This Day in Ancient History: ante diem ix kalendas octobres

September 20, 2025September 19, 2025 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 19, 2025

September 19, 2025 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Archaeology: 8 7,000-year-old burials, a Bronze Age necropolis, and Gallo-Roman remains discovered in Seine-et-Marne | Historia
https://www.historia.fr/archeologie/civilisations-anciennes/archeologie-8-sepultures-vieilles-de-7000-ans-une-necropole-de-lage-du-bronze-et-des-vestiges-gallo-romains-decouverts-en-seine-et-marne-2187313

Ancient Egyptian Port From Cleopatra’s Era Discovered Und… – Newsweek
https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-underwater-port-ancient-egypt-cleopatra-era-2132447

Is Cleopatra’s tomb UNDERWATER? Scientists discover sunken port near the ruins of Taposiris Magna that could lead to her lost grave | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15114013/The-sunken-port-lead-Cleopatras-lost-tomb.html

The Four Humours: How Ancient Greece Shaped Our Obsession with Personality –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/19/the-four-humours-how-ancient-greece-shaped-our-obsession-with-personality/

New Research Reveals How Ancient Greeks Picked Their Names – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/18/ancient-greeks-picked-names/

Extraordinary’ military treasure tied to Roman battle found
https://nypost.com/2025/09/18/science/extraordinary-military-treasure-tied-to-roman-battle-found/

Rare 1,600-year-old coin hoard uncovered in Galilee caves | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-867877

Rare proof of Galilee’s forgotten 4th-century Jewish Revolt revealed in hidden coin hoard | The Times of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/rare-proof-of-galilees-forgotten-4th-century-jewish-revolt-revealed-in-hidden-coin-hoard

Egypt says 3,000-year-old bracelet was stolen and melted down – BBC News
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1kw8dwy4dro.amp

Scoperto un mausoleo di epoca romana a Quarto Flegreo – Il Giornale dell’Arte
https://ilgiornaledellarte.com/Articolo/Scoperto-un-mausoleo-di-epoca-romana-a-Quarto-Flegreo

Etruscan chamber tombs made accessible in digital portal
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-etruscan-chamber-tombs-accessible-digital.html

The Horrific Tale Of Julia—An Emperor’s Daughter Who Died From Imprisonment And Neglect – The Historian’s Hut

The Horrific Tale Of Julia—An Emperor’s Daughter Who Died From Imprisonment And Neglect

Euripides – The Historian’s Hut

Euripides

Why Does Paul Return to Jerusalem in Acts 20:1-6? – Reading Acts

Why Does Paul Return to Jerusalem in Acts 20:1-6?

Laudator Temporis Acti: Art
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/art.html

Laudator Temporis Acti: Loveliest of the Gods
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/loveliest-of-gods.html

Paul Raises Eutychus at Troas – Acts 20:7-12 – Reading Acts

Paul Raises Eutychus at Troas – Acts 20:7-12

(21) The Cicero Moment: When Nexal Revealed Its Computational Nature
https://latinum.substack.com/p/the-cicero-moment-when-nexal-revealed?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=174011381&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(21) The Measurement Problem: A Nexal Resolution Through Recursive Pattern Recognition
https://latinum.substack.com/p/the-measurement-problem-a-nexal-resolution-b4d?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3282716&post_id=173974079&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Roman arithmetic for all | Classics at Reading

Roman arithmetic for all

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction | Open Culture

How to Write in Cuneiform, the Oldest Writing System in the World: A Short Introduction

Phineas and Ferb: “Greece Lightning” (2008) – Animated Antiquity

Phineas and Ferb: “Greece Lightning” (2008)

Glanum: kleinood in de Alpilles – Mainzer Beobachter

Glanum: kleinood in de Alpilles

PaleoJudaica.com: Kalimi on the interpretation history of Esther
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/kalimi-on-interpretation-history-of.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Starts today: The Carthaginians and Romans Festival of Cartagena
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/starts-today-carthaginians-and-romans.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Continued contention over the Siloam Tunnel Inscription
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/continued-contention-over-siloam-tunnel.html

Sidgwick and the Grotes on Plato’s Republic: A Dialogue | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/sidgwick-and-the-grotes-on-platos-republic-a-dialogue/68F38EF707D83442EAAB2EE2D164422A?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Just Prospering? Plato and the Sophistic Debate about Justice
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/just-prospering-plato-and-sophistic.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The King and the Land: A Geography of Royal Power in the Biblical World
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-king-and-land-geography-of-royal.html

Merito coronati. Atleti e diritto Romano I – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Merito coronati. Atleti e diritto Romano I

Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Leading Rome from a distance: asserting autocracy through absence, 300 BCE-37 CE

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NT Pod: NT Pod 112: What is Redaction Criticism?
https://podacre.blogspot.com/2025/09/nt-pod-112-what-is-redaction-criticism.html

