• 97 A.D. – The emperor Nerva adopts the future emperor Trajan
• 312 A.D – Battle of the Milvian Bridge; Constantine I has a vision and defeats Maxentius to become sole emperor

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Archaeologists Find Roman Military Camp Hiding in Swiss Alps
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a69164694/roman-army-camp-alps-hidden/

Preserving Pompeii’s past, one step at a time
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03479-6

Archaeologists stumped by ‘extremely rare’ circular Roman-era tomb | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/rare-roman-tomb-germany-contents-b2852701.html

An Ancient Greek City for Sale in Turkey: The History and Plight of Bargylia – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/27/ancient-greek-city-bargylia-turkey-sale-eight-million-euros/

Rare Sabaean Princess Head Statue from Yemen Listed in Vienna Auction, Sparking Heritage Concerns – Yemen Online |
https://www.yemenonline.info/land-of-sheba/10560

Türkiye’s archaeologists reconnect with Roman Empire’s eastern legions – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiyes-archaeologists-reconnect-with-roman-empires-eastern-legions-3209050

New study finally reveals reason behind mysterious abandonment of ancient Egyptian ca
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/rydionnaxg

Israel allocates $12 million to expand control over West Bank archaeological sites – Middle East Monitor

Israel allocates $12 million to expand control over West Bank archaeological sites

Greek guard charged in crackdown on antiquities smuggling rings | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/greek-guard-charged-crackdown-antiquities-smuggling-rings-2025-03-20/

What Caused the Untimely Death of Alexander the Great? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/26/new-theory-what-killed-alexander-the-great/

Art and Life in Imperial Rome: Trajan and His Times (November 2, 2025–January 25, 2026) | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
https://www.mfah.org/art/exhibitions/art-and-life-in-imperial-rome-trajan-and-his-times

Life in Imperial Rome Returns to the MFAH – Houston Press

Life in Imperial Rome Returns to the MFAH

From Pagan Sage to Islamic Prophet of Science: The Reinterpretation of Hermes Trismegistus – Retrospect Journal

From Pagan Sage to Islamic Prophet of Science: The Reinterpretation of Hermes Trismegistus

How important are the structural remains at Mycenae, other than those of graves to our understanding of Mycenaean society?   – Retrospect Journal

How important are the structural remains at Mycenae, other than those of graves to our understanding of Mycenaean society?  

‘Diseased Love’, Female Sexuality and Sexual Jealousy in Euripides’ Medea  – Retrospect Journal

‘Diseased Love’, Female Sexuality and Sexual Jealousy in Euripides’ Medea 

How did the Roman Empire view nature and its seasons? | Aeon Essays
https://aeon.co/essays/how-did-the-roman-empire-view-nature-and-its-seasons?utm_source=Aeon+Newsletter&utm_campaign=47ac653b44-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2025_10_27&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_-4ef8a26106-71963652

Weekly Varia no. 153, 10/26/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 153, 10/26/25

Kleopatra in Rome – Mainzer Beobachter

Kleopatra in Rome

PaleoJudaica.com: (Temporarily) free book ! Alder, Between Yahwism and Judaism (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/temporarily-free-book-alder-between.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Bible and northern Hebrew?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-bible-and-northern-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Tomb of Assyrian official excavated in Northern Israel?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/tomb-of-assyrian-official-excavated-in.html

A companion to the Aeneid in translation – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

A companion to the Aeneid in translation

Proclus on whole and part: a reappraisal of mereology in Neoplatonic metaphysics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Proclus on whole and part: a reappraisal of mereology in Neoplatonic metaphysics

Foreign influences: the circulation of knowledge in antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Foreign influences: the circulation of knowledge in antiquity

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Why are the French so fascinated by Ancient Egypt? – France in focus
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/france-in-focus/20251027-why-are-the-french-so-fascinated-by-ancient-egypt

Annual Meeting and CSI Videos Available – CANE

Annual Meeting and CSI Videos Available

(174) Ancient Greek in Action! ep.2 | Taking, Putting, Drinking – YouTube

(174) Latin in Action! ep.2 | Taking, Putting, Drinking – YouTube

(174) Creepy Animated Statues #shorts #archaeology – YouTube

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Job Description – Assistant Professor (Ancient World History) (250001V7)
https://cuhk.taleo.net/careersection/cu_career_teach/jobdetail.ftl?job=250001V7

Suspension of Honours at Ottawa in Greek & Roman Studies – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/saveottawagkrmst/

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 2) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 43 B.C. — Marcus Junius Brutus commits suicide in the wake of the defeat at Philippi (by one reckoning)
• 113 A.D. — the emperor Trajan departs from Rome for his war against the Parthians
• 251 A.D. — the future emperor Valerian is elected by the senate to the recently-revived office of censor
• 1469 — birth of Erasmus

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Bust of Ancient Egyptian goddess unearthed in Turkey
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/bust-of-ancient-egyptian-goddess-unearthed-in-turkey/156228

FRANCIA. Una ricca tomba femminile di epoca romana. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia

FRANCIA. Una ricca tomba femminile di epoca romana.

‘Extremely rare’ and ‘highly unusual’ Roman-era tomb in Germany is completely empty | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/extremely-rare-and-highly-unusual-roman-era-tomb-in-germany-is-completely-empty

Altino (Venice), the city’s Roman center resurfaces: new excavations begin in the forum
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/altino-venice-the-city-s-roman-center-resurfaces-new-excavations-begin-in-the-forum

[paywalled] Nero didn’t let Rome burn, Supreme Court rules
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/25/nero-didnt-let-rome-burn-supreme-court-rules/

Japanese tourist falls to death at Pantheon in Rome
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cp8y529kl8yo

Alexander the Great: the proto-diplomat? | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/10/26/alexander-the-great-the-proto-diplomat

Why Alexander the Great won every battle: New theories on his death and the location of his tomb – ProtoThema English

Why Alexander the Great won every battle: New theories on his death and the location of his tomb

The Greek Education That Shaped Cleopatra’s Character – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/25/greek-education-cleopatra/

The Adventurous Journey of an Ancient Greek Lyre – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/25/journey-ancient-greek-lyre/

Traditionalist Catholics celebrate old Latin Mass in St. Peter’s Basilica | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/vatican-latin-mass-burke-4ab6bcafb6c47cfacbb1ce0b7f35373d

Remembering William Scott, Distinguished Scholar of Ancient Greek Literature | Faculty of Arts and Sciences
https://fas.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10/remembering-william-scott-distinguished-scholar-ancient-greek-literature

Fireside Friday, October 24, 2025 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Fireside Friday, October 24, 2025

Speaking of Centaurs: Paradeigmatic Problems in Iliad 1 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Speaking of Centaurs: Paradeigmatic Problems in Iliad 1

All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading Homer’s Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

All the (Epic) Rage: Free Tools for Reading Homer’s Iliad

The Politics of Rage: Beginning the Iliad, Again – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Politics of Rage: Beginning the Iliad, Again

Wie schreef de Brief van Jakobus? – Mainzer Beobachter

Wie schreef de Brief van Jakobus?

Khalchayan – Mainzer Beobachter

Khalchayan

PaleoJudaica.com: Shemesh, Elisha: The Holy Man of God (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/shemesh-elisha-holy-man-of-god-brill.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Annese & Berno (eds.), Gnosticism and Its Metamorphoses (Brepols)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/annese-berno-eds-gnosticism-and-its.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The International Association for Assyriology free online talks
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-international-association-for.html

Monuments du haut Moyen Âge à Gurzuf. Cimetière d’Artek I | Spartokos a lu

Monuments du haut Moyen Âge à Gurzuf. Cimetière d’Artek I

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Anima Latina 26.10.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/10/anima-latina-26-10-2025.html

Boudica’s Tribe: How the Iceni Survived the Romans – The Ancients | Acast

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 25.10.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/10/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-25-10-2025.html

diē vīcēsimō quartō mēnsis Octōbris — Nuntii Latini

diē vīcēsimō quartō mēnsis Octōbris

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(146) Carthage Must be Destroyed! – Third Punic War (Part 1) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(146) Seneca On Providence (Latin Audiobook) – YouTube

(146) Hymn to the Sun: Mesomedes of Crete. Bettina Joy de Guzman. Ancient Greek. – YouTube

Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive – Life Of The Caesars

Gallienus: The Pragmatist Who Kept Rome Alive

(146) Spartacus: Rise of the Gladiator (Full Episode) | Warriors of the Ancient World | Nat Geo – YouTube

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explorator 27.45 ~ October 26, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.45 ~ October 26, 2025

(PDF) Beyond “Athens and Jerusalem”: Integrating Classical Philosophy into the Comparative Study of the Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/396773586_Beyond_Athens_and_Jerusalem_Integrating_Classical_Philosophy_into_the_Comparative_Study_of_the_Hebrew_Bible_and_the_Ancient_Near_East

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

• ludi Victoriae Sullanae (day 1) — games held in honour of Victoria commemorating Sulla’s defeat of the Samnites in 82 B.C.
• 1656 B.C. — Noah enters the ark (this must be Bishop Ussher again)
• 31 A.D. — suicide of Apicata, wife of the disgraced Praetorian Praefect Sejanus
• ca 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Lucian and Marcian
• 1852 — during a “violent storm” at Athens, one of the columns of the “Temple of Jupiter Olympus” was toppled