• 1737 — birth of Edward Gibbon (Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire)

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‘Tryphe’: How a Greek Word Found in Turkey Defines Ancient Roman Extravagance – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/07/tryphe-single-greek-word-found-turkey-defines-ancient-roman-extravagance/

Researchers Tracked the Journey of a 2,200-Year-Old Roman Shipwreck By Analyzing Pollen
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/researchers-tracked-the-journey-of-a-2200-year-old-roman-shipwreck-by-analyzing-pollen/

A Cuneiform Tablet Workshop Found in Ancient Nineveh Reveals That Assyrian Scribes Never Fired or Carefully Prepared Them

A Cuneiform Tablet Workshop Found in Ancient Nineveh Reveals That Assyrian Scribes Never Fired or Carefully Prepared Them

Archaeologists unearth exceptionally rare intact Roman grave in eastern Croatia | Croatia Week

Archaeologists unearth exceptionally rare intact Roman grave in eastern Croatia

Rirha Site in Morocco Uncovers Life Before and During Roman Rule

Rirha Site in Morocco Uncovers Life Before and During Roman Rule

Roman penis charm unearthed during dig at Carlisle Cricket Club
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/05/roman-penis-charm-unearthed-during-dig-at-carlisle-cricket-club/158000

Archaeologists Unearth Stone Altar Inside Ancient Greek Home in Sicily – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/07/archaeologists-stone-altar-ancient-greek-city-finziade-sicily/

Roman-era mosaic resembling ‘Gypsy Girl’ unearthed in Tokat
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-era-mosaic-resembling-gypsy-girl-unearthed-in-tokat-221896

Roman mosaic uncovered in Tokat after illegal digging exposes buried site
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2026/05/roman-mosaic-uncovered-in-tokat-after-illegal-digging-exposes-buried-site/157997#:~:text=A%20mosaic%20dating%20back%20to,and%20began%20a%20controlled%20excavation.

Ancient DNA Reveals What Actually Happened to Ordinary Europeans After the Western Roman Empire Fell
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/ancient-dna-europe-populations-fall-rome/

After Rome: genomic insights from southern Germany

After Rome: genomic insights from southern Germany

Are Animals Connected to Souls? – Biblical Archaeology Society

Are Animals Connected to Souls?

Why modern witches are making pilgrimages to an ancient Turkish temple | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/travel/lagina-sanctuary-hekate-turkey-ancient-temple-witches

Byblos, city of kings and gods, at the Arab World Institute
https://theconversation.com/byblos-cite-des-rois-et-des-dieux-a-linstitut-du-monde-arabe-279239′

Medea, Sculpted By William Wetmore Story (c. 1819–1895) – The Historian’s Hut

Medea, Sculpted By William Wetmore Story (c. 1819–1895)

Flogging a wooden horse: how faithful will Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey be? | The Odyssey | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/06/flogging-a-wooden-horse-how-faithful-will-christopher-nolans-odyssey-be

An epic time Nobody could miss: St. Olaf premieres The Odyssey! The Musical! – The Carletonian

An epic time Nobody could miss: St. Olaf premieres The Odyssey! The Musical!

A reimagined classic: Medea proves timeless at the ADC | Varsity
https://www.varsity.co.uk/theatre/31619

Greek Tragedy’s Untapped Canon – WSJ
https://www.wsj.com/articles/greek-tragedys-untapped-canon-cd51acf3

A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16) | Variant Readings

A New Article on P.Oxy. 7.1008 and 7.1009 (P15 and P16)

De ambtstermijn van een dictator – Mainzer Beobachter

De ambtstermijn van een dictator

PaleoJudaica.com: Holm, Aramaic Literature from Egypt and the Levant (SBL)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/holm-aramaic-literature-from-egypt-and.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Review of Identities in antiquity
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/review-of-identities-in-antiquity.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: MANTO data release
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/manto-data-release.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Poetry in the Name of God: (Self-)Representation of Clerical Spiritual Authorityin the Carmina Latina Epigraphica of Italy (4th–5th Centuries CE)
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/poetry-in-name-of-god-self.html

Divine music in archaic and classical Greek art: seeing the songs of the gods – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.05.05/

Unfertigkeit in antiker Architektur: Definitionen und Ursachen – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.05.06/

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The Ancients and the Afterlife…–Classical Wisdom Speaks – Apple Podcasts

