IN THE NEWS …
- The Forgotten King Who Invited Rome to Conquer Britain Might Have Actually Been… A Woman
- Was the British King Who Urged the Romans to Invade Actually a Queen? One Archaeologist Thinks So
- Archaeologists find 5,000-year-old bread preserved by fire
- Eight Loaves of Bread Survive a 5,000-Year-Old Fire in Türkiye | Arkeonews
- Carved thrones and painted tombs uncovered in Etruscan necropolis
- Cerveteri: thrones carved from tuff, an almost intact jar, and painted decorations in the tombs have been unearthed
- A Gold Bear Emerges from a Looted 2,300-Year-Old Tomb | Arkeonews
- Cannabis may have been used to calm human sacrifice victims 2,800 years ago, earliest evidence of marijuana use reveals | Live Science
- Cannabis was used as an intoxicant as early as 2,800 years ago
- New Finds at 2,300-Year-Old Illyrian Settlement in Montenegro Hint at Ancient Sanctuary | Arkeonews
- A Roman “Seaside Villa” in Sicily Had Three Bath Complexes—and Outlived Its Wealthy Owners by Centuries
- Was Homer’s Ithaca Really an Island?: New Research Challenges a 2,000-Year-Old Assumption | Open Culture
- 1,500 years ago, a man trekked across Europe as the Roman Empire fell | Popular Science
- Ancient Greek Colony Side Undergoes Major Restoration in Turkey
- UK Rejects Amending Law to Return Parthenon Marbles to Greece – GreekReporter.com
- Parthenon Sculptures: How their repatriation could be achieved – The “loopholes” in British law – ProtoThema English
- Ancient Roman treasure lost in WWII found hiding in Hungarian museum collection after 80 years
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- Was Livia Really Rome’s Most Dangerous Woman? | TheCollector
- Roman Scotland: Life on the edge of Empire – The Past
- Siren Mythology: Bird Bodies and the Gaps Homer Left
- Ancient Greek Papyrus Reveals Lost Account of Jesus’ Descent into the Underworld – GreekReporter.com
- The Tale of King Lars Porsena And The Runaway Captive, Cloelia – The Historian’s Hut
- Hercules Steals the Oxen of Geryon, by Joos de Momper II (c. 1564-1635) – The Historian’s Hut
- Music’s most dramatic Greek mythological heroines | Classical Music
- A medieval map mystery may finally be solved – Big Think
- Why Socrates Thought Us Fools | Psychology Today Ireland
- 2,400-Year-Old Greek Coins Found in Israel Reveal Surprising Links to Ancient Athens – GreekReporter.com
- Fisherman Finds Extraordinary 2,000-Year-Old Greek Statue in Aegean
- Plagiarism is a kind of theft, but it is also a question of honor
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLES & OTHER NEWSLETTERS …
- Palaephatus the Antiquarian: The Genre, Aims and Intellectual Context of the Peri Apiston | The Cambridge Classical Journal | Cambridge Core
- HOLY MEN: HAGNON AND AUGUSTUS IN GRATTIUS’ CYNEGETICA | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
- CHARACTER ANONYMITY IN THE DIALOGI OF SULPICIUS SEVERUS | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
- To Google Translate or not to Google Translate? Beginner Latin language learners and skill development: a case study | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Ancient art, contemporary always: Savannah Marquardt on the afterlives of South Italian vases – The Middlebury Campus
- Alexander the Great Biography Becomes First Ancient History Book to Win Major Literary Prize – GreekReporter.com
- News – Hamilton Mourns Carl Rubino, Winslow Professor of Classics Emeritus – Hamilton College
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- Blog #131: Negotiating an Alliance: Demosthenes in Thebes in 339 BCE with Nick Cross – Peopling the Past
- (2) Early October 57 BCE: From Cicero (in Rome) to Atticus (in Epirus)
- (2) Restored Classical Latin with an LLM – by Latinum Institute
- Workflow Optimization (and Some Professional News) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- The History Girls: To a Fellow History Girl and Friend by L.J. Trafford
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Enchanted Ground
- Alexander de Grote bij de Perzische Poort – Mainzer Beobachter
- Faits divers (60) Germanistiek – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Testimonium Flavianum in the news
- PaleoJudaica.com: Patmore obituary
- PaleoJudaica.com: Jodi Magness profiled
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Roman Identity: Between Ideal and Performance
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Archaeology of War: Studies on Weapons of Barbarian Europe in the Roman and Migration Period
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Incubation in Early Byzantium: The Formation of Christian Incubation Cults and Miracle Collections
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Co-production of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Artefacts, Rituals, Communities, Narratives, Doctrines, Concepts
FRESH PODCASTERY…
- Ethiopians in Roman Egypt and beyond, with Felege-Selam Solomon Yirga – Medievalists.net
- When did ‘hero’ warfare end?–Ancient Warfare Podcast – Apple Podcasts
- Mystic, Mathematician, or Cult… – Classical Wisdom Speaks – Apple Podcasts
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (796) The Roman ‘king’ who brought Romans to Britain may have been a queen – YouTube
- (799) The Battle of Issus 333 BC (Complete Video) – YouTube
BOOK REVIEWS…
- Les nécropoles hellénistiques de Tomis | Spartokos a lu
- Histórias de mitologia e de medicina gregas para jovens de todas as idades (Tales of Greek Mythology and Medicine for Youth of All Ages) Susana Marques, Cláudia Cravo, Mónica Durán Mañas and Alicia Esteban Santos. Coimbra University Press, 2025. | Journal of Classics Teaching | Cambridge Core
- Decoding the Osirian myth: a transcultural reading of Plutarch’s narrative – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Heroines of Greek and Roman myth: an intermediate Latin reader – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS …
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