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rogueclassicist ~ david meadows
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Happy Tuesday classics peeps!
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Are you aware that The Critic is a politically funded broadsheet? It’s part of the group funded from 55 Tufton Street. This goes beyond leaning – it was funded to promulgate right-wing ideas.
November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ November 10, 2025 – rogueclassicism
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ROGUECLASSICIST’S BULLETIN ~ November 10, 2025
=========================================================== LEGENDA =========================================================== Explore Tutankhamun’s tomb through the excavation records of Ho…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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(250) A Bronze Age Pompeii in Greece 🌋 - YouTube
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A Bronze Age Pompeii in Greece 🌋
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November 10, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Another Greek Mythological Puzzle - CANE
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Another Greek Mythological Puzzle - CANE
Greetings, members of CANE! As promised, I’m offering up another neat mythological puzzle for this week. As always, I want to hear from you with the right
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November 10, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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Make Better Choices: You ARE Odysseus – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
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Make Better Choices: You ARE Odysseus
Many of us read the Odyssey for the first time because it is part of a certain kind of cultural inheritance in the literary canon. But we remain engaged with it, I think, because the character’s fl…
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November 10, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
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A Roman emperor grovelling to a Persian king: the message behind a new statue in Tehran
The statue, titled Kneeling Before Iran, shows the emperor grovelling before Persian king Shapur I. Where did this imagery come from? And why now?
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November 10, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Modern staging of the immortal “Aeneid” at the ICCM
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Modern staging of the immortal “Aeneid” at the ICCM
"ENEID" is a modern staging of Ivan Kotlyarevsky's masterpiece, created by directors Rostyslav Derzhypilsky and Oleksiy Hnatkovsky.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:46 PM
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Another Bronze Age Temple in Kuwait - Biblical Archaeology Society
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Another Bronze Age Temple in Kuwait
Archaeologists working in Kuwait made a remarkable discovery when they uncovered the remains of a Bronze Age temple on Failaka Island.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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Merit's wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel | Live Science
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Merit's wig: A 3,400-year-old Egyptian headpiece smoothed down with ancient homemade hair gel
Merit's head covering was made from real human hair and was buried with her in its own wooden cabinet.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Ephemeris ~ NUNTIUS BOREOAMERICANUS Novus praefectus
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EPHEMERIS_ Nuntii Latini Universi
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November 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon | Live Science
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Ram-shaped teapot from ancient Canaanite cult discovered near ancient city of Armageddon
Archaeologists have discovered a ram-shaped tea pot and one of the oldest old wine presses in the world that date to the time of the Canaanites during the Bronze Age.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Anomalies in Giza pyramid may indicate an unknown entrance | Live Science
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Anomalies in Giza pyramid may indicate an unknown entrance
Two voids found on the eastern face of Menkaure's pyramid may indicate the presence of a second entrance.
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November 10, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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New Documentary Says Parthenon Sculptures Stolen in "Greatest Heist in Art History" - GreekReporter.com
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November 10, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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A 5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Wine Press Has Been Discovered in Israel
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A 5,000-Year-Old Canaanite Wine Press Has Been Discovered in Israel
Researchers discovered the press, along with a ritualistic, animal-shaped “tea set,” outside the ancient site of Tel Megiddo
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November 10, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides | TheCollector
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Does Might Make Right? The Melian Dialogue of Thucydides | TheCollector
Thucydides’ account of the confrontation between Athens and Melos poses the question, does might make right?
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November 10, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome
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Discovery in the Judean Desert Reveals a Widespread Practice of Forging Royal Purple Garments in Ancient Rome
Clothing in antiquity functioned as an immediately legible social code, a woven system of signs in which the appearance of a garment, the nature of its raw materials, the details of its ornamentation,...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Unearthing the Birthplace of the Alphabet: Archaeologists Return After 14 Years of Silence - Arkeonews
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Unearthing the Birthplace of the Alphabet: Archaeologists Return After 14 Years of Silence - Arkeonews
After more than a decade of silence, the ancient civilization of Ugarit, once one of the most influential trade hubs of the Late Bronze Age
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November 10, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (American Society of Papyrologists) | Society for Classical Studies
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Culture and Society in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Egypt (American Society of Papyrologists) | Society for Classical Studies
Society for Classical Studies 158th Annual Meeting
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November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s | Tutankhamun Spatial Archive
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Explore Tutankhamun's tomb through the excavation records of Howard Carter and his team in the 1920s
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November 10, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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CFP: Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia (Deadline December 15) - The Classical Association of Canada
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CFP: Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference, Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia (Deadline December 15) - The Classical Association of Ca...
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November 10, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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Calling bullshit on “The Marbles” | Mario Trabucco della Torretta | The Critic Magazine
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Calling bullshit on “The Marbles” | Mario Trabucco della Torretta | The Critic Magazine
In 2005, the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt published a little black book with the provocative title On Bullshit. The short study — both witty and profound — explored the subtle distinction…
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November 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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The Ancient Greek Water-Organ: World's Oldest Keyboard Instrument - GreekReporter.com
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November 10, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Humanity Can Still Learn From 'The Father Of History'
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Humanity Can Still Learn From 'The Father Of History'
Emily Katz Anhalt's latest book, 'Ancient Wisdom for Polarized Times,' makes a powerful case for relearning the lessons of Herodotus.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Ancient Trireme to Be Displayed in New Greek Museum - GreekReporter.com
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November 10, 2025 at 7:34 PM