Eric at Campus Mawrtius has an interesting tidbit on Hilary of Poitiers' poetry ...

About.com's N.S. Gill has a feature on Septimius Severus ...

The Center for Hellenic Studies has announced a couple of Summer programs of interest ...

Classics in Contemporary Culture ponders the portrayal of George Bush as Nero (among other things) ...

Hobbyblog today features another antoninianus of Gallienus ... featuring Pax

At Bread and Circuses, AM has some interesting observations on the rift between Rome and what was left of the Gallic provinces towards the end of the fifth century ...

Sympotica Graecolatina's quotation today has a libido-enhancing quality ...

Over at UNRV there's an incipient discussion of what archaeology can tell us about traditional Roman religion ... hope it takes off! ...

A conversation over at Roman Army Talk pointed me to this Trojan War: An Illustrated Companion, which some might find useful ...


... and just in closing, to get a taste of how acrimonious the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles debate is going to become, check out the reviews at Amazon of Dorothy King's book ... DK has put up a review of her own in response to what was clearly a 'programmatic' response (most of which seems to have been taken down this a.m.) ... not sure 'either side's' cause is helped by this sort of thing.