IN THE NEWS …

• 1,800-Year-Old Curse Tablet in the Netherlands Reveals a Greek Spell Written in Egyptian Style – Arkeonews
• Fresh Find at Heraclea Sintica Strengthens Evidence of Ancient Hero Cult Rituals – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
• BTA :: Second Inscription to Heracles Kynagidas Discovered in Heraclea Sintica
• A Two-Colored Marble Dancer from Ancient Perge Still Seems to Move After 1,800 Years – Arkeonews
• 2,000-Year-Old Grape Seeds Rewrite the History of Italian Wine
• Rare intact Roman sarcophagus unearthed in Croatia
• Oderzo: A Large Early Christian Basilica Discovered—Mosaics and Tombs from Late Antiquity
• Greece returns over 1,000 coins to Turkey ahead of first joint Culture Forum | The Jerusalem Post
• Ancient Greek Inscription in Albania Reveals Powerful Roman Woman’s Role in Hadrian-Era City – GreekReporter.com
• Archaeologists Uncover Rare Roman Lime Kiln in Hungary – GreekReporter.com
• With Fresh Marble Fillings, the Parthenon Gets a Partial Glow-Up – The New York Times
• Bahariya Oasis was sacred 800 years before its temple, and Romans used it for wine and oil, archaeologists find

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Explorator 28.25 ~ June 21, 2026 – Explorator
• Opinion | Elon Musk Is Too Rich. We’ve Known That Since Plato. – The New York Times
• Achilles’ heel: a centuries-old misunderstanding? : NPR
• Ancient Roman Records Offer Rare Evidence for Jesus Beyond the Bible – Arkeonews
• The Daily Dump: Social Life in Ancient Roman Latrines – Archaeology
• Did Aristotle Write a Sex Manual? The Strange Story Behind a 17th-Century Bestseller – GreekReporter.com
• The Adventurous Journey of an Ancient Greek Lyre – GreekReporter.com
• Flowerpot Used For 200 Years Turned Out to Be a Rare Treasure : ScienceAlert

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Christopher Nolan Gets Unexpected Rival as a Second The Odyssey Movie Is Announced
• Imposing Statue of Zeus to Adorn City of Crotone, Magna Graecia – GreekReporter.com

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• Ancient Greek theatre revives legendary Callas opera Medea

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• The clay tablets from Poggio Civitate return to Siena forty years after their first exhibition
• Why are ancient statues almost always headless? Wars, iconoclasm, earthquakes, and revolutions: a major exhibition at Palazzo Strozzi reveals how fragments became more powerful than entire works.

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (3) Bread, Circuses, and the Claw – by Honor Cargill-Martin
• XXIV Stage epigrafico nei Musei archeologici nazionali del Veneto – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• (3) Aeneid III.294-395 – by publius vergilius maro
• (3) Aeneid III.396-505 – by publius vergilius maro
• Show Your Shelf: Library Special – Antigone
• Hey Stoopid | Sphinx
• Collections: Pre-Modern Armies for Worldbuilders, Part IIb: Officials, Contractors and Professionals – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Progress in Religion?
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Uncelebrated Heroes
• PaleoJudaica.com: Obeid, Le langage métaphorique dans le texte hébreu de Ben Sira (Mohr Siebeck)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Porter & Laird (eds.), The New Testament Canon in Contemporary Research (Brill)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Funerary Textiles in Situ: Towards a Better Method for the Study of Textile-related Burial Practices
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aux origines de la monnaie fiduciaire: Traditions métallurgiques et innovations numismatiques
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Laideurs grecques: Usages et représentations antiques
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La République romaine face aux crises. Tome 1: Traumatismes, résilience et recompositions aux temps des guerres hannibalique et civiles (218-201/49-30 a.C.)
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hospitalité et régulation de l’altérité dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Anima Latina 21.06.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
• Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 20.06.2026 – Vatican News
• 3901 Ancient Superpowers Colli…–The History Network – Apple Podcasts
• The Library of Alexandria – The Ancients | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (578) Some of the best Ancient Greek ruins aren’t in Greece! – Cyrene, Libya – YouTube
• (579) AB OVO (usque ad mala) | Spoken Latin Podcast (70) – YouTube
• (580) Why We’ve Misunderstood Ancient Disability for Centuries – YouTube
• (580) Could you survive the challenges faced by Odysseus? – YouTube
• (580) Pompeii: Out of Time with Tom Hiddleston | Official Trailer | National Geographic – YouTube
• (580) The Rule of Cambyses II #ancienthistory #persianempire #persian – YouTube
• (580) Secrets of Forgotten Pharaohs – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS …

• Life in Transition on the Roman Border: The Lower Danube, 4th–7th Centuries | Spartokos a lu