IN THE NEWS …

• ‘The lance head was still inside the pelvis’: Mass grave found in Austria may hold casualties of unknown ancient Roman battle | Live Science
• Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites
• “Olympic” Pool Found in Western Turkey – Biblical Archaeology Society
• 3,500-Year-Old Linear A Prayer May Reveal Minoan Roots of Dionysos and Demeter | Arkeonews
• Mystery of Athens’ shackled mass grave deepens
• 10,000-Year-Old Rectangular Buildings Unearthed at Göbeklitepe May Have Been Homes | Arkeonews
• Romans unceremoniously dumped plague victims down a well, mysterious mass grave in Croatia suggest | Live Science
• Ancient Hattusa reveals 2,300-year-old tombs with intact skeleton – Türkiye Today
• 1,600-year-old bathhouse emerges at ancient city of Nysa
• Ancient Pompeii Frescoes Reveal the World of Greek God Dionysus – GreekReporter.com
• Low water reveals ancient bridge in Rome’s Tiber River | AP News
• DNA reveals a society organised around women in pre-Roman Britain | New Scientist

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• PRACTISING WHAT YOU PREACH: HERMOGENES AND META-DEMONSTRATION IN ON FORMS OF STYLE | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• LOCAL TRADITION IN EARLY GREEK HEXAMETER | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• ORESTES THE MANTIS: AESCHYLUS, CHOEPHOROE 928–30 | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• ARISTOTLE ON THE FINE DEATH | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• TRAGIC IRONY IN EURIPIDES | The Classical Quarterly | Cambridge Core
• Mobility and Roman Britannia | Britannia | Cambridge Core
• A Note on Roman Architectural Fragments from Tannery Cottages, Irthlingborough, Northamptonshire | Britannia | Cambridge Core
• A Reused Bronze Age Barrow and Roman Religious Shrine Site at Red Lodge, Suffolk | Britannia | Cambridge Core
• Rome says Nero died. The Talmud gives him a very different ending
• Mystery of Troy’s Lost Hot Spring Puzzles Researchers to This Day – GreekReporter.com

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• The Roman history scholar who became the boss of Candy Crush
• (95) Nolan’s Odyssey gave the Classics a blockbuster moment. Will academia answer the call?
• Erin Finn: Analyzing ancient remains to discover new insights about the past | Brown University

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• Why Homer will outlast us all
• Christopher Nolan remakes the Odyssey as an Anglo-American imperial fantasy | Middle East Eye
• Taming Odysseus – James R. Rogers
• ‘I felt so inspired’: Guardian readers on trying Homer’s epics after seeing The Odyssey | The Odyssey | The Guardian
• Opinion | What Nolan’s Odysseus tells us about Western elite’s existential angst | South China Morning Post
• The Odyssey Tattoos Every Greek Mythology Fan Needs to See – InkedMag
• The blind leading the blind? A fair appraisal of Nolan’s ‘Odyssey’ and the truth of myth – Georgia Bulletin – Georgia Bulletin
• Haven’t ‘The Odyssey’ Scolds Ever Heard of Midrash?
• I’m Just Like Odysseus! Coming Home to Ithaca – The Cornell Daily Sun
• Achilles and Patroclus Movie in the Works (But It Needs YOU!) – Nerdist

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• Met displays earliest known ‘Odyssey’ fragment | eKathimerini.com

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid X.215-307 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• (2) Hail and Farewell – by Armand D’Angour
• Kiwi Hellenist: Homeric details and other influences in Nolan’s The Odyssey (2026)
• (2) Are There Really Monsters in the Odyssey?
• Scythians, Sarmatians, or Massagetians: Josephos and others on wild invading Alans (first century CE) | Ethnic Relations and Migration in the Ancient World: The Websites of Philip A. Harland
• Three Class Notes for August 2026 – Noodlings
• “Ready Cash”, or Just Money in the Bank – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Skin Color
• Cicero in beeld & boek – Mainzer Beobachter
• PaleoJudaica.com: The Rosicrucian inflection
• PaleoJudaica.com: Non-Semitic Loanwords in the Hebrew Bible
• PaleoJudaica.com: New editors for the Eisenbrauns HACL series

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• The Battle of Gaugamela–Ancient Warfare Podcast – Apple Podcasts

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (889) What Does the End of The Odyssey Really Mean? – With Stephen Fry – YouTube
• (890) The Odyssey Through Papal Eyes: Faith, Truth and the Search for Home – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Military Book Review Carthage, A New History
• He was a captive of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra and Mark Antony’s son-in-law and completely forgotten by history… now discover the life of Rex Juba II – the African prisoner who became a Roman king | Daily Mail Online
• Following nature’s lead: ancient ways of living in a dying world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Coins of the Ptolemaic empire, part 2: Ptolemy V through Cleopatra VII – Bryn Mawr Classical Review