Bit of a slow day ...

Bane's Demesne translates a bit of Callimachus ...

AM of Sauvage Noble fame presents some nice photos from a recent trip to the Met ...

MG at Laudator presents one of the strangest images of 'affection' you'll ever see on a piece of Greek pottery ...

Hobbyblog presents an antoninianus of Valerian which, interestingly enough, demonstrates why I thought yesterday's coin sported a guy carrying a wreath rather than a patera (scroll down to compare the two)...

Roman History Books has some links to material on Plutarch ...

Alun ponders the most recent issue of Sky at Night magazine (which I've never seen on the newsstands before) and a tale in Herodotus ...

Sympotica tells us how to prepare caviar ...

Some new items at the Classics Technology Center include a piece on Jeeps and Hummers in Antiquity ... Teaching Ancient Biography ... The Latin Teacher: A Primer for Survival and Success ...

... as I type this, some doctor on Cavuto is warning about bird flu becoming a 'pandemonium' ...