We have a new template but I need to figure out how to deal with this ‘automatic drop cap’ thing which doesn’t quite look right to me …

In the News

• Behind the scandalous story of the £1.8m Warren Cup: an ancient Roman vessel | Telegraph [possibly paywalled]
• Greek Centre offers lecture about Archers of Classical Athens | Neos Kosmos 
• Swedish ambassador says “return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens is a question of moral principle” | Neos Kosmos 

Fresh Bloggery

• Crouching Aphrodite | Ancient World Magazine 
• Beach Reading: Ten Easy Latin Works |  In Medias Res – Medium 
• The Birth of Strategy from the Spirit of the Muses? | Sphinx 
• Last Full Week in Polis | Ancient History Ramblings 
• PANOPLY VASE ANIMATION PROJECT BLOG: Ure Voice: A Panoply Interview with Professor Amy Smith
• “Our Culture”: Classics By Exclusion – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE 
• ISAW Director Alexander Jones Receives 2019 Henry Allen Moe Prize in the Humanities — Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 

Fresh Podcasts

145-Achilles: The Age of Heroes – Myths and Legends 

We’re back on the road to the Trojan War, with the story of Achilles. Starting from when his father interrupted the ritual to make him immortal, we’ll follow him as he goes to that epic Greek daycare run by Chiron and watch as his mother tries to keep him away from the war that is beginning to consume the Greek world.

Demetra Kasimis, “The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy” (Cambridge UP, 2018) | New Books Network 

Demetra Kasimis’s new book, … interrogates the role and unstable place of the metics (metoikoi) in Athenian society.  The book focuses on three different presentations and discussions of the metics, in Euripides’ Ion, in Plato’s Republic, and in Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides …

Reviews

• [BMCR] Chris Doyle, Honorius: The Fight for the Roman West AD 395-423. Roman imperial biographies.
• [BMCR] Gesine Manuwald, Reviving Cicero in Drama: From the Ancient World to the Modern Stage
• [BMCR] Ricardo Martínez Lacy​ (ed.), Hermenéutica de la esclavitud: actas del XXXVII coloquio del GIREA. Institut des Sciences et Techniques de l’Antiquité​. 
• In Statecraft, What is Tragedy Good For? [The lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order]
• GODS AND ROBOTS: Myths, Machines and Ancient Dreams of Technology – Classics for All
• THE SINGLE LIFE IN THE ROMAN AND LATER ROMAN WORLD – Classics for All
• HOW TO THINK ABOUT WAR: An Ancient Guide to Foreign Policy – Classics for All

Dramatic Receptions

• Wilson’s ‘Oedipus’ | Epidaurus | ekathimerini 

Obituaries

• Dr Judith McKenzie | Faculty of Classics 

Alia

• 2018-2019 Annual Report | Ancient World Mapping Center 
• Why cultural heritage benefits the rich and powerful above all | Aeon Essays 
• Greece: New silver crown coin in “Greek Culture” series dedicated to the historian Thucydides | Coin Update 
• More on the 9.2% Drop in Language Enrollments | Inside Higher Ed