IN THE NEWS …

• Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Made From Meteorite Iron. Then They Stopped
• Expert pieces together puzzle from fragments of 1,600-year-old Roman text | EurekAlert!
• Ancient Greek Stele Found in Syria Reveals Tale of Soldier and His Brother – GreekReporter.com
• 3,400-Year-Old Hittite Building Reveals Evidence of Mysterious Sacrifices – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient Philistines Were Likely of Greek Origin, DNA Study Shows – GreekReporter.com
• Archaeological dig returns to site of Roman villa in North Wales | University of Chester
• Mystery statue unearthed at Sardis archaeological dig — Harvard Gazette
• Phaleron Mass Grave Victims Were Local Athenians As Per New Study – tovima.com
• A Unique 11,000-Year-Old Statue of a Human Sitting on a Leopard Unearthed at Karahantepe | Arkeonews
• Israel’s Border Police find Second Temple-era burial cave in eastern Jerusalem | The Jerusalem Post
• Archaeologists Find Evidence of Lost Etruscan Port Off Italian Coast – GreekReporter.com
• 3,200-Year-Old Qurayyah Ceramics May Be the First Ancient Brand

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Amyklai Reloaded « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog
• Somerset Libraries used 3D scanning to recreate a Roman-era ring | VoxelMatters – The heart of additive manufacturing
• How the first pandemic in history shook the Roman Empire
• What Were People Eating When Mount Vesuvius Erupted?
• Footnotes to Plato — Footnotes to Plato
• Wrestling Bulls and Strict Diets Were Typical for Ancient Greek Olympians – GreekReporter.com
• Athletes Use Classical Sculpture Replicas as Gym Weights

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Reframing Homer’s Sirens through gender, nature and social order

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid XI.399-497 – by publius vergilius maro
• “Time to Rouse the Dead”: Music, Improvisation, and Homeric Performance – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
• The Monastery on Mt. Menoicheion | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Nose Wiping
• Wat heet mooi? De teksten – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Gold rings for young girls?
• PaleoJudaica.com: On the Gezer Calendar
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La République de Platon, livre II et III: Ouvrir la perspective
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Footnotes to Plato: A passage-level citation index of five ancient authors across the journal literature

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• The Case of the Middle Bronze Age Siege That Took Like Ten Days, or War, What Is It Good For, Archaeology (Say It Again) | This Week in the Ancient Near East
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Latest Linguistic Pet Peeve

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (1131) Did Medea REALLY Kill Her Children? – YouTube
• (1132) Fareed saw ‘The Odyssey’. Here’s his reaction | Fareed’s Take – YouTube
• (1132) Was Homer Real? Who Actually Wrote the Odyssey? | HISTORY This Week – YouTube
• (1132) Looking at us for over 2,000 years, from ancient Pompeii – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Robert Harris returns to ancient Rome with Agrippa – a novel about an empire’s forgotten architect
• Miracula: weird and wonderful stories of ancient Greece and Rome – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Galen on human physiology: taking the body apart and putting it back together again – Bryn Mawr Classical Review