ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~January 5, 2026

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LEGENDA
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Egypt’s Karnak Temple may have risen from water like a creation myth | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074502.htm

Protective Solomon’s Knot mosaic unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient city of Smyrna – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/protective-solomons-knot-mosaic-unearthed-in-turkiyes-ancient-city-of-smyrna-3212422?s=1

British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-treasure-hunter-stolen-antiquities-recovery-2734597

Antiquities Authority: Intensive efforts to recover smuggled Iraqi treasures » Iraqi News Agency
https://ina.iq/en/local/44614-antiquities-authority-intensive-efforts-to-recover-smuggled-iraqi-treasures.html

How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness

King’s Greek Play 2026 Announced: Clouds | Mirage News
https://www.miragenews.com/kings-greek-play-2026-announced-clouds-1597396/

Trump’s “Don-roe” Doctrine: The Thucydides Lessons the White House Cannot Ignore – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/trump-thucydides-lessons-white-house-cannot-ignore/

Thermopylae Reimagined: A Memorial Fit for the 21st Century – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/thermopylae-memorial-proposal/

Not Just the Father of History: Herodotus as the First Social Anthropologist – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/herodotus-first-social-anthropologist/

Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question
https://theconversation.com/odysseus-the-destroyer-christopher-nolans-new-odyssey-adaptation-revives-an-ancient-moral-question-270312

Before Christopher Nolan, The Coen Brothers Made An Odyssey Movie (Without Even Reading It)
https://www.slashfilm.com/2062479/christopher-nolan-coen-brothers-the-odyssey-movie-oh-brother-where-art-thou/

The Story of Carthage Isn’t Necessarily What the Romans Committed to History
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-carthage-isnt-necessarily-what-romans-committed-history-180987841/

[paywalled] Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/01/the-way-to-colonos-kay-cicellis-sophocles-book-review/685414/

Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742) – Roger Pearse

Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)

Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes: Learning to Love Iliad 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes: Learning to Love Iliad 10

Laudator Temporis Acti: Streams
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/streams.html

PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: New Year 2026!
https://panoplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-year-2026.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amheida IV: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Latin Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/amheida-iv-ain-el-gedida-2006-2008.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/links-to-vallarsi-edition-of-works-of.html
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AUDIENDA
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Stephen Fry says Odysseus is a hero for our times | The Sunday Magazine | On Demand | CBC Listen
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57-the-sunday-magazine/clip/16190061-stephen-fry-says-odysseus-hero-times

BBC Audio | The Today Podcast | Can Donald Trump Be Compared To Julius Caesar? (Your Radical Questions with Tom Holland)
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0mpbrwl

A Podcast about Rome: Episode 28: The Aqua Alexandrina
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-28-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=183550854&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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VIDENDA
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(383) I Traveled the Via Appia — Here Are 5 Places You Need to See! – YouTube

(383) Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure – YouTube

(383) The Bronze Age Greek Kingdom You’ve Never Heard Of – YouTube

(383) Catullus 5: da mi basia mille – YouTube

(383) Ovid Advice to a rejected lover: Ars Amatoria 1.469-478 – YouTube

(383) Seneca Changing morals: De Beneficiis 3.16 – YouTube

(383) Horace Finished with love: Odes 3.26 – YouTube

(383) Martial The Power of Love: Epigrams 1.62 – YouTube

(383) Pliny To Calpurnia Hispulla, his wife’s aunt: Letters 4.19 – YouTube

(383) Catullus 85: odi et amo – YouTube

(383) Martial An Enigma: Epigrams 12.46 – YouTube

(383) Catullus 8: miser Catulle – YouTube

(383) Catullus 70: mulier mea – YouTube

(383) Cicero a Family Matter (ad Atticum 5.1) – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Multi-analytical study of shaping firing and painted inscriptions in a Roman Titulus Pictus amphora | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02279-5

Replacing Archaeologists with AI – Biblical Archaeology Society

Replacing Archaeologists with AI

Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World – Land and loyalty

Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World

Woodworking in the Roman Imagination – Call for Papers

Events

‘Phoenician Identity in the Making’ Research Workshop of The Israel Science Foundation | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/phoenician-identity-making-research-workshop-israel-science-foundation

This Day in Ancient History: nonae januariae

  • ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of the festival, presumably as offerings to the Lares. There would also follow more formal sacrifices at the compita (places where two farm paths crossed).
  • 1906 — birth of Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)