• Robigalia — an ancient agricultural festival designed to appease the numen Robigo/Robigus who caused mildew
• 404 B.C. — Athens surrenders to Sparta, bringing the Peloponnesian War to an end (by one reckoning)
• 68 A.D. — martyrdom of Mark the Evangelist
• 1940 — death of Wilhelm Dorpfeld (excavator of Tiryns)

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Analysis of Roman shipwreck’s coatings tells story of its time on the seas | Research | Chemistry World
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/analysis-of-roman-shipwrecks-coatings-tells-story-of-its-time-on-the-seas/4023341.article

[paywalled] Military Histories About the Ancient Persians, Modern Iraq and the American Civil War – The New York Times

Archaeologists discover giant marble Athena statue in ancient Laodicea in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeologists-discover-giant-marble-athena-statue-in-ancient-laodikeia-in-turkiye-3218661

Statue of Ramesses II found at ancient temple site in Egypt | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-894028

Ancient mass grave reveals how a pandemic wiped out a city 1,500 years ago | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/260423031540.htm

Ancient Jewellery Sheds Light On British Museum Collection
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/04/23/ancient-jewellery-sheds-light-on-british-museum-collection/

Roman Quarry Discovery in Italy Reveals Source of Advanced Ancient Mortar – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/23/ancient-roman-quarry-discovery-italy-advanced-mortar/

2,000-year-old Roman bread discovered under construction site | Popular Science
https://www.popsci.com/science/roman-bread-switzerland/

Scraped from ancient Roman toilets, these crusted remains expose a pathogen found far earlier than expected
https://phys.org/news/2026-04-ancient-roman-toilets-crusted-expose.html

The UB’s archaeological mission in Oxyrhynchus has found Homer’s ‘Iliad’ inside a Roman-era mummy – Current events – University of Barcelona
https://web.ub.edu/en/web/actualitat/w/oxyrhynchus-iliad-homer

What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt

What Archaeologists Found Hidden Inside a Roman-Era Mummy in Egypt

42 lost pages of the New Testament manuscript discovered

42 lost pages of the New Testament manuscript discovered

Conservation and presentation of Soknopaiou Nesos temple

Conservation and presentation of Soknopaiou Nesos temple

[FWIW] The Top Five Craziest Greek Gods – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/23/top-craziest-greek-gods/

Resist Beginnings: The Ancient Roman Maxim Behind the American Revolution | Tenth Amendment Center

Resist Beginnings: The Ancient Roman Maxim Behind the American Revolution

5 ways the Persian Empire made the modern world – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/persian-empire-contributions/

Epic | After Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, another adaptation of the Greek epic is in the works – Telegraph India
https://www.telegraphindia.com/entertainment/after-christopher-nolans-the-odyssey-another-adaptation-of-the-greek-epic-is-in-the-works/cid/2157402#goog_rewarded

Professor Karen B. Stern Named 2026 Guggenheim Fellow | CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/professor-karen-b-stern-named-2026-guggenheim-fellow

What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished | Open Culture

What Happens When a Globalized World Collapses: Archaeologist Eric Cline Explains How Bronze Age Civilizations Adapted, Survived or Vanished

[paywalled] Two more women allege harassment by Cambridge professor
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/education/article/sexual-harassment-claims-cambridge-academic-simon-goldhill-v3wd3c3lb

Colleges not told about investigation into Simon Goldhill | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/31560

Blog #122: Cultivating Pompeii: Urban Agriculture and Resilience, AD 62-79 with Jessica Venner – Peopling the Past

Blog #122: Cultivating Pompeii: Urban Agriculture and Resilience, AD 62-79 with Jessica Venner

(6) Ancient history roundup – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-history-roundup-f56

(6) Did Ovid Bury Philippi in a Love Story?
https://paideiainstitute.substack.com/p/did-ovid-bury-philippi-in-a-love

People Are Going to Tell Our Story: Introducing Iliad 19 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

People Are Going to Tell Our Story: Introducing Iliad 19

De Iberiërs (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (3)

De Iberiërs (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (2)

