• ludi Romani (day 9)
• epulum in honour of Minerva and others (connected to the ludi Romani)
• ritual of the ‘driving of a nail’ by the Pontifex Maximus/Rex Sacrorum into the Temple of Jupiter (likely connected to the above and below entries)
• 509 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus (and associated rites thereafter; also incorporated into the ludi Romani, it seems)
• 490 B.C. — yet another reckoning for the Battle of Marathon
• 16 A.D. — revelation of the conspiracy of Lucius Scribonius Libo, leading to the first of the maiestas trials which characterized the emperor Tiberius’ principate
• 81 A.D. — death of the emperor Titus; his brother Domitian is acclaimed as emperor
• 122 A.D. — construction of Hadrian’s Wall begins? (I’m still wondering about the source for this claim)

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Archaeologists scramble to evacuate Gaza artefacts threatened by Israeli strike | Gaza | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/sep/11/antiquities-evacuated-from-gaza-city-storehouse-ahead-of-israeli-strike

Archaeological excavations at Izmir’s Old Smyrna suspended, inventories confiscated – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/archaeological-excavations-at-izmirs-old-smyrna-suspended-inventories-confiscated-3206740

Roman oil lamp decorated with a mask discovered in the Netherlands, a unicum in the country
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/roman-oil-lamp-decorated-with-a-mask-discovered-in-the-netherlands-a-unicum-in-the-country

New necropolis discovered in Cappadocia reveals 1500 year old graves, artifacts – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/new-necropolis-discovered-in-cappadocia-reveals-1500-year-old-graves-artifacts-3206770

Roman coffin in The Novium Museum to undergo restoration | The Argus
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/25456055.roman-coffin-novium-museum-undergo-restoration/

Earthquake victims unearthed in Bulgaria’s Roman city of Heraclea Sintica – Türkiye Today
https://www.turkiyetoday.com/culture/earthquake-victims-unearthed-in-bulgarias-roman-city-of-heraclea-sintica-3206764

A New Complete Version of Canopus Decree of king Ptolemy III unearthed in Sharqiya – Greco-Roman – Antiquities – Ahram Online
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/41/552903/Antiquities/GrecoRoman/A-New-Complete-Version-of-Canopus-Decree-of-king-P.aspx

Metals reveal trade in Bronze Age more connected than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-metals-reveal-bronze-age-previously.html

Roman soldiers were united, but it wasn’t because of their uniforms – Earth.com
https://www.earth.com/news/roman-soldiers-were-mostly-united-but-it-wasnt-because-of-their-uniforms/

Exceptional Imperial-Era Mosaics Found in a Roman Necropolis on the Via Appia

Exceptional Imperial-Era Mosaics Found in a Roman Necropolis on the Via Appia

New discoveries at Split’s iconic Golden Gate expected as archaeological investigations start | Croatia Week

New discoveries at Split’s iconic Golden Gate expected as archaeological investigations start

490 BC: The Greeks Triumph at Marathon and the Legend of Pheidippides –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/12/490-bc-the-greeks-triumph-at-marathon-and-the-legend-of-pheidippides-2/

[old news]The Griffin Warrior: New Reconstruction Reveals Face of Greek Bronze Age Hero – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/11/griffin-warrior-reconstruction-face-greek-bronze-age-hero/

A sarcophagus for three. The tragic story of a late antique senatorial family revealed by two grave inscriptions from Salona – MAPPOLA

A sarcophagus for three. The tragic story of a late antique senatorial family revealed by two grave inscriptions from Salona

Blog #109: Graduate Student Feature with Lylaah L. Bhalerao: On Serendipity and Sanskrit in the Study of the Mediterranean World – Peopling the Past

Blog #109: Graduate Student Feature with Lylaah L. Bhalerao: On Serendipity and Sanskrit in the Study of the Mediterranean World

A Pome | Sphinx

A Pome

Laudator Temporis Acti: Crime Pays
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/crime-pays.html

Ancient Rome in an hour | Blog post | Mary Beard

Ancient Rome in an hour

(19) September 58 BCE: From Cicero (in Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/september-58-bce-from-cicero-in-thessalonica?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=173376313&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

The History Girls: Latin, Greek and the ‘Ready Brek glow’ by Caroline K. Mackenzie
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2025/09/latin-greek-and-ready-brek-glow-by.html

Fabulous Fantasy Piece (with Object History!) – Liv Mariah Yarrow

Fabulous Fantasy Piece (with Object History!)

