• 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 (?)

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Türkiye secures return of 83 Roman coins from US – Türkiye News
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkiye-secures-return-of-83-roman-coins-from-us-214104

The discovery of a 2,800-year-old royal tomb linked to the Midas Dynasty | Penn Today
https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/discovery-2800-year-old-royal-tomb-linked-midas-dynasty

Breaking ground without digging: In first, archaeologists ‘X-ray’ Jerusalem’s hidden layers | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-ground-without-digging-in-first-archaeologists-x-ray-jerusalems-underground/

Research of the ancient Shipwreck in Sukošan, Croatia
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2025/09/29/research-of-the-ancient-shipwreck-in-sukosan-croatia/

How Two Cities of the Ancient Kingdom of Mukish Survived the Bronze Age Collapse

How Two Cities of the Ancient Kingdom of Mukish Survived the Bronze Age Collapse

Roman mosaic in Tivoli

Roman mosaic in Tivoli

The Parthenon Marbles return to debate | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1281968/the-parthenon-marbles-return-to-debate/

Construction Crew Finds Bodies of 150 Ancient Roman Soldiers
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/archaeology/a68113623/vienna-roman-mass-grave-found/

Roman Harbor Structures in the Maas: Underwater Excavation Yields Rare Finds – Live Streamed – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/roman-harbor-structures-in-the-maas-underwater-excavation-yields-rare-finds-live-streamed/

[AI?]How Champollion cracked hieroglyphs 203 years ago | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868813

[AI?]Three Roman-Era Mansions Found on Tralleis’ Ancient Street | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-868954

Greek Alphabet’s Phoenician Origins Questioned After 2,500 Years – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/29/greek-phoenician-alphabet-origins-questioned/

Hit and myth: Bacchae brings into view the National’s history of revamping Greek tragedies | Theatre | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/sep/29/myth-bacchae-national-history-greek-tragedies-indhu-rubasingham

Micro-XRF analysis of Early Bronze Age gold artefacts from Dhaskalio, Keros – ScienceDirect
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X25004250

Laudator Temporis Acti: How Copronymus Got His Name
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/how-copronymus-got-his-name.html

…I’m sorry, you want me for your book club? | Classically Inclined

…I’m sorry, you want me for your book club?

Weekly Varia no. 149, 09/28/25 – Noodlings

Weekly Varia no. 149, 09/28/25

Recycled Rome – CANE

Recycled Rome

PaleoJudaica.com: Wiggins, A Reassessment of Asherah (rev ed., Gorgias)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/wiggins-reassessment-of-asherah-rev-ed.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Syriac lifelong learning.
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/syriac-lifelong-learning.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Video: Ezekiel Papyrus Conference
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/video-ezekiel-papyrus-conference.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archaeology of Daily Life: A Late Antique House at Kom al-Ahmer, Northwestern Nile Delta
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-archaeology-of-daily-life-late.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Materia Magica Aegyptiae: The ancient Egyptian offering table as funerary landscape, ritual utensil, and unifier of elements
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/materia-magica-aegyptiae-ancient.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Urban fluctuations in the north-central region of the Nile Delta: 4000 years of river and urban development in Egypt
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/urban-fluctuations-in-north-central.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Serving the Living and the Dead: Ceramic Production in Copper Age Campania, Southern Italy
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/serving-living-and-dead-ceramic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: ‘Casina’ by Plautus: An Annotated Latin Text, with a Prose Translation
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/casina-by-plautus-annotated-latin-text.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: As-Sabbiya 2007–2010. Kuwaiti–Polish Archaeological Investigations in Northern Kuwait, Kuwait
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/as-sabbiya-20072010-kuwaitipolish.html

Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Medea’s long shadow in postcolonial contexts

Textiles in motion: dress for dance in the ancient world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Textiles in motion: dress for dance in the ancient world

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(4) Walter Scheidel | What is Ancient History? | The Paideia Institute – YouTube

(5) Battle Of Platea |The Ancient Secret to Spartan Victory at Plataea EXPOSED | – YouTube

(5) The White Island, Chapter 1 Read Aloud, Forbidden Love in Greek Mythology – YouTube

(5) Digging for ancient levels of Via Appia inside Rome! – YouTube

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Assistant Professor in Latin Literature: The University of Chicago
https://apply.interfolio.com/174721

Lecturer (Education) in Ancient History at Queen’s University Belfast
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOW139/lecturer-education-in-ancient-history

• 106 B.C. — birth of Gnaeus Pompeius
• 61 B.C. — Pompey celebrates his third triumph in recognition of his victories in the third Mithridatic War
• 48 B.C. — Pompeius Magnus, in the wake of his defeat at Pharsalus, is murdered as he steps ashore in Egypt (another possible date)
• 290 A.D. — martyrdom of Rhipsime, Gaiana, and companions

• 48 B.C. — Pompeius Magnus, in the wake of his defeat at Pharsalus, is murdered as he steps ashore in Egypt

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Extraordinary 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered in Croatia | Croatia Week

Extraordinary 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered in Croatia

Bronze Age necropolis discovered during park construction in Cyprus | in-cyprus.com
https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/local/bronze-age-necropolis-discovered-park-construction-cyprus/

