ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 8, 2026

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LEGENDA
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April 8, 1820: Venus de Milo Discovered on Milos — Calls Grow for Its Return to Greece Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/08/venus-de-milo-return-greece/

Survey of Eretria plain on Evia points to unknown ancient sites | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1300422/survey-of-eretria-plain-on-evia-points-to-unknown-ancient-sites/

When a Warrior’s Terrible Weapon to Deal Death Is Just a Tool – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-08/ty-article/when-a-warriors-terrible-weapon-to-deal-death-is-just-a-tool/0000019d-6764-d759-ab9d-7ffd788a0000

Roman villa of Publius Cornelius Dolabella resurfaces in Bacoli: first site on property confiscated from the Camorra
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/roman-villa-of-publius-cornelius-dolabella-resurfaces-in-bacoli-first-site-on-property-confiscated-from-the-camorra

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

A Byzantine fort discovered in Elda, built by the garrison of the Eastern Roman Empire on the Visigothic frontier of southeastern Iberia

Archaeologists Didn’t Expect to Find Anything at This Site in England. Then, They Stumbled Upon a Roman Villa and a Bronze Artifact Dubbed ‘Norfolk Nessie’
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-didnt-expect-to-find-anything-at-this-site-in-england-then-they-stumbled-upon-a-roman-villa-and-a-bronze-artifact-dubbed-norfolk-nessie-180988505/

Finding the Mycenaeans of Cape Madness

Maritime Mycenaeans

Roman Complex Unearthed Near Marseille Points to Larger Ancient Settlement – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/08/ancient-roman-complex-discovered-marseille/

How AI is helping save 2,000-year-old Roman relics in Northern England – Channel 4 News
https://www.channel4.com/news/how-ai-is-helping-save-2000-year-old-roman-relics-in-northern-england

See the 2,000-Year-Old Ancient Roman Cargo From an Accidental Shipwreck Discovered at the Bottom of a Lake in Switzerland
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-cargo-from-roman-ship-discovered-at-the-bottom-of-swiss-lake-180988492/

Dementia Was Rare in Ancient Greece, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/08/dementia-ancient-greece-rome/

Ancient Romans were obsessed with a plant said to be a contraception and an aphrodisiac. Then one day, it went extinct
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-romans-obsessed-contraception-aphrodisiac.html

Thieves Who Allegedly Stole an Ancient Gold Helmet Belonging to a Lost European Culture Just Returned It
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thieves-allegedly-stole-gold-helmet-lost-european-culture-returned-it-180988487/

Archaeologists have discovered an ancient Roman bridge in Zaragoza. ‹ ARTSAKH NEWS
https://artsakh.news/en/news/355446

Farming the Roman way: unearthed 1,800-year-old farmhouse had cosy covered porch – and a bathhouse! | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15709715/Farming-Roman-way-unearthed-1-800-year-old-farmhouse-cosy-covered-porch-bathhouse.html

Museum Finds 8-Inch Ancient Roman Bone Penis in Unopened Box

Museum Finds 8-Inch Ancient Roman Bone Penis in Unopened Box

HBO’s Rome – A Stunning Series
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/hbos-rome-a-stunning-series

The Ancient Greek Myth That Inspired Lord of the Rings Author J.R.R. Tolkien – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/07/greek-myth-inspired-tolkien/

Yann Martel Son of Nobody review: Trojan War reimagined by The Life of Pi author
https://www.smh.com.au/culture/books/son-of-nobody-yann-martel-review-20260406-p5zlim.html

Terracotta askos (flask with a spout and handle over the top) – Greek, South Italian, Apulian – Late Classical – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/zh/art/collection/search/255648

End of an era: Xavier College ends 147-year classical Greek tradition as enrolments decline – Neos Kosmos

End of an era: Xavier College ends 147-year classical Greek tradition as enrolments decline

Scientists Discover New Group of Tarantulas Named After the Greek Deity of Unstrained Indulgence – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/07/scientists-new-group-tarantulas-named-ancient-greek-deity-unstrained-indulgence/

