My classroom's almost set up ... but I still haven't found any coffeepods for my Melitta Machine ... (grumble):

Adrian Murdoch has found some more graeculus references ... he also points us to a relevant Monty Python sketch (which I've never seen either!) ...

Michael Gilleland has a couple of Latin epigrams by John Owen ... here too ... there's also a post on Hostile Laughter ...

Troels Myrups has a nice post on a couple of inscriptions outside the Colosseum (I saw them!) ...

Mischa Hooker continues to post (yay!) ... there's a post on Elephants and Power ... a time travelling Horace (!) ... comments on a review of Seamus Heaney's latest ...

Ed Flinn has a Gallienus/Genius Aug ...

Laura Gibbs has an interesting exercise for Latin teachers ...

There's some blogticism going on too ... both Jim Davila and Dorothy King are questioning the happy claims of the National Geographic Society's reports of the condition of monuments in Lebanon after the recent hostilities ... semi-related: David at Cronaca mentions how Hezbollah didn't use archaeological sites to hide ordinance (this time) ... I've always wondered why this is the case, considering Taleban actions in the past ...

Elsewhere, Dorothy King (on 'vacation' now) shows us where Nero and Alexander the Great left their mark on the Parthenon (I didn't know this!) ...

Today Luis Fraga da Silva offers us a map of the Antonine Itineraries in Spain ...