Wow ... I think I finally got a handle on efficiently handling this avalanche of information that I get every week ... here's this week's collation of news from the Classical blogosphere and environs:
N.S. Gill starts us off (as often) with a profile of Hannibal (although the image is three-quarters view ... sorry, couldn't resist 8^)) ... Flower Names ... Roman Meals ...
Adrian Murdoch notes Albert Uderzo's upcoming 80th birthday ... comments on a monumental foot find ...
At Campus Mawrtius, Dennis comments on Housman's Humanity ...
Glaukopis suggests brushing up on Shakespeare ...
Michael Gilleland was commenting on some gastrointestinal stuff ... an Impious Lumberjack ... Solitude ...
Tony Keen is working on the iconography of Mercury ...
Peter Stothard comments on Beckham's tattoos ...
Down the hall, Mary Beard was commenting semi-similiter ...
Dorothy King has some more Afghan items ... in the wake of the 'repatriation' of Martin Robertson's stuff, she shows off her own collection ...
Irene Hahn comments on early relations between Cicero and Pompey ... the gens Caecilia and Metellus Pius ...
Gordon Lyn Watley tells us about the phi recension of the Sibylline Oracles ...
James Tabor comments on the 'backtracking' of scholars in regards to the Jesus Tomb thing ...
April DeConick provides an annotated bibliography for the Gospel of Judas ...
Other Roundups: Phil's Patristics Roundup ... Laura Gibbs' roundup of her educational materials ...
Folks might be interested in reading Victor Davis Hanson on the Imus thing (and Nemesis) ...
Archaeology Magazine has a nice online abstract from the current issue on the discovery of Maxentius' regalia (which doesn't mention Maxentius) ...
Volume 3 of Dictynna is up (abstracts available; not sure about the articles themselves) ...
Hesperia 76.1 is online (abstracts for all) ...
Can't remember if we've mentioned the American Journal of Archaeology 111.2 being available online ...
Catching up with Father Foster (via Father Coulter's site), the Latin Lover was talking about Rhea Silvia ... last week, it was one of Pius VI's encyclicals ...
Catching up with the Sparta magazine website, there is an article on the Myceneans ...
Rome/U.S. comparisons this week are at OpEd News (on Valerie Plame Wilson) ...
Headline of the week: Mess follows cleanup of Zeus
At the Aoidoi site, there's a new collection of 'cranky' poetry, mostly from the Delectus Indelectatus ...
Oliver Hoover's Seleukids site has relocated to http://www.seleukidempire.org/
In other news, Barry Baldwin's Classical Corner features should resume next week (my big pile of Fortean Times finally arrived in the mail) ...
Folks might find the collection of texts at the Archimedes Project useful (hat tip to Stephen Carlson)...
Similiter, folks looking for an affordable Greek Dictionary can download an early version of Liddell and Scott from the Internet Classics Archive (hat tip to Mark Goodacre)
Outside of that, the last issue of volume nine of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will be up later today ...
N.S. Gill starts us off (as often) with a profile of Hannibal (although the image is three-quarters view ... sorry, couldn't resist 8^)) ... Flower Names ... Roman Meals ...
Adrian Murdoch notes Albert Uderzo's upcoming 80th birthday ... comments on a monumental foot find ...
At Campus Mawrtius, Dennis comments on Housman's Humanity ...
Glaukopis suggests brushing up on Shakespeare ...
Michael Gilleland was commenting on some gastrointestinal stuff ... an Impious Lumberjack ... Solitude ...
Tony Keen is working on the iconography of Mercury ...
Peter Stothard comments on Beckham's tattoos ...
Down the hall, Mary Beard was commenting semi-similiter ...
Dorothy King has some more Afghan items ... in the wake of the 'repatriation' of Martin Robertson's stuff, she shows off her own collection ...
Irene Hahn comments on early relations between Cicero and Pompey ... the gens Caecilia and Metellus Pius ...
Gordon Lyn Watley tells us about the phi recension of the Sibylline Oracles ...
James Tabor comments on the 'backtracking' of scholars in regards to the Jesus Tomb thing ...
April DeConick provides an annotated bibliography for the Gospel of Judas ...
Other Roundups: Phil's Patristics Roundup ... Laura Gibbs' roundup of her educational materials ...
Folks might be interested in reading Victor Davis Hanson on the Imus thing (and Nemesis) ...
Archaeology Magazine has a nice online abstract from the current issue on the discovery of Maxentius' regalia (which doesn't mention Maxentius) ...
Volume 3 of Dictynna is up (abstracts available; not sure about the articles themselves) ...
Hesperia 76.1 is online (abstracts for all) ...
Can't remember if we've mentioned the American Journal of Archaeology 111.2 being available online ...
Catching up with Father Foster (via Father Coulter's site), the Latin Lover was talking about Rhea Silvia ... last week, it was one of Pius VI's encyclicals ...
Catching up with the Sparta magazine website, there is an article on the Myceneans ...
Rome/U.S. comparisons this week are at OpEd News (on Valerie Plame Wilson) ...
Headline of the week: Mess follows cleanup of Zeus
At the Aoidoi site, there's a new collection of 'cranky' poetry, mostly from the Delectus Indelectatus ...
Oliver Hoover's Seleukids site has relocated to http://www.seleukidempire.org/
In other news, Barry Baldwin's Classical Corner features should resume next week (my big pile of Fortean Times finally arrived in the mail) ...
Folks might find the collection of texts at the Archimedes Project useful (hat tip to Stephen Carlson)...
Similiter, folks looking for an affordable Greek Dictionary can download an early version of Liddell and Scott from the Internet Classics Archive (hat tip to Mark Goodacre)
Outside of that, the last issue of volume nine of our Explorator newsletter is up ... the weekly version of our Ancient World on Television listings will be up later today ...