• Hilaria of Isis (late mention)
• 39 A.D. — birth of the poet Lucan (Marcus Annaeus Lucanus)
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanus (et al) at Caesarea

• 1656 B.C. — traditional date for the start of the Great Flood (according to one calculation)
• 285 B.C. — Ptolemy II Philadelphus ascends the throne of Egypt as co-ruler with Ptolemy I(by one reckoning)
• 188 A.D. — martyrdom of Eustachius/Placidus (in a bronze bull!)
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Justus of Trieste
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Victorinus of Pettau
• 315 A.D. — martyrdom of Carterius and his companions (soldiers under Licinius)

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French archaeologists uncover ‘vast Roman burial area’ with cremation graves ‘fed’ by liquid offerings | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/french-archaeologists-uncover-vast-roman-burial-area-with-cremation-graves-fed-by-liquid-offerings

Archaeologists Discover A Large Roman Bakery That Supplied An Ancient Mining City In Spain

Archaeologists Discover A Large Roman Bakery That Supplied An Ancient Mining City In Spain

Wooden sculpture depicting Hercules found in ancient refuse pit
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/wooden-sculpture-depicting-hercules-found-in-ancient-refuse-pit/156272

Herculaneum, Roman sideboard restored after ninety years of silence
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/herculaneum-roman-sideboard-restored-after-ninety-years-of-silence

Large semicircular structure discovered in Herakleia: ancient city theater surfaces
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/large-semicircular-structure-discovered-in-herakleia-ancient-city-theater-surfaces

Scoperta unica a Vulci: venuta alla luce una testa di kore, raro capolavoro fuori dalla Grecia
https://www.viterbotoday.it/attualita/testa-kore-vulci-scoperta-1-novembre-2025.html

There Was a Fox in Bethsaida – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-11-02/ty-article-magazine/there-was-a-fox-in-bethsaida/0000019a-4400-dec4-a7db-f7f3f7680000

Why the Parthenon Sculptures Belong in Athens –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/02/why-the-parthenon-sculptures-belong-in-athens/

Pressure intensifies on Britain to return the Rosetta Stone after new museum opens in Egypt | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15249941/Pressure-intensifies-Britain-return-Rosetta-Stone-museum-Egypt.html

2,000-Year-Old Durotriges Tribe Discovery in Dorset Unveils Possible Human Sacrifice Ritual – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-durotriges-tribe-discovery-in-dorset-unveils-possible-human-sacrifice-ritual/

Major exhibition brings unprecedented loans of Roman antiquities to the U.S.
https://artdaily.com/news/186963/Major-exhibition-brings-unprecedented-loans-of-Roman-antiquities-to-the-U-S–

Inquest finds Roman brooch uncovered in Urswick is treasure | The Westmorland Gazette
https://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/25584107.inquest-finds-roman-brooch-uncovered-urswick-treasure/

Hidden passage of emperors opened at the Colosseum : NPR
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/nx-s1-5589745

Opinion: Cicero’s Rome, political violence, and a warning for America

Opinion: Cicero’s Rome, political violence, and a warning for America

Macedonian Tomb Mystery Deepens: Where Is King Philip II Buried? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/02/macedonian-tomb-mystery-king-philip-ii-buried/

October 2025 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/october-2025-turkish-archaeology

Why and in what ways did the Roman empire exploit its natural resources?  – Retrospect Journal

Why and in what ways did the Roman empire exploit its natural resources? 

5,000-year old ‘cultic space’ discovered in Iraq dates to time of the world’s first cities | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/5-000-year-old-cultic-space-discovered-in-iraq-dates-to-time-of-the-worlds-first-cities

Ancient City of Sardis Unveils Secrets in Landmark 65-Year Harvard–Cornell Project – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/01/ancient-city-sardis-secrets-landmark-harvard-cornell-project/

Narona – An Ode to Roman Glory in Southern Dalmatia – Total Croatia

Narona – An Ode to Roman Glory in Southern Dalmatia

Areas of early Roman Wroxeter revealed on Attingham Estate – The Past

Areas of early Roman Wroxeter revealed on Attingham Estate

American Harpist Performs the Oldest Song in the World in Ancient Greek – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/01/oldest-song-ancient-greek/

Roman Times: A Matriarchal Society That Sacrificed Women? The Disturbing Truth About Britain’s Celtic Tribes
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-matriarchal-society-that-sacrificed.html

Did Sulla’s dictatorship amount to a restoration of the Republic, or its demise?  – Retrospect Journal

Did Sulla’s dictatorship amount to a restoration of the Republic, or its demise? 

