IN THE NEWS …
- A 1,500-Year-Old Tax Scandal in Western Anatolia Reveals Corruption in the Late Roman Empire | Arkeonews
- The Emperor’s Revenge? Roman Villa Bones Hint at a Fourth-Century Massacre in Britain | Arkeonews
- Rare sculptures of Asklepios and Telesphoros unearthed in Turkey
- Archaeologists discover high-status Roman villa and bathhouse in Devon
- Giugliano (Naples): Restoration of the Tomb of Cerberus Begins
- 2,100-Year-Old Infant Burial Beneath Ancient Greek Temple Puzzles Archaeologists – GreekReporter.com
- Archaeologists Discover Hidden Structures Beneath the Fortified Hellenistic Settlement of Castiglione di Paludi in Calabria
- Hidden for 1,500 Years, a Lavish Roman Imperial Complex Emerges Beneath Rome’s Villa Celimontana | Arkeonews
- Ancient Etruscan Well Reveals Remarkably Preserved Treasures – GreekReporter.com
- Low Danube water levels in Bulgaria expose Roman-era bridge | Reuters
- This Marine-Life Mosaic Discovered Near the Colosseum Offers a Surprising Clue—Its Building May Have Housed Firefighters in Ancient Rome
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- ‘Barbarians’ Have Been Misunderstood For Centuries, Researchers Explain : ScienceAlert
- New Kingdom, New Harps in Ancient Egypt
- Bronze Age Cymbals of the Near East
- Sonic Warfare of the Celts
- An Ancient Greek Ceremonial Instrument
- Greek Officials Call on Trump to Help Return Parthenon Marbles – GreekReporter.com
- How Ancient Greek Warships Worked: The Engineering of the Trireme Explained in 3D Animation | Open Culture
- Who Was Titormos? New Statue Honors the Legendary Ancient Greek Giant – GreekReporter.com
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Dr Robert Nelson to explore whether anxiety was a Byzantine ‘invention’ – The Greek Herald
- Fordham Professor Discusses Odyssey’s Popularity
- Dans l’Antiquité, les Grecs n’étaient pas tous bodybuildés !
- Science, religion, and political omens: the meaning of eclipses in ancient Rome
- The Columns » Q&A: What Makes ‘The Odyssey’ Timeless? » Washington and Lee University
- On Adapting a Classic: U of G Prof Reflects on The Odyssey – U of G News
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- The Odyssey Effect: How Christopher Nolan’s Epic Is Rekindling the World’s Love Affair with Homer – tovima.com
- Odysseus, the Man and His Monsters in a World in Decline – L’Osservatore Romano
- Do films owe fidelity to Odyssey or Ramayana? Translators say ‘Homer, Valmiki will outlive us’ | Books and Literature News – The Indian Express
- Helen of Troy, the Woman Behind the Face That Launched a Thousand Ships – Greek City Times
- (3) Mel Gibson vs Christopher Nolan: Whose ‘The Odyssey’ Would Win?
- All the memes and controversies about The Odyssey.
- Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, A View from the East – The Ancient Near East Today
- (3) The Odyssey as tech criticism – by Brian Merchant
- Why Christopher Nolan turned Circe into a vindictive witch
- Homer, Odyssey and Nolan: How Retellings, Anachronisms and Myths Keep Ancient Stories Alive
- (3) The Odyssey Naked – by The Paideia Institute
- Fire of Anatolia brings Homer’s ‘Troy’ to Aspendos’ ancient theater | Daily Sabah
ANCIENT DRAMA …
AT THE MUSEUMS …
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (3) Aeneid IX.314-409 – by publius vergilius maro
- Homer’s ‘Set List’: Imagining a Performance of the Iliad – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- The Tale Of Musa—The Italian Slave Who Became A Queen Of Parthia – The Historian’s Hut
- Damocles At The Table Of The Tyrant Dionysius Of Syracuse, By Cornelis Troost (c. 1697 –1750) – The Historian’s Hut
- Early Publications on the Nash Papyrus | Variant Readings
- Persians: Lactantius on Magians’ expertise on lower spirits and on their lack of true wisdom (early third century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Men in Bearskins
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Similar to My Ancestors
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Grief Over Lost Books
- Zes vragen aan Wil Kuijpers – Mainzer Beobachter
- Museum Kam – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: Video reconstructions of Herod’s Temple courts
- PaleoJudaica.com: On John Dee’s Enochian writings
- PaleoJudaica.com: When did Nash buy the papyrus?
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Linear Elamite Inscriptions and Related Cuneiform Texts – I – Linear Elamite Texts from Susa
FRESH PODCASTERY…
- Homer and History with Joel Ch… – Exploring Antiquity – Apple Podcasts
- Did legionaries and auxiliarie…–Ancient Warfare Podcast – Apple Podcasts
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (719) ⚔️Odysseus vs. Charybdis: The Ordeal – YouTube
- (720) These are the real archaeological sites from Homer’s Odyssey – YouTube
- (722) Does the Bible Mention the Trojans? – YouTube
- (722) A Pompei rinasce il Canone di Policleto – YouTube
- (723) Love and Strife: Transformation in Epic Poetry| Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Nissa Maria Flanders – YouTube
- (723) Joshua Cannon | A Veteran’s Take on the Iliad – YouTube
- (723) Oral Tradition: The Odyssey’s Ancient Greek Secrets Revealed! – YouTube
LATINITAS …
- (723) Leisurely Reading According to Seneca and Petrarch | Lecture in LATIN | Will Killmer – YouTube
BOOK REVIEWS…
POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…
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