Homer

On the web:

• Randy Kennedy discusses how the current economic crisis in Greece is imperiling local antiquities.
• Matthew Kalman discusses documentary sensationalism and its impact on the status of biblical archaeology.
• Charles Jones highlights resources for Macedonian coinage, the Acta Sanctorum, Augustan Rome’s geography, and the Byzantine scholia on Homer’s Iliad.
• Jim Davila notes Google’s efforts to read unopenable Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Joel Willitts comments on selections from Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Life Together.
• Robert Woods discusses wisdom from a Thomistic perspective.
• Tokens provides part 3 of a series of YouTube clips series from their October 24, 2011 interview with Walter Brueggemann. See here for parts 1 and 2.

Charles Jones notes that

Homer and the Papyri, first created by Professor Dana Sutton of the University of California, Irvine, is . . . published [online] in a second electronic edition. The new edition consists of a fully searchable relational database of Homeric papyri.

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