• festival of Jupiter — all ides were sacred to Jupiter
• Rite of the ‘October Horse’ — one of the many rituals which makes the study of Roman religion so fascinating. On this day a race between two-horse chariots would be held in the Campus Martius, and the right hand horse of the victorious pair would be sacrificed by the flamen of Mars on an altar (in the Campus Martius, of course). After the sacrifice, people who lived in the Via Sacra neighbourhood would fight the people who lived in the Suburra for the right to the head. If the ‘via sacranites’ won, they’d display it on the Regia; if the Suburranites won, it would be displayed at the Turris Mamilia. Meanwhile, the cauda (tail – genitals) would be rushed to the Regia so the blood would drip on the sacred hearth; the Vestal Virgins also probably kept some of the blood for use at the Parilia on April 21.
• ludi Capitolini — a somewhat obscure day of games which was unique in its not being ‘public’ (in the sense of being put on by a magistrate) but rather the ballywick of a collegium of ‘Capitolini’. Not much is known about what went on at these games save that an old man wearing the bulla of of a young boy was paraded about and mocked; there were possibly competitions in boxing and running as well.
• 55 B.C. — death of Lucretius
• 70 B.C. — birth of Publius Vergilius Maro, a.k.a. Vergil, a.k.a Virgil
• 1999 — death of Don Fowler, fellow of Jesus College, Oxford and frequent contributor to the Classics list almost from its inception, among other things, of course

• rites in honour of the Penates Dei — the Penates Dei were originally the penates who watched over the storehouse of the king (when Rome had such, obviously); at some point, the Penates Dei came to be identified with Castor and Pollux, but they still had a temple under their own name on the Velian hill which was apparently restored by Augustus.
• 223 A.D. — martyrdom of Calixtus

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Ancient Shipwrecks Rewrite the Story of Iron Age Trade
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/ancient-shipwrecks-rewrite-the-story-of-iron-age-trade

Roman theater in Iznik reveals ancient passages, frescoes | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/roman-theater-in-iznik-reveals-ancient-passages-frescoes/

Manhattan District Attorney’s Office Returns 29 Antiquities to Greece
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/manhattan-district-attorney-returns-antiquities-greece-1234756833/

Massive 3,500-Year-Old Fortress Unearthed in Sinai, Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/fortress-sinai-egypt/

3,000-Year-Old Public Building Unearthed at Sogmatar: A New Chapter in the Sacred City of the Moon God – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/3000-year-old-public-building-unearthed-at-sogmatar-a-new-chapter-in-the-sacred-city-of-the-moon-god/

Ancient Greek Inscription Unearthed in Crimea Sheds Light on Lost Rituals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/ancient-greek-inscription-crimea-lost-rituals/

Scoperta archeologica a San Marco Argentano: rinvenuta una tomba del IV secolo a.C. con una donna e un bambino VIDEO – Gazzetta del Sud
https://cosenza.gazzettadelsud.it/articoli/cronaca/2025/10/13/scoperta-archeologica-a-san-marco-argentano-rinvenuta-una-tomba-del-iv-secolo-a-c-con-una-donna-e-un-bambino-2bbad7f2-7071-4c68-ba75-9395dd46fda8/

Public speeches challenged assumptions in ancient Greece | Cornell Chronicle
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/10/public-speeches-challenged-assumptions-ancient-greece

Genital problems? Ancient doctors thought goat’s cheese or warm baths could help
https://theconversation.com/genital-problems-ancient-doctors-thought-goats-cheese-or-warm-baths-could-help-264041

The phallus that had been hidden in the thermal baths of Caldes de Montbui
https://en.ara.cat/culture/the-phallus-that-had-been-hidden-in-the-thermal-baths-of-caldes-montbui_1_5527465.amp.html

Miniature Skeleton: A ghostly 2,000-year-old party favor from a Roman banquet | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/miniature-skeleton-a-ghostly-2-000-year-old-party-favor-from-a-roman-banquet

Excavation Results Shed Light on Mysterious Minoan Labyrinth on Crete – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/13/archaeologists-puzzle-over-purpose-minoan-labyrinth-crete/

Dion Restoration Project Protects Zeus’ Ancient Sanctuary
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/14/dion-restoration-project-protects-zeus-ancient-sanctuary/

The Ancient Greek Sculpture of Eros Captures Purity of Love – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/ancient-greek-sculpture-eros-purity-love/

Should We Blame Ancient Greece for Today’s Search for Six-Pack Abs? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/14/should-we-blame-ancient-greece-for-todays-trend-of-male-six-pack-abs/

