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It’s that time again eCoolers when we offer a roundup of links about Rome that we’ve found interesting.  If you’re a Facebook Fan of eCool, then you may already have seen these and we apologize for the repetition.  Others of you may want to click over to Facebook to join our fan club (link above) or you may prefer to take advantage of the hot new Facebook fan box we’ve added to the sidebar of this blog.

Here’s what we’ve been reading in the past few weeks:

• After its triumphal tour of Greece, the Euphronios Vase–recently returned to Italy from the Metropolitan Museum of Art–takes up a permanent place in the Villa Giulia.  Michael Kimmelman of the NY Times reports.

• The Sacramento Examiner tells us what healthy, low-cost food to serve at an ancient Roman toga party or wedding.

• The Onion brings us news that Hercules is struggling to complete his 13th Labor.

• Awesome Athena comic books from Dynamite Entertainment.

• The Discovery Channel alerts us to the discovery of lotion that is over 2000 years old, left almost intact in the cosmetic case of an aristocratic Etruscan woman. Taking your cosmetics to the grave gives a whole meaning to the brand Bed, Bath, and Beyond.

• USA Today has an article on daily life in Pompeii.

• Divina Cucian tells us how to make Sicilian Tomato jam. Yummm!

• Speeding nuns moving a bit too fast in a Ford Fiesta refuse to pay their fine.

• A reporter from the Globe and Mail went to gladiator school in Rome.  After we published this link, faithful reader Star let us know about another great article on the same subject from the Telegraph called “I Came, I Saw, I Conked Him.”

• The remains of a Bronze Age warrior with an arrow sticking through his skeleton was found in Nettuno.

• An account of a culinary vacation in Campania made us really really hungry.

• Curators of the shrine of Italian saint Padre Pio have enlisted scientists to provide the technology for a 60-metre statue of the friar capable of collecting and recycling solar energy.

• The Etruscan masterpiece, the Chimera of Arezzo, has gone on show at the Getty Museum in Los Angeles as part of a cooperation deal with Italy after the museum agreed to return contested antiquities.

• Hype about the possible discovery of the summer villa of the Roman Emperor Vespasian had been discovered was followed a brief article by classicist Mary Beard that clarified the process (or non-process) by which the identification (or non-identification) of the villa was made.

• The same Mary Beard visited the Roman Forum on a trip to Rome and registered complaints about the lines, the disrepair of the monuments, and the decision to install a contemporary art exhibit in the ancient downtown of the city.

In case you’re wondering, that “Your Teens” photo above is by Susan Sanders.  Click over to her photo blog, Rome With a View, to see more wonderful photos of the Eternal City.