Quiet day in the post-Seattle-was-robbed-yesterday world ... and, alas, there is scant solace strolling down the midway ....

Over at Curculio, MH has caught up with the Ioci Antiqui (including a couple of bits of invective from Hipponax, whom I'd never read before) for the beginning of February ...

Sympotica Graecolatina tells us of the fruits of Syria ...

BibliOdyssey presents some very interesting plates of some anthropomorphic columns from a sixteenth-century tome ... not Classical, of course, but a bit of eye candy ...

Amicus noster JM-Y actually sent this to me last week and I neglected to post it ... there is a bit of a debate going on whether the so-called Soleto Map is a forgery over at the Map Room (I'm not sure the case against authenticity is really good; perhaps I'll work that into a blog post of my own)...

Arethusa 39.1 is available at Project Muse ....