ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ November 30, 2025

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Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh – The Past

Section of Hadrian’s Wall discovered at Drumburgh

Strada romana di 2000 anni fa nel centro storico di Cosenza
https://www.cosenzachannel.it/societa/strada-romana-di-2000-anni-fa-nel-cuore-del-centro-storico-di-cosenza-aejvygv4

Excavation season concludes at Perre with new Roman-era finds
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-season-concludes-at-perre-with-new-roman-era-finds-216255

8,500-Year-Old Mirror Unearthed at Canhasan in Central Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/8500-year-old-mirror-unearthed-at-canhasan-in-central-turkiye/

Death among the Durotriges – The Past

Death among the Durotriges

The last-minute fight to save Gaza’s ancient archaeological treasures
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/m-le-mag/article/2025/11/30/the-last-minute-fight-to-save-gaza-s-ancient-archaeological-treasures_6747984_117.html

5 Must-Visit Ancient Theaters in Mainland Greece | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-theaters-mainland-greece/

Ancient Greeks Engineered a Divine Light Show Inside the Parthenon, Oxford Study Reveals
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/29/parthenon-sunrise-athena-light-effect

New robotic system supports archaeologists | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-876739

Medea in Joburg: Ancient Greek tragedy meets modern SA realities at The Market Theatre | News24
https://www.news24.com/life/arts-and-entertainment/arts/medea-in-joburg-ancient-greek-tragedy-meets-modern-sa-realities-at-the-market-theatre-20251128-1118

Derveni Papyrus Found in Greece: Europe’s Oldest Book – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/30/derveni-papyrus-greece-europe-oldest-book/

It’s Time for AP Greek: Initiative to Bring AP Greek Language & Culture to U.S. Schools – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/its-time-for-ap-greek-initiative-to-bring-ap-greek-language-culture-to-u-s-schools/

Why Is the Royal Navy So Obsessed with Ancient Greece? – The National Interest
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/why-royal-navy-so-obsessed-with-ancient-greece-ps-113025

New Views of the Kingdom of Pylos – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/new-views-of-the-kingdom-of-pylos/

Pharaonic Ambitions: Obelisks in Rome – by Agnes Crawford
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/pharaonic-ambitions-obelisks-in-rome?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=180192003&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Does Homer Make Sh*t up? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Does Homer Make Sh*t up?

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to his family (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at-5cf?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180224826&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

29 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/29-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=180223758&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

1831 reports and other varia – Liv Mariah Yarrow

1831 reports and other varia

The Art of Slow Writing – Noodlings

The Art of Slow Writing

Sint-Charbel – Mainzer Beobachter

Sint-Charbel

Exhibition in Rome showcases Ancient Greek treasures – Wanted in Rome
https://www.wantedinrome.com/whatson/exhibition-in-rome-showcases-ancient-greek-treasures.html

PaleoJudaica.com: De Vos, The Pseudo-Clementine Tradition (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/de-vos-pseudo-clementine-tradition-cup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ezra and Nehemiah According to the Syriac Peshitta Version with English Translation (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/ezra-and-nehemiah-according-to-syriac.html

Ancient weapons from the Hermitage Museum collection | Spartokos has read

Armes anciennes de la collection du Musée de l’Ermitage


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Anima Latina 30.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-30-11-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 29.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-29-11-2025.html

Decoding the Dead Sea Scrolls … – Unscrolled – Apple Podcasts

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(752) This country has more pyramids than Egypt #history – YouTube

(753) Alexander the Great’s Egypt 3: Ptolemy Triumphant | Egyptian History – YouTube

(753) De immersionibus subaquaneis (aliisque multis), cum Anna Martin – YouTube

(753) Nero, the most infamous of all Roman Emperors – YouTube

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explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.50 ~ November 30, 2025

Intelligenza artificiale e papirologia. La collezione fiorentina e i papiri di Ercolano – La Colombaria
https://www.colombaria.it/intelligenza-artificiale-e-papirologia-la-collezione-fiorentina-e-i-papiri-di-ercolano/

This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas decembres

  • 406 B.C. — death of Euripides (by one reckoning)
  • 147 A.D. — birth of Annia Galeria Faustina, the daughter of the emperor-to-be Marcus Aurelius
  • 1817 — birth of Theodor Mommsen, Nobel prize winning ancient historian

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ November 28, 2025

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What did the Romans ever do for us? Roads, wine and pet CATS – who only became our companions in Europe 2,000 years ago, study finds | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15334929/Romans-brought-cats-Europe-2000.html

A large pre-Roman Gallic settlement with a powerful defensive system that endured after the conquest has been discovered

A large pre-Roman Gallic settlement with a powerful defensive system that endured after the conquest has been discovered

1,800-year-old Roman statue unearthed in city of Blaundos
https://en.yenisafak.com/life/1800-year-old-roman-statue-unearthed-in-city-of-blaundos-3711242

A Tomb of the Lady of the Inverted Diadem Discovered in Greece, a Queen Fallen from Grace at the End of the Dark Age

Tomb of the Lady of the Inverted Diadem Discovered in Greece, a Queen Fallen from Grace at the End of the Dark Age

