A bit late getting this one out ... sorry ...

Laudator has an interesting on topic elegy by Goethe (including translation) ... there's a nice quote from Charles Peguy about Homer too ...

ARLT links to an interview with Boris Johnson ...

Glaukopidos is pondering the Great Pink Scare and how it applies/applied to Classics ...

Bestiaria is telling us all about the etymology of iridescent ... there's also a bit on that famous sibili si ergo thing ...

Adrian Murdoch has figured out how to embed videos at his site (very nice!) ... he's presenting us with some bits from Terry Jones Barbarians series here ... and here ... the initial attempt, by the way, was a happy bit from the Life of Brian which everyone has memorized, of course ...

About.com's N.S. Gill is telling us about the name Scaevola ...

More World Cup Latin at Lingua Latina ...

Father Foster's latest (I think it's a repeat): Bullying our popular "Latin Lover" to team up five Roman emperors with five winter sports may seem a bold exercise but it's one that provides fleeting relief from the summer heat! [by the way, I think the easiest way to access FF earlier than Sunday is via iTunes podcast library ... it's among the Radio Vaticana stuff]

Latest headline from Akropolis World News: Polish minister fired for communist ties - Homegrown terrorists wanted to help Al Qaeda

... and Ephemeris: Praeses Timoris Orientalis dimisurum esse, si primarius minister non abdicabit

Some new papers up at the Princeton/Stanford Working Papers page (still updating at the bottom, alas):

Walter Scheidel, Sex and empire: a Darwinian perspective

JG Manning, The Ptolemaic economy, institutions, economic integration, and the limits of centralized political power

Walter Scheidel, Growing up fatherless in antiquity: the demographic background

Alessandro Barchiesi, Carmina: Odes and Carmen Saeculare forthcoming in S. Harrison (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Horace, Cambridge 2007


Issue 9.9 of our Explorator newsletter is up at Classics Central ... Ancient World on Television will be posted later today ...

And last but not least ... a cartoon for all the grad students out there and/or their parents: