Hodie est VIII id. Sextilies (Augustas) 2772 AUC ~  6 Metageitnion in the third year of the 699th Olympiad.

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Ben joins David to discuss his PhD on the representation of the eagle in Roman society, which included looking at the traditional military/political/divine aspects, but also delved into lesser known themes, like what the symbol meant to women and how it related to pregnancy. He also talks about his post-doctoral work on the project ‘People and Birds in the Southern Levant (https://levantbirds.wordpress.com/) ‘, which included a steep – but an ultimately rewarding – learning curve when he had to jump from classics to prehistoric archaeology…

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should thunder today, there will be an abundance of honey but a shortage of water and other food.

… adapted from the text and 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)