De “Herkulanerinnen” – Mainzer Beobachter

De “Herkulanerinnen”

PaleoJudaica.com: Gaza antiquities reportedly evacuated
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/gaza-antiquities-reportedly-evacuated.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The “Christ(?) the magician(?)” cup is back
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-christ-magician-cup-is-back.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The culinary archaeology of the ANE
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-culinary-archaeology-of-ane.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Das Römergrenzkastell von Moigrad – Pomet. Porolissum 1 / Castrul roman de pe vârful dealului Pomet – Moigrad. Porolissum 1
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/das-romergrenzkastell-von-moigrad-pomet.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Gladius: estudios sobre armas antiguas, armamento, arte militar y vida cultural en Oriente y Occidente
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/06/now-fully-open-access-gladius.html

EXPLORING POTTERY PRODUCTION AT PROTOPALATIAL TO POSTPALATIAL PALAIKASTRO (EAST CRETE) THROUGH INTEGRATED PETROGRAPHIC AND ELEMENTAL ANALYSIS | Annual of the British School at Athens | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/annual-of-the-british-school-at-athens/article/exploring-pottery-production-at-protopalatial-to-postpalatial-palaikastro-east-crete-through-integrated-petrographic-and-elemental-analysis/B96CAE06025F54B766EECD50B133AC12?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

DESCRIBING THE INDESCRIBABLE: CALLIMACHUS, IAMBUS 6 AND PHIDIAS’ STATUE OF ZEUS | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/describing-the-indescribable-callimachus-iambus-6-and-phidias-statue-of-zeus/87C757ABAEFE863AF562407F6080E4C5?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Cassius Dio Revived | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/cassius-dio-revived/ABDFBE250261A31B9F51EDEFB22BB6C8?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Hoc Saxsum: History as Conversation inside the Tomb of the Scipios | The Journal of Roman Studies | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-roman-studies/article/hoc-saxsum-history-as-conversation-inside-the-tomb-of-the-scipios/73E09B6B0EC3CF8F9326CC10A9F48083?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

Horoscopes and horror – the reign of Septimius Severus | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/horoscopes-and-horror-the-reign-of-septimius-severus/

Greeks and Barbarians Networking on the Shores of the Black Sea and Beyond | Spartokos a lu

Greeks and Barbarians Networking on the Shores of the Black Sea and Beyond

La questure. Histoire d’une magistrature de la République romaine (264–27 av. J.-C.) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

La questure. Histoire d’une magistrature de la République romaine (264–27 av. J.-C.)

Cinismo e Cristianesimo delle origini – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cinismo e Cristianesimo delle origini

Reading Greek tragedy with Judith Butler – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Reading Greek tragedy with Judith Butler

Classics and Race

Classics and Race

Review: A new twist on a classic text – America Magazine

Review: A new twist on a classic text

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96: Melos, Might & Right – Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

NT Pod: NT Pod 111: Did John Know the Synoptic Gospels?
https://podacre.blogspot.com/2025/09/nt-pod-111-did-john-know-synoptic.html

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW374 – Which Battle Would You Witness?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/aw374-which-battle-would-you-witness

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(42) The Slave School Beneath Rome’s Palatine Hill – YouTube

(43) Antiochus IV Epiphanes | Seleucid Empire | Animated Documentary – YouTube

(43) CULTURE. POMPEII: A “WAITING BENCH” DISCOVERED IN FRONT OF THE VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES – YouTube

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Cosmopolities in Antiquity and Modernity

Cosmopolities in Antiquity and Modernity

• ludi Romani (day 8)
• 490 B.C. — battle of Marathon (another suggested date)

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(PDF) The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose: Radiocarbon dating of Egyptian 17 to early 18 Dynasty museum objects
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395400119_The_Minoan_Thera_eruption_predates_Pharaoh_Ahmose_Radiocarbon_dating_of_Egyptian_17_to_early_18_Dynasty_museum_objects

A Bronze Ram of a Roman Warship to Scale Found in Ancient Iuvavum

A Bronze Ram of a Roman Warship to Scale Found in Ancient Iuvavum

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/

Metals reveal trade in Bronze Age more connected than previously thought
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-metals-reveal-bronze-age-previously.html

Origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines

Origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines

2,400-Year-Old Greek-Era Tomb Discovered in Manduria, Southern Italy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/11/greek-tomb-manduria-southern-italy/

