ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ December 18, 2025

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LEGENDA
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Pompeii: New frescoes unearthed in villa
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/article/new-frescoes-unearthed-in-villa-near-pompeii-show-extraordinary-details-and-colours/

If Mount Vesuvius Erupted in August, Why Were Pompeii Victims Wearing Heavy Wool Garments?
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/if-mount-vesuvius-erupted-in-august-why-were-pompeii-victims-wearing-heavy-wool-garments-180987895/

Italian restorers use laser beams to clean an ancient Roman column | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/rome-italy-column-marcus-aurelius-restoration-3fb9db4f8c02e33bda685ac0e4922beb

Rome’s New Colosseum Metro Station Is Stacked With Archaeological Treasures
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/rome-colosseum-metro-station-archaeology-2731534

What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us? Made Us Sicker, Apparently
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/roman-rule-health-decline/

Did the ancient Romans wear underwear? The truth is surprisingly complicated | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-underwear-fashion-complicated-truth/

What Did Ancient Greek Warriors Wear Into Battle?
https://www.history.com/articles/ancient-greek-warriors-real-armor-battle

Rare 1,300-year-old medallion decorated with menorahs found near Jerusalem’s Temple Mount | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/rare-1-300-year-old-medallion-decorated-with-menorahs-found-near-jerusalems-temple-mount

Research Sheds Light on Ancient Greek and Roman Houses at Darazya, Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/18/ancient-greek-roman-ruins-darazya-egypt/

The Collapse of the Bronze Age Gave Rise to the Creation of the First Warship: the Helladic Galley

The Collapse of the Bronze Age Gave Rise to the Creation of the First Warship: the Helladic Galley

Archaeologists May Have Finally Found Sparta’s Lost Mycenaean Palace – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/18/sparta-lost-mycenaean-palace/

The Parthenon Marbles: How Close Are We to a Resolution? – tovima.com

The Parthenon Marbles: How Close Are We to a Resolution?

Why the Vatican is reinvesting in Christian archaeology

Why the Vatican is reinvesting in Christian archaeology

Locusta: The dark history of Rome’s notorious poisoner
https://dangerousminds.net/history/locusta-the-dark-history-of-romes-notorious-poisoner/

Longtime Smith College professor dies in Northampton fire – Daily Hampshire Gazette

Longtime Smith College professor dies in Northampton fire

T.J. Clark · A Kouros at the Met
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n23/t.j.-clark/a-kouros-at-the-met

Philosophy Club Is Hot—Just Ask These Gen Z New Yorkers | Vogue
https://www.vogue.com/article/philosophy-club-is-hot-just-ask-these-gen-z-new-yorkers

Ancient Carthage’s Commemorative Military Armbands – The Historian’s Hut

Ancient Carthage’s Commemorative Military Armbands

Titus Manlius Torquatus Kills A Leader Of The Gauls, Taking His Golden Necklace, Illustrated by An Unknown 14th-century Artist – The Historian’s Hut

Titus Manlius Torquatus Kills A Leader Of The Gauls, Taking His Golden Necklace, Illustrated by An Unknown 14th-century Artist

Pet Monkeys Were Popular in Ancient Rome, Burials Reveal
https://hyperallergic.com/pet-monkeys-were-popular-in-ancient-rome-burials-reveal/

Oedipus goes to New York – by Elizabeth Bobrick
https://elizabethbobrick.substack.com/p/oedipus-goes-to-new-york?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1331359&post_id=181606748&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Aristoteles over de Nijl – Mainzer Beobachter

Aristoteles over de Nijl

Tyranny and the Plot: Introducing Iliad 8 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Tyranny and the Plot: Introducing Iliad 8

December 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/december-58-bce-from-cicero-at-dyrrachium?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=181941781&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Thumos – The Trial of Socrates [Things You Might Have Missed 2025] | Angry Metal Guy
https://www.angrymetalguy.com/wp-content/uploads/banners/AMG-archenemy.jpg.webp

PaleoJudaica.com: Cracking the Qumran Cryptic B script?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/cracking-qumran-cryptic-b-script.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the Rockefeller Museum in East Jerusalem
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/on-rockefeller-museum-in-east-jerusalem.html

PaleoJudaica.com: ANE Today’s 2025 top archaeological discoveries list
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/ane-todays-2025-top-archaeological.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nachbarschaft im Wandel: Untersuchungen zu keramischen Inventaren aus Siedlungen und Nekropolen in Oberägypten und Nubien (ca. 2300–1700 v. Chr.)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/nachbarschaft-im-wandel-untersuchungen.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Serving the Gods: Artists, Craftsmen, Ritual Specialists in the Ancient World
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/serving-gods-artists-craftsmen-ritual.html

‘Diogenes’ by Inger N.I. Kuin | Book Review – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/diogenes-review-a-philosophy-of-scandal-7bdb423b?st=L8wbmU&reflink=article_email_share

A dramatic event in late Roman Florence: the anomalous burial site discovered beneath the Uffizi Gallery – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12.27/

Playful classics: classical reception as a creative process – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12.26/

The Persephone myth in young adult fiction: from girl to woman – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2025/2025.12.25/

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AUDIENDA
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Salamis–When in Rome – Apple Podcasts

Peace and Peacemaking in ancient Greece and Rome–Visualising War and Peace – Apple Podcasts

Paestum: Ancient Greeks in Italy – The Ancients | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(61) Was Alexander the Great really that great? – Stephanie Honchell Smith – YouTube

(63) Nuovi scavi alla villa di Poppea di Oplontis – il cantiere svela nuovi affreschi, pavoni e maschere – YouTube

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xv kalendas januarias

  • Saturnalia (day 2) – major, popular festival in honour of Saturn with banquets, the wearing of soft caps (pilei), and general good cheer. Shops and schools were closed, gambling was legally permitted, gifts were exchanged and masters might even wait on their servants. Obviously this festival is often seen as a precursor to our modern-day Christmas celebrations …
  • 69 A.D. — emperor-for-a-little-while Vitellius abdicates, but changes his mind later
  • 1809 – Death of Alexander Adam, an eminent Classicist