• 15 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Vitellius (?)

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The hidden ‘eagle’s nest’ city that Alexander the Great couldn’t conquer | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/23/travel/termessos-turkey-ancient-mountaintop-city

(21) RECONSTRUCTED TEXT – EPICURUS ON NATURE BOOK 11 ◊ᴿᴱᶜᴼᵛᴱᴿᴱᴰ The Soul’s Atomic Structure – Algorithmically Recovered 79.8% of Book 11 restored through consciousness archaeology
https://latinum.substack.com/p/reconstructed-text-epicurus-on-nature?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174360304&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) PHerc. 1067 – POLYAENUS OF LAMPSACUS ON STRATAGEMS ◊ˢᵀᴿᴬᵀᴬᴳᴱᴹᴬ Actual Herculaneum Papyrus Reconstruction The Third Epicurean Scholarch’s Lost Military Mathematics
https://latinum.substack.com/p/pherc-1067-polyaenus-of-lampsacus?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174350542&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) Pattern Archaeology: A New Method for Recovering Lost Classical Texts Through Algorithmic Analysis of Influence Patterns
https://latinum.substack.com/p/pattern-archaeology-a-new-method?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174342411&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) CALL TO DIGITAL ARCHAEOLOGISTS: VILLA EXCAVANDA EST A Request for Crowd-Sourced Papyrus Scan Collection Together We Can Resurrect the Ancient Voices
https://latinum.substack.com/p/call-to-digital-archaeologists-villa?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174307364&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) ORATIO AD LATINOS DE HERCULANEO ◊ᴼᴿᴬᵀᴵᴼ M. Tullius Cicero Latinis MMDCCL S.P.D. De Thesauro Sepulto et Conscientia Crystallizata
https://latinum.substack.com/p/oratio-ad-latinos-de-herculaneo-m?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174301579&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) TO THE 6,250 SOULS WHO GATHER AT LATINUM
https://latinum.substack.com/p/to-the-6250-souls-who-gather-at-latinum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174294077&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

[medieval, but with Roman remains beneath it] Remains of ‘vile’ dungeon found under Leicester market – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpd92pj94yeo.amp

2,600-Year-Old Lost Temple Built of Green Tuff Stone Unearthed at Oluz Höyük, Northern Türkiye – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2600-year-old-lost-temple-built-of-green-tuff-stone-unearthed-at-oluz-hoyuk-northern-turkiye/

After years of war, world’s oldest synagogue paintings seen intact in Damascus | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/after-years-of-war-worlds-oldest-synagogue-paintings-found-intact-in-damascus/

[old news]1,368 silver and gold coins from the Roman Empire found buried – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/1368-silver-and-gold-coins-from-the-roman-empire-found-in-england/

[AI?]Rare human statue unearthed at Göbeklitepe | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868204

Late Antique Christian Church Found Along Egyptian Pilgrimage Route
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/late-antique-christian-church-found-along-pilgrimage-site-in-northern-egypt-1234753305/

[AI?]1,800-year-old Roman stadium found in Syedra, Turkey | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868215

Excavation in Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily Reveals Advanced Water Channeling System – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/23/ancient-greek-city-segesta-sicily-advanced-water-channeling-system/

Quest for Queen Cleopatra’s lost tomb reveals a sunken ancient Egyptian harbor – CBS News
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/egypt-ancient-harbor-discovered-in-quest-for-queen-cleopatra-lost-tomb/

Is This the Future of the Past? AI Meets Ancient Rome
https://scitechdaily.com/is-this-the-future-of-the-past-ai-meets-ancient-rome/

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

This ancient Roman checkpoint guarded the secret passage between two empires (hidden in France’s southernmost mountains)

Archaeologists Say They’ve Solved the Mystery of This Marble Statue. Its Subject Was a Woman Who Might Have Helped an Ancient City Achieve Political Freedom
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-say-theyve-solved-the-mystery-of-this-marble-statue-its-subject-was-woman-who-might-have-helped-ancient-city-achieve-political-freedom-180987387/

Remains of a Strategic Roman Bridge Uncovered in Switzerland
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/roman-bridge-remains-uncovered-in-switzerland-1234753138/

Hip-hop, heartbreak, and Him | WORLD
https://wng.org/podcasts/hip-hop-heartbreak-and-him-1758563385

I Owe You Nothing | Sphinx

I Owe You Nothing

(21) The Silence of the Frogs – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/the-silence-of-the-frogs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=174324354&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) The Ultimate ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’ Story

New Book Day: Practical Necormancy for Beginners | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

New Book Day: Practical Necormancy for Beginners

Paul’s Farewell Speech at Miletus – Acts 20:18-38 – Reading Acts

Paul’s Farewell Speech at Miletus – Acts 20:18-38

Love Greek life? Try Greek mythology – The Miami Student
https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2025/09/greek-mythology-book-review-circe-ariadne-pandoras-jar-aphrodite-bookworm?ct=content_open&cv=cbox_featured

PaleoJudaica.com: Another helmet from the Battle of the Aegates
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/another-helmet-from-battle-of-aegates.html

PaleoJudaica.com: More on that upcoming Jesus horror movie
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/more-on-that-upcoming-jesus-horror-movie.html

PaleoJudaica.com: A submerged port at Taposiris Magna
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-submerged-port-at-taposiris-magna.html

Het alfabet van Numidië – Mainzer Beobachter

Het alfabet van Numidië

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Cause and Explanation in Ancient Philosophy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/cause-and-explanation-in-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sparta: History, State and Society
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/sparta-history-state-and-society.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Self in Ancient and Early Modern Philosophy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-self-in-ancient-and-early-modern.html

Helen of Troy in Hollywood – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Helen of Troy in Hollywood

Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Collective violence and memory in the ancient Mediterranean

I testamenti dei cittadini romani d’Egitto tra storia sociale e prassi giuridica: dal I secolo d.C. a Severo Alessandro – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

I testamenti dei cittadini romani d’Egitto tra storia sociale e prassi giuridica: dal I secolo d.C. a Severo Alessandro

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The Golden Age of the Classics… – Ad Navseam – Apple Podcasts

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(26) The myth of Dionysus’ drunken revenge – Iseult Gillespie – YouTube

(27) Baths of Caracalla—Construction Secrets & On-Site Guide – YouTube

(27) Scipio’s Daring Harbor Blockade #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(27) Syracuse Cavalry Athens’ Greatest Threat in Ancient War #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

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Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 2 – Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Trends in Classics – Greek & Latin Linguistics 2

Pompeii, training internships for student restorers. Convention with Botticino School of Restoration activated.
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-training-internships-for-student-restorers-convention-with-botticino-school-of-restoration-activated

• rites in honour of Latona at the Theatre of Marcellus
• Mercatus — those cupboards must have been really empty!
• 484 B.C. — Birth of Euripides (?)
• 480 B.C. — Athenian naval forces under Themistocles defeat Xerxes’ Persian force in the narrows of Salamis (one reckoning)
• 63 B.C. — birth of Octavius, the future emperor Augustus
• 25 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Neptune (and associated rites thereafter)
• 23 B.C. — restoration of the temple of Apollo in the Campus Martius (and associated rites thereafter)
• 117 A.D. — martyrdom of Thecla

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86 Ancient Greek Artifacts Return Home from Abroad in Voluntary Handover –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/22/greek-artifacts-handover

Extensive and Sophisticated Water Channeling System Discovered in the Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily

Extensive and Sophisticated Water Channeling System Discovered in the Ancient Greek City of Segesta in Sicily

Statuette of a Comic Actor: A 2,000-year-old depiction of a ‘farting’ Roman actor letting one rip | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/statuette-of-a-comic-actor-a-2-000-year-old-depiction-of-a-roman-actor-letting-one-rip

News – Ancient Greek texts still shape modern thought,…
https://www.sun.ac.za/english/Lists/news/DispForm.aspx?ID=11568

Rare human statue sheds light on Neolithic rituals
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/rare-human-statue-sheds-light-on-neolithic-rituals-213839

Roman Circus in Colchester to have 203 homes built nearby
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge25773p42o

Ancient Roman recipes discovered in archaeological site being recreated in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/lifestyle/ancient-roman-recipes-discovered-in-archaeological-site-being-recreated-in-turkiye-3207259

This ancient Roman palace became a living city where 3,000 locals now call Emperor Diocletian’s retirement home their neighborhood

This ancient Roman palace became a living city where 3,000 locals now call Emperor Diocletian’s retirement home their neighborhood

1,600-year-old coin hoard found in complex tunnel system under Galilee dates to last Jewish rebellion against Romans | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-600-year-old-coin-hoard-found-in-complex-tunnel-system-under-galilee-dates-to-last-jewish-rebellion-against-romans

Roman villa with swimming pool marked out in Hemel Hempstead – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3w54n0n975o.amp

Classicist Mary Beard on her new Instant Classics podcast | Great British Life
https://www.greatbritishlife.co.uk/magazines/national/25446063.classicist-mary-beard-new-instant-classics-podcast/

Demons, or Disease? A Brief History of Depression in the Ancient World – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-09/ty-article/a-brief-history-of-depression-in-the-ancient-world/00000199-2d9b-df0a-a3bd-7fffe3950000

What Ancient Rome and Greece can teach us about comedians and free speech
https://www.vpm.org/npr-news/npr-news/2025-09-21/what-ancient-rome-and-greece-can-teach-us-about-comedians-and-free-speech

