- 43 B.C. — dies imperii (officially) of Octavian
- ?? A.D. — the future emperor Tiberius becomes one of the VIIvir epulonum
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN January 6, 2026
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Ancient clay cylinders provide first foundation text documenting Nebuchadnezzar II’s restoration of the ziggurat of Kish
https://phys.org/news/2026-01-ancient-clay-cylinders-foundation-text.html#goog_rewarded
New Study Rewrites Origins of Alexander the Great’s Kingdom of Macedon – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/06/new-study-origins-alexander-great-kingdom-macedon/
US Ambassador Huckabee’s family finds ancient coins | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-882466
A 2,300-Year-Old Helmet from the Punic Wars Pulled From the Sea Tells the Story of the Battle That Made Rome an Empire
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-helmet-punic-wars-redo/
Alluvium-covered Myra to see theater restoration in 2026
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/alluvium-covered-myra-to-see-theater-restoration-in-2026-217489
Archaeologists Discover ‘Sumptuous’ Frescoes at Ancient Villa Preserved by Mount Vesuvius’ Eruption
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-sumptuous-frescoes-at-ancient-villa-preserved-by-mount-vesuvius-eruption-180987951/
Step inside a Roman home, and you might be surprised by what you find | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/step-inside-a-roman-home/
Beyond the podcast: Pompeii | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/beyond-the-podcast-pompeii/
King’s College Revives Greek Play Tradition With Aristophanes
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/06/kings-college-revives-greek-play-tradition-with-aristophanes
Trump’s “Don-roe” Doctrine: The Thucydides Lessons the White House Cannot Ignore – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/trump-thucydides-lessons-white-house-cannot-ignore/
Spencer Alley: Pergamon Altar Frieze
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/pergamon-altar-frieze.html
A few good things to do in SF if you’re feeling retraumatized by the SCS
https://donnazuckerberg.substack.com/p/a-few-good-things-to-do-in-sf-if?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2108238&post_id=183596304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
You think you’ve got mummy issues? – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/you-think-youve-got-mummy-issues?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=181214304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Everyday Orientalism turns 10 in 2026 and we have some news – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM
The festive epigraphist – with books and crafts – The VIEWS project
CETEGVS, Cethegus (?) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
Arthur: “D.W. Tale Spins” (1999) – Animated Antiquity
Weekly varia no. 163, 01/04/26 – Noodlings
Boeotia III: Some Unboxing Notes | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Jerome, Letter 94 – online in English
Egypte ontdekken – Mainzer Beobachter
Vragen rond de jaarwisseling (4) – Mainzer Beobachter
PaleoJudaica.com: Armstrong Institute: 2025 biblical archaeology top ten
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/armstrong-institute-2025-biblical.html
PaleoJudaica.com: ‘Phoenician Identity in the Making’ Research Workshop
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/phoenician-identity-in-making-research.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Temple Mount cedar beams exposed to the elements?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/temple-mount-cedar-beams-exposed-to.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Free online Ancient Language Textbooks
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/free-online-ancient-language-textbooks.html
PaleoJudaica.com: A Secret Mark timeline
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/a-secret-mark-timeline.html
PaleoJudaica.com: More on Shaphan Ben Azaliah
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/more-on-shaphan-ben-azaliah.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Falerii Novi: The Ground-Penetrating Radar survey of the Roman town
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/falerii-novi-ground-penetrating-radar.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Boeotia Project, Volume III: Hyettos. The origins, florescence and afterlife of a small Boeotian city
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/boeotia-project-volume-iii-hyettos.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Interdisciplinary Egyptology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/01/new-open-access-journal.html
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Anima Latina 06.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-06-01-2026.html
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Enormous Roman Mosaic In Turkey – video Dailymotion
(411) A ~Very ~ Brief History of the SIRENS – YouTube
(411) The Top 20 Archaeological Discoveries of 2025 Part 1 – YouTube
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Nestor – January 2026 issue available
https://classics.uc.edu/nestor/pages/news/858-january-2026-issue-available
Conference: Greek currency that was counterfeited, imitated, and copied | Antiquity at the BnF
This Day in Ancient History: ante diem viii idus januarias
- 1822 — birth of Heinrich Schliemann (excavator of Troy, Mycenae)
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~January 5, 2026
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Egypt’s Karnak Temple may have risen from water like a creation myth | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/12/251228074502.htm
Protective Solomon’s Knot mosaic unearthed in Türkiye’s ancient city of Smyrna – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/protective-solomons-knot-mosaic-unearthed-in-turkiyes-ancient-city-of-smyrna-3212422?s=1
