Bread and Circuses: Latrines at the Agora in Athens.

The Homer Multitext: The Catalogue of Ships.

[Pondering the question of why the Catalogue is so controversial … good stuff]

TeeGee: Opera Nobilia et al.  Red-Figure Kraters in the Age of Perikles.

languagehat.com: WHY THE ILIAD?.

[on the availability of the Iliad in assorted editions in assorted nations]

Interesting item at io9 this week:

• Technologies that we’ve lost – and the quest to find them again