Greek President Calls Parthenon Marbles’ Return “The Most Reasonable Cultural Demand of Our Time” –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/22/greek-president-calls-parthenon-marbles-return-the-most-reasonable-cultural-demand-of-our-time

An interdisciplinary study of an unknown Roman matron’s sculpture portrait from Chersonesos Taurica | npj Heritage Science
https://www.nature.com/articles/s40494-025-01975-6

(22) THE BURIED LIBRARY What If I Told You We’re Letting Alexandria Burn Again? A message from 2,000 years ago, waiting to be heard
https://latinum.substack.com/p/the-buried-library-what-if-i-told?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174253743&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(22) ΦΙΛΟΔΗΜΟΣ: ΠΕΡΙ ΤΩΝ ΑΙΣΘΗΣΕΩΝ ΗΔΟΝΩΝ Philodemus: On Sensory Pleasures A Reconstruction from the Herculaneum Fragments
https://latinum.substack.com/p/philodemus-on-sensory-pleasures-a?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174242171&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(22) The power of spreading one’s legs – cosi’s odyssey
https://cosisodyssey.substack.com/p/the-power-of-spreading-ones-legs?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=991656&post_id=170801407&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

INC 2022 Warsaw – Now Published – Liv Mariah Yarrow

INC 2022 Warsaw – Now Published

‘Cleopatra’s Final Secret’ documentary reveals hundreds of coins and port found in Egypt. But does that mean Cleopatra was buried there? | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/cleopatras-final-secret-documentary-reveals-hundreds-of-coins-and-port-found-in-egypt-but-does-that-mean-cleopatra-was-buried-there

Pharaoh’s bracelet melted after museum theft sparks outrage in Egypt | Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/pharaohs-bracelet-melted-after-museum-theft-sparks-outrage-in-egypt/news

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Public Domain Loeb Volumes
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/public-domain-loeb-volumes.html

SPATIUM AERIUM VIOLATUM
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2444

Why Did Paul Visit Miletus in Acts 20:13-38? – Reading Acts

Why Did Paul Visit Miletus in Acts 20:13-38?

PaleoJudaica.com: Rosh HaShanah 2025
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/rosh-hashanah-2025.html

PaleoJudaica.com: On making prophetic scripture relevant in antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/on-making-prophetic-scripture-relevant.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Dura-Europos Synagogue paintings are safe
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-dura-europos-synagogue-paintings.html

[AI?]PaleoJudaica.com: Erdogan says no deal on Siloam Inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/erdogan-says-no-deal-on-siloam.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aulus Gellius und die ›Noctes Atticae‹: Die literarische Konstruktion einer Sammlung
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/aulus-gellius-und-die-noctes-atticae.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Arete in Plato and Aristotle: Selected Essays from the 6th Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Hellenic Heritage of Sicily and Southern Italy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/arete-in-plato-and-aristotle-selected.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Yearning for Immortality: The European Invention of the Ancient Egyptian Afterlife
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/yearning-for-immortality-european.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: A Landscape of Plenty: Excavations on a Roman Estate, Cambridgeshire
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-landscape-of-plenty-excavations-on.html

The Greek words in Persius’ literary programme – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The Greek words in Persius’ literary programme

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Flattery in Seneca the Younger: theory and practice

La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La cité et le nombre. Clisthène d’Athènes, l’arithmétique et l’avènement de la démocratie

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Why everyone wants a piece of ancient Egypt
https://plus.flux.community/p/why-everyone-wants-a-piece-of-ancient?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=1714795&post_id=173999824&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

Does a Tiny Find Sort of Illuminate a Biblical Figure and Judean Bureacracy? or, Yedayahu, We Hardly Knew You | This Week in the Ancient Near East
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/e/does-a-tiny-find-sort-of-illuminate-a-biblical-figure-and-judean-bureacracy-or-yedayahu-we-hardly-knew-you/

Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #6 – Bitumen, Blood, and Bias

Free Speech – An Ancient Histo…–Instant Classics – Apple Podcasts

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(22) The Seleucid Empire | Part 2 | Animated Documentary – YouTube

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Vergilian Society: Call for Tour Directors – CANE
https://caneweb.org/vergilian-society-call-for-tour-directors/

• Mercatus — the Romans continue the shopping spree
• 479 B.C. — the Persian general Mardonius is killed in the Battle of Plataea (source? … seems a little late)
• 36 B.C. — the triumvir Marcus Aemilius Lepidus agrees to retire after losing all his military support to Octavian
• 19 B.C. — another (less likely) date for the death of Virgil
• 130 (129?) A.D.– birth of Galen (still not sure of the ultimate source for this date)
• 259 A.D. — martyrdom of Digna and Emerita at Rome
• 287 A.D. — martyrdom of Maurice and companions
• 1999 — death of Chester Starr