- ludi Romani (day 3)
- 15 A.D. — possible birthdate of the future emperor Vitellius (?)
- 70 A.D. — Roman forces under Titus occupy and plunder Jerusalem (one reckoning)
- 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Anastasius the Fuller
Category: Uncategorized
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 7, 2025
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Divers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Sunken Port in Asini –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/06/divers-uncover-2000-year-old-sunken-port-in-asini/
Sicily, a helmet from the 241 BC Battle of the Egadi recovered at sea.
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/sicily-a-helmet-from-the-241-bc-battle-of-the-egadi-recovered-at-sea
Due grandi vasi di epoca romana riemergono dal Golfo di Gaeta. Ecco a cosa servivano – Gambero Rosso
https://www.gamberorosso.it/notizie/attualita/vasi-romani-riemergono-golfo-gaeta/
Ritrovata tomba etrusca inviolata con le più antiche decorazioni di Tarquinia
https://www.viterbotoday.it/attualita/tomba-etrusca-inviolata-scoperta-necropoli-monterozzi-tarquinia-5-settembre-2025.html
Excavating Quiet Corner of the Bible Shows Israelite Impact on Foothills of Judea – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-07/ty-article-magazine/excavating-quiet-corner-of-the-bible-shows-israelite-impact-on-foothills-of-judea/00000199-2441-d1da-a3df-b551e3540000
2,200-year-old gold coin depicting ancient Egyptian queen discovered in Jerusalem | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/2-200-year-old-gold-coin-depicting-ancient-egyptian-queen-discovered-in-jerusalem
How Gobekli Tepe Rewrote the Origins of Civilization | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/gobekli-tepe-origins-of-civilization/
Rare Bronze Age breastplate identified – The Past
(17) Antiquipop – The September 2025 letter
https://antiquipop.substack.com/p/antiquipop-la-lettre-de-septembre?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1249468&post_id=150749224&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Roman army camp uncovered in the Netherlands – The Past
Herculaneum Park, Suburban Baths open for the first time
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/herculaneum-park-suburban-baths-open-for-the-first-time
Damo: The Enigmatic Philosopher and Daughter of Pythagoras – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/06/damo-philosopher-daughter-pythagoras/
Spartan Wit Revisited: History’s Sharpest One-Liner – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/spartan-wit-history-sharpest-one-liner/
The Council of 500: How Ordinary Citizens Powered Athens’ Democracy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/council-500-citizens-athens-democracy/
The Greeks: Radical Reinvention – Apollo Magazine
‘The cost of pride’: Madeline Miller’s ‘Song of Achilles’ | Entertainment | utdailybeacon.com
https://www.utdailybeacon.com/arts_and_culture/entertainment/the-cost-of-pride-madeline-miller-s-song-of-achilles/article_84717e09-edda-4411-a737-67603715e809.html
(17) Gazing at the Stars – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/gazing-at-the-stars?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=172904002&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Poisoning the Information Network – Noodlings
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days
(17) Aeneid XII.728-842 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii728-842-ad7?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995837&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
(17) Aeneid XII.843-952 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii843-952-4f2?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995862&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Making use of AI in the Classics classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/making-use-of-ai-in-the-classics-classroom/BA74A341B62D6A0AD22733F125324D2F?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues
Iliad Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/iliad-translations-in-the-undergraduate-classroom/FE467234D46E859B7021278B9C34744C?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues
Journal of Classics Teaching: Volume 26 – Issue 52 | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/issue/7C28F3BE0C3B44C54CA82C7A90769C6B?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Issue+URL&utm_campaign=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Issues&WT.mc_id=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Issues
De Codex Sinaiticus – Mainzer Beobachter
PaleoJudaica.com: Scarlata, The Theology of the Book of Leviticus (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/scarlata-theology-of-book-of-leviticus.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Their Late Antique Jewish Contexts (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/aramaic-incantation-bowls-in-their-late.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Frontières en Grande Grèce: Archéologie et histoire des représentations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/frontieres-en-grande-grece-archeologie.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PapyGreek
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/papygreek.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kerameikos News: More than 14,000 objects from the Met Museums added
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/kerameikos-news-more-than-14000-objects.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ancient Books Website
