'New' online book at Project Gutenberg: A.H.J. Greenidge, A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate (Volume I: From the Tribunate of Tiberius Gracchus to the Second Consulship of Marius, B.C. 133-104.)

Alun responds to that lecture by J. Rufus Fears ....

Classics in Contemporary Culture alerts us to some classically-inspired stuff from Racine ....

Glaukopidos points us to (among other things) a video of Maria Callas as Medea from a performance at La Scala back in 1961 ...

A couple more jokes in the Ioci Antiqui file ... this time from Macrobius and the Philogelus


Hobbyblog presents us with a rather worn/grotty -- but apparently unpublished -- coin of Gallienus ....

Over at Laudator, there's a number of posts of interest ... Samuel Johnson on Suspirius the Screech Owl ... a chunk of Erasmus which proves the continuity of human behaviour .... and another lengthy chunk inspired by Erasmus and love of pedantry ....

The convivial quotes continue over at Sympotica Graecolatina ....

This one's interesting ... Mark sent in an alert (thanks) about the existence of the AudioStoa, where someone is podcasting Epictetus' Discourses (in translation)....

We also note the existence of some sort of computer word game called Acropolis, although it doesn't appear to be Classical in anything but name .....

I came across a touristy sort of thing on Lanuvium, which might be of interest ...

There has also been a huge wave of articles repeating that story identifying Athens' plague as typhoid fever ... LO posted a link to the abstract of the original paper to the Classics list yesterday .... here's the original press release for the story ... I'll round up all the others in this weekend's Explorator, of course.