In a bit of a rush this a.m. as the antihistamines caused me to sleep in (non-drowsy? yeah, right) ...

N.S. Gill at About.com tells us about conjunctions ... there's also a bit on eclipses in antiquity ...

DK at PhDiva has tracked down some more of those 'pig coins' of Augustus ...

Bestiaria Latina follows up on Laudator's Pelican post of t'other day with some Latin pelican texts ...

blographos is also following the Boudicca/McDonald's thing ... even better, though, they have an artist's depiction from the Sun of what Boudicca looked like (right click ...) ...

Hobbyblog has a Gallienus sporting a Herakles-on-apple-delivery ...

Academic Purgatory (which appears to be a new blog) has an interesting bit of commentary on Diana and Endymion by that swing guy ...