ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 25 , 2025

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The sweetest child in the world’: Mother’s tribute on Pergamon tombstone – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-843676

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 11 Antiquities To The People Of Greece – Manhattan District Attorney’s Office

D.A. Bragg Announces Return Of 11 Antiquities To The People Of Greece

Culture minister at The Met for return of ancient Greek bronze griffin | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1262570/culture-minister-at-the-met-for-return-of-ancient-greek-bronze-griffin/

The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece

The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece

Excavations reveal “Mosaic House” in ancient Pergamon
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/excavations-reveal-mosaic-house-in-ancient-pergamon/154611

Egypt completes revival of 3,000-year-old gold mining city at Jabal Sukari on Red Sea – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/541051/Antiquities/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-completes-revival-of-,yearold-gold-mining-ci.aspx

A Large Camp Where Gold Was Mined and Processed in Antiquity, Found in Southeastern Egypt

A Large Camp Where Gold Was Mined and Processed in Antiquity, Found in Southeastern Egypt

Ancient Egyptian wooden statuette from Saqqara found cracked upon discovery, now well-preserved – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContentP/9/541004/Antiquities/Ancient-Egyptian-wooden-statuette-from-Saqqara-fou.aspx

Archaeologist Behind First Big Ancient Egyptian Find Since King Tut Says He’s Done It Again

Archaeologist Behind First Big Ancient Egyptian Find Since King Tut Says He’s Done It Again

Metal Detectorists Stumble Upon a Rare 2,000-Year-Old Roman Sword in Poland | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorists-stumble-upon-a-rare-2000-year-old-roman-sword-in-poland-180986101/

2,000-year-old Roman gossip book makes UK bestseller charts | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2025/02/25/2000-year-old-roman-gossip-book-makes-uk-bestseller-charts

Archaeologists find Isis statue at ancient Roman site in Mallén, Spain – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-843669

Pyrrhus of Epirus: The Ancient Greek King’s Legacy Beyond the Battlefield – GreekReporter.com

Pyrrhus of Epirus: The Ancient Greek King’s Legacy Beyond the Battlefield

This ancient amphitheatre near Rome doesn’t know if it’s a football pitch or a tourist attraction | Euronews
https://www.euronews.com/travel/2025/02/25/this-ancient-amphitheatre-near-rome-doesnt-know-if-its-a-football-pitch-or-a-tourist-attra

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Céramique en contextes. Érétrie au tournant des époques archaïque et classique
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/ceramique-en-contextes-eretrie-au.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sensory Experiences in the Roman North
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/sensory-experiences-in-roman-north.html

Gassy After Sex and Consuming Souls – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Gassy After Sex and Consuming Souls

Laudator Temporis Acti: Paying Taxes
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/paying-taxes.html

PaleoJudaica.com: JQR 115.1 (2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/jqr-1151-2025.html

The Way I Feel | Sphinx

The Way I Feel

Brock to make splash with Metamorphoses mainstage – The Brock News

Brock to make splash with Metamorphoses mainstage

Opium, castoreum and patchouli: What an eye ointment reveals about ancient Rome – Knowledge Blogs – derStandard.de › Knowledge and Society
https://www.derstandard.de/story/3000000258385/opium-castoreum-and-patchouli-what-an-eye-ointment-reveals-about-ancient-rome

Is Stoicism Too Cold and Logical?
https://stoicism.substack.com/p/is-stoicism-too-cold-and-logical

Why we’re stuck in Ancient Rome – New Statesman
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2025/02/why-were-stuck-in-ancient-rome

The politics of meaning what you say | Blog post | Mary Beard
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/regular-features/mary-beard-a-dons-life/the-politics-of-meaning-what-you-say-blog-post

Ephemeris ~ DE COMITIIS GERMANIS
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2423

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Movie Needs To Avoid One Flaw That Hurt Brad Pitt’s Troy
https://screenrant.com/christopher-nolan-odyssey-gods-troy-op-ed/

Demanding witness: women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Demanding witness: women and the trauma of homecoming in Greek tragedy

Didymus Alexandrinus. The fragments of the commentaries on comedy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Didymus Alexandrinus. The fragments of the commentaries on comedy

Roman Large Bronzes on the Limes: Fragments in the Raetian Region – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Römische Grossbronzen am Limes: Fragmente im raetischen Raum


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The Milkman Cometh: Lactantius, Christian Cicero Part I (Ad Navseam, Episode 174) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/the-milkman-cometh-lactantius-christian-cicero-part-i-ad-navseam-episode-174/

