Let's see what the ClassiCarnies (and others) have brought to light this week:

N.S. Gill had a feature on Medusa ... Top Mothers in Ancient Rome ... Andromeda ...

Alun Salt's latest Clioaudio is on the Tomb of Jesus thing ...

Adrian Murdoch put up a mini-carnival of his own ... there was also a piece on Socrates as a professor ... there was also a translation of the de ceremoniis 2.42 (very interesting) ...

Eric notes that Pandora's box was actually a jar ...

Irene Hahn had notes on publicani and tax farming ... Mithridates VI Eupator ... the amphitheatre at Pompeii ... the thraex ...

Glaukopis reviews episode 9 of Rome (I'm hopelessly behind) ...

Gabriel Bodard notes an interesting Wikipedia-as-teaching-tool project ...

Michael Gilleland collected Seneca's thoughts on crowds ... John Adams on Jefferson's Greek ... Samuel Johnson's translation of Horace Ode 4.7 ... bellies ...

Dr Weevil comments on a sadistic Latin teacher ...

Dorothy King had some nice Bactrian Gold ...

Lee Rosenbaum notes another initiative to reunite the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles ...

Mary Beard was commenting on loos ancient and modern ...

Down the hall, Peter Stothard was commenting on the commenting on 300 ...

Phil S. has a Patristics Roundup ...

Troels Myrup hosts the ancient/medieval edition of Carnivalesque ... he also has a photo of a really ugly Roman dog (which looks like a chihuahua/sharpei cross) statue ...

On the US-as-Rome (or whatever ancient) side of things, Eric caught Al Gore snagging Thermopylae ...

New email list: Apparatus Criticus (textual criticism and ancient texts)

Elsewhere, a blog called the Cud looked at Themistocles and Pericles ...

Other than that, our Explorator newsletter issue 9.48 is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will be up later tonight ...