• Mercatus — in the wake of the lengthy ludi Plebeii, the Romans needed a few days to restock their cupboards
• ca. 64 A.D. — upside down crucifixion of Peter
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Hesychius of Antioch
• 1718 — premiere of Voltaire’s Oedipe in Paris

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Underground Tunnels of Ancient Etruscan City Veio Mapped for the First Time – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/etruscan-city-veio-underground-tunnels-mapped-first-time/

Ancient Greek City of Argilos Reveals Its Secrets With New Discoveries – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/ancient-greek-city-argilos-new-discoveries/

What Was the Hair Color of the Ancient Greeks? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/16/hair-color-ancient-greeks/

12,000-year-old clay figurine from Israel shows male goose mounting a squatting woman, according to archaeologists | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/extremely-rare-paleolithic-figurine-found-in-israel-depicts-a-goose-attempting-to-mate-with-a-woman

Department of Antiquities announces discovery of a Roman road passing through valleys near Tolmeita | The Libya Observer
https://libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/department-antiquities-announces-discovery-roman-road-passing-through-valleys-near-tolmeita

New Evidence Shows Arabia Was Not Only the Incense Highway—But an Ancient Scent Capital – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/new-evidence-shows-arabia-was-not-only-the-incense-highway-but-an-ancient-scent-capital/

Second-Largest Olive Oil Production Complex in the Roman Empire Discovered in Tunisia

Second-Largest Olive Oil Production Complex in the Roman Empire Discovered in Tunisia

Tamil Nadu archaeologists join excavations at Berenike in Egypt to trace ancient Mediterranean trade links – The Hindu
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadu-archaeologists-join-excavations-at-berenike-in-egypt-to-trace-ancient-mediterranean-trade-links/article70290712.ece

A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Inkwell Found in Portugal Contains a Technological Recipe That Shouldn’t Exist – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-2000-year-old-roman-inkwell-found-in-portugal-contains-a-technological-recipe-that-shouldnt-exist/

Late antique mosaics in Albania’s Berat shed light on shared heritage across Mediterranean – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/late-antique-mosaics-in-albanias-berat-shed-light-on-shared-heritage-across-mediterra-3210022

[AI?] Archaeologists uncover long-lost Temple of Zeus at Limyra | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-874041

Archaeologists Stunned by Lavish Assyrian-period Tomb in Northern Israel – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-10-24/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-stunned-by-lavish-assyrian-period-tomb-in-northern-israel/0000019a-1618-d582-a39e-5efceef30000

Roman Odeon of Patras: Restored and reopening its doors – ProtoThema English

Roman Odeon of Patras: Restored and reopening its doors

Bronze Age Mycenaean Pottery Near Athens Acropolis Shows Rare Greek Artwork – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/17/mycenaean-bronze-age-pottery-athens-acropolis-rare-greek-artwork/

Rare sea withdrawal in northwest Türkiye reveals ancient harbor structures – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/rare-sea-withdrawal-in-northwest-turkiye-reveals-ancient-harbor-structures-3210001

Digital map brings ancient Roman roads to life – DW – 11/17/2025
https://www.dw.com/en/digital-map-brings-ancient-roman-road-network-to-life-itiner-e/a-74702919

The Lost War That Wiped Out 95% of the Ancient World | by Azanta | Write A Catalyst | Nov, 2025 | Medium
View at Medium.com

Pleasure is relative – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/pleasure-is-relative?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=179128195&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Louvre Museum Closes Gallery Housing Antiquities as Precaution
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/louvre-museum-closes-gallery-greek-antiquities-1234761958/

Rodin’s Collection of Egyptian Antiquities Travel to US for First Time
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/auguste-rodin-egyptian-collection-exhibition-nyu-isaw-1234761903/

How’s your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary – Roger Pearse

How’s your paleography? Two pages from a medieval breviary

Weekly Varia no. 156, 11/16/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 156, 11/16/25

Laudator Temporis Acti: Natural Resource Depletion
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/natural-resource-depletion.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning from Mistakes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/learning-from-mistakes.html

PaleoJudaica.com: BAS 2025 Publication Awards
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/bas-2025-publication-awards.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Carpenter’s Son debuts in the USA
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-carpenters-son-debuts-in-usa.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Bronze Age ANE creation story?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-bronze-age-ane-creation-story.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les potiers gallo-romains de Sallèles d’Aude (Aude, France): Production et vie quotidienne
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-potiers-gallo-romains-de-salleles.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Domaine foncier en Gaule romaine: Statut de la terre et des hommes
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/domaine-foncier-en-gaule-romaine-statut.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’héritage d’Asklépios: Soigner par le geste en Grèce archaïque et classique
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/lheritage-dasklepios-soigner-par-le.html

Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Golden excess: art and the aesthetics of the incredible in Neronian Rome

Military Book Review The Cambridge Companion to Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations
https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2767#gsc.tab=0
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To Live and Die at Late Bronze Age Yavne Yam, or, I Dream of a Gini with a Jar Full of Opium | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/to-live-and-die-at-late-bronze-age-yavne-yam-or-i-dream-of-gini-with-the-jar-full-of-opium/

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(425) Syria scrambles to find Roman statue thieves – YouTube

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Dura-Europos: Past, Present, Future | Studies in Classical Archaeology
https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.SCA-EB.5.143377&ref=pasts-imperfect.ghost.io

Prices, values, and equivalences of metals

Prices, values, and equivalences of metals

The fabric of Hellenic civic life in Alexandria

The fabric of Hellenic civic life in Alexandria

• ludi Plebeii (day 14) — the Jupiterfest is almost over
• 9 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vespasian
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Alphaeus and Zacchaeus

• ludi Plebeii (day 13) — the Jupiterfest is still going on
• 42 B.C. — birth of the future emperor Tiberius

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Exceptional Discovery in Conimbriga: A Roman Inkwell with Millennial Ink Reveals the Secrets of Writing in Ancient Rome

Exceptional Discovery in Conimbriga: A Roman Inkwell with Millennial Ink Reveals the Secrets of Writing in Ancient Rome

Why Caesar was wrong about the ‘nomadic trouble-making’ Helvetii – SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swiss-oddities/why-caesar-was-wrong-about-the-nomadic-trouble-making-helvetii/90325374

Archaeologists find a huge auditorium hidden for 2,200 years – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/archaeologists-find-a-huge-auditorium-hidden-for-2200-years/

2,400-Year-Old Greek Temple of Zeus Rediscovered in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/15/ancient-greek-temple-zeus-turkey/

New discoveries emerge from late antiquity shipwreck off Syracuse
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/new-discoveries-emerge-from-late-antiquity-shipwreck-off-syracuse/156389

Ancient Treasures Unearthed in Fournoi and Ikaria – tovima.com

Ancient Treasures Unearthed in Fournoi and Ikaria

Were there female gladiators in ancient Rome? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/were-there-female-gladiators-in-ancient-rome

[old news]’Shrine’ in Turkey Turns Out to Be Tomb of Ancient Greek Boxer Diagoras – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/15/turkey-shrine-tomb-of-ancient-greek-boxer-diagoras/

700 forgotten Thespian hoplites fell fighting alongside the Spartans at Thermopylae, a study explains why they chose to die

700 forgotten Thespian hoplites fell fighting alongside the Spartans at Thermopylae, a study explains why they chose to die

After destroying 226 historical sites… Israel steals 17,000 artifacts from the Pasha’s Palace Museum in Gaza | PNN
https://english.pnn.ps/index.php/news/47869

Analysing an ancient Egyptian genome – The Past

Analysing an ancient Egyptian genome

Lamia, the Man-Devouring Goddess of Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/16/lamia-the-man-devouring-goddess-of-greek-mythology/

Agatha Christie’s Enduring Love Affair With Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/14/agatha-christie-enduring-love-affair-greece/

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard | Open Culture

Why Your Vision of Ancient Rome Is All Wrong, According to Historian Mary Beard

Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All – New York Stage Review

Oedipus: Fate Comes for Us All

Assessing the Importance and Impact of Leopold von Ranke’s Stance on History and his Role within the Discipline – Retrospect Journal

Assessing the Importance and Impact of Leopold von Ranke’s Stance on History and his Role within the Discipline

Roman Traditions in a ‘Barbarian’ World: How Roman were the Post-Roman Kingdoms?  – Retrospect Journal

Roman Traditions in a ‘Barbarian’ World: How Roman were the Post-Roman Kingdoms? 

Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Long Ago, Far Away: The Iliad and the So-Called Epic Cycle After the Canon

Coin refs in 1829-1830 archaeological reports – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Coin refs in 1829-1830 archaeological reports

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part I: The Othismos over Othismos

PaleoJudaica.com: Wiggershaus, The Man of Opened Eye (Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/wiggershaus-man-of-opened-eye-gorgias.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Olivero, 1 Enoch: An Ethiopic Reader’s Edition (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/olivero-1-enoch-ethiopic-readers.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Believe Your Own Eyes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/believe-your-own-eyes.html

Het scheiden der wegen – Mainzer Beobachter

Het scheiden der wegen

Wie was Nikolaas van Myra? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie was Nikolaas van Myra?

Tweemaal de Eerste Tussenperiode – Mainzer Beobachter

Tweemaal de Eerste Tussenperiode

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Histoire du Royaume d’Egrisi : de son origine à la fin du Ve siècle ap. J.-C
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/histoire-du-royaume-degrisi-de-son.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Documents on the History of the Temples and Cults from the Late and Graeco-Roman periods. Part 3
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/documents-on-history-of-temples-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2009/06/ucla-encyclopedia-of-egyptology-uee.html

History of the Kingdom of Egrisi: from its origin to the end of the 5th century AD | Spartokos has read

Histoire du Royaume d’Egrisi : de son origine à la fin du Ve siècle ap. J.-C

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Decline & Fall of the Ancient World – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 15.11.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/11/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-15-11-2025.html

diē quartō decimō mēnsis Novembris — Nuntii Latini

diē quartō decimō mēnsis Novembris

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Anima Latina 16.11.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/11/anima-latina-16-11-2025.html

(398) Alexander the Great’s Egypt: Sarcophagus Heist! | Egyptian History – YouTube

(398) De obstetricum munere deque pariendo, cum Carolina Doušová – YouTube

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explorator 27.48 ~ November 16, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.48 ~ November 16, 2025

Project MUSE – A New Handbook of Rhetoric
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/103486

Greek to Us: The Fascinating Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World
https://www.publishersweekly.com/9781399424790

Call for Papers & Call for Hosts: Upcoming CAC Annual Conferences / Appel à communications et appel à hôtes : Prochaines conférences annuelles de la SCEC – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/hostcacagm/

Call for Speakers: CAC Annual Lecture Tours / Appel de conférencier·ère·s: Tournées annuelles de la SCEC – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/11/lecturetourcfs/

Assistant Professor in Classics job with University of Georgia | 37915852
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37915852/assistant-professor-in-classics/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2006&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20251115_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20251115_jobtitle_job1