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Book Reviews

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• The Archaeology of Roman York – Current Archaeology
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Dramatic Receptions

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Professional Matters

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Today on the Etruscan Brontoscopic Calendar:

If it should thunder today, it portends that lightning will strike and warns of slaughter.

… 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)