• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.) — — festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 4 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 105 B.C. — the Cimbri inflict a massive defeat on Roman legions at Arausio
• 68 B.C. — Romans under Lucullus defeat the Armenians under Tigranes II at Artaxata (according to one reckoning)
• 175 A.D. — martyrdom of Sagar in Phrygia

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Archaeologists uncover rare Egyptian motif in Türkiye’s Sagalassos | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/archaeologists-uncover-rare-egyptian-motif-in-turkiyes-sagalassos/news/

[AI?]Ancient 1,500-year-old synagogue found in Golan Heights | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869497

Egypt reopens Amenhotep III’s tomb after over 20 years of renovation
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-egypt-reopens-amenhotep-iii-tomb.html

Egypt reopens pharaoh’s tomb in Luxor after 20 years of renovation | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/egypt-antiquities-lucxor-vally-of-kings-2862b6897a704dfc9c5d1be2782a91b1

Study Uses Mathematics to Reveal When Homer Wrote the Iliad – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/04/mathematical-study-homer-wrote-iliad/

Scoperta una domus romana e un misterioso modellino di edificio di bronzo, con timpano. Chi abitava lì? Cos’era questo oggetto? Cos’hanno trovato? Quale legione era qui impegnata?

Scoperta una domus romana e un misterioso modellino di edificio di bronzo, con timpano. Chi abitava lì? Cos’era questo oggetto? Cos’hanno trovato? Quale legione era qui impegnata?

Aeschylus in the trenches | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/arts/30302

Hidden Roman amphitheatre beneath famous London gallery – where gladiators once fought to the death – MyLondon
https://www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-news/hidden-roman-amphitheatre-beneath-famous-32588102.amp

Etruscan treasures scattered in international museums: what are they
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/works-and-artists/etruscan-treasures-scattered-in-international-museums-what-are-they

When kings return: Homer’s lesson for divided societies – Neos Kosmos

When kings return: Homer’s lesson for divided societies

On the Utility of Work – Liv Mariah Yarrow

On the Utility of Work

(23) Lesson 158 Classical Latin: A Latinum Institute Language Course “call” → @vocō, vocāre, vocāvī, vocātum – Voice and Summons | #LatinVerbs #ClassicalLanguage
https://latinum.substack.com/p/lesson-158-classical-latin-a-latinum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=175351895&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(23) Was this the key to Julius Caesar’s victory?
https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/was-this-the-key-to-julius-caesars?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1000549&post_id=174755017&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(23) 5 October 58 BCE: From Cicero (in Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/5-october-58-bce-from-cicero-in-thessalonica-27f?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=175241089&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(23) 5 October 58 BCE: From Cicero (in Thessalonica) to his family (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/5-october-58-bce-from-cicero-in-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=175234029&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Trump Order Requires Classical Architecture for Federal Buildings – The New American
https://thenewamerican.com/us/politics/trump-order-requires-classical-architecture-for-federal-buildings/

Mycenaean Sword Bearers May Be Women, Not Men, Study Finds – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/05/men-women-mycenaean-iconography/

“The RADICAL GREEKS, from HOMER to ARISTOTLE.” Lecture 1 of *Philosophy of Education* – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

“The RADICAL GREEKS, from HOMER to ARISTOTLE.” Lecture 1 of *Philosophy of Education*

The “Strange” Ending of the Gospel of Mark and Why It Makes All the Difference – Biblical Archaeology Society

The “Strange” Ending of the Gospel of Mark and Why It Makes All the Difference

The Miletus cave and the Asclepius cult | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/miletus-cave-and-asclepius-cult

2,500 Years Later, Aphrodite Is Still a Babe | eBaum’s World
https://www.ebaumsworld.com/articles/aphrodite-is-still-a-babe/87723403/

September Reading Notes – Noodlings

September Reading Notes

De Panter, de “vader” van Jezus – Mainzer Beobachter

De Panter, de “vader” van Jezus

Een overleden hond – Mainzer Beobachter

Een overleden hond

Laudator Temporis Acti: Inscription on a Reticulated Glass Cup
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/inscription-on-reticulated-glass-cup.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Bright-Eyed Athena
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/bright-eyed-athena.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ramelli (ed.), Bardaisan on Human Nature, Fate, and Free Will (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/ramelli-ed-bardaisan-on-human-nature.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Healey, The Syriac Legal Documents of the 3rd Century CE (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/healey-syriac-legal-documents-of-3rd.html