Analysis of Carbonized Papyri Reveals Intimate Details of the Life of Zeno, Founder of Stoicism

Analysis of Carbonized Papyri Reveals Intimate Details of the Life of Zeno, Founder of Stoicism

How did biblical Judeans track time? Trove of 6th-century BCE inscriptions offers clues | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-did-biblical-judeans-track-time-trove-of-6th-century-bce-inscriptions-offers-clues/

Helen’s Perspective: A New Take on an Old Legend
https://www.ilmattino.it/en/helen_s_perspective_a_new_take_on_an_old_legend-9124915.html

We’re finally reading the secrets of Herculaneum’s lost library | New Scientist
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2498245-were-finally-reading-the-secrets-of-herculaneums-lost-library/

150 years of German excavations in Olympia
https://idw-online.de/de/news859668

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Statue of Zeus at Olympia – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

(Video) 20 Enduring Quotes From The Ancient Roman Historian, Livy – The Historian’s Hut

(Video) 20 Enduring Quotes From The Ancient Roman Historian, Livy

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: German Collector Returns Stolen Artefact from Ancient Olympia After Six Decades
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/german-collector-returns-stolen.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bronze Age Gold Artefacts Stolen from St Fagans National Museum of History
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/10/bronze-age-gold-artefacts-stolen-from.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: “By Zeus” in Aristophanes’ Wealth
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/by-zeus-in-aristophanes-wealth.html

Did Horace throw away his shield? | Blog post | Mary Beard

Did Horace throw away his shield?

PaleoJudaica.com: A six-day administrative “week” at late-Iron-Age Arad?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-six-day-administrative-week-at-late.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Caviezel won’t play Jesus in “Resurrection of the Christ”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/caviezel-wont-play-jesus-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Letter of Aristeas on making the Jewish laws universal
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-letter-of-aristeas-on-making-jewish.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Royal Inscriptions of Mesopotamia volumes available in Open Access
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/royal-inscriptions-of-mesopotamia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Columna Traiani – Traianssäule: Siegesmonument und Kriegsbericht in Bildern. Beiträge der Tagung in Wien anlässlich des 1900. Jahrestages der Einweihung, 9.–12. Mai 2013
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/columna-traiani-traianssaule.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Villes mortes della Siria: Topografia cristiana e insediamenti del Massiccio Calcareo (IV-VII secolo)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/villes-mortes-della-siria-topografia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kushan Coins and History: A Type Catalogue of Kushan, Kushano-Sasanian and Kidarite Hun Coins Based on the Collection of the British Museum
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/kushan-coins-and-history-type-catalogue.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Scents of Arabia: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Olfactory Worlds: Papers from a Special Session of the Fifty-fifth Meeting of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, held in Berlin on 6th August 2022
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/scents-of-arabia-interdisciplinary.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reporting Heritage Destruction
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/reporting-heritage-destruction.html

Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Greek and Latin in the linguistic context of the ancient Mediterranean

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Did St. Paul Speak Latin? and, The Forms You Really Need to Know: Souter and Mahoney (Ad Navseam, Episode 197) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/ad-navseam-episode-197/

Daniel J. Sherman, “Sensations: French Archaeology Between Science and Spectacle, 1890-1940” (U Chicago Press, 2025) – College of Arts and Sciences
https://college.unc.edu/inthemedia/sherman-sensations/

The Curious Case of Athenodoru… – Deep into History – Apple Podcasts

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(149) Underground passage used by Roman emperors to enter Colosseum to open in late October to visitors – YouTube

(149) Augustus Is Dead—Now What? – YouTube

(149) Excavating Göbekli Tepe: An Interview with Archaeologist Jens Notroff – YouTube

(149) The Politics of Clay: Historical and Postcolonial interpretations of Protocorinthian Earthenware. – YouTube

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Calls for Papers – Annual conference, May 5th-7th 2026 (Deadline January 5) | Appels à communications pour la conférence annuelle, 5-7 mai 2026 (Date limite 5 janvier) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cfpagm2026/

CAC Graduate Student Caucus Abstract Writing Workshop (November 5) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/cacgcswritnov5/

“Civilizing” the World: Classicism, Neo-Classical Sculpture, and Plaster Casts in the Service of Imperial Powers and Post-Colonial Elites (1780-1945) | The Warburg Institute
https://warburg.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/CFP-civilizing-the-world-2026

• Fontinalia — a festival in honour of the divinity Fons, who presided over springs and wells; such sources of water were festooned with garlands for the occasion
• 54 A.D. — death of the emperor Claudius, purportedly succumbing to a plate of poisoned mushrooms dished up by his niece/wife Agrippina; dies imperii of Nero (son of Agrippina)

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German Woman Returns Greek Relic Stolen Over 50 Years Ago | Editor’s Choice | Ammon News
https://en.ammonnews.net/article/85600&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjdlYmE1YjE5YTgxNzZiODU6Y29tOmVuOlVT

[AI?] Roman silver treasure of 450 coins found near Borsum | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-870209

A secret imperial passage within Rome’s Colosseum opens to the public : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/11/nx-s1-5571042/a-secret-imperial-passage-within-romes-colosseum-opens-to-the-public

[old news]Greeks Are Descendants of the Mycenaeans, DNA Study Confirms – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/12/evidence-supports-modern-greeks-dna-ancient-mycenaeans/

European attraction Parthenon free of scaffolding for first time in decades | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/parthenon-athens-greece-unesco-temple-b2843708.html

German Woman Returns Ancient Greek Artifact Stolen Over 50 Years Ago –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/12/german-woman-returns-stolen-greek-artifact/

Excavations in Crete Reveal Animal Statue and Glimpse into Ancient Greek Life – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/11/excavation-crete-animal-statue-ancient-greek-life/

Ancient coastal defences reveal 2,000 years of sea-level change
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/ancient-coastal-defences-reveal-2000-years-of-sea-level-change/156128

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Lighthouse of Alexandria – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Lighthouse of Alexandria

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Temple of Artemis at Ephesus – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Temple of Artemis at Ephesus

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Statue of Zeus at Olympia – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Statue of Zeus at Olympia

Secrets of the Seven Wonders – Hanging Garden – Archaeology Magazine – November/December 2025

Hanging Garden

How Did the Plague of Justinian Reshape the Byzantine Empire? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/justinian-plague-reshaped-byzantine-empire/

Perseus and Odysseus – Bookends of the Hero  – Retrospect Journal

Perseus and Odysseus – Bookends of the Hero 

Kiwi Hellenist: Gospel citations of scripture
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2025/05/citations.html

Autistic StoryTime – Classical Studies Support

Autistic StoryTime

Mary Beard: ‘We’re still making a desert and calling it peace, just like the Romans’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/best-and-worst-mary-beard-interview/

Natalie Haynes: ‘I’ll never read anything by a Brontë again’ | Books | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/oct/10/natalie-haynes-ill-never-read-anything-by-a-bronte-again

De familie van Jezus – Mainzer Beobachter

De familie van Jezus

Ephemeris ~ INDUTIAE GAZETICAE Consilium de Lacinia
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2446

Fair Warning | Sphinx

Fair Warning

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVe: The No-Rest Of It

What Was Life Like Inside Ancient Greek Sanctuaries? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/11/ancient-greek-sanctuaries-life/

PaleoJudaica.com: Belief and Unbelief in the Ancient World
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/belief-and-unbelief-in-ancient-world.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Tiglath-pileser III (744–727 BC) and Shalmaneser V (726–722 BC), Kings of Assyria
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-tiglath.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Esarhaddon, King of Assyria (680–669 BC)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-esarhaddon.html

The Greek presence in the indigenous environment in Dobruja | Spartokos read

La présence grecque dans le milieu autochtone en Dobroudja

A man of Rome, out of Africa | Sebastian Milbank | The Critic Magazine
https://thecritic.co.uk/a-man-of-rome-out-of-africa/

Getting a Job in Old Kingdom Egypt: Rites of Passage to Promotion – The Past

Getting a Job in Old Kingdom Egypt: Rites of Passage to Promotion

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79. Rocío Da Riva and Nathan W…–Thin End of the Wedge – Apple Podcasts

Anima Latina 12.10.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/10/anima-latina-12-10-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 11.10.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/10/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-11-10-2025.html
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(89) Parthenon in Greece is free of scaffolding for first time in decades – YouTube

(89) The Hunt For The Lost City Of Troy: A 3000-Year-Old Treasure Map And Missing Millions – YouTube

(89) De nuntiis nonnullis | Spoken Latin podcast (64) – YouTube

(89) 80,000 Men Surrounded – The Disaster of Cannae (216 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(89) Antiochus IV The Mad King Who Shattered an Empire #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(89) Bible & Archaeology Answers Your Bible Questions a Friday Free-For-All – YouTube

(90) Why Plato Hated Homer | Greek Mythology Episode 3 – YouTube

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Assistant Professor, Classics, College of Arts and Sciences job with University of Cincinnati | 37900439
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37900439/assistant-professor-classics-college-of-arts-and-sciences/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1971&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20251011_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20251011_applynow_job1

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Colby College: Department of Classics
https://apply.interfolio.com/175283