We'll start today's romp through the sideshow world of Classics with Father Foster's latest ... he relates the trials and tribulations of translating Deus Caritas Est into Latin for the Pope ...

Dennis over at Campus Mawrtius has an admirable New Year's Resolution (it is Chinese New Year today) ... more folks should make the same (8^))

Bibliodyssey has some nice woodcuts with Latin in a feature on Nova Reperta ...

Classical Archaeologist has part two of their Health in the Ancient World series ...

Hobbyblog has a provincial issue of Gallienus, sporting an image of Pergean Artemis in her temple ...

Memorabilia Antonina (got the name right, this time) has a review of the 1954 epic Sign of the Pagan (personally, I've never understood why Jack Palance ever made it into any sword and sandal flicks ... not sure if The Silver Chalice counts in that category, though) ...

There's another convivial Latin quote at Sympotica Graecolatina ...

Novum Testamentum is googling 'love conquers all' and finding interesting results ...

A question at Ask Metafilter is seeking recommendations for books about ancient Rome ....

Via Abzu, we note that the papers from Cabinet of the Muses: Rosenmeyer Festschrift are all available from the eScholarship Repository ...

Also via Abzu, an online thesis: Rebekah Whiteley, Courtesans and kings : ancient Greek perspectives on the hetairai


... and another thesis via Abzu ... Alexandra Lesk, A Diachronic Examination of The Erechtheion and its Reception

A news report that is almost a review of Roger Bittlestone, Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca points us to the official website of the book, which has some potentially interesting stuff ...

Last, but not least (or maybe it is), we've posted the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings, as well as issue 8.40 of our Explorator newsletter, both at our Classics Central Forum ...