Busy week:

N.S. Gill had a feature on etymology and geometry terms ... and another one on Lysander ...

Ed Snible has some useful links to online coin databases ...

Ed Flinn continues to post his coin collection ... my pick of the week is a Valerian/Moesia

Kristian Minck was looking at some Etruscan wagon types ... and the implications of wagon ruts in Pompeii ...

Adrian Murdoch had an interesting link to some gallo-roman inscriptions ...

Glaukopis and Dorothy King each have reviews of the third episode of Rome (I've caught up part way through part two ... seems there's lots of repeating of episodes going on the Movie Network in Canada) ....

DK also reproduces a WSJ article by Michael Brand on the antiquities trade ... similiter, there is an article (that I missed) on how folks use eBay to 'fix' auctions ... last, but certainly not least, are a pile of links on the Louvre's plans not to display the Cleveland Apollo ...

From Michael Gilleland this week: Emotional Incontinence ... Panacea ... Supplication ... a latin mnemonic ...

Irene Hahn had a feature on Britannicus ...

Antoninus Pius was pondering the Lost Legion ...

Philip Harland has posted the abstracts for the 2007 Travel and Religion in Antiquity seminar ...


Dennis at Campus Mawrtius had an interesting quote about Classics from AN Whitehead ... he also had a very interesting quote about the difficulty of Latin which every teacher (of Latin or anything else) should have tattooed on every child in their classroom, or at least post it on the walls ... Eric continues to find images from Livy, this time an interesting tapestry depicting Zama ...

Mary Beard looked at some not-so-famous also-rans from the Classics community ... she also was talking in various ways about rape in ancient Rome ...

Down the Hall, Peter Stothard was commenting on one of Michael Gilleland's pieces ... there's also some passing ClassCon in a piece called Blair in the Tank ...

Eurylochus is despairing being trapped in that darned horse ...


Alun is looking into the orientation of Greek temples ... there's also a supplementary post on Hekate ... he also reviewed Cunliffe's Pytheas thing ...

David Parsons had a pro-Latin piece from the TES ... there were also links to a comparison chart of Latin courses available in the U.S. ... there was also some interesting 'pre commentary' from WHD Rouse ...

As always, it's worth checking out Laura Gibbs' roundup of Latin educational materials ...

Plenty of Rome-USA comparisons this week ... from Eric Margolis ... one at ProgressiveU ... in a Globe and Mail book review ... in the Minnesota Daily ... How Goldman Sachs is like Crassus ...


New blogs on the insula: Magister Patricius' Carmina Catulli ... April deConick (et al)'s Forbidden Gospels ...

Volume 5 of Ancient Narrative is up and ready for downloading ...

If you haven't been to the Ostia website's online virtual museum lately, it's had a pile of updates ...

Issue 9.41 of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings should be up before Super Bowl kicks off ...