The Lady with the Inverted Diadem

The Lady with the Inverted Diadem

Archaic-era cemetery unearthed in Viotia | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1288089/archaic-era-cemetery-unearthed-in-viotia/

Termessos excavations reveal ancient tombs and sarcophagi
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/termessos-excavations-reveal-ancient-tombs-and-sarcophagi-216216

Professor discovers secret markings that went unnoticed on Roman cups for 1,500 years | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-roman-glass-cup-secret-b2874134.html#

Scholar Uncovers Secret Lost for 1,500 Years Hidden on the Back of a Roman Glass Cup
https://scitechdaily.com/scholar-uncovers-secret-lost-for-1500-years-hidden-on-the-back-of-a-roman-glass-cup/

Pompeii: How robots and AI are restoring the site’s shattered Roman frescoes | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pompeii-robots-ai-roman-frescoes-b2874263.html

The World of The Hearts of Heroes – Part II – Viroconium Cornoviorum: Civitas of Roman Britain |

The World of The Hearts of Heroes – Part II – Viroconium Cornoviorum: Civitas of Roman Britain

How an Ancient Greek Story Became the Modern Marathon
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/28/how-an-ancient-greek-story-became-the-modern-marathon/

The Thesmophoria: Ancient Greece’s Original Thanksgiving – A Women-Only Harvest Festival
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/28/the-thesmophoria-ancient-greek-harvest-festival-and-thanksgiving-2

The Ugly Truth Behind Emperor Augustus’ Legendary Roman Myths – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/27/ugly-truth-emperor-augustus-legendary-roman-myths/

Herodotus and the Indian Tribe That Ate Their Parents: How Ancient Greeks Saw the World – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/28/herodotus-indian-tribe-ate-parents-ancient-greeks/

Punic overstruck on Roman – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Punic overstruck on Roman

Inspiring Fakes – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Inspiring Fakes

Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Quick Hits and Varia

Two Ways to Decline Zeus: Paradigm, Text, and Story in Iliad 5 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Two Ways to Decline Zeus: Paradigm, Text, and Story in Iliad 5

Archaeology Fragments Quiz: Can you work out what these mysterious artifacts are? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/archaeology-fragments-quiz-can-you-work-out-what-these-mysterious-artifacts-are

Mussolini, Batman, Herakles – Mainzer Beobachter

Mussolini, Batman, Herakles

PaleoJudaica.com: Missing-women mysteries in NT manuscripts?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/missing-women-mysteries-in-nt.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More excavations in the Kingdom of Ugarit
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/more-excavations-in-kingdom-of-ugarit.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Aramaic in 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/on-aramaic-in-2025.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Manuscripts and Archives: Comparative Views on Record-Keeping
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/manuscripts-and-archives-comparative.html

Peregrinus Proteus and the “forbidden food”: a comparison between Cynicism and Early Christianity
https://journals.openedition.org/aitia/12492

A Latin Novella for Beginners Margarita Murilegus. (A.) Cooper. Published 2023. ISBN 979-8393558635. Paperback. Pp. 86. Independently published. £9.99. – An Advanced Beginner Latin Novellas Margarita et feles Graeca. (M.) Cooper. Published 2024. ISBN 979-8852150561. Paperback. Pp. 122. Independently published. £8.99. – A Latin Novella for Beginners Poppaea et caper fugitivus. (A.) Cooper. Published 2023. ISBN 979-8396340220. Paperback. Pp. 81. Independently published. £9.99. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/latin-novella-for-beginners-margarita-murilegus-a-cooper-published-2023-isbn-9798393558635-paperback-pp-86-independently-published-999-an-advanced-beginner-latin-novellas-margarita-et-feles-graeca-m-cooper-published-2024-isbn-9798852150561-paperback-pp-122-independently-published-899-a-latin-novella-for-beginners-poppaea-et-caper-fugitivus-a-cooper-published-2023-isbn-9798396340220-paperback-pp-81-independently-published-999/F1A21B039384CB069F7FF6A0A47EF10A?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Mark Haddon. Dogs and Monsters ISBN 978-1529929188, Paperback, Pp 288, Vintage, £9.99 | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/mark-haddon-dogs-and-monsters-isbn-9781529929188-paperback-pp-288-vintage-999/189B579F220EAB031E76EA49E3BC7439?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Iliad, Odyssey, and statistics | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/iliad-odyssey-and-statistics/6689AA7D07988F9F9E1033F7029251C1?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

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99: The Arrival in Sicily – Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA385 – Did the ancients fight with their cloaks on?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa385-did-the-ancients-fight-with-their-cloaks-on

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(709) Robots help piece together Pompeii’s fragmented ancient frescoes | REUTERS – YouTube

(711) Turkish archaeologists uncover ancient Christian basilica – YouTube

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Project MUSE – All in the Family
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/138819

15 | 2025 – Varia – Eugesta
https://www.peren-revues.fr/eugesta/1591

OIKOS Crash Course in Greek Palaeography 2026 – Leiden University
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2026/05/oikos-crash-course-in-greek-palaeography-2026