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-ancient-books-website.html
Publications of the Faculty of History and Philology of Belgorod (Russia) | Spartokos read
Les publications de la faculté d’histoire et de philologie de Belgorod (Russie)
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Anima Latina 07.09.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/09/anima-latina-07-09-2025.html
Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 06.09.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/09/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-06-09-2025.html
The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm – The Ancients | Acast
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Enormous Roman Mosaic In Turkey – video Dailymotion
(455) Where Did European Civilization Begin? – YouTube
(455) When Ancient Greece meets comedy | Full Disclosure – YouTube
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explorator 27.38 ~ September 7, 2025 – Explorator
Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (gentle reminder) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (gentle reminder)
This Day in Ancient History: ~ ante diem viii idus septembres
- “”ludi Romani (day 2)
- 81 A.D. — martyrdom of Onesiphorus
- 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Faustus in Alexandria
- 1956 — death of Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B (the ancient script used by the Myceneans)
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 5, 2025
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Roman gladiators brutalized brown bears inside arenas, new archaeological evidence reveals
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/science/roman-gladiators-brutalized-brown-bears-inside-arenas-new-archaeological-evidence-reveals/
Roman Gladiators fought BEARS in the arena, fossil evidence reveals for the first time | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15068735/Roman-Gladiators-BEARS-arena-fossil-evidence.html
Tarquinia, major archaeological discovery: Etruscan chamber tomb found intact
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/tarquinia-major-archaeological-discovery-etruscan-chamber-tomb-found-intact
Purdue Professor Documents 53 Biblical Figures Confirmed by Archaeology – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/purdue-professor-documents-53-biblical-figures-confirmed-by-archaeology/
Scoperta eccezionale alle Egadi: recuperato elmo “Montefortino”- Ragusa Oggi
Eccezionale scoperta archeologica alle Egadi: recuperato elmo in bronzo della Prima guerra punica
Assembly Hall at Ancient Hellenistic City of Stratonikeia Restored to Former Glory – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/assembly-hall-ancient-city-gladiators-restored-former-glory/
Roman Tomb With Rare Bilingual Inscription Found in Albania – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/roman-tomb-bilingual-inscription-albania/
ARISTOTLE’S FIRST EXAMPLE OF AN EFFICIENT CAUSE: TRANSLATING PHYSICS 194B30 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/aristotles-first-example-of-an-efficient-cause-translating-physics-194b30/CAB6727101747F646F0E535F01ED7098?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles
(17) Aeneid XII.612-727 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii612-727-9a3?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995768&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
De Muur van Antoninus Pius (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
PaleoJudaica.com: Cleopatra’s siblings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/cleopatras-siblings.html
PaleoJudaica.com: William Ross on flouted LXX translation conventions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/william-ross-on-flouted-lxx-translation.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New in Dickinson College Commentaries in the past year
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/10/new-in-dickinson-college-commentaries.html
Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables
Modern Hungarian culture and the classics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
The ancient shore – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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Ancient History Podcast – MoAn Inc.
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-moan-inc
Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA373 – Greek phalanx vs. Germanic shield wall: how different were they?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa373-greek-phalanx-vs-germanic-shield-wall-how-different-were-they
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(415) The Mystery of Medea | No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes – YouTube
(415) Apulian & Iapygian Warfare | Warriors of History | Animated Documentary – YouTube
Vespasian #5 – Circumcision, Sabbath, and Salt – Life Of The Caesars
(415) Vespasian’s Hidden Tunnel Along The Via Flaminia – YouTube
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Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations Workshop
(417) Come to an online history conference! #ancienthistory #newtestament – YouTube
This Day in Ancient History: nonae septembres
- ludi Romani (day 1)
- 146 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Stator and associated rites thereafter
- c. 180 — martyrdom of Herculanus
- 1908 — birth of Arnaldo Momigliano