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The City & God Assur (Ashur) in Ancient Mesopotamia – YouTube

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Visiting Assistant Professor Of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies – HigherEdJobs
https://www.higheredjobs.com/region/details.cfm?JobCode=179064606&Title=Visiting%20Assistant%20Professor%20Of%20Classics%20%26amp%3B%20Ancient%20Mediterranean%20Studies

Harvard Academic Positions | Lecturer on Latin Language and Literature
https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14763

ICAEM 2025: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas – RESEARCH CENTER OF ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN CULTURES (CAEMC)

ICAEM 2025: Mobility in the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean: Movements of People, Objects and Ideas

Call for contributions for Unearthing Ancient Horrors volume | Institute of Archaeology – UCL – University College London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/news/2025/feb/call-contributions-unearthing-ancient-horrors-volume

Wearing Antiquity: modern fashion and the past 2000 BCE – 1000 AD 9th International Conference IMAGINES | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/wearing-antiquity-modern-fashion-and-past-2000-bce-1000-ad-9th-international-conference

The Conversation: How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms

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A relief showing a gallus making sacrifices to the goddess Cybele and Attis.
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Tom Sapsford, Boston College

A few weeks into his second term, President Donald Trump signed two executive orders restricting the rights of trans workers in the federal government. The first was a renewal of the ban on transgender people joining the U.S. military – initially signed in 2017 and later repealed by President Joe Biden in 2021. The second was a more sweeping memo that recognizes only two sexes in federal records and policies.

In the ancient Roman world, which I study, biological sex and gender expression did not always line up as neatly as the president is demanding to see in today’s government.

In antiquity, there were masculine women, feminine men and people who altered their bodies to match their gender expression more closely. In particular, two figures – the cinaedus and the gallus – provide examples of men whose effeminate behavior and modified anatomies were striking yet still integrated into Roman society.

The cinaedus and the commander in chief

In ancient Rome, some men who did not fit neatly within gender categories were called “cinaedi.” They were usually adult males singled out for their extreme effeminacy and nonnormative sexual desires.

The cinaedus was already a recognizable figure in ancient Greece and was first mentioned in the fourth century B.C. by Plato. He says little more than that a cinaedus’ life was terrible, base and miserable. Later Roman authors provide more detail.

Martial, a Roman poet writing in the first century A.D., for instance, describes a cinaedus’ dysfunctional penis as like a “soggy leather strap” in one epigram. In the same century, the Roman novelist Petronius has a cinaedus suggest that both he and his fellows have had their genitals removed.

In a fable by Phaedrus, also written in the first century A.D., a barbarian is threatening the troops of the military leader, Pompey the Great. All are afraid to challenge this fierce opponent until a “cinaedus” volunteers to fight.

The cinaedus is described as a soldier of great size but with a cracked voice and mincing walk. After pleading permission in a stereotypically lisping manner from Pompey the Great, his commander in chief, the cinaedus steps into battle. He quickly severs the barbarian’s head and, with army agog, is summarily rewarded by Pompey.

In Phaedrus’ fable, the cinaedus is untrustworthy. He is described as having stolen valuables from Pompey early on in the tale and then later swears on oath that he hasn’t.

Yet the moral of Phaedrus’ fable of the soldier-cinaedus is that such deceptive appearances and actions might actually be strategically successful in military matters. The cinaedus has an edge over Pompey’s other soldiers precisely due to his disarming effeminacy. In the tale, this doesn’t at all diminish his skills as a lethal fighter. Rather, the cinaedus’ effeminacy combined with his martial valor ultimately lead to the barbarian’s defeat.

Trans priests and the safety of the Roman state

The galli, another group that lived in the heart of the city of Rome, also blurred gender roles. They were males who had castrated their genitalia in dedication to the Great Mother goddess Cybele, who was their protector.

As reported by several ancient sources, including Cicero and Livy, in 204 B.C. the Roman state consulted a set of prophetic scrolls called the Sibylline Oracles on how best to respond to the pressures it faced as a result of the Second Punic War – Rome’s prolonged conflict with Carthage and its fierce military general, Hannibal.

The oracles’ answer – and Rome’s subsequent action – was to import a strange and foreign religious order from Asia Minor into the heart of Rome, where it would remain for the next several hundred years.

The temple of Cybele was located on the Palatine Hill, next to several important shrines, monuments and later even the residence of the Emperor Augustus. As the poet Ovid tells us, each year during Cybele’s festival the galli would proceed through the streets of Rome carrying a statue of the goddess, while ululating wildly in time with the sound of wailing pipes, banging drums and crashing cymbals.

