IN THE NEWS …

• An Ancient Bridge Was Lost to History. Archaeologists Just Found It.
• How Did Hannibal Get His Elephants Across the Alps? New Calculations Point to One Route | Arkeonews
• 2,500-year-old tomb of a ‘warrior prince’ with chariot and helmet discovered on Italy’s Adriatic coast | Live Science
• Hidden inscription from after Christ’s crucifixion reveals new details of the Roman Empire | Daily Mail Online
• How the Romans conquered Britain — with terror and asparagus
• The Well of Junia Rufina: The Mystery of the Roman Lady Whose Name Appears in Inscriptions from Albania and Cádiz
• Roman funerary sphinx found embedded in a stairway in Spain | Culture | EL PAÍS English
• 4th-Century BC Greek Vase Reveals Hidden Repairs and Rare Pigments – GreekReporter.com
• Vicenza: The mosaic in Piazza Biade will be restored as an open-site project, with support from Rigoni di Asiago
• Archaeologists have discovered a unique structure in Romania that is nearly 1,800 years ol | UA.NEWS
• Secret underground structures discovered beneath ancient Roman amphitheatre in Cartagena « Euro Weekly News

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• What Is Zeus’ Law in Greek Mythology? | HISTORY
• Ancient Greek Genius Archytas Built a Flying Machine 2,400 Years Before Drones – GreekReporter.com
• London’s National Gallery Gifted Angelica Kauffman Painting
• Ancient Santorini Fresco Suggests Bronze Age Links Between Greece and India – GreekReporter.com

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS…

• Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: why a 3,000-year-old story still captivates us « Classics# « Cambridge Core Blog
• ‘The Odyssey’ First Reactions: Critics Hail Christopher Nolan’s New Movie – Newsweek
• Did Homer have a woman problem? – UnHerd
• Tom Holland on his ‘last chance to play a boy’ in The Odyssey
• The Culture-War Crowd Has Chosen The Odyssey as Its New Target, And They’ve Clearly Never Read Homer – Feminegra
• Five Science Fiction Versions of The Odyssey – Reactor
• Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ and what it means for classical literature – CSMonitor.com

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• IN PICS | Joburg Ballet reimagines Greek classic ‘The Bacchae’ through an African lens

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• Roman serpent ring found in East Lothian on display in Haddington

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• Laudator Temporis Acti: Our Diversity Is Our Weakness
• A curious story: the 1972 sales of the library of the King’s Inns, Dublin.
• Writing Wednesday: Eating the Wolf One Bite at a Time | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A Tale Of An Ancient Traveler Who Survived A Fatal Prophecy Of His Death – The Historian’s Hut
• The Battle of Zama, By The Anghiari Master (15th century) – The Historian’s Hut
• (4) Aeneid V.700-815 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• (4) My Final Odyssey Predictions – CSMFHT Writes
• Looting Matters: Classical Returns from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art
• De Keizerfora – Mainzer Beobachter
• De Tempel voor de Vrede – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tervanotko & Stökl, Text as Revelation (T&T Clark)
• PaleoJudaica.com: More on the Vitruvius basilica in Fano, Italy
• PaleoJudaica.com: Does the Bible say a husband inherits from his wife’s estate? Should it?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Researching a Rigged Game: Digital Approaches to Tracing the Illicit Trade in Cultural Objects
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Os Clássicos e o teatro: outrora e agora
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Via Appia Regina Viarum. Patrimonio UNESCO
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Assur 2025. Further insights into life and death in the New Town

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Fulvia – A Biography Part 1 – Ancient History 101 | Acast
• Fulvia – A Biography Part 2 – Ancient History 101 | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA…

• (296) Ancient historian breaks down Nolan’s Odyssey trailer – YouTube
• (297) Archaeologists uncover 2,500-year-old bronze chariot, shedding light on Tartessos – YouTube
• (297) Antiochus V Eupator | Seleucid Empire | Animated Documentary – YouTube
• (299) Who was Cicero? – YouTube
• (299) Minor characters in Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Sacred Landscapes in Central Italy: Votive Deposits and Sanctuaries (400 BC–AD 400), edited by Fabriana Fabbri and Alessandro Sebastiani | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Contribution à l’épigraphie et à l’histoire de la Béotie hellénistique: De la destruction de Thèbes à la bataille de Pydna, by Yannis Kalliontzis | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• La necropoli di Strozzacapponi (Perugia – Corciano), edited by Paolo Bruschetti, Luana Cenciaioli, and Alberto Trombetta | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Bir el Knissia at Carthage: A Martyrial Basilica Complex. Second and Final Report, by Susan T. Stevens, with contributions by S. Aloui, F. Bessière, B.J. Davey, O. Gorgob, A. Kalinowski, S. Pringle, J.J. Rossiter, E. Smith, A. Sterrett-Krause, S.T. Stevens, J. Terry, F. Touj, P. Visonà and C.K. Walth | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Late Roman Portraits to the Fall of Rome: Constantine I to Romulus Augustulus (306–486). With a contribution by Charalambos Bakirtzis and Pelli Mastora: Mosaic Portraits in the Mausoleum of Constantine in the Rotunda of Thessaloniki, by Ioannis Spatharakis | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 0, No 0
• Classical myth in medieval Ireland – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• L’anomalie nécessaire. Femmes dangereuses, idéologie de la polis et gynécophobie à Athènes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…

• Associate or Full Professor of Classics job with Amherst College | 3525404