Cato the Younger and the Strangest Stoic Paradox
https://ataraxiaorbust.substack.com/p/cato-the-younger-and-the-strangest?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2723270&post_id=177788434&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Stoic advice on how to deal with the malevolent spirits which haunt your new home
https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/stoic-advice-on-how-to-deal-with?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1000549&post_id=177676924&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

From Politics to Poetics: Repairing Achaean Politics in Iliad 2 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

From Politics to Poetics: Repairing Achaean Politics in Iliad 2

Major Themes for Reading and Teaching the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Major Themes for Reading and Teaching the Iliad

You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks! – Roger Pearse

You cannot trust the footnotes in English translations of German handbooks!

Priest, Farmer, or Ladies’ Man? The Extraordinary Case Study of Heqankaht
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/priest-farmer-or-ladies-man-the-extraordinary?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=176454397&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Heidi Klum was Medusa for Halloween. See the photos. – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/heidi-klum-halloween-costume-2025-medusa-photos-pictures/

Laudator Temporis Acti: What a Pity
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/what-pity.html

October Reading Notes – Noodlings

October Reading Notes

National Geographic x The Partial Historians – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

National Geographic x The Partial Historians

PaleoJudaica.com: Baker, Why a ”New Testament”? (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/baker-why-new-testament-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Jassen, Violence, Power, and Society in the Dead Sea Scrolls (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/jassen-violence-power-and-society-in.html

De jongeling van Naïn – Mainzer Beobachter

De jongeling van Naïn

Poëzie: Keizer Titus – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Titus

Naar de dokter – Mainzer Beobachter

Naar de dokter

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Steingefäße des 3. und 2. Jtsd. v. Chr. aus der Siedlung Elephantine/Assuan. Befundanalyse und Interpretation
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/steingefae-des-3-und-2-jtsd-v-chr-aus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Akkadische Logogramme
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/akkadische-logogramme.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Stele und Legende: Untersuchungen zu den keilschriftlichen Erzählwerken über die Könige von Akkade
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/stele-und-legende-untersuchungen-zu-den.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Keramik der 1. bis 6. Dynastie auf Elephantine. Katalog der Formen und ihrer chronologischen Einordnung
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/keramik-der-1-bis-6-dynastie-auf.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die doppelte Aphrodite – alt und neu bei griechischen Kultbildern
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/die-doppelte-aphrodite-alt-und-neu-bei.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Von der bronzezeitlichen Geschichte zur modernen Antikenrezeption
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/von-der-bronzezeitlichen-geschichte-zur.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Post-Old Kingdom Pottery from the J-Trenches at Buto
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-post-old-kingdom-pottery-from-j.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Kinderbestattungen von Elephantine. Untersuchungen zu Kleinkindbestattungen aus der Siedlung und aus dem Friedhof von Elephantine
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/die-kinderbestattungen-von-elephantine.html

The relations between the Bilsk Hillfort and Greek Settlements on the Black Sea in the second half of the 7th – the 4th Century BC | Spartokos read

The relations between the Bilsk Hillfort and Greek Settlements on the Black Sea in the second half of the 7th – the 4th Century BC

Excavations in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: the Priory Field store building – The Past

Excavations in the Roman Legionary Fortress at Caerleon: the Priory Field store building

Magic in Roman Britain – The Past

Magic in Roman Britain

Project MUSE – Mythologizing Performance
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/93914
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Did Lost Civilizations Really … – The Michael Shermer Show – Apple Podcasts

Anima Latina 02.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-02-11-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 01.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-01-11-2025.html

Ancient History Podcast – The World of Homer
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-the-world-of-homer
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(29) Revenge for Teutoburg – Germanicus Strikes Back – Roman History – YouTube

