IN THE NEWS …

• Roman mosaics, Eros head unearthed at Türkiye’s Pompeiopolis | Daily Sabah
• Roman found after hiding for 1,600 years as scientists reveal how he met his horrific end | Daily Mail Online
• Nearly 4 Million Coins Show How Rome Built an Economy Across Its Conquered Territories | Discover Magazine
• 2,300-Year-Old Gold Necklace from a Tomb in the Oguz Kurgan Reveals an Amazon and Mysterious Bee-Women | Arkeonews
• Spanish archaeologists find 4,400-year-old tomb in Egypt with original colours intact | Euronews
• Serbia: A Hidden Imperial Bathhouse Discovered in a Roman Tower
• Beyond the sea walls: Underwater archaeology reveals the hidden scale of ancient Mediterranean ports
• Archaeologists uncover rare Roman military camp in Slovakia – The Past
• Rome’s largest mosaic opens to public
• Greece rejects Parthenon marbles loan request from Frankfurt due to British Museum involvement, reports say – The Art Newspaper – International art news and events
• Lost Verses of Greek Philosopher Empedocles Reveal Influence on Roman Poet Lucretius – GreekReporter.com
• How ‘cornflakes’ can help decode ancient writing | Popular Science
• Ancient Pottery Reveals Hidden Hellenistic Central Asia Networks – GreekReporter.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• POLYBUS, NOT THE SON-IN-LAW OF HIPPOCRATES | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• HERODOTUS ON THE EXPEDITION OF DATIS AND ARTAPHRENES: ATHENIAN IMPERIALISM MIRRORED IN THE FIRST PERSIAN WAR | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• Sacred Circles in Christianity and Buddhism – Biblical Archaeology Society
• The Ancient Greek Ritual That Looks Strangely Like Modern Cancel Culture – GreekReporter.com

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Literary Hub » Emily Wilson Talks Complicated Men, Celebrating Strangeness, and Why There is Always Another Way to Say It
• BBC Audio | The Radio 2 Book Club | ‘Agrippa’ by Robert Harris

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• The Overpopulation Panic Dates Back to Odyssey Times | Cato Institute
• Rules-based Homer? | Patrick Porter | The Critic Magazine
• 8 Great Movies Set In Ancient Rome That Aren’t Gladiator
• Trump’s triumphal arch revives a symbol of empire rule, says Cornell expert

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• Your guide to Classics-inspired shows in the… | Broad Street Review
• OU Student Theatre brings “Medea” home from Greece – The Oakland Post

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Early September 57 BCE: post reditum ad Populum – by Tate
• Spencer Alley: Lord Arundel’s Collections
• The Bacchanalia Affair of 186 BCE: Livy vs. the Decree | Veiled Antiquity
• (2) Commemorating the War Dead – by Owen Rees
• How Rome Ruled Its Massive Provincial Empire | TheCollector
• Writing Wednesday: In Praise of Fragments | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• Veleda – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Ziemba& Poulsen (eds.), Judeans in the Land of the Nile (Zaphon)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Matheny on ḥesed in the Hebrew Bible.
• PaleoJudaica.com: Did the conqueror worm consume the Library of Alexandria?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il mito degli Atridi dal teatro antico all’epoca contemporanea
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Illuminare i testi: La parola-segnale nelle tradizioni manoscritte di prosatori latini
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Strumenti digitali e collaborativi per le Scienze dell’Antichità
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La falsificazione epigrafica:Questioni di metodo e casi di studio
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Anagnostes: The first AI-driven system that automatically transcribes Greek papyri from images

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• The Sicilian Expedition – Ancient History 101 | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (1517) The Cyclops Who Fell in Love | The Tragic Myth of Acis & Galatea – YouTube
• (1517) The Golden Ass by Apuleius — CHAPTER 1 Summary – YouTube
• (1517) Did The Sea Peoples REALLY Cause the Bronze Age Collapse? – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Scavi di Ostia XIX. Il tempio dei Fabri Navales (III, II, 1-2) e la fullonica sottostante – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Experiencing Childhood in Ancient Athens: Material Culture, Iconography, Burials, and Social Identity in the 9th to 4th Centuries BCE, by Emma Gooch | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Modern Etruscans: Close Encounters with a Distant Past, edited by Chiara Zampieri, Martina Piperno, and Bart Van den Bossche | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Translating the Past – The American Scholar