IN THE NEWS …

• 2,200-year-old Roman shipwreck reveals ancient waterproofing secrets | ScienceDaily
• The Parthenon frieze was designed to be viewed as a cinematic sequence that only comes to life as you walk by, not as a static work of art
• Archaeologists uncover 11 rare marked arrowheads at Tepecik-Çiftlik whose purpose remains a mystery
• Archaeologists Demonstrate That Brands Already Existed 3,200 Years Ago in Bronze Age Oases
• 1,500-year-old Roman tax scandal exposed by ancient inscription found in Turkey | Archaeology News Online Magazine
• A Roman Sanctuary Built Over a Bronze Age Burial Mound Discovered in Suffolk That Later Became a Place of Execution in the Middle Ages
• France: New excavations at the monumental Roman mausoleum discovered in 2025 in Saint-Romain-en-Gal
• How Ancient Greeks Discovered Metaphor Through Dreams – Greek City Times
• Hellenistic Gold Rings Found in Jerusalem Point to Ancient Greek ‘Coming-of-Age’ Ritual – GreekReporter.com
• A 2,000-year-old Roman statue gets a new arm and a closer look | WUNC News
• Global scholars gather at the University of Michigan for biennial papyrus conservation seminar | AP News
• Construction in Austria Revealed a Roman-Era Mass Grave Beneath a Soccer Field. New Research Suggests That the Men’s Enemies Targeted Their ‘Sensitive Areas’
• Roman villa unearthed after farmer finds mosaic in Türkiye

ALSO OF INTEREST …

• Vegetius: the Roman war manual that ruled the Middle Ages | Conflits : Revue de Géopolitique
• The Aleppo Codex Online – Biblical Archaeology Society

CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …

• 5 books that inspired Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey

RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …

• A More Magnificent Penelope | National Review
• 5 TV Shows That Adapted The Story Of The Odyssey
• Six Epic Artworks Inspired by “The Odyssey”
• Fractured Odysseus – The American Scholar
• 509-year-old edition of ‘The Odyssey’ displayed in Wilson Library – The Daily Tar Heel
• Iconic Turner painting inspired by the Odyssey to go on display in York | YorkMix | YorkMix

ANCIENT DRAMA …

• Heracles: Of Men and Beasts – Edinburgh Festival Fringe | Musical Theatre Review
• Iliad: The Song Of Thetis theatre review – Intense, relentless reimagination
• Exploring ancient and contemporary worlds in ‘Antigone: In the Language of Kings’ at Getty Villa | Entertainment | calonews.com

AT THE MUSEUMS …

• A 1,600-year-old Village, a Dazzling Mosaic and a New Story of Ancient Judaism – Archaeology

FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …

• (2) Aeneid XI.1-99 – by publius vergilius maro – Aeneid Daily
• Life Inside the Crowded Roman Insulae Apartment Blocks | TheCollector
• OTTC: A Blog for Old Testament Textual Criticism: A Handbook of Neo-Aramaic
• Socrates in the Street of the Marble Workers – Antigone
• Archaeology & Occupation: A Double Standard at EAA 2026 – EVERYDAY ORIENTALISM
• Moesia – Mainzer Beobachter
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Steinbrüche und die antike Stadt
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Der Tempelberg und das römische Lager
• AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Il demonico in Platone e la nascita della demonologia platonica

STREAMING MEDIA …

• (1049) Why Did Rome Station 30,000 Troops on One Island – YouTube
• (1054) Young volunteers work to preserve Gaza’s damaged heritage – YouTube
• (1054) Sculpting the Wind: Nike of Samothrace – YouTube
• (1055) Loving and Laughing at the Philogelos | Lecture in ANCIENT GREEK | Jonathan Arrington – YouTube
• (1055) Rare 500 year old copy of Odyssey on display at UNC – YouTube

BOOK REVIEWS…

• Whose antiquity: A review of The White Pedestal | The Christian Century
• Always second but actually invincible: Agrippa, by Robert Harris, reviewed | The Spectator
• The enigma of Juba II, ‘the most fortunate captive ever taken’ | The Spectator Australia
• Sofocle, Niobe. Introduzione, testo critico, commento e traduzione – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
• Memories of antiquity: classical reception and memory studies – Bryn Mawr Classical Review

POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…

• Wanted: editor Ancient Warfare – Mainzer Beobachter
• BCAS – Assistant Professor in Classics, Modern Languages & Classics – 530030 – Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States
• Assistant Professor of Classics and Associate or Full Professor of Classics | Society for Classical Studies
• Assistant or Associate Professor – Ancient Greek Literature | Society for Classical Studies
• Assistant Professorship in Latin Literature | Society for Classical Studies
• Assistant/Associate/Full Professor of Classics | Society for Classical Studies