The back-to-school edition (for me, anyway ... I know a pile of you have been at school for weeks):

Ed Flinn has a Gallienus/Fortuna Aug ...

N.S. Gill is looking at Niobe ... folks might also be interested in the annual Origins of Labor Day post ...

Troels Myrup has a very interesting piece on a sculpture of Hercules, the two halves of which are in different museums ... he's also been looking at Flickr photos dealing with Late Antiquity ...

Tony Keen is pondering Robert Graves' Claudius ...

Eric's Quintilian excerpt today is about metonymy ... (I still have problems with that one) ... meanwhile, Dennis is wondering about the use of jargon in education ...

Laura Gibbs has a Latin Crossword for you ...

Language Hat points us to a blog called the Varieties of Unreligious Experience which has a lengthy post on the Latin words for kissing ...

Not sure if I've ever mentioned Latinblog.org before ... today Mattheus is writing (in Latin) about a passage from Petronius ...

Also in Latin, the Lingua Latina blog (I've misplaced the owner's name ... apologies) is commenting on the Pluto thing ...

From the Imperial Rome list comes word that Hannibal Barca has started up his own MySpace thing ...