ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 7, 2025

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Divers Uncover 2,000-Year-Old Sunken Port in Asini –
https://greekcitytimes.com/2025/09/06/divers-uncover-2000-year-old-sunken-port-in-asini/

Sicily, a helmet from the 241 BC Battle of the Egadi recovered at sea.
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/sicily-a-helmet-from-the-241-bc-battle-of-the-egadi-recovered-at-sea

Due grandi vasi di epoca romana riemergono dal Golfo di Gaeta. Ecco a cosa servivano – Gambero Rosso
https://www.gamberorosso.it/notizie/attualita/vasi-romani-riemergono-golfo-gaeta/

Ritrovata tomba etrusca inviolata con le più antiche decorazioni di Tarquinia
https://www.viterbotoday.it/attualita/tomba-etrusca-inviolata-scoperta-necropoli-monterozzi-tarquinia-5-settembre-2025.html

Excavating Quiet Corner of the Bible Shows Israelite Impact on Foothills of Judea – Archaeology
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-07/ty-article-magazine/excavating-quiet-corner-of-the-bible-shows-israelite-impact-on-foothills-of-judea/00000199-2441-d1da-a3df-b551e3540000

2,200-year-old gold coin depicting ancient Egyptian queen discovered in Jerusalem | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptians/2-200-year-old-gold-coin-depicting-ancient-egyptian-queen-discovered-in-jerusalem

How Gobekli Tepe Rewrote the Origins of Civilization | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/gobekli-tepe-origins-of-civilization/

Rare Bronze Age breastplate identified – The Past

Rare Bronze Age breastplate identified

(17) Antiquipop – The September 2025 letter
https://antiquipop.substack.com/p/antiquipop-la-lettre-de-septembre?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1249468&post_id=150749224&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Roman army camp uncovered in the Netherlands – The Past

Roman army camp uncovered in the Netherlands

Herculaneum Park, Suburban Baths open for the first time
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/museums/herculaneum-park-suburban-baths-open-for-the-first-time

Damo: The Enigmatic Philosopher and Daughter of Pythagoras – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/06/damo-philosopher-daughter-pythagoras/

Spartan Wit Revisited: History’s Sharpest One-Liner – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/spartan-wit-history-sharpest-one-liner/

The Council of 500: How Ordinary Citizens Powered Athens’ Democracy – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/council-500-citizens-athens-democracy/

The Greeks: Radical Reinvention – Apollo Magazine

The Greeks: Radical Reinvention

‘The cost of pride’: Madeline Miller’s ‘Song of Achilles’ | Entertainment | utdailybeacon.com
https://www.utdailybeacon.com/arts_and_culture/entertainment/the-cost-of-pride-madeline-miller-s-song-of-achilles/article_84717e09-edda-4411-a737-67603715e809.html

(17) Gazing at the Stars – by Armand D’Angour
https://armanddangour.substack.com/p/gazing-at-the-stars?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1877109&post_id=172904002&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Poisoning the Information Network – Noodlings

Poisoning the Information Network

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry

Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVb: Working Days

(17) Aeneid XII.728-842 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii728-842-ad7?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995837&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(17) Aeneid XII.843-952 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii843-952-4f2?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995862&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Making use of AI in the Classics classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/making-use-of-ai-in-the-classics-classroom/BA74A341B62D6A0AD22733F125324D2F?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues

Iliad Translations in the Undergraduate Classroom | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/article/iliad-translations-in-the-undergraduate-classroom/FE467234D46E859B7021278B9C34744C?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Issues

Journal of Classics Teaching: Volume 26 – Issue 52 | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-classics-teaching/issue/7C28F3BE0C3B44C54CA82C7A90769C6B?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Issue+URL&utm_campaign=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Issues&WT.mc_id=New+Cambridge+Alert+-+Issues

De Codex Sinaiticus – Mainzer Beobachter

De Codex Sinaiticus

PaleoJudaica.com: Scarlata, The Theology of the Book of Leviticus (CUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/scarlata-theology-of-book-of-leviticus.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Aramaic Incantation Bowls in Their Late Antique Jewish Contexts (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/aramaic-incantation-bowls-in-their-late.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Frontières en Grande Grèce: Archéologie et histoire des représentations
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/frontieres-en-grande-grece-archeologie.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: PapyGreek
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/papygreek.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Kerameikos News: More than 14,000 objects from the Met Museums added
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/kerameikos-news-more-than-14000-objects.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Ancient Books Website
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2025/09/the-ancient-books-website.html

Publications of the Faculty of History and Philology of Belgorod (Russia) | Spartokos read

Les publications de la faculté d’histoire et de philologie de Belgorod (Russie)

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Anima Latina 07.09.2025 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2025/09/anima-latina-07-09-2025.html

Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 06.09.2025 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2025/09/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-06-09-2025.html

The Minoan Eruption: Bronze Age Cataclysm – The Ancients | Acast

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Enormous Roman Mosaic In Turkey – video Dailymotion

(455) Where Did European Civilization Begin? – YouTube

(455) When Ancient Greece meets comedy | Full Disclosure – YouTube

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explorator 27.38 ~ September 7, 2025 – Explorator

explorator 27.38 ~ September 7, 2025

Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (gentle reminder) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy

