Happy 4th to our American friends!

AM at Bread and Circuses has been busy ... he posts a link to a virtual tour of the Kalkriese museum and site ... a report on the bath excavations at Aquileia ... a piece on the cultural identities of auxiliaries ...

Mary Beard finds some medieval parallels of colossal chryselephantine statuary and decides they probably weren't as tacky/vulgar as she (and I) thought ...

Both Glaukopidos and Campus Mawrtius are commenting on the Homer-was-a-woman thing ...

Hobbyblog has a Gallienus/Tyche ...

Bestiaria weighs in on the Latin-is-too-hard kerfuffle ...

Via Abzu, we get a number of interesting things:

Haynes, Ian Military service and cultural identity in the auxilia. In: The Roman army as a community. Journal of Roman Archaeology supplementary series (34).

The online supplements to Guide de l'epigraphiste ... (you know, stuff like this really should be done as a 'registered' wiki sort of thing; ditto TOCS-In)

Corpus Medicorum Graecorum / Latinorum (German site with a text of Galen so far)

James J. O'Donnell, Cassiodorus (full text online)


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