• 322 B.C. — death of Demosthenes (by one reckoning)
• 237 A.D. — martyrdom of Daria and Chrysanthus
• 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Minias
• 286 A.D. — martyrdom of twin saints Crispin and Crispian

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LEGENDA
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Ancient Scythian animal-style art began with functional objects, study finds
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-ancient-scythian-animal-style-art.html

Your Ancient Greek guide to Halloween – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/your-ancient-greek-guide-to-halloween?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=174331992&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Three Shipwrecks Discovered Off the Coast of Israel Shed New Light on the History of Iron Age Maritime Trade
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/three-shipwrecks-discovered-off-the-coast-of-israel-shed-new-light-on-the-history-of-iron-age-maritime-trade-180987555/

Detectorist uncovers what could be Wales’s biggest treasure hoard buried in a muddy field | The Independent
https://www.the-independent.com/news/uk/home-news/wales-detectorist-treasure-hoard-roman-coins-b2850740.html

Archaeologists discover foundation of earliest documented church in Armenia – ARMENPRESS Armenian News Agency
https://armenpress.am/en/article/1233055&ct=ga&cd=CAIyGjdjY2U2ODQ5NTMxZWE4Mjc6Y29tOmVuOlVT

Discovery reveals arsenical bronze production on Egypt’s Elephantine Island during the Middle Kingdom
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-discovery-reveals-arsenical-bronze-production.html

Acropolis Museum Hopes Louvre Recovers Jewels, Adds: And Return Your Greek Sculptures” – The National Herald
https://www.thenationalherald.com/acropolis-museum-hopes-louvre-recovers-jewels-adds-and-return-your-greek-sculptures/

1,500-Year-Old Roman Mosaic Unearthed in Mardin: Hidden Masterpiece Rescued from Smugglers – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/1500-year-old-roman-mosaic-unearthed-in-mardin-hidden-masterpiece-rescued-from-smugglers/

2,000-Year-Old Roman Hippodrome Discovered Beneath a Former Landfill in Kayseri – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-roman-hippodrome-discovered-beneath-a-former-landfill-in-kayseri/

The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose

The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose

Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten?

Mortality Crisis at Akhetaten?

Hooked on classics | Otago Daily Times Online News
https://www.odt.co.nz/entertainment/music/hooked-classics

The Only Greek God Who Never Assaulted a Woman – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/23/greek-god-never-assaulted-woman/

Archaeologists Race to Save 4,000-Year-Old Unfired Cuneiform Tablets in Iraq – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/23/archaeologists-save-ancient-unfired-cuneiform-tablets-found-iraq/

From the Acropolis to Mar-a-Lago: Trump and the ghost of Alcibiades
https://independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/from-the-acropolis-to-mar-a-lago-trump-and-the-ghost-of-alcibiades,20297

Laudator Temporis Acti: Coin of Philip II of Macedon

Alcidamas: The First Ancient Greek Voice Declaring ‘Nature Made No One a Slave’ – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/24/alcidamas-ancient-greek-declare-no-slave/

Aristotle the Alchemist, Sexologist, Palm Reader, Papist, and Jew – The Pennsylvania Gazette

Aristotle the Alchemist, Sexologist, Palm Reader, Papist, and Jew

Why was Paul Arrested in the Temple? Acts 21:26-36 – Reading Acts

Why was Paul Arrested in the Temple? Acts 21:26-36

This ancient goddess commanded a Wonder of the World – but why did she have thirty breasts? | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/goddess-wonder-of-the-world-thirty-breasts/

Did Homer Really Describe the Bronze Age? Reinterpreting the Iliad | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/did-homer-describe-bronze-age/

The Decline of Animal Sacrifice in the Late Roman World, with James Rives – Medievalists.net

The Decline of Animal Sacrifice in the Late Roman World, with James Rives

Just one coin… (a Jugurtha eye candy post) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Just one coin… (a Jugurtha eye candy post)

Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

Must be the Season of the Witch: Multitextual Medea
https://theshelbiad.blogspot.com/2025/10/must-be-season-of-witch-multitextual.html

PaleoJudaica.com: When did they start calling it “Hebrew?”
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/when-did-they-start-calling-it-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Is President Trump going to rebuild the Temple?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/is-president-trump-going-to-rebuild.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Chapman, The Victorians and the Holy Land
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/review-of-chapman-victorians-and-holy.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PLANTAS EN EL ANTIGUO EGIPTO: ORÍGENES, USOS Y PRESENCIA EN CHILE
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/plantas-en-el-antiguo-egipto-origenes.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Oral Poetry
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/oral-poetry.html

Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Laici religiosi. Überwachung, soziale Kontrolle und christliche Identität in der Spätantike

Pierre Bersuire. The moralized Ovid – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Pierre Bersuire. The moralized Ovid

Philo of Alexandria and philosophical discourse – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Philo of Alexandria and philosophical discourse

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Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA380 – How Did the Greek Phalanx Keep Its Line?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa380-how-did-the-greek-phalanx-keep-its-line

The ‘father of history’ would … – The Colin McEnroe Show – Apple Podcasts

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Cleopatra, Patriarchy, and the Trap of Honor
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/cleopatra-patriarchy-and-the-trap?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=752411&post_id=176944140&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(95) Star Walks II_Ep. 6: RBSN, “Here”, “Stadio” della Domus Augustana| Parco archeologico del Colosseo – YouTube

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

(97) Shipping Stone for Justinian’s Empire? with Justin Leidwanger – YouTube

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NOTANDA
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Between Yahwism and Judaism
https://www.cambridge.org/core/elements/between-yahwism-and-judaism/DF4B36DC1118F3DDAF3A060C7B4878CC

