Idle surfing took me to the Cliopatria blog last night, which has announced the winners of its history blog awards, as it turns out. Nothing for rc (although Alun did nominate us ... thanks!) but in the 'best new blog' category, the winner was the very interesting Bibliodyssey, which seems to be devoted to engravings, illustrations, and the like from various books. Of especial interest to us is a lengthy illustrated post on Emblema Politica. An integral part of the 'emblema' is the motto (usually? in Latin) and you know a Classics type like me would love this one:



Check out the whole post ... give your students a Latin proverb or saying and have them illustrate it like this!