• Rites in honour of Faunus:~ essentially a rural ritual involving an offering of wine and a kid on a turf altar to mark the end of the year’s toil and ensure the continued protection of the sheep.
• 302 A.D. — martyrdom of Gratus and companions

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Celebrated Rutland mosaic depicts ‘long-lost’ Troy story connecting Roman Britain to the ancient classical world
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-celebrated-rutland-mosaic-depicts-lost.html

Israel seizes dozens of archaeological artifacts from villa in West Bank’s Area B | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-seizes-dozens-of-archaeological-artifacts-from-villa-in-west-banks-area-b/

Israeli archaeologists uncover royal palace remnants | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-879197

La statua riemersa ha un secolo. Ignota la provenienza | La Prealpina – Quotidiano storico di Varese, Altomilanese e Vco.
https://www.prealpina.it/pages/la-statua-riemersa-ha-un-secolo-ignota-la-provenienza-398748.html

They were caught at the border while fleeing with coins featuring portraits of Alexander the Great.
https://en.haberler.com/they-were-caught-at-the-border-while-fleeing-with-19324108/

110 smuggled artifacts returned to Türkiye this year
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/110-smuggled-artifacts-returned-to-turkiye-this-year-216432

A Bursa, in Turchia, un meraviglioso, enorme mosaico scoperto in due fasi – Il Giornale dell’Arte
https://ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/A-Bursa-in-Turchia-un-meraviglioso-enorme-mosaico-scoperto-in-due-fasi

Discovering the function of the double wall of the Minoan palace in Crete. Here’s what it was used for.
https://www.finestresullarte.info/fr/archeologie/decouverte-de-la-fonction-du-double-mur-du-palais-minoen-de-crete-voici-a-quoi-il-servait

Sealed Roman Sarcophagus Unveils Ancient Burial of Young Woman from 1,700 Years Ago
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/04/sealed-roman-sarcophagus-unveils-ancient-burial-of-young-woman-from-1700-years-ago/

How did hundreds of antiquities end up in a London warehouse? These sleuths are on the case. | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/london-ancient-religious-artifact-seizure-asia?loggedin=true&rnd=1764873473017

Siemens Digitalizes Pergamon Altar | Press | Company | Siemens
https://press.siemens.com/global/en/pressrelease/siemens-digitalizes-pergamon-altar

How I bonded with Tom Stoppard over the classics | The Spectator Australia

How I bonded with Tom Stoppard over the classics

Savannah Sideways examines ancient Roman statues in Savannah
https://www.wtoc.com/2025/12/03/savannah-sideways-examines-ancient-roman-statues-savannah/

The Myth of Christendom Destroying the Greco-Roman Classics – Providence
https://providencemag.com/2025/12/the-myth-of-christendom-destroying-the-greco-roman-classics/

Undergrad presents research to classics graduate panel – Hillsdale Collegian
https://hillsdalecollegian.com/2025/12/undergrad-presents-research-to-classics-graduate-panel/

Tenika Davis brings life to Spartacus’ 1st Black gladiatrix
https://rollingout.com/2025/12/03/tenika-davis-brings-life-to-spartacus/

Where Greek Myth Meets Black Reality: A Review of Black Odyssey | Arts & Entertainment | tigersroar.com
https://www.tigersroar.com/features/article_30ee8709-b02f-4675-b05e-b12c991df369.html

‘Spartacus’: A Complete Franchise Timeline
https://movieweb.com/spartacus-tv-show-complete-timeline/

When Monica Bellucci’s Cleopatra Became an Iconic Moment | Egyptian Streets

When Monica Bellucci’s Cleopatra Became an Iconic Moment

Pythagoras – The Historian’s Hut

Pythagoras

Alexander The Great’s Royal Persian Plunder – The Historian’s Hut

Alexander The Great’s Royal Persian Plunder

Before cancel culture, there was damnatio memoriae | The Christian Century
https://www.christiancentury.org/online-columnists/cancel-culture-there-was-damnatio-memoriae

In Memoriam: Professor Roger Ling (1930s–2025), Distinguished Scholar of Roman Art
https://www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/in-memoriam-professor-roger-ling-1930s2025-distinguished-scholar-of-roman-art/

