- Festival of Mars continues (day 16)
- 37 A.D. — death of the emperor Tiberius at Misenum
- 284 A.D. — martyrdom of Hilarius and companions
- 1900 — Arthur Evans purchases the land around Knossos
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 15, 2026
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“Let the Envious Burst!”: 1,500-Year-Old Mosaic with Surprising Message Discovered in Türkiye’s Syedra – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/let-the-envious-burst-1500-year-old-mosaic-with-surprising-message-discovered-in-turkeys-syedra/
2,000-year-old tomb shows gladiators in combat | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-889976
Roman well unearthed in Caistor during shop renovations
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cd6z8xvz58qo
From a “Drunken Hercules” to a Watchful Medusa: Roman Mosaics in Portugal Reveal Myth, Power, and Protection – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/from-a-drunken-hercules-to-a-watchful-medusa-roman-mosaics-in-portugal-reveal-myth-power-and-protection/
The Permanent Exhibition of Casts from Pompeii – Pompeii Online
https://www.pompeionline.net/en/archaeological-park-of-pompeii/the-permanent-exhibition-of-casts-and-organic-remains-from-pompeii
How Much Did It Cost to Paint a Pompeii Room Egyptian Blue?
https://hyperallergic.com/how-much-did-it-cost-to-paint-a-pompeii-room-egyptian-blue/
Ancient Herakleia theater discovered in Policoro
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/ancient-herakleia-theater-discovered-in-policoro
Celebrating Ancient Greek Math on Pi Day – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/pi-day-math/
Measuring the Earth: Greek Students Recreate Eratosthenes’ Historic Experiment – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/13/measuring-earth-greek-students-recreate-eratosthenes-historic-experiment/
What Was Daily Life Like in Ancient Greece? – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/daily-life-ancient-greece/
What Did the Minoans Eat? Food, Ritual, and Daily Life in Ancient Crete – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/13/minoans-eat-food-ritual-daily-life-ancient-crete/
The Secret Minoan Fire Technique That Turned Blue Stone Red – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/secret-minoan-fire-technique-turned-blue-stone-red/
New Technology Reveals Hidden Secrets of 3,500-Year-Old Bronze Age Aegean Scripts – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/03/14/new-technology-reveals-hidden-secrets-aegean-bronze-age-scripts/
Distinguished classicist and “The Odyssey” translator Emily Wilson visits UI – The Daily Iowan
https://dailyiowan.com/2026/03/13/distinguished-classicist-and-the-odyssey-translator-emily-wilson-visits-ui/
Scholar who breathed new life into ancient classics lectures at UI – Radio Iowa
Scholar who breathed new life into ancient classics lectures at UI
Neville Morley | Thucydides Traps
https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/march/thucydides-traps
[wtf?]The ancient stone bridge that Spartan soldiers crossed and still stands to this day (VIDEO) Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/15/ancient-stone-bridge-spartan-2000/
Elon Musk “Yes” to Odyssey: Odysseus Revenge on Suitors Goes Viral Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/14/elon-musk-yes-odyssey-suitors-home-fight-viral-2026/
Sorry Christopher Nolan, ‘The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie’ Already Perfectly Adapted ‘The Odyssey’
https://movieweb.com/spongebob-squarepants-movie-the-odyssey-christopher-nolan/
The ancient Romans knew the power of entertainment as propaganda – here’s the proof | HistoryExtra
https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/ancient-roman-theatre-entertainment-propaganda/
Exploring ancient graffiti – The Past
Basilica built by father of Western architecture – The Past
Laudator Temporis Acti: Effects of Drinking Wine
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/effects-of-drinking-wine.html
Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
Germans and other northerners: Captives in the reliefs from the Sebasteion at Aphrodisias (mid-first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
Ancient Visual Ethnography: Picturing Invading and Conquered Peoples (Pomona College, Classics presentation, April 2026) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
Whatever Happened To…? | Sphinx
Anger and Rage Among the Corpses: On the Doublet χόλος καὶ μῆνις in Iliad 15 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
Anger and Rage Among the Corpses: On the Doublet χόλος καὶ μῆνις in Iliad 15
Blog-experiment: #RealTimeCaesar – Mainzer Beobachter
Na de moord op Julius Caesar (1): familie – Mainzer Beobachter
Na de moord op Julius Caesar (2): de moordenaars – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (1): de vooravond – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (2): de situatie – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (3): het wachten – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (4): vertrek – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (5): offers – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (6): de aanval – Mainzer Beobachter
