After being cooped up with a very nasty flu bug for the past few days, it'll be nice to stretch the old legs with a stroll down the midway ... much of this will be 'catching up' of course:

ARLT alerts us to a situation where a Latin teacher was suspended for using Pompeiian graffiti in class ... a followup piece gives the address of the person to complain to ...

Need to catch up with all the coins at Hobbyblog ...

... and it's easier to point to the main page of Laudator to get caught up as well ...

Homo Edax has suddenly been posting plethorically on various subjects ...

Paleojudaica points us to the Midrash Le-Justin blog, which/who is currently blogging about the Babatha Papyri ...

PhDiva has a nice selection of photos of the Parthenon Frieze in the new Acropolis Museum ...

About.com has a list of resources for the Ides of March ...

Over at Bread and Circuses, AM alerts us to the fact checkers at the NYT going after Marcus Aurelius ...

William Blathers ponders a cyclopean question ...

Ginny Lindzey has a good rant about AP Latin and whether Latin is a language at all ...

Issue 4 of the Herculaneum Archaeology newsletter is now available (pdf) ...

Here we go rending the fabric of time again ... Alun is hosting Carnivalesque XIII, which compiles a pile of excellent blogposts about the ancient and medieval worlds (and is certainly one of the 'best looking' carnival posts I've seen ... very magazine-like)

There's a new supplementary volume out for the Journal of Roman Studies: Supplement 61: IMAGING ANCIENT ROME: DOCUMENTATION - VISUALIZATION - IMAGINATION (Proceedings of the Third Williams Symposium on Classical Architecture, 2004), edited by Lothar Haselberger and John Humphrey ... a TOC for this (and earlier) volumes is available ...

A number of buildings have been added to the Topographical Dictionary page at the Ostia Antica site ...

For all you gamers, Sony is working on God of War 2 ...


... that should hold you for a while