ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 20, 2026

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LEGENDA
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A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

A Ceremonial Bronze Age Sanctuary Covered by a Strange L-Shaped Wall That Defended Nothing Discovered in Bosnia

Altar to Sol: A rare 1,900-year-old monument dedicated to the Roman god of light and used in a secret underground ritual | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/altar-to-sol-a-rare-1-900-year-old-monument-dedicated-to-the-roman-god-of-light-and-used-in-a-secret-underground-ritual

Archaeologists Find Iliad “Catalog of Ships” Papyrus Inside Egyptian Mummy – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-find-iliad-catalog-of-ships-papyrus-inside-egyptian-mummy/

Archaeologists discover perfectly circular ancient Egyptian temple that may have been used for sacred water rituals | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/archaeologists-discover-perfectly-circular-ancient-egyptian-temple-that-may-have-been-used-for-sacred-water-rituals

Ancient dead with gold tongues discovered in Minya
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/04/ancient-dead-with-gold-tongues-discovered-in-minya/157832

Roman emperor revealed as Egyptian pharaoh in 2,000-year-old temple discovery
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/b14rdzg6wx

Hoard of ancient cauldrons discovered in Schaalby
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/04/hoard-of-ancient-cauldrons-discovered-in-schaalby/157836

‘Doors to Death’ reveal how Romans upgraded a stadium for bloodsport | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/science/doors-to-death-ancient-roman-stadium/

Complete roman palace discovered west of Benghazi | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/complete-roman-palace-discovered-west-benghazi

The Roman ruin under a shopping centre trapdoor
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98mm9eleqmo

Well-preserved 1,500-year-old Christian church discovered near Poreč | Croatia Week

Well-preserved 1,500-year-old Christian church discovered near Poreč

Agricola, the leader Tacitus has given us: Why his story is more relevant than ever – PaeseRoma

Agricola, the leader Tacitus has given us: Why his story is more relevant than ever

Greek coin from the 3rd c. BC discovered in Berlin-Spandau

Greek coin from the 3rd c. BC discovered in Berlin-Spandau

Ancient wallets lost in fire: Coin discovery in Phanagoria reveals daily life—and counterfeits
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/20/phanagoria-ancient-coins-wallets-fire/

[paywalled] Archaeologists resurrect ancient Roman recipes at Pompeii bake sale
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/18/archaeologists-resurrect-ancient-roman-recipes/

1,800-year-old feces show parasites that Romans in Bulgaria suffered from
https://interestingengineering.com/health/feces-roman-empire-disease-bulgaria

Why so many mollusks sound Greek—their naming evolves at a snail’s pace
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-mollusks-greek-evolves-snail-pace.html

The Trumps Before Trump: The Unbalanced Rulers of Ancient Rome – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2026-04-20/ty-article/the-trumps-before-trump-the-unbalanced-rulers-of-ancient-rome/0000019d-a6ea-d096-a3df-eeff772b0000

Minoan Greece Had Fast Food 3,600 Years Ago, Food Stall Discovery Reveals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/20/minoan-greece-fast-food-stall/

The Greek Monkey Mystery: An Important Clue to Bronze Age World – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/greek-monkey-mystery-bronze-age-world/

When Cleopatra and Marc Antony Celebrated Love on Ancient Greece’s ‘Mykonos’ – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/19/cleopatra-antony-samos-ancient-greece/

How Bronze Age Artisans Crafted the Impossible Mycenaean Agate Sword – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/20/bronze-age-mycenaean-agate-sword/

Why the Ancient Greeks Never Adopted the Latin Language – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/ancient-greeks-never-adopted-latin-language/

The Longest Greek Word Is Actually an Ancient Recipe – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/longest-greek-word/

Roman Statesman Cicero and His Complex Admiration for Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/18/roman-statesman-cicero-complex-admiration-greece/

Harvard and The Secret History – Harvard Political Review

Harvard and The Secret History

The princess who has never aged for 2.500 years: What Antigone, the “bad girl” of antiquity, tells us today
https://en.vijesti.me/amp/804922/The-princess-who-has-never-aged-for-2500-years–what-does-Antigone–the-bad-girl-from-antiquity–tell-us-today

The Blogs: Jewish History Can Be Defaced, But It Will Never Be Erased | Irina Velitskaya | The Times of Israel
https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/jewish-history-can-be-defaced-but-it-will-never-be-erased/

Study turns Alexander into ‘enduring question’ across texts | Kuwait Times Newspaper
https://kuwaittimes.com/article/42534/opinion/others/study-turns-alexander-into-enduring-question-across-texts/

Professor Michael Cosmopoulos honored as a Guggenheim Fellow in the Classics – UMSL Daily
https://blogs.umsl.edu/news/2026/04/17/michael-cosmopoulos-guggenheim-fellow/

Professor Eleanor Dickey becomes Honorary President of the Classical Association | Classics at Reading