De moord op Julius Caesar (7): de dood – Mainzer Beobachter
De nacht na de moord op Julius Caesar – Mainzer Beobachter
Summer School Time! – Classical Studies Support
PaleoJudaica.com: Virnelson, Fruit of Her Hands (OUP)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/virnelson-fruit-of-her-hands-oup.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Athas & Davage (eds.), T&T Clark Handbook to the Masoretic Text
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/athas-davage-eds-t-clark-handbook-to.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer the Preclassic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homer-preclassic.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer the Classic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homer-classic.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek: An Updating of a Survey of Recent Work
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-updating-of-survey-of-recent-work.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Greek Mythology and Poetics
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/greek-mythology-and-poetics.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Pindar’s Homer: The Lyric Possession of an Epic Past
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/pindars-homer-lyric-possession-of-epic.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Responses
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-responses.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homer’s Text and Language
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homers-text-and-language.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Homeric Questions
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/homeric-questions.html
La science russe sur les antiquités classiques du sud de la Russie (XVIIIe – milieu du XIXe siècle) | Spartokos a lu
La science russe sur les antiquités classiques du sud de la Russie (XVIIIe – milieu du XIXe siècle)
The Diver of Paestum: Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece – The Past
The Diver of Paestum: Youth, Eros, and the Sea in Ancient Greece
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Anima Latina 15.03.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/it/podcast/rvi-programmi/anima-latina/2026/03/anima-latina-15-03-2026.html
Episode A12 – The Flood–The Ancient World – Apple Podcasts
Herodotus: The Father of History – The Ancients | Acast
Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 14.03.2026 – Vatican News
https://www.vaticannews.va/de/podcast/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein/2026/03/audio-nachrichten-auf-latein-14-03-2026.html
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(39) The Mysterious Golden Masks of Mycenae – YouTube
(41) Casts of Victims Who Died in Pompeii Volcanic Eruptuion on Display for First Time in HISTORY – YouTube
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explorator 28.11 ~ March 15, 2026 – Explorator
CFP: Call For Proposals | CAAS-CW
https://caas-cw.org/category/cfp-call-for-proposals/
This Day in Ancient History: idus martias
- festival of Mars continues (day 15)
- festival of Jupiter
- festival/rites in honour of Anna Perenna (Happy New Year!)
- 44 B.C. — murder of Gaius Julius Caesar
- ca. 1st century A.D. — martyrdom of Longinus (the soldier who is said to have pierced Jesus’ side with a spear) in Cappadocia
This Day in Ancient History: pridie idus martias
- Festival of Mars (day 14)
- Equirria — the second of two days of horse racing (the first was on February 27) dedicated to Mars; the reasons are obscure, but probably have something to do with preparing horses for the upcoming campaigning season
- 222 A.D. — Severus Alexander is given the title Augustus
ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ March 13, 2026
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Ancient vial in Turkey shows Romans used human excrement in medicine | Reuters
https://www.reuters.com/science/ancient-vial-turkey-shows-romans-used-human-excrement-medicine-2026-03-13/
Polish archaeologists uncover ancient shipwreck trail in Libya
https://tvpworld.com/92073481/100-meter-shipwreck-trail-found-by-polish-archaeologists-near-ancient-ptolemais-in-libya
Ancient Italian necropolis reveals children buried with warrior belts
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/03/ancient-italian-necropolis-reveals-children-buried-with-warrior-belts/157359
Ancient Greek Woman Led Major Olive Oil Industry in Pamphylia. Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/13/ancient-greek-woman-led-major-olive-oil-industry-in-pamphylia/
Pompeii, a new permanent path for casts of victims of the Vesuvius eruption
https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/archaeology/pompeii-a-new-permanent-path-for-casts-of-victims-of-the-vesuvius-eruption
Apollosa, un monumento funerario con scene di gladiatori ritrovato lungo la via Appia | Corriere.it