More so than the figure of the cinaedus, ancient literary sources present the galli’s gender difference similarly to modern-day trans women, often using feminine pronouns when describing them.

For instance, the poet Catullus details the origin story of the galli’s founder figure, Attis, who was Cybele’s mythical consort and chief priest. Notably, Catullus switches from using masculine adjectives to feminine ones at the very moment of Attis’ self-castration.

Attis.

Similarly, in his novel, “The Golden Ass,” the second century A.D. writer Apuleius has one gallus address his fellow devotees as “girls.”

While several ancient sources mock these figures for their gender-nonconforming appearance and behaviors, it is nevertheless evident that the galli held a sacred place within the Roman state. They were viewed as being important to Rome’s continued safety and prominence.

For example, Plutarch in his “Life of Marius” relates that a priest of the Great Mother came to Rome in 103 B.C. to convey an oracle that the Romans would be triumphant in war. Though believed by the Senate, this priest, Bataces, was mocked mercilessly in the plebian assembly. However, when the individual who had insulted Bataces swiftly died of a terrible fever, the plebians too gave this oracle and the goddess’s prophetic powers their backing.

Today’s trans issues

Behind Trump’s executive orders are two assertions: first, that transgender identity is a form of ideology: a modern invention created to justify deviance from one’s sex as assigned at birth; second, that transgender identity is both a form of disease and of dishonesty.

The reissued military ban doubles down on the perceived dishonesty of trans folk, contrasting it with the ideals and principles needed for combat. The order states that the “adoption of a gender identity inconsistent with an individual’s sex conflicts with a soldier’s commitment to an honorable, truthful, and disciplined lifestyle.”

Taking a long view of gender diversity across millennia has shown me that many individuals in antiquity certainly lived lives outside of the clear-cut formula that the Trump administration has stated, namely that “women are biologically female and men are biologically male.”

Gender diversity is not simply a late 20th- or early 21st-century phenomenon. However, the fear that gender-diverse people are diseased and devious likewise arises in several ancient sources. In the classical world, these fears seem limited to the realms of satire and fantasy; in our current time, we are seeing these fears being harnessed for government policy.

This article incorporates material from a story originally published on Aug. 1, 2017.The Conversation

Tom Sapsford, Assistant professor of Classical Studies, Boston College

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 24 , 2025

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Hellenic Republic of Greece Announce the Return of Ancient Bronze Head of a Griffin – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
https://www.metmuseum.org/press-releases/met-hellenic-republic-return

Ancient Greek vase depicting Athena fighting a giant returns to Greece – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-843344

‘Mosaic House’ unveiled in Türkiye’s Pergamon: A glimpse into ancient life – Türkiye Today

‘Mosaic House’ unveiled in Türkiye’s Pergamon: A glimpse into ancient life

Zahi Hawass responds to claims he has damaged ancient statue during excavation work – Egypt Independent

Zahi Hawass responds to claims he has damaged ancient statue during excavation work

The Ancient Greeks Were Polluting The Planet Over 5,000 Years Ago : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-ancient-greeks-were-polluting-the-planet-over-5000-years-ago

Uncovering Roman Carlisle reveals ‘incredibly rare’ finds | News and Star
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/24951612.uncovering-roman-carlisle-reveals-incredibly-rare-finds/

Archaeologists may have found second tomb of mysterious Egyptian pharaoh | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/egypt-pharaoh-second-tomb-thutmose-archaeology-b2703113.html

‘Nailed-head ritual’ in Iron Age Spain was more ‘complex than initially thought,’ severed skulls reveal | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/nailed-head-ritual-in-iron-age-spain-was-more-complex-than-initially-thought-severed-skulls-reveal

Croesus stater: The 2,500-year-old coin that introduced the gold standard | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/croesus-stater-the-2-500-year-old-coin-that-introduced-the-gold-standard

One of the Oldest Examples of Writing in the Northern Iberian Peninsula Discovered at an Iron Age Archaeological Site in Spain

One of the Oldest Examples of Writing in the Northern Iberian Peninsula Discovered at an Iron Age Archaeological Site in Spain

Archaeologists find evidence of the cult of Isis in Mallén
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/02/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-the-cult-of-isis-in-mallen/154606

How Roman society integrated people who altered their bodies and defied gender norms
https://theconversation.com/how-roman-society-integrated-people-who-altered-their-bodies-and-defied-gender-norms-248726

