• Ludi Palatini (day 3)
• c. 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Germanicus in Smyrna
• 169 A.D. — martyrdom of Pontianus
• c. 251 A.D. — martyrdom of Messalina

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How the ancient Romans managed their wealth (it wasn’t just by hiding hoards) | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/how-the-ancient-romans-managed-their-wealth-it-wasnt-just-by-hiding-hoards

Police Arrest Foreign National After Seizing Ancient Greek Spears
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/01/18/police-arrest-foreign-national-after-seizing-ancient-greek-spears/

Egypt court hands life sentence to antiquities inspector over major artifact smuggling – EgyptToday
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/144561/Egypt-court-hands-life-sentence-to-antiquities-inspector-over-major

Findings in Northwestern Spain Confirm the Presence of Roman Elites in the “Utmost Frontiers of the Empire”

Findings in Northwestern Spain Confirm the Presence of Roman Elites in the “Utmost Frontiers of the Empire”

Roman Britain: Sifting through remains in the ‘London lasagne’
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62w8erwdk6o

Republican tombs found in Rome suburb
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/01/republican-tombs-found-in-rome-suburb/156768

Historic Plaka Residence Reveals Ancient Road and Classical-Era Finds During Restoration – tovima.com

Historic Plaka Residence Reveals Ancient Road and Classical-Era Finds During Restoration

The Ancient Greek Goddess Chimera Embodied Fear of Females – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/goddess-chimera-female-fear-ancient-greece/

Ea-nāṣir: How An Ancient Copper Merchant Became An Internet Star | IFLScience
https://www.iflscience.com/ea-nasir-how-an-ancient-copper-merchant-became-an-internet-star-82254

How to Fix Democracy: Plato May Have an Answer – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/18/fix-democracy-plato/

Literary Hub » Alexander the Great, Ancient Gay Icon

Alexander the Great, Ancient Gay Icon

Gods Among Men | Psychology Today Canada
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/the-political-animal/202601/gods-among-men-exploring-ancient-demigod-myths

From Penelope to Prometheus: Stephen Fry on why Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’ speaks to our ‘age of AI’ | Books and Literature News – The Indian Express
https://indianexpress.com/article/books-and-literature/stephen-fry-the-odyssey-jaipur-literature-festival-10478339/

Is Alexander the Great’s Tomb Hidden at St Mark’s Basilica in Venice? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/17/alexander-the-great-tomb-st-mark-basilica-venice/

Spencer Alley: Roman Bodies
https://spenceralley.blogspot.com/2026/01/roman-bodies.html

Time, Feet, and Serious Wounds: Starting to Read Iliad 11 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Time, Feet, and Serious Wounds: Starting to Read Iliad 11

Weekly Varia no. 165, 01/18/26 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 165, 01/18/26

The Incandescent – Noodlings

The Incandescent

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites? – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Hoplite Wars, Part IVb: Training Hoplites?

(20) The Ancient Roman Guide to Building Your Personal Library
https://www.millersbookreview.com/p/the-ancient-roman-guide-to-building-your-personal-library?triedRedirect=true

Vijf broden, twee vissen – Mainzer Beobachter

Vijf broden, twee vissen

Cornucopia – Mainzer Beobachter

Cornucopia

PaleoJudaica.com: Performance, Space, and Time in the Dead Sea Scrolls (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/performance-space-and-time-in-dead-sea.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Adam, Time and Tradition: Temporal Thinking in Ecclesiastes … (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/adam-time-and-tradition-temporal.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heritage Gazetteer of Libya
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2016/10/heritage-gazetteer-of-libya.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PeriodO: A gazetteer of period definitions for linking and visualizing data
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/02/periodo-gazetteer-of-period-assertions.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: iDAI.gazetteer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/05/idaigazetteer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Syriac Gazetteer
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/09/the-syriac-gazetteer.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Clavis Clavium
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2020/06/clavis-clavium.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’instrumentum inscriptum dagli scavi di Arsinoe: Anfore e mortaria nella raccolta dell’Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli” di Firenz
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/01/linstrumentum-inscriptum-dagli-scavi-di.html

Book Review: “Odyssey” by Stephen Fry | Geeks
https://vocal.media/geeks/book-review-odyssey-by-stephen-fry

The Anti-Classicist – Commentary Magazine

The Anti-Classicist

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Anima Latina 18.01.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/01/anima-latina-18-01-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 17.01.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/01/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-17-01-2026.html

Episode A8 – Who Was King – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

Episode A9 – Seventy Kings – The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts

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(709) How Scholars Identify Fake Dead Sea Scrolls – YouTube

(709) Historian Analyses EPIC: The Musical (Cyclops Saga) – YouTube

(710) Rome’s talking statue! – YouTube

(710) Why Nisibis 217 AD Mattered for the Roman Empire – YouTube

(710) Panoramic view of the Roman Forum! – YouTube

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explorator 28.03 ~ January 18, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.03 ~ January 18, 2026

