• Festival of Mars (Day 2)
• c. 55 A.D. (?) — birth of Decimus Junius Juvenalis … a.k.a. Juvenal
• 258 A.D. — Martyrdom of Jovinus and Basileus at Rome

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Definitive evidence of Roman alluvial gold mines found near ancient Iulia Libica in the eastern Pyrenees

Definitive evidence of Roman alluvial gold mines found near ancient Iulia Libica in the eastern Pyrenees

Ancient Greek mystery cult priestesses may have chemically tweaked fungus to induce psychedelic hallucinations | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-greek-mystery-cult-priestesses-may-have-chemically-tweaked-fungus-to-induce-psychedelic-hallucinations

Explore the Faces of Ancient Roman Egypt in Getty’s New Volume on Mummy Portraits | Getty News
https://www.getty.edu/news/explore-the-faces-of-ancient-roman-egypt-in-getty-new-volume-on-mummy-portraits/

3,000 Ancient Hydriskoi Unearthed at the Demeter-Kore Temple in Aigai Ancient City – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/3000-ancient-hydriskoi-unearthed-at-the-demeter-kore-temple-in-aigai-ancient-city/

Unlocking the secrets of an ancient plague : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/28/nx-s1-5724890/unlocking-the-secrets-of-an-ancient-plague

New ‘Red Gold’ Roman Painting Technique Discovered in Ancient Cartagena, Spain – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/27/new-red-gold-roman-painting-technique-spain-cartagena/

Power without maturity: Why analysts are likening Trump to Nero- The Week
https://www.theweek.in/columns/Anita-Pratap/2026/02/28/anita-pratap-power-without-maturity-why-analysts-are-likening-trump-to-nero.html

Why Hittites never tried to conquer Mycenaean Greece?
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/01/hittites-conquer-mycenaean-greece-2/

When Rome Turned Ancient Greece’s Sparta into a Theme Park – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/01/rome-greece-sparta-theme-park/

How True-to-History Was the 2004 Movie Troy? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/how-true-to-history-was-the-2004-movie-troy/

Everyday Ancient Greek & Roman Items Shine at ANU Classics Museum
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/28/anu-classics-museum-everyday-ancient-greek-roman-objects/

The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain – Medievalists.net

The Survival of Roman Education in Early Medieval Britain

February 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/february-2026-turkish-archaeology

(17) Solon’s thoughts on democracy – by Owen Rees
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/solons-thoughts-on-democracy

Ephemeris ~ NOVUM BELLUM
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2462

Falling Asleep after Sex and Other Cosmic Problems: The Seduction of Zeus in Iliad 14 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Falling Asleep after Sex and Other Cosmic Problems: The Seduction of Zeus in Iliad 14

De Tempelreiniging – Mainzer Beobachter

De Tempelreiniging

Sparta en de heloten – Mainzer Beobachter

Sparta en de heloten

PaleoJudaica.com: Göppinger, … Exempla in Flavius Josephus’ Antiquitates Iudaicae (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/goppinger-exempla-in-flavius-josephus.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Crawford & Wasserman (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Textual Criticism of the Bible FILL IN
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/crawford-wasserman-eds-oxford-handbook.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hybrid “Ancient Poetry Slam” event at U of C
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/hybrid-ancient-poetry-slam-event-at-u.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Iliad 10 and the Poetics of Ambush: A Multitext Edition with Essays and Commentary
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/iliad-10-and-poetics-of-ambush.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Variations on a Lament by Briseis
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-variations-on-lament-by-briseis.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-captive-womans-lament-in-greek.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Recapturing a Homeric Legacy: Images and Insights from the Venetus A Manuscript of the Iliad
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/recapturing-homeric-legacy-images-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Practitioners of the Divine: Greek Priests and Religious Officials from Homer to Heliodorus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/practitioners-of-divine-greek-priests.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Achilles Unbound: Multiformity and Tradition in the Homeric Epics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/achilles-unbound-multiformity-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/comparative-anthropology-of-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Theban Epics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-theban-epics.html

On the waves of the Black Sea through the ages | Spartokos read

On the waves of the Black Sea through the ages

Domination: the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity – The Past

Domination: the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of Christianity

