Some more coverage of note … first we have a video from CNN:

… then, from the BBC’s coverage, we learn that the rumoured television program is a Channel 4 production called Gladiators: Back from the Dead. Of course, there’s a trailer:

… from the looks of things, the archaeological side isn’t a major focus, alas.

In case you missed our previous coverage: Gladiator Graveyard?

An OpEddish/reviewish sort of thing about three books: Leigh A. Bortins, The Core: Teaching Your Child the Foundations of Classical Education; Martha C. Nussbaum, Not for Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities; and Diane Ravitch, The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice are Undermining Education:

A Classical Education: Back to the Future | NYTimes.

ante diem vi idus junias

• 215 B.C. — dedication of the Temple of Mens (and associated rites thereafter)
• 17 B.C.. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 4)
• 65 A.D./C.E. — Jewish rebels capture the Antonia in Jerusalem (not sure about this one)
• 68 A.D. — recognition of Galba as emperor in Rome (?)
• 86 A.D. — ludi Capitolini (day 3)
• 204 A.D. — ludi Latini et Graeci honorarii (day 5) [I need more info on this one]
• 218 A.D. — the Legio III Gallica, who had declared their loyalty for Bassianus (the future emperor Elagabalus) defeats the emperor Macrinus near Antioch; Macrinus fled
• 1768 — death of Johann Winckelmann