I thought the ClassiCarnies had all gone off to hang with the blameless Ethiopians vel simm. but then I realized my Squeet feeds had suddenly died, as had my Watch That Page notifications. The latter seems to have been the victim of some antispam thing somewhere and is now fixed, but Squeet continues to be blissfully unaware of any problems and I'm not in the mood to fight another battle via email for now. So, we'll be going with rssfwd and Google Reader as a backup ... here's what I managed to salvage after this revelation:

It must be guest post week or something ...

Okay ... if this doesn't cause a rip in the fabric of time, nothing will ... over at N.S. Gill's About.com blog, Roman History Books and More blogger Irene Hahn reviews Bread and Circuses' blogger Adrian Murdoch's book on the Teutoberger Forest massacre ...

Walter Scheidel pens a guest post at Academic Presentations on the Roman Empire on Ancient Empires and Sexual Exploitation ... Mary Harrsch herself has an interesting little item on 'anti tank' vehicles at Asculum ...

Over at Apocryphicity there's an interesting guest post about publishing the Gospel of Judas ...

Kristian Minck introduces us to some literature on Roman wagon technology (check out the ongoing bibliography link at the top of the page too) ...

Peter Stothard was pondering comparisons of Anne Coulter with Juvenal ...

Adrian Murdoch has a poster for the Last Legion flick ... he also has a nice little collection of links about Claudian ...

Phil Harland had a piece on using the Internet for teaching courses ...

Chris Weimer notes a Roman rhyme scheme in Catullus ...

Can't remember if I mentioned Tropaion's Carnival last week ... if not, here it is ...

Mary Beard writes about an interesting conference at Williamstown ...

Elsewhere, several folks passed along notice that Magnus Maximus was the subject of the one of the Dictionary of National Biography's Lives of the Week (I'll link to the main page since the urls often appear to change) ...

Hopefully my rss feed woes are now behind me and this Carnival will be rather more extensive next week ... I'm sure some folks have disappeared in the transition ....

Explorator 9.34 has been posted at the Yahoo site (with the wrong subject -- doh! ... go by date) ... the weekly version of the Ancient World on Television listings will follow similiter later today.