Finder and Find of the Month: Irène Pollak-Rein and the Glass Ring  – rogueclassicist@gmail.com – Gmail
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?tab=rm&ogbl#label/%40%40%40expl%2FD.+bulletin/WhctKLbvMNlHvVsvcHdmWLHjWtSKcLwBGWqXpQKmkRckRsbCBWrRBSBZmDCwNCRflgjHScQ

Three Article Thursday: Habitus, Unproof, and Cyprus | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Three Article Thursday: Habitus, Unproof, and Cyprus

Roman Times: Shimmering Spirits of an Emerging Empire: Goldwork from the Rise of the Achaemenids
https://ancientimes.blogspot.com/2025/12/shimmering-spirits-of-emerging-empire.html

Ephemeris ~ DE ITINERE PAPAE IN MEDIUM ORIENTEM
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2452

Plancia Magna and the role of a Roman benefactress in Perge FOLLOWING HADRIAN

Plancia Magna and the role of a Roman benefactress in Perge

War Crimes: Iliad 6, Infanticide, and the Mykonos Vase – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

War Crimes: Iliad 6, Infanticide, and the Mykonos Vase

Laudator Temporis Acti: Well-Born
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/well-born.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Belief
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/belief.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The site of Ur is being renovated
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-site-of-ur-is-being-renovated.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Lucian of Samosata—a Syrian barbarian?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/lucian-of-samosataa-syrian-barbarian.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Noah’s administrative calendar?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/noahs-administrative-calendar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Importance of Being Gorgeous: Gender and Christian Imperial Rule in Late Antiquity
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-importance-of-being-gorgeous-gender.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Connected Philology: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Transcultural Encounters
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/connected-philology-interdisciplinary.html

Revenge, punishment, and anger in ancient Greek justice – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Revenge, punishment, and anger in ancient Greek justice

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17 PAX: Adam Trettel | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis
https://tllpod.podbean.com/e/17-pax-adam-trettel/

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Italy’s Hidden Hellenic Heart: Paestum and the Art of Ancient Greece | History Hit

Italy’s Hidden Hellenic Heart: Paestum and the Art of Ancient Greece

(33) Sophus Helle | Enheduana: The Complete Poems of the World’s First Author – YouTube

Drone footage captures majesty of Rome’s Colosseum | AP News
https://apnews.com/video/drone-footage-captures-majesty-of-romes-colosseum-b7c66579046f46678d893d7609791c99

(33) The Silver Shields | Greatest Warriors in History – YouTube

(33) The Coins of Ancient Thebes – YouTube

(33) “Latin has opened so many doors for me” – YouTube

(33) About the First Murder | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Christophe Rico – YouTube

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Pasts Imperfect (12.4.25)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-12-4-25/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter

• ca. 235 — martyrdom of Barbara

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Hidden for Millennia, Limyra’s Long-Lost Temple of Zeus Has Finally Been Found After 43 Years of Searching – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/hidden-for-millennia-limyras-long-lost-temple-of-zeus-has-finally-been-found-after-43-years-of-searching/

Shepherd in Turkey Finds Roman-Era Stele With Carved Human Figures and Greek Inscription – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/03/roman-stele-greek-inscription-shepherd-turkey/

Roman-Era Greek Inscription Stele Discovered in Muğla
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/12/03/roman-greek-inscription-stele-kadyanda-cadyanda-mugla-turkey-2025/

First evidence of lost-wax casting for silver in Bronze Age Western Europe uncovered
https://phys.org/news/2025-12-evidence-lost-wax-silver-bronze.html

New Study Shows How Felines Conquered Europe Thanks to the Roman Army – La Voce di New York

New Study Shows How Felines Conquered Europe Thanks to the Roman Army

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.) | Open Culture

The Oldest Known Depiction of Human Sexuality: The Turin Papyrus (Circa 1150 B.C.E.)

