• rites in honour of Jupiter
• epulum in honour of Jupiter
• rites in honour of Feronia
• rites in honour of Fortuna Primigenia
• rites in honour of Pietas (?)
• ludi Plebeii (day 10) — the Jupiterfest goes on and on and on (much of the above must be connected to it all)…
• 36 B.C. — ovatio of Octavian for “his” victories over Sextus Pompeius in Sicily; the real author of the victory, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, was granted the corona rostrata
• 354 — birth of Augustine

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A Roman river port, a road, and three extremely rare gold coins discovered in Aquileia, the fortified city that defended the Veneti from barbarian incursions

A Roman river port, a road, and three extremely rare gold coins discovered in Aquileia, the fortified city that defended the Veneti from barbarian incursions

Archaeologists Excavating a Roman Fort in Britain Discovered a Rare Red Gemstone Engraved With a Surprising Design
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-excavating-roman-fort-britain-discovered-rare-rred-gemstone-engraved-with-surprising-design-180987674/

Opium use in ancient Egypt: Alabaster vase residue points to widespread use
https://phys.org/news/2025-11-opium-ancient-egypt-alabaster-vase.html#goog_rewarded

Archaeologists in France Discover 2,000-Year-Old Port Under Toulon’s Naval Base – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/archaeologist-france-discover-port-toulon-naval-base/

Ancient Roman Theatre Seat Reveals Name of Prominent Priestess – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/ancient-roman-theatre-seat-reveals-name-of-prominent-priestess/

Greece Restores Three Early Christian Monuments on Astypalaia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/11/greece-restores-three-early-christian-monuments-astypalaia/

Archaeologists Crack Century-old Mystery: What Were Clay Cornets Used for 6,000 Years Ago? – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-11-12/ty-article-magazine/archaeologists-crack-century-old-mystery-what-were-clay-cornets-used-for-6-000-years-ago/0000019a-77d8-d326-a3ff-f7d9a7510000

Needle-carved image linked to Sasanian king found in Southern Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/520316/Needle-carved-image-linked-to-Sasanian-king-found-in-Southern

[AI?] Egyptian bowl tests may show last meal before Pompeii | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-873435

Thieves Steal Roman-Era Statues From Damascus Museum
https://hyperallergic.com/1056436/thieves-steal-roman-era-statues-from-damascus-museum/

Theft of Roman statues from Syria’s main museum believed to be work of an individual – ABC News
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/theft-roman-statues-syrias-main-museum-believed-work-127451255

Syria opens probe into robbery at national museum
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251112-syria-opens-probe-into-robbery-at-national-museum

[paywalled] Homer’s “Odyssey” offers lessons for navigating 2026
https://www.economist.com/the-world-ahead/2025/11/12/homers-odyssey-offers-lessons-for-navigating-2026

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings – Cherwell

Why we’re obsessed with Greek myth retellings

Healing, purification and holiness: how ancient Greeks, Romans and early Christians used olive oil
https://theconversation.com/healing-purification-and-holiness-how-ancient-greeks-romans-and-early-christians-used-olive-oil-267003

The Epic Clash That Ended the Roman Republic – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/titans-collided-epic-clash-ended-roman-republic/

When Alexander Crushed the Persians: The Historic Battle at Issus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/12/when-alexander-crushed-persians-battle-issus/

The Birth of the Sword and Sandals Epic | History Today
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/birth-sword-and-sandals-epic

Getty Villa to Premiere “Thieves of California,” a Dystopian Reimagining of a Greek Tragedy – SM Mirror

Getty Villa to Premiere “Thieves of California,” a Dystopian Reimagining of a Greek Tragedy

Farewell to Textual Criticism? | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/farewell-textual-criticism

Read all of antiquities dealer van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here

Read all of antiquities dealer van Rijn’s odd and amazing early blog online here

Laudator Temporis Acti: Charles Wordsworth’s Graecae Grammaticae Rudimenta
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/charles-wordsworths-graecae-grammaticae.html

Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like? – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Heroic Appearances: Or, What Did Helen Look Like?

PaleoJudaica.com: Fake French Phoenician
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/fake-french-phoenician.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Marble mask excavated at the Carthage Tophet
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/marble-mask-excavated-at-carthage-tophet.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Raz’s modern broken(-)prophetic mirrors
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/razs-modern-broken-prophetic-mirrors.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/researching-rigged-game-digital.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Warriors’ Wives: Ancient Greek Myth and Modern Experience
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/warriors-wives-ancient-greek-myth-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pläne von Boğazköy Ḫattuša Unterstadt-Große Tempel
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/plane-von-bogazkoy-hattusa-unterstadt.html

Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ancient Bovillae: history, art, and archaeology of a lost city in the Roman hinterland

The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The conqueror’s gift: Roman ethnography and the end of antiquity

Diogenes by Inger N. I. Kuin — Open Letters Review
https://openlettersreview.com/posts/diogenes-by-n-i-kuin
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Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’… – Breaking History – Apple Podcasts

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(291) Conserving Ancient Egyptian Artifacts – YouTube

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Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics

Evolving Perspectives on Digital Classics

• ludi Plebeii (day 9) – the Jupiterfest continues

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Ancient Roman-era statues stolen from Syria national museum | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-national-museum-broken-into-artifacts-stolen-9.6974583

Thieves steal ancient gold from Syria’s national museum, sources say
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20251111-thieves-steal-ancient-gold-from-syria-s-national-museum-sources-say

5,000-year-old carbonized barley grains from Early Bronze Age discovered in eastern Türkiye
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/5-000-year-old-carbonized-barley-grains-from-early-bronze-age-discovered-in-eastern-turkiye/3740474

Archaeologists Uncover New Details of Hellenistic Military Settlement at Pyla-Vigla, Cyprus – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/11/11/archaeologists-hellenistic-military-settlement-pyla-vigla-cyprus/

Ancient harbor discovered underwater in Perinthos
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-harbor-discovered-underwater-in-perinthos-215583

U.S. Returns 36 Stolen Artifacts to Egypt After Major Recovery Effort
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/36-relics-return-egypt-from-us-new-york-2710981

Ancient Rome’s Roads Might Have Been Almost Twice as Long as Researchers Previously Thought
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-romes-roads-might-have-been-almost-twice-as-long-as-researchers-previously-thought-180987671/

Ancient Christian mosaic unearthed at traditional birthplace of Abraham
https://nypost.com/2025/11/11/science/ancient-christian-mosaic-unearthed-at-traditional-birthplace-of-abraham/

Oxford archives show how Englishmen uncovered Tutankhamun
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyld28d0x3o

Before recent decision to phase it out, Latin was taught in Rochester Public Schools for more than a century – Post Bulletin | Rochester Minnesota news, weather, sports
https://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/before-recent-decision-to-phase-it-out-latin-was-taught-in-rochester-public-schools-for-more-than-a-century

Crete: Spearfisherman Finds ‘Ancient Bust’ on Seabed – Turns Out It’s a Diving Prop –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/11/11/crete-spearfisherman-fake-ancient-bust/

A touch of Egypt in a Pompeii fast food kitchen

A touch of Egypt in a Pompeii fast food kitchen

Ancient Roman Hall in Hungary May Explain Mysterious Death of Emperor Valentinian
https://colombiaone.com/2025/11/10/ancient-roman-hall-hungary-mysterious-death-emperor-valentinian/

[AI?] Egyptian bowl tests may show last meal before Pompeii | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-873435

How To Sink A Theory: Inside The Academic Takedown Of Malaysia’s Roman Shipbuilding Claim

How To Sink A Theory: Inside The Academic Takedown Of Malaysia’s Roman Shipbuilding Claim

Frosinone, new discoveries and enhancement work for Roman baths on the Cosa River
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/frosinone-new-discoveries-and-enhancement-work-for-roman-baths-on-the-cosa-river

Nearly Intact Roman Shipwreck Rests Just Six Feet Beneath Mallorca’s Waters
https://hyperallergic.com/1056159/nearly-intact-roman-shipwreck-rests-just-six-feet-beneath-mallorca-waters/

The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Stones of Herod’s Temple Reveal Temple Mount History

Elon Musk donates $1M to archaeology project for Ancient Rome research | Fox News
https://www.foxnews.com/travel/elon-musk-backs-pivotal-archaeology-initiative-says-ai-could-help-rewrite-history-books-ancient-rome

The Algorithmic Presidency
https://hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-algorithmic-donald-trump-presidency/

9 Movies That Capture the Essence of Greek Tragedies | No Film School
https://nofilmschool.com/modern-greek-tragedy-movies

‘Ecstasy’ production staged at Covellite | Around The Web | wvnews.com
https://www.wvnews.com/news/around_the_web/states/ecstasy-production-staged-at-covellite/article_6128b1fa-df2e-5db1-9fbe-480ad17a307d.html

Reading and Teaching Homer: Some practical advice – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Reading and Teaching Homer: Some practical advice

Callimachus on the Walls | Variant Readings

Callimachus on the Walls

Heads on coins | Blog post | The TLS

Heads on coins

Looting Matters: Further returns to Greece from the Met
https://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2025/11/further-returns-to-greece-from-met.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Come Live With Me and Be My Love
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/11/come-live-with-me-and-be-my-love.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Another defense of Ge’ez
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/another-defense-of-geez.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A Mandean baptismal festival in Texas
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/a-mandean-baptismal-festival-in-texas.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yosefa Raz’s “Weak prophecy”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/11/yosefa-razs-weak-prophecy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Persons of Ancient Athens
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2010/03/enhancing-persons-of-ancient-athens.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tacitus On Line
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/tacitus-on-line.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les stèles puniques de Carthage au musée du Louvre: Des offrandes à Tanit et à Baal Hammon
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-steles-puniques-de-carthage-au.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Marmor Numidicum: Karten
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/11/marmor-numidicum-karten.html

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Chasing the idea of completeness: great book collections in the Roman world

Dire remedies: a social history of healthcare in classical antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dire remedies: a social history of healthcare in classical antiquity

Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Imagines urbis: literarische Raumwahrnehmung der Stadt Rom im ersten vorchristlichen Jahrhundert

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Classical Summer School | American Academy in Rome
https://www.aarome.org/apply/2026-classical-summer-school

• ludi Plebeii (day 8) — the Jupiterfest continues
• 109 A.D. — the emperor Trajan stages a naumachia
• 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Athenodorus