Happy dies natalis to mater mea (who doesn't know how to use a computer, let alone read a blog), but what the heck:

About.com's N.S. Gill is alerting us to some photos of Constantine's Arch ... the Poetry Month post is about Euripides ...

Laudator is talking about the facial hair of philosophers ... he's also pondering pagan myth in Milton ...

Curculio offers us a somewhat strange (to me) funerary epigram (the ancient equivalent of telling someone not to look at a car accident) ...

Hobbyblog offers us a coin dedicated to diva Mariniana sporting a peacock on the reverse ...

Roman History Books is looking at Herodian ...

ARLT is following the Audere est facere kerfuffle ...