This is the sort of thing that makes me kind of uncomfortable to mention. From Ralph Luker, who oversees the Cliopatria blog:

David, Nominations are open until midnight 30 November for the Cliopatria Awards, 2010. There are six awards, for Best Group Blog, Best Individual Blog, Best New Blog, Best Post, Best Series of Posts, and Best Writer. Anyone wishing to offer nominations can do so at Cliopatria Awards Nominations Page . I’d appreciate your making this known at Rogue Classicism because we want to be sure that ancient history bloggers are considered for the Awards. Best wishes,
Ralph

More info at Cliopatria

From Adnkronos:

An almost 2,000 year-old Roman temple dedicated to Diana, the goddess of virgins and wild animals, has been unearthed in a protected park in the Italian region of Tuscany.

The ancient religious sanctuary, found in the Maremma national park is 350 square metres large, and was discovered in perfect condition by a team of Italian and other European archaeologists following a two-year dig.

Traditionally, Diana is known as the ‘virgin’ goddess charged with protecting women. According to mythology, Diana, along with goddesses Minerva and Vesta, swore to never marry, but the goddess is also associated with wild animals and nature, and so bears a second title of ‘Diana, goddess of the hunt.’

The temple, which has some seven internal rooms, also contained several items that were unearthed during the dig including 35 oil lamps, 10 coins, a bronze dog-shaped votive, two glass vials and mosaic decorations. Three statues of Diana and her twin brother, Apollo, were also uncovered.

The temple dates between the end of the 2nd and beginning of the 3rd century AD.

• via Italy: Temple of goddess of virgins, wild animals, unearthed | Adnkronos.

Other coverage:

• Italy unearths 2,000-year-old temple of ‘virgin’ Roman goddess | TopNews

• Temple dedicated to goddess of virgins, wild animals discovered | Sify

 

These are really good, as mentioned … this one would be a good one to begin a class on what went on in the arena, albeit from a popculch sort of view. There are some things that might be discussion-worthy here (e.g. the presentation of the pollice verso)