Euripedes, Pompeii, and Scented Statues: Links for July 2025

“Unearthed papyrus contains lost scenes from Euripides’ plays”

Read the article in the Harvard Gazette.

“With DNA, Pompeii Narratives Take a Twist”

Read the article in the New York Times (paywall).

“Ancient Greek and Roman statues often smelled like roses, a new study says”

Read the article on NPR.

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A Summer at Villa Vergiliana

A CANE Endowment Scholarship Report by Susan Zoller: Two Vergilian Society Study Tours in Italy I will remember gazing out from a villa rooftop toward

Pervigilium Veneris on CANE Press

A hymn to spring and birth – who can resist this?  This late Latin poem, with no author attributed, celebrates love and the goddesses.  Who

Links for 4 July

An NPR book review about Alice Kober and the decipherment of Linear B. (via @cortsims) A piece in support of requiring English to Latin on