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Anima Latina 01.03.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/03/anima-latina-01-03-2026.html

Episode A11 – Behind the Mount… – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

Ramesses the Great: Death of a Dynasty – The Ancients | Acast

I, Medusa: An Interview with Ayana Gray

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 28.02.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/02/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-28-02-2026.html

Reclaiming Britannia – Emperors of Rome – Apple Podcasts

Democracy and the Arts, in America? A Conversation on Tocqueville with Bob Stacey (Ad Navseam, Episode 212) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/democracy-and-the-arts-in-america-a-conversation-with-bob-stacey-ad-navseam-episode-212/
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(336) Homer Hotline – YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/@HomerHotline/videos

(336) Did AI Just Solve an Ancient Roman Mystery? – YouTube

(337) Bosra is the ultimate ancient city – YouTube

(337) Ancient Greek Tragedy: Matricide vs. Patricide & Revenge – YouTube

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explorator 28.09 ~ March 1, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.09 ~ March 1, 2026

SAM Newsletter March 2026
https://mailchi.mp/f2f806a78198/sam-newsletter-march-2026?e=875f90a671

• This was originally the beginning of the New Year for the ancient Romans (and the consuls would probably enter office on this date prior to 153 B.C.)
• Festival of Mars, which included a procession of the Salian priests around the city singing their mysterious Carmen Saliare
• “birthday” of the temple of Juno Lucina
• Matronalia — a sort of ‘unofficial’ festival during which it was customary for hubbies to pray for the ongoing health of their spouses and give them presents; for their part, the wives apparently served the slaves (sort of like Saturnalia and Mother’s Day rolled into one)
• 293 A.D. — Co-emperor Maximian adopts Constantius, who is given the title Caesar (and it is possible that Diocletian similarly adopted and conferred a similar title upon Galerius)
• 2005 — birth of our dog, named by the rogueclassicist as Tyche, but misheard by the liberi as Tyke …

• Equirria — the first of two days of horse racing (the second was on March 14) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing horses for the upcoming campaigning season

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Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik | Croatia WeekCroatia Week

Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik

Rare half-shekel coin found in Judean Desert | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-888163

Old Kingdom tombs, artifacts discovered in Egypt | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-888167

Unprecedented Roman Painting Technique Discovered in Cartagena: Scientists Reveal the Secret of Ancient “Red Gold” – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unprecedented-roman-painting-technique-discovered-in-cartagena-scientists-reveal-the-secret-of-ancient-red-gold/

Etruscan Bride and Groom Reborn: 2,400-Year-Old Bottarone Urn Restored After Florence Flood Damage – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/etruscan-bride-and-groom-reborn-2400-year-old-bottarone-urn-restored-after-florence-flood-damage/

Archaeology and the First Christians – Biblical Archaeology Society

Archaeology and the First Christians

Review: Cyclops A Satyr Play 2026 Adelaide Fringe • The Scoop

Review: Cyclops A Satyr Play 2026 Adelaide Fringe

Scholar, seductress, alchemist: who was the real Cleopatra? | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/feb/27/scholar-seductress-alchemist-who-was-the-real-cleopatra

Family squabbles, job security and Pythagoras’s Theorem (before Pythagoras was even born!)… 2000-year-old Cuneiform tablets reveal that your worries aren’t new, they’re very much ancient history | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-15596035/Book-review-library-ancient-wisdom-selena-wisnom-ancient-history-cuneiform.html

Activist-Scholar Dan-el Padilla Peralta ’06 Leaving Princeton | Princeton Alumni Weekly
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/activist-scholar-dan-el-padilla-peralta-06-leaving-princeton

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students – The Colgate Maroon-News

Laszlo the Dog Brings Comfort to Classics Students

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Laudator Temporis Acti: Change
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/change.html

Byzantijns Thracië – Mainzer Beobachter

Byzantijns Thracië

Laat-antiek Thracië – Mainzer Beobachter

Laat-antiek Thracië

Romeins Thracië – Mainzer Beobachter

Romeins Thracië

PaleoJudaica.com: Rasmussen lecture on “The Early Church and the Imperial Cult”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/rasmussen-lecture-on-early-church-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Half-shekel coin recovered in the Judean Desert
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/half-shekel-coin-recovered-in-judean.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Great Isaiah Scroll display in the Israel Museum
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/more-on-great-isaiah-scroll-display-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Aethiopis: Neo-Neoanalysis Reanalyzed
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-aethiopis-neo-neoanalysis-reanalyzed.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Cypria
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-cypria.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Time and Tradition: Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes in the Context of Emerging Apocalypticism and the History of Ideas in the Hellenistic Period
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/time-and-tradition-temporal-thinking-in.html

Inscriptions of the Roman Empire, AD 14-117 (B.H.) Warmington, (S.J.) Millet (eds.) LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History, Volume 8. 2nd edn. Pp. 78. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Paper, £12.99. ISBN: 978-1-009-38328-8. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/inscriptions-of-the-roman-empire-ad-14117-bh-warmington-sj-millet-eds-lactor-sourcebooks-in-ancient-history-volume-8-2nd-edn-pp-78-cambridge-uk-cambridge-university-press-2023-paper-1299-isbn-9781009383288/FC1DC0FCFB88EB01AB4EEF1F4BD02E00?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Late Republican Rome, 88–31 BC (F.) Santangelo. (ed.) LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History, Vol. 7. 2nd edn. Pp. x + 390, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2023. maps. Paper, €23.33. ISBN: 9781009383356. https://www.cambridge.org/gb/universitypress/subjects/classical-studies/ancient-history/late-republican-rome-8831-bc-2nd-edition?format=PB | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/late-republican-rome-8831-bc-f-santangelo-ed-lactor-sourcebooks-in-ancient-history-vol-7-2nd-edn-pp-x-390-cambridge-uk-cambridge-university-press-2023-maps-paper-2333-isbn-9781009383356-httpswwwcambridgeorggbuniversitypresssubjectsclassicalstudiesancienthistorylaterepublicanrome8831bc2ndeditionformatpb/82FC2F271F945305BF19DF23AA76CA36?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ANTIQUITY BEYOND BORDERS: NEW VISIONS OF A GLOBAL, POSTCOLONIAL, RACIALLY TRANSFORMATIVE FIELD | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/antiquity-beyond-borders-new-visions-of-a-global-postcolonial-racially-transformative-field/D09A542BF619319258FD360D987D4410?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Pathos kai nomos: le traitement des affections dans les Lois de Platon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.40/

Remembering Nicaea: the Ecclesiastical History of Anonymous Cyzicenus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.39/
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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA398 – Turning to Face an Outflank
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa398-turning-to-face-an-outflank

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(295) Anatomy of the Ancient Egyptian soul: The Ba – YouTube

(295) Ten Fascinating People From Antiquity – ‪@WorldofAntiquity‬ + ‪@HistoryTime‬ – YouTube

(295) What does the Economy have to do with Mythology? – YouTube

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CfP: ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’ – CRSN

CfP: ‘So(cially) Ancient! Representing Ancient and Early Medieval Social, Ethnic and Religious Realities in Video Games’

Sappho’s Trajectory: The Construction of an Eschatological Experience | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/sapphos-trajectory-the-construction-of-an-eschatological-experience/E10AA3E9608CF5F915536A916DE60159?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The borders of the adverbium between praepositio and coniunctio in Notker’s perspective – ERRATUM | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/borders-of-the-adverbium-between-praepositio-and-coniunctio-in-notkers-perspective-erratum/0AF2AE25C3C7E70096D4653994551927?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Why is classics important? | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/why-is-classics-important/CE4F4909823AEEAAF4C04BCFFAB73E01?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

THE BLOODY SYRINX: BUCOLIC AND MEDICAL METAPOETICS OF LOVE CURES IN APOLLONIUS RHODIUS’ TALOS EPISODE | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/bloody-syrinx-bucolic-and-medical-metapoetics-of-love-cures-in-apollonius-rhodius-talos-episode/8038CB4570BCE472E68574BE61760ED2?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ANTITIMAΣΘAI IN MAXIMUS OF TYRE AND PLATO | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/antitimaai-in-maximus-of-tyre-and-plato/50A2EF81FF1CB1F8F03154A25480B290?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles