• 116 A.D. — supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day 2)
• 1874 — birth of F.M. Cornford (author of Before and After Socrates, among several other works)

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Bottarone Urn restored: original colors of 2400-year-old Etruscan grooms resurfaced
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/bottarone-urn-restored-original-colors-of-2400-year-old-etruscan-grooms-resurfaced

Rare Roman “pigs” found in Welsh farm
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/rare-roman-pigs-found-in-welsh-farm/157123

Tomb plate belonging to a centurion of the First Italic Legion discovered at Nove
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/02/tomb-plate-belonging-to-a-centurion-of-the-first-italic-legion-discovered-at-nove/157128

Salona’s Gate of Death: New Discoveries at Croatia’s Ancient Roman Arena – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/salonas-gate-of-death-new-discoveries-at-croatias-ancient-roman-arena/

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

Major ancient sarcophagus discovered in heart of Dubrovnik

[old news]Mysterious Stone in US Backyard Turned Out to Be an Archaeological Treasure : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/mysterious-stone-in-us-backyard-turned-out-to-be-an-archaeological-treasure

This Legionnaires’ Fitness Test Turned Ancient Romans Into the Ultimate Hybrid Athletes
https://www.menshealth.com/uk/fitness/a70511221/ancient-roman-training/

Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians – The Palestine Exploration Fund

Saving Gaza’s Cultural Heritage Amid War: The Courage of Local Guardians

Babies weren’t supposed to be mourned in the Roman Empire. These rare liquid-gypsum burials prove otherwise. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/babies-werent-supposed-to-be-mourned-in-the-roman-empire-these-rare-liquid-gypsum-burials-prove-otherwise

Ancient City of Salona in Croatia Reveals 2,000-Year-Old Hidden Tunnel – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/26/ancient-city-salona-croatia-hidden-tunnel/

[source???] Ancient Greeks Used Rosemary Crowns to Biohack Memory – Science Confirms Cognitive Boost
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/02/26/rosemary-memory-boost-ancient-greeks-biohacking

A study by the UAB demonstrates for the first time how the Romans exploited gold mines in the Catalan Pyrenees
https://en.ara.cat/culture/they-demonstrate-how-the-romans-exploited-gold-mines-in-the-pyrenees_1_5661073.amp.html

Back to in-person work? Classics professor offers tips on office humor
https://as.cornell.edu/news/back-person-work-classics-professor-offers-tips-office-humor

How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome – The River Newsroom

How White Nationalists Weaponize Ancient Greece and Rome

If Not Here, Where? | The University of Chicago Divinity School
https://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/if-not-here-where

Building Rome in a Couple Days: Erecting a Painted Portico in Alésia | The EXARC Journal
https://exarc.net/issue-2025-3/mm/building-rome-couple-days

AI Scores 3% on the Hardest Test Humans Could Write – NeuroEdge

AI Scores 3% on the Hardest Test Humans Could Write

Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise – Monocle

Why ancient wisdom is the ultimate shield against modern noise

Inscriptions of a Doctor and Historian | Variant Readings

Inscriptions of a Doctor and Historian

Laudator Temporis Acti: Learning Greek
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/learning-greek.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Upgrading the Aramaic Language Heritage Museum in Jabadeen, Syria
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/upgrading-aramaic-language-heritage.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Preview of “Listen to the Sibyl”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/preview-of-listen-to-sibyl.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Did Philo Allude to Sadducees and Pharisees?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/did-philo-allude-to-sadducees-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Master of the Game: Competition and Performance in Greek Poetry
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/master-of-game-competition-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèseséd.
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/le-caucase-et-la-region-circumpontique.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Victim of the Muses: Poet as Scapegoat, Warrior and Hero in Greco-Roman and Indo-European Myth and History
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/victim-of-muses-poet-as-scapegoat.html

The Caucasus and the Circumpontic Region in Antiquity: Materials, Research, and Hypotheses (ed.) | Spartokos has read

Le Caucase et la région circumpontique dans l’Antiquité : matériaux, recherches et hypothèseséd.

Cause and explanation in ancient philosophy – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.38/

Cursus honorum: pathways to rank and power in the Roman republic – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.37/
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BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, The Roman Arena
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002qj85

Alexander the Great | Lord of Asia – The Ancients | Acast

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(273) Professor Barbara BorgVia Appia, Mile Three:Tracing Ethno-Religious Minorities in Imperial Rome – YouTube

(271) How Civilisation Came Back From Collapse (ft. Eric Cline) – YouTube

(271) How Much Of The Odyssey Was Based In Reality? – YouTube

(272) Historian Reacts To EPIC: The Musical (Wisdom Saga) – YouTube

(275) CCA South. Carlos Noreña. Roman, Han, Tang Empires. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

(275) Mary Beard, Q and A from Latin students. How do Classics benefit the public? Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

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Between Death, Memory, and Identity

Between Death, Memory, and Identity

Hoc Saxsum: History as conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hoc-saxsum-history-as-conversation-inside-the-tomb-of-the-scipios/73E09B6B0EC3CF8F9326CC10A9F48083?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Declamatory fictions and the crimen maiestatis — Seneca, Controuersiae 9.2 | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/declamatory-fictions-and-the-crimen-maiestatis-seneca-controuersiae-92/C0F6ED0D61D24A3F080A7BA9BDA5091F?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Hell is other poets: Tibullus, Ovid and Statius in queer Elysium | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hell-is-other-poets-tibullus-ovid-and-statius-in-queer-elysium/1332D4F3428FF642CF6A3A423C41873E?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Claiming pietas: Vergilian Rhetoric in Valerius Flaccus’ Argonautica | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/claiming-pietas-vergilian-rhetoric-in-valerius-flaccus-argonautica/4ED0518ABAB24F47E6EA6F34E0DDE200?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

A legal exemption for the temple cults of Rome and Alexandria in the fourth century | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/legal-exemption-for-the-temple-cults-of-rome-and-alexandria-in-the-fourth-century/8FCF6B2789837BED8D95874E77605DC5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Legislation and Christians | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/legislation-and-christians/4314F4F8BDE191C3201E0D7C187674D5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Cassius Dio revived | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/cassius-dio-revived/ABDFBE250261A31B9F51EDEFB22BB6C8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

• 50 A.D. — The emperor Claudius adopts the future emperor Nero
• 116 A.D.– supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day 1)
• 138 A.D. — The emperor Hadrian adopts the future emperor Antoninus Pius

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Rare Roman lead ingots found by metal detectorists in Ceredigion
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8xy52wndx1o

Armageddon unearthed?
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/byuq8400d11e

Six newly discovered Bronze Age mines in Spain

Six newly discovered Bronze Age mines in Spain

An Unprecedented Painting Technique in Hispania Discovered in a Roman Domus in Cartagena Using Cinnabar, the “Red Gold” of Antiquity

An Unprecedented Painting Technique in Hispania Discovered in a Roman Domus in Cartagena Using Cinnabar, the “Red Gold” of Antiquity

2,000-year-old Roman forum unearthed beneath Barcelona hotel
https://www.catalannews.com/society-science/item/2000-year-old-roman-forum-unearthed-beneath-barcelona-hotel

Europe never built a civilization | Countercurrents
https://countercurrents.org/2026/02/europe-never-built-a-civilization/

Mysterious Inscription Reignites Debate Over Roman Emperor’s Lost Temple – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-inscription-debate-roman-emperor-lost-temple-elagabalus-syria-11574053

The Egyptian Museum in Tahrir completes restoration of Late Period papyrus – Ancient Egypt – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/562952.aspx

Unveiling the Glorious Ancient Greek City of Europos – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/25/ancient-greek-city-europos/

The Oldest Submerged Settlement in the Aegean Sea Dates Back 8,000 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/25/agios-petros-oldest-submerged-settlement-aegean-greece/

The Macedonian Tomb Hidden Beneath a Modern Apartment Block in Drama, Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/02/25/macedonian-tomb-hidden-beneath-apartment-block-drama/

Decoding the “Sicilian Message” of ‘The Godfather’ | No Film School
https://nofilmschool.com/decoding-the-meaning-of-the-sicilian-message-in-the-godfather#

Finance major finds additional academic path through classical studies at Elon | Today at Elon | Elon University

Finance major finds additional academic path through classical studies at Elon

Ashes of archaeology pioneer scattered over ancient tumulus in Antalya – Türkiye News
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ashes-of-archaeology-pioneer-scattered-over-ancient-tumulus-in-antalya-219289

Homer, Helmets, and Hollywood
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/homer-helmets-and-hollywood

Michele Zazzi. The Etruscan City Foundation Rite. – Online Archaeology – Archeomedia

Michele Zazzi. Il rito etrusco di fondazione delle città.

