• fast in honour of Ceres — in 191 B.C., consultation of the Sybilline books ordered a fast to be held every five years in honour of the Roman goddess Ceres, who presided over grain and harvesting. By Augustus’ day, the fast was an annual event which curiously coincides fairly closely with the Athenian Thesmophoria.
• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 2 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays
• 1909 — birth of James. B. Pritchard (“Biblical” archaeologist and author of The Ancient Near East, among other things)

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Roman Craft Workshop Discovered in Ancient Isarnodurum with Writing Tablets Still Bearing Ink and Rare Children’s Wooden Soles

Roman Craft Workshop Discovered in Ancient Isarnodurum with Writing Tablets Still Bearing Ink and Rare Children’s Wooden Soles

Tomb of Roman benefactor unearthed in Antalya
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/tomb-of-roman-benefactor-unearthed-in-antalya-214253

Archaeologists Discover Roman-Era Industrial Settlement at Future Bilmer Berg II Business Park in Germany – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-roman-era-industrial-settlement-at-future-bilmer-berg-ii-business-park-in-germany/

Tornos News | The Roman Odeon of Patras is being reborn
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/53606-the-roman-odeon-of-patras-is-being-reborn.html

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

Mary Washington Students Dig Archaeological Research in Greece – News

Mary Washington Students Dig Archaeological Research in Greece

Alexander’s first triumph: Turkish scholars rediscover the lost battlefield of the Granicus – Neos Kosmos

Alexander’s first triumph: Turkish scholars rediscover the lost battlefield of the Granicus

A New Discovery May Rewrite the Legend of Alexander the Great
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68154531/alexander-the-great-battlefield-discovery/

How Ancient Sanctuaries Enabled the Greeks to Forge a Trade Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/ancient-sanctuaries-greeks-trade-empire/

The Chariots of Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society

The Chariots of Israel

Rare treasures excavated from the Roman town of Tripontium on display in Rugby
https://www.warwickshireworld.com/lifestyle/family-and-parenting/rare-treasures-excavated-from-the-roman-town-of-tripontium-on-display-in-rugby-5345459

Erimi-Pamboula: First excavation season completed

Erimi-Pamboula: First excavation season completed

Ancient Egyptian sick notes and invoices go on show in Cambridge
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy8r2k1g043o

National Theater revives Greek tragedies in 5-part epic ‘Anthropolis’ – The Korea Herald
https://www.koreaherald.com/article/10589251

See the original play Odysseus Dies at the End at Filipponi Ranch  – New Times San Luis Obispo

See the original play Odysseus Dies at the End at Filipponi Ranch 

Did the Trojan Horse Really Exist?
https://www.history.com/articles/trojan-horse-gullibility

Ancient “Stepped Pyramid” of Greece Sparks Controversy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/03/stepped-pyramid-greece-controversy/

Sensational Discovery in Salzburg: 1,800-Year-Old Roman Ship’s Bow Unearthed During Renovation – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/sensational-discovery-in-salzburg-1800-year-old-roman-ships-bow-unearthed-during-renovation/

New York: 29 Greek antiquities seized & repatriated (photos) – ProtoThema English

New York: 29 Greek antiquities seized & repatriated (photos)

Montepulciano dedicates exhibition to legendary Etruscan king Porsenna
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/montepulciano-dedicates-exhibition-to-legendary-etruscan-king-porsenna

New Archaeological Research Reveals Life in Pompeii Post-Eruption
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/new-archaeological-research-pompeii-post-eruption-activity-1234749334/

Made by Egyptian hands | Blog post | Mary Beard

Made by Egyptian hands

What’s the point? – Liv Mariah Yarrow

What’s the point?

An Origin Story – Liv Mariah Yarrow

An Origin Story

Gap Week: October 3, 2025 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Gap Week: October 3, 2025

(22) Lesson 154: scelus -eris n. Latinum Institute Latin Reading Course
https://latinum.substack.com/p/lesson-154-scelus-eris-n-latinum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=175173313&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa – Roger Pearse

A thought on the GNO edition of Gregory of Nyssa

Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man! | Sphinx

Can’t Do Nuttin’ For Ya, Man!

