Quite a variety this a.m. ...

At About.com, N.S. Gill has a gallery of photos of Olympia (you might have to 'skip ad')...

AM at Sauvage Noble ponders a poem by Marcius Vates ...

The other AM (at Bread and Circuses) has a piece on barbarian assimilation in the later Roman Empire ...

Eric over at Campus Mawrtius has come across another reference to cetus .... (there must be a word for this phenomenon of words of interest suddenly popping up in clusters of one's reading/hearing)

Speaking of 'odd coincidences', Curculio's Ioci Antiqui offering today comes from Martial and matches up well with an off-colour joke which was in my mailbox this a.m. ...

If the fruits of Syria didn't help yesterday, Sympotica gives us some cures for constipation ...

A couple items at Hobbyblog ... an antoninianus of Valerius ... and a somewhat grotty provincial issue of Gallienus

A while back we mentioned that David Wharton was getting out of blogging (although he has blogged since then) ... it's a testament to the 'power' (that's the wrong word) of blogs that his departure was the subject of an article in the local newspaper ...

Mnemosyne 59.1 has put its TOC for issue 59.1 up at Ingenta ...