As we head into the long weekend:

If you're wondering why today is called Maundy Thursday (or generally curious about the dating of Easter and Passover), N.S. Gill will tell you ...

Over at Campus Mawrtius, Eric is again pondering Horace and Tyrtaeus ... meanwhile, Dennis is repondering that Latin inscription he passes regularly at Bryn Mawr ...

... Eric also points us to the Orali-Tea website, which documents a night of oral readings of ancient poetry (suggestion for next year: record some of those readings and make them available on the web!)

The Military History Podcast talks about liquid fire, including the Greek variety ...

Congrats to Glaukopidos' owner for being accepted into a grad program (with some advice for others too) ...

Roman History Books is looking at Etruscan tombs ...

Hobbyblog has a nice Valerian II antoninianus, with a really nice image of what standards looked like ...

Chris Weimer tells us that some of the other bits of the Gospel of Judas (i.e. the other writings that were found as part of the Codex) are supposedly being sold (on eBay?!)

Abzu points us to some online conference proceedings: Pecus. Man and Animal in Antiquity (Swedish Institute in Rome, 2002)