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Archaeologists unearth tree-lined walkway that led to ancient Egyptian fortress in Sinai Desert | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/archaeologists-unearth-tree-lined-walkway-that-led-to-ancient-egyptian-fortress-in-sinai-desert

Roman wooden water pipe discovered in Leuven
https://www.belganewsagency.eu/roman-wooden-water-pipe-discovered-in-leuven

Cornish tin was sold all over Europe 3,000 years ago, say archaeologists | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/07/cornish-tin-was-sold-all-over-europe-3000-years-ago-say-archaeologists

Pre-dynastic Egyptian artefacts reveal ‘strong’ Nile ties to southern Levant | Jordan Times
https://jordantimes.com/news/local/pre-dynastic-egyptian-artefacts-reveal-%E2%80%98strong%E2%80%99-nile-ties-southern-levant

2,000-year-old bed barricade unearthed in Pompeii house — likely a family’s last attempt to escape Vesuvius’ eruption | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/2-000-year-old-bed-barricade-unearthed-in-pompeii-house-likely-a-familys-last-attempt-to-escape-vesuvius-eruption

They read a charred scroll of Philodemus 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius – They found the word “disgust” – ProtoThema English

They read a charred scroll of Philodemus 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius – They found the word “disgust”

AI Reveals Title and Author of Scroll Burned by Vesuvius That No One Could Read for 2,000 Years
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/ai-reveals-title-and-author-of-scroll-burned-by-vesuvius-that-no-one-could-read-for-2000-years/

The Colosseum in 3D: completed the first integrated digital survey of the monument
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/the-colosseum-in-3d-completed-the-first-integrated-digital-survey-of-the-monument

Modern tech unlocks secrets of ancient Greek mass production | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/05/modern-tech-unlocks-secrets-of-ancient-greek-mass-production.html

Roman Road and Rare Artifacts Unearthed in Switzerland | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/roman-road-rare-artifacts-unearthed-switzerland/

New Study Solves Mystery of the Parthenon’s Ancient Lighting System – GreekReporter.com

New Study Solves Mystery of the Parthenon’s Ancient Lighting System

Why Provenance Is Still the Art World’s Blind Spot | Observer

Lost, Looted, Disputed: Why Provenance Is Still the Art World’s Blind Spot

Should Students Learn from Looted Antiquities? – SAPIENS
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/looted-antiquities-iraq-teaching-learning/

The British Museum and the Blitz: eight days to evacuate for the Second World War | British Museum
https://www.britishmuseum.org/blog/british-museum-and-blitz-eight-days-evacuate-second-world-war

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Is The Perfect Excuse To Read One Of The Greatest Literary Accomplishments Ever
https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-movie-read-book-excuse/

Self-made billionaire says Stoic philosophy key to success
https://nypost.com/2025/05/06/business/self-made-billionaire-says-stoic-philosophy-key-to-success/

Why today’s leaders are turning to a 2,000-year-old philosophy | Fortune
https://fortune.com/article/business-leaders-2000-year-old-philosophy-stoicism/

Cyprus and Italy in joint efforts to combat illicit trafficking of antiquities and strengthen cultural cooperation by signing an MoU – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/cyprus-and-italy-in-joint-efforts-to-combat-illicit-trafficking-of-antiquities-and-strengthen-cultural-cooperation-by-signing-an-mou/

From Land’s End to the Levant: did Britain’s tin sources transform the Bronze Age in Europe and the Mediterranean? | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/from-lands-end-to-the-levant-did-britains-tin-sources-transform-the-bronze-age-in-europe-and-the-mediterranean/2330F3B6498B210DA61B89026A1F38EA

How ancient battlefield music echoes through Türkiye’s archaeological sites – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/how-ancient-battlefield-music-echoes-through-turkiyes-archaeological-sites-3201070

Traces of colossal statues among rediscovered Apollo Sanctuary
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/traces-of-colossal-statues-among-rediscovered-apollo-sanctuary/155159

How Workers in Ancient Egypt and Rome Organized Strikes
https://hyperallergic.com/1010219/how-workers-in-ancient-egypt-and-rome-organized-strikes/

(10) Happy 10th Birthday to Eidolon – by Donna Zuckerberg
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/happy-10th-birthday-to-eidolon?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2108238&post_id=163066073&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(10) Oedipus at Colonus: Dead Man Walking – by Elizabeth Bobrick
https://elizabethbobrick.substack.com/p/oedipus-at-colonus-dead-man-walking-2b2?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1331359&post_id=163019048&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The Archive Project – Portland Arts and Lectures – Emily Wilson – OPB
https://www.opb.org/article/2025/05/05/the-archive-project-portland-arts-and-lectures-emily-wilson/

Classical studies professor urges Miami to recognize the importance of the humanities – The Miami Student
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/05/classical-studies-professor-urges-miami-to-recognize-the-importance-of-the-humanities

Convicted Governor Baebius Massa’s Desperate And Deadly Accusation Of Treason Against His Roman Prosecutor – The Historian’s Hut

Convicted Governor Baebius Massa’s Desperate And Deadly Accusation Of Treason Against His Roman Prosecutor

Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly – Medievalists.net

Latin Literature in Late Antiquity, with Gavin Kelly

Invocation to the Goddess Hygieia, by Louis-Héctor Leroux (c. 1829–1900) – The Historian’s Hut

Invocation to the Goddess Hygieia, by Louis-Héctor Leroux (c. 1829–1900)

Aristotle – The Historian’s Hut

Aristotle

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Meeting
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-meeting.html

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 236 (04/2025) | Tulliana News

SIAC NEWSLETTER – 236 (04/2025)

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: How Republics Die: Creeping Authoritarianism in Ancient Rome and Beyond
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/how-republics-die-creeping.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Naḥal Tanninim Dam and Its Vicinity: Final Report of the 2000–2005 Excavation Seasons
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-nahal-tanninim-dam-and-its-vicinity.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Conference: The Achaemenid Persian Empire and its Non-Western Borderlands: A Change of Paradigm( Innsbruck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/conference-achaemenid-persian-empire.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On Jannes and Jambres, with an important announcement
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/on-jannes-and-jambres-with-important.html

Oorlog in Sumerië – Mainzer Beobachter

Oorlog in Sumerië

De l’histoire économique des villes de Colchide aux IIIe-Ier s. av. n. è. : d’après le matériel céramique | Spartokos a lu

De l’histoire économique des villes de Colchide aux IIIe-Ier s. av. n. è. : d’après le matériel céramique

Apotropaia and phylakteria: confronting evil in ancient Greece – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Apotropaia and phylakteria: confronting evil in ancient Greece

Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Redefining the standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism

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Q&A with Jessica Clarke, our Expert in Residence by The Classics Podcast

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(32) Is now REALLY the time, Oedipus? – YouTube

(33) Which Animals Roman Gladiators Fought #shorts #rome #fyp #history #gladiator #animal #military – YouTube

(33) In principio erat origo | Lecture in LATIN | Jonathan Arrington | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

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Orestes by Euripides (Sun) – Gulbenkian

Orestes by Euripides (Sun)

Homer, Hesiod and ‘Homeric’ Hymns

Homer, Hesiod and ‘Homeric’ Hymns

Cold War Classics Workshop

Cold War Classics Workshop

Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture: Palace and Town at Phaistos: a retrospective of research over the last twenty years | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/michael-ventris-memorial-lecture-palace-and-town-phaistos-a-retrospective-research-over-last

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They read a charred scroll of Philodemus 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius – They found the word “disgust” – ProtoThema English

They read a charred scroll of Philodemus 2,000 years after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius – They found the word “disgust”

X-ray reveals ancient Greek author of charred first century BC Vesuvius scroll | Archaeology | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2025/may/06/x-ray-reveals-ancient-greek-author-of-charred-first-century-bc-vesuvius-scroll

Ancient Greek text identified in charred Herculaneum scroll using AI and X-rays | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1268873/ancient-greek-text-identified-in-charred-herculaneum-scroll-using-ai-and-x-rays/

