Mary Beard Talks About Roman New Year and Religion
Nice little video on the BBC:
… and Dr Beard, OBE reflects on the production:
[question in passing: does the UK have a semi-religious 'Thought for the Day' programme on TV early in the a.m.? Such used to be the case in Calgary when I was a wee lad ... it was always the thing you were waiting to end (it was only 15 minutes long or so) so the cartoons could start]
Also Seen: Sibyls
Interesting (if somewhat basic) article on the Sibyls in Roman religion … with a nice explanation at the end how Christianity dealt with some of their prophecies:
- Christians saw ancient female oracles as divine (Deseret News)
