Wow ... no news today. Why does that never happen when I'm running around like the proverbial chicken? Let's see what the ClassiCarnies have been doing ...

Interesting post at Roman History Books on the 'affair' between Masinissa and Sophonisba ...

Lingua Latina summarizes the World Cup stuff for the past couple of days (France looked really good against Spain) ...

Mary Beard writes about the recent 'Latin is too hard' kerfuffle ...

Glaukopidos responds to Mary Beard ...

Laudator gets some interesting fan mail ... elsewhere he's pondering Greek freckles, which is a followup to a more extensive post ...

About.com's N.S. Gill looks at what was going on in the 5th century ...

At Campus Mawrtius, Eric is looking at Ravenna ...

Curculio takes issue with recent BBC coverage of the discovery of volcanic activity off the coast of Sicily ... there's also a pair of interesting (non-Classical) riddles there that I'm still trying to figure out (caffeine not working this a.m.) ...

Bestiaria has Aesop's tale of the sheep and the butcher ...

Hobbyblog has a Valerian/Apollo ...

Alun is posting at Blogographos about repositories (on the web) of papers relating to Classics and the like ...

PhDiva DK links to a french article on antiquities theft in Albania ...

Bread and Circuses tells us (or those who didn't know) whence came the name of his blog ...

Memorabilia Antonina comments on a recent live television broadcast from Pompeii ...

Latest headline from Ephemeris: Adest tempus quo inmigrati clandestini Galliam relinquere debeant