IN THE NEWS …
- Tombs found in Türkiye may belong to Alexander’s soldiers | Türkiye Today
- 2,000-year-old Roman villa with stunning mosaics discovered in Turkey
- Ancient finds revive debate over Homer’s ties to Türkiye’s Izmir | Daily Sabah
- Possible 2,200-Year-Old Greek Military Camp Found in Uzbekistan – The Times Of Central Asia
- Monumental Herakles Gate with 1,800-Year-Old Reliefs Unearthed at Ancient Side | Arkeonews
- 1,600-Year-Old Scraps Turn Out to Be a Lost Roman Law Book | Discover Magazine
- Ten Hellenistic Tombs Unearthed at Ancient Cilician Port Linked to the Macedonian World | Arkeonews
- 1,900-Year-Old Statue of Emperor Hadrian Reconstructed at Ancient Greek City in Turkey – GreekReporter.com
- Ancient City in Southern Greece Reveals Artemis Statuette and Possible Temple – GreekReporter.com
- Surprising ingredients suggest ancient Egyptian paint was far more complex than previously assumed
- Hadrian’s Head Found in Turkey: A 2.14-meter-tall Roman statue is back on its feet
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- Eighteenth-century scholars destroyed hundreds of Herculaneum scrolls trying to prise them open, because the eruption that buried the library had carbonised the papyrus shut — and in June a crowdsourced team that started as amateur contestants read an entire one, still rolled, without touching the inside – ScienceBlog.com
- The great carnelian mystery – The Past
- The Diverse Roots of the Mycenaeans: How Multiple Cultures Shaped Ancient Greece – GreekReporter.com
- Dispilio Tablet, The Earliest Written Text Discovered in Greece – GreekReporter.com
- Wigs and hairstyles in ancient Egypt | British Museum
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- Emily Wilson is retranslating ‘The Odyssey’ — all over again | AP News
- Pat Easterling: staunch defender of the classics whose So…
- What Really Destroyed the Library of Alexandria? | National Geographic
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- A theatre is reimagining Homer’s Odyssey through the agony of Ukraine’s war | AP News
- Polytropos: The Return of Mētis in Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey – Bright Lights Film Journal
ANCIENT DRAMA …
- A theater is reimagining Homer’s Odyssey through the agony of Ukraine’s war – ABC News
- Penelope review – Odysseus’s other half sings of her own twists and turns | Edinburgh festival 2026 | The Guardian
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- (2) Aeneid XI.725-835 – by publius vergilius maro
- Damnatio Memoriae: Erasing a Person in Rome | Veiled Antiquity
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: The Lesson of Torchesk
- Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues: Bronze Age Treasure of Villena Stolen from Archaeological Museum
- Version 2 of the Forging Antiquity Database |
- (3) A Political Poetaster – by Armand D’Angour
- Something New for the Year Ahead – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Friday Quick Hits and Varia | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Augustinus als Numidiër – Mainzer Beobachter
- De schat van Villena – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Honor the Ancients
- PaleoJudaica.com: Review of MacDonald, Carthage: A New History
- PaleoJudaica.com: How did Prof. Marc Zvi Brettler change his mind?
- PaleoJudaica.com: The evidence for the Diaspora Revolt of 115-117 CE
FRESH PODCASTERY…
STREAMING MEDIA …
BOOK REVIEWS…
- Orality and narration: performance and mythic-ritual poetics in the ancient world – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
- Reading the Odyssey: a guide to Homer’s narrative – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
POSTDOCS AND EMPLOYMENT…
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