IN THE NEWS …
- Roman wall unearthed under Swiss city linked to Emperor Tiberius – SWI swissinfo.ch
- New Roman military camp discovery reveals scale of Cantabrian Wars siege
- Türkiye’s ancient city of Prusias ad Hypium prepares for restoration | Daily Sabah
- Burned wooden beams from Jerusalem’s First Temple destruction found preserved after 2,600 years | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Rare 1,700-year-old coin of Britain’s usurper Roman emperor found during railway excavations | The Independent
- Gaza’s Catastrophic Loss – Biblical Archaeology Society
- 2,000-Year-Old Main Street Unearthed at Aspendos Reveals Shops, Sewers and a Monumental Gate | Arkeonews
- Unusual Stone Statue and Ritually Mutilated Gaulish Sword Found at 2,100-Year-Old Farmstead | Arkeonews
- Engraved Reed Found in Judean Desert From Middle Bronze Age: Did It Have Meaning? – Archaeology
- 6th-century BCE necropolis with luxury grave goods found beneath Italian pasta factory | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Archaeologists May Have Found Odysseus’ Sanctuary on Ithaca
- Ancient Greek Sanctuary From Hellenistic Era Discovered Inside a Cave in Italy – GreekReporter.com
- New evidence redraws Roman conquest’s final conflict in ancient Catalonia
- What Andy Burnham’s Premiership Could Mean for Greece’s Bid to Reunite the Parthenon Marbles – GreekReporter.com
- Italy’s culture ministry granted permission to authenticate the statue
- Ancient Greek City in Sicily Yields Rare Mosaics and Early Christian Finds – GreekReporter.com
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- Someone Scratched Homer’s Odyssey Into a Brick 1,800 Years Ago
- Transparent desires: Delving into the Roman lapis specularis mines – The Past
- Benefit Your Friend, Hurt Your Enemy: Ancient Greek Tribal Justice – GreekReporter.com
- Energy costs of Hannibal’s alpine crossing
- Ancient 3,500-Year-Old Mycenaean Armor Tested in Epic Combat Simulation Shows Homer’s Iliad Wasn’t Pure Fantasy After All
- Homer and everyone | eKathimerini.com
- ‘Odyssey’ movie boosts sales of Emily Wilson’s translation | PhillyVoice
- Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ Reclaims the Diversity of the Ancient World – Ms. Magazine
- Why Conservatives Are Losing Their War Against The Odyssey | Washington Monthly
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- I’m a Homeric Scholar. This Is What I Really Think of ‘The Odyssey’
- The translator behind “The Odyssey” renaissance
- How Could I Forget Odysseus? by The Paris Review
- Sir Arthur Evans: Archaeology trailblazer of Minoan culture | Great British Life
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- The “Odyssey” casting furor obscures a deeper history – Salon.com
- Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey starring Matt Damon and Anne Hathaway has inspired and enraged fans
- Pompeii: Archaeologist Reveals What Really Happened Following The 79 CE Eruption Of Vesuvius, One Of History’s Most Catastrophic Natural Disasters | IFLScience
- The Odyssey controversy and why the legacy belongs to humanity – The Greek Herald
- 7 Other ‘Odyssey’ Movie Adaptations to Stream Now – The New York Times
- The real reason conservatives hate Nolan’s “Odyssey” – Salon.com
- The boldest ‘Odyssey’ choice is Lupita Nyong’o as Helen of Troy
- The Best ‘The Odyssey’ Adaptations that aren’t ‘The Odyssey,’ Definitively Ranked | GQ
- Review: Why Is There No Sex in ‘The Odyssey’?
- The Odyssey left out these NSFW sex scenes from the original
- ‘Pompeii: Out of Time’ reveals surprising survival stories | CNN
- Literary Hub » Why We Need More Woman-Centric Retellings of The Odyssey
- 5 Rock Songs Inspired By Greek Myths
- Elon Musk says Grok Imagine will make ‘historically accurate’ AI adaptation of Homer’s Odyssey | Film | The Guardian
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (4) Aeneid VII.212-322 – by publius vergilius maro
- Mysterious Baskets – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Scythians: Athenaios and others on Scythianizing and “Scythian speech” (fifth century BCE on) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Reading Wednesday: An Ottoman Church in Greece | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- (4) The sailor’s homecoming – by Armand D’Angour
- OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Transformations in Translation: Comparing Qumran Aramaic Job and Old Greek Job
- 12 Greek Myths That Inspired Canova (Italy’s Greatest Sculptor) | TheCollector
- Marcus Antonius en de Mommsenthese – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Industrious Human Bees
- PaleoJudaica.com: Tisha B’Av 2026
- PaleoJudaica.com: Did P know about the centralized sanctuary?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Amar, “Psalm 45 and the Achaemenid View of the Ideal King” (JANES 38, 2026)
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Les élites de cour de Constantinople (450-610): Une approche prosopographique des relations de pouvoir
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Assyria’s Plunder: From Ancient Empire to Modern Loot
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: New Research on Old Collections in Southwest Asian Archaeology: Proceedings of the Workshop Held at the British Museum, London, 31 July – 2 August, 2023
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The Iron Age and Gallo-Roman Periods in Jersey
FRESH PODCASTERY…
- Alexander the Great – Ancient History 101 | Acast
- The Roman Mummy Who Swallowed the Iliad, or, Take 1186 Ships and Call Me in the Morning | This Week in the Ancient Near East
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (287) Is Christopher Nolan an ‘anti-white racist’? An interpreter of The Odyssey weighs in – YouTube
- (289) Storytelling Ep26. Maria Pretzler. Sparta, Arcadia, Odyssey, history! Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- (289) Pescara – In Search of the Ancient Roman Port – YouTube
BOOK REVIEWS…
- Ancient Latin epics in Girolamo Vida’s Christiad – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Direct speech in Greek and Latin epic: expanding the methods and canon – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…
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