Thanksgiving up here in the Great White North ... Columbus Day south of the 49th ... time to catch up with the ClassiCarnies and clean out the old inbox:

Mary Beard explains Enoch Powell's (in)famous 'Rivers of Blood' remark ...

Ed Flinn has a Valerian/Sol ...

Irene Hahn lists some resources on ancient Germany outside of Tacitus ... she also has some info on Ammianus Marcellinus ...

Adrian Murdoch is pondering a purported visit of Gratian to Rome ...

... and a hat tip to A.M. for pointing out Crooked Timber's comments on the upcoming flick about Thermopylae ...

Phil Harland alerts us to some rethinking about the Gospel of Judas ... see also Phil S.'s comments at Hyperiskou ...

Glaukopis is across the pond and attending interesting talks ...

Dorothy King alerts us to an interesting site at Columbia about the Parthenon Frieze ...

Tropaion has a hymn to the Mother of all gods ... there's also some info on some polytheist groups ...

Yesterday's roundup from Laura Gibbs ... and the one from the day before (which I probably missed) ...

Michael Gilleland has been reading Hitchings' book on Johnson's dictionary ... there's also a bit of Classical pretension from Gill and Sull ... there's a fun chunk of Tom Brown's School Days on verse composition ...

Ginny Lindzey has a fun student howler ...

Alun is doing some useful stuff with Google Maps (and other things) ... we also note his own Carnivalesque thing Vidi ...

N.S. Gill has a feature on Athens' boule ...

New blog: The Toynbee Convector seems to be covering some material of interest to us (another hat tip to Adrian Murdoch) ...

Since it's a holiday for much of this hemisphere, folks with a DaVinci Code interest might want to take a gander at the Codex Celtica blog ...