(29) Familia vere Latina, cum Marina Stephanoque – YouTube

(29) The Dark Mystery of the Agora Bone Well from Athens – YouTube

(29) lectūra quattuordecima: i-stem Nouns; Ablative of Means, Accompaniment, & Manner (LTN 101) – YouTube

(29) Did John Copy the Other Gospels? | Bart Ehrman vs. Mark Goodacre, Face to Face on the Bible – YouTube

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explorator 27.46 ~ November 2, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.46 ~ November 2, 2025

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 7) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 82 B.C. — Lucius Cornelius Sulla is victorious over the Samnites at the Battle of the Colline Gate
• 36 A.D. — major fire at Rome
• 1903 — death of Theodore Mommsen
• 1993 — death of A.N. Sherwin-White (The Roman Citizenship, among other things)

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Discovery of a new archaeological site in Shahhat dating back to the Hellenistic period

Discovery of a new archaeological site in Shahhat dating back to the Hellenistic period

Lost Letter of Roman Emperor Caracalla Found in Turkish Farmhouse Walls – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/30/lost-letter-roman-emperor-caracalla-turkish-farmhouse-walls/

Roman Funeral Pyres Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Olbia, France – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/31/roman-funeral-pyres-ancient-greek-city-olbia-france/

Funerary Practices in the Ancient Necropolis of Olbia

Funerary Practices in the Ancient Necropolis of Olbia

2,200-year-old Celtic ‘rainbow cup’ in ‘almost mint condition’ found in Germany | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-200-year-old-celtic-rainbow-cup-in-almost-mint-condition-found-in-germany

Remarkable Artifacts From Ancient Greek Sanctuary Unearthed in Italy’s Pertosa-Auletta Caves – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/31/artifacts-ancient-greek-sanctuary-italy-cave/

Tulane professor gains worldwide attention after Roman artifact discovery | Tulane University News
https://news.tulane.edu/news/tulane-scholar-gains-worldwide-attention-after-roman-artifact-discovery

Brock expert helps bring ‘epic stories’ of gladiators to life – The Brock News

Brock expert helps bring ‘epic stories’ of gladiators to life

Elon Musk Backs AI-Powered Rome Research
https://www.eweek.com/news/elon-musk-ai-powered-research-ancient-rome/

Mirror Imaging
https://www.brynmawr.edu/bulletin/mirror-imaging

Roman coins found in 2021 to be sold by Noonans Mayfair
https://www.coinworld.com/images/default-source/news/lot-281—elephant-web.jpg?sfvrsn=a75c1dd3_3

Amphorae: What made the antique containers so important?
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/amphoren-was-die-antiken-container-so-bedeutend-machte

[AI?] Son Says His Father, Not Carter, Found King Tut’s Tomb | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-872148

After delays, Egypt set for lavish opening of grand museum
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-delays-egypt-lavish-grand-museum.html#goog_rewarded

Exhibit on inflation and purchasing power in ancient times opens in Bodrum
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/exhibit-on-inflation-and-purchasing-power-in-ancient-times-opens-in-bodrum-215208

Celebrating 100 Years of Megiddo Excavations – Biblical Archaeology Society

Celebrating 100 Years of Megiddo Excavations

True courage isn’t being fearless, it’s fearing well | Psyche Ideas
https://psyche.co/ideas/true-courage-isnt-being-fearless-its-fearing-well

On the architecture of Callatis and Tomis (III-II centuries BC-II-III centuries AD) | Spartokos read

Sur l’architecture de Callatis et Tomis (III-II siècles av. J.-C.-II-III siècle ap. J.-C.)

INDICATIONS OF DIALOGUE IN ARISTOTLE’S PROTREPTICUS | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/indications-of-dialogue-in-aristotles-protrepticus/E0CCE713D2756E495530756967A1DC19?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Ancient Protection against Nightmares – Papyrus Stories

Ancient Protection against Nightmares

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Ps.Chrysostom, “Homilia in sanctum pascha” (CPG 4408) now online in English – Roger Pearse

Ps.Chrysostom, “Homilia in sanctum pascha” (CPG 4408) now online in English

Hieroglyph of Lovecraft – The VIEWS project

Hieroglyph of Lovecraft

Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project – Peopling the Past

Blog #112: “What Should You Do When You Encounter One of Our Egyptian Mummified Ancestors?” A 12-Point Manifesto on How to Deal with Egyptian Mummified Ancestral Remains with Egypt’s Dispersed Heritage Project

Laudator Temporis Acti: Telemachus Inhaled
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/telemachus-inhaled.html

Faits divers (42) – Mainzer Beobachter

Faits divers (42)

PaleoJudaica.com: On Garshuni
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-garshuni.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Maier on Shaphan the scribe
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/maier-on-shaphan-scribe.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Athens Demapped: Archaeology, Heritage, and Urban Transformation
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/athens-demapped-archaeology-heritage.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Keramik vom unteren Aufweg und der Hafenanlage zur Knickpyramide in Dahschur
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/die-keramik-vom-unteren-aufweg-und-der.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Erasing and Rewriting in Manuscript Cultures: Practices of Text Obliteration and Manuscript Reuse in a Global Perspective
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/erasing-and-rewriting-in-manuscript.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Department of Classics at Cologne joins Nomisma
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/department-of-classics-at-cologne-joins.html

A JOURNEY THROUGH LATE ANTIQUE CILICIA – Arabella Cortese, Cilicia as Sacred Landscape in Late Antiquity. A Journey on the Trail of Apostles, Martyrs and Local Saints. (Spätantike – Frühes Christentum – Byzanz 53.) Pp. 320, ill., colour pls. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2022. Cased, €198. ISBN: 978-3-7520-0637-7. | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/journey-through-late-antique-cilicia-arabella-cortese-cilicia-as-sacred-landscape-in-late-antiquity-a-journey-on-the-trail-of-apostles-martyrs-and-local-saints-spatantike-fruhes-christentum-byzanz-53-pp-320-ill-colour-pls-wiesbaden-reichert-2022-cased-198-isbn-9783752006377/0DEC8402109613E3463B061FD8D18E11?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

INTERTEXTUALITY AND RECEPTION IN JULIUS VALERIUS’ RES GESTAE ALEXANDRI MACEDONIS – Hartmut Wulfram (ed.), Der lateinische Alexanderroman des Iulius Valerius. Sprache, Erzählung, Kontext. Unter redaktioneller Mitarbeit von Katharina Gerhold, Gregor Schöffberger und Katharina-Maria Schön. (Millennium-Studien 101.) Pp. viii + 233. Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2023. Cased, £96, US$120.99. ISBN: 978-3-11-108558-6 (978-3-11-109167-9 open access). | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/abs/intertextuality-and-reception-in-julius-valerius-res-gestae-alexandri-macedonis-hartmut-wulfram-ed-der-lateinische-alexanderroman-des-iulius-valerius-sprache-erzahlung-kontext-unter-redaktioneller-mitarbeit-von-katharina-gerhold-gregor-schoffberger-und-katharinamaria-schon-millenniumstudien-101-pp-viii-233-berlin-and-boston-de-gruyter-2023-cased-96-us12099-isbn-9783111085586-9783111091679-open-access/DCE5EE9D0ECB560CCC3D853F1497D186?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The highest good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: knowledge, happiness, and freedom – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The highest good in the Nicomachean Ethics and the Bhagavad Gita: knowledge, happiness, and freedom

Greek and Roman antiquity in First World War poetry. Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Greek and Roman antiquity in First World War poetry. Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA381 – Did Ancient Soldiers Protect Their Feet?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa381-did-ancient-soldiers-protect-their-feet

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(299) America’s Book Club – Stacy Schiff on Cleopatra – YouTube

The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence – Big Think

The truth of Ancient Rome hides under its myth of decadence

Roman History and the Founding Fathers | C-SPAN Classroom
https://www.c-span.org/classroom/document/?25183

(299) Excavating Prehistory on an Aegean Island: The Gourimadi Archaeological Project – YouTube

Video: Newly re-opened passageway beneath the Roman Colosseum was used by emperors | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/31/travel/video/passage-of-commodus-rome-colosseum-digvid

(300) Is Jesus Holding a Magic Wand in Ancient Art? – YouTube

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The Economic Costs of Transplanted Temples

The Economic Costs of Transplanted Temples

20th Trends in Classics International Conference – Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

20th Trends in Classics International Conference