Professor Eleanor Dickey becomes Honorary President of the Classical Association

Ancient history conference comes to UI campus for the first time – The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/04/19/ancient-history-conference-comes-to-ui-campus-for-the-first-time/

Classicism without Soul – Art and Architectural History
https://carleton.ca/aah/2026/classicism-without-soul/

Exhibit explores identity through ancient coins | Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine | University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.colorado.edu/asmagazine/2026/04/17/exhibit-explores-identity-through-ancient-coins

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’ – Student Life

New SLAM exhibition brings ancient Rome to life in ‘Ancient Splendor: Roman Art in the Time of Trajan’

Latin is Not Dead Yet. Here’s How We Keep It Alive – The 74

Latin is Not Dead Yet. Here’s How We Keep It Alive

Weekly Varia no. 178, 04/19/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 178, 04/19/26

Arbor fulgida: The Origins of Tolkien’s Shining Tree – Antigone

Arbor fulgida: The Origins of Tolkien’s Shining Tree

The Power to Control the World: Achilles’ Shield and Homeric Ekphrasis – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Power to Control the World: Achilles’ Shield and Homeric Ekphrasis

Looting Matters: A Roman Portrait to be Returned to Italy from New Zealand
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-roman-portrait-to-be-returned-to.html

Filming Catullus – CANE

Filming Catullus

Kiwi Hellenist: Problems with Cline on The Trojan War. Ch. 4 ‘The Hittite texts’
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2026/04/cline-2.html

We’ve Only Just Begun | Sphinx

We’ve Only Just Begun

Het Mishna-traktaat Aboth – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Mishna-traktaat Aboth

Faits divers (50) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (50)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Proposal for a Greek Reader
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/proposal-for-greek-reader.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Fog of War
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-fog-of-war.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Those in Charge
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/those-in-charge.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Cart and the Horse
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-cart-and-horse.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Trauma hermeneutics and the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/trauma-hermeneutics-and-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Niehoff & Markschies (eds.), Aspects of Time in Jewish and Christian Exegesis (De Gruyter, open access)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/niehoff-markschies-eds-aspects-of-time.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Oxford Handbook of Jewish Law
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-oxford-handbook-of-jewish-law.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization, Volume 3
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-posen-library-of-jewish-culture-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/archaeology-of-war-studies-on-weapons.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Common Thread: Collected Essays in Honour of Eva Andersson Strand
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/the-common-thread-collected-essays-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stoic Presocratics – Presocratic Stoics: Studies in the Stoic Reception of Early Greek Philosophy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/stoic-presocratics-presocratic-stoics.html

Nature contemplation in Clement of Alexandria: elements of the method – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.25/

Classical reception and the rewriting turn in contemporary women’s fiction – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.24/

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AUDIENDA
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The Archaeology of Grumpy Old Men (and Women) in the Judean Iron Age, or, Grandpa, That’s a Cooking Pot Not a… | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/the-archaeology-of-grumpy-old-men-and-women-in-the-judean-iron-age-or-grandpa-that-s-a-cooking-pot-not-a/

Expert in Residence: Q&A with … – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Athens vs Persia: The Legend of Themistocles – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 18.04.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/04/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-18-04-2026.html

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VIDENDA
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(434) Achilles Mother Bird and Commander Part 1 of 2 – YouTube

(434) Archeologists Investigate New Evidence About The Druids – YouTube

(435) How Anubis Guards You From Eternal Punishment #mythology #anubis #history – YouTube

(435) This Roman Site in Lebanon is one of the best – YouTube

(436) Archeologists Investigate New Clues About The Great Pyramid Of Khufu – YouTube

(436) Alicia Stallings. Poetry, migrant women, Briseis, music and women in Iliad. Bettina Joy de Guzman. – YouTube

(436) Member Lecture: Myth and Marble—Ancient Roman Sculpture from the Torlonia Collection – YouTube

(437) Seneca, “Epistula ad Lucilium” IX, 77 – YouTube

(437) Conversation: Timeless Tales—Greek and Roman Mythology in the Art Institute – YouTube

(437) Mary Beard on the ‘shocking’ truth of the ancient world – and its links to modern politics – YouTube

(437) Lecture: Marvels of the World’s Oldest Shipwreck – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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explorator 28.16 ~ April 19, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.16 ~ April 19, 2026

Homer Appreciation Day (Waterloo, 24 April 2026) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/04/homer-appreciation-day-waterloo-24-april-2026/

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek and Latin Language and Literature, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37977150
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37977150/visiting-assistant-professor-greek-and-latin-language-and-literature-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2162&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260420_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20260420_applynow_job1

Visiting Assistant Professor, Greek and Roman History, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37977151
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37977151/visiting-assistant-professor-greek-and-roman-history-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2162&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260420_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20260420_applynow_job2

Teaching Associate in Latin Literature (Fixed Term) | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teaching-associate-in-latin-literature-fixed-term-ge49235