The Games of democratic Athens were as great as the ancient Olympics – Neos Kosmos

The Games of democratic Athens were as great as the ancient Olympics

A Pompeii Family Fought To Stay Alive in Vesuvius Eruption
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/house-of-helle-and-phrixus-pompeii-family-death-1234740845/

‘Very rare’ horse cemetery from Roman times unearthed in Germany | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/germany-horse-cemetery-roman-era-rare-b2745561.html

The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed

The Mystery of the Parthenon’s Interior Lighting System in Antiquity Revealed

In Tivoli, a Roman-Era Grotto Is Revived After a Lengthy Restoration – Galerie

In Tivoli, a Roman-Era Grotto Is Revived After a Lengthy Restoration

Major study transforms understanding of Roman Augusta Raurica
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/major-study-transforms-understanding-of-roman-augusta-raurica/155164

Iraq’s important archaeological sites under threat from real-estate development – undefined
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/05/06/iraqs-important-archaeological-sites-under-threat-from-real-estate-development

Ancient Roman Road, Bronze Panther Found in Switzerland – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Roman Road, Bronze Panther Found in Switzerland

Ancient Roman Road with Porticoes and Rare Artifacts Discovered in Switzerland – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-roman-road-with-porticoes-and-rare-artifacts-discovered-in-switzerland/

2,000 year-old Pompeii dig reveals giraffe bone and rare glassified human brain | – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/science/2000-year-old-pompeii-dig-reveals-giraffe-bone-and-rare-glassified-human-brain/articleshow/120925172.cms

Archaeologists dig up an ancient deity’s head beneath a centuries-old church – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/archaeologists-dig-up-an-ancient-deitys-head-beneath-a-centuries-old-church/articleshow/120898661.cms

Rineia: The Sacred Necropolis of Greece’s Delos – GreekReporter.com

Rineia: The Sacred Necropolis of Greece’s Delos

How did sport become so popular? The ancient history of a modern obsession
https://theconversation.com/how-did-sport-become-so-popular-the-ancient-history-of-a-modern-obsession-254057

Elektra: A throne restored (King’s Greek Play 2025) | King’s College London eStore
https://estore.kcl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/academic-faculties/faculty-of-arts-humanities/department-of-classics/elektra-a-throne-restored-kings-greek-play-2025

The Don Pacifico Affair | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-don-pacifico-affair-blog-post

more castration won’t end castration culture – purple motes

more castration won’t end castration culture

Laudator Temporis Acti: The Greatest Misfortune
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-greatest-misfortune.html

Een Thracische huurling in Numidië – Mainzer Beobachter

Een Thracische huurling in Numidië

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mesopotamian Identities in the Last Centuries of Cuneiform Writing
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/mesopotamian-identities-in-last.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis: The Finds and Conclusions
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/hellenistic-nysa-scythopolis-finds-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: BET SHE’AN IV: Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis The Amphora Stamps and Sealings from Tel Iztabba
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/bet-shean-iv-hellenistic-nysa.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Masoretic Text variants in Rabbinic quotations
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/masoretic-text-variants-in-rabbinic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Tony Burke’s Regensburg Year: April
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/tony-burkes-regensburg-year-april.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ptolemaic and Roman-era military fortifications excavated in North Sinai
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/ptolemaic-and-roman-era-military.html

Monarchies and the Organization of Power

Monarchies and the Organization of Power

ERETRIA XXVI

ERETRIA XXVI

Announcing our next conference! Plus a news round-up – The VIEWS project

It’s Not Unusual | Sphinx

It’s Not Unusual

Summer Reading List | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Summer Reading List

(10) Unwrapping Egyptian mummies – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/unwrapping-egyptian-mummies?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=162708604&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer’s new book released from Oxford University Press | Department of Classics

Professor Patricia Rosenmeyer’s new book released from Oxford University Press

The Cambridge companion to ancient logic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Cambridge companion to ancient logic

Slaves of God: Augustine and other Romans on religion and politics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Slaves of God: Augustine and other Romans on religion and politics

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Podcast Season 4, Episode 2: Fragments and Falsehoods: The Papyrus Trade with Roberta Mazza – Peopling the Past

Podcast Season 4, Episode 2: Fragments and Falsehoods: The Papyrus Trade with Roberta Mazza

Live from Mount Olympus | Theseus & Ariadne 3: “Snakes are slimy and sneaky and ewwww, I just don’t like them!”
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_361_87baeda3-4ddb-4d36-9005-01776305c656&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2FLiveFromMountOlympus
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(20) The ending of Oedipus by Sophocles is not for the faint hearted – YouTube

Epic Origins of Western Education | Lecture in LATIN | Luke Ranieri | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

The Origins of Western Grammar | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | John James | Living Latin in NYC – YouTube

What If You’re Not ‘Smart Enough’ to Read the Classics? (Spoiler: You Are) – YouTube

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Associate Lecturer in Ancient History and Archaeology (Education Focused) – AOAC2332RXRS
https://www.vacancies.st-andrews.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/1622/0/450574/889/associate-lecturer-education-focused-aoac2332rxrs

The Piraeus Lion: Whose Story

The Piraeus Lion: Whose Story

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1,800-year-old warhorse cemetery held remains of a beloved horse — and a man considered an ‘outsider’ to Roman society | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/1-800-year-old-warhorse-cemetery-held-remains-of-a-beloved-horse-and-a-man-considered-an-outsider-to-roman-society

New Research Shows Slavery’s Outsized Role in Pompeii’s Economy
https://hyperallergic.com/1007696/new-research-shows-slaverys-outsized-role-in-pompeiis-economy/

A Third Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern Sinai Peninsula

A Third Roman Fortress Discovered in the Northern Sinai Peninsula

The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals

The Triton Baths in Southeastern Rome Were Converted into a Christian Church During Late Antiquity, Discovery Reveals

Traces of colossal statues among rediscovered Apollo Sanctuary
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/traces-of-colossal-statues-among-rediscovered-apollo-sanctuary/155159

Greece to Digitally Transform Visitor Experience at Museums and Archaeological Sites – GreekReporter.com

Greece to Digitally Transform Visitor Experience at Museums and Archaeological Sites

U.S. tourist impaled through lower back climbing metal fence outside the Colosseum in Rome | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-tourist-impaled-colosseum-rome-b2745103.html

Archaeologists dig up an ancient deity’s head beneath a centuries-old church – The Times of India
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/etimes/trending/archaeologists-dig-up-an-ancient-deitys-head-beneath-a-centuries-old-church/articleshow/120898661.cms

Poseidon’s Trident Discovered in Lake İznik – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/poseidons-trident-discovered-in-lake-iznik/

The Prince of Egypt at Saqqara – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Prince of Egypt at Saqqara

[AI?]Flash floods force Petra evacuation of 1,800 tourists, say Jordanians – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-852666

The Department of Classics’ Medea on Trial: The condemned women of Greek tragedy return to take the stand – The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
https://www.jhunewsletter.com/article/2025/05/the-department-of-classics-medea-on-trial-the-condemned-women-of-greek-tragedy-return-to-take-the-stand

Pseudo-Archaeology, UFOs, and the Need for Authentic Skepticism
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/pseudo-archaeology-ufos-and-the-need-for-authentic-skepticism

Circe, the Enchantress of Greek Mythology, as Depicted in Paintings – GreekReporter.com

Circe, the Enchantress of Greek Mythology, as Depicted in Paintings

Dig-it-yourself | Tourists and Child Archaeologists Break New Ground at Ancient Chorazin – Archaeology – Haaretz.com
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-05-05/ty-article-magazine/tourists-and-child-archaeologists-break-new-ground-at-ancient-chorazin/00000196-9b20-d460-abf6-ffe87d5d0000

Battle for biblical archaeology intensifies as Israeli researchers face academic boycott
https://nypost.com/2025/05/04/world-news/battle-for-biblical-archaeology-intensifies-as-israeli-researchers-face-academic-boycott/

