ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ April 24, 2026

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LEGENDA
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Analysis of Roman shipwreck’s coatings tells story of its time on the seas | Research | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/analysis-of-roman-shipwrecks-coatings-tells-story-of-its-time-on-the-seas/4023341.article

[paywalled] Military Histories About the Ancient Persians, Modern Iraq and the American Civil War – The New York Times

Archaeologists discover giant marble Athena statue in ancient Laodicea in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeologists-discover-giant-marble-athena-statue-in-ancient-laodikeia-in-turkiye-3218661

Statue of Ramesses II found at ancient temple site in Egypt | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-894028

Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260423031540.htm

Ancient Jewellery Sheds Light On British Museum Collection
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/23/ancient-jewellery-sheds-light-on-british-museum-collection/

Roman Quarry Discovery in Italy Reveals Source of Advanced Ancient Mortar – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/23/ancient-roman-quarry-discovery-italy-advanced-mortar/

2,000-year-old Roman bread discovered under construction site | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/science/roman-bread-switzerland/

Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, these crusted remains expose a pathogen found far earlier than expected
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-roman-toilets-crusted-expose.html

The UB’s archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy – Current events – University of Barcelona
https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/oxyrhynchus-iliad-homer

What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt

What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt

42 lost pages of the New Testament manuscript discovered

42 lost pages of the New Testament manuscript discovered

Conservation and presentation of Soknopaiou Nesos temple

Conservation and presentation of Soknopaiou Nesos temple

[FWIW] The Top Five Craziest Greek Gods – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/23/top-craziest-greek-gods/

Resist Beginnings: The Ancient Roman Maxim Behind the American Revolution | Tenth Amendment Center

Resist Beginnings: The Ancient Roman Maxim Behind the American Revolution

5 ways the Persian Empire made the modern world – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/persian-empire-contributions/

Epic | After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, another adaptation of the Greek epic is in the works – Telegraph India
https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/after-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-another-adaptation-of-the-greek-epic-is-in-the-works/cid/2157402#goog_rewarded

Professor Karen B. Stern Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow | CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/professor-karen-b-stern-named-2026-guggenheim-fellow

What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished | Open Culture

What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

[paywalled] Two more women allege harassment by Cambridge professor
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/sexual-harassment-claims-cambridge-academic-simon-goldhill-v3wd3c3lb

Colleges not told about investigation into Simon Goldhill | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/31560

Blog #122: Cultivating Pompeii: Urban Agriculture and Resilience, AD 62-79 with Jessica Venner – Peopling the Past

Blog #122: Cultivating Pompeii: Urban Agriculture and Resilience, AD 62-79 with Jessica Venner

(6) Ancient history roundup – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-history-roundup-f56

(6) Did Ovid Bury Philippi in a Love Story?
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/did-ovid-bury-philippi-in-a-love

People Are Going to Tell Our Story: Introducing Iliad 19 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

People Are Going to Tell Our Story: Introducing Iliad 19

De Iberiërs (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (3)

De Iberiërs (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (2)

De Iberiërs (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (1)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Not Unusual
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/not-unusual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: An Aramean bull stele and the New Moon?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/an-aramean-bull-stele-and-new-moon.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Moses in the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/moses-in-proto-sinaitic-inscriptions.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Karen Stern awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/karen-stern-awarded-guggenheim.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitale Korpusarithmetik mit antikem Text: Ein Annäherungsversuch
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/digitale-korpusarithmetik-mit-antikem.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology and World Politics: The German Aksum-Expedition (1905/06) in Ethiopia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/archaeology-and-world-politics-german.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Parthenon at Illinois
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/parthenon-at-illinois.html

Justice in Plato’s Republic: the lessons of Book 1 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.32/

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AUDIENDA
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Augusti Retirement – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

103: Defeat of the Athenian Na…–Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA406 – What army did Alexander Molossus have in his Italian campaigns?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa406-what-army-did-alexander-molossus-have-in-his-italian-campaigns

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VIDENDA
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(588) Why the Ancient Romans Would Hate TikTok | Will Knispel | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(589) Untold | Tracing the Egyptian Timeline and Textual Sources – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Teaching Assistant Professor – Classics, Fall 2026 job with University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 37979224
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37979224/teaching-assistant-professor-classics-fall-2026/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2166&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260424_jobtitle

Thucydiocies: How Not to Read Thucydides in Contemporary Political Discourse | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/thucydiocies-how-not-to-read-thucydides-in-contemporary-political-discourse/79BC40694A178354B47AE7F2FFDF9279

Magnanimitas and the Cornelian Inheritance: A Study of Political Morality | Antichthon | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/magnanimitas-and-the-cornelian-inheritance-a-study-of-political-morality/80BCCD3793D51B06896605AC15200B01

CONTRA MVNDVM, CONTRA METRVM: PROSPER OF AQUITAINE, A VICTIM OF PHILOLOGY (AD CONIVGEM SVAM 97)? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/contra-mvndvm-contra-metrvm-prosper-of-aquitaine-a-victim-of-philology-ad-conivgem-svam-97/42F833E5E5A00069A090434EF07577DF

SELF-MADE ‘MEN’: THE PROGRESSIVE EMASCULATION OF THE BROTHERS ASINAEUS AND ANILAEUS IN JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES 18 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/selfmade-men-the-progressive-emasculation-of-the-brothers-asinaeus-and-anilaeus-in-josephus-antiquities-18/94D80F6419171E40A5F495D12794B8FD

WHO WERE THE ‘EXILES FOR THE TEN YEARS’ IN THE THEMISTOCLES DECREE? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/who-were-the-exiles-for-the-ten-years-in-the-themistocles-decree/8572275833D11F5EF7EBF10D2CAA4D24

ARISTOTLE, DE ANIMA ΒΟΟΚ 2: A DOUBLE RECENSION? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/aristotle-de-anima-2-a-double-recension/

Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online – UWM Libraries

Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online

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