IN THE NEWS …
- Rome: Here’s How the Grand Archaeological Complex Stretching from the Imperial Forums to the Circus Maximus Is Taking Shape
- Due nuovi reperti archeologici dall’antica città romana di Aquinum – Notizie – Ansa.it
- 2,000-Year-Old Warship of Rome’s Great Enemy Mithridates Found in the Black Sea | Arkeonews
- Tombs found in Turkey may belong to Alexander the Great’s soldiers | The Jerusalem Post
- A body surrounded by gold and swords: how Mycenaeans staged their burials | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Archaeologists Map Ancient Tombs and Trajan’s Temple at Ancient City of Selinus – GreekReporter.com
- Roman settlement found beneath the forest floor reveals new life at Germany’s Kapersburg fort | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Egypt unearths ancient Greek funeral elegy inside ancient tomb | The Jerusalem Post
- Three Roman tombs discovered near Troyes: glass jars and an amphora reveal the history of a family from 1,700 years ago. Who were they? What was there?
- Mushroom picker finds 2,400-year-old burial urn in Polish forest
- Ancient wall dating back 2,500 years unearthed at Blaundos
- 2,100-year-old luxury tableware discovered in ancient shipwreck off Türkiye
- A Hidden Wall Reveals How the Phrygians Completed Midas Castle’s Natural Defenses | Arkeonews
- First excavation at the Villa dei Tritoni in Rome since its acquisition by the government
- Albanian and Italian archaeologists continue excavations at Durrës Amphitheatre | RTSH
- Rome Gave Up Its German Frontier in the 3rd Century. New Finds Suggest Someone Kept Using the Site
- Archaeologists Uncovered a Roman Pottery Workshop With 21 Kilns in France — It Ran for About Three Centuries and Left Evidence of Every Production Step
- Rare Venus statuette unearthed at Roman settlement in Hungary
- A Magical Pentagram and a Gold Coin Found With an Elite Warrior Inside a Sacred Circle | Arkeonews
- Ancient Smyrna Reveals Its First Wall Paintings Near the Agora and Theater | Arkeonews
- Rare bronze statuette of Priapus discovered at Novae near Svishtov – Radio Bulgaria in English
- Roman amulets kept their power after Christianity arrived | Archaeology News Online Magazine
- Libyan researchers work to restore Roman forts in Benghazi | The Libya Observer
ALSO OF INTEREST …
- explorator 28.41 ~ October 4, 2026 – Explorator
- Amazon and Achillia, Two Female Gladiators Who Fought in the Arena of Ancient Bodrum | Arkeonews
- September 2026 in Turkish archaeology | Turkish Archaeological News
- Herodotus Thought the Danube Began in the Pyrenees — That Error Now Clouds Germany’s “First Celtic City”
CLASSICISTS AND NEARLY SO …
- ‘Hollywood Versus Homer’: Acclaimed Classicist and…
- Odyssey translator Emily Wilson explores the ‘totally impossible’ task of translation at Duke – The Duke Chronicle
- Professor Barbara Graziosi Brings Ancient Texts to Life | Princeton Alumni Weekly
- Of Animals and the Ancient City | The Harvard Kenneth C. Griffin Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
- Ancient texts offer timely lessons on speaking freely
- In ‘Mestra,’ Madeline Miller combines shape shifting, Greek gods and feminism | Here & Now
RECEPTIONS AND APPROPRIATIONS …
- 5 Movies You Didn’t Realize Were Based on Homer’s The Odyssey – TVovermind
- Inside the halls of Palazzo Staffetti Del Medico Sarteschi, the hidden heart of Carrara
- Homer’s Odyssey Reimagined at Chicago’s National Hellenic Museum – GreekReporter.com
- The Odyssey throughout history
ANCIENT DRAMA …
- Antigone Exits review – emotions run high in experimental reworking of Greek tragedy | Theatre | The Guardian
- Ancient Greek myths, rewritten for a world in crisis – The Korea Herald
- Utah State thespians stage modern update of Greek comedy/satire ‘Thesmophoriazusae’ | Arts & Entertainment | cachevalleydaily.com
