IN THE NEWS …
- Brough: Woman discovers 12 Roman buildings beneath her paddock
- Ancient 5th century mosaics rediscovered at one of Croatia’s most important early Christian sites | Croatia Week
- Piecing together Pompeii’s forgotten past: Archaeologists restore the ceiling of a banquet hall – revealing a fresco depicting the mythological union of Dionysus and Ariadne | Daily Mail Online
- The complete layout of the wall of the first Roman camp in Vindonissa discovered, along with medical and military equipment of the legionaries
- Police arrest man suspected of stealing thousands of archaeological artifacts | The Times of Israel
- Archaeologists find rare First Temple mold in Tower of David | The Jerusalem Post
- Ancient Egyptian settlement discovered from era that fueled Exodus debate
- Archaeologists Discover 120 Roman Inscriptions in Spanish Cave that Reveal the Role of Women in the Goddess’s Rituals
- Archaeologists discover an impressive 2,000-year-old Roman canal buried underground – AS USA
- Carolina-led Huqoq project enters new phase – College of Arts and Sciences
- Diet reveals what life was like 2,700 years ago in an Italian community: Gender inequality, social status and migration
- Large Germanic settlement from the Roman period uncovered in Bielefeld with 30 longhouses and trade links | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- “Richest” Grave of Thracian King Unearthed in Bulgaria – Novinite.com – Sofia News Agency
- 2,000-year-old Roman dice carved from bone found by Hadrian’s Wall – Discover SWNS
- Grave of two newborns discovered in an antique latrine at Ephesos
- Italian con artist jailed for building ‘world’s oldest and largest amphitheatre’ 20-years ago | Euronews
- The incredible story of the man who built a fake Roman theater in Italy and sold tickets to visit it | International | EL PAÍS English
- Sensor-embedded 3D-printed repairs could help preserve ancient pottery | EurekAlert!
- Climate cycles drove severe droughts behind the collapse of Bronze Age civilizations, study reveals | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Ancient Cyprus meets Israel: Rare silver coin found on Ashdod beach | The Jerusalem Post
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- Relief fragment with vanquished enemies: A 3,400-year-old depiction of an Egyptian pharaoh crushing western Asian soldiers under his royal chariot | Live Science
- Homer has entered the chat | Michigan Today
- Cracking the code: can AI help us decipher ancient languages?
- COIN HOARDS OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE RESEARCH PROJECT | Ashmolean Museum
- Were the Odyssey’s Cyclopes Actually Minoans? – GreekReporter.com
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- What ‘The Odyssey’ Gets Right (And Wrong) About the Ancient World
- Christopher Hitchens Explains Why Homer’s Odyssey Still Matters to Our World (2000) | Open Culture
- ‘Odysseus looks like a bad leader’: How Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ departs from Homer
- Christopher Nolan Film Savaged by Ultimate ‘Odyssey’ Expert Emily Wilson
- The cultural odyssey of ‘The Odyssey’ | Opinion | thegazette.com
- How Christopher Nolan filmed his adaptation of ‘The Odyssey’ ‘without compromise’ | Buffalo Toronto Public Media
- ‘I would be ashamed to have written any part of this’: Odyssey translator Emily Wilson attacks Nolan blockbuster | Film | The Guardian
- Homer vs. Hollywood: Discussing Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey with Daniel Mendelsohn | The New York Review of Books
- An ‘Odyssey’ for Our Own Time – The Atlantic
- (4) You Will Never See Elon Musk’s The Odyssey
- Elon Musk says AI will make a ‘historically accurate’ Odyssey – here’s why that’s impossible
- The Odyssey effect: Nolan’s film drives epic rush to learn Greek
- The Ancient Epic That Explains America
- Mapping (or unmapping) Odysseus’ journey with an archaeologist | Research News – The Indian Express
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (4) Aeneid VIII.1-101 – by publius vergilius maro
- What Aeschylus’s “Prometheus Bound” Teaches About Defying Tyranny | TheCollector
- How Sumerian Accountants Discovered the Concept of Nothing | TheCollector
- The trial of St Colluthus ca. 304 AD – a literal transcription of the court proceedings
- OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: The Scrolls of the Torah
- Spencer Alley: Early Achilles
- (4) Has Homer’s Ithaca been found at last?
- (4) Nolan’s Odyssey: Boy Story – by Elizabeth Bobrick
- De Germanen (1) Herkomst – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on that female figurine face mold from Jerusalem
- PaleoJudaica.com: Three lost Neo-Assyrian kings discovered?
- PaleoJudaica.com: Arshama and the satrapal houses
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: La Description de l’Égypte: Une grande aventure éditoriale (1802-1830): Annexes
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’archeologia del cantiere protobizantino: Cave, maestanze e committenti attraverso marchi dei marmorari
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Reports from the Past. The G-Trenches in Tell el-Faraʿîn – Buto
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il teatro di Phoinike
FRESH PODCASTERY…
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (433) Peter Miller. In Praise of Greek Athletics. Women of the Odyssey. Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube
- (433) Nolan’s Odyssey True Subversion: The Christianisation of Homer – YouTube
- (434) Nolan’s Odyssey v. Homer’s Odyssey – YouTube
- (435) The Archaeological Proof for Buddhism in the Roman Empire – YouTube
- (441) U of C Classics professor saw “The Odyssey” twice, shares his review – YouTube
- (441) The Big Ol’ Odyssey Review with Flint Dibble – YouTube
LATINITAS …
POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…
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