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Bloomberg.com: Muse Arts: “For the first time in many years, the ruler of London addressed the assembled populus in Latin. Boris Johnson, mayor of the U.K. capital, climbed onto the podium at the opening of the British Museum’s Hadrian exhibition and began spouting classical prose.” (Via rogue classicism.) Okay, the Classics geek in me just [...]

Ancient Bible with a murky past is on the path to a new era of clarity – Times Online: “For the first time the British Library will bring all the extracts together. The entire Codex will be available to web users by next July but the Book of Psalms and the Gospel of Mark go [...]

Seeded at Newsvine: Rare 2,500-year-old marble discus that was meant to protect ancient ships from the evil eye was found in the sea and turned over to the Israel Antiquities Authority. To date, only four such items have been found in the world.

Seeded at Newsvine: The rosy fingers are touching universities too. Though some classics departments in the United States have had to close or merge, the number of students enrolled in Greek has been going up since the 1990s. In 2006 fully 22,849 took some Greek (32,191 studied Latin).

Seeded at Newsvine: Julius Caesar landed an invasion fleet on the shores of Britain in 55 B.C., expanding the boundaries of the so-called “Known World” and inadvertently sparking a dispute between historians and scientists for centuries to come.

Seeded at Newsvine: Scientists have pinned down the return of Greek hero Odysseus to April 16, 1178 B.C., close to noon local time.