- Colouring in the ancient world | Varsity
- ‘Antigone: In the Language of Kings’ reimagines the ancient play – Annenberg Media
AT THE MUSEUMS …
FROM THE BLOGOSPHERE …
- Priority Traps and Generic Fallacies: Thinking about Homer as the Borg – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE
- Spencer Alley: Triumphs / Abductions
- Gold in Cicero – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Atticus’ hold over Cicero – Liv Mariah Yarrow
- Claudius’s Lost Etruscan History | Veiled Antiquity
- Why the Etruscan Language Still Can’t Be Translated | Veiled Antiquity
- Writing Wednesday: An Introduction in Theory and Practice | Archaeology of the Mediterranean World
- Book Announcement: 40 Questions about Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha – Reading Acts
- Material Musings – 2026
- Blog Post #126: The Cyclops in Homer’s Odyssey and Beyond with Mercedes Aguirre and Richard Buxton – Peopling the Past
- The Antigone Prize for Classical Philology 2026: Winners – Antigone
- (1) Three Words, Two Houses: A Map of Veni, Vidi, Vici
- Teaching Paradox: Hearts of Iron IV, Part IIIa: Focusing on Politics – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry
- Een Romeins konijn – Mainzer Beobachter
- Een verrassing in Porto Torres – Mainzer Beobachter
- Antieke voodoo – Mainzer Beobachter
- Laudator Temporis Acti: What Fear Causes
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Lack of Judgment
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Every Man for Himself
- Laudator Temporis Acti: Attraction to Filth
- Laudator Temporis Acti: A Misattribution
- PaleoJudaica.com: Essen: Ethische Perspektiven zum Speisen in Antike und Gegenwart (Mohr Siebeck)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Mroczek, Hidden Scrolls, Buried Bible (Yale)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Moore, … Elephantine in Its Persian Imperial and Administrative Context (Eisenbrauns, open access)
- PaleoJudaica.com: Saint Jerome’s feast day 2026
- PaleoJudaica.com: More on those ritual baths at the Ophel
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Administration at Girsu in Gudea’s Time
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: CartAlex
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Entwurf einer Sozialtopografie Dahschurs: Transformationen einer altägyptischen Kulturlandschaft
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Die Architektur des Pergamonaltares: Aufbau und Rekonstruktion
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Egyptian Artists in the Late Antique and Early Islamic Mediterranean: Selected papers by Mab van Lohuizen-Mulder
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Perseus Digital Library Update
- AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Aspects of Judean Life: Elephantine in Its Persian Imperial and Administrative Context
FRESH PODCASTERY…
- Rome’s Age of Revolution with … – Ancient History Podcast – Apple Podcasts
- Virgil the Virgin and the Crea…–Ancient History Fangirl – Apple Podcasts
- H.I. Marrou’s A History of Edu… – Ad Navseam – Apple Podcasts
STREAMING MEDIA …
- (351) Unearthing the Valley of the Nobles (Full Episode) | Lost Treasures of Egypt | National Geographic – YouTube
- (352) The First Roman Silver Coins – YouTube
- (352) How Marcus Agrippa Built The Roman Empire – YouTube
- (353) Hidden Beneath Jerusalem: Biblical Archaeology Pilgrimage Road | Jerusalem Dateline – Oct 2, 2026 – YouTube
- (355) History of the Seleucid Empire | Complete Animated Documentary – YouTube
- (355) Why did the Romans construct Portus by Ostia Antica? – YouTube
- (356) 5 Ancient Scripts We Still Can’t Read – YouTube
LATINITAS …
- Anima Latina 04.10.2026 – Podcast – Radio Vaticana – Vatican News
- Audio-Nachrichten auf Latein 03.10.2026 – Vatican News
BOOK REVIEWS…
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