Friday Varia and Quick Hits

We may have one more day of summer today with temperatures set to reach a balmy 86 degrees here in North Dakotaland. Do society a favor and don’t call it an “Indian Summer” or “Altweibersommer.” I’m just going to call it a warm day in late September. And, don’t worry, Grand Forks will be back to its sleepy, bucolic fall decline by the end of next week.

In the meantime, when you’re not enjoying the warm days and the gentle patter of a late summer rain, please do enjoy these quick hits and varia.  

• Some old photographs from the Athenian Agora.

• A stolen icon from Cyprus appears in Switzerland.

• The digital Loeb is go.

• Go and read Scott Gallimore’s and Shawn Graham’s great posts on craft in archaeology.

• Digital Roman Forum.

• Bargain basement prices on Hesperia!

• The original Pride of Amphipolis and I can’t help but be tickled by this.

• Eric Foner’s Civil War MOOC is free from Columbia.

• A requiem for the iPod Classic. 

• The death of adulthood (just before I felt like I was there too!).

• Scot Hull has redesigned Parttime Audiophile. I’m not sure that I love it.

• What I’m reading: M. Dixon, Late Classical and Hellenistic Corinth: 338-196 BC. Blackwell 2014.

• What I’m listening to: Duke Ellington, Ellington at Newport 1956.

I can groove to Duke.