Emperors of Rome – Podcast – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA375 – What was the relationship between Korybantic/Kouretic dances and ancient warfare?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa375-what-was-the-relationship-between-korybantickouretic-dances-and-ancient-warfare
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(27) Aegean Weapons How They Shaped Apulian Warfare #ancienthistoryguy #ApulianWarfare #ancientwarriors – YouTube

(27) Spatha Roman Infantry vs Cavalry Weaponry #ancienthistoryguy #ancienthistory – YouTube

(27) How to dress like a ROMAN woman in ancient Britain – YouTube

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FOA Webinar: Tasha Vorderstrasse – Visions of Antiquity: Paintings of Robert Duncanson and Sculptures of Edmonia Lewis

FOA Webinar: Tasha Vorderstrasse

FIEC Blog: International hybrid conference: “Lessons from the Past: United Nations Sustainable Development Goals”, 23–24 March 2026.
https://fiecnet.blogspot.com/2025/09/international-hybrid-conference-lessons.html

Chryseis, Philoctetes, and the Making of the Homeric Iliad | Department of Classics
https://classics.wustl.edu/events/chryseis-philoctetes-and-making-homeric-iliad

Telling Bodies: A Conference on Corporeal Classical Reception – 2025 Leventis Conference | CRSN

Telling Bodies: A Conference on Corporeal Classical Reception – 2025 Leventis Conference

This Day in Ancient History: ante diem xiii kalendas octobres

September 19, 2025September 18, 2025 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

ludi Romani (day 15)
86 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Antoninus Pius
208 A.D. — birth of the future emperor Diadumenianus
304 A.D. — martyrdom of Januarius

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 18, 2025

September 18, 2025 ~ David Meadows ~ rogueclassicist ~ Leave a comment

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Lecce, early medieval defensive structures discovered next to Roman amphitheater
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/lecce-early-medieval-defensive-structures-discovered-next-to-roman-amphitheater

Archaeologists Discover Hidden Roman Hoard in Romania’s Oldest City – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-discover-hidden-roman-hoard-in-romanias-oldest-city/

Egypt says missing pharaoh’s bracelet melted down for gold | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/egypt-says-missing-pharaohs-bracelet-melted-down-gold-2025-09-18/

Etruscan chamber tombs made accessible in digital portal | EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1098874

Egypt unveils evidence of ancient submerged port near Alexandria temple-Xinhua
https://english.news.cn/africa/20250918/10b6026d65d142089b4ea31160087315/c.html

Rare hoard of coins from last Jewish rebellion of Roman rule discovered in Galilee
https://www.ynetnews.com/environment/article/s1112nmksgx

Bronze age building and artefacts uncovered at Erimi | Cyprus Mail
https://cyprus-mail.com/2025/09/18/bronze-age-building-and-artefacts-uncovered-in-erimi-excavations

Dr. Çiğdem Maner decodes Hittite bird-omen tablets | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-867885

Metamorphoses exhibition reimagines classical myths at AGH – FlamboroughToday.com
https://tpc.googlesyndication.com/simgad/11853655139462804859?

Who Found Out the World Is Round? | Discover Magazine
https://www.discovermagazine.com/aristotle-discovered-the-world-is-round-one-of-the-first-important-scientific-theories-48040

Stratonikeia – a walk through a time tunnel of ancient civilisations | Turkish Archaeological News
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/stratonikeia-walk-through-time-tunnel-ancient-civilisations

Glozel, the Strange French Archaeological Site That Some Consider a Revolutionary Discovery and Others a Fraud

Glozel, the Strange French Archaeological Site That Some Consider a Revolutionary Discovery and Others a Fraud

Socrates and Thermippos — lost Platonic dialogue – Stephen Hicks, Ph.D.

Socrates and Thermippos — lost Platonic dialogue

(21) The Devil’s Chair, or the tomb of (perhaps) Hadrian’s freedman
https://understandingrome.substack.com/p/the-devils-chair-or-the-tomb-of-perhaps?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=508757&post_id=173826968&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=false&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Going back home to the Romans | Blog post | Mary Beard

Going back home to the Romans

PaleoJudaica.com: Late antique coins discovered at Huqoq
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/late-antique-coins-discovered-at-huqoq.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Biblical archaeology expanded
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/biblical-archaeology-expanded.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aristotle on the Essence of Human Thought
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/aristotle-on-essence-of-human-thought.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman villas: New perspectives on villa development in Northwestern Europe
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/roman-villas-new-perspectives-on-villa.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: One Off Journal Issues: Discursive Constructions of Corruption in Ancient Rome
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/one-off-journal-issues-discursive.html

Discursive constructions of corruption in ancient Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Discursive constructions of corruption in ancient Rome

Themistius and Aristotle: teaching philosophy from late antiquity to the Middle Ages – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Themistius and Aristotle: teaching philosophy from late antiquity to the Middle Ages

Hospitality and the Regulation of Otherness in Mediterranean Antiquity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne

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BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Tutankhamun (Archive Episode)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0lstc7f

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(24) Beer in Ancient Mesopotamia with Tate Paulette – YouTube