IN THE NEWS …

• Ancient 5th century mosaics rediscovered at one of Croatia’s most important early Christian sites | Croatia Week
• See a Rare Ceiling Fresco From Pompeii That Archaeologists Are Carefully Reassembling, Piece by Piece, Like an Ancient Puzzle
• What climate science can tell us about the lost world that inspired The Odyssey | CBC News
• The Face of Tanit, the Goddess of Life and Death, Returns to Alicante After 2,200 Years | TodoAlicante
• Satellite Images Reveal Widespread Looting of Syria’s Ancient and Hellenistic Heritage Sites – Greek City Times
• Bones Buried in Italian Necropolis Offer Clues on Ancient Diets and Society Before the Romans | Discover Magazine
• Archaeologists discover an impressive 2,000-year-old Roman canal buried underground – AS USA
• The “Barbarian Invasions” forced Roman legionaries on the Danube frontier to survive on hunting and fishing, as supply routes were cut off
• A Large 2nd-Century AD Germanic Settlement with Thirty Longhouses Eight Meters Wide Discovered Next to the Teutoburg Forest

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• The 2,000-Year-Old Greek Myth That Gave Us the Word “Narcissist”
• Unearthing the Gods of Brauron: The 2,400-Year-Old Marble Masterpiece – GreekReporter.com
• Ancient Tools Found on Greek Island Reveal Earliest Bronze Age Leatherworking – GreekReporter.com
• How a Dispute in Ancient Greece Led to Macedon’s Rise – GreekReporter.com
• The Mystery of the Kingdom of Lydia in the Bronze Age – GreekReporter.com
• Preserving the world’s oldest paper trail | University of Michigan News
• Cracking the code: Can AI help us decipher ancient languages?

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• ‘Nolan’s Odyssey is not historically accurate, but neither was Homer’s,’ says UB researcher – University at Buffalo

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Two Thousand Years of “The Odyssey” at the Library | Timeless
• Hear What Homer’s Odyssey Sounded Like When Sung in the Original Ancient Greek | Open Culture
• Mapping (or unmapping) Odysseus’ journey with an archaeologist | Research News – The Indian Express
• The Real Story Behind ‘Pompeii: Out of Time With Tom Hiddleston’
• (4) The culture war comes to Troy – Melanie Phillips
• Does ‘The Odyssey’ Understand Ancient Greek Religion?
• How THE ODYSSEY and Agamemnon Connect to DUNE and Paul Atreides – Nerdist
• Why The Odyssey?
• The Blogs: What I learned watching ‘The Odyssey’ in Tel Aviv | Benjamin Resnick | The Times of Israel

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (4) Aeneid VIII.102-199 – by publius vergilius maro
• Radical Publishing | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• A few musings on Colluthus and Coptic and copyright infringement
• What does the future hold?
• Women on the Column of Trajan – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• (4) You have watched the Odyssey, now what? – by Owen Rees
• (4) The End of the Odyssey – by Armand D’Angour
• PaleoJudaica.com: West Bank looting arrest
• PaleoJudaica.com: Tesla sent 1 Enoch to a customer instead of their solar lease contract?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Esther in the Dura-Europos synagogue murals
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Karanis Housing Project
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Al-Kharj II: Report on two excavation seasons in the oasis of al-Kharj: 2013 and 2015 — Saudi Arabia
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Noms de lieux en Méditerranée antique: Approches linguistiques

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• Greek Myth in Video Games – Ancient History 101 | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (476) Several points about The Odyssey – YouTube
• (477) Victor Davis Hanson: What Critics Get Wrong About Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ – YouTube
• (477) From Conquest To Collapse: Rome’s 700-Year Reign In Spain – YouTube
• (478) The Big Ol’ Odyssey Review with Flint Dibble – YouTube
• (478) What did the Sirens sing in the Odyssey? Ancient music with Bettina Joy de Guzman – YouTube