Our ClassiCarnies have been busy this weekend:

Bestiaria continues with the dragon stories ... Jason and ... Margaret and ...

At the LiveJournal Classics site, someone has translated the US National Anthem into (somewhat Homeric) Greek ...

Curculio gives us a fragment of wisdom from Euripides ...

Jane Biers gets the Roman Scholars treatment ...

Homo Edax is chowing down on Cicero, Tacitus and American Despotism ...

phDiva points to some podcasts from NPR on Roman Religion ...

Roman History books compiles some links about one of my fave painters (and suppliers of desktop images) ... Lawrence Alma-Tadema

Laudator presents Seneca's thoughts on travel ... there's also a nice quote on trifles from that Johnson guy ...

Father Foster: The Romans were in the habit of offering their guests live fireflies or “cicinella’s” in little boxes as gifts. Although quite what this has to do with wolves and sit-in’s on the Aventine is a totally different story...