• Regifugium — a festival which didn’t really happen on “February 24” but actually six days before the kalends of March, which was usually during a period of intercalation. Roman writers suggested this festival was a celebration of the expulsion of the Tarquins, although modern scholars have their doubts. Whatever the case, on this day the Rex Sacrorum would offer some sort of sacrifice in the Comitium and then run away as fast as he could …
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Montanus and several companions at Carthage
• 303 A.D. — edict of Galerius officially promoting the persecution of Christians (?)
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Sergius in Cappadocia
• 1463 — birth of Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (usually described as a “Neoplatonist”)
• 1999 — death of David Daube (author of Civil Disobedience in Antiquity, among numerous other works)

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A Funerary Complex from the Age of the Great Pyramids during the Old Kingdom Discovered near Aswan and the First Cataract

A Funerary Complex from the Age of the Great Pyramids during the Old Kingdom Discovered near Aswan and the First Cataract

Mixed-ancestry woman discovered in Roman grave in Bulgaria
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/mixed-ancestry-woman-discovered-in-roman-grave-in-bulgaria/157088

Viking Sea Power May Have Emerged in the 3rd Century, During the Roman Era – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/viking-sea-power-may-have-emerged-in-the-3rd-century-during-the-roman-era/

Mysterious Greek inscription reignites debate on whether a Syrian mosque stands atop Roman Emperor Elagabalus’ Temple
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-mysterious-greek-inscription-reignites-debate.html#goog_rewarded

AI and the humanities: Across the Princeton campus, an era of collaboration is underway.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2026/02/23/ai-and-humanities-across-princeton-campus-era-collaboration-underway

Why Biblical Archaeology Still Matters – Biblical Archaeology Society

Why Biblical Archaeology Still Matters

Men digging hole outside Thessaloniki charged with antiquities theft | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1296093/men-digging-hole-outside-thessaloniki-charged-with-antiquities-theft/

Country Life Was Better Than City Life In the Roman Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/22/roman-empire-country-better-city/

The Power of Laughter: How Ancient Greek Comedy Shaped Theater Forever – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/22/magical-world-wit-wisdom-ancient-greek-comedy/

Tour guide arrested, questioned for drawing on Pyramid of Unas in Giza – EgyptToday
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/145198/Tour-guide-arrested-questioned-for-drawing-on-Pyramid-of-Unas

5 Breakthroughs in Ancient Medicine That Still Matter Today | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/ancient-medicine-breakthroughs/

(18) Never far from Rome VI – by Agnes Crawford
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/never-far-from-rome-vi?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=187439748&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

GELA (CL). The “Museum of Greek Shipwrecks” opens with the largest Greek ship ever discovered. – Online Archaeology – Archeomedia

GELA (Cl). Il “Museo dei Relitti greci” apre con la più grande nave greca mai ritrovata.

Earthquake-damaged Hatay Archaeology Museum to reopen with bigger collection in 2026 – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/earthquake-damaged-hatay-archaeology-museum-to-reopen-with-bigger-collection-in-2026-3214983

One for the Books: Retelling Greek legends – The Portager
https://theportager.com/one-for-the-books-retelling-greek-legends

A tour of Pompeii as it was just before its destruction | Aeon Videos
https://aeon.co/videos/a-tour-of-pompeii-as-it-was-just-before-its-destruction

Update on issue with Scaife Viewer text searching » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Update on issue with Scaife Viewer text searching

ὣς φάτο Ἡσίοδος: Thus spoke Hesiod | Consulting Philologist

ὣς φάτο Ἡσίοδος: Thus spoke Hesiod

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Are Archaeologists Talking About Looting?
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/02/are-archaeologists-talking-about-looting.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: This Long Disease, My Life
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/this-long-disease-my-life.html

A new issue of the digest of pseudo-Chrysostom research: “Settime spigolature pseudocrisostomiche” now available

A new issue of the digest of pseudo-Chrysostom research: “Settime spigolature pseudocrisostomiche” now available

Weekly (not)Varia no. 170, 02/22/26 – Noodlings

Weekly (not)Varia no. 170, 02/22/26

What A Dangerous Thing to Say! Politics and Absurdity in Iliad 14 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

What A Dangerous Thing to Say! Politics and Absurdity in Iliad 14

PaleoJudaica.com: Guided tours at Jerusalem’s Rockefeller Museum
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/guided-tours-at-jerusalems-rockefeller.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On oxen and cattle
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/on-oxen-and-cattle.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Revitalizing the Phoenician language?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/revitalizing-phoenician-language.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Audible Punctuation: Performative Pause in Homeric Prosody
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/audible-punctuation-performative-pause.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Text, script and language in Bactria and Serindia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/text-script-and-language-in-bactria-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le nord de la mer Noire de l’Antiquité au Moyen âge
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/le-nord-de-la-mer-noire-de-lantiquite.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Multitextuality in the Homeric Iliad: The Witness of the Ptolemaic Papyri
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/multitextuality-in-homeric-iliad.html

The North of the Black Sea from Antiquity to the Middle Ages | Spartokos has read

Le nord de la mer Noire de l’Antiquité au Moyen âge

Converting verse: the poetics of asceticism in late Roman Gaul – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.31/

Plato’s moral realism – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.29/

Strike: labor, unions, and resistance in the Roman Empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.30/

In Alexandria, where the crown of Berenice rose – Il Sole 24 ORE
https://en.ilsole24ore.com/art/in-alexandria-of-egypt-where-berenice-rose-AIZxWdXB?refresh_ce=1
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The Opium Trail from Egypt to Persia, or Putting Your Hope in Dope, Ancient Edition | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-opium-trail-from-egypt-to-persia-or-putting-your-hope-in-dope-ancient-edition/

Classics & Careers S3, E3: Sco… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

117: Antigonid Macedon – The V…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(175) After Rome: Four Late Antique Capitals – YouTube

(175) What the Ancient World Knew About Sea Monsters That We Forgot – YouTube

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Exploring Ovid’s big ideas | OpenLearn – Open University
https://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/exploring-ovids-big-ideas/?active-tab=description-tab

Songs from Antiquity: Conference | Ancient Music at Oxford
https://ancientmusicoxford.web.ox.ac.uk/songs-antiquity-conference

Scholarly Theories on the Parthenon Frieze – Retrospect Journal

Scholarly Theories on the Parthenon Frieze

Register for the 2026 Annual Meeting – CANE
https://caneweb.org/register-for-the-2026-annual-meeting/

• Traditional end of the Roman year (followed by a period of intercalation)
• Terminalia — a festival in honour of Terminus, the divinity who presided over boundaries. In Rome itself, Terminus had a shrine within the Temple of Jupiter beneath an opening in the roof because, it is said, when they were building the Temple of Jupiter, Terminus refused to move. What happened in the city is unclear, but the rustic version of the festival involved the following: at boundary stones, farmer families would gather and build a turf altar; a fire would be built and one of the younger members of the family would throw grain in the fire three times. Others offered other things like honeycombs and wine, then a sheep or pig would be sacrificed and a feast would follow.
• 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Polycarp at Smyrna
• 303 A.D. — “Great Persecution” of Diocletian begins in Nicomedia
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Serenus the Gardener at Sirmium

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Earliest evidence of indigo-dyed textiles and single-needle knitting discovered in Bronze Age Anatolia
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-earliest-evidence-indigo-dyed-textiles.html

A mysterious Greek inscription reignites debate on whether a Syrian mosque stands atop Roman Emperor Elagabalus’ Temple of the Sun – Scimex
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-mysterious-greek-inscription-reignites-debate-on-whether-a-syrian-mosque-stands-atop-roman-emperor-elagabalus-temple-of-the-sun

The Time I Learned Greek Scholars Are Canonically Hotter Than Roman Scholars
https://www.jezebel.com/the-time-i-learned-greek-scholars-are-canonically-hotter-than-roman-scholars

U of C folding classics, religion department as school faces multimillion-dollar budget shortfall | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-of-calgary-budget-department-cuts-9.7098214

International Lego Classicism Day 2026
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/warwickclassicsnetwork/lego/

Hungarian pizzeria serves up a topped flatbread inspired by ancient Roman ingredients | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-ancient-rome-pizza-896056031e34081a2fa76ae563438116

Addio a Lince, il gatto degli scavi di Pompei – DIRE.it
https://www.dire.it/21-02-2026/1216606-addio-a-lince-il-gatto-degli-scavi-di-pompei/

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey:’ Cast, Release Date and More
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-cast-release-date-1236260285/

The Dark History of Human Sacrifice in Minoan Crete | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/human-sacrifice-minoan-crete/

(18) Antigone: [This Play I Read in High School]
https://elizabethbobrick.substack.com/p/antigone-this-play-i-read-in-high

The Cincinnati Program at Nemea and the Origins of Affiliated Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens | From the Archivist’s Notebook

The Cincinnati Program at Nemea and the Origins of Affiliated Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Ephraem Graecus problem: some thoughts

The Ephraem Graecus problem: some thoughts

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

It Ain’t Me, Babe | Sphinx

It Ain’t Me, Babe

Laudator Temporis Acti: Damnatio Memoriae
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/damnatio-memoriae.html

De hoofddoek (2) het westen – Mainzer Beobachter

De hoofddoek (2) het westen

De hoofddoek (1) het oosten – Mainzer Beobachter

De hoofddoek (1) het oosten

PaleoJudaica.com: Die Septuaginta – Prophetische Worte, Textwelten und Versionen (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/die-septuaginta-prophetische-worte.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Joshowitz, Visual Exemplars (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/joshowitz-visual-exemplars-brill.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Volume 2 : Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/mummy-portraits-of-roman-egypt-volume-2.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/genos-dikanikon-amateur-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/ritual-and-performativity-chorus-in-old.html
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The House of Ramesses II: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh? – The Ancients | Acast

Anima Latina 22.02.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/02/anima-latina-22-02-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 21.02.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/02/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-21-02-2026.html
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(141) The True Reason For The Bronze Age Collapse Explained – YouTube

(141) HH 0103–Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen – YouTube

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explorator 28.08 ~ February 22, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.08 ~ February 22, 2026

Home | Hellenistic Families
https://hellenisticfamilie.wixsite.com/hellenistic-families

Closure of the Institute of Archaeology at Humboldt University Berlin | WeAct
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin?source=rec-wa&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rec-wa&share=aed5af72-e319-42ae-89e4-a9c9d018135f

• Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members of their family. There was usually a big family reunion type banquet and worship was given to the Lares.
• 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra
• c. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Aristion, place disputed
• 1756 — birth of Gilbert Wakefield (Classicist)