• ludi Plebeii (day 14) — the Jupiterfest is almost over
• 9 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vespasian
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphaeus and Zacchaeus

• ludi Plebeii (day 13) — the Jupiterfest is still going on
• 42 B.C. — birth of the future emperor Tiberius

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Exceptional Discovery in Conimbriga: A Roman Inkwell with Millennial Ink Reveals the Secrets of Writing in Ancient Rome

Exceptional Discovery in Conimbriga: A Roman Inkwell with Millennial Ink Reveals the Secrets of Writing in Ancient Rome

Why Caesar was wrong about the ‘nomadic trouble-making’ Helvetii – SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-oddities/why-caesar-was-wrong-about-the-nomadic-trouble-making-helvetii/90325374

Archaeologists find a huge auditorium hidden for 2,200 years – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-find-a-huge-auditorium-hidden-for-2200-years/

2,400-Year-Old Greek Temple of Zeus Rediscovered in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/15/ancient-greek-temple-zeus-turkey/

New discoveries emerge from late antiquity shipwreck off Syracuse
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/new-discoveries-emerge-from-late-antiquity-shipwreck-off-syracuse/156389

Ancient Treasures Unearthed in Fournoi and Ikaria – tovima.com

Ancient Treasures Unearthed in Fournoi and Ikaria

Were there female gladiators in ancient Rome? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/were-there-female-gladiators-in-ancient-rome

[old news]’Shrine’ in Turkey Turns Out to Be Tomb of Ancient Greek Boxer Diagoras – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/15/turkey-shrine-tomb-of-ancient-greek-boxer-diagoras/

700 forgotten Thespian hoplites fell fighting alongside the Spartans at Thermopylae, a study explains why they chose to die

700 forgotten Thespian hoplites fell fighting alongside the Spartans at Thermopylae, a study explains why they chose to die

After destroying 226 historical sites… Israel steals 17,000 artifacts from the Pasha’s Palace Museum in Gaza | PNN
https://english.pnn.ps/index.php/news/47869

Analysing an ancient Egyptian genome – The Past

Analysing an ancient Egyptian genome

Lamia, the Man-Devouring Goddess of Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/16/lamia-the-man-devouring-goddess-of-greek-mythology/

Agatha Christie’s Enduring Love Affair With Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/14/agatha-christie-enduring-love-affair-greece/

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard | Open Culture

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All – New York Stage Review

Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All

Assessing the Importance and Impact of Leopold von Ranke’s Stance on History and his Role within the Discipline – Retrospect Journal

Assessing the Importance and Impact of Leopold von Ranke’s Stance on History and his Role within the Discipline

Roman Traditions in a ‘Barbarian’ World: How Roman were the Post-Roman Kingdoms?  – Retrospect Journal

Roman Traditions in a ‘Barbarian’ World: How Roman were the Post-Roman Kingdoms? 

Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon

Coin refs in 1829-1830 archaeological reports – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Coin refs in 1829-1830 archaeological reports

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos

PaleoJudaica.com: Wiggershaus, The Man of Opened Eye (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/wiggershaus-man-of-opened-eye-gorgias.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Olivero, 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/olivero-1-enoch-ethiopic-readers.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Believe Your Own Eyes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/believe-your-own-eyes.html

Het scheiden der wegen – Mainzer Beobachter

Het scheiden der wegen

Wie was Nikolaas van Myra? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Nikolaas van Myra?

Tweemaal de Eerste Tussenperiode – Mainzer Beobachter

Tweemaal de Eerste Tussenperiode

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Histoire du Royaume d’Egrisi : de son origine à la fin du Ve siècle ap. J.-C
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/histoire-du-royaume-degrisi-de-son.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Documents on the History of the Temples and Cults from the Late and Graeco-Roman periods. Part 3
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/documents-on-history-of-temples-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/06/ucla-encyclopedia-of-egyptology-uee.html

History of the Kingdom of Egrisi: from its origin to the end of the 5th century AD | Spartokos has read

