History of the Ancient World: Gods and Places in Etruscan Religion.

History of the Ancient World: On Kings and Nomads: New Documents in Ancient Bactrian Reveal Afghanistan’s Past.

Bibliodyssey: The Temple of Muses

[assorted engravings of assorted myths … plenty of iPad background potential here]

Newspaper coverage in the UK of the interview process to get into Oxford and the like reminds me very much of newspaper coverage of the MLA meetings in the US, and perhaps even go further … Mary Beard is about to embark on such interviews, and pens an interesting piece for BBC Magazine which folks might be interested in:

• A Point of View: The Oxbridge interview (BBC Magazine)

Hypotyposeis: The Metabatic δέ.