ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ December 3, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Hidden for Millennia, Limyra’s Long-Lost Temple of Zeus Has Finally Been Found After 43 Years of Searching – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/hidden-for-millennia-limyras-long-lost-temple-of-zeus-has-finally-been-found-after-43-years-of-searching/

Shepherd in Turkey Finds Roman-Era Stele With Carved Human Figures and Greek Inscription – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/03/roman-stele-greek-inscription-shepherd-turkey/

Roman-Era Greek Inscription Stele Discovered in Muğla
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/03/roman-greek-inscription-stele-kadyanda-cadyanda-mugla-turkey-2025/

First evidence of lost-wax casting for silver in Bronze Age Western Europe uncovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-evidence-lost-wax-silver-bronze.html

New Study Shows How Felines Conquered Europe Thanks to the Roman Army – La Voce di New York

New Study Shows How Felines Conquered Europe Thanks to the Roman Army

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.) | Open Culture

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)

1500-Year-Old Roman Ring with a Tiny Hare Was Discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and It’s Absolutely Stunning
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/1500-year-old-roman-ring-with-a-tiny-hare-was-discovered-at-hadrians-wall-in-britain-and-its-absolutely-stunning/

Sabines: The Spartan Tribe That Shaped the Early Romans – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/03/sabines-spartan-tribe-early-romans/

The Paradox of “Spolia”: The Reuse of Building Materials in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The Paradox of “Spolia”: The Reuse of Building Materials in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Houston’s Roman Art Blockbuster Shines a Light On a ‘Good’ Emperor — Italian Museum Treasures Beckon at MFAH
https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/imperial-rome-emperor-trajan-art-exhibition-mfah-houston/

Is it over for antiques dealers?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-it-over-for-antiques-dealers/

People Have Been Finding Ancient Fossils For Millennia, But What Did They Think They Were Prior To Understanding Dinosaurs? » TwistedSifter

People Have Been Finding Ancient Fossils For Millennia, But What Did They Think They Were Prior To Understanding Dinosaurs?

Scientists compile ‘Google Maps for Roman roads’ – SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/best-of-srg-content/scientists-compile-google-maps-for-roman-roads/90542320

Mapping Troy’s Luwian Context – Biblical Archaeology Society

Mapping Troy’s Luwian Context

A New Section of the Wall of the Ancient Mesapian City of Manduria Built Between the 5th and 3rd Centuries B.C. Has Been Discovered

A New Section of the Wall of the Ancient Mesapian City of Manduria Built Between the 5th and 3rd Centuries B.C. Has Been Discovered

More Than Words – Noodlings

More Than Words

WashU Classics Brings the Ancient World to Local Classrooms | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/news/washu-classics-brings-ancient-world-local-classrooms

Classical Sparta: A Militaristic Society?
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/classical-sparta-a-militaristic-society

Laudator Temporis Acti: Singular, Not Plural
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/singular-not-plural.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Saved by the Gods
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/saved-by-gods.html

The True Philologist Knows… | Sphinx

The True Philologist Knows…

Alexander de Grote in Siwa – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Siwa

PaleoJudaica.com: The narrative “hypothesis” behind the Gospels
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-narrative-hypothesis-behind-gospels.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/les-steles-puniques-de-carthage-au.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Sifiting Project staff profile
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-sifiting-project-staff-profile.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/prometheus-and-liver-through-art-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der lateinische ›Alexanderroman‹ des Iulius Valerius: Sprache, Erzählung, Kontex
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/der-lateinische-alexanderroman-des.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sculture Greche e Romane del Museo Nazionale di Antichità di Bucarest
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/sculture-greche-e-romane-del-museo.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-people-that-never-were-linguistic.html

Greek and Roman Sculpture from the National Museum of Antichità in Bucharest | Spartokos read

Sculture Greche e Romane del Museo Nazionale di Antichità di Bucarest

The orators and their treatment of the recent past – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The orators and their treatment of the recent past

Was ist Residenz? – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Was ist Residenz?

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world

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AUDIENDA
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How 50 Archaeological Discover… – Bible and Archaeology – Apple Podcasts

81. Lisa Wilhelmi: Bronze Age …–Thin End of the Wedge – Apple Podcasts

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 12 fidus … – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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VIDENDA
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(849) Were Egyptian temples built to honour the heavens—or to elevate earthly rulers? – YouTube

(850) How One Murder and One Trial Broke Rome Forever – Ancient History – YouTube

(850) We Were WRONG About Ancient Cats – New DNA Study Changes Everything! #OldeNews – YouTube

(850) Ten Wonders of Ancient Anatolia – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Georgia – PhilJobs:JFP
https://philjobs.org/job/show/30465

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iii nonas decembres

  • Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’ and, of course, this ritual was ‘crashed’ by P. Clodius (dressed as a woman) in 62 B.C. with all sorts of nasty spinoffs, not least of which was the Julius Caesar’s divorce from his wife Pompeia.
  • 313 A.D. — death of the retired emperor Diocletian