Other items of interest that have accumulated in the rogueclassicist's mailbox this week:

From the APA comes some election results ... and news of a major Mellon Grant ...

This Ecce Roma II tour sounds interesting ...

Interesting exhibition at the Colosseum of assorted sculptures associated with Napoleon and Goethe (in Italian including a nice slide show/imaggini) ... other potentially interesting exhibitions: Etruscans: The Ancient Cities of Lazio ...

Performances this week include Psyche ...

New paper up at the PSWPC site: Christian Kaesser, Causes and Cases. On the Aetiologies of Aetiological Elegies

Podcast/interview thing with Robert Strassler of Landmark Thucydides and Herodotus fame ...

The Classical Association of Ireland website has some updates ...

Will we see Obama mentioned in upcoming Black Athena debates? ...

Strange item from an Iranian source trying to equate Mithraism and Christianity ...

Spoof spoofs the dia Chrestou find ...

Someone's trying to get an ancient Greek version of Wikipedia started ...

Wanna buy a temple of Cybele?

Recent auction results at Bonham's were better than expected ...

Someone's trying to connect political activities to satyr plays ...

Michael Werner is talking about things ancient ...

Robert Fisk thinks leaders should heed some advice from Thucydides ... another version here (tip o' the pileus to Mata Kimasatayo)

Greece is having a day to honour Byron ...

Akropolis World News has been updated (man I wish they had an rss feed) ...

Tim O'Reilly has a nice photo essay thing on Greece (plenty of wallpaper potential here)...

It's nice when Classics types marry each other ...

Martin Conde has added a pile of scans of recent news and finds to his photo set ...