PaleoJudaica.com: A “powerful Punic-era pottery industry” at Málaga
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/a-powerful-punic-era-pottery-industry.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Was Jesus a short guy?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/was-jesus-short-guy.html

PaleoJudaica.com: DSS coming to the Museum of the Bible
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/dss-coming-to-museum-of-bible.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Festival of the Carthaginians and Romans 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-festival-of-carthaginians-and.html

De Spaanse triomf van Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter

De Spaanse triomf van Caesar

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: To the Glory that was Greece. Ideas, Ideals and Practices in Composing Humanist Greek during the Seventeenth Century
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/to-glory-that-was-greece-ideas-ideals.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Naming Gods. An Onomastic Study of Divine Epithets Derived from Roman Anthroponyms
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/naming-gods-onomastic-study-of-divine.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The South Palace Archives in Babylon: Administrative Records in the Palace of Nebuchadnezzar II
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-south-palace-archives-in-babylon.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Cult of Poseidoniate Hera and the Lucanians in Poseidonia/Paistom: An Ancient Story of Religion and Multiculturalism
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-cult-of-poseidoniate-hera-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Latin Female Cognomina. A Study on the Personal Names of Roman Women
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/latin-female-cognomina-study-on.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Animal Mummies: From Research to Outreach at the Allard Pierson
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/10/animal-mummies-from-research-to.html

A GYMNASION ASSEMBLAGE LOST AT SEA? THE STATUES FROM THE ANTIKYTHERA SHIPWRECK RECONSIDERED | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/gymnasion-assemblage-lost-at-sea-the-statues-from-the-antikythera-shipwreck-reconsidered/B9C19CBB7626F931B26FA93A480BD7EE?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ENSLAVED, FREED AND SUB-ELITE PEOPLE IN ROMAN SOCIETY | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/enslaved-freed-and-subelite-people-in-roman-society/6C8CF80E5E94BB3F517F8C3F1FAB8187?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

ANCIENT CYPRUS: NEW DIRECTIONS IN HISTORICAL, LITERARY AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCHOLARSHIP | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/ancient-cyprus-new-directions-in-historical-literary-and-archaeological-scholarship/9722C4A53DDC6106428068079D9B21E1?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

The Roman provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: using coins as sources – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Roman provinces, 300 BCE–300 CE: using coins as sources

Mystik und Allegorese – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Mystik und Allegorese

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Ancient History Podcast – What is Ancient History? with Walter Scheidel
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-what-is-ancient-history

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA377 – How Much Do We Really Know About the Bacaudae?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa377-how-much-do-we-really-know-about-the-bacaudae

97. Sicily, Deciding Disaster – Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

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(70) Indians in Rome – First Contact (20 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

(70) Shroud of Turin Evidence & Cleopatra’s Tomb: What Did They Really Find? – YouTube

(70) James Hankins | The Golden Thread: A History of the Western Tradition | Paideia Institute – YouTube

(71) Ancient Warfare Brutal Siege of Roca Vecchia #ancienthistoryguy #ApulianWarfare #ancientwarriors – YouTube

(71) Excavating the Royal City of Midas – YouTube

(71) The Hidden History of Egyptian Labor in Abydos – YouTube

(71) Daily Fare and Sacred Offerings in Classical Greece – YouTube

(71) The Roman Treasures You Didn’t Know Were at the Met – YouTube

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Environmental Approaches to the East. Mediterranean Landscape

Environmental Approaches to the Eastern Mediterranean Landscape, 1750-1920

Basil L. Gildersleeve Professor of Classics – Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
https://www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/basil-h-gildersleeve-professor-of-classics-charlottesville-virginia-united-states

• ludi Augustales scaenici (day 1 — from 19-23 A.D.) — a festival in honour of Augustus involving primarily mime and pantomime theatrical displays

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Why Did Çatalhöyük Have No Streets? | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/why-did-catalhoyuk-have-no-streets/

[AI?]Roman ship with olive and fruit remains found in Croatia | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-869201

[wtf?]Discovery in Egypt offers new evidence for the Bible’s story of Moses | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15152927/workshop-Egypt-Bible-Exodus-Moses.html

Archaeologists Discover Roman-Era Industrial Settlement at Future Bilmer Berg II Business Park in Germany – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-roman-era-industrial-settlement-at-future-bilmer-berg-ii-business-park-in-germany/

2,100-year-old tomb of a Thracian warrior discovered full of jewels – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/2100-year-old-tomb-of-a-thracian-warrior-discovered-containing-jewelry-and-weapons/

Lost Capital of Ancient Kingdom Unearthed in North Macedonia | Latest Balkan and Southeast European News | Politics, Sports, Society, and Business
https://balkaneu.com/lost-capital-of-ancient-kingdom-unearthed-in-north-macedonia/