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Constituting Artemis : the social and cultural significance of votive offerings in the cults of Artemis at Brauron, Ephesos and Sparta
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/constituting-artemis-social-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The portrait face : understanding realism and verism in Greek and Roman portraiture
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-portrait-face-understanding-realism.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Curses in context III: Greek curse tablets of the classical and Hellenistic periods
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/curses-in-context-iii-greek-curse.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Methods and models in ancient history
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/methods-and-models-in-ancient-history.html

Weekly Varia, no. 129, 05/04/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia, no. 129, 05/04/25

Laudator Temporis Acti: Impossible
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/impossible.html

Een oudheidkundig probleem: vergelijkingstheorie – Mainzer Beobachter

Een oudheidkundig probleem: vergelijkingstheorie

A manuscript from the “Abbey of the Red Valley” – Rookloster, Rooklooster, Rouge-Cloître, Rougeval, or Rubea Vallis? – Roger Pearse

A manuscript from the “Abbey of the Red Valley” – Rookloster, Rooklooster, Rouge-Cloître, Rougeval, or Rubea Vallis?

PaleoJudaica.com: Educational excavation at Chorazin
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/educational-excavation-at-chorazin.html

PaleoJudaica.com: NEH funding canceled for Critical Edition of the Hebrew Psalter Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/neh-funding-canceled-for-critical.html

Women of the past, issues for the present – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Women of the past, issues for the present

Greek tragedy and the Middle East: chasing the myth – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Greek tragedy and the Middle East: chasing the myth

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(582) Poor Oedipus is really going through it 💀 – YouTube

(584) The Worst Part about Gladiator II – YouTube

(584) United Monarchy Israelite Warrior | Warriors of History – YouTube

Come ho costruito la mia attività di insegnamento del latino online (Italian version) – YouTube

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Tenure-Track Faculty Position in Classics – College of the Holy Cross: Department of Classics
https://apply.interfolio.com/66764?mobile-app=true&theme=dark

4th Annual International Congress on Roman Bioarchaeology
https://mailchi.mp/f805890047c4/4th-annual-international-congress-on-roman-bioarchaeology

Leuven Colloquia on Ancient Platonism (LCAP) — Not another history of Platonism
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/dwmc/research/not-another-history-of-platonism/events/LCAP

Sacred caves outside Crete

Sacred caves outside Crete

Pindar, Herodotus and the Ram-God of Mendes

Pindar, Herodotus and the Ram-God of Mendes

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Unravelling the tale of York’s gladiator bitten by a lion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3vqk9y3vko

Roman lime kiln found by archaeologists in Gloucestershire
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c2dew1d26xjo

[AI?]Study reveals Pompeii family’s final moments in Vesuvius eruption – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-852515

[AI?]Fortress found in N. Sinai with Roman-era soldiers’ dwellings – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-852517

Mass grave of Roman soldiers found in Vienna linked to ‘catastrophic event’ – The Past

Mass grave of Roman soldiers found in Vienna linked to ‘catastrophic event’

Ancient Greek Historian Plutarch Was Among the First Vegetarians – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Historian Plutarch Was Among the First Vegetarians

Why Greek Philosopher Empedocles’ Four Elements Theory is Still Relevant – GreekReporter.com

Why Greek Philosopher Empedocles’ Four Elements Theory is Still Relevant

‘Cato (Remixed)’ revives a favorite play of the Founding Fathers – WHYY

‘Cato (Remixed)’ examines the Founding Fathers’ infatuation with ancient Rome

New classics mods: An infantilising step
https://cherwell.org/2025/05/03/new-mods-an-infantilising-step-away-from-the-fundamentals/

Lessons from the Roman Empire about the danger of luxury – Big Think
https://bigthink.com/mini-philosophy/lessons-roman-empire-danger-luxury/

Rome’s Trade Self-Destruction Mirrors Trump’s

How Ancient Rome Blew Up Its Own Business Empire

(10) 5 Ancient Musical Instruments Lost to Time – CSMFHT Writes
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/5-ancient-musical-instruments-lost?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1211085&post_id=162520826&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Wat is dit voor voorwerp? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wat is dit voor voorwerp?