Histoire du Royaume d’Egrisi : de son origine à la fin du Ve siècle ap. J.-C

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Decline & Fall of the Ancient World – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 15.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-15-11-2025.html

diē quartō decimō mēnsis Novembris — Nuntii Latini

diē quartō decimō mēnsis Novembris

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Anima Latina 16.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-16-11-2025.html

(398) Alexander the Great’s Egypt: Sarcophagus Heist! | Egyptian History – YouTube

(398) De obstetricum munere deque pariendo, cum Carolina Doušová – YouTube

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explorator 27.48 ~ November 16, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.48 ~ November 16, 2025

Project MUSE – A New Handbook of Rhetoric
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/103486

Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781399424790

Call for Papers & Call for Hosts: Upcoming CAC Annual Conferences / Appel à communications et appel à hôtes : Prochaines conférences annuelles de la SCEC – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/hostcacagm/

Call for Speakers: CAC Annual Lecture Tours / Appel de conférencier·ère·s: Tournées annuelles de la SCEC – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/lecturetourcfs/

Assistant Professor in Classics job with University of Georgia | 37915852
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37915852/assistant-professor-in-classics/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2006&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20251115_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20251115_jobtitle_job1

• ludi Plebeii (day 12) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on …
• 305 A.D. — martyrdom of Gurias
• 1907 — birth of Nicholas G.L. Hammond (The Genius of Alexander the Great, among others)

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Classical-era Zeus Temple found in southern Türkiye after 40 years | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/classical-era-zeus-temple-found-in-southern-turkiye-after-40-years/

Türkiye’s deep past continues to rewrite archaeological history | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/turkiyes-deep-past-continues-to-rewrite-archaeological-history/news

New discoveries emerge from late antiquity shipwreck off Syracuse
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/new-discoveries-emerge-from-late-antiquity-shipwreck-off-syracuse/156389

Capo Colonna, dentro agli scavi: il Santuario di Hera Lacinia svela i suoi nuovi segreti – Calabria Diretta News
https://www.calabriadirettanews.com/2025/11/14/capo-colonna-dentro-agli-scavi-il-santuario-di-hera-lacinia-svela-i-suoi-nuovi-segreti/

Stolen Past: Inside the fight against illicit antiquities trafficking | UN News
https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/11/1166368

Canterbury shoe scans give ‘tantalising glimpse’ of Roman Britain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7ez61pk1eo

[paywalled] Rome restores graphic tribute to its bloody imperial reign
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/rome-restores-graphic-tribute-to-its-bloody-imperial-reign-6zjqb03nh

Roman hoard found in 2021 in the UK sold by Noonans
https://www.coinworld.com/news/auctions/roman-hoard-found-in-2021-in-the-uk-sold-by-noonans

‘A mixture of strength and seduction’: Bringing the Roman Empire to life in ‘Anno 117: Pax Romana’ | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/anno-117-pax-romana-interview

In southern Italy, a long-planned excavation is revealing the secrets of an ancient Greek sanctuary – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/11/14/in-southern-italy-a-long-planned-excavation-is-revealing-the-secrets-of-an-ancient-greek-sanctuary

Bronze Age Mycenaean Road Network Reconstructed Using Advanced Digital Mapping – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/14/mycenaean-road-network-advanced-digital-mapping/

New Database Reveals Startling Extent of Rome’s Roads: We Only Know 3% – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-11-14/ty-article/new-database-reveals-startling-extent-of-romes-roads-we-only-know-3/0000019a-7e52-d259-af9a-fedf4ea50000

‘Oedipus’ Review: Brilliantly Reimagining Sophocles on Broadway – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/oedipus-review-brilliantly-reimagining-sophocles-on-broadway-b9416144?st=N9XwUt&reflink=article_email_share

Cartier and classical myth: a dialogue between jewelry and antiquity at the Capitoline Museums
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/cartier-and-classical-myth-a-dialogue-between-jewelry-and-antiquity-at-the-capitoline-museums

Epic movie: Christopher Nolan uses 2m ft of film for adaptation of The Odyssey | The Odyssey | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/nov/14/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-2-million-ft-imax-matt-damon

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard | Open Culture

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

World’s Oldest Cosmogony – Biblical Archaeology Society

World’s Oldest Cosmogony

Ancient History Roundup – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-history-roundup-eee?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=178702964&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Suffering So Long for this Woman! – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Suffering So Long for this Woman!

