Something I’ve long been meaning to include in our updates are notices of new online papers from the Institute of Classical Studies Postgraduate Work-in-Progress Seminar and now that I’m semi-caught up with things, here’s a sampling of the most recent:

Bobby Xinyue (UCL) – Stars and arrows: Vergil’s Aeneid and the divinity of the gens Iulia

Matthew Lloyd (Oxford) – “The warfare in which those spear-famed lords of Euboea are skilled…”  The Archaeology of Warriors and Warfare in the Aegean Early Iron Age (ca.1050-700 BCE)

Mick Stringer (Reading) – “The Numbers Game, Ancient and Modern”
Constructing rationes from the writings of the Roman agronomists

Jane McCarthy (KCL) – Speaking “plain Latin”: insult and licence among the elite in early Imperial Rome

Giulia Brunetta (RHUL) – Laus vera et humili saepe contingit viro, non nisi potenti falsa: reflections on praise and flattery in the imperial age

… I’ll try to stay on top of these things rather more regularly in the future …

Angeline Chiu started this project to engage her students:

• Classics Ryan Gosling.

If you’re not familiar with the long-running ‘Hey Girl’ Ryan Gosling meme, check it out here (potentially offensive/NSFL blog title)

Mike Anderson’s Ancient History: Roman Empire — The Golden Age.

History of the Ancient World: The Origin and Failure of Roman Sumptuary Laws.

About.com Ancient / Classical History: What Do You Know About the Trojan War?.

Roman Mysteries Blog: Golden Sponge-Stick Winners ’11.

About.com Ancient / Classical History: What Do Dido and Aeneas Have in Common?.

Pop Classics: Spartacus Vengeance: The Greater Good.

Bone Girl: Using Votives to Visualize Reproductive Anatomy in Antiquity.

[further discussion of that Wellcome 'uterus']

graecomuse: The Fall of the Ancient Olympics: The Theodosian Code.

Laudator Temporis Acti: Botched Latin.

[this one was making the rounds of some of the lists too]

lizgloyn: Classics on television: Bullets, Boots and Bandages 1.

What’s New in Papyrology: REVIEW: Ian Storey, Fragments of Old Comedy, Volumes i-iii Loeb.

What’s New in Papyrology: REVIEW: Rodolfo Funari ed., Corpus dei papiri storici greci e latini. Parte B: storici latini. 1. Autori noti. Vol. 1: Titus Livius..

kenodoxia: Philebus 42b2-6.

Laudator Temporis Acti: Albert! Spare Those Trees.

[a statue of Achilles ...]

salve magistra: Half Term/Wednesday Teaching Ideas: CLC Book 5?.

Pop Classics: Top Five Doomed Romances in Classical Pop Culture.

lizgloyn: Book Review: On Not Knowing Greek – Virginia Woolf.

Ancient World Open Bibliographies: Bibliographies: The Corinthia Early Christianity, History, and Archaeology.

Roman Mysteries Blog: Romance in Ancient Rome – a Quiz.

History of the Ancient World: Romanizing Baal: the art of Saturn worship in North Africa.

History of the Ancient World: Ancient Greek Yarn-Making.

Laudator Temporis Acti: Alas, Poor Yorick.