Call for Dramatic Production Proposals (Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance) | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/annual-meeting/call-dramatic-production-proposals-committee-ancient-and-modern-performance

Full-stack developer for the conversion of the thesaurus dictionary from a printed to a fully digital version | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich | 4092
https://job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/50021dd066f19975fdb0532ed35009c6a87825a8

• Ludi Palatini (day 2) — the theatrefest continues
• 52 B.C. — murder of Publius Clodius Pulcher near Bovillae
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Moseus
• 1898 — death of H.G. Liddell (Greek lexicographer and father of Alice-in-wonderland)

• Ludi Palatini (day 1)
• 86 B.C. — death of Marius (or possibly on the 13th)
• 38 B.C. — Octavian marries Livia
• 6 B.C. — dedication of the ara Numinis Augusti in Rome
• 42 A.D. — consecration of Livia as divine

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Is Social Media a Digital Version of the Ancient Greek Agora? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/16/social-media-digital-version-ancient-greek-agora/

Scholars Reconstruct Linear A Meanings Without Cracking the Language – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/01/15/reconstruct-linear-a-crack-language/

Roman Marching Camps Discovered in Saxony-Anhalt for the First Time – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/roman-marching-camps-discovered-in-saxony-anhalt-for-the-first-time/

Appia Antica Park, marble tympanum with marine frieze will be restored with open construction site
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/appia-antica-park-marble-tympanum-with-marine-frieze-will-be-restored-with-open-construction-site

Unique 1,850-Year-Old Roman Thermal Structure Unearthed in Antalya’s Ancient City of Myra – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unique-1850-year-old-roman-thermal-structure-unearthed-in-antalyas-ancient-city-of-myra/#google_vignette

The British Museum Is Hiring a Treasure Hunter— But Not the Kind You See in Movies
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/the-british-museum-is-hiring-a-treasure-hunter-but-not-the-kind-you-see-in-movies/

Fragments of an Empire: Sasanian Stucco from Ctesiphon Found in University Collection | Aktuelles aus der Goethe-Universität Frankfurt

Fragments of an Empire: Sasanian Stucco from Ctesiphon Found in University Collection

Plato and Morality Tales
https://www.insidehighered.com/opinion/columns/confessions-community-college-dean/2026/01/16/plato-and-morality-tales

De polybolos – Mainzer Beobachter

De polybolos

Laudator Temporis Acti: Desire for Success
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/01/desire-for-success.html

Teaching Thursday: New Semester, New Goals | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: New Semester, New Goals

PaleoJudaica.com: Darby, Shaping Text Through Song (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/darby-shaping-text-through-song-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Galoppin & Lebreton (eds.), Divine Names on the Spot III (Peeters)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/01/galoppin-lebreton-eds-divine-names-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2015/06/heritage-gazetteer-of-cyprus.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kima Historical Gazetteer: Place Names in the Hebrew Script
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/12/kima-historical-gazetteer-place-names.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archaeological Gazetteer of Iran: An Online Encyclopedia of Iranian Archaeological Site
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-archaeological-gazetteer-of-iran.html

Village du Bosphore de l’époque post-Mithridate. Pratiques de construction et reconstitutions historiques de l’habitat de Polyanka dans la région d’Azov en Crimée. | Spartokos a lu

Village du Bosphore de l’époque post-Mithridate. Pratiques de construction et reconstitutions historiques de l’habitat de Polyanka dans la région d’Azov en Crimée.

Selections from Petronius, The Satyrica: The Tales of Eumolpus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.13/

Hannibal and Scipio: parallel lives – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.01.12/
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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW392 – Crossing the Rubicon
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/aw392-crossing-the-rubicon

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VIDENDA
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(674) Professor Edward Harris (Durham University), “A New Approach to the Attic Countryside” – YouTube

(674) Dr Lorenzo Calvelli, “A View from Athens. Reassessing Cyriac of Ancona’s Vita and Commentaria” – YouTube

(674) Professor Lin Foxhall (University of Liverpool), “Re-imagining ancient Greek landscapes“ – YouTube

(674) Ben Cassell, “The Aiora and Thesmophoria: Cognitve, embodied and psychological approaches” – YouTube

(674) Lava up: New mineral study reveals buried ‘dirt’ about bath time in ancient Pompeii – YouTube

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The Birth of the Sitcom in Ancient Greece, Tuesday, January 20, 2026, 6:30 – 7:45 PM EST – Smithsonian Event | Smithsonian Institution
https://www.si.edu/events/detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D192383822

CfP: Teaching with Ovid: An Online Pedagogy Symposium (Friday 12th – Saturday 13th June 2026) – CRSN
https://i0.wp.com/classicalreception.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/download.jpg?w=336&ssl=1

TWO CONJECTURES IN XENOPHON | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/two-conjectures-in-xenophon/B2E8CE4ED527775A3A83BCF21EFEE4FF?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Dabis Lecture 2026

Dabis Lecture 2026

VIEWS events, January-April 2026 – The VIEWS project

VIEWS events, January-April 2026