1500-Year-Old Roman Ring with a Tiny Hare Was Discovered at Hadrian’s Wall in Britain and It’s Absolutely Stunning
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/1500-year-old-roman-ring-with-a-tiny-hare-was-discovered-at-hadrians-wall-in-britain-and-its-absolutely-stunning/

Sabines: The Spartan Tribe That Shaped the Early Romans – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/12/03/sabines-spartan-tribe-early-romans/

The Paradox of “Spolia”: The Reuse of Building Materials in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

The Paradox of “Spolia”: The Reuse of Building Materials in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Houston’s Roman Art Blockbuster Shines a Light On a ‘Good’ Emperor — Italian Museum Treasures Beckon at MFAH
https://www.papercitymag.com/arts/imperial-rome-emperor-trajan-art-exhibition-mfah-houston/

Is it over for antiques dealers?
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/is-it-over-for-antiques-dealers/

People Have Been Finding Ancient Fossils For Millennia, But What Did They Think They Were Prior To Understanding Dinosaurs? » TwistedSifter

People Have Been Finding Ancient Fossils For Millennia, But What Did They Think They Were Prior To Understanding Dinosaurs?

Scientists compile ‘Google Maps for Roman roads’ – SWI swissinfo.ch
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/best-of-srg-content/scientists-compile-google-maps-for-roman-roads/90542320

Mapping Troy’s Luwian Context – Biblical Archaeology Society

Mapping Troy’s Luwian Context

A New Section of the Wall of the Ancient Mesapian City of Manduria Built Between the 5th and 3rd Centuries B.C. Has Been Discovered

A New Section of the Wall of the Ancient Mesapian City of Manduria Built Between the 5th and 3rd Centuries B.C. Has Been Discovered

More Than Words – Noodlings

More Than Words

WashU Classics Brings the Ancient World to Local Classrooms | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/news/washu-classics-brings-ancient-world-local-classrooms

Classical Sparta: A Militaristic Society?
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/classical-sparta-a-militaristic-society

Laudator Temporis Acti: Singular, Not Plural
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/singular-not-plural.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Saved by the Gods
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/12/saved-by-gods.html

The True Philologist Knows… | Sphinx

The True Philologist Knows…

Alexander de Grote in Siwa – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Siwa

PaleoJudaica.com: The narrative “hypothesis” behind the Gospels
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-narrative-hypothesis-behind-gospels.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/les-steles-puniques-de-carthage-au.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Sifiting Project staff profile
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/12/a-sifiting-project-staff-profile.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Prometheus and the Liver through Art and Medicine
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/prometheus-and-liver-through-art-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der lateinische ›Alexanderroman‹ des Iulius Valerius: Sprache, Erzählung, Kontex
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/der-lateinische-alexanderroman-des.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sculture Greche e Romane del Museo Nazionale di Antichità di Bucarest
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/sculture-greche-e-romane-del-museo.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The People That Never Were: Linguistic Scholarship and the Invention of the Aryans
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-people-that-never-were-linguistic.html

Greek and Roman Sculpture from the National Museum of Antichità in Bucharest | Spartokos read

Sculture Greche e Romane del Museo Nazionale di Antichità di Bucarest

The orators and their treatment of the recent past – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The orators and their treatment of the recent past

Was ist Residenz? – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Was ist Residenz?

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Scribes and language use in the Graeco-Roman world

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How 50 Archaeological Discover… – Bible and Archaeology – Apple Podcasts

81. Lisa Wilhelmi: Bronze Age …–Thin End of the Wedge – Apple Podcasts

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 12 fidus … – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(849) Were Egyptian temples built to honour the heavens—or to elevate earthly rulers? – YouTube

(850) How One Murder and One Trial Broke Rome Forever – Ancient History – YouTube

(850) We Were WRONG About Ancient Cats – New DNA Study Changes Everything! #OldeNews – YouTube

(850) Ten Wonders of Ancient Anatolia – YouTube

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Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Georgia – PhilJobs:JFP
https://philjobs.org/job/show/30465

• Possible date for rites in honour of the bona dea: essentially private rituals for Roman women only held in the house of a consul or praetor and attended by the Vestal Virgins and assorted upper class types. The actual date does not appear to have been ‘fixed’ and, of course, this ritual was ‘crashed’ by P. Clodius (dressed as a woman) in 62 B.C. with all sorts of nasty spinoffs, not least of which was the Julius Caesar’s divorce from his wife Pompeia.
• 313 A.D. — death of the retired emperor Diocletian