De Iberiërs (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Iberiërs (1)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Not Unusual
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/not-unusual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: An Aramean bull stele and the New Moon?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/an-aramean-bull-stele-and-new-moon.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Moses in the Proto-Sinaitic inscriptions?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/moses-in-proto-sinaitic-inscriptions.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Karen Stern awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/karen-stern-awarded-guggenheim.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Digitale Korpusarithmetik mit antikem Text: Ein Annäherungsversuch
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/digitale-korpusarithmetik-mit-antikem.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology and World Politics: The German Aksum-Expedition (1905/06) in Ethiopia
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/archaeology-and-world-politics-german.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Parthenon at Illinois
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/parthenon-at-illinois.html

Justice in Plato’s Republic: the lessons of Book 1 – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.32/

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Augusti Retirement – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

103: Defeat of the Athenian Na…–Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA406 – What army did Alexander Molossus have in his Italian campaigns?
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa406-what-army-did-alexander-molossus-have-in-his-italian-campaigns

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(588) Why the Ancient Romans Would Hate TikTok | Will Knispel | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(589) Untold | Tracing the Egyptian Timeline and Textual Sources – YouTube

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Teaching Assistant Professor – Classics, Fall 2026 job with University of Tennessee, Knoxville | 37979224
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37979224/teaching-assistant-professor-classics-fall-2026/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2166&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260424_jobtitle

Thucydiocies: How Not to Read Thucydides in Contemporary Political Discourse | Public Humanities | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-humanities/article/thucydiocies-how-not-to-read-thucydides-in-contemporary-political-discourse/79BC40694A178354B47AE7F2FFDF9279

Magnanimitas and the Cornelian Inheritance: A Study of Political Morality | Antichthon | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/magnanimitas-and-the-cornelian-inheritance-a-study-of-political-morality/80BCCD3793D51B06896605AC15200B01

CONTRA MVNDVM, CONTRA METRVM: PROSPER OF AQUITAINE, A VICTIM OF PHILOLOGY (AD CONIVGEM SVAM 97)? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/contra-mvndvm-contra-metrvm-prosper-of-aquitaine-a-victim-of-philology-ad-conivgem-svam-97/42F833E5E5A00069A090434EF07577DF

SELF-MADE ‘MEN’: THE PROGRESSIVE EMASCULATION OF THE BROTHERS ASINAEUS AND ANILAEUS IN JOSEPHUS, ANTIQUITIES 18 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/selfmade-men-the-progressive-emasculation-of-the-brothers-asinaeus-and-anilaeus-in-josephus-antiquities-18/94D80F6419171E40A5F495D12794B8FD

WHO WERE THE ‘EXILES FOR THE TEN YEARS’ IN THE THEMISTOCLES DECREE? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/who-were-the-exiles-for-the-ten-years-in-the-themistocles-decree/8572275833D11F5EF7EBF10D2CAA4D24

ARISTOTLE, DE ANIMA ΒΟΟΚ 2: A DOUBLE RECENSION? | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/aristotle-de-anima-2-a-double-recension/

Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online – UWM Libraries

Digitized Copy of 1478 Ptolemy’s ‘Geography’ Available Online

• Vinalia (day 2?)
• 1184 B.C. — “conquest and destruction of Troy” (according to one reckoning)
• 339 B.C. — Timoleon defeats the Carthaginians at the Crimesus (according to one reckoning)
• 27 B.C. — the future emperor Tiberius dons his toga virilis

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2 meter marble Athena statue discovered at Ancient Laodicea
https://en.milliyet.com.tr/news/2-meter-marble-athena-statue-discovered-at-ancient-laodicea-7576113

Egypt, colossal statue attributed to Ramses II discovered in eastern Nile Delta
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/egypt-colossal-statue-attributed-to-ramses-ii-discovered-in-eastern-nile-delta

Five Antiquities Return to Greece from the United States | GTP Headlines
https://news.gtp.gr/2026/04/22/five-antiquities-return-to-greece-from-the-united-states/

Athena and Hermes make their way home from Chicago | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1301564/athena-and-hermes-make-their-way-home-from-chicago/

Roman Quarry Discovery in Italy Reveals Source of Advanced Ancient Mortar – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/04/23/ancient-roman-quarry-discovery-italy-advanced-mortar/

This 115-foot Perfectly Circular Water Temple Found in the Egyptian Desert Simulatd Nile Floods
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/circular-water-temple-egypt/

Elon Musk Donates $ 1 Million to Rome’s Archaeological Heritage
https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/elon-musk-donates-1-million-to-romes-archaeological-heritage.html

Egyptian mummy has part of the ‘Iliad’ in its abdomen, archaeologists discover | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/egyptian-mummy-has-part-of-the-iliad-in-its-abdomen-archaeologists-discover

Actorly Fauci becomes blind prophet for Oedipus the King reading in DC | Anthony Fauci | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/22/anthony-fauci-acting-debut-oedipus-the-king

Vatican newspaper publishes reflection on Virgil’s Aeneid by the future Pope Francis | News Headlines | Catholic Culture
https://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=69183

Students reflect on embedded program exposing them to ancient Greek culture | Penn State University
https://www.psu.edu/news/liberal-arts/story/students-reflect-embedded-program-exposing-them-ancient-greek-culture

SIU engineering students recreate ancient Roman odometer to measure distance | Latest Headlines | thesouthern.com
https://thesouthern.com/news/siu-engineering-students-recreate-ancient-roman-odometer-to-measure-distance/article_3f62a362-3c26-5186-945c-8b2b6ac4d216.html

What Camus’s Sisyphus Revealed About Human Dignity and the Absurd | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/absurdity-dignity-camus-myth-sisyphus/

Frank J. Frost Jr. 1929–2026 – The Santa Barbara Independent

Frank J. Frost Jr. 1929–2026

2,000 years ago, ancient Roman forces annihilated Jerusalem. Was its destruction inevitable? | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-empire-defeated-jerusalem/

Byzantine Law: The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire

Byzantine Law: The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire

Valuable finds at Kolona, Aegina

Valuable finds at Kolona, Aegina

Double book presentation at the NIA

Double book presentation at the NIA

An Illustrated Papyrus in Florence | Variant Readings

An Illustrated Papyrus in Florence

All The Epics We Have Lost | Philip Jenkins
https://www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiousbench/2026/04/all-the-epics-we-have-lost/

Strugglin’ | Sphinx

Strugglin’

Academic Rituals: When to Haggle | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Academic Rituals: When to Haggle

Laudator Temporis Acti: Agriculture
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/04/agriculture.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Lost Classical epics
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/lost-classical-epics.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Who was the “Ethiopian” “Eunuch?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/04/who-was-ethiopian-eunuch.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Catalogue of Terracottas from Egypt Dating to the Late Period and Graeco-Roman Times: Allard Pierson – The Collections of the University of Amsterdam
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/catalogue-of-terracottas-from-egypt.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Grabfunde als Spiegel der Bildung: Zur Literalität der Frauen in den westlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/04/grabfunde-als-spiegel-der-bildung-zur.html

Licurgo di Sparta nella letteratura greca e latina – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.31/

The Oxford handbook of Hellenistic philosophy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.04.30/

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The Partial Recap – 390s BCE – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

The Partial Recap – 390s BCE

Classics & Careers S3, E6: Tra… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Was Rome Always Like This? (With Mike Duncan): The Show Notes – Ancient History Fangirl

Was Rome Always Like This? (With Mike Duncan): The Show Notes

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(542) The Misunderstood Myth: Persephone, Hades & Demeter – YouTube

(546) Liberal Arts in Cicero’s Utopia | Lecture in LATIN | Carl Hamilton | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

(546) Theophrastus’s Annoying People | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Roberto Salazar – YouTube

(546) Excavating the Forum of Augustus: Under Via Alessandrina – YouTube

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Macroscopic and histological analyses of cremated remains from the Imperial Roman necropolis of La Cona (1st cent. BCE-1st cent. CE, Teramo, Italy) | PLOS One
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article%3Fid%3D10.1371/journal.pone.0345498

FemClas9 — THE WOMEN’S CLASSICAL CAUCUS (WCC)
https://www.wccclassics.org/femclas9

Assistant Professor – CLTA – Greek Language and Literature – CAUT | Academic Work
https://www.academicwork.ca/jobs/assistant-professor-clta-greek-language-and-literature-university-of-toronto-1

• Vinalia (urbana) — the wine which was ‘bottled’ in the previous autumn was opened and tasted for the first time, after a libation to Jupiter
• 248 A.D. — third day of celebration of Rome’s 1000th anniversary