Tip o’ the pileus to Vicky Alvear Shecter for this one … a very nicely-put-together article in History Today on the fire and the reactions to it:

• Galen and the Great Fire of Rome | History Today

… for my part, I was unaware of the letter mentioned; not sure how I missed it.

The Vindolanda Trust tweeted this item from Law Pundit … seems Apple needs to do some Classical archaeology courses:

• LawPundit: The “Wafer Thin” Writing Tablets of Vindolanda Precede in Design the Thin Tablet Design Claim of Apple for the iPad2 by ca. 2000 Years: Does Modern Greed Know No Bounds?.

In contrast to some of the other ones posted yesterday, this video from the Royal Ontario Museum is pretty good. Christopher Smith of BSR fame gives us an intro to Roman Religion:

… just a few posts from the end of the day; gotta keep the info flowing:

• Rome: These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero August 17, 2011  (Juliette)
• Modern-Day Amazons. Love it! August 15, 2011 Yurie Hong
• Increasing Fertility in the Roman Late Republic and Early Empire August 17, 2011 History of the Ancient World
• Shameless plug from your editor: See my name in print! Get your… August 17, 2011 (Francesca Tronchin)
• Study Latin because it is Alien? August 15, 2011 John Birchall

Hot off the Twitterfeed from the Caerleon dig (I’ll post some coverage on this dig later today, hopefully):

http://twitter.com/#!/CaerleonDig/status/104168199381192705