Pompeii, waiting bench discovered in front of the famous Villa of Mysteries
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-waiting-bench-discovered-in-front-of-the-famous-villa-of-mysteries

Britain’s economy boomed after the Romans, Aldborough study reveals | University of Cambridge
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/britains-economy-boomed-after-the-romans-aldborough-study-reveals

Gaza Antiquities Rescued Ahead Of Israeli Strike – Barron’s
https://www.barrons.com/news/gaza-antiquities-rescued-ahead-of-israeli-strike-78e661be

Rare Hieroglyphic Canopus Decree of Pharaoh Ptolemy III Unearthed in Egypt – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/10/hieroglyphic-canopus-decree-pharaoh-ptolemy-egypt/

The Skull of an Ancient Brown Bear Tells a Story of Brutality and Abuse at the Hands of Roman Entertainers
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-skull-of-an-ancient-brown-bear-reveals-its-abuse-at-the-hands-of-roman-entertainers-180987310/

Divers Find a Well-Preserved Roman Helmet From the Naval Battle That Ended a Punic War
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/divers-find-a-well-preserved-roman-helmet-from-the-naval-battle-that-ended-a-punic-war-180987318/

(18) Column of text from PHerc. 172 (Scroll 5)
https://scrollprize.substack.com/p/column-of-text-from-pherc-172-scroll?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1454609&post_id=172491768&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Latin Mass returns to St. Peter’s Basilica: here’s what we know – ZENIT – English

Latin Mass returns to St. Peter’s Basilica: here’s what we know

Mycenological conference bingo | Aegean prehistory

Mycenological conference bingo

[FWIW] Ancient Greek Inventions We Weren’t Meant to Find – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/11/ancient-greek-inventions-find/

Were the Amazons just a “male fantasy”? Here’s the truth behind the ancient world’s warrior women | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-greece/amazons-myth-or-real-warrior-women-ancient-world/

Rome’s Ancient Sculptures Arrive at The Kimbell First Time – Fort Worth Magazine
https://fwtx.com/culture/romes-ancient-sculptures-arrive-at-the-kimbell/

Review: The British Museum’s ‘Gladiators of Britain’ | Observer

This Traveling Exhibition in the U.K. Recasts Gladiators as More Than Sacrificial Lambs

MSU library awarded $10,000 grant, preserving Greek collection | Morehead State University | Kentucky
https://www.moreheadstate.edu/news/2025/09/msu-library-10k-grant

New book celebrates 60 years of Classical Civilisation in English schools – Durham University
https://www.durham.ac.uk/news-events/latest-news/2025/09/new-book-celebrates-60-years-of-classical-civilisation-in-english-schools/

PaleoJudaica.com: Greenspoon obituary
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/greenspoon-obituary.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient Yahwistic echoes of Achaemenid Zoroastrianism
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/ancient-yahwistic-echoes-of-achaemenid.html

PaleoJudaica.com: de Hemmer Gudme on Portier-Young, The Prophetic Body
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/de-hemmer-gudme-on-portier-young.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Shepherd, How Did They Read the Prophets? (Eerdmans)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/shepherd-how-did-they-read-prophets.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: Corpus Masoreticum Working Papers
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2022/06/new-open-access-journal-corpus.html

No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes review – a thrilling take on the Golden Fleece myth | Fiction | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/11/no-friend-to-this-house-by-natalie-haynes-review-a-thrilling-take-on-the-golden-fleece-myth

In search of the Dioskouroi: image, myth and cult. A ‘periegesis’ – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

In search of the Dioskouroi: image, myth and cult. A ‘periegesis’

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Classics, love, revolution: the legacies of Luigi Settembrini

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

L’Eredità di Giustiniano. L’ultima guerra dell’Italia romana

Pasts Imperfect (9.11.25)
https://pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperfect-9-11-25/?ref=pasts-imperfect-newsletter
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Warfare in Ancient Greece – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast

Fall of the Sumerians – The Ancients | Acast

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(19) CULTURE. POMPEII: A “WAITING BENCH” DISCOVERED IN FRONT OF THE VILLA OF THE MYSTERIES – YouTube

Last Roman Gladiator Arena Unearthed In Switzerland – video Dailymotion

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Love Letters and Erotic Letters: Antiquity and Beyond | School of Languages, Cultures and Societies | University of Leeds
https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/languages-research-innovation/dir-record/research-projects/983/love-letters-and-erotic-letters-antiquity-and-beyond

• ludi Romani (day 7)