In a bit of a rush this a.m. ...

Lingua Latina is talking about the escalating situation in Israel/Lebanon/Gaza ... (can't remember the name of the owner of this blog)

Michael Gilleland alerts us to an, er, interesting quote from one of Ralph McInerney's novels ... and while not Classical, per se, one cannot help but be interested in the annual Bulwer-Lytton contest ...

N.S. Gill tells us about Thomas Bulfinch ...

Laura Gibbs has a tantalizing followup ...

Irene Hahn is looking at Marius' relationship with the military ...

Dorothy King updates us on the Lydian Hoard kerfuffle ...

Recent gleanings from ABZU:

H. Jolowicz, "Case Law in Roman Egypt," Journal of the Society of Public Teachers of Law, 14 (1937), pp 1-16


Marc, Jean-Yves, Les agoras grecques d'apres les recherches recentes


Maravelia, Amanda-Alice, "The Orientations of the nine Tholos Tombs at Mycenae", Archaeoastronomy no. 27 (JHA, xxxiii (2002)

Father Foster's latest: When our popular Latin Lover takes us by the hand giving us linguistic insight into our Pope's first speech...

Latest from Ephemeris: De Corea septemtrionali punita

Issue 9.12 of Explorator has been posted ... I'm going to try and get Ancient World on Television listings for the rest of the summer done later today ...