Bologna 2027 – XVII Congressus Internationalis Epigraphiae Graecae et Latinae (gentle reminder)

This Day in Ancient History: ~ ante diem viii idus septembres

  • “”ludi Romani (day 2)
  • 81 A.D. — martyrdom of Onesiphorus
  • 250 A.D. — martyrdom of Faustus in Alexandria
  • 1956 — death of Michael Ventris, who deciphered Linear B (the ancient script used by the Myceneans)

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 5, 2025

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Roman gladiators brutalized brown bears inside arenas, new archaeological evidence reveals
https://nypost.com/2025/09/05/science/roman-gladiators-brutalized-brown-bears-inside-arenas-new-archaeological-evidence-reveals/

Roman Gladiators fought BEARS in the arena, fossil evidence reveals for the first time | Daily Mail Online
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-15068735/Roman-Gladiators-BEARS-arena-fossil-evidence.html

Tarquinia, major archaeological discovery: Etruscan chamber tomb found intact
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/tarquinia-major-archaeological-discovery-etruscan-chamber-tomb-found-intact

Purdue Professor Documents 53 Biblical Figures Confirmed by Archaeology – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/purdue-professor-documents-53-biblical-figures-confirmed-by-archaeology/

Scoperta eccezionale alle Egadi: recuperato elmo “Montefortino”- Ragusa Oggi

Eccezionale scoperta archeologica alle Egadi: recuperato elmo in bronzo della Prima guerra punica

Assembly Hall at Ancient Hellenistic City of Stratonikeia Restored to Former Glory – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/assembly-hall-ancient-city-gladiators-restored-former-glory/

Roman Tomb With Rare Bilingual Inscription Found in Albania – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/05/roman-tomb-bilingual-inscription-albania/

ARISTOTLE’S FIRST EXAMPLE OF AN EFFICIENT CAUSE: TRANSLATING PHYSICS 194B30 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/classical-quarterly/article/aristotles-first-example-of-an-efficient-cause-translating-physics-194b30/CAB6727101747F646F0E535F01ED7098?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles

(17) Aeneid XII.612-727 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii612-727-9a3?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995768&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

De Muur van Antoninus Pius (2) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Muur van Antoninus Pius (2)

PaleoJudaica.com: Cleopatra’s siblings
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/cleopatras-siblings.html

PaleoJudaica.com: William Ross on flouted LXX translation conventions
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/william-ross-on-flouted-lxx-translation.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New in Dickinson College Commentaries in the past year
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2024/10/new-in-dickinson-college-commentaries.html

Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Dining at the end of antiquity: class, status, and identity at Roman tables

Modern Hungarian culture and the classics – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Modern Hungarian culture and the classics

The ancient shore – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

The ancient shore


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Ancient History Podcast – MoAn Inc.
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/ancient-history-podcast-moan-inc

Ancient Warfare Podcast: AWA373 – Greek phalanx vs. Germanic shield wall: how different were they?
https://sites.libsyn.com/91136/awa373-greek-phalanx-vs-germanic-shield-wall-how-different-were-they
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(415) The Mystery of Medea | No Friend to This House by Natalie Haynes – YouTube

(415) Apulian & Iapygian Warfare | Warriors of History | Animated Documentary – YouTube

Vespasian #5 – Circumcision, Sabbath, and Salt – Life Of The Caesars

Vespasian #5 – Circumcision, Sabbath, and Salt

(415) Vespasian’s Hidden Tunnel Along The Via Flaminia – YouTube

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Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations Workshop

Institute for the History of Ancient Civilizations Workshop

(417) Come to an online history conference! #ancienthistory #newtestament – YouTube

This Day in Ancient History: nonae septembres

  • ludi Romani (day 1)
  • 146 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Jupiter Stator and associated rites thereafter
  • c. 180 — martyrdom of Herculanus
  • 1908 — birth of Arnaldo Momigliano

ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ September 4, 2025

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How the palmette motif shifted from elite status symbol to royal emblem in Iron Age Judah
https://phys.org/news/2025-09-palmette-motif-shifted-elite-status.html

2,000-Year-Old Wooden Roman Bridge Discovered in Aegerten, Bern, Switzerland – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/2000-year-old-wooden-roman-bridge-discovered-in-aegerten-bern-switzerland/

Greece Builds Museum for 7th Century BC Shackled Skeletons – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/04/greece-museum-shackled-skeletons-athens/

A large Byzantine-era estate with mosaics discovered at the birthplace of Menander, the Samaritan magician

A large Byzantine-era estate with mosaics discovered at the birthplace of Menander, the Samaritan magician

1,700-year-old battered bear skull discovered by Roman arena — and its injuries suggest it fought in a gladiatorial stadium | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/romans/skull-of-bear-held-captive-to-fight-roman-gladiators-discovered-near-ancient-amphitheater-in-serbia

Tarquinia, major archaeological discovery: Etruscan chamber tomb found intact
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/tarquinia-major-archaeological-discovery-etruscan-chamber-tomb-found-intact

