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Links for the Week of 13 January

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A gingerbread Roman villa from King Arthur Flour’s contest: http://www.kingarthurflour.com/blog/2013/01/06/gingerbread-house-decorating-contest/
Ascanius is looking for late high school and early college Latin students to work at its LatinSummer program: http://ascaniusyci.org/LS2013-facstaffapps/
Pills found in a Roman shipwreck: Smithsonian blog and http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20937910 (via @SmithsonianMag and @classicslibrary)
An article about the second-floor toilets at Pompeii: http://www.livescience.com/26205-ancient-pompeians-upstairs-latrines.html (via @tronchin)
“The Construction of Authenticity in the Claudius novels:” http://historyoftheancientworld.com/2013/01/the-construction-of-authenticity-in-the-claudius-novels/ (via @Nihil_Novi_Net)
Close-up pictures of reconstructions of Roman legionary armor: http://hehasawifeyouknow.tumblr.com/post/39854481814/roman-legionary-armour (via @Nihil_Novi_Net)
A piece on social status shown in Roman children’s shoes: http://www.livescience.com/26047-roman-kids-shoes-statues.html (via @rogueclassicist and @DrKillgrove)
Freshly discovered Roman statues of the Niobids: http://www.repubblica.it/speciali/arte/gallerie/2013/01/08/foto/villa_messalla-50097355/1/?ref=NRCT-50097365-1 and http://phdiva.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/new-niobids-new-light-on-old-group.html (via @tronchin and @rogueclassicist)
Vestal Virgin hairdo instructions: http://www.livescience.com/26112-oldest-roman-hairstyle-recreated.html (via @TheHistoryBrew)
Social networks at Pompeii traced through graffiti: http://www.livescience.com/26164-pompeii-wall-graffiti-social-networks.html (via @DrKillgrove and @rogueclassicist )
Traces of frescoes in the Colosseum: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gRjbdwcFqEQZ4pE84E5rh90W7zxA?docId=CNG.ecdbeaab85926ee4b764fabce45ac7b1.6a1
(via @DrKillgrove)
Roman furniture and violence: http://phdiva.blogspot.com/2013/01/revolutionary-materials-furniture-and.html (via @SarahEBond)
Reasons why we should study Latin: http://comingofageinthemiddle.blogspot.com/2012/12/verbatim.html (via @DHSBClassics)

Links for the Week of 9 December

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Information about the ancient world from grape seeds: http://phys.org/news/2012-12-classics-professor-unearths-archaeological-clues.html (via @DrKillgrove)
Rick Riordan has a teacher’s guide for the Camp Half Blood Books: http://rickriordan.com/my-books/percy-jackson/resources/teachers-guide.aspx (via @etclassics)
A summary of how the Oracle at Delphi worked: http://news.discovery.com/history/how-did-the-oracle-at-delphi-really-prophesize-121205.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1 (via @rogueclassicist)
A searchable resource on Latin poetry (including post-Classical): http://www.mqdq.it/mqdq/home.jsp?lingua=en (via @Horatiana)
The text of Asclepiodotus is now available on Lacus Curtius for all of you ancient military fans: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Asclepiodotus/home.html (via @LacusCurtius)
Onasander makes a Lacus Curtius appearance as well: http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Onasander/home.html (via @LacusCurtius)
The NJCL creative writing contest, with entries due in February, has been announced: http://www.njcl.org/pages/njcl-creative-writing-contest (via @quinnkl)
The Cloaca Maxima may be in danger of collapsing: http://romanarcheo.blogspot.com/2012/11/ancient-rome-sewer-cloaca-maxima-in.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter (via @jntribolo)
A nice collection of Greek readers: http://iris.haverford.edu/homer13/2012/11/29/145/ (via @bretmulligan)
An online Greek-English dictionary: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/efts/Woodhouse/ (via @foundy17)
Pictures of Roman razors: http://calvusguy.blogspot.fr/2012/11/a-close-shave.html (via @jntribolo)
Perseus has a list of scholarly abbreviations: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/abbrevhelp (via @SarahEBond, who points out that this is helpful to give to students)