Slow news day ... here's was the ClassiCarnies are up to:

Adrian Murdoch is wondering about the term 'Shadow Emperors' ...

Laura Gibbs has a useful roundup post of her recent updates at the Bestiaria site (proverb, crossword, etc.) ...

Ioannis Georganas points us to a version of the Odyssey in Linear B ...

Mischa Hooker looks at a review of a production of the Elektra ...

Ross Scaife post about a project to make an online Companion to the Worlds of Roman Women ...

Archaeology Magazine has put up an abstract of an article on the Tomb of the Roaring Lions (with a nice little photo) ...

Ed Flinn posts an interesting coin of Valerian ...

Manolo of the Agora writes about a dramatic performance of Ovid ...

Gregg Schwender has started up a new blog devoted to papyrology ...

Bibliodyssey has the usual assortment of interesting pix from old tomes ... today's come from a 'friendship album' and of interest to us are some Flemish pix depicting Actaeon and, further down, Caesar at Alexander's tomb ...

In the latest AJP:

Sider, David. The New Simonides and the Question of Historical Elegy

In this paper I question the validity of the notion of "historical elegy" as a genre of classical Greek elegy. My approach is to view elegy as a whole in order to understand first how the Greeks themselves used the term "elegy" and then what we can learn of the contents of other classical elegies that touched upon historical subjects. I show that the Greeks never attached any descriptive label to "elegy," whether "historical" or otherwise, and that an elegy that included historical matters could also incorporate myth and look forward to the future, while including as well themes now thought of as sympotic.

American Journal of Philology 127.3 (2006)