- 322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (according to one reckoning)
- c. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Eleutherius and companions
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ October 1, 2025
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Ancient Greeks Consumed Imported Fish From Spain, 2,400-Year-Old Amphorae Reveals – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/30/amphorae-workshop-spain-fish-exports-ancient-greece/
Statue Left Behind by Grave Robbers Unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/statue-egypt-saqqara-archaeology-grave-robbers-1234754881/
Unique Roman-Era Association Building Unearthed in Ancient City of Sagalassos – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/unique-roman-era-association-building-unearthed-in-ancient-city-of-sagalassos/
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
FEATURE – Tomb of Roman philanthropist in Turkish Mediterranean city sheds light on past
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/feature-tomb-of-roman-philanthropist-in-turkish-mediterranean-city-sheds-light-on-past/3704443
Remarkable 2,000-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck Discovered – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/remarkable-2000-year-old-roman-shipwreck-discovered-10803407
Archaeologists Discover Proof of Ancient Theatre on Russia’s Taman Peninsula – Popular Archeology
Archaeologists Discover Proof of Ancient Theatre on Russia’s Taman Peninsula
Study finds ancient Parthian man shot by an arrow which was never removed
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-parthian-shot-arrow.html
Iraq’s antiquities dismiss report of 5,000-year-old jar – Shafaq News
https://shafaq.com/en/society/Iraq-s-antiquities-dismiss-report-of-5-000-year-old-jar
Iraq recovers rare 4,500-year-old bronze Ibex statue from United States – Iraqi News
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iraq-recovers-rare-ibex-statue-ancient-mesopotamia/
Jupiter Changing The Cercopians Into Monkeys, From Ovid’s Metamorphoses, By Antonio Tempesta (c. 1555–1630) – The Historian’s Hut
Excavations in ancient Tarquinia reveal the Roman city that challenges the exclusive Etruscan narrative
Bacchae is bold first choice for National Theatre’s new director
https://theconversation.com/bacchae-is-bold-first-choice-for-national-theatres-new-director-266410
How Ancient Greece and Rome Laid the Foundations of Modern Psychiatry – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/01/ancient-greece-rome-foundations-modern-psychiatry/
Tracing the Origins of Wine in Language and Literature | Bible Interp
https://bibleinterp.arizona.edu/articles/tracing-origins-wine-language-and-literature
Analysing Roman hobnail footwear in soil-blocks using radiography: Design, dating, and identities – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X2500433X
Virgil – The Historian’s Hut
The Sacred Ruminalis Fig Tree Of Ancient Rome – The Historian’s Hut
Biblical Studies Carnival #229 for September 2025 – Reading Acts
Writing Wednesday: Fragments and Photography | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
Poëzie: Keizer Vitellius – Mainzer Beobachter
Poëzie: Keizer Vespasianus – Mainzer Beobachter
Poëzie: Keizer Otho – Mainzer Beobachter
Poëzie: Keizer Galba – Mainzer Beobachter
September 2025 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/september-2025-turkish-archaeology
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Approaching the Koumasa Settlement as a Case of Dynamic Topography: Internal Functionality and its Role as a Focal Point in the Messara-Asterousia Region
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/approaching-koumasa-settlement-as-case.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Scribes and Language Use in the Graeco-Roman World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/scribes-and-language-use-in-graeco.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aristoteles Metafysik
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/aristoteles-metafysik.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Writing and Religious Traditions in the Ancient Western Mediterranean
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/writing-and-religious-traditions-in.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Castra et Villae in der Spätantike: Fallbeispiele von Pannonien bis zum Schwarzen Meer
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/castra-et-villae-in-der-spatantike.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Architektur der Schatzhäuser von Olympia: Spuren des griechischen Westens im Mutterland
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/die-architektur-der-schatzhauser-von.html
Jerusalem Through the Ages – Biblical Archaeology Society
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Virgil’s Aeneid: Ep. 3 Limen (… – The Classics Podcast – Apple Podcasts
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(35) Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides – YouTube
(37) Persian Fleet’s Disaster The Storm That Changed History #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube
(35) Were pharaohs just ‘pyramid scheme’ leaders—or building a true legacy? – YouTube
(37) It’s 279 B.C. You are being attacked by elephants. What do you do? – YouTube
The birthplace of the alphabet in ancient Egypt
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0m5zt3j/the-birthplace-of-the-alphabet-in-ancient-egypt
This Day in Ancient History: kalendas octobres
- 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
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 30, 2025
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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
The Case for Tragedy ~ The Imaginative Conservative
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
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
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
(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
This Day in Ancient History: pridie kalendas octobres
- 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 (?)