IN THE NEWS …

• ‘Dream’ Roman mosaic find dug up from Devon farmland
• Warrior princesses of ancient Egypt? Skeletons show women used the weapons buried with them
• Archaic Necropolis Unearthed Beneath Italian Pasta Factory Preserves Rare Textiles, Baskets, and Egyptian Scarabs | Arkeonews
• Young Macaque Found in Attaleia Tomb May Have Been a Wealthy Roman’s Pet | Arkeonews
• Metal detectorist finds ‘rare’ Roman treasures in Buckinghamshire
• Archaeology Discoveries Reveal Ancient Egypt’s Secrets as Looted West Bank Treasures Are Recovered – USA Herald
• Ancient chariot emerges among remains of mysterious society that burned down its own buildings and then disappeared | Live Science
• Roman Shrine Sculpture Discovered at Historic Vindolanda Fort
• The Archaeological Discovery of the Ligures Baebiani Reveals How Rome Used Mass Deportations to Control Its Empire

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• ADORATIO, PERSIANS AND THE DATE OF JUSTIN’S EPITOME | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• Did Homer dream of androids? – Engelsberg ideas
• Inside the mystery of the Second Temple incense found in the Qumran Caves | The Jerusalem Post
• The Ancient Greek Woman Buried With Her Gold Jewelry – GreekReporter.com
• The Ancient Texts That Teach You to Be Human – The Atlantic
• Through a laser beam darkly—attempting a reassessment using optical diagnostics in epigraphy | npj Heritage Science

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• Will Julia Felix survive? Classics prof is on the case in Pompeii TV series | Cornell Chronicle
• How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• ‘The Odyssey’ review: An epic only Christopher Nolan could make : NPR
• The Odyssey, review: Christopher Nolan’s astonishing reimagining of Homer
• Classics professor shares thoughts on the film ‘The Odyssey’ – College of Arts and Sciences
• The Odyssey with Dan Snow review — not quite as epic as the other version
• Classics professor Kelly Olson talks adapting The Odyssey to film
• Review ‘The Odyssey’: Nolan’s Unheroic Epic Alters History of Movie-Watching | National Review
• A Walk Through Homer’s Odyssey: A Guide to the Epic Before Seeing Christopher Nolan’s Film | Open Culture
• Want More of the ‘Odyssey’? Read These Books Next – The New York Times
• As Christopher Nolan revives ‘The Odyssey,’ a scholar links Homer and the Bible | The Times of Israel
• Christopher Nolan’s Odysseus says much about our culture, and Homer’s
• ‘The Odyssey’: 10 Major Changes From Book to Screen | Vanity Fair
• The Odyssey: What did Helen of Troy look like? The outrage over Christopher Nolan’s movie misses the point.
• Bringing Homer into the home: how the Iliad and Odyssey became widely available | The Spectator Australia
• Did Homer Really Exist? The Mystery Historians Still Debate
• What even is ‘The Odyssey’? – The Washington Post
• Daniel Mendelsohn: “The Odyssey is a blueprint for all comedy” – New Statesman
• The Odyssey, the Bronze Age Collapse, and the World Before Israel – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Is ‘The Odyssey’ Woke? How Christopher Nolan’s Film Matches the History of Homer’s Epic
• The Odyssey Cast: All the Characters, Gods, Heroes in Nolan Movie
• What Christopher Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ Leaves Out – WSJ
• The Odyssey is set in a fantasy world – but the ancient Greeks mapped it onto what they knew
• The Real Locations of Odysseus’ Journey in Homer’s Odyssey – GreekReporter.com
• Hutzell: Annapolis can always go Homer, no matter how ‘The Odyssey’ turns out – The Banner
• Friday essay: I’ve been reading The Odyssey my whole life. Nolan’s film version is exhilarating – but not perfect
• With ‘The Odyssey’ in Theaters, Another ‘Odyssey’ Is Already Coming
• Why we can’t quit the ‘Odyssey’ | Stanford Report
• A voyage of discovery: an idiot’s guide to reading The Odyssey | Books | The Guardian
• How Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema Imagined Ancient Rome – JSTOR Daily
• 5 Discoveries That Illuminate Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘Odyssey’ | HISTORY
• Need another Odyssey? The best Greek mythology films ever made | The Independent
• From The Odyssey to Troy: The 21 Best Movies Based on Greek Mythology – GreekReporter.com

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• The Oresteia starring David Morrissey – review round-up

AT THE MUSEUMS…

• Ancient Roman faces brought to life through facial reconstruction at Aquincum Museum in Hungary | Archaeology News Online Magazine

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• Who Destroyed the Library of Alexandria? – The Historian’s Hut
• (4) Aeneid VI.679-751 – by publius vergilius maro
• More digitizations at Google Books?
• (4) Some jokes that didn’t make it into my Odyssey discourse article
• The Journal of Epigraphic Studies 9 (2026) – Current EpigraphyCurrent Epigraphy
• Silenos en Hermafroditos – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Stopper
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Rabbinic texts on the fall of Betar
• PaleoJudaica.com: What would Thomas Aquinas say about the Book of Enoch?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Vendyl Jones’s Qumran “incense” is lost
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations at Sabratha 1948-1951. Volume II: The Finds Part 2. The Finewares and Lamps
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Excavations At Sabratha, Volume II, The Finds, Part 1: The Amphorae, Coarse Pottery And Building Materials
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Archaeology of Fazzan, Volume 4: Survey and Excavations at Old Jarma (Ancient Garama) carried out by C. M. Daniels (1962–69) and the Fazzān Project (1997–2001)

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• BONUS: The Complete Map of the Odyssey – Dan Snow’s History Hit | Acast
• What did legionaries drink on …–Ancient Warfare Podcast – Apple Podcasts

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (139) Adapting the Odyssey – YouTube
• (145) Classicist Reviews Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ – YouTube
• (140) Two Previously Unknown Homilies by Saint Augustine Found in Poland – YouTube
• (141) How much do people really know about ‘The Odyssey?’ – YouTube
• (143) Ancient Historian Answers Your Greek Myth Questions – YouTube
• (147) Mary Beard’s ‘Talking Classics’ examines our obsession with the ancient world – YouTube
• (147) Discovering the Lost Temple of Artemis | Sylvian Fachard – YouTube
• (147) Is Odysseus REALLY A Hero? – With Stephen Fry – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS …

• Galien. Tome IX: Des habitudes – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Wine and ecstasy in Plato: a metaphor of sorts and its early reception – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

CFPS, CONFERENCES, AND ONLINE TALKS…

• War in the Ancient World

COURSES, POSTDOCS, AND EMPLOYMENT…

• MA in Ancient Worlds & Archaeology of the Ancient World in Berlin – Archaeology Wiki
• Stars and Time in Ancient Egypt