Collaborative research produces new findings on ancient artmaking technique
https://artdaily.cc/news/185974/Collaborative-research-produces-new-findings-on-ancient-artmaking-technique

National Hellenic Museum Hosts Homerathon, a Reading of Homer’s Ancient Greek Epic the Odyssey in its Entirety with Public Participation – The Hellenic Journal

National Hellenic Museum Hosts Homerathon, a Reading of Homer’s Ancient Greek Epic the Odyssey in its Entirety with Public Participation

New Discovery Reveals Etruscan Tarquinia Also Thrived as a Roman City – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/etruscan-tarquinia-thrived-roman-city/

Solving the Mystery of the Acropolis’s Vanished Temple – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/10/02/shepherds-graffiti-sheds-new-light-on-acropolis-lost-temple-mystery/

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

More than 800 Roman coins found in a shipwreck in the Rhône River from 1,800 years ago

Alexander and Porus: Revisiting a historic encounter across continents – Neos Kosmos

Alexander and Porus: Revisiting a historic encounter across continents

[paywalled] Learning to speak Latin and Ancient Greek can save civilisation | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/learning-to-speak-latin-and-ancient-greek-can-save-civilisation/

[paywalled] Collecting Antiquities is Popular, but Tricky – The New York Times

From gladiators to mock naval battles, what were the major sports events in the ancient world?
https://theconversation.com/from-gladiators-to-mock-naval-battles-what-were-the-major-sports-events-in-the-ancient-world-265073

BedPost: Trojan is a terrible condom brand name – The Post
https://www.thepostathens.com/article/2025/10/trojan-mythology-condom-2025

Study finds ancient Parthian man shot by an arrow which was never removed
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-ancient-parthian-shot-arrow.html

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 October 2025

Art Crime Research Opportunities: 2 October 2025

(22) ANE Today, 2 October 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-2-october-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=175023610&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

SAM Newsletter October 2025
https://mailchi.mp/b47f7c583b7e/sam-newsletter-september-13887723?e=875f90a671

(22) Ancient History Roundup – by Owen Rees – Our Ancient World
https://owenrees.substack.com/p/ancient-history-roundup-830?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2470207&post_id=174815415&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Psychology, Crime, and Violence | Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-forensic-view/202509/psychology-crime-and-violence

[Ephemeris] DE CLASSICULA GAZAM PETENTI
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2445

Het Forum van Augustus (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Forum van Augustus (1)

Het Forum van Augustus (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

Het Forum van Augustus (2)

On Tom Davis | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

On Tom Davis

Time for #ClassicsTober! – Classical Studies Support

Time for #ClassicsTober!

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical Studies Carnival 229
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/biblical-studies-carnival-229.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yom Kippur reflections by the Sifting Project
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/yom-kippur-reflections-by-sifting.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Yom Kippur 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/yom-kippur-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Hebrew Bible job at UC Berkeley
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/10/hebrew-bible-job-at-uc-berkeley.html

Religious life in late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Religious life in late Classical and Hellenistic Rhodes

Conversing with chaos in Graeco-Roman antiquity: writing and reading environmental disorder in ancient texts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Conversing with chaos in Graeco-Roman antiquity: writing and reading environmental disorder in ancient texts

Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C. – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Le monde des Grecs au VIe siècle avant J.-C.

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Ideas Podcast: Classicism and Other Phobias | Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-classicism-and-other-phobias

Origins of Mythology – The Ancients | Acast

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(34) Gallic Wars: The Celts And Romans Bloody Battle For Europe – YouTube

(34) Look inside a 4,500-year-old sculpture from Iraq – YouTube

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Classics Libraries and the Digital Classicist Wiki | Institute of Classical Studies
https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/classics-libraries-and-digital-classicist-wiki

ASCSA Summer Travel-Study Programs for Summer 2026 (Apply by January 5th) – The Classical Association of Canada
https://www.cac-scec.ca/2025/10/ascsasummer2026/

7th NINO Annual Meeting: Food and Ritual in the Ancient to Early Modern Near East – NINO Leiden
https://www.nino-leiden.nl/event/7th-nino-annual-meeting-food-and-ritual-in-the-ancient-to-early-modern-near-east

• 322 B.C. — death of Aristotle (according to one reckoning)
• c. 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Eleutherius and companions