• rites in honour of Genius Publicus
• rites in honour of Fausta Felicitas
• rites in honour of Venus Victrix
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 7 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 28 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Apollo on the Palatine (and associated rites thereafter)
• c. 95 A.D. — martyrdom of Dionysus the Aeropagite
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Denis and Rusticus

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LEGENDA
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Colosseum’s Hidden Passage of Roman Emperors Revealed for the First Time – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/07/colosseum-hidden-passage-roman-emperor-revealed/

In first, three shipwrecks from biblical times uncovered off the coast of Israel | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-first-three-shipwrecks-from-biblical-times-uncovered-off-the-coast-of-israel/

Hundreds of ancient gold and silver coins from possible Celtic market found in Czech Republic | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/hundreds-of-ancient-gold-and-silver-coins-from-possible-celtic-market-found-in-czech-republic

Iraqi forces seize 18 artifacts in Baghdad – Shafaq News
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Iraqi-forces-seize-18-artifacts-in-Baghdad

[AI?]Roman Sailor’s Marker: Sextus Congenius Verus in New Orlean | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869739

Archaeologists Discovered Surprising Remnants of an Ancient Religion
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68885967/phyrigian-site-matar/

The Sacred Band of Thebes, the military corps formed by pairs of lover hoplites who fought to the death at Chaeronea

The Sacred Band of Thebes, the military corps formed by pairs of lover hoplites who fought to the death at Chaeronea

Plato and the Poets – Boston Review
https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/plato-and-the-poets/

The Muses Urania and Calliope, By Simon Vouet (1590 – 1649) – The Historian’s Hut

The Muses Urania and Calliope, By Simon Vouet (1590 – 1649)

Gods In Gowns—Famous Male Figures From Myth And Legend Who Disguised Or Dressed Themselves As Women – The Historian’s Hut

Gods In Gowns—Famous Male Figures From Myth And Legend Who Disguised Or Dressed Themselves As Women

‘The papyrus also recommends putting a clove of garlic in your vagina before bed’: The texts that reveal the baffling healthcare for women in ancient Egypt | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/the-papyrus-also-recommends-putting-a-clove-of-garlic-in-your-vagina-before-bed-the-texts-that-reveal-the-baffling-healthcare-for-women-in-ancient-egypt

Thrown in a Late Roman Jail – Biblical Archaeology Society

Thrown in a Late Roman Jail

Pulsed thermographic analysis of Herculaneum papyri | Scientific Reports
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-025-19911-w

Tiresiə Reloaded: A Playful Exploration of Identity
https://www.ilmattino.it/en/tiresi_reloaded_a_playful_exploration_of_identity-9112853.html

The Cults of the Northern Israelite Kingdom and Phoenicia | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/cults-northern-israelite-kingdom-and-phoenicia

Laudator Temporis Acti: Contradict Me
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/contradict-me.html

Writing Wednesday: Fragments and Narratives | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Writing Wednesday: Fragments and Narratives

Ancient Greek History Gift Guide (Part 2): Introducing the Ancient Greeks
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-greek-history-gift-guide-part-2-introducing-the-ancient-greeks

Het Romeinse hooggerechtshof: de Basilica Julia – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Romeinse hooggerechtshof: de Basilica Julia

PaleoJudaica.com: Hidden women in Luke’s parables?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/hidden-women-in-lukes-parables.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A longer trailer for the Jesus horror movie
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-longer-trailer-for-jesus-horror-movie.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Carthaginians and Romans: the capture of Carthago Nova
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/carthaginians-and-romans-capture-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Resurrection in the DSS?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/resurrection-in-dss.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ARMEP 2.0: Ancient Records of Middle Eastern Polities
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2020/08/armep-20-ancient-records-of-middle.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Nabopolassar (625-605 BC) and Nebuchadnezzar II (604-562 BC), Kings of Babylon, Part 1
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-nabopolassar.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Bodies that Mattered: Ancient Egyptian Corporealities
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/bodies-that-mattered-ancient-egyptian.html

Pompeiopolis. Urban Development in Roman Anatolia from a Comparative Perspective | Spartokos read

Pompeiopolis. Urban Development in Roman Anatolia from a Comparative Perspective

Plato’s Gorgias: speech, soul and politics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Plato’s Gorgias: speech, soul and politics

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Christianities: the first five hundred years

Die Architektur des römischen Kleinasien – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Die Architektur des römischen Kleinasien

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AUDIENDA
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Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 4 Cano (B… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Alexandria – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

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VIDENDA
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(146) 2,000-year-old Roman tombstone found in New Orleans backyard – YouTube

(146) Indiana Jones Speaks Ancient Greek! in the Dial of Destiny – YouTube

Themistocles’ Masterstroke Evacuation of Athens! #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 4 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 6 — from 19-23 A.D.)

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LEGENDA
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Unique Bronze Box Depicting a Roman Temple Unearthed in the Canabae of Legio V Macedonica at Turda, Romania – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unique-bronze-box-depicting-a-roman-temple-unearthed-in-the-canabae-of-legio-v-macedonica-at-turda-romania/

Roman writing tablets discovered in ancient wells
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/roman-writing-tablets-found-in-ancient-wells/156109

Four Newly Discovered Assyrian Winged Bulls Unearthed at Nabi Yunus Hill in Iraq’s Mosul – Shia Waves

Four Newly Discovered Assyrian Winged Bulls Unearthed at Nabi Yunus Hill in Iraq’s Mosul

Greek Art Found on 2,000-Year-Old Celtic Coins Shows Cultural Reach in Central Europe – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/07/greek-art-ancient-celtic-coins/

Researchers unearth origins of Ancient Egypt’s Karnak Temple
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-unearth-ancient-egypt-karnak-temple.html

Archaeologists uncover 2,200-year-old rock-cut burial field in Türkiye’s Colossae – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeologists-uncover-2200-year-old-rock-cut-burial-field-in-turkiyes-colossae-3208042

Nablus Governorate’s archaeological sites face Israeli expropriation plans – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/518788/Nablus-Governorate-s-archaeological-sites-face-Israeli-expropriation

Newly unearthed walls surprise archaeologists
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/newly-unearthed-walls-surprise-archaeologists-214383

2,700-year-old temple with ‘sacred cave’ discovered in Turkey — and it may honor the ‘mother goddess’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/2-700-year-old-temple-with-sacred-cave-discovered-in-turkey-and-it-may-honor-the-mother-goddess

Ancient limestone tablet disappears from tomb in Egypt’s Saqqara necropolis | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-limestone-tablet-disappears-from-tomb-in-egypts-saqqara-necropolis/

Did Odysseus Really Travel All Around the Mediterranean? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/odysseus-travels-mediterranean/

How Greek Shaped Coptic, Egypt’s Final Ancient Language – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/06/greek-shape-coptic-egypt-ancient-language/

Meet the Philippides Study Collection with Classics Professors : Department of Classics : UMass Amherst
https://www.umass.edu/classics/events/meet-philippides-study-collection-classics-professors

Rome’s Basilica di Massenzio has been reinvigorated | Wallpaper*
https://www.wallpaper.com/architecture/public-buildings/basilica-di-massenzio-rome

Commodus Passage opens to public for first time (3) | ANSA.it
https://www.ansa.it/amp/english/newswire/english_service/2025/10/07/commodus-passage-opens-to-public-for-first-time-3_5a04336e-90cc-4fd0-9104-47a362c9dc5b.html

New Orleans couple discovers ancient Roman grave marker in their yard | New Orleans | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/07/new-orleans-ancient-roman-grave-marker

Laudator Temporis Acti: Keep Off the Beaten Path
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/keep-off-beaten-path.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: No Longer
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/no-longer.html

The Romans in Britain | Blog post | Mary Beard

The Romans in Britain

Teaching Tuesday: Attendance, Time, and Risks | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Tuesday: Attendance, Time, and Risks

De Indus – Mainzer Beobachter

De Indus

PaleoJudaica.com: Archaeological discoveries in Israel
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/archaeological-discoveries-in-israel.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Zwierlein, Das Bellum Iudaicum des Ambrosius
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-zwierlein-das-bellum-iudaicum.html

PaleoJudaica.com: 7Q5 is still not from the Gospel of Mark
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/7q5-is-still-not-from-gospel-of-mark.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The funerary inscriptions of Hellenistic Perusia
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-funerary-inscriptions-of.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La religión del autor de la «Historia Augusta»
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/la-religion-del-autor-de-la-historia.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Menorca entre fenicios y púnicos
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/menorca-entre-fenicios-y-punicos.html

Cicero: the man and his works – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cicero: the man and his works

“Humanitas” in the imperial age: from Pliny the Younger to Symmachus – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

“Humanitas” in the imperial age: from Pliny the Younger to Symmachus

‘The Diver of Paestum’ by Tonio Hölscher review | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/review/diver-paestum-tonio-holscher-review
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H.I. Marrou’s A History of Education in Antiquity, Part XVII (Ad Navseam, Episode 196) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/hi-marrou-s-a-history-of-education-in-antiquity-part-xvii-ad-navseam-episode-197/

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VIDENDA
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Vespasian #7 – Birds, Betrayal, and the Birth of Christianity – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #7 – Birds, Betrayal, and the Birth of Christianity

(120) Samnites: Rome’s Early Nemesis – Ancient Civilizations DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(121) Carthage’s Last Stand Rome’s Ruthless Destruction! #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

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Celtic Conference in Classics 2026 – Maynooth
https://cccmaynooth2026.mailerpage.io/

Jon D. Mikalson Assistant Professor of Classics – Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/jon-d-mikalson-assistant-professor-of-classics-charlottesville-virginia-united-states

Tenure-Track Assistant Professor job with Colby College | 37897624
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37897624/tenure-track-assistant-professor/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=1967&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20251007_jobtitle&utm_source=jbe&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JBE_TL_20251007_applynow_job1

MA Fellowship on Place, Space, and the War Dead in Ancient Greece – University of New Brunswick Department of Historical Studies (Deadline December 15) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/unbmafellowship2026/

CFP: Teaching with Ovid – Google Docs
https://docs.google.com/document/d/133mbtuW7uu28J5pShYDVdqI79_2k5WWOoP8wnPalgsM/edit?pli=1&tab=t.0

International Xenophon Society Online Colloquium – IXS
https://xenophonsociety.org/event/international-xenophon-society-online-colloquium/

The Hellenic and Roman Library > Events > Event Registration
https://www.hellenicandromanlibrary.org/Events/Event-Registration/EventId/22

• rites in honour of Jupiter Fulgur — the deity who was responsible for daytime lightning was worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
• rites in honour of Juno Quiritis — a divinity possibly originally from Falerii and brought to Rome by evocatio in 241 B.C. was also worshipped at a shrine in the Campus Martius
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 3 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 5 — from 19-23 A.D.)
• 15 B.C. — birth of Nero Claudius Drusus (Drusus “Minor”), son of the future emperor Tiberius and Vipsania Agrippina
  1st century A.D. (?) — martyrdom of Sergius and Bacchus … and Apuleius