It's been a quiet week all around ...

Adrian Murdoch is pointing out some of the problems with dating Gratian's movements ... there's also an excerpt from Huttons Ravenna ...

Laura Gibbs' roundup (the crossword is about Julio-Claudians) ...

Laudator has some 'fan mail' about his Theognis post from t'other day ...

Caroline Grisham makes a mistake I'm sure many of us have made at least once when teaching/writing about early Roman history ...

Dorothy King is pondering those naughty Etruscans ...

N.S. Gill tells us about student life in ancient Sparta ...

I sympathize COMPLETELY with Ginny Lindzey and the stacks of marking from teaching English (I've got similar piles to wade through) ...

Can't recall offhand who the owner of the Toynbee Convector is, but they have a post on Latin in Hungary ..,

Ioannis Georganas points us to a nice site on Ancient Technology ...

Elsewhere, a post from Joystiq landed in my box, relating a story in an online magazine comparing playing Halo to the Aeneid ... and, as luck would have it, it's accessible to all ...

Tonight's bit of Skywatching ... Castor and Pollux ...