• Traditional end of the Roman year (followed by a period of intercalation)
• Terminalia — a festival in honour of Terminus, the divinity who presided over boundaries. In Rome itself, Terminus had a shrine within the Temple of Jupiter beneath an opening in the roof because, it is said, when they were building the Temple of Jupiter, Terminus refused to move. What happened in the city is unclear, but the rustic version of the festival involved the following: at boundary stones, farmer families would gather and build a turf altar; a fire would be built and one of the younger members of the family would throw grain in the fire three times. Others offered other things like honeycombs and wine, then a sheep or pig would be sacrificed and a feast would follow.
• 155 A.D. — martyrdom of Polycarp at Smyrna
• 303 A.D. — “Great Persecution” of Diocletian begins in Nicomedia
• 303 A.D. — martyrdom of Serenus the Gardener at Sirmium

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Earliest evidence of indigo-dyed textiles and single-needle knitting discovered in Bronze Age Anatolia
https://phys.org/news/2026-02-earliest-evidence-indigo-dyed-textiles.html

A mysterious Greek inscription reignites debate on whether a Syrian mosque stands atop Roman Emperor Elagabalus’ Temple of the Sun – Scimex
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/a-mysterious-greek-inscription-reignites-debate-on-whether-a-syrian-mosque-stands-atop-roman-emperor-elagabalus-temple-of-the-sun

The Time I Learned Greek Scholars Are Canonically Hotter Than Roman Scholars
https://www.jezebel.com/the-time-i-learned-greek-scholars-are-canonically-hotter-than-roman-scholars

U of C folding classics, religion department as school faces multimillion-dollar budget shortfall | CBC News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/university-of-calgary-budget-department-cuts-9.7098214

International Lego Classicism Day 2026
https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/warwickclassicsnetwork/lego/

Hungarian pizzeria serves up a topped flatbread inspired by ancient Roman ingredients | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/hungary-ancient-rome-pizza-896056031e34081a2fa76ae563438116

Addio a Lince, il gatto degli scavi di Pompei – DIRE.it
https://www.dire.it/21-02-2026/1216606-addio-a-lince-il-gatto-degli-scavi-di-pompei/

Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey:’ Cast, Release Date and More
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/christopher-nolan-the-odyssey-cast-release-date-1236260285/

The Dark History of Human Sacrifice in Minoan Crete | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/human-sacrifice-minoan-crete/

(18) Antigone: [This Play I Read in High School]
https://elizabethbobrick.substack.com/p/antigone-this-play-i-read-in-high

The Cincinnati Program at Nemea and the Origins of Affiliated Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens | From the Archivist’s Notebook

The Cincinnati Program at Nemea and the Origins of Affiliated Excavations at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The Ephraem Graecus problem: some thoughts

The Ephraem Graecus problem: some thoughts

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries! – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Ancient Mediterranean Mercenaries!

It Ain’t Me, Babe | Sphinx

It Ain’t Me, Babe

Laudator Temporis Acti: Damnatio Memoriae
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/02/damnatio-memoriae.html

De hoofddoek (2) het westen – Mainzer Beobachter

De hoofddoek (2) het westen

De hoofddoek (1) het oosten – Mainzer Beobachter

De hoofddoek (1) het oosten

PaleoJudaica.com: Die Septuaginta – Prophetische Worte, Textwelten und Versionen (Mohr Siebeck)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/die-septuaginta-prophetische-worte.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Joshowitz, Visual Exemplars (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/joshowitz-visual-exemplars-brill.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Volume 2 : Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/mummy-portraits-of-roman-egypt-volume-2.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Genos Dikanikon: Amateur and Professional Speech in the Courtrooms of Classical Athens
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/genos-dikanikon-amateur-and.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Ritual and Performativity: The Chorus in Old Comedy
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/ritual-and-performativity-chorus-in-old.html
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The House of Ramesses II: Egypt’s Greatest Pharaoh? – The Ancients | Acast

Anima Latina 22.02.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/02/anima-latina-22-02-2026.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 21.02.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/02/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-21-02-2026.html
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(141) The True Reason For The Bronze Age Collapse Explained – YouTube

(141) HH 0103–Of Narratives and Nature with Prof. Joel Christensen – YouTube

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explorator 28.08 ~ February 22, 2026 – Explorator

explorator 28.08 ~ February 22, 2026

Home | Hellenistic Families
https://hellenisticfamilie.wixsite.com/hellenistic-families

Closure of the Institute of Archaeology at Humboldt University Berlin | WeAct
https://weact.campact.de/petitions/schliessung-des-instituts-fur-archaologie-an-der-hu-berlin?source=rec-wa&utm_medium=recommendation&utm_source=rec-wa&share=aed5af72-e319-42ae-89e4-a9c9d018135f

