This week's scan of the Classical blogosphere:

N.S. Gill tells us what we need to know about Vesuvius ... Hygiene in Ancient Rome ... Roman Burial Practices ... Roman Military Diet ...

Debra Hamel offers up an essay called Cannibals and Brain Stew (which dovetails nicely with Barry Baldwin's piece today as well ... see below) ...

Again, it seems to be best to just link to Current Epigraphy's main page to get all the epigraphical goodness ...

In the same category is the much-neglected (by me) What's New in Papyrology blog ...

Michael Gilleland has a post on the Worship of Disgraceful Noises ... an old saying revolving around tongues and wolves ... the Fox and the Grapes ...

Irene Hahn (who I forgot to mention last week) has been her usual busy self, reviewing a book about Augustus ... historical figures in the Dream of Scipio ... something on Lemuria ... a review of Roman Woodworking ... Obelisks ...

Peter Stothard remembers Christiane Sourvinou-Inwood and here ...

Nikolaos tells of the Hellenic Spring celebrations at the Temple of Poseidon at Sounion ...

Eurylochus is sailing with Odysseus ...

Folks might be interested in Will Anderson's comments on the sale of Moshe Dayan's antiquities collection:

Mainstream has the latest US-as-Rome comparison ...

Some interesting websites brought to my attention by the folks at Intute ... Trismegistos (nice portal for Egypt's 'late' period) ... Garret Fagan's Ancient Baths Resource Site ... Arachne (great photo resources; German ... might require a password) ... Charlotte Roueche's second electronic edition of Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity ...

Torrey Seland has some good advice for those of you struggling to get Greek fonts to work in Word ...

April DeConick previews her forthcoming book on the Gospel of Judas ...

Laura Gibbs' roundup of educational stuff ...

A pile of Latin language podcasts are available at Latinum ...

Phil has his weekly Patristics roundup (see also this one) ...

Latest Biblical Studies carnival is up at Deinde ...

Outside of that, issue 10.6 of our Explorator newsletter is up as is the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television thing ...