Despairing at the state of the world? The ancient Greeks and Romans knew the feeling
https://theconversation.com/despairing-at-the-state-of-the-world-the-ancient-greeks-and-romans-knew-the-feeling-279566

This Bold ’80s Sci-Fi Anime Tackled The Odyssey Decades Before Christopher Nolan
https://www.slashfilm.com/2136633/ulysses-31-80s-sci-fi-anime-the-odyssey-adaptation/

Face-to-face with the past: TV classicist Mary Beard interviewed

Face-to-face with the past: MARY BEARD interviewed

UMass Amherst Receives $1.5 Million Gift from Estate of Late Classics Lecturer Caroline Hill Horvitz to Endow Professorship in Her Honor : UMass Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-receives-15-million-gift-estate-late-classics-lecturer-caroline-hill

Averil Cameron passes away – Medievalists.net

Averil Cameron passes away

NIU Today | Sinclair Bell named 2026 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor

Sinclair Bell named 2026 Presidential Research, Scholarship and Artistry Professor

Revisiting the God-Fearers | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/revisiting-god-fearers

Did You Know? Ancient Iberian Warrior Tombs Were Reportedly Adorned With Spikes – The Historian’s Hut

Did You Know? Ancient Iberian Warrior Tombs Were Reportedly Adorned With Spikes

Perseus 4.0 Outage » Perseus Digital Library Updates

Perseus 4.0 Outage

Reclame – Mainzer Beobachter

Reclame

Alexander de Grote in de Levant – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in de Levant

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Longman, The Book of Ecclesiastes, 2nd ed.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/review-of-longman-book-of-ecclesiastes.html

PaleoJudaica.com: DNA from all over in the Shroud of Turin?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/dna-from-all-over-in-shroud-of-turin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the iron blooms from the Dor shipwreck
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/more-on-iron-blooms-from-dor-shipwreck.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Power of Thetis and Selected Essays
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-power-of-thetis-and-selected-essays.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Purpled World: Marketing Haute Couture in the Aegean Bronze Age
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-purpled-world-marketing-haute.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspects of History and Epic in Ancient Iran: From Gaumāta to Wahnām
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/aspects-of-history-and-epic-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Paideia and Cult: Christian Initiation in Theodore of Mopsuestia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/paideia-and-cult-christian-initiation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Plato’s Wayward Path: Literary Form and the Republic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/platos-wayward-path-literary-form-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Concordia discors: Eros and Dialogue in Classical Athenian Literature
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/concordia-discors-eros-and-dialogue-in.html

Homer: Odyssey Book IX – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.10/

The Cambridge encyclopaedia of late antique art and archaeology – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.09/

Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Iberia, by Fernando Quesada Sanz, translated by Elizabeth Clowes | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741338

The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains, by Michael Lindblom | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741339

Logistics in Greek Sanctuaries: Exploring the Human Experience of Visiting the Gods, edited by Judith M. Barringer, Gunnel Ekroth, and David Scahill | American Journal of Archaeology
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/741340

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AUDIENDA
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The Thirty Tyrants – Ancient History 101 | Acast

H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XXI (Ad Navseam, Episode 216) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/hi-marrou-s-a-history-of-education-in-antiquity-part-xxi-ad-navseam-episode-216/

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS the audiobook podcast – episodes 1 & 2 | Greek Myth Comix

YOU ARE ODYSSEUS the audiobook podcast – episodes 1 & 2

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VIDENDA
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(55) Femicide and gender violence in ancient Rome: evidence from epigraphy and Roman art – YouTube

(56) Inside a Roman villa: ancient life REVEALED – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Treatment and Pharmacology of Anxiety From Classical Antiquity to the Present Day: Methods and Therapeutic Practices | Cureus
https://www.cureus.com/articles/480922-treatment-and-pharmacology-of-anxiety-from-classical-antiquity-to-the-present-day-methods-and-therapeutic-practices#!/

Conference: Play, from Greece to Rome: between pleasure and transgression | Antiquity at the BnF

Conférence : Jouer, de Grèce à Rome : entre plaisir et transgression

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