Tip o’ the pileus to Andrew Reinhard for sending this one along … it adorns the flank of U.S. college football player Nick Hill — as described by the Yahoo Sports article it appears in: But Michigan State redshirt freshman running back Nick Hill has officially set the standard by which all college football players’ [...]

Angelika Franz sports a very nice ivy of  Dionysus around her arm: As Dr Franz notes, she got her ink before she was aware of the ‘ptolemaic context’ of ivy tattoos (i.e. that Ptolemy IV had an ivy-leaf tattoo as well) …

A fine Medusa festooning the arm of Elizabeth B.: … and she has a blog …

This just in … from Jim “Meech” K: … for all you fans of Simonides …

None of you classically-inked types have taken up my request for submissions of your bodyart yet, so we’ll post one that showed up in another blog (tip o’ the pileus to Francesca Tronchin via Twitter for this one): That one is from Archaeopop, which is always worth a look … As long as we’re talking [...]