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: OSCE assists UK authorities in “major antiquities recovery operation”
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/11/osce-assists-uk-authorities-in-major.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Ancient statues stolen from Syria’s National Museum David Gritten
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/11/ancient-statues-stolen-from-syrias.html

The Role of Aes Rude at Felsina (Bononia, Bologna) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

The Role of Aes Rude at Felsina (Bononia, Bologna)

Assistant Professor in Classics job with University of Georgia | 37915852
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37915852/assistant-professor-in-classics/

Paul Before the Sanhedrin – Acts 23:1-5 – Reading Acts

Paul Before the Sanhedrin – Acts 23:1-5

The World of The Hearts of Heroes – Part I – Cassius Dio: Chronicler of the Severans |

The World of The Hearts of Heroes – Part I – Cassius Dio: Chronicler of the Severans

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Roman Times: From Rhodes to Vulci: The Unlikely Journey of an Aryballos Depicting the Egyptian Dwarf-God Bes
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/11/from-rhodes-to-vulci-unlikely-journey.html

Collatio Legum (1): De puzzelstukjes – Mainzer Beobachter

Collatio Legum (1): De puzzelstukjes

Collatio Legum (2): Wat en Wie? – Mainzer Beobachter

Collatio Legum (2): Wat en Wie?

Collatio Legum (3): Waar, Waarom, Wanneer – Mainzer Beobachter

Collatio Legum (3): Waar, Waarom, Wanneer

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the prophets have a plan?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/did-prophets-have-plan.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Dressing for justice in the Letter of James
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/dressing-for-justice-in-letter-of-james.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: British School at Rome Digital Collections
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2020/10/british-school-at-rome-digital.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Classical Doctorates in the UK and the Republic of Ireland
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/01/the-institute-of-classical-studies-uk.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/dura-europos-past-present-future.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Studia Antiqua et Archaeologica
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/03/open-access-journal-studia-antiqua-et.html

Classicism and other phobias – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Classicism and other phobias

Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient necropolitics: maltreating the living, abusing the dead in Greek antiquity

Intramural Human Remains from Roman Towns in Britain: A Case Study from Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/intramural-human-remains-from-roman-towns-in-britain-a-case-study-from-late-iron-age-and-roman-silchester/1D4554B4C06650C61EDC1032279F4175?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Fowl Play: A British ‘Fatal Charade’ at Brading Roman Villa | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/fowl-play-a-british-fatal-charade-at-brading-roman-villa/F8A9A91B8F9E6C52E468DE91F51E16E8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Declamatory Fictions and the Crimen Maiestatis — Seneca, Controuersiae 9.2 | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/declamatory-fictions-and-the-crimen-maiestatis-seneca-controuersiae-92/C0F6ED0D61D24A3F080A7BA9BDA5091F?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

A Legal Exemption for the Temple Cults of Rome and Alexandria in the Fourth Century | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/legal-exemption-for-the-temple-cults-of-rome-and-alexandria-in-the-fourth-century/8FCF6B2789837BED8D95874E77605DC5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Full article: The digital reconstruction of the Herculaneum boat (79 CE)
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10572414.2025.2493053#abstract

[paywalled] A pleb’s-eye view of the Roman Empire
https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/plebs-romana-power-people-politics-ancient-rome-peter-jones-review-dngn3r3mp
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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW383 – The Ancient Warfare Christmas Reading List
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/aw383-the-ancient-warfare-christmas-reading-list

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(361) Comedy and tragedy in the dramatic festivals of Athens – YouTube

(363) Not just political satire: Comedy’s paradoxical obsession with tragedy – YouTube

(363) Understanding Aristophanes’ Frogs – YouTube

(364) lectūra septendecima: The Relative Pronoun (LTN 101) – YouTube

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Post-doctoral Research Associate in Latin Linguistics | King’s College London
https://www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/130725-post-doctoral-research-associate-in-latin-linguistics

Assistant Professor in Classics job with University of Georgia | 37915852
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37915852/assistant-professor-in-classics/