See How Ovid’s ‘Metamorphoses’ Inspired Centuries of Artists—From Caravaggio to René Magritte
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-how-ovids-metamorphoses-inspired-centuries-of-artists-from-caravaggio-to-rene-magritte-180988224/

How Sir Arthur Evans Misinterpreted the Complex Deities of Ancient Minoan Crete | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/minoan-religion-goddess-worship/

This ordinary ancient Roman object is still used today – and has hardly changed | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-object-still-used-during-childhood/

Did Philo Allude to Sadducees and Pharisees? | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/did-philo-allude-sadducees-and-pharisees

Laudator Temporis Acti: The One-Eyed Man Is King
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-one-eyed-man-is-king.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Hell for Yourself
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/a-hell-for-yourself.html

Looting Matters: CPAC and the Keros Haul
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2026/02/cpac-and-keros-haul.html

Where Did Homeric Book Divisions Come From? Thinking about the thematic Unity of book 14 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Where Did Homeric Book Divisions Come From? Thinking about the thematic Unity of book 14

Shadow Archaeologies | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Shadow Archaeologies

De Thraciërs (3) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Thraciërs (3)

De Thraciërs (4) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Thraciërs (4)

PaleoJudaica.com: New and forthcoming LXX publications
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/new-and-forthcoming-lxx-publications.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Stadel, Hebraismen in den aramäischen Texten vom Toten Meer (Heidelberg)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/stadel-hebraismen-in-den-aramaischen.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Qumran Cryptic B decipherment
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/more-on-qumran-cryptic-b-decipherment.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Dialoguing in Late Antiquity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/dialoguing-in-late-antiquity.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religious Roles, and Social Functions
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/choruses-of-young-women-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Literature in Late Antiquity: Dynamism, Didacticism, Classicism
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/greek-literature-in-late-antiquity.html

The Greek language after antiquity: advances and challenges in historical linguistics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.36/

Major corrections: an intellectual biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.02.35/

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(234) Society Sunday 2026-Jessica Tilley, Marketing the Etruscans—From Mystery to Modern Media – YouTube

(234) Sean O’Harrow, Bowers Museum CEO & President. Q & A with students of Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube

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Troy Story: The Ketton Mosaic, Aeschylus, and Greek Mythography in Late Roman Britain | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/troy-story-the-ketton-mosaic-aeschylus-and-greek-mythography-in-late-roman-britain/AF6081088C925F10AB0DC670A7540A7D?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Intramural Human Remains from Roman Towns in Britain: A Case Study from Late Iron Age and Roman Silchester | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/intramural-human-remains-from-roman-towns-in-britain-a-case-study-from-late-iron-age-and-roman-silchester/1D4554B4C06650C61EDC1032279F4175?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Fowl Play: A British ‘Fatal Charade’ at Brading Roman Villa | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/fowl-play-a-british-fatal-charade-at-brading-roman-villa/F8A9A91B8F9E6C52E468DE91F51E16E8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Objects in Miniature: A Copper-Alloy Beneficiarius Spear-Shaped Mount from Inveresk | Britannia | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/britannia/article/objects-in-miniature-a-copperalloy-beneficiarius-spearshaped-mount-from-inveresk/E171D2DADE78DF9D6C16382758B049B5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Volumes

Sex and Sexuality in the Ancient Near East
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/sex-and-sexuality-in-the-ancient-near-east/3A01117AACEBB35626F6E5247CE5FC75

New Beginnings in Ancient Literature (Organizer-Refereed Panel) | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/new-beginnings-ancient-literature-organizer-refereed-panel

• 50 A.D. — The emperor Claudius adopts the future emperor Nero
• 116 A.D.– supplicatio pro salute Traiani (day 1)
• 138 A.D. — The emperor Hadrian adopts the future emperor Antoninus Pius