IN THE NEWS …

• A Mysterious Room in a Roman Villa May Be Iberia’s Oldest Known Library
• 3,200-year-old tomb revealed as burial place of King Midas’ father
• Archaeologists Think a 2,400-Year-Old Grave Belongs to an Ancient Greek Wrestler
• Egyptian blue in Iron Age Iran points to ancient connections
• Divers Uncover Ancient Wheat, Bronze Age Pots, and Mystery Timbers in Italy’s Sunken Prehistoric Settlement | Arkeonews
• Archaeologists in England Preparing for Road Construction Unearthed a Roman-Era Fingernail Cleaner With a Handle Shaped Like a Penis
• Massive Roman Dolium and Possible Shipwreck Discovered off Italy’s Elba Island | Arkeonews
• Archaeologists Thought a Mass Grave of 79 Shackled Men Held Foreign Invaders. They Were Wrong
• Low Danube water levels in Bulgaria expose Roman-era bridge | The Jerusalem Post
• 2,500-year-old Lydian homes reveal everyday life frozen in time at Sardis – Türkiye Today
• Today’s Mediterranean diet leans on olive oil, veggies and fish—But the ancients mainly ate bread
• IAA files indictment against two alleged antiquities thieves | The Jerusalem Post
• 1,600-year-old bathhouse where travelers washed before entering Nysa emerges in Türkiye – Türkiye Today
• Off the Coast of Sicily, Divers Discovered a Roman-Era Shipwreck With Hundreds of Amphorae, Ancient Jars Frequently Used to Hold Wine
• Greece to Restore Ancient Roman Villa in Kefalonia – GreekReporter.com

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• The Gezer Calendar – Biblical Archaeology Society
• Could the Man Egypt Tried to Erase Be the Biblical Moses? | Arkeonews
• TabletCraft Opens a Two-Way AI Translation Channel for Archaeologists | Arkeonews
• Human Faeces, Roman Medicine
• The Iliad – an extremely violent text – now in modern Norwegian | EurekAlert!
• The Egyptian trumpets that lay silent for over 3,000 years | CNN

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• MSU professors say Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey’ was never going to be accurate – The State News
• Melissa Mueller Edits New Collector’s Edition of Barnard’s Sappho : College of Humanities & Fine Arts : UMass Amherst

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan’s movie is driving new readers to Homer’s book. It’s glorious.
• What Christopher Nolan Got Wrong About the Odyssey and Why It Matters – The Good Men Project
• The Odyssey as AI allegory – UnHerd
• Nolan’s Odysseus is no Homeric hero, but a guilt-ridden modern who accidentally speaks Confucian: Greek scholar – Global Times
• Homer’s a Lie  – Honi Soit
• Nolan’s Odyssey: A Shaky Middle Ground  – Public Discourse
• Mike Schramm: Why does Dante place Odysseus in Hell? | 1819 News
• Why Myths Still Matter: Did Odysseus Suffer from PTSD? | Psychology Today
• Who Gets to Translate The Odyssey? Emily Wilson, Nolan, and the Fight Over a Hero – PROVOKEDmagazine
• Nolan’s “The Odyssey” turns Homer’s feasts into the film’s sharpest source of drama.

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• African choral ballet brings new life to The Bacchae at Joburg Theatre
• “Seven Against Thebes” returns for one extra performance | en.philenews.com
• Now Playing: ‘Hadestown’ is a beautiful blend of blues music and mythology – WOUB Public Media
• Julianne Moore To Star In Lusty Play ‘Faydra’ Off Broadway

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid X.1-95 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• The Martyrdom of St Colluthus – Second Version
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Greek Manuscripts on Mt. Athos
• Why Nolan’s Odyssey Matters: The Return of the Shared Epic | Ancient and Modern Rhetoric
• Fighting Is Fun, Peace Is a Yawn: What Nolan’s Odyssey Reveals About Us | Ancient and Modern Rhetoric
• Take A Chance On Me | Sphinx
• (2) Joyful homecoming – by Armand D’Angour
• Zonsverduistering – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: Are Jeremiah’s false prophet opponents imaginary?
• PaleoJudaica.com: Most of Egypt’s antiquities remain to be uncovered?
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: The archaeological project: Reflections on practice, interpretation and historiography

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• What is Late Antiquity? – Ancient History 101 | Acast

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (834) The Villa of the Mysteries in Pompeii – Noos The Adventure of Knowledge 08/09/2026 – YouTube
• (835) Roundtable on Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – YouTube

LATINITAS …

• EPHEMERIS_De Terrae Motu Maximo in Columbia et Calamitatis Magnitudine – Nuntii Latini Universi

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Combattre les dieux: le théomaque chez Nonnos de Panopolis – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Retrospective columns: Ionic capitals and perceptions of the past in Greek architecture – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Delicati and delicia in the Roman empire: a study of epigraphic and literary sources – Bryn Mawr Classical Review