https://salerno.corriere.it/notizie/cronaca/26_marzo_13/apollosa-un-monumento-funerario-con-scene-di-gladiatori-lungo-la-via-appia-22187032-7fd9-4a0f-91ce-99fd59b22xlk.shtml
Remains of Roman fortlet found under house gardens in Bearsden
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62gk5864rdo
1,900-year-old double Scythian burial in Ukraine contains toxic red mineral | Live Science
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/1-900-year-old-double-scythian-burial-in-ukraine-contains-toxic-red-mineral
History Made: Alexander the Great’s Lost City Discovered in Iraq After Nearly 2,000 Years Greek City Times
https://greekcitytimes.com/2026/03/13/history-made-alexander-the-greats-lost-city-discovered-in-iraq-after-nearly-2000-years
What the Roman Republic can teach us about Trump’s war in Iran – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis
What the Roman Republic can teach us about Trump’s war in Iran
The Odyssey Translations to Read Before Christopher Nolan Film
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/the-odyssey-translations-to-read-before-christopher-nolan-film
Sex and the Search for Religious Truth – Biblical Archaeology Society
The Situation of Classics at the University of Ottawa and in Canada – Antigone
The Situation of Classics at the University of Ottawa and in Canada
Laudator Temporis Acti: Succession
https://laudatortemporisacti.blogspot.com/2026/03/succession.html
The History Girls: ‘It’s all Greek to me’: the story behind my Pocket GCSE Greek Etymological Lexicon by Caroline K. Mackenzie
https://the-history-girls.blogspot.com/2026/03/its-all-greek-to-me-story-behind-my.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Shibboleth
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/shibboleth.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Henderson: Defeat and Deliverance: Prefigurements of the Jewish Revolt … (Brill)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/henderson-defeat-and-deliverance.html
PaleoJudaica.com: Thousands more inscribed ostraca from Athribis (Sohag), Egypt
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/03/thousands-more-inscribed-ostraca-from.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Anger of Achilles: Mênis in Greek Epic
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-anger-of-achilles-menis-in-greek.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Tears of Achilles
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-tears-of-achilles.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Comparative Studies in Greek and Indic Meter
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/comparative-studies-in-greek-and-indic.html
AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The meaning of Homeric εὔχομαι through its formulas
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-meaning-of-homeric-through-its.html
Metaphors of the ancient world: conceptual metaphor theory and ancient sources – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.03.17/
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The AskHistorians Podcast: AskHistorians Podcast Episode 249: Egyptology Today with the History of Egypt Podcast
https://askhistorians.libsyn.com/askhistorians-podcast-episode-249-egyptology-today-with-the-history-of-egypt-podcast
Ancient Warfare Podcast: AW400 – Warriors in Bronze
https://ancientwarfare.libsyn.com/aw400-warriors-in-bronze
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The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans | Open Culture
The Monty Python Philosophy Soccer Match: The Ancient Greeks Versus the Germans
(675) Healing poop: Evidence shows feces used in ancient Roman medicine – YouTube
(675) Inside The Secret Market for Ancient Bible Manuscripts – YouTube
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CRSN/ICS Summer Series 2026 – CRSN
Assistant Professor in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean
Assistant Professor in the History of the Ancient Mediterranean
Material Religion in Private Contexts
Interaction among master artisans in Early Mycenaean times
Manumission in the Roman world and the Americas
Writing a New History of Carthage
SIAC NEWSLETTER – 244 (02/2026) | Tulliana News
Volume 2, Issue 1 (2026) | AI & Antiquity
https://ai-antiquity.org/index.php/ai/issue/view/3
Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026 – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
Digital Epigraphy and FAIR Data Practices: Community Survey 2026
Leventis MA Studentships at The Open University
Reimagining a Good Monarch: Phylarchus’ Fragment 44 (Ath. 4.20–1, 141F–42F) and the Hellenistic Discourse of Kingship | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/cambridge-classical-journal/article/reimagining-a-good-monarch-phylarchus-fragment-44-ath-4201-141f42f-and-the-hellenistic-discourse-of-kingship/E79E810C23CA80044A7CFF0DE3EACA74?utm_source=SFMC&utm_medium=email&utm_content=Article&utm_campaign=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles&WT.mc_id=New%20Cambridge%20Alert%20-%20Articles
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