Some of you watched HBO’s Rome miniseries. Season 2 is in production over in, well…Rome, and one of the interesting features of the material on the series on the HBO website are intermittently-updated blogs by folks associated with the series, including historians.

Here’s a blog post, for example, on the practice of sublatus – in which the father of a child determined whether it would live or die. Interesting discussion as to the actual extent of the practice as well as a couple of posts actually asking…have things really changed?

And in other ancient history blogging, Mike Aquilina has a list of introductory books on pre-Constantine Christian art.