ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 12, 2025

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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

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem iv idus octobres

  • 19 B.C. — Augustus returns from various eastern campaigns
  • 166 A.D. — co-emperor Lucius Verus celebrates a triumph for his victories over the Persians; future emperor Commodus is given the rank of Caesar

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem v idus octobres

  • Meditrinalia — a somewhat obscure festival in terms of origins which involved tasting old wine and new wine, apparently with the goal of being cured of diseases old and new.
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 7 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • 304 A.D. — martyrdom of Tharacus

This Day in Ancient History ~ ante diem vi idus octobres

  • rites in honour of Juno Moneta — apparently commemorating a restoration of the temple vowed by M. Furius Camillus in 345 B.C.; the epithet ‘moneta’ possible recognized Juno’s role in goading the sacred geese to wake everyone up during the Gallic sack of Rome
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 6 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.)
  • 19 A.D. — Germanicus, the adopted son of the emperorTiberius, dies under mysterious circumstances in Daphne near Antioch

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 10, 2025

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From tiny tool to tusk: How pre-Romans mastered elephant butchery and bone crafting – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/from-tiny-tool-to-tusk-how-pre-romans-mastered-elephant-butchery-and-bone-crafting-3208245

Due anfore romane sequestrate dai carabinieri tornano ad Anzio
https://www.romatoday.it/attualita/anfore-romane-comune-anzio.html

Ancient Egyptian Iconography Found in Roman-Era Bathhouse in Turkey
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-egyptian-iconography-roman-bathhouse-sagalassos-turkey-1234756387/

A secret tunnel once used by emperors is opening beneath the Colosseum | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/10/travel/secret-tunnel-colosseum-rome-commodus-passage

Roman grave marker found in New Orleans yard left there by US soldier’s granddaughter | US news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/10/mystery-solved-roman-grave-marker-came-from-new-orleans-soldier

Ancient Roman tombstone found beneath undergrowth in New Orleans yard | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/ancient-roman-tombstone-found-beneath-undergrowth-in-new-orleans-yard

[AI?] Artezian secrets revealed in the Crimean Bosporus kingdom | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869886

Ancient Fortress Found in the Heart of Greece’s Pindus Mountains – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/10/ancient-fortress-found-greece-pindus-mountains/

[AI?] Persepolis ancient site threatened by land subsidence | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869881

The eruption that shaped the Aegean world occurred before Pharaoh Ahmose unified Egypt and ushered in its age of splendor

The eruption that shaped the Aegean world occurred before Pharaoh Ahmose unified Egypt and ushered in its age of splendor

Ancient classroom where Aristotle taught Alexander the Great yields rare student writing tools –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/10/10/ancient-classroom-where-aristotle-taught-alexander-the-great-yields-rare-student-writing-tools

Classics Connoisseurs Bring Epic to Life with Marathon Reading of Homer’s Iliad – The Colgate Maroon-News

Classics Connoisseurs Bring Epic to Life with Marathon Reading of Homer’s Iliad

In Sewanee and Abroad: Dr. Tully’s Study and Teaching of Latin and Classical Archaeology

In Sewanee and Abroad: Dr. Tully’s Study and Teaching of Latin and Classical Archaeology

Researcher Feature: Dies in Vita with Dr. Easton – The Megaphone

Researcher Feature: Dies in Vita with Dr. Easton

Milestones: Patricia Maynor Bikai (1943–2025) – Biblical Archaeology Society

Milestones: Patricia Maynor Bikai (1943–2025)

Reading students live as Romans for a week | Classics at Reading

Reading students live as Romans for a week

Classics Department on the decline amid mass changes – The Saint Anselm Crier

Classics Department on the decline amid mass changes

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Digital Editions of Aramaic and Phoenician Sources
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/10/digital-editions-of-aramaic-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Patricia Maynor Bikai (1943–2025)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/patricia-maynor-bikai-19432025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Celebrating Croatian glagolitism
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/celebrating-croatian-glagolitism.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Cults of the Northern Israelite Kingdom and Phoenicia
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-cults-of-northern-israelite-kingdom.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Cartagena: Roman-era archaeology
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/cartagena-roman-era-archaeology.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 1
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-sennacherib_10.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Sennacherib, King of Assyria (704–681 BC), Part 2
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-sennacherib.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Royal Inscriptions of Ashurbanipal (668–631 BC), Aššur-etel-ilāni (630–627 BC) and Sîn-šarra-iškun (626–612 BC), Kings of Assyria, Part 1
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-royal-inscriptions-of-ashurbanipal_10.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: DEAPS: Digital Editions of Aramaic and Phoenecian Sources
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/deaps-digital-editions-of-aramaic-and.html

Out of the Temples and into the Streets: Reassembling the Christianisation of Roman Urban Space | Antichthon | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antichthon/article/out-of-the-temples-and-into-the-streets-reassembling-the-christianisation-of-roman-urban-space/54E46A3DD5047A7E9369B5C2641B940E?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

I Persiani di Eschilo – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

I Persiani di Eschilo

Environmental thought in the Graeco-Roman world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Environmental thought in the Graeco-Roman world

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA378 – Did the Persians Really Use Cats at the Battle of Pelusium?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa379-did-the-persians-really-use-cats-at-the-battle-of-pelusium

diē nōnō mēnsis Octōbris — Nuntii Latini

diē nōnō mēnsis Octōbris


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(34) Preserved in Ash: The Villa San Marco Near Pompeii – YouTube

(35) Dr. Kathleen Martinez Discovers the Foundation Plates | Cleopatra’s Final Secret | Nat Geo – YouTube

(35) The Periclean Strategy: Athens’ Winning Plan in the Peloponnesian War – YouTube

(36) What Was REALLY Going On At Bronze Age Tiryns? – YouTube

(37) Mystery solved: How an ancient Roman tombstone ended up behind a shotgun house in New Orleans – YouTube

(38) Italy opens once-secret corridor in the Colosseum to the public | REUTERS – YouTube

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British School at Rome Two-Year Residential Fellowship – Early Career (Deadline October 31) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/bsrfellowship2026/

Divination and Authority in Graeco-Roman Antiquity – Conferences – Projects | Workshops | Conferences – Chair of Ancient History – University of Potsdam
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/de/hi-altertum/projekte/tagungen/divination-and-authority-in-graeco-roman-antiquity