ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ November 13, 2025

===========================================================
LEGENDA
===========================================================
New discovery suggests opium use in ancient cultures

New discovery suggests opium use in ancient cultures

Scholars Thought This Ancient Silver Goblet Told One Myth for 50 Years. Is It Actually Telling Another Story?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scholars-thought-this-ancient-silver-goblet-told-one-myth-for-50-years-is-it-actually-telling-another-story-180987675/

Amarna Letters, the Cuneiform Tablets Containing the Diplomatic Correspondence of Ancient Egypt

Amarna Letters, the Cuneiform Tablets Containing the Diplomatic Correspondence of Ancient Egypt

Greek Inscription at Ancient Theater of Apollonia Reveals Name of Prominent Priestess – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/13/greek-inscription-ancient-theater-apollonia-name-priestess/

Hidden Marks Reveal The Human Story In Ancient Roman Glass – ScienceBlog.com

Hidden Marks Reveal The Human Story In Ancient Roman Glass

Tutankhamun was decapitated 100 years ago – why the excavation is a great shame instead of a triumph
https://theconversation.com/tutankhamun-was-decapitated-100-years-ago-why-the-excavation-is-a-great-shame-instead-of-a-triumph-269015

Ancient pool revealed as healing sanctuary in dedication to Asclepius
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/ancient-pool-revealed-as-healing-sanctuary-in-dedication-to-asclepius/156358

Treasures of Gold and Roman River Port Discovered at Ancient City of Aquileia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/treasures-gold-roman-river-port-ancient-city-aquileia/

‘Metamorphoses’ reframes classical antiquity for a modern audience

‘Metamorphoses’ reframes classical antiquity for a modern audience

Forgotten Innovators of the Ancient World? A New Show Gives the Etruscans Their Due
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/estruscan-exhibition-legion-honor-san-francisco-2712304

OSCE assists UK authorities in major antiquities recovery operation | OSCE
https://www.osce.org/secretariat/601473

Top Ten Ancient Greek Coins
https://coinweek.com/top-ten-ancient-greek-coins/

Back to the Challenge: $100K Kaggle Surface Detection
https://substack.com/home/post/p-178721441

Syrian officials issue—then delete—statement identifying ancient Roman statues stolen from Damascus National Museum – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/13/syrian-officials-delete-statement-ancient-roman-statues-stolen-damascus-national-museum

How ‘The History of the Peloponnesian War’ resonates today – The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/11/13/thucydides-peloponnesian-war-waterfield-dirda-review/

Defending Democracy: Lessons from Raphael’s School of Athens
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/democracies-and-its-friend-enemy-distinctions/

The Sibyl, By Willem Drost (c. 1633–1659) – The Historian’s Hut

The Sibyl, By Willem Drost (c. 1633–1659)

UAlbany lecturer, former Gloversville teacher, sparks passion for ‘dead’ language – Spotlight News

UAlbany lecturer, former Gloversville teacher, sparks passion for ‘dead’ language

Dan-el Padilla Peralta joins humanities faculty at ASU | ASU News
https://news.asu.edu/b/20251112-dan-el-padilla-peralta-joins-humanities-faculty-asu

Aberdeen Latin teacher on why everyone should learn the language
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/education/6882058/latin-classics-st-margarets-school-aberdeen-veronique-oldham/

Layers of Rome | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1105766

Earliest Latin translation of ‘Tao Te Ching’ published
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-11-12/Earliest-Latin-translation-of-Tao-Te-Ching-published-1Ifjsq9Haj6/share_amp.html

The Odyssey: New Art Released for Christopher Nolan’s Epic Movie

The Odyssey: New Art Released for Christopher Nolan’s Epic Movie

Looting Matters: Hecht fragment returns to Italy
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/hecht-fragment-returns-to-italy.html

Witt’s Collection – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Witt’s Collection

Oh Sister | Sphinx

Oh Sister

Three Things Thursday: Notebook Jotting from Bilbao | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Things Thursday: Notebook Jotting from Bilbao

Het mausoleum van Belevi – Mainzer Beobachter

Het mausoleum van Belevi

PaleoJudaica.com: Plato and the prophets?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/plato-and-prophets.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Raz’s “weak prophecy” and secularization
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/razs-weak-prophecy-and-secularization.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Social Archaeology of Kinship in Iberia and Beyond: Recent Multistranded Approaches from aDNA to Household Archaeology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-social-archaeology-of-kinship-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Voies et voix de la philologie classique: Éditer les textes anciens : comment et pour quel public?
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/voies-et-voix-de-la-philologie.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Contributions à l’histoire de Bjala
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/contributions-lhistoire-de-bjala.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tutankamun Spatial Archive: Anatomy of an Excavation
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/tutankamun-spatial-archive-anatomy-of.html

Contributions to the history of Bjala | Spartokos has read

Contributions à l’histoire de Bjala

The small stuff of Roman antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The small stuff of Roman antiquity

Aristotele, La Politica: guida – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aristotele, La Politica: guida

===========================================================
AUDIENDA
===========================================================
Roman Toilets – The Ancients | Acast

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 9 Pater (… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

===========================================================
VIDENDA
===========================================================
(324) Characterisation in Euripides’ Bacchae: thinking about performance – YouTube