IN THE NEWS …
- 2,400-year-old sword found beside child in Gaulish burial
- Large 2,200-Year-Old Atropatene Settlement Unearthed in Azerbaijan | Arkeonews
- Ancient Egyptians Believed That These Newly Discovered Gold Tongues Allowed the Dead to Communicate in the Afterlife
- Archaeologists uncover ancient church under Italy fish market in Oderzo | Fox News
- Archaeologists Unearth a 2,400-Year-Old Sanctuary for the Worship of Odysseus – The New York Times
- The Archaeological Discovery of the Ligures Baebiani Reveals How Rome Used Mass Deportations to Control Its Empire
- What was the Qumran sect’s mysterious calender used for? | The Jerusalem Post
- Intact Roman ship raised to the surface in Spain — and archaeologists can’t believe its condition – AS USA
- Archaeologist Turns Over a Stone and Finds a Roman Guardian Hidden Near Hadrian’s Wall for 1,600 Years | Discover Magazine
- Stabiae necropolis found inside Gragnano pasta factory: VI century BC | inItaly | Ambasciatori del Territorio – inItaly
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- ‘Philistine’ is a byword for boorish ignorance – but the real Philistines were cultured. Who were they?
- Aslantaş, the impressive Phrygian monolithic tomb guarded by two stone lions for 2,700 years
- The ‘Odyssey’ Is the Epic of Our Time | CUNY Graduate Center
- A modern odyssey: the archaeologist following Homer’s route on a bicycle | Cycling holidays | The Guardian
- Pasts Imperfect (7.16.26)
- The Mystery of Nestor’s Cup: Who Was Buried With the Oldest Greek Inscription? – Greek City Times
- Alba Longa: the City that Gave Birth to Rome – Popular Archeology
- Greeks in Sardinia: why they didn’t found colonies on the island – Unica Radio
- The US is caught in the historical shadow of the ‘Gracchi Trap’ – Global Times
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Mary Beard on The Odyssey: It’s great, but where are Homer’s jokes?
- A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard | The Odyssey | The Guardian
- Sirens, monsters and missing men: What makes ‘The Odyssey’ a timeless tale? | University of Arizona News
- The Odyssey is set in a fantasy world – but the ancient Greeks mapped it onto what they knew
- Girls at the Altar: Childhood and Religion in Ancient Greece
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- The Odyssey movie will slay even Christopher Nolan skeptics.
- ‘The Odyssey’ movie review: An ancient epic is reborn | AP News
- ‘The Odyssey’: Christopher Nolan struggles to match Homer
- The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan has done it again
- The Odyssey review: Christopher Nolan’s epic is a glorious cinematic experience and a triumph of both story-telling and movie-making… one viewing simply isn’t enough | Daily Mail Online
- ‘The Odyssey’ Review: Passion in Every Frame – The New York Times
- The Odyssey, review: An astonishing reimagining of Homer
- ‘The Odyssey’ Reviews Roundup: What Critics Are Saying
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Is Going to Drive the Right Wing Completely Insane | Vanity Fair
- The Origins of the Monsters in Homer’s Odyssey: The Cyclops, Sirens, Scylla & More | Open Culture
- The Joy of Reading ‘The Odyssey’ to My 3-Year-Old Son – The Atlantic
- A voyage of discovery: an idiot’s guide to reading The Odyssey | Books | The Guardian
- Archaeologists found a real ancient city in Turkey that may have inspired the story of Troy, but there is still no proof that the Trojan War happened | World News – The Times of India
- The Odyssey has enraged many history nerds like me, but they’re missing the point.
- 10 great Greek myth adaptations | BFI
- Bringing Homer into the home: how the Iliad and Odyssey became widely available | The Spectator
- ‘The Odyssey’ is not a myth. It is the blueprint of a civilization | eKathimerini.com
- Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’: Why a 2,700-year-old epic is the ultimate guide to resilience in the age of AI | Wake Forest News
- What Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ and the Hebrew Bible have in common | The Jerusalem Post
- Review: ‘The Odyssey’ Is Just Another Reason for Despair
- Was the Trojan Horse Real? What Historians Actually Think
ANCIENT DRAMA …
- Euripides’ Bacchae Tour Greece, Cyprus and Bulgaria
- The Oresteia, Bridge Theatre, review: The Greek tragedy turned into four hours of horror porn
AT THE MUSEUMS …
- Face-to-face with ancient Rome: Exhibition in Hungary… | Daily Mail Online
- Rare Roman hoard now on display at Discover Bucks Museum | Bucks Free Press
- Balnea Daciae: exhibition on ancient Dacian baths at Pompeii | inItaly | Ambasciatori del Territorio – inItaly
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- Thing Things Thursday: Robot Jobs | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- (4) Aeneid VI.562-678 – by publius vergilius maro
- Overkill | Sphinx
- ODYSSEY FILM BINGO! | Greek Myth Comix
- Kiwi Hellenist: The Odyssey on screen: a catalogue
- Looting Matters: Another Bürki object returns to Italy
- Looting Matters: Two more Bothmer donations returned to Italy
- De Cyrenaica (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- De Cyrenaica (2) – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Is Egypt dismantling the legal status of Saint Catherine’s Monastery?
- PaleoJudaica.com: MBA incised reed recovered from Wadi Murabbaʿat Cave 2
- PaleoJudaica.com: Does 1 Enoch say that the watchers are buried in Antarctica? No.
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Objets pontiques en 3d
FRESH PODCASTERY…
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (119) Helen of Sparta: Odyssey 15.172-178 – YouTube
- (120) Helen of Sparta: Odyssey 15. Lines 172-178. Greek lyre, aulos, drum, lyrics. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- (120) Tell Me, Muse: Odyssey 1 lines 1-10. Ancient Greek lyre and lyrics. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- (120) Demetrius I Soter | Seleucid Empire | Animated History Documentary – YouTube
- (120) The Weirdest Thing About the Odyssey – YouTube
- (120) The 8 Romans who shaped the modern world | Mary Beard – YouTube
- (120) I got to preview The Odyssey: here are my notes – YouTube
- (121) The Romans didn’t have a word for a moustache?? – YouTube
BOOK REVIEWS …
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