PaleoJudaica.com: William Ross on “Jewish Greek Translations”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/william-ross-on-jewish-greek.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of López-Ruiz, Greek mythology: from creation to first humans
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-lopez-ruiz-greek-mythology.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Longacre on when the Psalter was compiled
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/longacre-on-when-psalter-was-compiled.html

Excavations on the Kartal Hillfort in 2020-2021 | Spartokos read

Excavations on the Kartal Hillfort in 2020-2021

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Domus Pompeiana M. Lucretii IX 3, 5.24. The Inscriptions, Works of Art and Finds from the Old and New Excavations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/domus-pompeiana-m-lucretii-ix-3-524.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Papers on Ancient Greek Linguistics. Proceedings of the Ninth International Colloquium on Ancient Greek Linguistics (ICAGL9) 30 August – 1 September 2018, Helsinki
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/papers-on-ancient-greek-linguistics.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Da Rodolfo Pio ai Farnese. Storia di due collezioni epigrafiche urbane
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/da-rodolfo-pio-ai-farnese-storia-di-due.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Portrayal of Pompeian Bacchus
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-portrayal-of-pompeian-bacchus.html

Nestor – October 2025 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/843-october-2025-issue-available
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Anima Latina 05.10.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/10/anima-latina-05-10-2025.html

Gladiators: A Day in the Life – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 04.10.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/10/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-04-10-2025.html
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(54) Watch: Tomb of Amenhotep III reopens after 20 years – YouTube

(55) Ramses the Great: Empire Builder (Full Episode) | Lost Treasures of Egypt | National Geographic – YouTube

(53) Lippis et tonsoribus notum esse || Proverbia et locutiones (Latin Proverbs) – YouTube

(55) Seneca On Leisure (Latin Audiobook) – YouTube

(55) Antiochus IV The Extravagant King’s Grand Gestures #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(56) Exploring A Roman Villa Complex In Britain: The History Of The Rutland Villa – YouTube

(56) Ancient Egypt & Nubia Galleries – YouTube

(57) Is the Baghdad Battery Actually a Battery? – YouTube

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explorator 27.42 ~October 5, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.42 ~October 5, 2025

• fast in honour of Ceres — in 191 B.C., consultation of the Sybilline books ordered a fast to be held every five years in honour of the Roman goddess Ceres, who presided over grain and harvesting. By Augustus’ day, the fast was an annual event which curiously coincides fairly closely with the Athenian Thesmophoria.
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays
• 1909 — birth of James. B. Pritchard (“Biblical” archaeologist and author of The Ancient Near East, among other things)

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Roman Craft Workshop Discovered in Ancient Isarnodurum with Writing Tablets Still Bearing Ink and Rare Children’s Wooden Soles

Roman Craft Workshop Discovered in Ancient Isarnodurum with Writing Tablets Still Bearing Ink and Rare Children’s Wooden Soles

Tomb of Roman benefactor unearthed in Antalya
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tomb-of-roman-benefactor-unearthed-in-antalya-214253

Archaeologists Discover Roman-Era Industrial Settlement at Future Bilmer Berg II Business Park in Germany – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-roman-era-industrial-settlement-at-future-bilmer-berg-ii-business-park-in-germany/

Tornos News | The Roman Odeon of Patras is being reborn
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/53606-the-roman-odeon-of-patras-is-being-reborn.html

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

Mary Washington Students Dig Archaeological Research in Greece – News

Mary Washington Students Dig Archaeological Research in Greece

Alexander’s first triumph: Turkish scholars rediscover the lost battlefield of the Granicus – Neos Kosmos

Alexander’s first triumph: Turkish scholars rediscover the lost battlefield of the Granicus

A New Discovery May Rewrite the Legend of Alexander the Great
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68154531/alexander-the-great-battlefield-discovery/

How Ancient Sanctuaries Enabled the Greeks to Forge a Trade Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/ancient-sanctuaries-greeks-trade-empire/

The Chariots of Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Chariots of Israel

Rare treasures excavated from the Roman town of Tripontium on display in Rugby
https://www.warwickshireworld.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/rare-treasures-excavated-from-the-roman-town-of-tripontium-on-display-in-rugby-5345459

Erimi-Pamboula: First excavation season completed

Erimi-Pamboula: First excavation season completed

Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show in Cambridge
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8r2k1g043o

National Theater revives Greek tragedies in 5-part epic ‘Anthropolis’ – The Korea Herald
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10589251

See the original play Odysseus Dies at the End at Filipponi Ranch  – New Times San Luis Obispo

See the original play Odysseus Dies at the End at Filipponi Ranch 

Did the Trojan Horse Really Exist?
https://www.history.com/articles/trojan-horse-gullibility

