Things are picking up ...

Dorothy King recaps an article about Etruscan wall painting from Minerva Magazine ...

Adrian Murdoch has found an interesting 1950sesque piece from Jerome ...

Laura Gibbs' roundup (featuring another Wheelock crossword) ...

Amicus noster Phil Snider is hosting/proposing a patristics carnival over at Hyperekperisou ...

Glaukopis points us to an article on swearing in the Classical World by Barry Baldwin (note in passing ... I'll soon be putting up some of Dr. Baldwin's Classical Corner columns from Fortean Times ... as soon as report cards are done) ...

Ed Flinn has a rather bland Valerian today ...

The New Jersey Classics Association has put up its Fall 2006 newsletter ....

Dan Diffendale has put an interesting (albeit dated) article online: F. Weege, "'Oskische Grabmalerei," Jahrbuch des Kaiserlich Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 24 (1909). (it's a somewhat large pdf, so it might take a while to download)

... some servers appear to have gone kablooie in the midst of writing this; I'll do a bit of catching up tomorrow if necessary ...