Semester 1 2025 Reading Classics Research Seminars | Classics at Reading

Semester 1 2025 Reading Classics Research Seminars

EpiDoc Workshop and MAPPOLA training – Bucharest – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

EpiDoc Workshop and MAPPOLA training – Bucharest

21st International Aegean Conference
https://classics.uc.edu/humanities/classics/aegaeum/aegean-conference

• 31 A.D. — execution of Strabo, son of the Praetorian Praefect L. Aelius Sejanus
• 51 A.D. — birth of the future emperor T. Flavius Domitianus, better known as Domitian

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Mursa’s mass grave reveals diverse origins of Roman soldiers
https://phys.org/news/2025-10-mursa-mass-grave-reveals-diverse.html

New study shifts the dating of major Bronze Age events
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2025/10/new-study-shifts-the-dating-of-major-bronze-age-events/156202

Roman coins found by detectorist could be Wales’ biggest find
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd67vv66wxxo

‘Biggest ever’ haul of 15,000 Roman coins found in Wales by dumbfounded metal detectorist who slept with trove in his car over fears it would be stolen | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15219663/Biggest-haul-15-000-Roman-coins-Wales-dumbfounded-metal-detectorist-slept-trove-car-fears-stolen.html

Excavation work begins in the eastern sector of Brescia’s Roman theater, after months of preliminary investigation
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/excavation-work-begins-in-the-eastern-sector-of-brescia-s-roman-theater-after-months-of-preliminary-investigation

Rare Roman Legionary Helmet Looted from Serbia Appears in U.S. Auction – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/rare-roman-legionary-helmet-looted-from-serbia-appears-in-u-s-auction/

Tracing Royal Highways: How the Persians Moved an Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/23/royal-highway-persian-empire/

Ancient tombs in biblical city discovered, tied to St Paul’s letter
https://nypost.com/2025/10/23/science/ancient-tombs-in-biblical-city-discovered-tied-to-st-pauls-letter/

[AI?] First Assyrian inscription found near Jerusalem Wall | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-871382

“Not in Italy or Europe”: an Italian declares which Roman colosseum is the best preserved in the world – AS USA
https://en.as.com/latest_news/not-in-italy-or-europe-an-italian-declares-which-roman-colosseum-is-the-best-preserved-in-the-world-f202510-n/

Rome, large 4th century basilica discovered between Appia and Ardeatina
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/rome-large-4th-century-basilica-discovered-between-appia-and-ardeatina

Final piece of Pompeii’s Villa of the Mysteries to be revealed – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/10/23/final-piece-of-pompeiis-villa-of-the-mysteries-to-be-revealed

The Bremenium Fort archaeological dig

The Bremenium Fort archaeological dig

Bard professor gives lecture on his new translation of ‘The Odyssey’ – Yale Daily News

Bard professor gives lecture on his new translation of ‘The Odyssey’

Under Pompeii’s Ash, Harvard Researchers Unearth Everyday Life in Ancient Rome | News | The Harvard Crimson
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/10/23/Pompeii-harvard-researchers-investigate/

[FWIW] Legendary Hyperborea and the Ancient Greeks: Who actually discovered America? – Balkanweb.com – News24
https://www.balkanweb.com/en/The-legendary-Hyperborea-and-the-ancient-Greeks–who-actually-discovered-America/#gsc.tab=0

[paywalled] The Ancient Greek Who Profiled Trump – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/opinion/the-ancient-greek-who-profiled-trump-fabfb3be

Laudator Temporis Acti: Stoic Commonplaces
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/10/stoic-commonplaces.html

Alexander de Grote in Memfis – Mainzer Beobachter

Alexander de Grote in Memfis

Simon J. Gathercole, The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs: New Testament and Apocryphal Gospels – Reading Acts

Simon J. Gathercole, The Genuine Jesus and the Counterfeit Christs: New Testament and Apocryphal Gospels

PaleoJudaica.com: A late notice from the Assyrian taxman excavated in Jerusalem
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-late-notice-from-assyrian-taxman.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Two people named Benaya
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/two-people-named-benaya.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On the evolution of Israeli archaeology
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/on-evolution-of-israeli-archaeology.html

Escape from Pompeii

Escape from Pompeii

Roman pottery in the low countries: past research, current state, future directions – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Roman pottery in the low countries: past research, current state, future directions

Aztec Latin: Renaissance learning and Nahuatl traditions in early colonial Mexico – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Aztec Latin: Renaissance learning and Nahuatl traditions in early colonial Mexico

Epistula Consolatoria: olim De Consolatione in Aduersis (CPL 999) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Epistula Consolatoria: olim De Consolatione in Aduersis (CPL 999)

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(62) Scarlett Kingsley on luxury, wealth, and prosperity in Herodotus’ Histories – YouTube

(63) Spotlight | Who built the Egyptian pyramids and why? (Spoiler: it wasn’t aliens!) – YouTube

(64) Battle of Zama 202 BC – The Great Hannibal Meets his End! – YouTube

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Pasts Imperfect (10.23.25)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-10-23-25/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter

Epic Threads: A Journal of Reimagined Antiquity | Classical Studies | University of Waterloo
https://uwaterloo.ca/classical-studies/news/epic-threads-journal-reimagined-antiquity

• 42 B.C. — the forces of Marcus Antonius defeat those of Cassius and Brutus in the second Battle of Phillipi; Brutus subsequently commited suicide
• 12 A.D. — the future emperor Tiberius celebrates a triumph for his victories in Pannonia and Dalmatia
• 524 or 525 — martyrdom of Boethius