British Museum Seeks Treasure Hunter to Recover Stolen Antiquities
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/british-museum-treasure-hunter-stolen-antiquities-recovery-2734597
Antiquities Authority: Intensive efforts to recover smuggled Iraqi treasures » Iraqi News Agency
https://ina.iq/en/local/44614-antiquities-authority-intensive-efforts-to-recover-smuggled-iraqi-treasures.html
How a playful literary hoax illuminates Classical queerness | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/how-a-playful-literary-hoax-illuminates-classical-queerness
King’s Greek Play 2026 Announced: Clouds | Mirage News
https://www.miragenews.com/kings-greek-play-2026-announced-clouds-1597396/
Trump’s “Don-roe” Doctrine: The Thucydides Lessons the White House Cannot Ignore – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/trump-thucydides-lessons-white-house-cannot-ignore/
Thermopylae Reimagined: A Memorial Fit for the 21st Century – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/thermopylae-memorial-proposal/
Not Just the Father of History: Herodotus as the First Social Anthropologist – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/05/herodotus-first-social-anthropologist/
Odysseus the destroyer? Christopher Nolan’s new Odyssey adaptation revives an ancient moral question
https://theconversation.com/odysseus-the-destroyer-christopher-nolans-new-odyssey-adaptation-revives-an-ancient-moral-question-270312
Before Christopher Nolan, The Coen Brothers Made An Odyssey Movie (Without Even Reading It)
https://www.slashfilm.com/2062479/christopher-nolan-coen-brothers-the-odyssey-movie-oh-brother-where-art-thou/
The Story of Carthage Isn’t Necessarily What the Romans Committed to History
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/story-carthage-isnt-necessarily-what-romans-committed-history-180987841/
[paywalled] Why Authors Can’t Let Go of Greek Myths – The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/books/2026/01/the-way-to-colonos-kay-cicellis-sophocles-book-review/685414/
Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742) – Roger Pearse
Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)
Night Raids and Gimmick Episodes: Learning to Love Iliad 10 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Laudator Temporis Acti: Streams
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/streams.html
PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: New Year 2026!
https://panoplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2026/01/new-year-2026.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Amheida IV: ʿAin el-Gedida: 2006-2008 Excavations of a Latin Antique Site in Egypt’s Western Desert
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/amheida-iv-ain-el-gedida-2006-2008.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Links to the Vallarsi edition of the works of St Jerome (1734-1742)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/links-to-vallarsi-edition-of-works-of.html
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Stephen Fry says Odysseus is a hero for our times | The Sunday Magazine | On Demand | CBC Listen
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-57-the-sunday-magazine/clip/16190061-stephen-fry-says-odysseus-hero-times
BBC Audio | The Today Podcast | Can Donald Trump Be Compared To Julius Caesar? (Your Radical Questions with Tom Holland)
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/p0mpbrwl
A Podcast about Rome: Episode 28: The Aqua Alexandrina
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/a-podcast-about-rome-episode-28-the?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=183550854&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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(383) I Traveled the Via Appia — Here Are 5 Places You Need to See! – YouTube
(383) Decoding the Pyramid Statues of King Menkaure – YouTube
(383) The Bronze Age Greek Kingdom You’ve Never Heard Of – YouTube
(383) Catullus 5: da mi basia mille – YouTube
(383) Ovid Advice to a rejected lover: Ars Amatoria 1.469-478 – YouTube
(383) Seneca Changing morals: De Beneficiis 3.16 – YouTube
(383) Horace Finished with love: Odes 3.26 – YouTube
(383) Martial The Power of Love: Epigrams 1.62 – YouTube
(383) Pliny To Calpurnia Hispulla, his wife’s aunt: Letters 4.19 – YouTube
(383) Catullus 85: odi et amo – YouTube
(383) Martial An Enigma: Epigrams 12.46 – YouTube
(383) Catullus 8: miser Catulle – YouTube
(383) Catullus 70: mulier mea – YouTube
(383) Cicero a Family Matter (ad Atticum 5.1) – YouTube
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Multi-analytical study of shaping firing and painted inscriptions in a Roman Titulus Pictus amphora | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-02279-5
Replacing Archaeologists with AI – Biblical Archaeology Society
Call for Papers — Land and Power in the Later Roman World – Land and loyalty
Woodworking in the Roman Imagination – Call for Papers
‘Phoenician Identity in the Making’ Research Workshop of The Israel Science Foundation | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
https://iias.huji.ac.il/event/phoenician-identity-making-research-workshop-israel-science-foundation
This Day in Ancient History: nonae januariae
- ludi compitales — day three of a moveable festival which might occur anytime between Saturnalia and January 5. It was largely a rural occasion involving woollen dolls being made to represent each free member of the household (simple woollen balls would be used to represent slaves) being hung up on the eve of the festival, presumably as offerings to the Lares. There would also follow more formal sacrifices at the compita (places where two farm paths crossed).
- 1906 — birth of Kathleen Kenyon (excavatrix of Jericho)
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