Ancient “Stepped Pyramid” of Greece Sparks Controversy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/03/stepped-pyramid-greece-controversy/

Sensational Discovery in Salzburg: 1,800-Year-Old Roman Ship’s Bow Unearthed During Renovation – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/sensational-discovery-in-salzburg-1800-year-old-roman-ships-bow-unearthed-during-renovation/

New York: 29 Greek antiquities seized & repatriated (photos) – ProtoThema English

New York: 29 Greek antiquities seized & repatriated (photos)

Montepulciano dedicates exhibition to legendary Etruscan king Porsenna
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/montepulciano-dedicates-exhibition-to-legendary-etruscan-king-porsenna

New Archaeological Research Reveals Life in Pompeii Post-Eruption
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-archaeological-research-pompeii-post-eruption-activity-1234749334/

Made by Egyptian hands | Blog post | Mary Beard

Made by Egyptian hands

What’s the point? – Liv Mariah Yarrow

What’s the point?

An Origin Story – Liv Mariah Yarrow

An Origin Story

Gap Week: October 3, 2025 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: October 3, 2025

(22) Lesson 154: scelus -eris n. Latinum Institute Latin Reading Course
https://latinum.substack.com/p/lesson-154-scelus-eris-n-latinum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=175173313&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa – Roger Pearse

A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa

Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man! | Sphinx

Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man!

PaleoJudaica.com: A “powerful Punic-era pottery industry” at Málaga
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-powerful-punic-era-pottery-industry.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Was Jesus a short guy?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/was-jesus-short-guy.html

PaleoJudaica.com: DSS coming to the Museum of the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/dss-coming-to-museum-of-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Festival of the Carthaginians and Romans 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-festival-of-carthaginians-and.html

De Spaanse triomf van Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter

De Spaanse triomf van Caesar

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: To the Glory that was Greece. Ideas, Ideals and Practices in Composing Humanist Greek during the Seventeenth Century
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/to-glory-that-was-greece-ideas-ideals.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Naming Gods. An Onomastic Study of Divine Epithets Derived from Roman Anthroponyms
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/naming-gods-onomastic-study-of-divine.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The South Palace Archives in Babylon: Administrative Records in the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar II
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-south-palace-archives-in-babylon.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Cult of Poseidoniate Hera and the Lucanians in Poseidonia/Paistom: An Ancient Story of Religion and Multiculturalism
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-cult-of-poseidoniate-hera-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Latin Female Cognomina. A Study on the Personal Names of Roman Women
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/latin-female-cognomina-study-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Animal Mummies: From Research to Outreach at the Allard Pierson
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/animal-mummies-from-research-to.html

A GYMNASION ASSEMBLAGE LOST AT SEA? THE STATUES FROM THE ANTIKYTHERA SHIPWRECK RECONSIDERED | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/gymnasion-assemblage-lost-at-sea-the-statues-from-the-antikythera-shipwreck-reconsidered/B9C19CBB7626F931B26FA93A480BD7EE?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ENSLAVED, FREED AND SUB-ELITE PEOPLE IN ROMAN SOCIETY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/enslaved-freed-and-subelite-people-in-roman-society/6C8CF80E5E94BB3F517F8C3F1FAB8187?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 CYPRUS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/ancient-cyprus-new-directions-in-historical-literary-and-archaeological-scholarship/9722C4A53DDC6106428068079D9B21E1?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 Roman provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: using coins as sources – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Roman provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: using coins as sources

Mystik und Allegorese – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Mystik und Allegorese

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Ancient History Podcast – What is Ancient History? with Walter Scheidel
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-what-is-ancient-history

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA377 – How Much Do We Really Know About the Bacaudae?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa377-how-much-do-we-really-know-about-the-bacaudae

97. Sicily, Deciding Disaster – Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

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(70) Indians in Rome – First Contact (20 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(70) Shroud of Turin Evidence & Cleopatra’s Tomb: What Did They Really Find? – YouTube

(70) James Hankins | The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition | Paideia Institute – YouTube

(71) Ancient Warfare Brutal Siege of Roca Vecchia #ancienthistoryguy #ApulianWarfare #ancientwarriors – YouTube

(71) Excavating the Royal City of Midas – YouTube

(71) The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos – YouTube

(71) Daily Fare and Sacred Offerings in Classical Greece – YouTube

(71) The Roman Treasures You Didn’t Know Were at the Met – YouTube

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Environmental Approaches to the East. Mediterranean Landscape

Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920

Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics – Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/basil-h-gildersleeve-professor-of-classics-charlottesville-virginia-united-states

• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 1 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays