• rites in honour of Fides on the Capitoline — these involved a procession of the flamines in a “two horse hooded carriage” to the shrine. The flamines had to bind themselves up as far as their fingers as a symbolic gesture that fides (good faith) had to be kept.
• rites associated with Juno Sororia at the tigillum — although a number of false etymologies associated this ritual of passing under a beam (the tigillum) with the tale of Horatius murdering his sister, it is more likely originally some sort of ‘coming of age’ ritual for Roman girls
• 331 B.C. — Battle of Gaugamela (one suggested date)
• 208 A.D. (?) — birth of the future emperor Severus Alexander

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Remarkable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Discovered – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/remarkable-2000-year-old-roman-shipwreck-discovered-10803407

Naxos Temple of Apollo secured after visitor lifts ancient stone | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1282448/permanent-fence-installed-at-portara-in-naxos/

[AI?]IAA uncovers 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade factory | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869044

Lost Kingdom of Purušhanda? Archaeologists Unearth Ancient Ovens and Hearths in Üçhöyük, Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/lost-kingdom-of-purushanda-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-ovens-and-hearths-in-uchoyuk-turkiye/

Stunning Statue of Greek Goddess Artemis Found at Titanic Wreck – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/30/statue-greek-goddess-artemis-titanic-wreck/

Pergamon’s Red Basilica to reopen after restoration
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/pergamons-red-basilica-to-reopen-after-restoration-214123

Excavations reveal ancient Phoenician settlement at river mouth became Malaga’s first ‘industrial estate’ | Sur in English
https://www.surinenglish.com/malaga/malaga-city/excavations-reveal-ancient-phoenician-settlement-river-mouth-20250929184137-nt.html

Ancient Egyptian statue of ‘Messi’ found at Saqqara necropolis is ‘only known example of its kind from the Old Kingdom’ | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/ancient-egyptian-statue-of-messi-found-at-saqqara-necropolis-is-only-known-example-of-its-kind-from-the-old-kingdom

Study finds Levantine ivory came from Ethiopia not Egypt
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-levantine-ivory-ethiopia-egypt.html

Viterbo, the Oceane Tomb, a painted Roman-era burial chamber carved out of tuff, will be restored
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/viterbo-the-oceane-tomb-a-painted-roman-era-burial-chamber-carved-out-of-tuff-will-be-restored

Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know
https://theconversation.com/hindi-greek-and-english-all-come-from-a-single-ancient-language-heres-how-we-know-264588

Spartathlon: Runners Trace Footsteps of Pheidippides From Athens to Sparta – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/29/spartathlon-runners-pheidippides-athens-sparta/

New Era for Greece’s National Archaeological Museum – tovima.com

New Era for Greece’s National Archaeological Museum

The Case for Tragedy ~ The Imaginative Conservative

The Case for Tragedy

Compulsory Greek & Latin course for medical students propose
https://punchng.com/don-seeks-compulsory-greek-latin-course-for-medical-students/

In Memoriam: Hanne Sigismund Nielsen, Faculty of Arts | News | University of Calgary
https://ucalgary.ca/news/memoriam-hanne-sigismund-nielsen-faculty-arts

What to see at Chatsworth | Blog post | Mary Beard

What to see at Chatsworth

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Anger in Egypt after Pharaoh’s gold bracelet stolen from a Cairo museum is melted down
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/09/anger-in-egypt-after-pharaohs-gold.html

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Egypt arrests four for robbery of pharaoh’s 3,000-year-old bracelet
https://paul-barford.blogspot.com/2025/09/egypt-arrests-four-for-robbery-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: What happened to the scapegoat?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/what-happened-to-scapegoat.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Muon tomography: a first iteration
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/muon-tomography-first-iteration.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Sifting Project volunteer finds Hellenistic-era sling stone
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/sifting-project-volunteer-finds.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Tepe Sadegh, a Bronze Age settlement on the Sistan Plain: Pottery, Chronology, and Interactions
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/tepe-sadegh-bronze-age-settlement-on.html

Recueil d’articles scientifiques pour le 70e anniversaire du professeur Ivan Ivanovitch Marchenko | Spartokos a lu

Recueil d’articles scientifiques pour le 70e anniversaire du professeur Ivan Ivanovitch Marchenko

Greek mythology: from creation to first humans – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Greek mythology: from creation to first humans

Reading miscellany in the Roman empire: Aulus Gellius and the imperial prose collection – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reading miscellany in the Roman empire: Aulus Gellius and the imperial prose collection

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Ma, ma, ma, my, Pomona! (Et Alii) in Two More Ovidian Vignettes (Ad Navseam, Episode 195) | Ad Navseam
https://adnavseam.podbean.com/e/in-two-more-ovidian-vignettes-ad-navseam-episode-195/

Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine) – Ancient History Fangirl

Horses of Fire, Daughters of Bronze (with AD Rhine)

(3) Episode I: The Rise and Fall of Sumer and Akkad — Interview with Professor Gonzalo Rubio – YouTube

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The prophecy and the burning log – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube

(1) Travelling With Herodotus – YouTube

(1) LatinPerDiem Latin Lessons: Augustine, De Magistro 26 | Advanced Latin Grammar – YouTube

(2) Urban and Economic Activities in the Hinterland of Petra – H.E. Dr. Fawzi Abudanah – YouTube

(3) Youngest Roman Legionaries The Remarkable Stories #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

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Upcoming virtual information sessions on Brock’s MA in Classics: November 4th and December 3rd – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/09/brockmainfo2025/

Professor of Ancient History | University Graz
https://jobs.uni-graz.at/en/jobs/b42ffe07-8f40-2f96-7c8e-6895cc7aef27

UNC-Chapel Hill Employment Opportunities | George L. Paddison Professor of Latin
https://unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/306994

Lecturer (Education) in Ancient History job with QUEENS UNIVERSITY BELFAST | 399390
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/listing/399390/lecturer-education-in-ancient-history

• 480 B.C. — birth of Euripides (not sure of the source of this one)
• 286 A.D. — martyrdom of Victor and Ursus
• 420 A.D. — death of Jerome
• 1452 — first Gutenberg Bible printed (?)

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Türkiye secures return of 83 Roman coins from US – Türkiye News
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-secures-return-of-83-roman-coins-from-us-214104

The discovery of a 2,800-year-old royal tomb linked to the Midas Dynasty | Penn Today
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/discovery-2800-year-old-royal-tomb-linked-midas-dynasty

Breaking ground without digging: In first, archaeologists ‘X-ray’ Jerusalem’s hidden layers | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-ground-without-digging-in-first-archaeologists-x-ray-jerusalems-underground/

Research of the ancient Shipwreck in Sukošan, Croatia
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/09/29/research-of-the-ancient-shipwreck-in-sukosan-croatia/

How Two Cities of the Ancient Kingdom of Mukish Survived the Bronze Age Collapse

How Two Cities of the Ancient Kingdom of Mukish Survived the Bronze Age Collapse

Roman mosaic in Tivoli

Roman mosaic in Tivoli

The Parthenon Marbles return to debate | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1281968/the-parthenon-marbles-return-to-debate/

Construction Crew Finds Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68113623/vienna-roman-mass-grave-found/

Roman Harbor Structures in the Maas: Underwater Excavation Yields Rare Finds – Live Streamed – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/roman-harbor-structures-in-the-maas-underwater-excavation-yields-rare-finds-live-streamed/

[AI?]How Champollion cracked hieroglyphs 203 years ago | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868813

[AI?]Three Roman-Era Mansions Found on Tralleis’ Ancient Street | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868954

Greek Alphabet’s Phoenician Origins Questioned After 2,500 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/29/greek-phoenician-alphabet-origins-questioned/

Hit and myth: Bacchae brings into view the National’s history of revamping Greek tragedies | Theatre | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/sep/29/myth-bacchae-national-history-greek-tragedies-indhu-rubasingham

Micro-XRF analysis of Early Bronze Age gold artefacts from Dhaskalio, Keros – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25004250

Laudator Temporis Acti: How Copronymus Got His Name
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-copronymus-got-his-name.html

…I’m sorry, you want me for your book club? | Classically Inclined

…I’m sorry, you want me for your book club?

Weekly Varia no. 149, 09/28/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 149, 09/28/25

Recycled Rome – CANE

Recycled Rome

PaleoJudaica.com: Wiggins, A Reassessment of Asherah (rev ed., Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/wiggins-reassessment-of-asherah-rev-ed.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac lifelong learning.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/syriac-lifelong-learning.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Video: Ezekiel Papyrus Conference
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/video-ezekiel-papyrus-conference.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archaeology of Daily Life: A Late Antique House at Kom al-Ahmer, Northwestern Nile Delta
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-archaeology-of-daily-life-late.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Materia Magica Aegyptiae: The ancient Egyptian offering table as funerary landscape, ritual utensil, and unifier of elements
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/materia-magica-aegyptiae-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urban fluctuations in the north-central region of the Nile Delta: 4000 years of river and urban development in Egypt
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/urban-fluctuations-in-north-central.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Serving the Living and the Dead: Ceramic Production in Copper Age Campania, Southern Italy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/serving-living-and-dead-ceramic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ‘Casina’ by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/casina-by-plautus-annotated-latin-text.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: As-Sabbiya 2007–2010. Kuwaiti–Polish Archaeological Investigations in Northern Kuwait, Kuwait
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/as-sabbiya-20072010-kuwaitipolish.html

Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts

Textiles in motion: dress for dance in the ancient world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Textiles in motion: dress for dance in the ancient world

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(4) Walter Scheidel | What is Ancient History? | The Paideia Institute – YouTube

(5) Battle Of Platea |The Ancient Secret to Spartan Victory at Plataea EXPOSED | – YouTube

(5) The White Island, Chapter 1 Read Aloud, Forbidden Love in Greek Mythology – YouTube

(5) Digging for ancient levels of Via Appia inside Rome! – YouTube

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Assistant Professor in Latin Literature: The University of Chicago
https://apply.interfolio.com/174721

Lecturer (Education) in Ancient History at Queen’s University Belfast
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW139/lecturer-education-in-ancient-history

• 106 B.C. — birth of Gnaeus Pompeius
• 61 B.C. — Pompey celebrates his third triumph in recognition of his victories in the third Mithridatic War
• 48 B.C. — Pompeius Magnus, in the wake of his defeat at Pharsalus, is murdered as he steps ashore in Egypt (another possible date)
• 290 A.D. — martyrdom of Rhipsime, Gaiana, and companions