Time to get back on the old calliope:

First, be sure to catch up on all the coins posted to Hobbyblog of late ...

Another one with a pile of posts of interest to catch up on ... Campus Mawrtius

... similiter,
Laudator Temporis Acti and Classics in Contemporary Culture

The jokes have continued to be posted (awk!) at Curculio's
Ioci Antiqui page ...

Piles of convivial quotes to catch up on at Sympotica too ...

Over at Memorabilia Antonina, there's a very nice pic of a painting of Clytemnestra post-event by John Collier ....

Iconoclasm's TM is sojourning at the DAI in Rome and has a couple of nice pix therefrom ...

Remember that Athenian-plague-is-typhoid story? As Alun points out, the identification isn't as set-in-stone as the media coverage made it appear ....

The Philo of Alexandria blog points us to an online article (pdf): Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou, "Roman Law and Collegia in Asia Minor," Revue Internationale des droits de l’Antiquité XLIX (2002)

The latest scholar to get the Roman Scholar treatment is UCD's Philip de Souza ...

Trying to track similar things down, I came across the Trojan War Art Museum ....

Thoughts on Antiquity recently had pt. 3 on the search for the historical Jesus (although I didn't see parts 1 and 2) ... useful discussion interblogiana

Tropaion ponders Gregory Nagy's concept of a hero ...

You should still be able to access Father Foster's bit from last weekend ... all about Bernadette of Lourdes (or Lapurdum) ....

This one appeared in various fora in my absence ... an animated retelling of the Odyssey in fifteen seconds ....

... another one that caught my eye: the I, Claudius drinking game ...

Thanks to Glaukopidos for picking up the slack in my absence ...