IN THE NEWS …

• Rare Roman drawplate is found among 1,000 artifacts in Czech Republic | Fox News
• Hidden under water: A Roman mystery and other finds emerging in Slovakia – The Slovak Spectator
• Roman silver coin hoard found in Devon field
• 2,400-year-old Iron Age structure found beneath German construction site
• Ancient statue of Venus found on beach in Spain’s Costa Blanca
• Friend or foul? Exploring the ancient bond between pigeons and people
• Workers Were Building a Highway—and Discovered an Ancient Temple Buried by a Flood
• A Roman Doctor Fled Pompeii with His Tools. Vesuvius Caught Him Anyway
• Ancient texts reveal how Persian and Greek rule shaped language in Central Asia | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• Can China team’s Greek dig unveil an untold truth in ancient world history? | South China Morning Post
• Tegea: The Arcadian city-state reborn through its museum | eKathimerini.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Changes in the Forum Romanum’s layout affected political speech
• Did Plato invent women’s lib? | The Spectator
• France to Return Parthenon Fragments From The Louvre
• (7) Be honest, you don’t really care about Homer or classical literature

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• I was cancelled by Greece for telling the truth about the Elgin Marbles

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• Elon Musk, Ancient Greece and the myth of a ‘white’ civilisation – Neos Kosmos
• Greek Mythology Was Never “Historically Accurate” | Geeks
• Homer Won’t Be Offended by Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ | The Mary Sue
• Ancient Scene Set In A Temple To Apollo, By Conrad Martin Metz (1749–1827) – The Historian’s Hut

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• At the Colosseum Archaeological Park an exhibition dedicated to Troy and Rome, with more than 300 artifacts

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• The Tricky Treachery Of Palaepolis And Its Samnite Allies During A Roman Siege – The Historian’s Hut
• Today’s the Day! – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• ICS Talk – Slides and Link for Remote Attendance – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Three Cyprus Things Thursday | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Tov on the Original Text of the Torah
• Writing Wednesday: More on the Levigation Pool | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• You’re Gonna Die Too, Friend: Achilles’ Speech to Lykaon in Iliad 21 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• Faits divers (52) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Senile Dementia
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Howlowlaria
• PaleoJudaica.com: Shavuot 2026
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Eschilo: testo, scena, tradizione
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Undena Publications Online Titles

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• The Lex Juliae: How Augustus Brought Women to Heel – Ancient History Fangirl

STREAMING MEDIA…

• Mary Beard’s favourite ancient Rome myth – YouTube
• (248) What was the Roman army for? – YouTube
• (248) Should We Teach Philosophy to Children? – YouTube
• (248) How Revisiting The Odyssey Has Changed Through History – YouTube
• (250) Beneath The Arena, Where Gladiators Waited To Die – YouTube
• (252) Archaeologists Discover the Real Biblical Bethsaida? – YouTube
• (254) The Lost Pantheon of Yahweh – Polytheistic Roots of the Abrahamic Religions – YouTube
• (254) How Civilisations Die – Ancient Greece Expert David Butterfield – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Reconstruire Rome: la restauration comme politique urbaine de l’antiquité à nos jours – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Platon, Xénophon, Aristote, Philodème de Gadara et autres auteurs. Penser l’économie en Grèce ancienne – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Book Review: ‘Talking Classics,’ by Mary Beard – The New York Times

CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS…

• 20th Trends in Classics International Conference – Department of Philology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki