Apologies for nothing posted yesterday ... allergies and sleep deficits combined to keep me reclined; hopefully today's gleanings will make up for it. Here's the news from around the blogosphere (and a bit beyond):

N.S. Gill has a timely piece on Leonidas ...

At Campus Mawrtius, Eric was giving us his two cents' worth, so to speak ... Dennis was (re)pondering Catullus' cui dono ...

Glaukopis has a review of the sixth episode of Rome (I'm only three behind!) ...

Kristian Minck continues to look at Roman wagons ...

Ed Flinn continues to post his coins ...

Mary Beard has some comments on matters gladiatorial in Chester ...

Tony Keen is also commenting on the Chesterian Gladiatorial news ...

Adrian Murdoch points us to an article in Minerva about Romulus Augustulus ... he also provides some material about Leo II ... there was also a tribute to W.H. Auden ...

Laura Gibbs continues to post useful educational material ...

Magister Patricius' class continues to ponder Catullus ...

Good to see Mischa Hooker posting again ...

Michael Gilleland had some suggestions on how to start the day ... and some anti-anti-Greek sentiments from GKC ... there's also a bit on Macaulay's reading habits ...

Folks might also be interested in the impending launch of Ancient Warfare magazine ...

Roger Pearse writes some interesting tidbits about the fate of Titus of Bostra's manuscripts after they came to the UK ...

Tyler Williams has a good post on the 'lost tomb of Jesus' stuff ... I'm still pondering whether I'll write something about this myself (it was much discussed on various lists a decade ago) ...

Tropaion has found a YouTube video performance of the Apology of Socrates ...

April DeConick comments on what we are learning from multispectral imaging ... cf., (sort of), Tony Chartrand's post ...

Elsewhere, hat tip to MK for pointing us to Candide's Notebooks and the pondering of Marcus Aurelius' 'tabloid streak' ...

New blog: Sybilline Leaves (Jewish and Christian Sybilline Oracles and related lit.) ...

Only one US-as-Rome thing this week (and it's only part one) ... from the San Antonio Express-News

Issue 9.44 of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will follow later this evening ...