ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 7, 2025

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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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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

This Day in Ancient History: nonas octobres

  • 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

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 6, 2025

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Archaeologists uncover 60 ancient tombs in western Türkiye | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/archaeologists-uncover-60-ancient-tombs-in-western-turkiye

Research unearths origins of Ancient Egypt’s Karnak Temple
https://www.southampton.ac.uk/news/2025/10/research-unearths-origins-of-ancient-egypts-karnak-temple.page

Archaeologists unearth 1,500-year-old synagogue below abandoned Syrian village in Golan | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-unearth-1500-year-old-synagogue-below-abandoned-syrian-village-in-golan/

Depiction of Ancient Egyptian deities found in Roman bathhouse
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/depiction-of-ancient-egyptian-deities-found-in-roman-bathhouse/156104

3rd Century Coins found in Lucanian Excavation – Liv Mariah Yarrow

12,000-year-old human-faced pillar unearthed in Karahantepe marks new chapter in archaeology – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/12000-year-old-human-faced-pillar-unearthed-in-karahantepe-marks-a-new-chapter-in-arc-3208024

Egyptian authorities probe disappearance of rare 4,000-year-old limestone relief from Saqqara – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-4000-year-old-limestone-relief-saqqara-theft-artifact/

A look at archaeological discoveries from ancient Israel | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869513

Newly discovered walls at Urartu site Garibin Tepe excite archaeologists in Van – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/newly-discovered-walls-at-urartu-site-garibin-tepe-excite-archaeologists-in-van-3207996

Burnt City, a symbol of peaceful coexistence in ancient Iran – Tehran Times
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/518738/Burnt-City-a-symbol-of-peaceful-coexistence-in-ancient-Iran

Adriatic Shipwreck Reveals Details of Roman Trade – Biblical Archaeology Society

Adriatic Shipwreck Reveals Details of Roman Trade

Archaeologists Unearth a Roman Woodworking Workshop with Inked Tablets and Children’s Shoes in Isarnodurum – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-unearth-a-roman-woodworking-workshop-with-inked-tablets-and-childrens-shoes-in-isarnodurum/

Cicero, Political Violence, and America Today  | Essay | Zócalo Public Square
https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/cicero-political-violence-and-america-today/

Lost Roman Aqueduct Unearthed After 2,000 Years in Gallic Capital Bibracte

Lost Roman Aqueduct Unearthed After 2,000 Years in Gallic Capital Bibracte

[wtf?]Fly-tipping: Italy’s ancient Roman sites blighted by waste chaos as locals despair at illegal dumping
https://www.gbnews.com/news/world/fly-tipping-italy-ancient-roman-sites-waste-rubbish

How Ancient Greeks Harnessed Winds to Defeat the Persians at the Battle of Salamis – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/05/ancient-greeks-harnessed-wind-power-battle-salamis/

UF Classics professor elected president of classical society – News

UF Classics professor elected president of classical society

3rd Century Coins found in Lucanian Excavation – Liv Mariah Yarrow

7Q5 and Appeals to Authority, Part 2: Herbert Hunger | Variant Readings

7Q5 and Appeals to Authority, Part 2: Herbert Hunger

Weekly Varia no. 150, 10/05/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 150, 10/05/25

Puzzles, Plato, and the Power of the Classics – CANE

Puzzles, Plato, and the Power of the Classics

Halle, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte – Mainzer Beobachter

Halle, Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte

PaleoJudaica.com: Sukkot 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/sukkot-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the readers of the lost ark
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-readers-of-lost-ark.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Carthaginians and Romans: Seeing Hannibal off to the Alps
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/carthaginians-and-romans-first-events.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Late-antique synagogue excavated in the Golan
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/late-antique-synagogue-excavated-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From Hyperborea to the Middle Sea and Back
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/from-hyperborea-to-middle-sea-and-back.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Habbo G. Lolling at Melitaia: The Antiquities of an Ancient City through the Lens of Two 1882 Notebooks
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/habbo-g-lolling-at-melitaia-antiquities.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Studi storico-epigrafici sul Lazio antico II, a cura di Heikki Solin
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/studi-storico-epigrafici-sul-lazio.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Studies in Ancient Art and Civilization
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2021/09/open-access-journal-studies-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Apologists and Athens : Early Christianity Meets Ancient Greek Thinking
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/apologists-and-athens-early.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Locus horridus – Ansie romane verso il mondo naturale
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/locus-horridus-ansie-romane-verso-il.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Representations of Fear: Verbalising Emotion in Ancient Roman Folk Narrative
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/representations-of-fear-verbalising.html

Connected histories of the Roman civil wars (88-30 BCE) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Connected histories of the Roman civil wars (88-30 BCE)

Ars Metrica. Formen der Vermittlung in der antiken Vers- und Prosodielehre – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Ars Metrica. Formen der Vermittlung in der antiken Vers- und Prosodielehre

Das Bellum Iudaicum des Ambrosius – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Das Bellum Iudaicum des Ambrosius

New Book Unearths The Lost Leadership Of Women During Early Christianity
https://religionunplugged.com/news/2025/9/11/unearthing-lost-leadership-women-early-chrurch
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Banking on Silver Hoards in the Bronze Age Levant, or “Baby You are So Money You Don’t Even Know it.” | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/banking-on-silver-hoards-in-the-bronze-age-levant-or-baby-you-are-so-money-you-dont-even-know-it/

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VIDENDA
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(90) RARE Julius Caesar Bust is PURE SILVER | Pawn Stars (S18) – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Assistant or Associate Professorship i Digital Methods at Department of History and Classical Studies – Vacancy at Aarhus University
https://international.au.dk/about/profile/vacant-positions/job/assistant-professorship-or-associate-professorship-in-digital-methods-teaching-and-research-at

Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great

Music, Dance, and Soundscapes in the World of Alexander the Great

Souls and Psychological Phenomena in Greek Antiquity | Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies | College of Arts and Sciences | University of South Florida
https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/centers/ichs/events/annual-conference/index.aspx

This Day in Ancient History: pridie nonas octobres

  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 11-19 A.D. and post 23 A.D.) — — festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays
  • ludi Augustales scaenici (day 4 — from 19-23 A.D.)
  • 105 B.C. — the Cimbri inflict a massive defeat on Roman legions at Arausio
  • 68 B.C. — Romans under Lucullus defeat the Armenians under Tigranes II at Artaxata (according to one reckoning)
  • 175 A.D. — martyrdom of Sagar in Phrygia