How to Destroy a Democracy (We… – Ancient History Fangirl – Apple Podcasts

YHWH v JOVE – Vespasian #19–Life Of Caesar – Apple Podcasts

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(334) Alexander’s Impossible Conquest Explained – YouTube

(334) The Ancients and the Afterlife: Mythology, Mourning, and Mummies – YouTube

(337) The Aventinus Minor Project: Repartitioning Defensive, Domestic, and Religious Space on a Roman Hill – YouTube

(337) Can we trace the hands behind Egyptian artefacts—or just the systems that produced them? – YouTube

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14th International Congress of Cretan Studies

14th International Congress of Cretan Studies

Lecturer job with University of Minnesota | 37984182
https://jobs.chronicle.com/job/37984182/lecturer/?TrackID=108333&BatchID=2179&JobAlertId=312050&cmpid=JBE_TL_20260507_jobtitle

Ph. D. fellowship in Roman Sculpture | Job ad | Jobindex
https://www.jobindex.dk/jobannonce/h1662432/ph-d-fellowship-in-roman-sculpture

Call for papers: International conference “Clio at the School of Rhetoricians” (SU, 20-22/01/2027) | Rome and its Renaissances

Appel à communications : colloque international “Clio à l’école des rhéteurs” (SU, 20-22/01/2027)

New Classicists

Click to access f6d36b_9281c75b4bcf40bbba69ede7ba8e6dcb.pdf

• 431 B.C. — the “Peloponnesian War” began (according to one reckoning)
• 399 B.C. — death of Socrates (according to one reckoning)
• 1941 — death of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough)

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4,000-year-old tablets reveal magic spells, kings feared, and a beer receipt | ScienceDaily
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260504023848.htm

Mummy CT scan reveal ancient Egyptian might’ve suffered from osteoperosis | The Jerusalem Post
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-895123

Public baths and villa with mosaic floors found in Alexandria

Public baths and villa with mosaic floors found in Alexandria

Rare Circular Bath and Mosaic Roman Villa Unearthed in Alexandria Reveal a Lost Urban Quarter – Arkeonews
https://arkeonews.net/rare-circular-bath-and-mosaic-roman-villa-unearthed-in-alexandria-reveal-a-lost-urban-quarter/

Rare imperial purple cloth found in Roman infant burials in York

Rare imperial purple cloth found in Roman infant burials in York

In the Ancient World, This Pigment Was Worth More Than Gold. Archaeologists Discovered It Buried With Babies in Roman Coffins
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-the-ancient-world-this-pigment-was-worth-more-than-gold-archaeologists-discovered-it-buried-with-babies-in-roman-coffins-180988678/

Archaeologists Use Minoan Script to Unlock Mycenaean Linear B Records – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/05/minoan-script-mycenaean-linear-b-records/

Unlocking the Sunken City: How a Submerged Stoa Is Rewriting the History of Salamis – GreekReporter.com
https://greekreporter.com/2026/05/06/submerged-ancient-building-discovered-salamis-greece/

Archaeologists unearth exceptionally rare intact Roman grave in eastern Croatia | Croatia Week

Archaeologists unearth exceptionally rare intact Roman grave in eastern Croatia

Heidi Klum Recreates Veiled Vestal Statue at Met Gala 2026
https://wwd.com/pop-culture/celebrity-news/heidi-klum-met-gala-2026-veiled-vestal-look-1238940606/

The Odyssey: Christopher Nolan’s Darker Twist On Homer’s Ancient Epic
https://screenrant.com/the-odyssey-christopher-nolan-no-humor-change/

Marvel and DC heroes come ‘directly’ from Homeric epics, Christopher Nolan says | East Anglian Daily Times
https://www.eadt.co.uk/things-to-do/national/26078379.marvel-dc-heroes-come-directly-homeric-epics-christopher-nolan-says/

Christopher Nolan: The Odyssey Author Homer Was the Marvel of Its Day
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/christopher-nolan-odyssey-superheroes-homer-marvel-1236737774/

The Internet Ships The Odyssey’s Holland and Pattinson After Use of ‘Daddy’ – Nerdist
https://nerdist.com/article/internet-is-shipping-the-odyssey-telemachus-antinous-tom-holland-robert-pattinson-daddy/?amp

How a near-forgotten Roman coin collection became this senior’s honors thesis – College of Arts and Sciences
https://college.unc.edu/2026/05/ross-coins/

Deploying the Roman Conquest of Jerusalem in Latin Texts (c.400–c.1300)
https://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/read/deploying-the-roman-conquest-of-jerusalem-in-latin-texts-c400-c1300

CRISIS IN FRETO HORMUZIO: Project Freedom Civitatum Unitarum Iraniae minas provocat
https://ephemerisnuntii.eu/nuntius.php?id=2470

(6) Oh No, Another Round of Odyssey Discourse – CSMFHT Writes
https://csmfht.substack.com/p/oh-no-another-round-of-odyssey-discourse

How Alexander’s Winged Soldiers Conquered the Sogdian Rock in 327 BC | TheCollector
https://www.thecollector.com/sogdian-rock-siege-alexander-the-great/

A Companion to Sparta – A Review
https://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/en-ca/blogs/ancient-history-blog/a-companion-to-sparta-a-review

Pots and Plays | BU Today | Boston University

Pots and Plays

Two Bard Students and One Alum Receive Full Scholarships to Study Classics at University of Colorado Boulder
https://www.bard.edu/news/bard-students-alum-scholarships-classics-university-colorado-boulder-2026-05-05

Concerns For Those About To Die: Introducing Iliad 20 – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Concerns For Those About To Die: Introducing Iliad 20

Een Griekse huurling in Málaga? – Mainzer Beobachter

Een Griekse huurling in Málaga?

PaleoJudaica.com: New Lachish ostracon confirms Joseph’s Canaanite title?
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/new-lachish-ostracon-confirms-josephs.html

PaleoJudaica.com: The Nessana excavation
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-nessana-excavation.html

PaleoJudaica.com: Bremer-McCollum, The Pearlsong (Harvard University Press)
https://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2026/05/bremer-mccollum-pearlsong-harvard.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Biblical Texts and African Contexts: Engaging Epistemologies and Comparative Approaches
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/biblical-texts-and-african-contexts.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: Daimōn: Modalités de l’action des dieux en Grèce ancienne
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/daimon-modalites-de-laction-des-dieux.html

AWOL – The Ancient World Online: L’eau d’Amida/Diyarbakır et l’aqueduc de l’Hamravat : Patrimoine culturel, transmission et usages, une approche interdisciplinaire: Amida/Diyarbakır Suyu ve Hamravat Su Kemeri: Kültürel Miras, Aktarım ve Kullanımlar, Disiplinlerarası Bir Yaklaşım
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2026/05/leau-damidadiyarbakr-et-laqueduc-de.html

[paywalled] Talking Classics by Mary Beard: sounds like eavesdropping on a good Saturday night in Pompeii – The Irish Times
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/review/2026/05/09/talking-classics-by-mary-beard-sounds-like-eavesdropping-on-a-good-saturday-night-in-pompeii/

Aeschylus, character, and the yoke of necessity – Bryn Mawr Classical Review
https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2026/2026.05.04/

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Athens and Sparta with Adrian Goldsworthy – The 15 Minute Book Club | Acast

Masada: The siege that became a legend – Unpacked

Masada: The siege that became a legend

Euripides’ Trojan Women – Ancient History 101 | Acast

The Year of the Four Emperors – Ancient History 101 | Acast

The Paphos Theatre–When in Rome – Apple Podcasts

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(305) Il Foro di Augusto. Architettura e decorazione architettonica dei portici e delle esedre – YouTube

(303) How to make a Roman mosaic – YouTube

(309) Tiny Spaces, Big Ideas – Shannon Lafayette Hogue – YouTube

(309) Where to find DC’s obscure Greek goddess statue – YouTube

(311) Why Rome Destroyed the Septizodium – YouTube

(312) Why join the sacred dance? Metatheatricality and the chorus in Oedipus Tyrannus, by Almila Dukel – YouTube

(312) Resilient Landscapes: Climate, Economy, and Human Adaptation in the Roman Sabina – YouTube

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Cypriot copper in the Swiss ‘Hinterland’? New evidence for long-distance copper trade around 1400 BC from Möriken-Wildegg | Antiquity | Cambridge Core
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/cypriot-copper-in-the-swiss-hinterland-new-evidence-for-longdistance-copper-trade-around-1400-bc-from-morikenwildegg/89540C880D159D4B358CCCEED5B9BF31

• c. 69 A.D. — martyrdom of Evodius of Antioch