This week's collection of other items which might be of interest to rc readers:

More positive publicity for the Iris Project ...

Archaeology has a nice little interview with Eric Powell about traffic patterns in Pompeii ...

An interesting excerpt from an interview with Ursula LeGuin and her reaction to the Aeneid ...

A review of a performance of Addison's Cato ... (here's a version of the script, if you've never perused it) ...

Not sure whether I need to tune up my gag reflex for this one or not ... Catherine Zeta-Jones is going to star in a 3D rock opera story about Cleopatra ...

An ancient allusion in the new UEFA logo ...

The Pompei and the Roman Villa exhibition at the National Gallery of Art looks good and is being reviewed by the New York Times ... ANSA ...

Haven't mentioned a Dear Socrates letter in a while ...

If you want to hear a couple of Mary Beard's Sather lectures ...

Other exhibitions of note include Gods in Color ...

Folks might be interested in the shenanigans which went (?) on in the Getty ...

Theatre reviews: Bacchae (Rice University) ... Antigone (Manchester) ... another of same ...