IN THE NEWS …

• Lavish 1,500-Year-Old Burial in Kazakhstan Reveals ‘Golden Shoes’ and Ancient Greek Motif – GreekReporter.com
• This 2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Well Was Opened with Bronze Statues and Closed with Two Human Bodies
• Roman villa unearthed after farmer finds mosaic in Türkiye
• New Excavations At Göbekli Tepe Are Challenging Old Theories About The 11,600-Year-Old Site | IFLScience
• Early Roman-era inscription discovered in Shahat | The Libya Observer
• 2,000-year-old inscriptions scrawled in a Spanish cave reveal mysterious Roman goddess cult | Live Science

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• (2) In Search of Wes Anderson’s “Phoenicia” — 20 Aug 2026
• Alexander the Great died aged just 32 – but where had he been planning to conquer next? | HistoryExtra
• Global scholars gather at the University of Michigan for biennial papyrus conservation seminar | AP News
• Magical plant used for birth control by Romans and Greeks found 2,000 years after going extinct
• Villa of the Mysteries: Reading the Frescoes | Veiled Antiquity
• Modeling Ritual Communication: Sound and Sight in the Principia of the Roman Legionary Fortress at Novae | American Journal of Archaeology: Vol 130, No 3
• The Toxic Secret of Pluto’s Gate, the Ancient ‘Gate to Hell’ | HISTORY
• 5 of the Most Common Jobs in Ancient Greece

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• News – In Memoriam: Former AIA President James Wiseman – Archaeological Institute of America
• In Memoriam: Prof. Pat Easterling – The Classical Association | The Classical Association
• The ancients also worried about the risks of gambling. But even Roman emperors played dice

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• (2) The Veteran’s Odyssey – by Erin O’Toole – Blue Skies
• The Odyssey’s Odd Twist – Juicy Ecumenism
• Fractured Odysseus – The American Scholar
• What is Godzilla's The Odyssey? Everything About Kaiju King's Crossover with Homer's Epic | Yardbarker
• The Best of the Worst of Times ~ The Imaginative Conservative

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• You Can Now See One of the Oldest Surviving Copies of ‘The Odyssey’ at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
• Rare 1517 copy of the Odyssey on display at UNC Chapel Hill :: WRAL.com

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid X.833-908 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• The Odyssey Files #2: “ ‘I am become a name’: Odysseus for better, for worse, and for everything in between” – Department of Classics – UCLA
• Waiting for the Barbarians – by Armand D’Angour
• Three Things Thursday: Running toward the Fire | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: Middle Babylonian Scribes
• How Many Eyes Did Homer’s Cyclops Have? – Antigone
• “Get my travel funds from Moneta” – Liv Mariah Yarrow
• Erasing Wax Tablets in the Sun | Variant Readings
• Telemachus on the Island of Calypso, Manufactured By Joseph Dufour et Cie (c. 1752–1827) – The Historian’s Hut
• Een ankerstok uit Duisburg – Mainzer Beobachter
• Laudator Temporis Acti: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
• PaleoJudaica.com: Sader, Ancient Tyre between Myth and History (SBL)
• PaleoJudaica.com: Deuteronomy and secular slaughter as an innovation
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Sokrates revised and revisited: Überlieferung, Diskurs, Inszenierung
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Hexapla Institute
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Athlètes et héros

FRESH PODCASTERY…

• (2) Can We Return to an Enchanted World? – by Anya Leonard
• BBC Radio 4 – In Our Time, Archive: Hatshepsut
• Why are Techbro Oligarchs So Obsessed with Augustus? – Ancient History Fangirl

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (1028) Who destroyed the Baths of Constantine? – YouTube
• (1030) “The Camera, The Eye, and The Past,” Lecture by Charles F. Nims, May 22, 1975 – YouTube
• (1030) Spirituality in the Ancient World: What Have We Lost? – YouTube
• (1030) Rome’s EPIC Wall Art: More Than Just Pretty Pictures! – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Was Alexander really ‘great’? Gripping new biography knocks him off his pedestal | Books and Literature News – The Indian Express
• La céramique avec des décorations de style West Slope sur le territoire de la Bulgarie] | Spartokos a lu
• Learning and power in late antique Gaul: classical education and the end of Roman rule – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Ilias Latina. Introduction, text, translation, and commentary – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…

• Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean Studies – HigherEdJobs