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

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Why Did Çatalhöyük Have No Streets? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-catalhoyuk-have-no-streets/

[AI?]Roman ship with olive and fruit remains found in Croatia | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869201

[wtf?]Discovery in Egypt offers new evidence for the Bible’s story of Moses | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15152927/workshop-Egypt-Bible-Exodus-Moses.html

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/

2,100-year-old tomb of a Thracian warrior discovered full of jewels – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/2100-year-old-tomb-of-a-thracian-warrior-discovered-containing-jewelry-and-weapons/

Lost Capital of Ancient Kingdom Unearthed in North Macedonia | Latest Balkan and Southeast European News | Politics, Sports, Society, and Business
https://balkaneu.com/lost-capital-of-ancient-kingdom-unearthed-in-north-macedonia/

Collaborative research produces new findings on ancient artmaking technique
https://artdaily.cc/news/185974/Collaborative-research-produces-new-findings-on-ancient-artmaking-technique

National Hellenic Museum Hosts Homerathon, a Reading of Homer’s Ancient Greek Epic the Odyssey in its Entirety with Public Participation – The Hellenic Journal

National Hellenic Museum Hosts Homerathon, a Reading of Homer’s Ancient Greek Epic the Odyssey in its Entirety with Public Participation

New Discovery Reveals Etruscan Tarquinia Also Thrived as a Roman City – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/etruscan-tarquinia-thrived-roman-city/

Solving the Mystery of the Acropolis’s Vanished Temple – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/shepherds-graffiti-sheds-new-light-on-acropolis-lost-temple-mystery/

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

Alexander and Porus: Revisiting a historic encounter across continents – Neos Kosmos

Alexander and Porus: Revisiting a historic encounter across continents

[paywalled] Learning to speak Latin and Ancient Greek can save civilisation | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/learning-to-speak-latin-and-ancient-greek-can-save-civilisation/

[paywalled] Collecting Antiquities is Popular, but Tricky – The New York Times

From gladiators to mock naval battles, what were the major sports events in the ancient world?
https://theconversation.com/from-gladiators-to-mock-naval-battles-what-were-the-major-sports-events-in-the-ancient-world-265073

BedPost: Trojan is a terrible condom brand name – The Post
https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2025/10/trojan-mythology-condom-2025

Study finds ancient Parthian man shot by an arrow which was never removed
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-parthian-shot-arrow.html

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 October 2025

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 October 2025

(22) ANE Today, 2 October 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-2-october-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=175023610&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

SAM Newsletter October 2025
https://mailchi.mp/b47f7c583b7e/sam-newsletter-september-13887723?e=875f90a671

(22) Ancient History Roundup – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-history-roundup-830?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=174815415&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Psychology, Crime, and Violence | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202509/psychology-crime-and-violence

[Ephemeris] DE CLASSICULA GAZAM PETENTI
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2445

Het Forum van Augustus (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Forum van Augustus (1)

Het Forum van Augustus (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Forum van Augustus (2)

On Tom Davis | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

On Tom Davis

Time for #ClassicsTober! – Classical Studies Support

Time for #ClassicsTober!

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 229
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/biblical-studies-carnival-229.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yom Kippur reflections by the Sifting Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/yom-kippur-reflections-by-sifting.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yom Kippur 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/yom-kippur-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hebrew Bible job at UC Berkeley
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/hebrew-bible-job-at-uc-berkeley.html

Religious life in late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religious life in late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes

Conversing with chaos in Graeco-Roman antiquity: writing and reading environmental disorder in ancient texts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Conversing with chaos in Graeco-Roman antiquity: writing and reading environmental disorder in ancient texts

Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C.

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Ideas Podcast: Classicism and Other Phobias | Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-classicism-and-other-phobias

Origins of Mythology – The Ancients | Acast

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(34) Gallic Wars: The Celts And Romans Bloody Battle For Europe – YouTube

(34) Look inside a 4,500-year-old sculpture from Iraq – YouTube

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Classics Libraries and the Digital Classicist Wiki | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classics-libraries-and-digital-classicist-wiki

ASCSA Summer Travel-Study Programs for Summer 2026 (Apply by January 5th) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/ascsasummer2026/

7th NINO Annual Meeting: Food and Ritual in the Ancient to Early Modern Near East – NINO Leiden
https://www.nino-leiden.nl/event/7th-nino-annual-meeting-food-and-ritual-in-the-ancient-to-early-modern-near-east

• 322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (according to one reckoning)
• c. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Eleutherius and companions

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Ancient Greeks Consumed Imported Fish From Spain, 2,400-Year-Old Amphorae Reveals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/30/amphorae-workshop-spain-fish-exports-ancient-greece/

Statue Left Behind by Grave Robbers Unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/statue-egypt-saqqara-archaeology-grave-robbers-1234754881/

