IN THE NEWS …
- A 2,400-Year-Old Tomb in Turkey Filled With Wrestling Coins May Reveal the Life of an Ancient Athlete
- Rare 4,000-Year-Old ‘Enigmatic Tablet’ Found Intact at Lucone Bronze Age Village in Italy | Arkeonews
- Roman-Era treasure? Coin, bracelet and spearhead discovered near Miejsce
- Croatian army helps rescue Roman ship replica stranded on Drava | Croatia Week
- Bathing Complex Discovered at Egypt’s Tel Nasser – Biblical Archaeology Society
- 1,700-year-old church discovered under a lake in Turkey may be the location of the First Council of Nicaea — but other experts disagree | Live Science
- Turkey’s Megalithic Site Göbeklitepe Is Often Called The World’s First Temple. Is This Actually True?
- 2,500-Year-Old Marble Statue Unearthed in Turkey
- Massive Roman-Era sarcophagus found sealed and undisturbed in Croatia
- Mass Roman Soldiers’ Grave Found During Construction In Austria
- Ancient Egyptian tomb shows how burial trends changed over hundreds of years
- Israel discovers 1,300-year-old shopping center in central Israel | The Jerusalem Post
- Steering Committee Approves Partial Reconstitution of Temple of Zeus Staircase in Jerash – The Jordan News Agency
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- The Minoan Snake Goddess, Heraklion Archaeological Museum – Atlas Obscura
- Roman Emperors Had a Secret Strategy to Keep Power in the Family – GreekReporter.com
- Did Buddhism Influence Greek Stoicism? – GreekReporter.com
- Greek Mythology and the Birth of Renaissance Masterpieces – GreekReporter.com
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Mount Allison archaeological research project helping to understand ancient Greek and Indigenous interactions » CHMA
- Overall, a Big Thumbs-up: Classics Faculty React to Nolan’s Odyssey Movie | Bowdoin College
- Where the Founding Fathers Found Their Inspiration | Tufts Now
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- What is Zeus’s Law? The Ancient Moral Code of The Odyssey Explained | HistoryExtra
- Who Are Those Giant Soldiers in The Odyssey? Meet the Laestrygonians | HistoryExtra
- The 7 Best Greek Mythology Movies, According to Rotten Tomatoes
- “The Odyssey” as Told through Music | Clef Notes | Illinois Public Media
- Nolan’s “Odyssey”: Does His Bold, Fresh Thesis Work? ~ The Imaginative Conservative
- The Odyssey’s moral maze
- Before Greek myths reached the multiplex, they were weapons of political satire
AT THE MUSEUMS …
- The Metropolitan Museum in New York is exhibiting the oldest fragment of the *Odyssey*
- U of M exhibition brings ancient Roman Egyptian documents to life – Winnipeg Free Press
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (2) Aeneid X.606-718 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
- Two Things Tuesday: More Anarchism | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- A missing chunk of Pope Vitalian’s Letter to King Oswiu about Easter?
- News From Amphipolis 18/8/26 | Sphinx
- Bes defaced?! (RRC 266/3) – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Money Bags, Money Baskets – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Tolerable Weight Variation Per Coin, Silver vs Gold – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Ongoing Perseus disruptions and future plans » Perseus Digital Library Updates
- (2) From CT Scan to Ancient Text: A First Letters Prize Workflow
- Alexander de Grote in Sousa (1) – Mainzer Beobachter
- Poëzie: Pompeius – Mainzer Beobachter
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Michigan papyrus collection
- PaleoJudaica.com: The Temple of Ištar-of-Akkad in Babylon
FRESH PODCASTERY…
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (978) Who Killed Alexander the Great? | History’s Greatest Mysteries (S4) – YouTube
- (979) Stoicism is the internet’s Roman Empire. Why? – YouTube
- (980) “Homer belongs to these lands”: A Turkish city claims to be the birthplace of the Odyssey – YouTube
- (980) Roman fort “restored” into a modern building. Architect: “Good God, it’s a disaster” – YouTube
BOOK REVIEWS…
- Children of Mars: the origins of Rome’s empire – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Iasos. Una polis nella Caria costiera in età arcaica – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…
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