Swansea professor trains Irish UN peacekeepers on how to protect cultural sites in conflict
https://thetab.com/2025/02/24/swansea-professor-trains-irish-un-peacekeepers-on-how-to-protect-cultural-sites-in-conflict

Syria plans to erase Queen Zenobia from history books  – Saudi Gazette
https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/649616/World/Mena/Syria-plans-to-erase-Queen-Zenobia-from-history-books-nbsp

The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece

The Met Returns Stolen Bronze Antiquity to Greece

A Deadly Plague Swept Through Athens During The Peloponnesian War

A deadly plague swept through Athens during the Peloponnesian War

‘The Odyssey’ reimagines the stories we tell at the American Repertory Theater – The Tufts Daily
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025/02/the-odyssey-reimagines-the-stories-we-tell-at-the-american-repertory-theater

‘Bakkhai’ brings classic Greek tragedy with a sharp, modern edge to URI – Rhody Today

‘Bakkhai’ brings classic Greek tragedy with a sharp, modern edge to URI

2,000 year old book about Roman emperors enters bestseller charts | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/24/book-sex-scandals-roman-emperors-bestseller-charts-the-lives-of-the-caesars-tom-holland

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Technique for Avoiding People
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/a-technique-for-avoiding-people.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Degeneration
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/degeneration.html

Pickpockets of Words – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Pickpockets of Words

PaleoJudaica.com: Did the Apostle Paul visit Petra?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/did-apostle-paul-visit-petra.html

Een curieus tongewelf – Mainzer Beobachter

Een curieus tongewelf

PaleoJudaica.com: Matching colors in Byzantine mosaics and Herodian frescoes at Hyrcania
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/matching-colors-in-byzantine-mosaics.html

Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the environmental imagination – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the environmental imagination

Plotinus and Augustine on the mid-rank of soul: navigating two worlds – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plotinus and Augustine on the mid-rank of soul: navigating two worlds

Religion and cult in the Dodecanese during the first millennium BC: proceedings of the international archaeological conference – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religion and cult in the Dodecanese during the first millennium BC: proceedings of the international archaeological conference


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Imperial Dining (with Mary Bea – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/imperial-dining-with-mary-beard/id850148806?i=1000695490687

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The Discovery Of The Rosetta Stone – YouTube

Drucaris the Gaul | Warriors of History – YouTube

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CFP: Domesticated? Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman worlds or, La Belle et la Bête? Female Beasts and Bestial Women/ Domestiquées ? Les femelles animales et les femmes animalisées dans les mondes grecs et romains ou, La Belle et la bête ? Bêtes femelles et femmes bestiales (Deadline/ date limite March 7) – The Classical Association of Canada

CFP: Domesticated? Female Animals and Animalized Women in the Greek and Roman worlds or, La Belle et la Bête? Female Beasts and Bestial Women/ Domestiquées ? Les femelles animales et les femmes animalisées dans les mondes grecs et romains ou, La Belle et la bête ? Bêtes femelles et femmes bestiales (Deadline/ date limite March 7)

Research Funding at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens (Deadline March 15) – The Classical Association of Canada

Research Funding at the American School for Classical Studies at Athens (Deadline March 15)

Lecturer in Classics, 2025 – 2027 | Society for Classical Studies
https://www.classicalstudies.org/placement-service/2024-2025/39026/lecturer-classics-2025-2027

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 23 , 2025

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Crete’s Minoan Palace of Knossos Sees Record Number of Visitors, Surpasses 1M – GreekReporter.com

Crete’s Minoan Palace of Knossos Sees Record Number of Visitors, Surpasses 1M

Alexander, before he became great: From his birth to the battle of Chaeronea – ProtoThema English

Alexander, before he became great: From his birth to the battle of Chaeronea

Polish excavations at Huseiniya uncover early Bronze Age artefacts | Jordan Times
https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/polish-excavations-huseiniya-uncover-early-bronze-age-artefacts

Ancient Greek Artifact Repatriated to Greece from US Museum – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Artifact Repatriated to Greece from US Museum

Archaeologists Celebrate Rare Find Of Tiny 1,700-Year-Old Hercules Statue In Florence, Italy

Archaeologists Celebrate Rare Find of Tiny 1,700-Year-Old Hercules Statue in Florence, Italy

Significant Archaeological Find Unearthed In Greek City Of Gela

Significant Archaeological Find Unearthed in Greek City of Gela

6th-Century BC Bone Repository Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Gela, Sicily – GreekReporter.com

