The ClassiCarnies have been busy:

Mary Beard tells us about what an academic's life is really like ...

At Under Odysseus, Eurylochus tells us they're planning to leave (it appears) ...

Adrian Murdoch is pondering an interesting online dispute at Bryn Mawr Classical Review (I gotta catch up on all this) ... he's also pondering the Roman labour supply ...

N.S. Gill has some Latin Marriage Vocabulary ...

Michael Gilleland finds a Certain Pleasure in Words ... a translation/paraphrase of Horace Ode 1.38 ...

Laura Gibbs is offering us some latin tales about donkeys ... here, too ... there are also some timely proverbia about war ...

A couple of interesting items brought to my attention by Abzu:

Sestier, Jules-M., La piraterie dans l'antiquite

Schueth, Carl, De Poenulo Plautina quaestiones criticae

Last, but certainly not least, Powerblog alerts us to googlevideo of the Monty Python skit wherein Greek Philosophers take on the Germans ... here's part 2 ...