Heading into the long weekend (for us Canucks):

PhDiva tells us of some recent finds at Hadrian's Villa ...

Bestiaria marks the day with a poem of Alcuin ...

Roman History Books has a post on Roman baths ...

Laudator has some noggin fodder on 'foolish talk' in the New Testament and preyond ... (I just coined that word, which popped into my head for some reason ... it means 'beyond', but 'before') ...

PH has posted some interesting stuff at Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean: Associations of Immigrants: Thracians and the goddess Bendis near Athens ... he also points to the website which emerged in the wake of the Travel and Religion in Antiquity seminar (with papers online and the like)

Academic Presentations looks at an article by Matthew Roller in AJP on Horizontal Women ... not coincidentally, Roller is also the next scholar to get the Roman Scholar treatment ...

GL is pondering the teaching of vocabulary in the Latin Zone ...

More from Eric in Brescia at Campus Mawrtius ...

About.com's N.S. Gill tells us some of the basic differences between Latin and English ...