Unique Roman-Era Association Building Unearthed in Ancient City of Sagalassos – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unique-roman-era-association-building-unearthed-in-ancient-city-of-sagalassos/

Excavations reveal ancient Phoenician settlement at river mouth became Malaga’s first ‘industrial estate’ | Sur in English
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/excavations-reveal-ancient-phoenician-settlement-river-mouth-20250929184137-nt.html

FEATURE – Tomb of Roman philanthropist in Turkish Mediterranean city sheds light on past
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/feature-tomb-of-roman-philanthropist-in-turkish-mediterranean-city-sheds-light-on-past/3704443

Remarkable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Discovered – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/remarkable-2000-year-old-roman-shipwreck-discovered-10803407

Archaeologists Discover Proof of Ancient Theatre on Russia’s Taman Peninsula – Popular Archeology

Archaeologists Discover Proof of Ancient Theatre on Russia’s Taman Peninsula

Study finds ancient Parthian man shot by an arrow which was never removed
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-parthian-shot-arrow.html

Iraq’s antiquities dismiss report of 5,000-year-old jar – Shafaq News
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Iraq-s-antiquities-dismiss-report-of-5-000-year-old-jar

Iraq recovers rare 4,500-year-old bronze Ibex statue from United States – Iraqi News
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iraq-recovers-rare-ibex-statue-ancient-mesopotamia/

Jupiter Changing The Cercopians Into Monkeys, From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, By Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555–1630) – The Historian’s Hut

Jupiter Changing The Cercopians Into Monkeys, From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, By Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555–1630)

Excavations in ancient Tarquinia reveal the Roman city that challenges the exclusive Etruscan narrative

Excavations in ancient Tarquinia reveal the Roman city that challenges the exclusive Etruscan narrative

Bacchae is bold first choice for National Theatre’s new director
https://theconversation.com/bacchae-is-bold-first-choice-for-national-theatres-new-director-266410

How Ancient Greece and Rome Laid the Foundations of Modern Psychiatry – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/01/ancient-greece-rome-foundations-modern-psychiatry/

Tracing the Origins of Wine in Language and Literature | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/tracing-origins-wine-language-and-literature

Analysing Roman hobnail footwear in soil-blocks using radiography: Design, dating, and identities – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2500433X

Virgil – The Historian’s Hut

Virgil

The Sacred Ruminalis Fig Tree Of Ancient Rome – The Historian’s Hut

The Sacred Ruminalis Fig Tree Of Ancient Rome

Biblical Studies Carnival #229 for September 2025 – Reading Acts

Biblical Studies Carnival #229 for September 2025

Writing Wednesday: Fragments and Photography | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Fragments and Photography

Poëzie: Keizer Vitellius – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Vitellius

Poëzie: Keizer Vespasianus – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Vespasianus

Poëzie: Keizer Otho – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Otho

Poëzie: Keizer Galba – Mainzer Beobachter

Poëzie: Keizer Galba

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

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Approaching the Koumasa Settlement as a Case of Dynamic Topography: Internal Functionality and its Role as a Focal Point in the Messara-Asterousia Region
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/approaching-koumasa-settlement-as-case.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/scribes-and-language-use-in-graeco.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aristoteles Metafysik
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/aristoteles-metafysik.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/writing-and-religious-traditions-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Castra et Villae in der Spätantike: Fallbeispiele von Pannonien bis zum Schwarzen Meer
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/castra-et-villae-in-der-spatantike.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Architektur der Schatzhäuser von Olympia: Spuren des griechischen Westens im Mutterland
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/die-architektur-der-schatzhauser-von.html

Jerusalem Through the Ages – Biblical Archaeology Society

Jerusalem Through the Ages

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Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 3 Limen (… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(35) Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – YouTube

(37) Persian Fleet’s Disaster The Storm That Changed History #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(35) Were pharaohs just ‘pyramid scheme’ leaders—or building a true legacy? – YouTube

(37) It’s 279 B.C. You are being attacked by elephants. What do you do? – YouTube

The birthplace of the alphabet in ancient Egypt
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0m5zt3j/the-birthplace-of-the-alphabet-in-ancient-egypt

• rites in honour of Fides on the Capitoline — these involved a procession of the flamines in a “two horse hooded carriage” to the shrine. The flamines had to bind themselves up as far as their fingers as a symbolic gesture that fides (good faith) had to be kept.
• rites associated with Juno Sororia at the tigillum — although a number of false etymologies associated this ritual of passing under a beam (the tigillum) with the tale of Horatius murdering his sister, it is more likely originally some sort of ‘coming of age’ ritual for Roman girls
• 331 B.C. — Battle of Gaugamela (one suggested date)
• 208 A.D. (?) — birth of the future emperor Severus Alexander