• 43 B.C. — the lex Titia de triumvirato gave G. Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Antonius, and Marcus Aemilius Lepidus the title of triumviri rei publicae constituendae with near-dictatorial powers for a period of five years
• 8 B.C. — death of the poet Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus)
• ca 110 A.D. — birth of Hadrian’s paramour Antinoos

• 311 — Martyrdom of Peter of Alexandria

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Major Bronze Age workshop space revealed at Kissonerga-Skalia in Cyprus | Archaeology News Online Magazine
https://archaeologymag.com/2025/11/major-bronze-age-workshop-space-in-cyprus/

Archaeologists stunned by treasure-laden Roman pyre burial
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/11/archaeologists-stunned-by-treasure-laden-roman-pyre-burial

The Complex System Behind Slave Freedom in Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/25/complex-system-slave-freedom-ancient-greece/

An organised cemetery around a basilica in 6th-7th c. Cyprus

An organised cemetery around a basilica in 6th-7th c. Cyprus

UC experts showcase their ancient Greek discoveries at Met | University of Cincinnati
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2025/11/uc-showcases-ancient-greek-discoveries-at-met.html

4,000-Year-Old Minoan Houses, Built Centuries Before Palaces, Hid Clever Designs – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/25/minoan-houses-before-palaces-clever-designs/

Did the Trojan War actually happen? | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/did-the-trojan-war-actually-happen

Egypt During the Bronze Age Collapse, an Interview With Dr Kara Cooney | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/bronze-age-collapse-egypt-interview-kara-cooney/

Was Rome the Facebook of ancient history?
https://stories.auckland.ac.nz/was-rome-the-facebook-of-ancient-history/index.html

Ancient Greek Cultures Produced A Royal Color Before It Was “Tyrian Purple”
https://historyphilosophyaction.substack.com/p/ancient-greek-cultures-produced-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1543976&post_id=179778294&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Church of St. Stephen’s Mosaic Masterpiece – Biblical Archaeology Society

Church of St. Stephen’s Mosaic Masterpiece

Greco-Roman Life and Leisure

A Disturbing Forgotten Roman Satire Written by a Female Poet Warns: Prolonged Peace Can Be More Dangerous Than War

A Disturbing Forgotten Roman Satire Written by a Female Poet Warns: Prolonged Peace Can Be More Dangerous Than War

News – University of Nottingham secures funding grant for groundbreaking research on early British voices and identities – University of Nottingham
https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/news/research-on-early-british-voices-and-identities

De Thuringers – Mainzer Beobachter

De Thuringers

Laudator Temporis Acti: Head
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/head.html

Struggling with Civilizations | Blog post | Mary Beard

Struggling with Civilizations

Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God – Tales of Times Forgotten

Scholars Have Discovered How to Pronounce the True Name of God

Seeing (and Wounding) the Gods: Reading Iliad 5 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Seeing (and Wounding) the Gods: Reading Iliad 5

Reprising De Callataÿ on Plautus – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Reprising De Callataÿ on Plautus

PaleoJudaica.com: A Luvian-Phoenician bilingual inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-luvian-phoenician-bilingual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Concerns about the Babylonian version of the Behistun inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/concerns-about-babylonian-version-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: When Jesus Rose Early: Studies on the Text and Paratexts of Mark’s Ending
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/when-jesus-rose-early-studies-on-text.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Un piccolo esempio. La psicagogia matematica di Platone
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/un-piccolo-esempio-la-psicagogia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Euthalian Tradition of the New Testament: A Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/the-euthalian-tradition-of-new.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Estate Planning by Agreement in the Sources of Roman Law
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/estate-planning-by-agreement-in-sources.html

Coping with Versnel: a roundtable on religion and magic in honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Coping with Versnel: a roundtable on religion and magic in honour of the 80th birthday of Henk S. Versnel

Constantinople through the ages: the visible city from its foundation to contemporary Istanbul – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Constantinople through the ages: the visible city from its foundation to contemporary Istanbul

Divided power in ancient Greece: decision-making and institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic polis – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Divided power in ancient Greece: decision-making and institutions in the Classical and Hellenistic polis

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16 NOCTVRNALIS: Richard Rush | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis
https://tllpod.podbean.com/e/16-noctvrnalis-richard-rush/

Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 11 – The … – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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(667) Vittorio Cisnetti on Cambyses’ fleet and the first naval endeavour of the Persians – YouTube

(667) The Rage of Achilles: The Climax of Homer’s Iliad – YouTube

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The Sanctuary of Ayia Irini Reconsidered

The Sanctuary of Ayia Irini Reconsidered

Project MUSE – Stealing from the Gods
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/141813

Project MUSE – Timaeus in Paradise
https://muse.jhu.edu/book/142360

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A 2,000-Year-Old Roman Stadium Unearthed at Blaundos, the Former Macedonian Garrison City Above Anatolia’s Deepest Canyon – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/a-2000-year-old-roman-stadium-unearthed-at-blaundos-the-former-macedonian-garrison-city-above-anatolias-deepest-canyon/

Why Was This Pharaoh Buried in Another King’s Tomb? New Tanis Evidence Uncovers a Royal Cover-Up – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/why-was-this-pharaoh-buried-in-another-kings-tomb-new-tanis-evidence-uncovers-a-royal-cover-up/

Repatriation of a Cypriot antiquity from the United Kingdom – Gov.cy
https://www.gov.cy/en/culture/repatriation-of-a-cypriot-antiquity-from-the-united-kingdom/

‘Hot knives and brute force’: King Tut’s mummy was decapitated and dismembered after its historic discovery. Then, the researchers covered it up. | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/hot-knives-and-brute-force-king-tuts-mummy-was-decapitated-and-dismembered-after-its-historic-discovery-then-the-researchers-covered-it-up

Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici

Enigmatic Late Antique Coin Hoards Discovered in One of the Gallic Cities of the Mediomatrici

Builders discovered an ancient Minoan ruin on Crete. Then, things got tense. | National Geographic
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/greek-antiquities-boom-crete-discovery?loggedin=true&rnd=1764098856397

Roman Engineering Keeps Temple of Venus Standing for 2,000 Years on Volcanic Ground – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/25/roman-engineering-temple-venus-stand-volcanic-ground/

The Heliodorus Pillar, the astonishing stone column dedicated by a Greek ambassador in the center of India to a Hindu god

The Heliodorus Pillar, the astonishing stone column dedicated by a Greek ambassador in the center of India to a Hindu god

Archaeologists Uncover Massive 2,250-Year-Old Monument Beneath Ancient Roman City
https://scitechdaily.com/archaeologists-uncover-massive-2250-year-old-monument-beneath-ancient-roman-city/

Greek Ring and Gold Treasures Found in Rare Roman Burial in France – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/25/greek-ring-gold-treasures-roman-burial-france/

Archaeologists Present Rare Findings in ‘Warrior Princes of Mycenaean Greece’ Lecture – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/archaeologists-present-rare-findings-in-warrior-princes-of-mycenaean-greece-lecture/

Ancient Roman Basilica Emerges From Lake in Turkey After 700 Years Underwater – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/25/ancient-roman-basilica-lake-turkey-years-underwater/

Logging in European Antiquity – Popular Archeology

Logging in European Antiquity

On the trail of antiquity: 2,000 km in a Roman boat to the Black Sea | YACHT
https://www.yacht.de/en/travel-and-charter/worldwide/on-the-trail-of-antiquity-2-000-km-in-a-roman-boat-to-the-black-sea/

Fraud or Find? What We Know About Crete’s Mysterious Phaistos Disk » Explorersweb

Fraud or Find? What We Know About Crete’s Mysterious Phaistos Disk

University of Ottawa reopens admissions to Greek and Roman program | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/university-ottawa-greek-roman-program-review-suspended-9.6991804

Erin L. Thompson | Fake it till you make it
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/november/fake-it-till-you-make-it

It’s not racist to quote the n-word – spiked

It’s not racist to quote the n-word

Greek, Hellenistic, Republican… Where are the lines? – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Greek, Hellenistic, Republican… Where are the lines?

25 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica, and then Dyrrachium) to his family (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/25-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at-307?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=179865137&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

25 November 58 BCE: From Cicero (at Thessalonica, and then Dyrrachium) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/25-november-58-bce-from-cicero-at?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=179855619&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

ASOR 2025 Recap | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

ASOR 2025 Recap

Voices | From Clay Tablets to Cookie Dough

From Clay Tablets to Cookie Dough

Tartessos – Mainzer Beobachter

Tartessos

PaleoJudaica.com: Sarah and the Aqedah in the monotheistic traditions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/sarah-and-aqedah-in-monotheistic.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Catholic review of The Carpenter’s Son
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-catholic-review-of-carpenters-son.html

PaleoJudaica.com: BAR, Winter 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/bar-winter-2025.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Besiedelung der Küsten des Pontos Euxeinos durch die Milesier
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/die-besiedelung-der-kusten-des-pontos.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Approaches to Phrynichus’ ›Praeparatio Sophistica‹
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/new-approaches-to-phrynichus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kant und die Antike
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/kant-und-die-antike.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ancient Greek Law
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/ancient-greek-law.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Schlaf in der Literatur: Zu Narratologie und Ästhetik einer alltäglichen Extremerfahrung von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/schlaf-in-der-literaturzu-narratologie.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Entstehung, Angebot und bildungsrelevante Lerneffekte des Digitalen Spiels ›Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece‹
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/entstehung-angebot-und.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Per la storia del testo di Marziale
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/per-la-storia-del-testo-di-marziale.html

Magica Levantina and Defixiones Atticae – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Magica Levantina and Defixiones Atticae

Xenophon’s Socratic rhetoric: virtue, eros, and philosophy in the Symposium – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Xenophon’s Socratic rhetoric: virtue, eros, and philosophy in the Symposium

Life/afterlife: revolution and reflection in the ancient Greek underworld from Homer to Lucian – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Life/afterlife: revolution and reflection in the ancient Greek underworld from Homer to Lucian

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Wooden toes, iron hands: the ancient artistry of prosthetics – ABC listen
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/latenightlive/ancient-history-prosthetics-disability/106052434

Your Native Tongue Holds a Special Place in Your Brain (Gurgle, Episode 6) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/mother-tongue-gurgle-episode-6/
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(640) Midnight Assault of Carthage – Third Punic War (Part 4) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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Call for Applications | American Journal of Archaeology

Call for Applications

New Visions of Ancient Peace – January 2026 workshop – Ancient Peace Studies Network

New Visions of Ancient Peace – January 2026 workshop

How Has Digitalization Changed Archaeology?

How Has Digitalization Changed Archaeology?

PhD Position at York University (Toronto) in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome (Deadline January 15) – The Classical Association of Canada

PhD Position at York University (Toronto) in the History of Authoritarian Politics in Ancient Rome (Deadline January 15)

The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros – Introduction – HERC Hellenic Education & Research Center

The Epigraphy of the Aegean Islands: Studying Greek Inscriptions on Paros – Introduction

• 2348 B.C. — the Great Flood begins (according to someone’s reckoning!)
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Mercurius
• 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Moses of Rome