• equorum probatio — the official cavalry parade of the equites
• ludi Plebeii (day 11) — the Jupiterfest continues
• 252 A.D. — martyrdom of Serapion

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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

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AUDIENDA
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Roman Toilets – The Ancients | Acast

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

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

(324) AIA Archaeology Hour November 2025: The People’s Arena – YouTube

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ANE Today, 13 November 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-13-november-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=178619230&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

• rites in honour of Jupiter
• epulum in honour of Jupiter
• rites in honour of Feronia
• rites in honour of Fortuna Primigenia
• rites in honour of Pietas (?)
• ludi Plebeii (day 10) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on (much of the above must be connected to it all)…
• 36 B.C. — ovatio of Octavian for “his” victories over Sextus Pompeius in Sicily; the real author of the victory, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, was granted the corona rostrata
• 354 — birth of Augustine

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A Roman river port, a road, and three extremely rare gold coins discovered in Aquileia, the fortified city that defended the Veneti from barbarian incursions

A Roman river port, a road, and three extremely rare gold coins discovered in Aquileia, the fortified city that defended the Veneti from barbarian incursions

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-excavating-roman-fort-britain-discovered-rare-rred-gemstone-engraved-with-surprising-design-180987674/

Opium use in ancient Egypt: Alabaster vase residue points to widespread use
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-opium-ancient-egypt-alabaster-vase.html#goog_rewarded

Archaeologists in France Discover 2,000-Year-Old Port Under Toulon’s Naval Base – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/archaeologist-france-discover-port-toulon-naval-base/

Ancient Roman Theatre Seat Reveals Name of Prominent Priestess – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-roman-theatre-seat-reveals-name-of-prominent-priestess/

Greece Restores Three Early Christian Monuments on Astypalaia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/11/greece-restores-three-early-christian-monuments-astypalaia/

Archaeologists Crack Century-old Mystery: What Were Clay Cornets Used for 6,000 Years Ago? – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-11-12/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-crack-century-old-mystery-what-were-clay-cornets-used-for-6-000-years-ago/0000019a-77d8-d326-a3ff-f7d9a7510000

Needle-carved image linked to Sasanian king found in Southern Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/520316/Needle-carved-image-linked-to-Sasanian-king-found-in-Southern

[AI?] Egyptian bowl tests may show last meal before Pompeii | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-873435

Thieves Steal Roman-Era Statues From Damascus Museum
https://hyperallergic.com/1056436/thieves-steal-roman-era-statues-from-damascus-museum/

Theft of Roman statues from Syria’s main museum believed to be work of an individual – ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/theft-roman-statues-syrias-main-museum-believed-work-127451255

Syria opens probe into robbery at national museum
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251112-syria-opens-probe-into-robbery-at-national-museum

[paywalled] Homer’s “Odyssey” offers lessons for navigating 2026
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2025/11/12/homers-odyssey-offers-lessons-for-navigating-2026

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings – Cherwell

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings

Healing, purification and holiness: how ancient Greeks, Romans and early Christians used olive oil
https://theconversation.com/healing-purification-and-holiness-how-ancient-greeks-romans-and-early-christians-used-olive-oil-267003

The Epic Clash That Ended the Roman Republic – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/titans-collided-epic-clash-ended-roman-republic/

When Alexander Crushed the Persians: The Historic Battle at Issus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/when-alexander-crushed-persians-battle-issus/

The Birth of the Sword and Sandals Epic | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/birth-sword-and-sandals-epic

Getty Villa to Premiere “Thieves of California,” a Dystopian Reimagining of a Greek Tragedy – SM Mirror

Getty Villa to Premiere “Thieves of California,” a Dystopian Reimagining of a Greek Tragedy

Farewell to Textual Criticism? | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/farewell-textual-criticism

Read all of antiquities dealer van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here

Read all of antiquities dealer van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here

Laudator Temporis Acti: Charles Wordsworth’s Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/charles-wordsworths-graecae-grammaticae.html

Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like?

PaleoJudaica.com: Fake French Phoenician
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/fake-french-phoenician.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Marble mask excavated at the Carthage Tophet
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/marble-mask-excavated-at-carthage-tophet.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Raz’s modern broken(-)prophetic mirrors
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/razs-modern-broken-prophetic-mirrors.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/researching-rigged-game-digital.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/warriors-wives-ancient-greek-myth-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pläne von Boğazköy Ḫattuša Unterstadt-Große Tempel
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/plane-von-bogazkoy-hattusa-unterstadt.html

Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland

The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity

Diogenes by Inger N. I. Kuin — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/diogenes-by-n-i-kuin
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’… – Breaking History – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(291) Conserving Ancient Egyptian Artifacts – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics

Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics

• ludi Plebeii (day 9) – the Jupiterfest continues