• Festival of Mars (day 4)
• 51 A.D. — the future emperor Nero is given the title princeps iuventutis
• ca 254 A.D. — martyrdom of Gaius

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LEGENDA
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2,500-Year-Old Pre-Roman Iron Age Settlement Discovered in Hüllhorst, Germany During Fire Station Construction – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2500-year-old-pre-roman-iron-age-settlement-discovered-in-hullhorst-germany-during-fire-station-construction/

Vindolanda Tablets Reveal Roman Soldiers Made Their Own Ink Using Ancient Techniques Already Obsolete in the Mediterranean

Vindolanda Tablets Reveal Roman Soldiers Made Their Own Ink Using Ancient Techniques Already Obsolete in the Mediterranean

Students Simulate Ancient Greek and Roman Empire Battle Strategy – Colorado College
https://www.coloradocollege.edu/newsevents/newsroom/2026/students-simulate-ancient-greek-and-roman-empire-battle-strategy.html

Incredible discovery. A hidden passageway resurfaces after 2,000 years. What’s really hidden? What was it used for? Mysteries and ancient Roman engineering

Incredibile scoperta. Un passaggio nascosto torna alla luce dopo 2000 anni. Cosa nasconde davvero? Per cosa veniva usato? Misteri e ingegneria degli antichi romani

Mysterious Greek Inscription May Reveal Lost Temple of a Roman Emperor
https://scitechdaily.com/mysterious-greek-inscription-may-reveal-lost-temple-of-a-roman-emperor/

How to live a long and healthy life, according to the ancients
https://theconversation.com/how-to-live-a-long-and-healthy-life-according-to-the-ancients-274975

Pompeii Brings Back Vineyards Buried by Vesuvius for the First Time in 2,000 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/02/pompeii-vineyards/

Minoans Tracked Solar Eclipses Using Hilltop Observatories and Ancient Devices – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/02/solar-eclipses-minoans/

Home on the range: Examining a late Roman villa estate at Milton, Cambridgeshire – The Past

Home on the range: Examining a late Roman villa estate at Milton, Cambridgeshire

Can’t Find a Better Plan? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Can’t Find a Better Plan?

Natural’s Not In It | Sphinx

Natural’s Not In It

Tipasa – Mainzer Beobachter

Tipasa

PaleoJudaica.com: Esther in Jewish art
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/esther-in-jewish-art.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Purim parallels to the Iran war?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/purim-parallels-to-iran-war.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Video panel review of Najman, Scriptural Vitality
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/video-panel-review-of-najman-scriptural.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Oxford post on the Herculaneum papyri
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/oxford-post-on-herculaneum-papyri.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: TA-U-RO-QO-RO: Studies in Mycenaean Texts, Language and Culture in Honor of José Luis Melena Jiménez
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/ta-u-ro-qo-ro-studies-in-mycenaean.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Durability: Telling Time in the Iliad
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-durability-telling-time-in-iliad.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Myth of Return in Early Greek Epic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-myth-of-return-in-early-greek-epic.html

Ancient Greek law: vectors of unity and local idiosyncrasy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.03/

A guide to classics and cognitive studies: reviewing findings and results – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.02/

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(396) The Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great – YouTube

Inside a 12,000-year-old kitchen in Neolithic Anatolia
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0n47jgp/inside-a-12-000-year-old-kitchen-in-neolithic-anatolia

(398) Discover Irchester Field School and Uncovering Roman Carlisle – YouTube

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Teaching Associate in Classical Art and Archaeology [Temporary Cover] | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/teaching-associate-in-classical-art-and-archaeology-temporary-cover-ge48858

The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact – LSE Impact

The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact

Teaching and Research Associate in Herculaneum Papyrology

Teaching and Research Associate in Herculaneum Papyrology

The Pompeiian ‘Blue Room’: in situ detection and economic estimation of Egyptian blue pigment in an ancient domestic sacrarium | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-026-02349-2

• Festival of Mars (day 3)
• 262 A.D. — martyrdom of Marinus and Asterius at Caesarea

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The Lion of the Fountain: Unveiling a New Archaeological Treasure at Greece’s Philippi – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/02/lion-fountain-unveiling-new-archaeological-treasure-philippi/

Egypt, deposit of 22 sarcophagi of ‘singers of Amun’ discovered in Luxor with 8 papyri
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/egypt-deposit-of-22-sarcophagi-of-singers-of-amun-discovered-in-luxor-with-8-papyri

Laodikeia’s Roman Asopos Bridge Carries Water Again After 1,300 Years – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/laodikeias-roman-asopos-bridge-carries-water-again-after-1300-years/

Lady of Elche: A 2,400-year-old bust of a mysterious ‘highborn’ woman from pre-Roman Spain | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/lady-of-elche-a-2-400-year-old-bust-of-a-mysterious-highborn-woman-from-pre-roman-spain

Study reveals the truth behind the “Princess of Bagicz”
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/study-reveals-the-truth-behind-the-princess-of-bagicz/157159

VENOSA (Pz). Excavations are underway in the amphitheater at Venusia. – Online Archaeology – Archeomedia

VENOSA (Pz). A Venusia si scava nell’anfiteatro.

Poitiers and its Gallo-Roman arena: an ancient past under restoration – Boulevard Voltaire
https://www.bvoltaire.fr/poitiers-et-ses-arenes-gallo-romaines-un-passe-antique-en-restauration/

WSU students forge ancient Greek sword for international competition | WSU Insider | Washington State University

WSU students forge ancient Greek sword for international competition

Archaeological sites temporarily closed | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2026/03/02/archaeological-sites-temporarily-closed

The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact – LSE Impact

The popularity of “new antiquarianism” challenges how we understand research impact

[wtf?]”remember Your Navy That Fought the Romans,” Jewish Seamen Are Told – Jewish Telegraphic Agency

“remember Your Navy That Fought the Romans,” Jewish Seamen Are Told

AI cracks Roman-era board game
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-ai-roman-era-board-game.html

How Did Vitruvius the Architect Build Ancient Rome? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/vitruvius-roman-architect/

Ancient Greek priestesses may have turned ergot fungus into a psychedelic brew during the Eleusinian Mysteries
https://phys.org/news/2026-03-ancient-greek-priestesses-ergot-fungus.html

Making an impression: A new approach to classical concepts of the image | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2026/03/making-impression-new-approach-classical-concepts-image

The last piece of the puzzle: Withington Roman Villa mosaics, Corinium Museum – The Past

The last piece of the puzzle: Withington Roman Villa mosaics, Corinium Museum

‘Since You’re Mortal’ Offers Ancient Greek Wisdom from Lost Plays – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/since-youre-mortal-offers-ancient-greek-wisdom-from-lost-plays/

Unlocking the Secrets of Egyptian Mummification – Biblical Archaeology Society

Unlocking the Secrets of Egyptian Mummification

Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire | NationofChange

Homer nails uncivilized, all-devouring MAGA Trump brutality – and strategic aikido to return fire

Sien Demuynck, De Galliërs – Mainzer Beobachter

Sien Demuynck, De Galliërs

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Most Common Iranian Artefacts on the Antiquities Market
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2026/03/most-common-iranian-artefacts-on.html

Roman Times: Solidifying the Dead: Material Innovation and Mortuary Meaning in the Gypsum Burials of Late Roman York
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2026/03/solidifying-dead-material-innovation.html

Weekly Varia no. 171, 03/01/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 171, 03/01/26

PaleoJudaica.com: Another review of Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/another-review-of-belief-and-unbelief.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Israel’s museums are back in safeguard mode
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/israels-museums-are-back-in-safeguard.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Animating Maimonides?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/animating-maimonides.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hippota Nestor
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/hippota-nestor.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Michael Psellos. On Symeon the Metaphrast and On the Miracle at Blachernae: Annotated Translations with Introductions
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/michael-psellos-on-symeon-metaphrast.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Nēpios
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-nepios.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/imagining-illegitimacy-in-classical.html

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(369) Were the Trojans Actually Greek? The Secret Luwian Connection – YouTube

(370) The truth about the Library of Alexandria 📜 – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Summer School in Homer 2026 | Faculty of Arts and Humanities
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/arts-humanities/classics/study/outreach-and-summer-schools/summer-schools/summer-school-homer-2026

Racing the Classics Fellowship 2026–Now Accepting Applications – CRSN

Racing the Classics Fellowship 2026–Now Accepting Applications

Reimposition of the suspension of the Honours programme in Greek & Roman studies, University of Ottawa – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2026/03/ottawasuspension2/

Teaching and Research Associate in Herculaneum Papyrology

Teaching and Research Associate in Herculaneum Papyrology

Petition · Keep the Classical Languages Major at the University of Iowa – United States · Change.org
https://www.change.org/p/keep-the-classical-languages-major-at-the-university-of-iowa?fbclid=IwdGRzaAQRwRljbGNrBBHBAWV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvQfsuEcTH8kHjj731ZegLvxCfyhJ2BI7oZ9-CQ3OLDi8VDH4h9ieQ5PB2yJ_aem_NsHcrkBY5STDkl2ombSyMA&sfnsn=mo

• Festival of Mars (Day 2)
• c. 55 A.D. (?) — birth of Decimus Junius Juvenalis … a.k.a. Juvenal
• 258 A.D. — Martyrdom of Jovinus and Basileus at Rome