As an antihistamine-induced earworm of the opening of 'Ring of Fire' winds incessantly through my brain:

About.com's N.S. Gill is looking at Narcissus ...

Bread and Circuses offers another Arminius-related artistic representation ...

Laudator is considering the etymology of a poopy subject (as my Grade Sevens say) ...

Bestiaria celebrates the day by telling us about Saint Erasmus ...

Hobbyblog has a Gallienus/Genius ...

Memorabilia Antonina reviews a production of the Persians ...

ABZU points us to a very interesting full-text paper from a physics journal: Halley's comet of 87 BC on the coins of Armenian king Tigranes?

Academic Purgatory is looking at the Women of Amphissa (inter alia) ...

Another online paper at the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers site: Andrew Monson, "Royal Land in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Demographic Model"

Fans of Carnivals might want to check out the latest Bibilical Studies Carnival, online at Faith and Theology ...