What better way to wind down the week than with a trip to the Classics funhouse?

Classical Archaeologist begins a promised series on health and nutrition in the Greco-Roman world ... (this one's on the Athenian typhoid thing) ...

Classics in Contemporary Culture points us to another example of the 'Betty and Veronica' (as I call it) approach to the ancient Greeks and Romans ...

Elginism continues to round up articles dealing with the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles controversy ...

Nvgae Ciceronianae links to a very well-done (student made) movie about the Second Punic War which makes good use of clips from Rome: Total War ...

The convivial Latin quotes continue at Sympotica Graeco-Latina ...

The Stoa has a report on the Digital Philology Conference in Hamburg ...

Hobbyblog features a provincial issue of Valerian ...

From the Papy list comes word that the Geneva Papyrus Collection website has been updated ...

I haven't checked this one out very thoroughly yet, but a post at the UNRV forum points to a database of images of ancient art (from Russia, with some strangeness of translation in the search page)

... and not really Classical in our sense, but doorworthy nonetheless, is a Rubes comic sent in by MMe ...