Archaeologists unearth 4,500-year-old gold brooch, jade in Türkiye-Xinhua
https://english.news.cn/20250928/45ec5115dc644b578d8b2cd75ef054bf/c.html

Türkiye recovers 83 Roman-era coins smuggled abroad in cooperation with US – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/turkiye-recovers-83-roman-era-coins-smuggled-abroad-in-cooperation-with-us-3207669

Ore mining continued in post-Roman Aldborough – The Past

Ore mining continued in post-Roman Aldborough

A Toxic Love Affair: Drug Use in the Ancient World – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-28/ty-article-magazine/a-toxic-love-affair-drug-use-in-the-ancient-world/00000199-903a-ddb4-abdd-fbbe1f890000

Cato vs Caesar: The False Dilemma of Modern Democracy | The Swamp
https://vocal.media/theSwamp/cato-vs-caesar-the-false-dilemma-of-modern-democracy

Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey Already Has All the Makings of a Modern Classic
https://www.cbr.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-modern-classic-potential/

President meets national committees to advance return of Parthenon Sculptures | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1282129/president-meets-national-committees-to-advance-return-of-parthenon-sculptures/

The Parthenon Marbles return to debate | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1281968/the-parthenon-marbles-return-to-debate/

The Assassinations That Defined the Fate of Alexander the Great’s Empire – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/28/political-assassinations-ancient-greece/

(21) Drowning in a Morass of Sexual Immorality
https://allancienthistory.substack.com/p/drowning-in-a-morass-of-sexual-immorality?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1000549&post_id=174531713&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

5 Things You Didn’t Know About Aristotle | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/things-to-know-about-aristotle/

What Are the Nicomachean Ethics? Aristotle’s Magnum Opus | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/what-are-nicomachean-ethics/

The Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David (Analysis & Facts) | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/oath-horatii-jacques-louis-david/

Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding | Tenth Amendment Center

Vergil: Poet Laureate of the American Founding

(21) P.Oxy. IV 744: Hilarion’s Letter – “If It’s a Girl, Throw It Out” The Most Chilling Sentence in Papyrology
https://latinum.substack.com/p/poxy-iv-744-hilarions-letter-if-its?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174773344&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) P.Oxy. 840: The Unknown Gospel of Purification A Single Vellum Leaf That Reshapes Early Christianity
https://latinum.substack.com/p/poxy-840-the-unknown-gospel-of-purification?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174773115&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Classics with added Yorkshire class: tributes to Tony Harrison | Tony Harrison | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/28/classics-with-added-yorkshire-class-tributes-to-tony-harrison

Bacchae at the National Theatre – review round-up
https://www.thestage.co.uk/review-round-ups/bacchae-at-the-national-theatre-review-round-up

Jezus in de Tempel – Mainzer Beobachter

Jezus in de Tempel

Laudator Temporis Acti: A Comparison
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/a-comparison.html

Course Design Notes: Rethinking Greek History – Noodlings

Course Design Notes: Rethinking Greek History

What is KATABASIS? | Greek Myth Comix
https://greekmythcomix.com/comic/what-is-katabasis/

OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Textual Criticism is Cool
https://oldtestamenttextualcriticism.blogspot.com/2025/09/textual-criticism-is-cool.html

A voyage around Virgil’s world – Engelsberg ideas

A voyage around Virgil’s world

PaleoJudaica.com: Sabato, The Sages of Yavneh (Magnes, in Hebrew)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/sabato-sages-of-yavneh-magnes-in-hebrew.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Chi-Kin Lei, 1 Peter and Christ’s Descent to the Dead in Its Early Christian Reception (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/chi-kin-lei-1-peter-and-christs-descent.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Seventy Years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/seventy-years-of-polish-archaeology-in_27.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Seventy Years of Polish Archaeology in Egypt – exhibition catalogue, Egyptian Museum in Cairo (21 October–21 November 2007)
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/seventy-years-of-polish-archaeology-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Nea Paphos. 50 Years of Polish Excavations 1965–2015
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/nea-paphos-50-years-of-polish.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sinope dans son environnement pontique
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/sinope-dans-son-environnement-pontique.html

Sinope in its Pontic environment | Spartokos read

Sinope dans son environnement pontique

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Anima Latina 28.09.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/09/anima-latina-28-09-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 27.09.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/09/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-27-09-2025.html

The First Pharaohs – The Ancients | Acast

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(20) Early Israelite Warfare The Judges Era Explained #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(20) Linkin Park – In The End cover in Classical Latin (Bardcore/Medieval Style Cover) – YouTube

(20) Antiochus IV Rethinking Ancient History’s Hostile Views #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(20) Mary Beard Explores The Insane Diversity Of The Roman Empire – YouTube

(20) Exploring the Lost Women of Greek Mythology – YouTube

(21) De herbis quae sponte sua nascuntur | Spoken Latin podcast (63) – YouTube

(21) Dead Sea Scrolls and Qumran: What We Know – YouTube

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“Field Season at Pella”: U-M Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Flash Talk – Ann Arbor Observer

“Field Season at Pella”: U-M Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Flash Talk

Call for Papers | AI & Antiquity
https://ai-antiquity.org/index.php/ai/

Assistant Professor in Latin Literature job with The University of Chicago | 37891375
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37891375/assistant-professor-in-latin-literature/