• Parentalia probably comes to and end with the festival of Caristia, which was a sort of ‘kiss and make up’ festival. The idea was that people had made peace with their dead, so now it was right to bring to an end any quarrels they were having with living members of their family. There was usually a big family reunion type banquet and worship was given to the Lares.
• 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra
• c. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Aristion, place disputed
• 1756 — birth of Gilbert Wakefield (Classicist)

• Parentalia possibly comes to an end with the festival of Feralia, during which sheep were sacrificed to the dead; the additional rites mentioned by Ovid (Fasti 2.565 ff) apparently in connection with the Feralia probably have nothing to do specifically with the festival.
• 4 A.D. — death of hoped-for-successor-to-Augustus Gaius Caesar (either February 21 or 22) in Limyra

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German builders accidentally discover ancient Roman ruins while working on LVR-Jewish Museum | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-germany-lvr-jewish-museum-b2923638.html

In a ‘race against time,’ archaeologists uncovered Roman-era footprints from a Scottish beach before the tide washed them away | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/in-a-race-against-time-archaeologists-uncovered-roman-era-footprints-from-a-scottish-beach-before-the-tide-washed-them-away

Agesilaus II, the great warrior king of Sparta who fought in Egypt in the service of a pharaoh and could not prevent the decline of his city

Agesilaus II, the great warrior king of Sparta who fought in Egypt in the service of a pharaoh and could not prevent the decline of his city

Civilizational Hardware and Software – Nadya Williams

Civilizational Hardware and Software

A coffin holding a dead ‘princess’ fell from an eroded cliff over 100 years ago — archaeologists just solved a major mystery about her | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/a-coffin-holding-a-dead-princess-fell-from-an-eroded-cliff-over-100-years-ago-archaeologists-just-solved-a-major-mystery-about-her

Scientists analyzed bottle residue from ancient Rome. They found human feces : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/19/nx-s1-5712815/scientists-analyzed-bottle-residue-from-ancient-rome-they-found-human-feces

What Greek Myth Looked Like in Martha Graham’s Modernist World | CUNY Graduate Center
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/what-greek-myth-looked-martha-grahams-modernist-world

Second Temple Period Workshop Discovered Near Jerusalem – Biblical Archaeology Society

Second Temple Period Workshop Discovered Near Jerusalem

Who Was Pyrrhus and What is a Pyrrhic Victory?
https://www.worldatlas.com/ancient-world/who-was-pyrrhus-and-what-is-a-pyrrhic-victory-52075.html

Updating the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of articles in PDF

Updating the list of works of Ephraem Graecus, and a couple of articles in PDF

[AI?] Friday Varia and Quick Hits | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s LEGO Classicism Day! – Classical Studies Support

It’s LEGO Classicism Day!

Writing on Mount Hymettos… in Duplo! – The VIEWS project

Writing on Mount Hymettos… in Duplo!

[paywalled] How historically accurate is Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey?
https://www.thetimes.com/uk/history/article/christopher-nolan-odyssey-how-historically-accurate-wd7bdkzrn

Het vierkinderenrecht – Mainzer Beobachter

Het vierkinderenrecht

PaleoJudaica.com: Ancient bronze scale pan excavated in Sussiya
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/ancient-bronze-scale-pan-excavated-in.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Berkovitz, A Life of Psalms in Jewish Late Antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/02/review-of-berkovitz-life-of-psalms-in.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Fractured Britannia: The Twilight of Roman Britain
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/02/fractured-britannia-twilight-of-roman.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Open Access Journal: GROMA | documenting archaeology
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2017/05/open-access-journal-groma-documenting.html

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101: The Siege of Syracuse–Casting Through Ancient Greece – Apple Podcasts

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA397 – Athenian Archers
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/awa397-athenian-archers

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(105) What is ‘a Roman Copy of a Greek Original’? – YouTube

New Podcast – The Homer Hotline – The Classical Association of Canada

New Podcast – The Homer Hotline

(105) The Work of the BSA: 2026 Annual Open Lecture Athens – YouTube

(104) Odysseus really is “just a man” 🥸 #shorts #greekmythology #ancientgreece – YouTube

(104) Pikes, Elephants, Artillery at Thermopylae (191 BC) DOCUMENTARY – YouTube

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THOUGHT FOR FOOD: ON NIOBE’S ETERNAL BROODING | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/thought-for-food-on-niobes-eternal-brooding/725D6374B5DCB0AD6FEE06BB26F31F36

FUTURES PAST | The Classical Review | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-review/article/futures-past/98166E7715C0212BEA00E08FE7F0EA83

Classics: consigned to the past, or the key to the future? In defence of a classical curriculum | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/classics-consigned-to-the-past-or-the-key-to-the-future-in-defence-of-a-classical-curriculum/

Semester 2 2026 Reading Classics Research Seminars | Classics at Reading

Semester 2 2026 Reading Classics Research Seminars

Upcoming Event: L’Année philologique: A Guided Tour for College Students | March 13 | Society for Classical Studies
https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/upcoming-event-lann%C3%A9e-philologique-guided-tour-college-students-march-13