De sleutels van de hemel – Mainzer Beobachter

De sleutels van de hemel

PaleoJudaica.com: Vidas, The Rise of Talmud (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/vidas-rise-of-talmud-oup.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Najman, Scriptural Vitality (OUP, open access)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/najman-scriptural-vitality-oup-open.html

Autism and Classical Myth: Announcing a course on classical myth and a guest post on Myth and Mystery
https://myth-autism.blogspot.com/2025/05/announcing-course-on-classical-myth-and.html

James Romm in Conversation with Leon Botstein at Plato and the Tyrant Book Launch on May 13
https://www.bard.edu/news/james-romm-leon-botstein-plato-tyrant-book-launch-oblong-rhinebeck-may-13-2025-05-01

Laudator Temporis Acti: We Don’t Have a Choice
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/we-dont-have-choice.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Continuous Sickness
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/a-continuous-sickness.html

April Reading Notes – Noodlings

April Reading Notes

Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Why Archers Didn’t Volley Fire

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient World Mapping Center Annual Reports
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2018/01/ancient-world-mapping-center-annual.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The World of Middle Kingdom Egypt (2000-1550 BC), Vol. III
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-world-of-middle-kingdom-egypt-2000.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Getty Provenance Index
https://www.getty.edu/research/provenance

The University of Iowa: In Situ — Bible & Archaeology in Review (April 2025)
https://apps.its.uiowa.edu/dispatch/messages/view/818b2f26-4897-4c7f-a1ba-2a47833af2a6

The Black Sea: Hub of Peoples and Cultures (8th Century BC–5th/6th Century AD). | Spartokos a lu

The Black Sea: Hub of Peoples and Cultures (8th Century BC–5th/6th Century AD).

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Anima Latina 04.05.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/05/anima-latina-04-05-2025.html

The Fall of Rome: Origins – The Ancients | Acast

diē secundō mēnsis Māiī — Nuntii Latini

diē secundō mēnsis Māiī

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 03.05.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/05/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-03-05-2025.html
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(552) Cape Ecnomus – Largest Naval Battle of Antiquity – First Punic War – YouTube

(552) My Story and How I’m teaching Latin Online (English version) – YouTube

(553) De historia mea, et quomodo linguam Latinam per rete doceam (Latine) – YouTube

(552) Death Of An Empire: Why Ancient Romans Wiped Out Carthage – YouTube

(553) Ancient Rulers Symbolically Crushed Their Enemies #ancientrome #ancientEgypt – YouTube

(553) The moment where Oedipus’s world starts to go – YouTube

(553) Stuff of nightmares, honestly. – YouTube

(553) Every Monument Will Fall with Dr Dan Hicks. A chat about culture and memory – YouTube

(553) The Archaeology Wars: Call-To-Action to Support Public Education & Science Communication – YouTube

(553) Could you survive the Roman Frontier? (c .100 AD) [FULL DOCUMENTARY] – YouTube

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British Epigraphy Society (BES) Spring Meeting 2025 | Department of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology | University of Liverpool
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/archaeology-classics-and-egyptology/events/british-epigraphy-society-spring-meeting-liverpool/

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2,000-Year-Old Garlanded Sarcophagus Unearthed in City of Gladiators – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-garlanded-sarcophagus-unearthed-in-city-of-gladiators/

Study tells of family’s terrifying final moments at Roman Pompeii
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/study-tells-of-familys-terrifying-final-moments-at-roman-pompeii/155126

Pompei: Scavi recenti nella Casa di Elle e Frisso – Pompei Online
https://www.pompeionline.net/infoanews/pompei-scavi-news/425-pompei-scavi-recenti-nella-casa-di-elle-e-frisso

Excavation of Drouseia Skloinikia in the Akamas Peninsula

Excavation of Drouseia Skloinikia in the Akamas Peninsula

Gold Artifacts From Mycenaean Tombs Reveal Lost Techniques of Bronze Age Greece – GreekReporter.com

