In and around the Classical blogosphere t’other day:

• Round-Up: August 24 August 24, 2011 (Laura Gibbs)
• Make Your Own Fake Lead Codex August 24, 2011 Dorothy King
• Bibliography: Latin Pronunciation August 24, 2011 classicslibrarian
• You can’t dream in Latin… August 24, 2011 jm
• Ancient and modern August 27, 2011 (Peter Jones)
• Davies on the metal codices in PEQ August 25, 2011  (Jim Davila)
• Bibliography: Archaeology of Daily Life and Daily Life in Classical Antiquity August 25, 2011 classicslibrarian
• 2nd Roman Bioarchaeology Carnival August 24, 2011 Kristina Killgrove
• Guess Who August 24, 2011 (author unknown)
• The Roman Fort Project August 22, 2011 Dr Jonathan Eaton

Tip o’ the pileus to Adrian Murdoch who pointed the Twitterati to an item at Jonathan Knott’s blog (now added to the curated blogroll) with the above title. The post includes a link to a pdf version of the article (which is also by Jonathan Knott) from the July 2011 edition of Club UK Magazine. Those with access to a decent colour printer might want to find a way to print this one out for bulletin board purposes:

• Why Study Classics? | Ancient Wisdom

ante diem viii kalendas septembres

• Opiconsivia — rites in honour of Ops, an old Italian earth deity and usually considered the spouse of Consus
• 79 A.D. — death of Pliny the Elder in the wake of the eruption at Pompeii
• 325 A.D. — Council of Nicaea comes to an end, having come up with the Nicene Creed, the ‘Twenty Canons’, etc..