Hodie est a.d. VIII Kal. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~ 24 Hekatombaion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad
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Book Reviews
- [BMCR] Brian Brennan , Herculaneum: A Roman Town Reborn .
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- [BMCR] Nancy Worman, Virginia Woolf’s Greek Tragedy. Classical Receptions in Twentieth-Century Writing.
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‘Sorting’ Out Your Day:
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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:
If there is any thunder today, after abundant crops, there will be famine.
… adapted from the translation of:
Jean MacIntosh Turfa, The Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar, in Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon (eds.), The Religion of the Etruscans. University of Texas Press, 2006. (Kindle edition)