Gold Artifacts From Mycenaean Tombs Reveal Lost Techniques of Bronze Age Greece

Traces of Gloucester’s Roman past revealed in new findings
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/05/traces-of-gloucesters-roman-past-revealed-in-new-findings/155132

Pompeii family’s desperate fight for survival: Archaeologists discover a bed wedged against the door of a house – alongside the remains of a child | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-14671233/Pompeii-family-desperate-fight-survival.html

Depictions of the Milky Way found in ancient Egyptian imagery
https://phys.org/news/2025-04-depictions-milky-ancient-egyptian-imagery.html

Labour pours cold water on giving Elgin Marbles to Greece
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/04/30/labour-pours-cold-water-giving-elgin-marbles-greece-loan/

Face of Roman gladiator killed by lion revealed by forensic artist | National | hpenews.com
https://www.hpenews.com/news/national/face-of-roman-gladiator-killed-by-lion-revealed-by-forensic-artist/article_b6fe3f08-82c7-55d8-87fa-b0d5e40fa180.html

The May Day Wreath and Its Roots in Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com

The May Day Wreath and Its Roots in Ancient Greece

Pompeii Archaeological Park even more accessible: a multisensory path and guided tours in LIS
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/pompeii-archaeological-park-even-more-accessible-a-multisensory-path-and-guided-tours-in-lis

Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship – Decoding the Vindolanda tablets (Nottingham/British Museum) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship – Decoding the Vindolanda tablets (Nottingham/British Museum)

Laudator Temporis Acti: Freedom
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/05/freedom.html

In Memoriam: Dr. Paul Potter – Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry – Western University
https://www.schulich.uwo.ca/about/news/2025/april/in_memoriam_paul_potter.html

(9) And Now For Something Musically Different
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/and-now-for-something-musically-different?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1870284&post_id=162705185&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding – Independence Institute

Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding

Pieces of the Parthenon | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/pieces-of-the-parthenon-blog-post

PaleoJudaica.com: Mysterious ancient lion-head bronze discs
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/mysterious-ancient-lion-head-bronze.html

PaleoJudaica.com: PA President says the Jewish Temple was in Yemen
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/pa-president-says-jewish-temple-was-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Codex Sassoon is going on display in Israel
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-codex-sassoon-is-going-on-display.html

(9) Crucial lessons we should learn from Ancient Rome
https://www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/crucial-lessons-we-should-learn-from

Pompey the Great by Lee Frantanuono — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/pompey-the-great-by-lee-frantanuono

The Homeric centos: Homer and the Bible interwoven – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Homeric centos: Homer and the Bible interwoven

They did it first: the skills of the ancient Greeks and Romans – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

They did it first: the skills of the ancient Greeks and Romans

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Claudian Inscriptions with Dr Abigail Graham by The Classics Podcast

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA355 – Did small built-up areas play a role in ancient battlefields?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa355-did-small-built-up-areas-play-a-role-in-ancient-battlefields

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(506) Oedipus’s Theban Lore – YouTube

What can we learn about the United States from examining Ancient Rome? | Ideastream Public Media
https://www.ideastream.org/show/sound-of-ideas/2025-04-30/what-can-we-learn-about-the-united-states-from-examining-ancient-rome

(506) Professor Christopher Smith and Professor Elena Isayev : Religion and Politics in Poseidon’s City – YouTube

(506) Dr Kathryn Lomas (Durham): Paestum: Ethnicity, culture and the power of memory in a mixed community – YouTube

(506) Dr Tiziana D’Angelo: Poseidonia, a city of temples: architecture, cult and society in a recently… – YouTube

(507) A Nubian Queen Fights Back Against Rome #ancientrome #ancientafrica – YouTube

(507) The (Surprisingly Ordinary) Life Of A Roman Soldier – YouTube

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ARTS124 AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Decoding the Vindolanda tablets: Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts with The British museum and University of Nottingham – Jobs at the University of Nottingham
https://jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=ARTS124

Roman Egypt in the Second Century CE

Roman Egypt in the Second Century CE