IN THE NEWS …

• Archaeologists uncover rare 2,500-year-old votive statue bases at lost Apollo sanctuary in Cyprus | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• Mysterious Deposits of Split, Uniform-Sized Cow Bones with Unknown Function, Found in Roman Cities Across Europe
• OLANDA. Resti di un ponte romano sul fiume Mosa. – Archeologia online – Archeomedia
• Israel expropriates land in West Bank to develop archaeological site
• The west terrace of the Acropolis of Amathous, Cyprus
• Roman villa in a school’s basement discovered by its pupils
• Italy Buys Etruscan Tomb for $17.5 Million After Century-Long Pursuit – GreekReporter.com
• Marble Head of Greek Goddess Aphrodite Found at Ancient Heracleopolis in Egypt – GreekReporter.com
• Classis Britannica clues at Bodiam Castle – The Past
• ‘Extraordinary’ Somerset ring sheds light on how Romans navigated unrest

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Were Early Christians Class Conscious? – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Egyptologist Zahi Hawass Reveals How Ancient Greece and Egypt Shaped Each Other’s Worlds – GreekReporter.com
• The Mystery of Alexander the Great’s Visit to Cyprus – GreekReporter.com
• Legendary warrior women: The history of the Amazons

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• 39 Bristol Central HS Latin students earn top honors in National Latin Exam | News | newbritainherald.com
• ‘Talking Classics’ review: Mary Beard illuminates the ancient world : NPR
• Bettany Hughes: “Socrates Predicted the Wounds of Social Media”
• Why ‘The Odyssey’ still matters, 3,000 years later | Iowa Now – The University of Iowa

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• What the Hellenic! Why is Christopher Nolan’s new Greek epic entirely devoid of Greeks? | Film | The Guardian

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• NC college administrators play king in censoring a play | Raleigh News & Observer

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• Lives and Literacy in Ancient Egypt – Exhibition Review

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE…

• What Was Stoicism? – Antigone
• (7) Aeneid I.210-304 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Writing Wednesday: Splitting and Drawing | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Het ontstaan van Marseille (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Correct Interpretation
• PaleoJudaica.com: Forthcoming Diodorus Siculus volume
• PaleoJudaica.com: Taxation and evasion in the Roman empire
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: From snout to tail : Exploring the Greek sacrificial animal from the literary, epigraphical, iconographical, archaeological, and zooarchaeological evidence
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Collection Traunecker MSS – Claude Traunecker Collection

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• (7) Building Tutankhamun’s Digital Afterlife
• Domitian – Ancient History 101 | Acast
• Homer’s Odyssey Three Ways: Recent Translations by Anthony Verity, Emily Wilson, and Peter Green (Gurgle 8) | Ad Navseam

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (31) The Second Samnite War | Short Ancient History Documentary – YouTube
• (31) The Odyssey | Official Featurette | Matt Damon, Robert Pattinson – YouTube
• (31) Inside Hadrian’s Library – YouTube
• (31) Why does this statue of Aphrodite have a cross on its forehead? – YouTube
• (31) Archaeology: A Gallic necropolis discovered near Reims – YouTube
• (32) A Roman’s bathing routine – YouTube
• (32) Spotlight Lecture: Tut-ankh-Camden: The EES – Exploring Egyptian Heritage from Camden since 1882 – YouTube
• (32) Alexander the Great Turned Catapults Into Killing Machines | History’s Greatest Machines – YouTube
• (32) Why Greece Fell to Rome – Legion vs Phalanx: Why Rome Won – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Études d’histoire et d’épigraphie de D. M. Pippidi | Spartokos a lu
• Themistocles and the Dangers of Democracy – James Diddams
• Intellectual Profiles in both Talmud and Midrash — ANCIENT JEW REVIEW
• Architectural networks in the north Aegean: Thasos, Samothrace, and the formation of Hellenistic design – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• The role of ex-consuls in Republican Rome, 218-31 BCE – Bryn Mawr Classical Review