'Someone Scratched Homer’s Odyssey Into a Brick 1,800 Years Ago '
Someone Scratched Homer’s Odyssey Into a Brick 1,800 Years Ago
The stuff of legends.
zmescience.com
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'Ariadne auf Naxos – there are more laughs in this Greek epic'
Ariadne auf Naxos – there are more laughs in this Greek epic
Richard Strauss’s knotty opera about the myth of Ariadne is stripped back and streamlined in a witty staging that allows the music – and the outstanding cast – to shine
observer.co.uk
'Blockbuster movie boosts Greek archaeology museum in Reading '
Blockbuster movie boosts Greek archaeology museum in Reading
A little known museum in Reading is hoping the blockbuster Christopher Nolan...
hellorayo.co.uk
'The Odyssey film fans inspired to go back to the source' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The Odyssey film fans inspired to go back to the original Homer poem
Book sales and audiobook figures for Homer's original poem rise sharply after the film's release.
bbc.co.uk
We're getting our next new online course ready! Join Sam Newington for 'Gazing Upon Sappho' for five weeks from 16th September. Sessions are 6pm-7.30pm (UK time), with recordings available. Registration will open soon. www.romansociety.org/Events/Onlin...
'Is the Odyssey the first historical novel? How Homer recreated a world of gods and monsters'
Is the Odyssey the first historical novel? How Homer recreated a world of gods and monsters
Homer’s great epic looks back to the age of the Trojan War, but it was composed centuries after the world it describes had vanished. That distance, argues classicist Daisy Dunn on the HistoryExtra…
historyextra.com
'Home of the ancient Greek gods, Mount Olympus, in UNESCO Heritage list bid'
Home of the ancient Greek gods, Mount Olympus, in UNESCO Heritage list bid
The mythological home of ancient Greece’s 12 Olympian gods may soon join UNESCO’s World Heritage List
independent.co.uk
'Christopher Nolan Tried Not to Overwhelm You How the director turned Homer’s Odyssey into a surprisingly intimate film.'
Christopher Nolan Tried Not to Overwhelm You
How the director turned Homer’s Odyssey into a surprisingly intimate film.
vulture.com
'Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity beyond Ancient Greece'
Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity beyond Ancient Greece - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Across Wine-Dark Seas: Art and Identity beyond Ancient Greece presents more than 180 exceptional works produced during this time
metmuseum.org
'A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard'
A classicist’s verdict on Nolan’s Odyssey: a soulful hero flatters our times as women and nuance pushed overboard
Matt Damon’s sensitive and repentant Odysseus might come as a surprise to Homer, likewise some significant omissions concerning the poem’s female characters
theguardian.com
'Coventry researcher joins international project uncovering hidden history in ancient Greece'
Coventry researcher joins international project uncovering hidden history in ancient Greece
A researcher from Coventry University is helping lead a major new study into the lives of ordinary people in ancient Greece, moving the historical spotlight
coventryobserver.co.uk
'How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history' theconversation.com/how-controll...
How controlling (and tolling) a narrow waterway near ancient Troy changed history
Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.
theconversation.com
The film that launched a thousand previews...#Odyssey review. clairemillington.com/2026/07/19/a...
A welcome Odyssey
There is a beach on Ithaca’s rocky coast, a place where the rock pools the water and if you stand and look the water is clear and green as a wine bottle. There are starfish and the black prickle of…
clairemillington.com
'The Odyssey (2026): a few thoughts' smugfacelazybones.wordpress.com/2026/07/17/t...
The Odyssey (2026): a few thoughts
Just back from watching Christopher Nolan’s much-hyped and long-awaited cinematic adaptation of The Odyssey, so I wanted to get a few thoughts down quickly because my goldfish brain doesn’t h…
smugfacelazybones.wordpress.com
'Sailing the ‘unpolluted seas’ of Greek mythology' www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1309...
Sailing the ‘unpolluted seas’ of Greek mythology | eKathimerini.com
A towering figure in British culture and a prominent, modern-day philhellene, Stephen Fry talks to Kathimerini about his ‘Odyssey.’
ekathimerini.com
We're getting our next new online course ready! Join Sam Newington for 'Gazing Upon Sappho' for five weeks from 16th September. Sessions are 6pm-7.30pm (UK time), with recordings available. Registration will open soon. www.romansociety.org/Events/Onlin...
Looking through some of the work the Hellenic Soc has supported with grants. People are doing some REALLY interesting projects. Take a look - and if you're thinking of applying, the next application deadline is 1 October. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/grant...
Grant Reports | The Hellenic Journal | Study of Greek language | Hellenic Society
The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, generally known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the ...
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'‘Seven Hundred Palm Trees’: José Balza’s Venezuela, read through Praxiteles '
‘Seven Hundred Palm Trees’: José Balza’s Venezuela, read through Praxiteles - tovima.com
One of the landmark novels of 20th-century Latin American literature carries an unexpected reading guide: Praxiteles. José Balza’s portrait of 1960s Venezuela — now in an award-winning translation by…
tovima.com
'Ancient Greek city of Leukaspis yields sealed tombs and rare treasures in Egypt' neoskosmos.com/en/2026/07/0...
Ancient Greek city of Leukaspis yields sealed tombs and rare treasures in Egypt
Archaeologists uncover Greco-Roman burials near Alexandria and a Byzantine settlement with Greek inscriptions, shedding new light on Hellenistic heritage in Egypt.
neoskosmos.com
Looking through some of the work the Hellenic Soc has supported with grants. People are doing some REALLY interesting projects. Take a look - and if you're thinking of applying, the next application deadline is 1 October. www.hellenicsociety.org.uk/grants/grant...
Grant Reports | The Hellenic Journal | Study of Greek language | Hellenic Society
The Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, generally known as the Hellenic Society, was founded in 1879 to advance the study of Greek language, literature, history, art and archaeology in the ...
hellenicsociety.org.uk
'Greek Mythology Was Never “Historically Accurate”'
Greek Mythology Was Never “Historically Accurate”
So, why is the internet pretending it was?
vocal.media
'Revealing Its Original Shape, Not Seen in Centuries, Greece Restored Part of the Parthenon’s Western Facade' www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/r...
Revealing Its Original Shape, Not Seen in Centuries, Greece Restored Part of the Parthenon's Western Facade
The project in Athens started in 2017 and involved quarrying, transporting, hand-carving and placing new marble blocks in one of the landmark’s triangular pediments
smithsonianmag.com
'Major Excavation and Restoration Campaign Launched at Ancient Hadrianapolis in Karabük'
greekcitytimes.com