David Gill alerted us to this series of ads from TIM (an Italian phone company) in which Caesar is shilling cell phones with some Latin thrown in … the first one (not necessarily the first one created) riffs on the veni, vidi, vici thing:

… then he’s trying to pick up puellae … plenty of Latin in this one (could be an interesting student translation project?]:

… there are others in the series without Latin … most seem to feature Caesar walking around with a number of knives in his back …

lizgloyn: Thoughts on Animating Antiquity.

[Animating Antiquity was a conference last week …]

History of the Ancient World: Livia Drusilla: Deciphering Between Traditional Views of Rome’s First Lady.

[online thesis]

The Classics Confidential folks chat with Helen Roche, who is looking at how the Nazis incorporated/interpreted Spartan ideas in their own education system: