• At the outset, I will apologize for the length of this post. It is actually an amalgamation of a couple of posts, with revisions and additions (of course), that I’ve made over the past few years but never actually published because others had covered the main topics more thoroughly than I ever could. But the…

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  • Today’s pass through the Classical Blogosphere: Green papyri: Egypt steps in | Roberta Mazza The Emoji Thucydides | Sphinx A Don’s Life: A great little Greek Museum  Hercules, the autistic imagination and Our Mythical Hope | Mythology and Autism Our Knowledge of Early Christianity | Larry Hurtado’s Blog Antiquities dealer brings a libel suit –…

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  • Classical Reception can be serious business: Greek President’s Defiant Message to Turkey: Molon Labe | GreekReporter.com A very strange attack on antiquities: Tornos News | No damage to ancient artifacts from ‘spray-attack’ at Vergina Tombs in Greece  Lincoln Blumell is on the receiving end of some of the early fallout from the Hobby Lobby settlement;…

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  • As most folks who would read this blog would be aware, there is currently great attention being paid to the plundering of ancient sites in the Middle East (especially in Syria and Iraq) with the connection almost invariably made between the looting of antiquities and the funding of terrorist activities. Indeed, the EU has just…

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  • Ancient Greece Declassified: 11 Caves and Classrooms w/ Raffaella Cribiore http://greecepodcast.libsyn.com/11-caves-and-classrooms-w-raffaella-cribiore MythTake Episode 24: Wonder Woman http://alisoninnes.podbean.com/e/episode-24-wonder-woman-1500420240/ Myths and Legends 76-Greek Myths: Lioness – https://www.mythpodcast.com/12714/76-greek-myths-lioness/

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