrysanthus
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Minias
• 286 A.D. — martyrdom of twin saints Crispin and Crispian

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Ancient Scythian animal-style art began with functional objects, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-scythian-animal-style-art.html

Your Ancient Greek guide to Halloween – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/your-ancient-greek-guide-to-halloween?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=174331992&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Three Shipwrecks Discovered Off the Coast of Israel Shed New Light on the History of Iron Age Maritime Trade
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-shipwrecks-discovered-off-the-coast-of-israel-shed-new-light-on-the-history-of-iron-age-maritime-trade-180987555/

Detectorist uncovers what could be Wales’s biggest treasure hoard buried in a muddy field | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/wales-detectorist-treasure-hoard-roman-coins-b2850740.html

Archaeologists discover foundation of earliest documented church in Armenia – ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
https://armenpress.am/en/article/1233055&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjdjY2U2ODQ5NTMxZWE4Mjc6Y29tOmVuOlVT

Discovery reveals arsenical bronze production on Egypt’s Elephantine Island during the Middle Kingdom
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-discovery-reveals-arsenical-bronze-production.html

Acropolis Museum Hopes Louvre Recovers Jewels, Adds: And Return Your Greek Sculptures” – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/acropolis-museum-hopes-louvre-recovers-jewels-adds-and-return-your-greek-sculptures/

1,500-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Unearthed in Mardin: Hidden Masterpiece Rescued from Smugglers – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/1500-year-old-roman-mosaic-unearthed-in-mardin-hidden-masterpiece-rescued-from-smugglers/

2,000-Year-Old Roman Hippodrome Discovered Beneath a Former Landfill in Kayseri – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-roman-hippodrome-discovered-beneath-a-former-landfill-in-kayseri/

The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose

The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose

Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten?

Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten?

Hooked on classics | Otago Daily Times Online News
https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/music/hooked-classics

The Only Greek God Who Never Assaulted a Woman – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/23/greek-god-never-assaulted-woman/

Archaeologists Race to Save 4,000-Year-Old Unfired Cuneiform Tablets in Iraq – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/23/archaeologists-save-ancient-unfired-cuneiform-tablets-found-iraq/

From the Acropolis to Mar-a-Lago: Trump and the ghost of Alcibiades
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/from-the-acropolis-to-mar-a-lago-trump-and-the-ghost-of-alcibiades,20297

Laudator Temporis Acti: Coin of Philip II of Macedon

Alcidamas: The First Ancient Greek Voice Declaring ‘Nature Made No One a Slave’ – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/24/alcidamas-ancient-greek-declare-no-slave/

Aristotle the Alchemist, Sexologist, Palm Reader, Papist, and Jew – The Pennsylvania Gazette

Aristotle the Alchemist, Sexologist, Palm Reader, Papist, and Jew

Why was Paul Arrested in the Temple? Acts 21:26-36 – Reading Acts

Why was Paul Arrested in the Temple? Acts 21:26-36

This ancient goddess commanded a Wonder of the World – but why did she have thirty breasts? | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/goddess-wonder-of-the-world-thirty-breasts/

Did Homer Really Describe the Bronze Age? Reinterpreting the Iliad | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/did-homer-describe-bronze-age/

The Decline of Animal Sacrifice in the Late Roman World, with James Rives – Medievalists.net

The Decline of Animal Sacrifice in the Late Roman World, with James Rives

Just one coin… (a Jugurtha eye candy post) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Just one coin… (a Jugurtha eye candy post)

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Must be the Season of the Witch: Multitextual Medea
https://theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/10/must-be-season-of-witch-multitextual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: When did they start calling it “Hebrew?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/when-did-they-start-calling-it-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Is President Trump going to rebuild the Temple?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/is-president-trump-going-to-rebuild.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Chapman, The Victorians and the Holy Land
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-chapman-victorians-and-holy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PLANTAS EN EL ANTIGUO EGIPTO: ORÍGENES, USOS Y PRESENCIA EN CHILE
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/plantas-en-el-antiguo-egipto-origenes.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oral Poetry
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/oral-poetry.html

Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike

Pierre Bersuire. The moralized Ovid – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pierre Bersuire. The moralized Ovid

Philo of Alexandria and philosophical discourse – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Philo of Alexandria and philosophical discourse

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA380 – How Did the Greek Phalanx Keep Its Line?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa380-how-did-the-greek-phalanx-keep-its-line

The ‘father of history’ would … – The Colin McEnroe Show – Apple Podcasts

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Cleopatra, Patriarchy, and the Trap of Honor
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/cleopatra-patriarchy-and-the-trap?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=176944140&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(95) Star Walks II_Ep. 6: RBSN, “Here”, “Stadio” della Domus Augustana| Parco archeologico del Colosseo – YouTube

(96) Spartacus: Rise of the Gladiator (Full Episode) | Warriors of the Ancient World | Nat Geo – YouTube

(97) Shipping Stone for Justinian’s Empire? with Justin Leidwanger – YouTube

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Between Yahwism and Judaism
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/between-yahwism-and-judaism/DF4B36DC1118F3DDAF3A060C7B4878CC

Semester 1 2025 Reading Classics Research Seminars | Classics at Reading

Semester 1 2025 Reading Classics Research Seminars

EpiDoc Workshop and MAPPOLA training – Bucharest – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

EpiDoc Workshop and MAPPOLA training – Bucharest

21st International Aegean Conference
https://classics.uc.edu/humanities/classics/aegaeum/aegean-conference

• 31 A.D. — execution of Strabo, son of the Praetorian Praefect L. Aelius Sejanus
• 51 A.D. — birth of the future emperor T. Flavius Domitianus, better known as Domitian