Hiram Professor Launches New Archaeological Project at Ancient Roman City | Weekly Villager

Hiram Professor Launches New Archaeological Project at Ancient Roman City

Man Caught Smuggling Hundreds of Egyptian Antiquities Through JFK Airport
https://hyperallergic.com/1039134/man-caught-smuggling-hundreds-of-egyptian-antiquities-through-jfk-airport/

How Ancient Greek Hero Theseus United the Attica Peninsula Under Athens – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2025/09/04/ancient-greek-hero-theseus-unite-attica-athens/

Minoan civilization inspires digital installation | eKathimerini.com
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1279724/minoan-civilization-inspires-digital-installation/

On the steps of a sacred temple, Cleopatra’s feud with her sister came to a blood-soaked end | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-history/cleopatra-sister-arsinoe-iv-death-temple-of-artemis/

[paywalled] The ancient Greek take on human rights | The Spectator
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-ancient-greek-take-on-human-rights/

Fragments Against the Ruins
https://quillette.com/2025/09/03/fragments-against-the-ruins-homer-iliad-translation/

Laudator Temporis Acti: Too Much Information
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2025/09/too-much-information.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Aromatic Phoenicians?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/aromatic-phoenicians.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Gemara Words Academy
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2025/09/gemara-words-academy.html

(16) 4 September 58 BCE: From Cicero (in Thessalonica) to Atticus (in Rome)
https://epistulae.substack.com/p/4-september-58-bce-from-cicero-in?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=944078&post_id=172728670&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(16) Aeneid XII.411-528 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii411-528-21c?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995687&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

(16) Aeneid XII.529-611 – by publius vergilius maro
https://aeneiddaily.substack.com/p/aeneid-xii529-611-083?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1678986&post_id=168995735&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

Teaching Thursday: What a Mess | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World

Teaching Thursday: What a Mess

De Muur van Antoninus Pius (1) – Mainzer Beobachter

De Muur van Antoninus Pius (1)

(16) ANE Today, 4 September 2025 – The Ancient Near East Today
https://ancientneareasttoday.substack.com/p/ane-today-4-september-2025?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=3497924&post_id=172607453&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Epigraphische Datenbank zum antiken Kleinasien – Epigraphic database for ancient Asia Minor
https://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2010/12/epigraphic-database-for-ancient-asia.html

August Reading Notes – Noodlings

August Reading Notes

Troy reimagined: Ancient war, modern echoes – Neos Kosmos

Troy reimagined: Ancient war, modern echoes

Natalie Haynes: ‘I’m so vegetarian, even as a novelist’
https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/natalie-haynes-im-so-vegetarian-even-as-a-novelist

In Search of the Ancient Bosphorus. Preface. On the Occasion of the 150th Anniversary of MI Rostovtsev | Spartokos read

À la recherche de l’ancien Bosphore. Préface. A l’occasion du 150e anniversaire de M.I. Rostovtsev

Aristocratic Injuries in Roman Antiquity: From Body to Honor – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Blessures aristocratiques dans l’Antiquité romaine: du corps à l’honneur

Il templum pacis: scavi e restauri recenti (1998-2019) – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Il templum pacis: scavi e restauri recenti (1998-2019)

Cassiodorus’ Commentary on the Psalms: Exegesis, Politics, and the Christian Reorganization of the Roman World – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

Cassiodors Psalmenkommentar. Exegese, Politik und die christliche Neuordnung der römischen Welt


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The AskHistorians Podcast: AskHistorians Podcast Episode 243 Doing Hellenistic History, with the Hellenistic Age Podcast
https://askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorians-podcast-episode-243-doing-hellenistic-history-with-the-hellenistic-age-podcast

12 PROFICIO: Charles McNamara | TLL Podcast: Ut silvae foliis
https://tllpod.podbean.com/e/12-proficio-charles-mcnamara/

Special Episode – Cleopatra (1963) – Cleopatra and Antony – The Partial Historians – Ancient Roman History with smart ladies

Special Episode – Cleopatra (1963) – Cleopatra and Antony

How Greece Shaped Rome – The Ancients | Acast

(16) Being a Priest in ancient Egypt: Power, Ritual, and the Divine
https://ancientnow.substack.com/p/being-a-priest-in-ancient-egypt-power?utm_source=podcast-email%2Csubstack&publication_id=752411&post_id=172520662&utm_campaign=email-play-on-substack&utm_medium=email&utm_content=play_card_post_title&r=q7tlq&triedRedirect=true

109: The Seleucid Empire – A S…–The Hellenistic Age Podcast – Apple Podcasts

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[FWIW] The majestic ancient ruins of Cleopatra’s Bath
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0m0jbgr/the-majestic-ancient-ruins-of-cleopatra-s-bath

(391) No one talks about this ancient civilisation – YouTube

(391) Augustus & Livia: Ancient Rome’s Most Ruthless Power Couple – YouTube

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Vacancy for Project Curator: Greek and Roman Provincial Collections
https://bmrecruit.ciphr-irecruit.com/templates/CIPHR/jobdetail_8273.aspx

Assistant Professor job with University of Maryland – College Park | 37879935
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37879935/assistant-professor