6th-Century BC Bone Repository Unearthed in Ancient Greek City of Gela, Sicily

Discovery in Pompeii during new excavations: the announcement by Minister Giuli
https://www.notizie.it/en/Pompeii-discovery-during-new-excavations-announcement-minister-giuli/

Re-evaluation of 2nd century Colchester vase fleshes out Roman-era gladi – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-843325

The Greek City That Was the Ceramic Center of the Ancient World – GreekReporter.com

The Greek City That Was the Ceramic Center of the Ancient World

Police arrest man attempting to sell ancient amphora online | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1262422/police-arrest-man-attempting-to-sell-ancient-amphora-online/

Ancient Greek vase depicting Athena fighting a giant returns to Greece – The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-843344

Prometheus. theatre review: Dragging Greek myths to the modern day | News & Features – The List
https://list.co.uk/news/46233/prometheus-theatre-review-dragging-greek-myths-to-the-modern-day

Greek tragedy reimagined hits Cape Breton University stage | PNI Atlantic News
https://www.saltwire.com/cape-breton/greek-tragedy-reimagined-hits-cape-breton-university-stage

Did the Spartans Throw Their Babies Off the Cliff? – GreekReporter.com

Did the Spartans Throw Their Babies Off the Cliff?

Ancient Greek Sanctuary from Hellenistic Era Discovered Inside a Cave in Italy – GreekReporter.com

Ancient Greek Sanctuary from Hellenistic Era Discovered Inside a Cave in Italy

Reimagining The British Museum Without The Parthenon Sculptures

Reimagining the British Museum without the Parthenon Sculptures

Cremated human remains from Palaepaphos-Skales: A case study from the iron age of Cyprus – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X2500094X

When in Rome… « The Classical Association in Northern Ireland

When in Rome…

PaleoJudaica.com: Wills, The Feminized Hero in Second Temple Judaism (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/wills-feminized-hero-in-second-temple.html

Reconstructing the Stoic thought of Chrysippus with Herculaneum papyri: the international study by the University of Turin
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/reconstructing-the-stoic-thought-of-chrysippus-with-herculaneum-papyri-the-international-study-by-the-university-of-turin

The ship Alkedo, the flagship of the Museum of Ancient Ships in Pisa
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/the-ship-alkedo-the-flagship-of-the-museum-of-ancient-ships-in-pisa

The Edithorial: Location Filming on Women Gladiators
https://edithorial.blogspot.com/2025/02/location-filming-on-women-gladiators.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Natural Affection
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/natural-affection.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Eyes and Nostrils
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/eyes-and-nostrils.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Verona
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/verona.html

Lysanias van Abila – Mainzer Beobachter

Lysanias van Abila

Het antieke Jemen – Mainzer Beobachter

Het antieke Jemen

Yo, Achilles – by Joel Christensen
https://joelchristensen.substack.com/p/yo-achilles?publication_id=1870284&post_id=157649899&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

The Buddhist Three Poisons in Pyrrhonism – by Doug Bates
https://ataraxiaorbust.substack.com/p/the-buddhist-three-poisons-in-pyrrhonism

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bronzization: Essays in Bronze Age Archaeology
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/bronzization-essays-in-bronze-age.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: February 2025’s Fluff Media Article on the Pleasures of Looting the Archaeology in UK
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/february-2025s-fluff-media-article-on.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: History-Destroying “Haul” Flogged off to Buy Drinks Down the Pub
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/history-destroying-haul-flogged-off-to.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Somebody Somehow Switched Treasure Coin Image?
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/02/somebody-somehow-switched-treasure-coin.html

Weekly Varia no. 119, 02/23/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 119, 02/23/25


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Anima Latina 23.02.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/02/anima-latina-23-02-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 22.02.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/02/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-22-02-2025.html

Timarchus in the Underworld – by Juliette Harrisson
https://julietteharrisson.substack.com/p/timarchus-in-the-underworld
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Ancient Greek Word Order – Is There A Default Order? – YouTube

Egyptologists Discover NEW Pharaoh’s Tomb After 100 Years – YouTube

Experts push to restore Syria’s war-torn famed Roman ruins in Palmyra – YouTube

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN February 21 , 2025

~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Iberian nailed head ritual was more complex than expected, isotope analysis reveals
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-iberian-ritual-complex-isotope-analysis.html

Archaeologists Say They’ve Discovered the First Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh’s Tomb Since Tutankhamun’s in 1922 | Smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-discovered-the-first-ancient-egyptian-pharaohs-tomb-since-tutankhamuns-in-1922-180986097/

Kate Hamill brings a feminist ‘Odyssey’ to American Repertory Theater | WBUR News
https://www.wbur.org/news/2025/02/21/kate-hamill-the-odyssey-american-repertory-theater-review

Zooarchaeology of Celtiberian-Roman households: Animal use in Numantia (Soria, Spain) – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25000537

Grand funerary stelae (2nd–3rd c. AD) of the microregion of Musti (El Krib, Tunisia): an iconographic and epigraphic analysis and the latest eco-factual data (2019–2023) | Libyan Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/libyan-studies/article/grand-funerary-stelae-2nd3rd-c-ad-of-the-microregion-of-musti-el-krib-tunisia-an-iconographic-and-epigraphic-analysis-and-the-latest-ecofactual-data-20192023/EAF12110E80F14789B617A3B127CA996?WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

AL-Monitor Istanbul: Bronze head of Roman emperor returns to Antalya Museum – AL-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2025/02/al-monitor-istanbul-bronze-head-roman-emperor-returns-antalya-museum

Mikvehs and monks: Vivid hues link rare Jewish and Christian finds in Judean Desert | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/mikvehs-and-monks-vivid-hues-link-rare-jewish-and-christian-finds-in-judean-desert/

Israeli settlers storm West Bank archaeological site as barn is destroyed – Middle East Monitor

Israeli settlers storm West Bank archaeological site as barn is destroyed

N.Y. DA’s Office Returning 11 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth $1 Million – The National Herald

N.Y. DA’s Office Returning 11 Ancient Greek Artifacts Worth $1 Million

Lost treasures returning home | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1262230/lost-treasures-returning-home/

What is The Odyssey about? A beginner’s guide before Christopher Nolan’s new film
https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/movies/odyssey-homer-explained-christopher-nolan-film-152823603.html

Plato: The critic we desperately need – The Bowdoin Orient

Plato: The critic we desperately need

OPINION: Stefan Dolgert discusses links between ancient history and U.S.-Canada relations – The Brock News

OPINION: Stefan Dolgert discusses links between ancient history and U.S.-Canada relations

The Ancient Egyptian Treasures of a German Sailor Who May Not Have Existed | OCCRP
https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/the-ancient-egyptian-treasures-of-a-german-sailor-who-may-not-have-existed

Laudator Temporis Acti: Slander
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/slander.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: More Than a Misprint
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/02/more-than-misprint.html

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Was the Krypteia Sparta’s Secret Police? – Bad Ancient
https://www.badancient.com/claims/krypteia/

Blog Post #104: EAMENA Project: Ten Years Documenting Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa with Mohamed Kenawi – Peopling the Past

Blog Post #104: EAMENA Project: Ten Years Documenting Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa with Mohamed Kenawi

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient Roman taxation practices
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/ancient-roman-taxation-practices.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeology and politics
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/archaeology-and-politics.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gupta on the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/02/gupta-on-old-testament-pseudepigrapha.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Horror in Classical Antiquity and Beyond: Body, Affect, Concepts
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/02/horror-in-classical-antiquity-and.html

A map of the body, a map of the mind: visualising geographical knowledge in the Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

A map of the body, a map of the mind: visualising geographical knowledge in the Roman world

Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit: the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Inscriptions and the epigraphic habit: the epigraphic cultures of Greece, Rome, and beyond


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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA345 – Why didn’t Rome’s adversaries emulate her?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa345-why-didnt-romes-adversaries-emulate-her

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How Social Media Helps Authors Get Published – YouTube

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Lecturer in Classics, 2025 – 2027 job with Dartmouth College | 37795179
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37795179/lecturer-in-classics-2025-2027/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1738&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20250221_jobtitle

Demetrias and its painted tombstones

Demetrias and its painted tombstones

AIA Event Listings – Making a Spectacle of Oneself: Reflections on Mirrors and Dress in Classical Antiquity – AIA-Dayton Society

Making a Spectacle of Oneself: Reflections on Mirrors and Dress in Classical Antiquity

Three-year Lecturer (Renewable) in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (UBC; Deadline March 25) – The Classical Association of Canada

Three-year Lecturer (Renewable) in Latin Language and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (UBC; Deadline March 25)

Urgent: Letters of Support for Classics and Classical Studies at York University! – The Classical Association of Canada

Urgent: Letters of Support for Classics and Classical Studies at York University!